Golden Age, June 30, 1937
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Vol. XVIII - No. 464
June 30, 1937 CONTENTS
WATER? 611
A Glimpse at the Creator's Wisdom 611
Water Poisoned to the Limit 612
The Process of Contamination 612
To Sell All the Dope Possible 613
Where the Doctor Fills His Jug 613
Dividends Before Life 614
Expensive Boilers 614
Every Folly Has Friends 614
Line Yourself with Aluminum 614
Sample of Pipe 615
NEW YORK'S UNDERGROUND RIVER 615
THE FLOOD AT NEWPORT, KENTUCKY 616
Damming the Mississippi 616
Better Not Have Dammed the Ohio 616
A NOTE TO NEW JERSEY'S GOVERNOR 617
PUTTING GOVERNOR HOFFMAN ON THE SPOT 617
WHY SHOULD RELIGION AVOID CONTROVERSY? 618
Gloria's Vacation 618
AN EX-OFFICER IN THE ITALIAN ARMY 619
PIONEERING IN VIRGINIA 620
Drugged the Wrong Man 620
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TRAINING OF MURDERERS 621
American Game Association 621
SPANISH PEOPLE DESPERATE 622
Courage in Presence of Death 622
Chromium Mists and Fumes 622
Wholesale Murders at Addis Ababa 623
The Massacres of Addis Ababa 623
''You Did Not Bring Death'' 623
After the Coptic Church Property 623
Farrell Does Not Stand Mute 624
Associated Press Stands Mute 624
EXPOSED (H) 625
DIALOGUE ON A RAILWAY TRAIN 626
TREES AND FLOODS 626
SOUND CAR EXPERIENCES IN CALIFORNIA 627
SOUND CAR EXPERIENCES IN ARKANSAS 628
WITH A SOUND CAR IN SWAZILAND 629
''FREEDOM OF FAITH'' TEMPLE AT WORLD'S FAIR 630
TRUE AMERICANS IN LORE CITY 631
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN IMPERIAL VALLEY 632
''JEHOVAHITES PULL FAST ONE ON CITY COPS'' 633
Preachers Help Spread the Truth 633
SUNDRY AND DIVERS UPS AND DOWNS 634
A Jonadab's Garden in Rhode Island 635
Dives, Dope, Bets, Bibles 635
The Van der Plaegs Can Stand It 635
Holiness a la Wicand 635
JEHOVAH'S SABBATH 636
A Week of 49,000 Years 636
Invited to Enter God's Rest 636
Sabbath Observance 637
Believers Enter into Sabbath 638
'There Remaineth a Sabbath-Keeping' 638
''That Which Passeth Away'' 638
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The Golden Age
Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, June 30, 1937 Number 464
Water? By Pennsylvania Correspondent
IN The Golden Age, recently, appeared an article by Doctor Hodge, of Kentucky, entitled "Water". The multitudinous benefits and uses ascribed therein to that colorless and tasteless liquid are unquestionably of truth, and constitute knowledge that is very worthy of acquisition.
Of necessity, however, the facts as stated can apply only to water in the pure and unadulterated state in which it issues from the purifying natural filters of the earth's surface; and in which condition the great Creator certainly purposed it should remain for the benefit and comfort of His creatures whom He purposes shall enjoy everlasting life upon the earth.
Having thoroughly enjoyed this unusual bit of enlightenment from the therapeutical viewpoint, it would be very nice if the matter could be dismissed there with the positive assurance that all water used for drinking purposes gave such beneficial results, as concerns the health and well-being of the human family.
Unless you are fortunate enough to have a good well, or spring, for your supply of drinking water, there is another side to the picture. It is the side known intimately to the filter plant chemist, and we are hesitant to intrude with it; for it is very sordid, and most unpleasant in its reality.
Details of the devilish business of polluting water for commercial enterprise are almost sure to upset the tranquillity of the average reader, and especially so if you live in one of the more populous centers where some form of chemical treatment of drinking water is deemed necessary.
Purifying the water
A Glimpse at the Creator's Wisdom
Before this happens, however, we are taking the opportunity to insert, while it will be appreciated, one redeeming feature from the engineer's knowledge of water: Certain of its properties furnish the best of physical proof of the existence of a great, all-wise Creator.
This scientific phenomenon, stated as condensed and as simply as we are able, is this: Water at 39 degrees, Fahrenheit, is at its greatest density, or weight, for a given volume. If it becomes chilled a little more, say to 32 degrees, it becomes less dense, and lighter, for a given volume, solidifying into ice. That is why ice floats. Apply heat to water at 39 degrees and it also becomes lighter.
Why this seemingly strange contradiction of established physical laws? What power but that of Jehovah God would foresee the necessity for it, and arrange this peculiar property of water? Were it not so, water in lakes and streams would not gravitate to the bottom just before freezing point is reached on the surface. The ice, having once formed on the surface, insulates the comparatively warmer water on the bottom from the cold, maintaining its temperature at approximately 39 degrees, or just above freezing.
Thus Jehovah has prevented certain disaster to the inhabitants of the earth, since the Deluge; for without this peculiar property of water, lakes and rivers would freeze solid to the bottom, and the most scorching heat of summer, that man could endure, would not suffice to thaw them out between the seasons.
Water Poisoned to the Limit
Giving the hydraulic engineer his due, it is admitted that their efforts in building great reservoirs, dams and viaducts, for the control of water, have resulted in a greater measure of comfort and convenience to a large proportion of the human family. Would that their efforts were confined solely to changing the volume or courses of streams!
But devilish commercialism demands that our water for human consumption must be obtained from polluted streams, and, because it is thus obtained, must be endlessly doctored, doped and poisoned to the ultimate limit (for there is a limit, you will be glad to know), and that such limit shall be rigidly maintained in order that a few ultrarich manufacturers of certain mechanical devices, and their coconspirators, the poisonous aluminum crowd, may reap handsome profits on slow death; for anyone imbibing the alleged water after their devices and products have gotten in their dirty work is slowly and surely poisoned, and that not ignorantly, but willfully.
This should be very, very hard for the average person to believe; therefore we purpose to give an uncolored and straightforward account of firsthand observances in the filter plant of a large water and power corporation on the Atlantic seaboard. Readers may then judge for themselves; for what is true of this plant is true, more or less, of every municipal and commercial enterprise that happens to be using the same well-known system of water filtration.
Surrounding the plant at a respectful distance is the usual company-owned town of several hundred inhabitants. There are springs and streams galore in the region which could be utilized for the drinking requirements of the entire community. But are they? The nature of the primary business—power—required an unfailing source of supply for steam boilers, which are an auxiliary source of power to a hydro-electric plant. The impounded water from the plant’s dam furnished the required supply, but in order to use river water in the extremely high-priced boilers a filtering plant was necessary.
Commercial reasoning being what it is, the possibilities of utilizing the abundant springs and streams of unpolluted water for drinking purposes were entirely ignored in favor of the more expensive and abominable system requiring the use of deadly poisonous chemical by-products of the aluminum and powder trusts.
Accordingly, the filter plant was built and equipped with alum mixer, soda ash injector, chlorinator, and the usual chemical poisons. Without a doubt, their elaborate installation completed, the Devil, himself, sat back and grinned in anticipation of the assured slow death of creatures of Jehovah in yet one more community.
The Process of Contamination
Who, at some time in life, has not paused by a rivulet or spring and been refreshed from its depth? (Psalm 110:7) How clear and cool! How odorless and tasteless! Follow the stream into the haunts of commercialism, and note what happens to those qualities. Musically it winds its serpentine course among the reeds and ferns to the meadow creek; thence to the broad river, into which it runs clear but a few feet before that pristine purity receives its first pollution—sewerage. (This, of course, would be avoided if all the people who find fault with Jehovah’s witnesses for allegedly breaking the Sabbath, by going about with books, would themselves keep the other parts of the laws that were given to the Israelites. See Deuteronomy 23:12, 13.)
With its identity as spring water almost gone, it enters the intake to the pumps of the filter plant, and is discharged into the sedimentation basins; at which point it meets with pollution Number 2: a stream of water at high pressure, charged to the limit with aluminum sulphate, a by-product of Mellon industry. The turbidity of the water usually determines the extent of this pollution, the usual dose being, for a normal turbidity of 25, about .600 of a grain of alum per gallon of water.
From the sedimentation basins it passes over a weir into the filter beds; thence through fifteen feet of graduated sand and gravel, which in itself would completely clarify the water without the use of the deadly alum, if the operation were unhurried. It then collects into the clear well; but it is now time for pollution Number 3: introduction of a jet of water heavily charged with soda ash. The normal rate of pollution for this phase is about .400 grain of soda ash per gallon of water.
Finally it enters the pumps, to be delivered to the storage reservoir for human consumption. Just as it is discharged into the main leading to the reservoir it receives the deadliest, most poisonous charge of all—chlorine; by-product of Du Pont industry. This gas is so corrosive that only an instrument of solid silver is used to regulate it.
And so the liquid from our little rivulet goes to market, and reaches the water mains of commercialism. If you have followed the several pollutions in order, and can still call it water, you have an excellent imagination! Soup would be more appropriate! Nor would the familiar skull and crossbones, required by law of your corner druggist, on all poisons, be at all out of place on any container of the stuff!
To Sell All the Dope Possible
But why don't these poisons affect the health immediately? And why isn't there an extremely unpleasant taste apparent? That is where the filter plant chemist comes in! The uninitiated may think that the chemist is required on the job to keep the water pure; and that's just the idea that any water company would like its patrons to have!
However, everyone familiar with filter plant practices knows that tests are made, not to determine the purity of the water, but to determine when poisonous chemical pollution is APPROACHING THE LIMIT, beyond which IMMEDIATE harmful effects are AT ONCE apparent.
Any concoction containing powdered alum (alias sulphate of alumina), soda ash and chlorine gas certainly cannot be classed as pure. As to taste, another chemical, the trade name of which cannot, for obvious reasons, be mentioned here, is used to offset any bad taste. It contains dissolved carbon, and, unless the leopard can change its spots, is merely an additional poison.
With the health of an entire community depending on the accurate testing of drinking water, certainly a competent chemist makes these necessary tests regularly? That's what you are supposed to think! Competent chemists do not work for $75 per month, however; which is top pay for filter plant operators in the employ of the concern about which we write.
Hence, former plow-hands, fresh from high school, magically become full-fledged operators with as little as one week's instruction. Thereafter he is considered competent to treat and make tests of the water himself. What's the difference if he does merely copy the previously recorded tests of the more experienced operator who preceded him on duty? which is often admittedly the case. That's only a minor fraud, perpetrated by an ignorant and underpaid attendant! Hearken, now, to a major one, perpetrated by some of the boys in the higher-salaried brackets, and who certainly know better!
Where the Doctor Fills His Own Jug!
The most important test of all is the bacteria test, for determination of the presence of typhoid fever germs. This is made (?) by a company physician at regular (?) intervals. There are no records, of course; merely the doctor's word that such tests have been made.
It is rather amusing to watch the good doctor obtain his supply of drinking water, by gallon jug, from a nearby spring. Not so amusing, however, to visit his office, time after time, as physical disability may demand, and note the bacteria testing apparatus unused in the corner, and under a six-month accumulation of soot and dust.
They do say, however, that he is a very good recorder of deeds for the county. Maybe there is criminal neglect here? We don't want to influence anyone along that line of thought, but will let you figure that out for yourself after reading what follows.
Some time ago, a boiler engineer and his wife were taken ill and their cases diagnosed as “typhoid fever”. During the ensuing commotion over possible sources of the disease the usual statement regarding the purity of the local water supply was issued to quiet the rising fears of the populace. The wife died; and later several more persons were stricken.
Concurrently the disease appeared in a neighboring city of about 65,000 population. County and state officials became interested, and one day a gentleman entered the filter plant unannounced. (Visitors, other than company officials, are not allowed in the filter plant unaccompanied.)
After complimenting the new man on duty upon the general condition of the place, and the unusual clarity of the water, it was no trick at all, or rather no difficult feat, to obtain a sample of unchlorinated water from the clear well (he just happened to have an empty bottle with him). Four days later the county papers carried large headlines announcing that the source of the "typhoid fever" epidemic had been traced to a local water supply. And the good doctor took yet another good healthy swig from the gallon jug!
Dividends Before Life
Anyone who thinks that corporations don’t put dividends above health, or even life itself, can mull over this curious fact a while: Filter plant operators, being what they are, will let the chlorinator get out of hand every now and then, and the poison charge may double or triple.
People soon start calling the office to inquire "what's wrong with the water that it has such a funny taste". A stock answer is that "it usually has a bad taste this time of year". After the third or fourth call the operator on duty is asked to check his tests. The assurance of the $75 operator (unwilling to disclose his or his fellow's mistake) that the tests are all O.K. is usually as far as it goes. After all, only the health and life of the public are concerned!
Expensive Boilers
But this same water is used in expensive boilers! For this use it is necessary to know just what the parts per million of solids, sulphates, caustics, alkali, etc., are, in order to prevent serious damage to the interior of the boiler tubes. Does the $75-per-month operator make these tests? Not on your life! A $200-per-month man makes these tests!
Moreover, if there is a slight variation in the hydrogen concentration, or oxygen, there is a great to-do. Samples are immediately dispatched to the most expensive firm of chemists in the east. If their report substantiates the company chemist's test the inhabitants of the community merely absorb a few more grams of poison of the required sort, that those boilers might enjoy a long and useful life. Seems ridiculous, doesn't it? But true, nevertheless! Men, women, children, are plentiful; but boilers are a trifle scarce!
Every Folly Has Friends
Among Golden Age readers there is almost sure to be someone who will rise to the defense of aluminum sulphate with the stock argument that only a negligible quantity of the stuff remains in the water after it passes through the filters. They may also feel like defending the use of the deadly poisonous chlorine, too, with the usual argument that, being a gas, it frees itself from the water when allowed to stand open to atmosphere for a minimum of five minutes. In readiness for something of the sort, we circumvent it by referring such to tests of water, at normal turbidity. They will look about like this:
TURBIDITY (Raw Water) 25 ppm.
ALKALINITY (Filtered Water) 44 ppm.
CHLORINE (Filtered Water) .33 ppm.
P H Raw Water 7.3 Tap 7.1
Filtered Water 6.9
CHLORIDES (Filtered Water) 12 ppm.
ALUM RATE 35 grams
CHLORINE RATE 15 sec.
SODA RATE 36 grams
Note the CHLORINE and CHLORIDES tests! The CHLORINE test is made to determine the excess chlorine gas remaining in the water, at the consumer's faucet. The CHLORIDES test is made to determine the amount of chlorine gas that condensed into LIQUID, and has united with the water. One-third part per million and twelve parts per million do not seem like much of a quantity. Verily, it doesn't want to be, either, of a gas as deadly poisonous as chlorine!
The point is that the tests show the percentage of liquid and gaseous chlorine remaining in the water after long hours of exposure to the atmosphere. That you drink! And, if the operator makes a slip and allows too much to pass through the chlorinator, well,—!! You can taste it; and you can go to see your dentist oftener! (They say that chlorine gas is good for a cold in the head; but who wants to have a perpetual cold in the head just to utilize a commercial poison?)
Line Yourself with Aluminum Sulphate
About the other contention of the Aluminum Trust, that the aluminum sulphate creates a "flock" on the surface of the water and gathers the sediment unto it, but does not pass through the sand and gravel of the filter bed—it is to laugh! Quite unintentionally, an old reliable firm of analysts has knocked this contention into the proverbial cocked hat.
No tests are made to determine the quantity of aluminum sulphate remaining in the water after passing through the filters. (Such tests, if made, would be extremely enlightening; therefore, are intentionally omitted from the routine.)
During the course of the year there forms on the turbine blades a hard scale. This is carefully removed when the turbines are dismantled for yearly inspection, and samples sent to the aforementioned chemists for analysis. Here is their analysis, as received, and translated from technical chemical symbols into plain English:
Si O2 (Silica) 50.30
Fe2 O3 (Ferric Oxide) 32.80
Al2 O3 (Alumina) 6.30
Mn O2 (Manganese Dioxide) 2.17
H2 O (Moisture) 3.02
94.59
Note that the deposit is made up of over six percent of Alumina, alias Alum, alias Aluminum Sulphate! This becomes more noteworthy when it is understood that all water for boiler use is evaporated water. And, by far, the larger portion of alum remains in the evaporator and is washed to the sewer when the evaporator is flushed. No water enters the turbine blading as liquid. Therefore THIS IS ALUMINA that was carried to the blades by STEAM!
All of which proves that alum can, and does, go right through the sand of the filters, and even remains in the water after distillation in an evaporator. It is fairly certain, then, that the same chemically polluted water drawn from a faucet coats your insides with far more than six percent of aluminum sulphate.
Sample of Pipe
Along with additional proof of statements made herein, we are sending a cross section cut from a replaced water pipe.* Just water, bearing alum and soda ash, was run through it for a period of about six years. It is of copper, one and one-half inches in diameter, originally, but now the opening is barely three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The corrosion is approximately one-quarter inch thick all around the inside of the pipe. Ever read those nice ads about using copper pipe 'because it won't corrode'? Like Doctor Hodge, the ad men were thinking only of water as Jehovah God purposed it to be, for man's use.
The devilish combination of aluminum sulphate, soda ash and chlorine will corrode almost anything; and if you are a citizen of the company-owned and -controlled community of which we write, you can just picture the above-mentioned sample of pipe, or write ye editor, who has it. He can tell you, from scale model, just what the inside of your insides looks like, if you have been using water that is polluted with alum, soda ash, chloride of lime, and chlorine gas. You can then say, more fervently: 'Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'
Then, and only then, will suffering humanity be rid, for ever, of the Devil-actuated poison-peddlers, who would pollute everything that the human family consumes, from Dad's drinking water to the baby's milk—AT A PROFIT!
* On file in the office of The Golden Age.
New York’s Underground River
EVERY day New York city uses 913,100,000 gallons of water, distributed through 4,686 miles of mains beneath the city streets. A staff of inspectors with huge stethoscopes is constantly looking for and listening for breaks in the pipes. They usually find about one a day.
The Flood at Newport, Kentucky (Contributed)
(Written just after the waters subsided)
THE flood water here was ten feet higher than was ever before known. Hundreds of homes that were considered absolutely safe were in the water, which the sewers could not carry off. In fact, these were a hindrance; for from them water came into many houses which did not get much from the street. If the water had risen three feet higher it would have gotten into my basement, and the most of East Newport would have been flooded, as the backwater was coming near this part of the city.
One poor widow living on Front street has lost heavily. It is impossible to conceive how terrible are the conditions. People had put their household effects on the second floor of their homes and had gone away, thinking their goods were safe, because water was never known to rise to the second floor. But in some cases the water went over the roof; in others it went nearly to the ceiling. Those who had attics and stayed at home saved their furniture by moving it to the attic. Some frame houses were swept away, furniture and all. Others were turned upside down; still others were carried blocks away.
It looks as if a cyclone had struck the lower parts of Newport and Dayton. Garage roofs were taken off and landed in yards. The clay mud is from one to three inches deep in the houses. The congoleum rugs will not come up from the floors, but tear in strips when handled. Wool rugs of good quality can be cleaned, however. All the furniture goes to pieces, except the solid oak or walnut.
Iron bedsteads came out all right. One friend who had six rooms with furniture has now six chairs and four pieces besides the iron beds. A cyclone would not have been more destructive. Most people carry tornado insurance. Very few carry flood insurance; and these only to seven or eight feet, because that had been the highest heretofore. Words cannot describe the awfulness of the time.
The water was very slow in going down. No light, no heat, no gas, and no water! I was spared the lack of water and light; for I had two lamps, and had laid in some oil. I also had a heatrola.
The terrible things that are coming so fast, one after another, lead me to believe that the end is near. Through it all, however, I did not fear; for I knew that the angels were protecting me. I had sixteen people, flood refugees, up on my second floor. Almost every one helped out, or the people could not have been cared for.
School will not reopen until March; for some school buildings were flooded, and others are being used to house the people. So many homes have been destroyed that places cannot be found for the homeless. Some went over to Cincinnati; some to the country. Those who own homes which have not been condemned are slowly going back to them. But oh, the terrible job of cleaning those clay-covered houses! They have to be washed two or three times; and even then they look like clay.
Damming the Mississippi
F. A. Clogston, of Illinois, is puzzled by the many new dams being built across the Mississippi, for the benefit of navigation. The dams could carry highways, but don't. The bridges require tolls. Clogston thinks that in that case it is the people, and not the Mississippi, that are dammed. He says in part:
Just why a great government would permit private bridges and toll gates on the national highways and then spend millions of tax money to keep a few private steamboats going is, of course, best known to the beneficiaries of these benevolences. At the present time the government is building a number of dams in the river, and a system of locks, so they can keep the channel at a certain depth throughout the year by impounding the water so the precious steamboats can run. For the money put in dams they could buy all the boats afloat on the river and sink them, and then the people would be millions or billions ahead. But that would not suit the contractors. Even this monumental injustice to the people is rubbed in when the sites for the dams are chosen. The dams are usually located in places remote from the highways, and seemingly so that the people may not get any benefit for the millions spent. Each of these dams could carry a highway as well as not, but none of them do. All the people get out of them is the privilege of paying for them.
Better Not Have Dammed the Ohio
AT THIS distance it looks as if the government might better not have dammed the Ohio, as was done here and there all the way from Pittsburgh to Cairo. No stream can flow freely when it is choked with dams. The dams canalized the Ohio; and though it was good for the coal companies around Pittsburgh, for it enabled them to get their products to market cheaply, it is a question, after all, if it was not a curse to the country.
A Note to New Jersey's Governor
By Engracio Alinsod (Philippine Islands)
DO YOU not know that Jehovah has a visible organization on earth called "the remnant"? They are Jehovah's witnesses (Acts 15:14; Isaiah 43:10-12), the harmless people whom you persecute mercilessly. Are you an atheist or godless?
Search the Scriptures and you will find that the clergy or the hypocrites, including the politicians and Big Business, constitute the big Satanic organization known as "beast" or "antichrist". The Catholic Church doctrines are based upon lies and blasphemy against the very God whom they falsely claim to represent. Being tormented by the truth you, too, fulfill the Scriptures. You will only gnash your teeth.
Let there be persecution. It will fortify the position of Jehovah's witnesses.—Matthew 5:11, 12; Mark 13:9; Revelation 2:10; Zephaniah 3:8.
The basic structure of the Papacy is cankered and its collapse is momentarily expected. How can you persecute us effectively, since you only increase fast our number?
Only a short time ago, I was a Catholic approving in principle the cold-blooded persecution of Jehovah's witnesses in return for the privilege of kissing the feet of graven images. Damn the images. The ten commandments of God in the old covenant in Exodus 20 were secretly falsified by the Catholic Church. The storm of truth, thanks to persecution, is sweeping away the refuge of lies. The Catechism is false. The true word of God is the Bible.
There is the testimony of history. Catholicism and democracy can never go together in harmony. Catholicism, the prostitute mother of all inquisitorial power and iniquity, will corrupt America and cause her downfall. The pope, who baffles the best physicians of the world today, will give you politicians trouble unless you likewise prostitute your own conscience and follow him blindly to destruction.
The gospel of the Kingdom cannot be stopped. God's will prevails. Jail all of Jehovah's witnesses if you want to. God will save His people.
Putting Governor Hoffman on the Spot
S. B. ZYCHOL, hearing that six of his neighbors, who had visited a convention in Newark, had been jailed in Governor Hoffman's state, wrote the said governor on this wise:
It has been brought to my attention that some six Detroiters, who went to Newark [N.J.], where with many others they showed their faith by their works, just as Jesus and the apostles did, in house-to-house Christian work . . . were thrown into prison by clergy-inspired two-by-four-mentality politicians of your state.
Presidential timber (?)
Now, Governor, it is time you and all other politicians of your state wake up! You know you can’t let those modern Pharisees ride on your back indefinitely. It was not so bad in the Dark Ages, when few politicians could read and write and so had to do as the clergy told them, but in this day and age I can’t imagine anyone’s being so ignorant as to dig their chestnuts out of the fire—and then they laugh at you for doing it!
As a Catholic I wondered what was the matter in Mexico, Spain, etc., but now I can see. They just got wise to the hypocritical priests, and threw them off their back; just as I got wise and read Judge Rutherford’s book Intolerance and now I know that all priests are liars. Say, Governor, it would do you a lot of good to read it, too. It will show you great respect for God and the Bible, but little use for the clergyman.
Of course, you can continue as you are, but if, as those Jehovah’s witnesses say, there are over 250,000,000 of those books and booklets in circulation, 150,000,000 in the United States, maybe you will, some day, get a little surprise. We had some of those books.
Now, hearing of the unjust arrests, the people are reading them.
We are fifty-fifty Catholic and Protestants in Mr. C— B—'s neighborhood, who is my friend and is in prison, with others, in Jersey City. We will see that his family is taken care of. While you think that you are punishing them for thirty days in prison, well, it's just the opposite. I wish I were with them now. It is such a happy privilege to suffer for the right thing, and especially when one knows one is serving God.
Now I notice a lot of ballyhoo about those "Jehovah's witnesses" not saluting the flag. Well, what's wrong with that? They say God comes first and all the time. I think if you read the Declaration of Independence you will see somebody else made God first, and it might have been your great-grandfather.
I saw plenty of flag-wavers and their wonderful work in 1917-18. Yes, the ever-ready-to-"bless" clergymen. I was a member of 125th Inf. 32 Div. I met a number over there of N.J. 29 Division buddies; they can bear me out. We were "blessed" five different times, five different fronts. Originally 3,000 strong, in seven months we received 3,700 replacements. The flag-wavers and "blessers" were from twenty to fifty miles from the front.
So, now, Governor, it's time you investigated that bunch around Jersey City, and see that those who do good to their fellow men are protected, and not persecuted.
Why Should Religion Avoid Controversies?
IN THE Post a recent news story told of the arrest of a number of "Jehovah's witnesses" at Lagrange, Ga.
In these modern days many of us pride ourselves in the "great strides" of Christianity and civilization, and in the departure from "superstition" and "childish" faith, which simply means that there are few who will dare to "defend the faith once delivered to the saints".
Truly these "Jehovah's witnesses" must be rejoicing that they are permitted to suffer the same sort of treatment that was accorded Christ and the apostles.
Christ was apprehended by the religious people of His day but He was not accused of preaching the Gospel. He was accused of "spreading sedition against Caesar's government".
These "Jehovah's witnesses" were not accused of delivering the "message of the establishment of the kingdom of Christ", which they were actually doing, but were falsely accused of "spreading Communistic doctrines against this and other 'Christian' governments".
Christ was apprehended and accused by the recognized religious teachers of His own day.
Jehovah's witnesses were the victims of a "tip-off" on the part of the clergy of Lagrange, who attached to them the false accusation of being Communistic.
At least there is a parallel here.
I fear we have been so busy over the material actualities of life and its present-day problems that we have been overlooking just such opportunities as these Jehovah's witnesses are taking advantage of—that of spreading the message of the establishment of that long-promised Kingdom that Christians—in form at least—have so long prayed for.
Church leaders have been so busy trying to find a common non-controversial ground of action that they have come to ignore the fact that true Christianity came into the world in the thickest clouds of controversy and that without such controversy it must of necessity wither and die.
The efforts on the part of the church to avoid controversy seem to me more like cowardice and a yielding to the course of least resistance.
Jehovah's witnesses, as much as they may be despised by the so-called "religious teachers" of today, at least have the courage of their convictions and enough of that simple and childlike faith in God to face a cold and unreceptive world and undergo much persecution in behalf of their long-promised King.
It is such courage and such simple faith manifested that has always been the forerunner of every new dispensation in the history of mankind.—Bays Danforth Cather, in Birmingham (Ala.) Post.
Gloria's Vacation
GLORIA VANDERBILT had her vacation in 1936. It cost $4,250. Rent for the 31 days was an even $1,000; food was $700; coal was $65; newspapers, $15.17, etc. Gloria got through the month. She is 12 and has an estate of $4,000,000.
An Ex-Officer in the Italian Army
V. BOCCOTTI, of Wisconsin, was apparently at one time a member of the congregation presided over by John C. O’Hair, North Shore Church, Wilson Avenue and Sheridan Road, 1011 Wilson Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. On January 25, 1936, Mr. O’Hair wrote Mr. Boccotti as follows:
I find your letter upon my return to the office. You were in bad shape when you were in the Catholic religion, but you were far better off than following Judge Rutherford; for he will surely take you to unending perdition. I heard Pastor Russell a number of times and read all of his books. I have no hesitancy in saying that he was a true, loyal servant of Satan. And those who follow him will follow him to the “second death”. I pray that God will take away your blindness. With Christian love and best wishes, I am Most cordially yours, [signed] J. C. O’Hair.
To this letter Mr. Boccotti, under date of February 13, made the following reply, which is recommended to the careful consideration of those who are thinking of going into the chaplain business:
I received your letter of January 25 and would like to set you straight on one or two points. I’m not following Judge Rutherford, or any other man on earth, but I am a sincere follower of Christ Jesus and a witness of Jehovah’s truth and name. Jehovah said that He would take a people out of all the nations for His name, and by His grace I am one of these.
Let me tell you something of the history of my life—how I came to be a follower of Christ Jesus.
In my youth I was never in favor of religion. After I heard something about the Spanish Inquisition I dropped the whole matter and devoted my life to sports and amusements, until 1914, when I was called to serve in the army. Still I did not care about religion. In 1915, November 11, we were ready for the first battle. There were one thousand soldiers ready to start out for the first time. While going up Mt. Lana I noticed a priest under a tree, dressed in black, with a tin can in his hand, sprinkling so-called holy water on the soldiers as they passed, for which purpose he used a brush. A soldier remarked, “Here we are—, and now we are going for the last trip.” I felt as though I had an electric shock, and my legs could hardly carry me any farther. A very deep impression came over me, on the “religious” question.
The “religious” question impressed itself deeply on my mind
Before we got to the position for battle the Austrians discovered our lines and started bombing the head end. It stopped our progress for about four hours. It was snowing. We were covered with snow, cold, wet, and could hardly hold our rifles. Then the order came to go forward. When we got to the top of the mountain we saw a scene of misery. Hundreds of soldiers lay on the ground, dead. We were given orders to save those we could and gather at a little village called Pala, where the kitchen was in a safety zone. There we would be organized for the next battle. As I crossed the field of battle I heard a cry, “Vile! Kill me!” I saw a soldier with both legs cut off, who wanted us to end his suffering. The “religious” question impressed itself more deeply upon my mind.
For a short distance we could not walk on the ground, but had to walk on the bodies of the dead. When we reached the safety zone my comrade, a corporal major, eyes filled with tears, said, “How are all our friends?” I replied, “I walked over a good many of them, and do not know how many are alive.” “Religion” still was on my mind, with the vision of that priest always before me.
After our company was gathered there were only 90 alive out of 250. The next battle I was in was in May 1916. A General Caputo was in command of the second division. He sent command for us to get a position on Mt. Forame. Our captain refused. He was taken before the court-martial. The same order was given to the company on our right. Before the battle took place the priest was there. After he “blessed” the company they went to battle. Many were killed, including all of the officers. Only a few soldiers remained. The bodies of soldiers were hanging on barbed-wire fences like clothes on a line. The priest evidently did not have time to get to the safety zone. He was wounded. Still the “religious” question absorbed my attention. I wondered how it could be possible that on the other side there was the same action of “blessing” and killing.
Then I heard a priest called “Father” Samaria, who preached among the soldiers, putting hatred into our hearts. I wondered if there really was authority from God for such bloodshed. Meanwhile I was made a sergeant.
About this time an Austrian Catholic priest was found in Cartina Dompezzo who had a telephone connected from his altar to the Austrian firing lines, and told the Austrians where our company was. Oh, how true are the words of Jesus in John 8:40-44! Then, by the Lord’s grace, I was discharged from the army.
I went home and my mother wanted to send me to church, but I said: “Ma, I don’t believe in churches any more; I don’t believe in priests any more. I didn’t want to kill those poor Austrians. I never knew them. Those people claim to represent God. I do not believe there is a God!”
Oh, how ashamed I was when later I read in the Bible that only fools say in their hearts “There is no God”! I also found the words, ‘When the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch.’
In 1920 I came to this country, and feeling that I was doing wrong in not going to church, I started to go to church again, here and there, until 1925.
One day a lady handed me a proclamation issued by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Columbus, Ohio, at a convention in 1924. It condemned all the churches, Catholic and Protestant, for taking part in the World War, stating that in so doing they served the Devil instead of serving God. I had plenty of physical facts to confirm this.
On another occasion I was walking the streets in New York and saw people dressed in military clothes playing as a band. It was the “Salvation Army”, who were ‘doing good to the poor’. I was always sympathetic to the poor and contributed a few nickels here and there until I discovered that they also helped the war. I decided “Hands off the Salvation Army, too”.
So, dear sir, your letter did not discourage me. It encouraged me to co-operate with Judge Rutherford and Jehovah’s witnesses all the more and to put on the whole armor of God and follow in the footsteps of Christ, bringing the Truth to the people.
Jehovah’s witnesses are the only people on earth who stand for truth and righteousness. I wish all my friends with whom I fought in the war could have a knowledge of God’s provision as set forth in the Watch Tower publications. When Judge Rutherford shows up the hypocritical clergy in his talks he never makes it as strong as I would like to hear it.
Let Haman hold on the rope a little longer. Mordecai has not quite finished his ride through the city. Then he is going to the King’s palace—but read it for yourself in the book of Esther.
Do not go to the trouble to “pray” for me that my “blindness” may be removed. The Lord revealed to me through His prophet Isaiah “who is blind, but my servant?” I am blind to everything but Jehovah’s purpose, by His grace. I received knowledge and comfort from Jehovah and Christ through the Watch Tower publications.
Pioneering in Virginia (Contributed)
IT HAS been very warm and I have found a way to sleep in my car; so I am not so uncomfortable at all. I park the car near the house of the family who live near the spring. There is only one child; so the place is very quiet. It is a beautiful spot, on a hill, where a church used to be. It blew down in the last hurricane; now when they have meetings they put the benches under the trees in the open. On weekdays I use the benches for my office and various household tasks. Below, in the driveway, there is a beautiful natural spring, with plenty of healthful water all the time, the best in Virginia. It is much warmer here than in Jersey; I do not have to wear a coat yet. When the sun shines on the spot near the spring it is too wonderful for words. Today I got caught in the rain, and I was so happy, as I found everybody at home and placed literature en masse, for the first time. As I went on the roads got softer and softer, making it a hard pull back to camp.
Drugged the Wrong Man
FOR reasons best known to themselves, somebody drugged Judge Smiley, of Texas, three days after he procured the book Riches. His captors put him first in a padded cell and then in an insane asylum. As soon as the effects of the drug wore off he got out and immediately arrested the owner of the sanitarium and tried him for insanity. In America it is not always best to get too fresh and be too cocky. There are still Americans, and if they ever awake and get going, the political scum and riffraff that think they have the whole country by the nose may get the surprise of a lifetime.
International Association for Training of Murderers
THE Western Press Committee, in eleven consecutive months, collected 28 clippings showing fatal use of guns by children. One crawling infant tipped over a shotgun and killed his uncle; a child of eight years killed a baby; another child of eight killed his brother of nine; a child of ten killed a child of six; a boy of twelve killed his father in anger, using the rifle his father had given to him; two boys of fifteen quarreled and one shot the other dead; a woman sitting in an automobile was killed by a boy shooting at a target; five children committed suicide. If International Murderers had the gumption of the cigarette makers they would be able to more than offset this by attractive posters, pasted everywhere, showing that no boy or girl is worth bringing up unless constantly parading around with firearms.
“Nobody knows how many deaths there are each year from guns in the hands of children of 15 years or less. Two individuals in California and New York collected clippings of 109 such cases in eleven months of 1935. Parents, playmates, suicides, were the victims. ‘Accident’ is the wrong name.
“Of 109 cases, there were thirteen cases of intentional murder—seven fathers were killed, one stepfather, two mothers. Ten cases were suicides, the ages fourteen to eight.
“Gangs of three to six children, both boys and girls, planned and executed robbery with guns. The members of the gangs were of all ages from fifteen to eight.
“Games of outlaws, cowboys, sheriffs, Indians, soldiers, had many fatal results.
“Two cases were intention only, not action. The next to the youngest case was a boy of six who put on his uniform, took his toy gun and went to the police to ask their help in finding who killed his dog, so he could kill the offender. The youngest was three, who went to the police and said, ‘Come on, let’s you and me go shoot some robbers.’
“A girl thirteen years old was killed by a playmate after rehearsal of a school play. The gun was a property gun for the play.
“In the first eleven months of 1936, one person collected clippings from a limited number of papers, of 39 deaths from guns in the hands of children 15 years of age or less than 15. Four more deaths resulted from other weapons in the hands of children. Six children committed suicide, the youngest being nine years old. Forty-nine tragedies in a limited field. There are other cases of torture, beating, drowning, threatened hanging. Gangs and mobs of children engaged in kidnaping, beating, and burning with hot wire, the burning reported as 40 applications. No figures are available for the United States.
“Five mothers, three fathers, and five grandparents and uncles were killed by angry children. Brothers, sisters and playmates were victims. The youngest victim was two months old. The youngest killers were four and three years old. Even if children under 12 are counted out, those of 12 to 15 intended to kill and were old enough to know what they were doing. They had known for years what guns were for, and they knew where guns were within reach.
“A boy 15 years old beat his mother to death with a hammer. A boy of 14 stabbed a child of 5, threw him into a creek and stood on him to drown him.
“The movement to restrict or limit the possession of guns by adults is gaining adherents. The movement to keep them out of the reach of children is altogether different, and is an immediate necessity. ‘Accident’ continues to be the wrong name used by parents, headliners and coroners. Stop saying ‘accident’.” —Alice Park, California.
American Game Association
The American Game Association was originally called the American Game Protective Association. The only sense in which the word “Protective” ever applied is that the game were to be protected from starving to death by being shot ahead of time with automatic and pump guns. The founders were the following concerns, all of whom are interested in selling automatic guns and cartridges, and not interested at all in game: American Powder Mills, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, Marlin Fire Arms Company, Peters Cartridge Company, Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Company, Selby Smelting and Lead Company, J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company, United Lead Company, Western Cartridge Company, and Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It is like the Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s organizing to “uphold freedom of speech and of the press”.
The British Air Raid Precaution Department has issued Handbook No. 1, entitled Personal Protection Against Gas (H.M. Stationery Office, 6d. net). It is divided into the subjects of ‘Nose Irritant Gases (Diphenylchloroarsine)’, ‘Lung Irritant Gases (Chlorine and Phosgene),’ ‘Tear Gases (Chloracetophenone, Ethyl Iodoacetate and Bromobenzyl Cyanide),’ and ‘Blister Gases (Mustard Gas and Lewisite)’; and if it wouldn’t make you pray for God’s kingdom to come in full power in Armageddon and destroy the whole devilish arrangement now calling itself civilization, nothing would.
Spanish People Distressed and Desperate
THE Spanish people are distressed and desperate. They are fighting the wealthiest, most powerful, most unprincipled, wickedest organization that ever existed on this earth; an organization actually and fully representing the Devil, but claiming to represent and to speak with the supreme authority of Jehovah God and His Christ. Small wonder they are confused. What they need most of all is God’s kingdom.
At the time the war broke out Jehovah’s witnesses were rendering valiant service to their King throughout the Spanish peninsula. For the present their work is practically (though not entirely) at a standstill. The following is taken from the Year Book of Jehovah’s witnesses for 1937, and will be read with interest by all:
The people are fighting for dear life; for they well know that if the Hierarchy should win, it will mean a return to slavery and the conditions of the Middle Ages and the Inquisition for them. If it is true that the people’s anger has at times gone to extremes and vented itself against religion by the burning of churches and convents and by the killing of priests and monks, it must be stated emphatically that the latter “had asked for it” and that what has come to them was but their due.
One may also say with equal emphasis (as the Communists have published in a manifesto) that their fight is not against religion as such, but against those who under the cloak of religion have betrayed the people and are endeavoring to continue to exploit and oppress them as in the past. As a matter of fact, they have not once interfered with the free exercise of the true worship of God, as is borne out by the fact that during the first six weeks of the civil war several German pioneers were active in Madrid and others have continued till this day in other parts. One of those working in Madrid placed over 2,000 booklets and numerous books and copies of Luz y Verdad in one month.
“Boiled down to the core, the struggle in the international arena today is centered around the question of raw materials and markets. In a word, the entire foundation of the trouble is to be found in the maladjustment of trade, or the exchange of commodities, both nationally and internationally, plus the exploitation of colonies by imperialist powers.”—Commerce and Finance, New York.
On the other hand, most of our pioneers working in districts which fell under the power of the rebels were bitterly persecuted and imprisoned for periods ranging from ten days to three weeks by those who make such a great palaver of serving “God, country, order”, etc.
It is impossible to foretell with certainty which side will win, but even though the Jesuit-Fascist side should succeed in defeating the people with the help of certain foreign powers that have intervened in the conflict in violation of every international law, they will not be able to count the victory theirs. The people are determined never again to submit to the yoke of the clergy, and on several occasions have expressed their determination to rid the country once and for all of these enemies of mankind.
Courage in Presence of Death
A DISPATCH from Lisbon explains that in the war between the Hierarchy and the people in Spain most of the workers showed no fear of death but asked to be comforted by priests:
Whereupon, priests on the rebel [Catholic] side dropped their guns, changed their uniforms for Catholic raiment and officiated. Before the doomed men were lined up before the firing squad both the “reds” [workers] and the priests [murderers] wept bitterly and embraced.
Chromium Mists and Fumes
OTHER metals than arsenic and aluminum are also dangerous to human health. It is now discovered that the mists and fumes which arise in the process of chromium plating cause chrome ulcers at broken places in the skin and perforate the membranes of the nose. These afflictions take months to heal, and as chromium plating becomes more and more common these troubles are becoming widespread.
Northern Africa
The Wholesale Murders at Addis Ababa
THE New York Times, in a Paris dispatch accredited to the London Times, gives the following details of what happened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after the attempt on the life of the viceroy, Graziani:
For three days after the attempted assassination, every able-bodied Italian in the capital appears to have been encouraged to slaughter natives. The number of victims of this mass slaughter is said to have been about 6,000. With rifles, pistols, bombs, knives and clubs given out for the occasion, gangs of Black Shirts and workmen went through the native quarters killing every man, woman and child they found. Others, with flame throwers and tins of gasoline, set fire to the flimsy huts and houses and shot down those who tried to escape.
Let nobody marvel at these scenes of Fascism (Catholic Action). They would be world-wide if the pope and Mussolini had the power to make them so. They are fully approved at the Vatican, which is making full preparation to take over the Coptic Church of Ethiopia, lock, stock and barrel. It is known that the pope’s plans to do this are at least fifteen years old, indicating a full expectation that, sooner or later, Italy would seize the country.
The Massacres of Addis Ababa
UNDER this head the New Times and Ethiopia News, published in London under date of April 10, 1937, reports an eyewitness as declaring that not less than 30,000 Ethiopians were massacred in Addis Ababa following the attack on Graziani. Survivors were not allowed to take up their dead or weep over them, under penalty of being shot, imprisoned or banished. In the massacre naked women were scourged to death under the eyes of their husbands and brothers. Little children were crushed to death under the heavy boots (godasses) of the Fascist troops. The pope’s plans for making Abyssinia a Roman Catholic country are ‘coming along nicely’.
To Preserve African Wild Life
NINE countries will strive to agree on methods for preventing the entire destruction of wild life in Africa. Large parks will be formed, and improvements will be made in hunting regulations and the use of fires, flares and other devices. It is anticipated that there will be complete prohibition of certain unusually deadly weapons and methods of capture.
“You Did Not Bring Death”
A DISPATCH from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, states that in “the newly-opened cathedral” (which may or may not have been a Coptic church) the Roman Catholic archbishop Giovanni M. Emilio Castellani told the viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, “You did not bring death, but life, here; not war, but peace.” The account says that the cathedral was thronged with hundreds of Coptic and Mussulman natives. Probably many of their relatives were slain, and some of them had the skin burned off their faces with Italian poison gas, but it was all life and peace, according to the archbishop.
After the Coptic Church Property
WHEN Italian troops overran Ethiopia one-third of the arable land of that country was owned by the Ethiopian Coptic church, the priests of which have not a little bit of use for Roman Catholicism. A missionary commission named by the pope is now working on a scheme to get this property away from the Copts and into their own hands, and, with Mussolini to back them, will no doubt succeed.
Hostages Slain in Ethiopia
A REPORT several thousand words long from an Ethiopian correspondent to Dr. Martin, the Ethiopian minister in London, declares that the able-bodied men have left the cities and towns and are in the mountains. When these men attack the Italians the latter retaliate by killing the old men, women and children left in the towns, and have, as a matter of fact, so killed more than 5,000.
Jews Flogged in Tripoli
JEWS were flogged in Tripoli, by command of the Italian authorities, for failure to keep their shops open on Saturday, in violation of their consciences. The floggings, ten strokes with a whip made of pleated leather, were made in the open market place.
African Parents Still Sell Daughters
AFRICAN parents still sell their daughters in marriage, sometimes to old men with two or three wives. One girl in love with a youth was sold to such an old man, and when he endeavored to beat her into submission she took her own life.
Standing Mute
Farrell Does Not Stand Mute
IN The Nation James T. Farrell decorates the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in a way to call forth the admiration of all truth-lovers:
The Roman Catholic church has been built and defended not only with prayers and the will of the Almighty but also by means of blood and the sword. Neither the Holy Ghost nor Saint Peter ever contributed as effectively to the defense of the papacy as did, say, the Frankish king Pepin and his great son Charlemagne, who restored the weak Pope Leo III by force of arms. Down through the ages the Roman Catholic church has balanced prayers with the rack, canonization with the might of the sword, the power of wealth and oppression with appeals to the dreams and ignorance of the masses. It has, by the variety of its instruments, weathered the storms of centuries. Revolutions have come and gone, but Mother Church has remained the pillar of Christendom. In Spain today she stands with gun in hand defending churches which have been turned into arsenals. Her priests lay down their weapons to grant absolution to those who are about to be massacred by rebels wearing the badge of Mary on their sleeve and by those great defenders of Christianity, order, and authority—Mohammedan Moors. And the Vicar of Christ gently restrains them, forgives the "reds," and tacitly gives his benediction to the slaughter. The American Catholic press backs up the rebels.
Though Hitler is a Catholic, yet he is a loose one, and some of his men are still looser. One of them, a Dr. Jam, in a book published last August entitled "The Catholic Church, a Menace to the State", has the following paragraph [he must have been reading history, but manifestly not the Associated Press' history of the papacy, which is wholly complimentary to that festering sore]:
The lust of the Catholic Church for world control is an arrogant challenge of the most insolent kind, when one keeps in mind how rotten this system is, how reactionary, extremely intolerant, inimical against science, deadly to freedom, spirit and culture, builded up on falsehoods of historical enormity, on nothing but lies and frauds as fundamentals of its organization; furthermore when one keeps in mind the wicked, accursed past of the Catholic church, revealing the most ignominious, infamous, filth- and blood-covered register of sins which the world's history can show. There is no people on earth, no institution in the world, that has waded so deeply in human blood, unrighteously shed, and so deep in the mire of many vices and crimes as the Catholic church, so that moral degeneracy and repulsive criminality are written on her forehead as her unerasable characteristic mark.
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