Golden Age, January 13, 1937
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Vol. XVIII - No. 452
January 13, 1937 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Who Gets the Lion's Share? 231
Great Prosperity at Summit 234
Many Millions Still Unemployed 234
The Cities Hardest Hit 234
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day 234
Greenhouse Workers in Ashtabula 234
Anna Took It Out on the Dishes 234
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
CONDOLENCES FOR MONESSEN 227
KINGDOM SCHOOLS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 230
Acts That Thrill 231
Cruelties to the Poor 231
2,630,000 PETITION U. S. RADIO COMMISSION TO STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS 232
FAITH 241
IMMEDIATE ACTION IMPERATIVE 242
THREE INTERESTING LETTERS 244
New Jersey's Helpless Governor 244
How About a Little Christian Liberty in New Jersey? 245
JUDGE RUTHERFORD'S BROADCASTS EXPAND 245
In Some British Schools 248
"THE BIBLE AS LIVING LITERATURE" 250
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY AND THE BIBLE 251
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Miners Forced into Bootlegging Coal 236
Desperate Fight of British Miners 236
Terrible Heat in British Mines 236
Oil to Last Thirty-one Years 236
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
More Automobile Wrecks Soon 237
A Texas Automobile Thief 237
The Triborough Bridge 237
Conspiracies Against Automobilists 237
In the City of Evanston 237
The Normandie's Great Record 238
Greatest Nickel Trip in the World 238
Some Facts About the Queen Mary 238
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
The Deciding Factor in Ethiopia 246
Democracy in Yugoslavia 247
Fascism in Rumania 247
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Balsa the Lightest Wood 239
Erosion in Maine and New Jersey 239
Flowers Grown in the Sand 239
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Proposed Huge Rain-making Device 235
Planes Detected 720 Miles Away 235
Efficient Homemade Ear Trumpet 235
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
California's Industrious Woodpecker 240
Feed Kelp to Chickens 240
Riots over Gregorian Calendar 247
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Clergy Cry for Men and Munitions 248
The Rosicrucian Philosophy 249
To Flimflam the People 255
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The Golden Age
Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, January 13, 1937 Number 452
Condolences for Monessen
MONESSEN (Pa.) is to be pitied. Any city that will permit itself to be browbeaten and intimidated by a person of the limited intelligence of Mayor James C. Gold should have its charter revoked and be placed in the hands of a guardian. The better element of that city hangs its head in shame and regret over the un-American acts of the wooden spoon who bosses the town.
Once again The Golden Age brings to the attention of its readers the shameful acts permitted by the city of Monessen.
May 24, 1936, Jehovah's witnesses called on the people of Monessen with a petition for redress of grievances. It was a protest against the unlawful acts of the mayor and chief of police in locking up the Kingdom School and throwing the teacher into jail. Mayor Gold, being totally minus of information concerning the constitutional right of petition, had 146 arrested and jammed into prison cells. Without any trial, or semblance of a trial, he found them "guilty" of some kind of offense and placed a fine of five dollars against each. Mayor Jimmy probably never read of Nero, the Roman tyrant, but is stepping right along in his footsteps.
May 31, 1936, Jehovah's witnesses again called upon the people of Monessen, leaving with them copies of The Golden Age No. 435. A radio program was broadcast from the bluff outside of the city. No arrests were made.
Romance ain't dead yet. Ye doughty crusader, Mayor Gold, with ye fair Roman Hierarchy riding pillion, fares forth on his dapple gray to make ye world safe for ye same cockeyed damsel. Anon, ye doughty crusader spies ye foe of fearful aspect and smells ye smell of battle, and with flashing eye and quivering nostril girds himself for ye terrible combat, whilst ye damsel Hierarchy wringeth her hands and ye dapple gray pales to a clabber white.
From July 20 to August 2, 1936, regular witness work was carried on in the city. Two carloads of witnesses per day were sent into town to present the Bible message and circulate a petition concerning the radio debate. The mayor and his police again got busy and arrested 41. Most of them were sentenced to thirty days in jail on a charge of "disorderly conduct".
The "disorderly conduct" ordinance under which they were charged defines disorderly conduct as drunkenness, fighting and brawling, using profane and obscene language on the street, indecent conduct; congregating on the streets and inciting mobs. Not one of Jehovah's witnesses was guilty of disorderly conduct, but that made no difference to the Monessen dictator. "Your presence here constitutes disorderly conduct," was his decree. And the decent people of Monessen sat quietly by and let this vacuum-celled cacique put it over without a squawk.
Thirty-one cases were appealed from Mayor Gold's lawless decisions to the Quarter Sessions Court of Westmoreland County, presided over by Judge Charles D. Copeland, where they came up for trial on October 26. And then the dictator of Monessen found himself in a quandary.
He was now before a court where the rules of law and rules of evidence would prevail. It would be necessary to prove that Jehovah's witnesses were actually doing that which was disorderly. How could that be done without evidence thereof? A real problem for the mayor and his right-hand henchman, City Attorney V. R. Smith.
The defendants in these appeal cases were all arrested during a special campaign in Monessen from July 20 to August 31. In a desperate attempt to cover their tracks and make out a case against the defendants, the mayor and city attorney ignored the things done by the defendants and attempted to apply to them acts done at other times. On May 24 Jehovah's witnesses had circulated a petition in Monessen protesting against the unlawful acts of the mayor in closing the Kingdom School. At that time 146 were unlawfully arrested and thrown into jail. On May 31 a distribution of an issue of The Golden Age was made in Monessen. A lecture by sound equipment was given from a bluff near the city. During the period from July 20 to August 31, when the defendants were arrested, only a few were in town at a time. There was no sound equipment used, and there was no distribution of The Golden Age with cartoons to offend the susceptibilities of the mayor. A few witnesses at a time called on the people of the city with the Gospel message. There was nothing done on which a charge of disorderly conduct could be based. The mayor said, "Your presence in Monessen constitutes disorderly conduct." That was enough to sustain a conviction in his so-called "court". But they knew it wouldn't hold water in the Quarter Sessions Court of Westmoreland county.
They made quite an effort. They endeavored to show to the court that a big mob of Jehovah's witnesses swooped down on the town; that they distributed "inflammatory literature" filled with scandalous cartoons; that they made a big noise with a bunch of sound cars; and that they annoyed all the people in town.
It was a nice theory, but it didn't work. The defendants who were on trial were not part of a "mob". Only a few were in town. They had no "inflammatory literature" with them. They had no sound apparatus with them. The mayor and the city attorney tried to put one over on the court, but without success. They tried to deceive the judge, but weren't equal to the task.
Mayor Gold "wins a great moral victory"
Judge Copeland heard the whole story. He considered the testimony, found the defendants not guilty, and ordered, adjudged and decreed that they be discharged from custody. Pennsylvania has a peculiar statute which permits the court or jury to assess costs against the defendant, even though he has been found not guilty of the offense. The defendant can be vindicated, but must pay the court for the privilege. In these cases the court decided that the defendants, even though guilty of no wrongdoing, should pay the costs of the court of Quarter Sessions.
And that, sweet Jezebel, gave great comfort and solace to Mayor Gold. It gave him an alibi. He went before the city council of Monessen and loudly proclaimed, "The city has not lost in any of the [Jehovah's witnesses] cases, but has won a great moral victory." It was published through the newspapers that Gold still thought he had won a "great moral victory" in spite of the fact that thirty-one of his decisions were reversed.
This proves that in addition to being a minus quantity as far as general intelligence is concerned, he is still troubled with deceptio visus, that peculiar malady which causes one to see things as they are not. That is why he sees a Communist revolution growing among the little children in a Kingdom school; why he thinks the Bible and The Harp of God are Communist textbooks; why he thinks ringing a doorbell is disorderly conduct; and why he thinks he secured a "great moral victory" at the time he was given a walloping good trouncing.
Something ought to be done to aid this strabismal official, and if the witnesses of Jehovah who were unjustly compelled to spend many weary hours behind prison bars collect damages from the mayor and the city it may have a healing effect upon him.
City Attorney Vincent R. Smith added strong words of support to the mayor's squint-eyed alibi, and dug up for broadcasting the old familiar "Communist" bugaboo. Smith opened the floodgates and vomited forth a bunch of falsehoods to the effect that Jehovah's witnesses were Communists, were backed by Russian money, and had every aim against the American system of government.
The very learned Doctor Gold, mayor of Monessen, makes a comment on history, aided and abetted by the equally learned Dr. Vincent R. Smith
The vaporings of Mayor Gold do great wrong to the city of Monessen, but, nevertheless, he is funny. It's his dumbness that makes him that way. He doesn't know any better; so when he sees the "Communist" ghost rising over the Monessen Kingdom School and yells for help, everybody gets a good laugh.
But Attorney Smith is different. He has some intelligence—not an overly big supply, but enough to know what is a Communist. When he makes public claim that Jehovah's witnesses are Communists his actions are contemptible. He knows better. He knows that they are not Communists, and that he is falsifying the matter just to stir up malice, anger and bitterness against them.
Boss Gold says it is so, and although Gold may be dumb enough to think that the Bible is a Communist textbook, his orders must be obeyed. Therefore this lawyer, who knows better, degrades his position as a counselor and joins in the chorus of hate against an inoffensive people.
Residents of Monessen: We sympathize with you for being required to live in a community where the American spirit of freedom, tolerance, and justice has been so thoroughly demolished.
The people of Monessen should have intelligence enough and civic righteousness enough to protest against being bamboozled by a pair of purblind officials. They should have gumption and courage enough to insist that children be permitted to have religious freedom in the city. They should have Christianity enough to call a halt on the persecution of people, especially little children, because these obey God's law. They should have sufficient desire for cleanliness to climb out of the gutter of maggoty politics and putrescent city government. All these things they should have, and have in sufficient measure to take positive action.
Kingdom Schools in Western Pennsylvania
THE GOLDEN AGE frequently receives beads, crosses, grocers' cord, and other cheap junk from ex-Roman Catholics who have had their eyes opened to the Italian racket operated from Vatican City. While this lasts, it will give a handful of this worthless hardware, cordage and other refuse to the person who can think up any more mean and inhuman acts than have been committed against little children of southwestern Pennsylvania.
KINGDOM SCHOOL AT GATES, PENNSYLVANIA
ENTRANCE TO KINGDOM SCHOOL AT MONESSEN
Gash in window was made with an axe in anarchistic attempt to drive Americans out of town. On three other occasions bricks were thrown through.
Because they refuse to offer obeisance to the new idol, they have been whipped, choked, ridiculed, browbeaten, taunted and tortured. They have been kicked out of the public schools. They have been threatened with commitment to reform schools. Their parents have been prosecuted in the criminal courts.
Because he had the temerity to teach these children in a private school, a teacher was jailed and held two days without charge. The superheated patriots thrust the children away from the public schools, and then object because they are taught in private schools. Threats and intimidation have been used to close such schools. Bricks have been thrown through the windows. Windows have been smashed with an axe in the dead hours of the night; and repeated padlockings of such private school have been made by police, on the orders of anarchists temporarily in official positions.
In this issue is presented a picture of the Kingdom School of Gates, Pennsylvania. Denied the privileges of education in the public schools, Jehovah's witnesses of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Division dug down into their pockets, purchased a schoolhouse and land, contributed labor and materials, and now a splendid school stands on a lofty eminence as a place of refuge for God-fearing children of the community. It is a monument to the faithfulness and courage of these youngsters.
On a busy street in Monessen is another Kingdom School. Its large front windows are covered with steel bars and wire screening. In this screen can be seen the ugly holes cut with an axe in the hands of a skulking, cowardly patrioteer, who thus dishonored the U.S. flag.
What can be back of all this diabolical and fiendish treatment but a conspiracy to break up families, and to railroad Christian children to public institutions where they can be beaten and choked and forced to violate the Lord's prohibitions against bowing down to images?
In the public schools of Monessen the pupils are taught the history of the battles for freedom of worship in this country. They are told of the flight of the Puritans to a land of freedom. They are informed of the settlement of their own state, Pennsylvania, as a refuge where there would be freedom for all. And while they are being inspired with the accounts of things gone by, in their midst is being waged a wicked and unprincipled campaign against children who believe and obey the commandments of Almighty God. Not one public school teacher of Monessen has made protest against such religious persecution. Why teach that which they are not willing to practice?
Philanthropies
Acts That Thrill
(From an old copy of the little magazine Good Works, published at Atlanta Penitentiary)
AFTER the recent tornado at Gainesville, Ga., the relief workers were attracted to the wreckage of a house where a dog was pitifully whining, and reaching the spot where he stood they found him, a large-sized bulldog, straddling over the body of a two-year-old baby girl. His body was literally a mass of torn flesh, and only a dog with his strength could have so long stood up under the strain of the weight of a timber that was lying across the center of his back. The child was covered with the blood of the dog, but absolutely unharmed. The dog died ten minutes after the timber was removed from his back, and he had fallen exhausted by the side of the child. It is reported that the relief workers, after they had rescued the child, and found it uninjured, then turned to the prostrate body of the dog that had saved the child's life, and finding him dead, they almost unconsciously took off their hats, in the hallowed atmosphere of one of those "Acts That Thrill."
At Memphis, Tenn., the Red Cross had an office open last month to receive contributions for the storm sufferers at Tupelo, Miss. The secretary looked up one morning from her desk to find an old darky, ragged and bent with age, standing respectfully before her desk.
"Is dis here where youse gives some money to help dem po folks down in Mississippi whar de tornado hit?"
"Why, yes, Uncle," said the young woman. "Any of your people down there need help?"
"No, Mam," said the old man. "I jes wanted to give a little bit of money to help dem folks out what got hit so bad," and so saying, he pulled out two worn and greasy ten-dollar bills and laid them on the desk. Tears came to the eyes of the young Red Cross worker. After she had composed herself she saw the old man was leaving, and calling to him she said:
"Wait a minute, Uncle. Let me give you a receipt."
He stopped for a moment, turned and looked at her, slowly shook his head, and said:
"Ise already got my receipt, Miss. God gave it to me, and I don't need yourn." And on his way he went.
The girl put her head on the desk and her whole body shook with sobs, as she paid homage to one of those "Acts That Thrill."
Who Gets the Lion's Share?
SAYS Mrs. ————, of South Dakota:
The relief that the government is handing to us poor needy people lands in the hands of but a few. Their sewing and storage rooms where the government supplies are kept are full of dresses, sheets, pillow cases, shirts and cloth in the web, and mattresses stocked to ceiling, but when we poor folks want some they just shake their heads and say, "We can't do a thing for you." They look you up and down all over as if you were a fool for asking. We understood when this first started out that the government was to give this clothing free of charge. They put a price on it and we have to work it out. If the government doesn't receive any pay for this clothing, where does it go? They will not give us the cloth and let us mothers make our own clothing. They 'give that to women who are needing work', but it isn't always the woman that is needing work that gets it. They put women in there that have husbands with steady jobs. Oh, what an unfair world this is! . . . If we had to depend on the relief to clothe us we would be naked. I take all the old clothing I can get, and make it over. This relief is nothing but a graft. Our officers, and their friends and associates, are the ones that are reaping the benefits. How glad I will be when the King, whose right it is, takes office! Then we shall have peace, prosperity and happiness.
Cruelties to the Poor
A COMMITTEE of ten in a poorhouse in Ohio writes of the savagery of the beast that runs the place. They were fed meat so rotten it made many ill. Though other workers on relief work but six hours a day, those at this poorhouse must work eight, and if they sit down or lie down on their beds between breakfast and supper they get three days in solitary confinement on bread and water. The butcher cut up a hog that smelled so he could barely finish the task. He pleaded that it be thrown away; the superintendent was adamant, and the hog was used for food. A poorhouse under a devilish superintendent is a bad place, far worse than a prison. None but a devil that believed in a flaming hell or a "purgatory" would ever wish to make a fortune by grafting off the poor; but many fortunes have been made in that way.
Relief in California
SAYS John Y. Gooch, of Texas: "Under the New Deal cost of relief in California increased 65 percent, and the number of relieved in proportion, about 875,000 at a total cost of $150,000,000 for the fiscal year."
2,630,000 Petition U.S. Radio Commission to Stand for Righteousness
Jehovah's time having arrived to finish the work, the nation-wide petition signed by 2,630,000 persons seeking righteousness was duly filed with the Federal Communications Commission at Washington, D.C., November 2, 1936.
Public notice of the filing of this petition permeated Washington by radio, press and sound car.
15 YEARS
If the Federal Communications Commission should give but a minute interview to each of the 2,630,000 signers it would require 15 years of 322 eight-hour days.
NOV. 2, 1936 to NOV. 2, 1951
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
JOHN B REYNOLDS
Assistant Secretary
Forty of Jehovah's witnesses, bearing 75 twenty-pound packs of petitions, served notice on the Radio Commission of the desire of 2,630,000 to hear a debate on the salvation of the human race, Judge Rutherford taking one side, and a representative of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy the other.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Copy of Public Notice and News Release was delivered at the White House for President Roosevelt.
Allowing three linear feet to each signer, the 2,630,000 would form a line reaching from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, or from Miami to Chicago, 1,115 miles as the crow flies.
Will the Federal Communications Commission Grant the Petitioners Their Request?
THEY DESIRE TO KNOW: BY WHOM IS SALVATION—BY JEHOVAH, OR BY DAGON THE FISH GOD? DAGON
HOLY BIBLE
TRUTH: SHALL THE PEOPLE HAVE IT, OR BE DEPRIVED OF IT?
LIFE AND GOOD
IS THE HIERARCHY AFRAID TO MEET JUDGE RUTHERFORD IN DEBATE?
WILL PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT USE HIS INFLUENCE TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC WELFARE?
LAW
WILL JEHOVAH’S LAW BE RESPECTED, SO THAT MILLIONS WILL FIND RIGHTEOUSNESS?
They realize that the welfare of this country, eternal and immediate, hangs upon the action taken. Will their government acknowledge Jehovah’s law, hail the King Christ Jesus, and receive prosperity, peace and happiness? or will it choose to acknowledge the Roman Hierarchy and Dagon, and be destroyed?
DAGON
DEATH AND EVIL
--Labor and Economics
Great Prosperity at Summit
GOLDEN AGE readers know something of Summit, N. J., one of the most aristocratic suburbs of New York. Some of Jehovah's witnesses were, in the past, jailed there for bringing the good news of God's kingdom to the people. There are some streets in Summit, however, where the people do not live on their dividends. Thus, a reporter for the Newark Ledger found a home on Shunpike Road where five workers strung 6,000 Christmas tags in three days and received $1.45 for it. Asked why it took so long to do the work, the answer was that the packages were supposed to contain 100 tags each, but when one of them was counted it actually contained 250. That is why the five workers earned 3c an hour each. It will add much to the happiness of "Christmas" for those who make much of it to remember these facts.
Many Millions Still Unemployed
ALTHOUGH in a certain month recently 264,000 people went back to work, yet in the twelve months ending with that month more than 1,000,000 young people became of working age and 450,000 of these really wanted jobs. It thus came to pass that though conditions were actually better as respects the number of people at work, yet the number out of work was 100,000 more than it was a year earlier. The manufacturing output possible with 10,000,000 workers in 1929 now requires but 7,000,000 workers. As a matter of fact, there were 3,000,000 out of work in the U.S. in the banner year of 1929.
The Cities Hardest Hit
TWO-THIRDS of the urban unemployed are in twenty-three cities. In the worst condition is New York city. Then follow, in order, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Birmingham, San Francisco, Washington, Atlanta, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Newark, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Toledo, Wilkes-Barre, and Milwaukee.
More Unemployed in U.S.A.
SINCE the beginning of the year 1933 there have continuously been more persons unemployed in the United States than in Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland combined.
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day
PROBABLY every American has at some time eaten some of Kellogg's corn flakes or all-bran or other variety. They will be interested to know that Kellogg operates his factories on the six-hour-day basis. He says:
"We shall never solve the problem by made work, by the dole or appeals to patriotism. The six-hour day with wages raised to compensate for the shorter working period is the only solution."
The Kellogg Company shifted from an eight-hour day to a six-hour day five years ago. Results were so satisfactory that a general wage increase was granted employees lately, making the minimum wages $27 per week.
Greenhouse Workers of Ashtabula
A REPORT comes in that in Ashtabula, Ohio, there are vast fields of hothouses where tomatoes are raised. In 1932 the workers in these greenhouses received $5.00 per day for nine hours' work. Then the employer started the plan of cutting and cutting and cutting the wages until they reached the $1.25 mark, in 1934. Meantime he had cut the size of the baskets from 12 pounds to 8 pounds. The workmen were forced into unionizing, when they obtained an eight-hour day, with wages of $2.80 per day. One firm continued to pay $5.00 per day all during the depression.
Anna Took It Out on the Dishes
ANNA TUSICK worked four months in a New York restaurant, averaging eight hours a day, with more on Sundays. Her biggest pay check was $2.29, the rest being deducted for food, uniforms and broken dishes. Then, one time, the restaurant proprietor overplayed his hand. For a week of 52 hours' work he tendered Anna 51 cents. She went into the kitchen and smashed all the crockery in sight. It was a good thing for the crockery business, but not so good for the restaurant, and still less for Anna, but maybe she got a sufficient kick out of it to partially pay the bill she had to pay, for the delft.
Shoeing Horses at the Curb
A WASHINGTON (D.C.) horseshoer fitted up a horseshoeing equipment on a truck and takes the truck out looking for horses, with fair results in a business way. He has a wife and ten children to support, and finds this an honest way to make ends meet.
Invention
Proposed Huge Rain-making Device
BERNARD J. Dubos, French meteorological expert, claims to have spent many years studying tropical waterspouts. On a visit to America he advocated the erection in dry areas of huge concrete funnels, large at the top, small at the bottom, 450 feet in diameter and 2,000 feet high. He is of the opinion that one of these will control the rainfall in an area of several hundred square miles, by forcing water vapor into the upper air, and that such a structure would be quite as feasible as the Empire State Building.
The Ashes of Coal
THE ashes of coal have been examined by German chemists, with the discovery that they contain a score of minerals, some valuable. The average barrel of ashes contains gold of the value of about two cents, and it is thought possible to recover it, at a profit. It is also well known that there is gold in sea water; but attempts to recover it commercially have been unsuccessful.
An Electric Machine Gun
ONE of Jehovah's witnesses reports having seen at San Augustine, Texas, a working model of an electric machine gun. Patented in the United States and foreign countries, this gun is faster than a powder-fired gun, and is noiseless and heatless. It operates on a 110-volt current. One foreign government is alleged to have offered $3,000,000 for the patent, which was refused.
The Grand Fountain at Chicago
THE grand fountain at the Chicago exposition was 670 feet long, with a dome 200 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, being more than five times the size of its nearest rival. To keep this gigantic fountain in operation required eleven great Worthington pumps, supplying 68,000 gallons every minute—enough to service a city of 1,000,000 population.
Pacific Carpet Washer
THE Pacific carpet washer propels itself over a carpet of any size, pumping a regulated flow of automatically heated cleaning solution through the nap, immediately picking it up again by suction. The washing does not wet the sizing or back of the carpet; it removes even microscopic particles of dust and dirt.
Planes Detected 720 Miles Away
TWO Americans, Hixon and Wheeler, reversing the principle of radio-beam guidance, invented apparatus for detecting airplanes 720 miles away. The apparatus locates the distance, direction, altitude, speed and approximate strength of the advancing force. Although the men made every effort to keep their invention secret, until after it had been demonstrated to the British Government, they have found themselves objects of great interest on the part of representatives of France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and other nations, and marvel at the efficiency of the world's espionage systems.
An Efficient Homemade Ear Trumpet
SAYS Mrs. Joseph Levens, of Indiana: Recently in my pioneer work I came across a barber and commenced to talk to him. He took up a piece of pasteboard of about the same quality as shoe boxes are made of, about 9 by 12 inches in size, placed it between his teeth, with a slight curve upwards, and heard me perfectly. He had a small piece of tin over the edge on one side at the center, where it came in contact with his mouth, to prevent moistening the pasteboard. He had expended much time and money seeking a cure for his deafness, without result, but this homemade ear trumpet of his own invention had given full satisfaction.
Paints from Cows' Milk
SOMEBODY remarked that a black cow eats green grass and gives white milk. But that isn't the half of it; for the milk contains pigments of every color. In seven years the manufacture of casein paints in the United States has gone up from less than $10,000 worth to more than $867,000 worth per year.
Progressiveness of the Ford Management
IT IS claimed that twenty percent of the up-to-the-minute machines and processes exhibited at the Century of Progress Exhibition by the Ford Company were obsolete before the Fair was over. In the Ford factories the moment something better is devised the old machines are at once replaced.
Rayon Strong as Steel
IT IS claimed that a new rayon resists heat, and is as strong as structural steel. It doubled or tripled the life of tires in which it was used as cords. Some may have noticed that certain transparent package covers are extremely difficult to tear.
Mines and Minerals
Miners Forced into Bootlegging Coal
IT LOOKS easy for a dozen financiers to get together and agree among themselves to limit the output of anthracite coal so as to get sky-high prices for what they see fit to sell. They close the mines, nail up or tear down the breakers, and leave thousands of miners to starve. And then what? Oh, nothing, except that now there are said to be not less than 15,000 men openly mining coal on abandoned coal properties and are selling it at good prices 100 miles away from home, and are making as much money as they did when the company mines were operating. They admit that the work now is more dangerous than formerly.
Desperate Fight of British Miners
BRITISH miners are in a desperate fight to add so little as 50c per week to their wages. In the fight, and to keep non-union miners out of the mines, they have in some instances remained in the mine—the miner's last desperate act of protest. British mines are getting harder and harder to work as they get deeper and deeper. Occasionally waters from old workings break through and the miners have to flee for their lives; on a recent occasion fifty men had to wade through waters neck-deep in order to save their lives.
Terrible Heat in Some British Mines
AS THE British coal mines get deeper and deeper the strain on the miners gets harder and harder. In Lancashire some mines are now down 4,000 feet and the miners work stark naked, except for clogs on their feet. In a single shift, on account of excessive perspiration, men have been known to lose up to 18½ pounds weight. The lungs are affected by a disease called emphysema, which breaks up the cell system of the lungs. Vomiting is frequent. Cramps are common.
Some Things of Glass
SOME things of glass that are coming are razor blades, shoes, hats, clothing, lingerie, buildings, and pavements. Some glass now being made may be rolled up in a coil.
Looking for Permanent Guests
A CURRENT advertisement states that St. Vincent Hospital, Los Angeles, uses aluminum cooking utensils. It seems quite likely.
New Uses for Aluminum
IT HAS been discovered that vaporized aluminum makes the best coating for mirrors, and it will hereafter be used by astronomers, instead of silver, to provide coatings for the mirrors of the largest telescopes. It has also been discovered that a diaphragm of aluminum foil placed in an enclosed air space has the heat-insulating equivalent of one inch of cork.
Oil to Last Thirty-one Years
KNOWN petroleum reserves in the United States are about 13,250,000,000 barrels. Every year there is an addition of approximately 600,000,000 barrels. Every year the consumption is about 1,000,000,000 barrels. On this basis the present reserves will last 31 years, after which the remaining 400,000,000 barrels will have to come from elsewhere.
A Poor Man Rich for Thirty Years
NEAR Prescott, Arizona, lives a prospector, Robert M. Hanson, who was rich for thirty years and all the time believed himself to be poor. He spent all that time searching for silver ore and just discovered that one of the tunnels which he dug a generation ago runs through a deposit of very rich gold ore.
Palladium, the New White Metal
PALLADIUM, the new white metal, is now being much used for purposes for which gold leaf was formerly used, such as book edges and the coating of leather to make silver slippers, etc. It is well liked by jewelers and dentists, as it is tough and tarnish-resisting. It is found in small quantities in nickel ore.
Co-operative Mining at Pinckneyville
AT Pinckneyville, Illinois, when soft coal mine Briar Hill No. 5 failed, 75 miners leased it, purchased mules, batteries and other equipment, and are keeping it in operation, thus saving their jobs. They are paying royalties on the coal mined, and make something for themselves.
Not Such a Bad Bear
THAT was not such a bad bear that chased Findlay McCallum, Winnipeg prospector. McCallum had been working for months trying to locate nickel ore. The bear chased him into a locality now known to have a vein of nickel ore 2,000 feet long and 200 feet wide.
Automobile Transportation
More Automobile Wrecks Coming Soon
MORE automobile wrecks will be coming soon in Nassau county, New York. "High money, high mass ; low money, low mass ; no money, no mass," was celebrated at the feast of St. Christopher, Baldwin, N. Y., July 25. The Nassau county police force and the State constabulary were invited. You know why they were invited; so does everybody else with a grain of sense. St. Christopher is, so it is said, the patron "saint" of Roman Catholic travelers; but he slips up every time there is a Catholic wreck, and there are plenty of them. But maybe the wrecks occur because the automobile owners did not come across quick enough or often enough with the main consideration, the long green, without which there is no mass, and hence no "blessing". Wonder what share St. Christopher has in the 30,000 automobile deaths a year, and why, if he is such a good "saint", and not a narrow-minded, cockeyed bigot, he doesn't stop the killings altogether, Catholic as well as Protestant.
A Texas Automobile Thief
IN New York city a man drove up to a high-class restaurant and went in with his wife to get a meal. When he came out his brand-new car was standing upon trestles. The wheels and tires had been removed. A Texas thief got still more: Police recovered the car, but the thief had removed two bumpers, four bumper guards, radiator cap, two sun visors, sun mirror, electric fan, mirror, clock, terminals, spark plugs, speedometer, gear shift knob, accelerator pedal, windshield lift, floor cushion, battery and box, two horns, two headlights, five tires, tubes and wheels, metal tire cover, radiator grill, two windshield wipers, windshield, generator, motor heads, carburetor, oil cap, radio, front seat, steering gear, cigar lighter, foot rest, rear cushion, gas cap, and all the tools.
The Triborough Bridge
THE Triborough bridge, New York city, connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx is 17½ miles long, cost $60,300,000, and took seven years to build. It absorbed 83,500 tons of steel, and enough concrete to build a four-lane highway from New York to Philadelphia. In places the bridge is eight lanes wide, and in every respect is one of the engineering wonders of the world.
Conspiracies Against Automobilists
AUTOMOBILISTS are warned that in certain districts in New York state and Connecticut there are conspiracies between police officials and automobile repairmen resulting in outrageous overcharges and inconveniences to persons, including women, who chance to meet with even the slightest ill fortune. Some of these have been written up in New York papers. The innocent suffer along with the guilty, and the ones to whom they would naturally appeal are in conspiracy against them.
In the City of Evanston
IN THE city of Evanston, Illinois, when an automobile accident occurs nothing is left to guesswork, as seems to be the case everywhere else. The injured may be removed to a hospital, but nothing else is done until the traffic enforcement officers have done their work. They photograph the cars, photograph the skid marks, if there are any, test the brakes and determine how fast the car was going when the brakes were applied.
Old-fashioned Winter in Ohio in 1936
IT SEEMED like old times in Ohio in January, a year ago, when school buses got stalled in snow drifts fifteen or sixteen feet deep, snow plows would not work, and the children had to be rescued by men on horseback. Two of the buses, each containing thirty children, were so completely covered that they could not be seen, yet they were found.
A Disguised Armored Car
THE Buick Company has designed and built a disguised armored car, weighing 550 pounds more than a car of the same appearance unarmored. All glass is bulletproof, with protected firing ports. The body of the car is lined with chain mail; the radiator is protected; the tires have special inner tubes that make them almost puncture proof. The car is intended for police use.
Coast to Coast for $7.63
THE fuel cost between New York and Los Angeles, 3,774 miles, for the Auburn car equipped with a Diesel engine, was $7.63. The car was driven by the inventor of the engine, C. L. Cummins, president of the Cummins Engine Company. The car went from New York to Chicago on a fuel cost of $2.21.
Steamship Transportation
The Normandie’s Great Record
ON ACCOUNT of the fact that the westbound day, from noon to noon, is 25 hours, while the eastbound day, from noon to noon, is 23 hours, the Normandie made her best day of 748 miles when she was running 29.92 knots, despite the fact that on the eastbound trip she made a day of 711 miles at the faster average of 30.91 knots per hour.
Greatest Nickel Trip in the World
THE greatest nickel trip in the world is the five-mile ride between the Battery and Staten Island, across New York harbor. Twenty-one million passengers take this ride every year, at a yearly deficit to the city of New York of about $500,000. On a 7½c fare the city would make money on the line, but sentiment and other considerations prevent a raise of fares.
Morro Castle Lives Worth $75 Each
THE owners of the Morro Castle must pay a fine of $10,000 for criminal negligence in the fire which cost 134 lives. The brilliant statesmen at Washington made the law so that this was the total amount that could be collected. If the fine could have been $10,050 it would have been $75 for each life lost. The persons burned to death were not congressmen.
School Adoption of Ships
FOUR London schools adopted tramp steamers and carry on a regular correspondence with the captains, who write one or two letters a month from wherever in the world they chance to be. The plan works so well, and the students learn such valuable things, that 450 British schools now wish to have ships assigned.
The Ship Canal Across Florida
THE 200-mile sea-level ship canal across Florida, work on which had already begun, would have given employment to 25,000 workers for six years. It was estimated the total cost would be $146,000,000, and that ships would save 2½ days sailing time between Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean ports.
Invisible Salvage of a Steamer
CAUGHT in an ice pack in the North Atlantic the steamer Towerbridge signaled for help. The steamer Newfoundland answered by radio and directed the Towerbridge to safety, receiving a reward of $10,000.
The Queen Mary’s Telephone Facilities
PASSENGERS on the Queen Mary may pick up a telephone in any of the 500 state rooms (or in any of numerous other places on the boat) and talk with friends in any other part of the world. Moreover, the speech is scrambled and then unscrambled ashore, so that there can be no eavesdropping.
Some Facts About the Queen Mary
SOME facts about the Queen Mary are that over 10,000,000 rivets were used on the hull; there are over 2,000 portholes and windows; the diameter of each stack is 30 feet (or larger than a good-sized house); and the rudder weighs 140 tons.
Queen Mary’s Wonderful Speed
ON A certain day the French liner Normandie set a world’s record of 711 miles. Within a few weeks thereafter the Queen Mary distinguished herself by 713 miles one day and 712 miles the next, crossing the Atlantic from west to east in 3 days 23 hours 57 minutes.
Swordfish Sends a Ship to the Bottom
IN THE Gulf of Aden a 300-pound swordfish rammed a boat in the dead of night and sent it to the bottom. The crew and passengers aboard, 15 in all, were saved. The captain wanted to go down with his ship but was forcibly rescued.
Carbon Dioxide Refrigeration
CARBON dioxide, sometimes called “dry ice”, sometimes called “gas storage”, is being installed rapidly on British freighters in the Australia-England trade, with the confident expectation that fruits of all kinds and fresh meats also will be available in Britain the year around.
Suez Canal Made One Foot Deeper
THE Suez canal, 100 miles long, has been made one foot deeper, so as to take vessels of 34-foot draft. This sea-level canal is kept open only by the constant employment of suction dredges, piling the shifting sands back upon the edges of the ditch.
Panama Canal 21 Years of Age
THE Panama canal, now 21 years of age, cost $500,000,000 to build. It has passed 82,000 ships and taken in about $394,000,000 in tolls.
Crops and Soils
Balsa the Lightest Wood
BALSA, the lightest wood, only half as heavy as cork, comes from Costa Rica. It is so soft that one can dent it with his fingernail. It sometimes grows 36 feet a year, but must have soil free of weeds, as it is so tender that even a vine can choke it to death. As soon as cut, which should be when four to six years old, Balsa timbers are treated to a coat of paraffin, to keep them from swift decay. Balsa is used for hat-molds, theatrical scenery, life preservers, lifeboats, aquaplanes, fireless cookers, for sound-proofing and for lining refrigerators and cold storage rooms.
Soil Erosion in Maine and New Jersey
ALTHOUGH Maine and New Jersey are both well watered, more than 1,800,000 acres of land in Maine have been damaged by soil erosion, while in New Jersey 900,000 acres, or one-fifth of the state, have been similarly damaged and a soil survey shows that 25 percent to 75 percent of the topsoil is gone. It is believed that quick action must be taken in New Jersey to correct this serious situation; the contour of the land must be followed in plowing and planting, and planted areas should be surrounded by sod borders.
Flowers Grown in the Sand
AMERICAN horticulturists report great success growing flowers in sand, the secret being in the use of chemical manures. Roses develop better roots, and sweet peas suffer less from shedding buds. In a beautiful park in Topeka, Kans., in season, there are fifteen thousand rosebushes, covering nine acres, and open to the public night and day. At night the gardens are flood-lighted. The only guard is a notice cut in the stone at the entrance, "The honest need no watchman."
Information About Japanese Magnolias
LAST winter a group of relief workers cut down a dwarf tree and used it for a bonfire somewhere within the confines of New York city. It turned out to be a Japanese magnolia, worth $3,000. It was a male tree, and when it died its companion tree pined away and died at loss of her mate. As a consequence the city of New York was sued for $6,000, all because a group of relief workers did not have enough actual work to keep their blood warm.
How Can the Surplus Wood Be Used?
BUT a few years ago men were wondering what the world would shortly do for timber. Then came the general use of cement in building operations, and now there has been held in London the first convention of leaders of the world's timber industry, and the burden of their discussions was, "How can the world's surplus wood be used?" Some of the solutions are that it can be made edible, and that the derivable gases can be used for motor fuel.
Tung Oil Industry in Florida
IT IS predicted that the tung oil industry in Florida will not be overdone for many years. Centering around Gainesville, there are now some 30,000 acres of tung trees, producing the tung oil so essential for good paints and varnishes. The United States uses ninety percent of the world's tung oil production. The tung trees are grown chiefly in China.
Radio Waves and Vegetation
A PHOTOGRAPH at hand shows that in the immediate vicinity of a radio station the influence of the radio waves on vegetation is so strong that plants grown on the shady side of the transmitting building grow sharply toward the building instead of toward the light.
To Get Rid of Weeds
IT IS claimed that sowing a farm completely to alfalfa will kill off all the weeds. The weeds get discouraged with the crowding and the frequent cutting and finally give up the fight.
The Versatile Soybean
CHEMISTS have discovered more than 300 uses for the versatile soybean. One of its uses is as a partial substitute for linseed oil in the manufacture and application of paint.
Bombarding Seeds with Sound Waves
RUSSIANS discovered that by "bombarding the seeds" of peas and other vegetables with sound waves the crops were greatly increased, and matured earlier.
Largest Mushroom Ever Harvested
WHAT was probably the largest mushroom ever gathered was harvested at Bath, England, in August. It weighed 2 pounds 12 ounces and was over 18 inches in diameter.
Birds, Bees, Fishes
California's Industrious Woodpecker
IN California woodpeckers have found that electric light and power poles are just the thing for storing their winter supply of food. They drill them full of chisel-like holes, not more than an inch or two apart, and into these holes they force acorns so tightly that a squirrel cannot get them out. In the spring, when worms have formed in the acorns, the woodpeckers return and get these delicacies for their young, unless the linemen, in the meantime, have hard-heartedly put up new poles in stead of the ones pecked full of holes. No matter what protective preparations are used on the poles, the woodpeckers laugh at them and go right ahead and drill holes in the poles to their hearts' content. After all, the electric light and power companies should know that woodpeckers have to have poles to drill full of holes to store their acorns to feed their young'uns in the spring.
"The Little Busy Bee"
TALK about industry. If a hen lays two eggs in a day she wants a prominent place in the public press, besides blowing about it all over the barnyard. But a queen bee will lay 1,500 eggs in a day and will supervise a colony of 50,000 to 60,000 bees. The bees in a colony, besides gathering in enough honey to feed themselves, will rustle around and pick up forty pounds of honey for the one who is clever enough to get it away from them, and do it every year.
Feed Kelp to Chickens
A KAPOWSIN (Wash.) poultryman feeds kelp to his chickens, with the result that the eggs which they lay contain 150 times as much organic iodine as usual, and constitute a very probable means of correcting iodine deficiencies in human diet. Persons having a tendency to develop goiter will be interested in this discovery. Kelp (seaweed) can be had anywhere on the seaboard.
Many Pelicans Die in Salt Lake
DUE to lessened rainfall, the salt content of the waters of Great Salt Lake has so increased that pelicans that come to the waters are unable to rise. The salt clogs their wings, and they are dying of thirst and starvation in large numbers.
Volcanic Gas Kills Gulf Fish
SUBMARINE volcanic gas caused the death of millions of fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Sulphur dioxide gas, coming in contact with the water, created sulphurous and sulphuric acid in immense quantities. Persons living near the gulf noticed the gas, which made them cough all night, and caused a burning sensation in the throat.
Sea Gulls Getting Careless
SINCE sea gulls discovered that they could obtain choice sea food by dropping clams on hard objects, they have become careless. Some automobiles were hit, in which cases the birds were aiming at the pavement, and one man was hit on the head, which was not so much fun, so he says, and he wonders just what that particular gull had in mind when he picked on him.
Honeycomb Twelve Feet Long
WHEN honey began dripping through the plaster of an attic bedroom Dr. Kenneth Saunders, of Berkeley, California, had an investigation made which resulted in the discovery of a honeycomb twelve feet long, two feet wide and six inches thick. It is believed to have been in formation for eight years.
In Pennsylvania's Fishermen's Paradises
PENNSYLVANIA has ten fishermen's paradises. Holders of licenses may fish five days a season, and may catch fifteen trout per day, but kill only two. All fish less than ten inches long must be returned to the stream. Hooks must be barbless. No bait may be used; only artificial lures. There is no wading in the stream.
1,000,000 Hives of Honey Bees Destroyed
BEE experts estimate that the growing practice of scattering poisonous dust from airplanes to kill harmful insects has destroyed about 1,000,000 hives of honey bees. The bees are often killed at the flowers, but even if they get back to the hive they bring poisoned food to the young bees.
Scaring Away the Starlings
A FARMER near Belleville, Ontario, trapped starlings and painted the lower half of their bodies a brilliant yellow. He thought it would frighten all the other starlings away, and it did.
Faith
A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford
MANY persons desire to do what is right and pleasing to the Lord but are really guided by credulity or by the whim of another. One asks this question: If I go to some church building each Sunday and take part in the religious exercises and pay my part to keep up the expenses of the organization, is that worshiping Almighty God and Christ? The Scriptural answer is, No; for the reason as stated by Jesus, that such is vain worship and that those who please God must worship Him in spirit and in truth. (Mark 7:7; John 4:23) To properly worship God one must have faith, because, as is written in Hebrews 11:6, without faith it is impossible to please God.
Faith cannot rest upon the opinion of any man. Faith means to have a knowledge and understanding of God’s Word and then to rely upon and follow the instruction contained in that Word. Faith must be based upon evidence that comes from a perfectly truthful source. The opinion of man is merely a guess. Faith is based upon that which is known to be true. How, then, can a man who desires to go in the right way have faith? The Scriptures answer, at Romans 10:17, that faith comes by receiving knowledge from the Word of God. Such is the truth.
From the Bible one learns that all men are sinners and imperfect by reason of inheritance. (Romans 5:12) Actual experience corroborates this Scriptural statement, because we know that there is no perfect man among us. All sane persons want to live; and the Scriptures teach that life is a gift from God through Jesus Christ. (Romans 6:23) You go to a church building and take part in formal exercises because you desire to receive some benefit. But you find that no benefit results, for the reason that what is there taught and practiced is the opinion or doctrines of men. Because of fear many go to the churches and listen to what is there said. God’s prophet says (Isaiah 29:13): “Their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.” The right way is stated in the Scriptures (Psalm 119:104): ‘Through thy precepts, or instruction, we get understanding; therefore I hate the false way.’ In order to increase in faith one must increase in knowledge, and to that end he must study the Word of God and rely upon it. One says, ‘If I do what I think to be right, surely that will get me salvation.’ Not so, however; because what you may think may be far from what is right. The Scriptures instruct that we must trust in the Lord and follow His Word if we will be guided in the right way.—Proverbs 3:5, 6.
Learning that you were born a sinner and out of harmony with God, that Christ Jesus is the way to God, and believing this, you agree to do God’s will. Then you read in the Word of God (John 3:36): “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” To believe on the Lord Jesus is to accept the statements of the Scriptures as truth, and which state that Jesus came to earth to be a witness for the truth, and that everyone that is of the truth hears His voice. (John 18:37) To “hear His voice” man must obey, or do what the Lord commands; and the one who has faith does that very thing. The advice given to those who desire God’s approval is: “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.” (Ephesians 5:6) Going through certain forms and ceremonies is vain and useless. The man who pleases God must study to show himself approved unto God.—2 Timothy 2:15.
For the very purpose of aiding the people to gain knowledge and understanding, and thus to be established in faith, Jehovah’s witnesses go about publishing the truth to the people. They go to the homes of the people and exhibit to them books in which are set down these Scripture texts which constitute the foundation for faith and show the way leading to life. To gain such knowledge and rely upon it is the only way to establish one’s faith. It is those who have faith in God and who are diligently trying to obey His Word that will receive the blessings of life everlasting. It is your privilege to avail yourself of these Bible helps that you may study God’s Word and walk in the right way and receive His approval.
The one who attempts to destroy man’s faith in God is the Devil, because he is attempting to turn all men away from God. For this reason it is necessary to be sober of mind and watchful. At 1 Peter 5: 8, 9 it is written: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour; whom resist stedfast in the faith.” You resist the Devil by learning God’s Word of instruction and confidently relying upon that instruction.
[The interesting series of Bible talks of which the foregoing is one has been reproduced for the phonograph. These records may be run on the ordinary type of machine, and are being widely used for calling attention to important Bible truths. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y., are the distributors of these records. Any inquiries concerning the records should be addressed to them.]
Immediate Action Imperative
TO Hon. Harold G. Hoffman,
Governor of State of New Jersey,
Trenton, New Jersey.
The undersigned, citizens of the State of New Jersey, for themselves, and in behalf of all people who desire to see the blessings of liberty and freedom retained in this state, do hereby present information of importance to you with the request that you take appropriate action in connection therewith. The liberties of people have been encroached upon to such extent that a large portion of New Jersey is today virtually a Fascist territory. Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and freedom of worship are so generally disregarded that immediate action becomes imperative lest the state be completely enslaved by a subtle, implacable foreign power.
Between October 16 and 18 of this year about eight thousand people who are Christians and Jehovah’s witnesses gathered in convention at Newark to worship Almighty God in the mode which His Word, the Bible, prescribes. Like conventions have been held in many states of this country and in many foreign countries, but never before have they received the shameful and inhuman treatment accorded them in northeastern New Jersey. One hundred fourteen of them, residents of many states, were arrested and crowded into the local prisons throughout this Fascist-minded area. Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, Orange, Union City, North Arlington, Harrison, Lyndhurst, Middlesex, Montclair, Caldwell, Prospect Park and Ridgefield Park participated in the outrage. Some were held for a short while and released, but the majority were given farcical trials and received prison sentences ranging from five days to sixty days.
We are informed that the matter has been brought to your attention by many indignant protests from various parts of the country. You have replied to such letters stating that Jehovah’s witnesses had been incarcerated “because of their refusal to comply with local ordinances in Hudson County”.
It is surprising that you would make such statement without proper investigation. Your answer certainly is not the truth, and woefully misrepresents Jehovah’s witnesses. They were not arrested for violating local ordinances. Many of them were thrown behind prison bars for merely driving on the streets, or walking on the sidewalks. One magistrate, who has the doubtful honor of convicting the most and giving the heaviest sentences, made the remark in open court, “We have told Jehovah’s witnesses to keep out of town.” This statement portrays clearly the gist of the situation. It was because Jehovah’s witnesses had the temerity to be in a number of Jersey towns such as Hoboken, Jersey City, Orange, Weehawken, Union City, etc., that they were pounced upon and locked up. It was a case of religious persecution similar in intent to that of the Dark Ages.
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