Golden Age, August 25, 1937

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12,000 MILES OF WITNESSING IN AUSTRALIA

A DOCTOR’S QUAINT HUMOR

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

EXPOSED

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BORAH FLAYS FASCISM

THE LOVE OF GAIN —

ROOT OF ALL EVILS

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Vol. XVIII - No. 468

August 25, 1937 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

What the War Did to Italy 749

Italy’s War Loss 4,359 749

INFLATION OR A BALANCED BUDGET 757

Shuffling Off This Mortal Coil 757

Don’t Be Hard on Salesmen 767

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

TWELVE THOUSAND MILES OF

WITNESSING IN AUSTRALIA 739

EXPOSED (L) 753

PIONEERING IN SIAM 754

Three Sons in Three Centuries 766

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

QUEST FOR THE LOST STIMSON PLANE 748

What Mr. Cuse Deals In 749

New Ways of Killing 756

Profits of International Murderers 756

A Square Mile of the Sea 758

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Queer Distribution of

Military Secrets 749

Pro-Fascism in Washington 749

Mussolini’s Call to Glory 749

Clever Italian Strategy 749

SENATOR BORAH FLAYS FASCISM 756

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Soil Erosion in the United States 758

A Use for Corncobs 758

Potatoes Raised in Tanks 758

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Mechanical Cotton Picker a Success 759

Rivets May Go into the Discard 759

Bell Telephone Invented in Canada 759

A Hundred Different Kinds of Paper 759

The New Wool from Milk 759

Rays of Invisibility 759

HOME AND HEALTH

DOCTOR BETTS’ QUAINT HUMOR 750

Maybe You Have Trichinae 758

Quinoa, the New Cereal 758

Frozen Cherries and Frozen Milk 758

Oranges with “Color Added” 758

Boy Changing to Girl 767

Deaths from Alcoholism 767

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

HOW CLERGY INDUCE PEOPLE

TO GIVE THEM MONEY 746

THE RABBIT PEST 747

Why Their Houses Were Burned 747

Showed Them How to Do It 747

Talmage Fifty Years Ago 752

The Bloodiest Century 752

20 Days in Jail or 52 “Sermons” 752

Burning Facts About

Baptist Churches 752

A NIGHTMARE IN PRINT 755

Put One Over on Emperor Bao-Dai 757

THE LOVE OF GAIN—ROOT OF

ALL EVILS 760

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The Golden Age

Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, August 25, 1937 Number 468

Twelve Thousand Miles of Witnessing in Australia

By A. E. Willis, Pioneer

DURING the past year we (myself and another pioneer, W. Newlands) have been engaged in a trip through the center of this vast country, being privileged to be witnesses for Jehovah in these parts. Our object is to call on all sheep and cattle stations in South Australia and as many as possible in the Northern Territory.

Australia is a continent nearly 3,000 miles across from east to west and over 2,000 miles from north to south. The climate therefore varies from the cold and temperate of the south to the tropics in the north. Australia has a very small population compared to its size.

It is almost completely circuited by an air-mail service, which is not, as stated in G.A. No. 429, operated at the same rate as ordinary postal rates. Twopence for ordinary, and fivepence or threepence extra for air mail (Par Avion).

Most of South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia is taken up by sheep and cattle stations; also a large proportion of Queensland and New South Wales.

Australia on the Job

This is not the first trip that has been made by Jehovah's witnesses in the interior and far north. Due to the vast distances to be covered and few people met it is necessarily very expensive to effectively give the witness. Nevertheless, The Golden Age says, "No road too rough or too long for His witnesses." Stations are anything up to the longest stretch apart, which is in Northern Territory, and is 180 miles. Stations mostly are from 25 to 80 miles apart.

In 1930 two of Jehovah's witnesses traveled up the coast of Western Australia witnessing to the coastal towns as far as Derby, which is about 1,600 miles north of Perth, returning inland.

In 1933 two other witnesses started out from Adelaide, South Australia, and went as far north as Alice Springs in Central Australia, a distance of over 1,000 miles. They had only a very light English car, which was not suitable for the trip in such country. The car broke down and had to be abandoned. One of these witnesses was handicapped by a wooden leg, but managed to do some witnessing by camel.

In the same year three other of Jehovah's witnesses started out from Perth. The owner of the car (a Pontiac) came from Toowoomba, Queensland. He shipped his car from Sydney to Perth. The other witness was a pioneer from Tasmania, the third being a pioneer at Perth who, incidentally, was myself.

We followed much the same route as in the trip of 1930 as far as Derby, but we went on from there to Wyndham (most northern town of Western Australia) and across the Northern Territory to Darwin, thence south to Daly Waters, and then across into Queensland, terminating at Sydney, New South Wales.

None of these trips occupied more than four months, nevertheless many thousands of pieces of literature concerning Jehovah's kingdom were distributed.

Start of the Big Trip

On the 21st of March, 1936, we left Bethel, at Strathfield, New South Wales, and set out westward to journey for more than 1,000 miles before turning northward. This time a Chevrolet 30-hundredweight truck was used. More than half the load was composed of petrol (gasoline), 228 gallons, the balance being half a ton of literature concerning the Kingdom (30 cartons), an amplifier for transcribing Judge Rutherford's radio lectures, 12-gallon drum of oil, provisions and spares, etc.

While a truck would not give as good a petrol mileage as a car, the difference in value would be much more than covered by reason of the fact of being able to carry the quantity of petrol above mentioned, the price of petrol inland increasing as much as 300 percent in some places, 39/- per case at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Also, the freight on literature, which would be sent to us otherwise, would be saved, greatly reducing cost of provisions and oil, etc.

We traveled westward across the state of New South Wales along a given route to Broken Hill on the border, working the main road, also certain towns.

Quite a number of the country friends were met en route and loaded us up with many good things. Still traveling westward, Peterborough was reached, in South Australia. From here the track led northward. One hundred miles, and Hawker was reached, this town being on the railway. From Adelaide the railway goes north to Alice Springs, in Central Australia, a thousand miles.

No More Roads—Only Bush Tracks

Here we left the railway line and traveled northeast. The trip now began in earnest. No more made roads, only bush tracks, which can be first-class down to just possible, to be traversed according to the nature of the country.

It had not rained at Hawker for many a month. Everywhere dry, arid, desert-like country. No herbage, not even trees or wood of any kind, only in the dry creek beds.

It was a hard job finding the one solitary stump we used with which to cook our tea. Many a farm is abandoned. Half the houses along the road were empty. Drought has wrought havoc. Machinery lies rusting in the paddocks or half-covered with drift sand.

About sixty miles from Hawker it rained over an inch one night. The result was that we saw no one for nearly a fortnight, during which time we traveled but twenty miles. In all there were eight creeks to cross, and a swamp, in these twenty miles. We waited four days for it to dry up, and the remainder of the time were either getting out of bogs or making roads of saplings and stones or digging away banks.

From here we traveled due north, touching stations about forty-odd miles apart. We were received very well. Fair number of books were placed, and amplifier was used often, mostly at night, as no one has time to stop and listen in the daytime. Surprising disinterest was shown as far as the amplifier was concerned; unlike the small towns where everyone in the town can hear it and comes out to see it. Meat we obtained in abundance, gratis. This is always the rule on sheep and cattle stations.

A Broken Axle and a Jonadab

About 150 miles north we turned westward again. Here, at an abandoned homestead we sustained a broken back axle; but, having a spare, we soon replaced it, despite the advent of a sandstorm at the same time.

A hundred and fifty miles brought us to the railway again, at Farina, a village of corrugated iron on a woodless plain. Great interest was here manifested in the amplifier.

A hundred and eighty miles northward along the railway line brought us to William Creek, which is merely a hotel and store. Here, however, was a Jonadab who had been awaiting us for many months. He became interested as a result of a former trip in 1933. We stayed here a week, having a general overhaul. During this time this Jonadab friend and also another who works for him both symbolized their consecration to do the will of Jehovah, whatsoever that may be. The record entitled "Baptism" was run off and the symbol performed in a warm spring near by. After being loaded up with further eatables we departed northward again.

Every forty-odd miles along the railway line is a fettlers' camp. At these places quite a number of books were placed, as many as nineteen books with a camp of two or three men; while, on the other hand, our work was quite unappreciated by some.

A further 200 miles and Oodnadatta was reached, a village of about twenty houses, police station, store and post office. A few books were placed here.

Now our road went away from the line, northwestward, to strike it again at its terminus, Alice Springs, 400 miles northward.

Winding Through the Scrub

The track now improved considerably, but was mostly a winding earth track through mulga scrub. The track was never straight for a hundred yards at a time. Winding left and right, left and right, all day, till one's shoulders ached from turning the wheel. One day we nearly capsized, coming out of a bad gutter on a bad camber. Another day six out of eight bolts broke in a back wheel where the wheel is fixed to the hub. Our wheels are all steel, however, as wooden spokes would never stay together in this tropical country.

Sometimes long red sandhills to conquer, which means a flat out rush in second gear or low gear, if very heavy. Rounding these sandy curves, of necessity at speed, evidently broke the bolts in the wheel with the terrific side strain. Much sand was encountered in these last few hundred miles. Sometimes a white sandhill rises fifty or sixty feet from the plain. It is necessary to go around it, however far that may be. Then there are the red sandhills, which are not so bad, only heavy going. Some of the dry creekbeds are the worst: hundreds of yards of heavy fine sand. We found it necessary to have Oregon planks sent up to us, which we used in these sandy places and bogs of any description.

13 River Crossings in 20 Miles

Eventually we reached Alice Springs. The last hundred and fifty miles being exceedingly rough, rocky passes through the hills being the roughest, sometimes it was necessary to follow a river bed for some distance in order to get through. We crossed the river Hugh thirteen times in twenty miles.

The rivers are all dry now, but come down sweeping all before them when it rains. Rainfall in central Australia is most irregular. It is just as likely to rain now as a year hence. The dry river beds are sometimes stony, but otherwise very sandy, making bad crossings. Some miles from Alice Springs we discovered a back spring hanger was broken, but it held together till we got there. None procurable in the town; so wired Adelaide, 1,000 miles away, and the part just caught the train then leaving and we received it four days later. If it had missed the train, we would have been held up till next train, a week later.

Alice Springs is a small town neatly laid out in blocks on a plain surrounded on three sides by rocky hills and on the fourth by the Tod river; just a day's work to witness for two publishers.

Same as They Treated Jesus

The local Catholic priest behaved most violently, threatening to punch my comrade in arms on the proboscis. It seems he took exception to the lecture "Fathers" put over the amplifier the night before. He was told that he was what he is. He said that Hitler and Mussolini were the higher powers and that he had the power to give life to the people. He threatened to get the police, etc., if we put the amplifier on again. Next night "Separating the Nations" thundered forth its message of warning and hope to the township. Fifty bound books and seventy small pieces were placed in Alice Springs.

Then commenced the journey of 1,000 miles northward to Darwin, the capital and port of the Northern Territory of Australia. The first township was Tennants Creek, about 320 miles north of Alice Springs. This town owes its existence to its gold mines, which are scattered over an area of about thirty by forty miles.

Rough Men with Better Hearts

Some seemed to think we would be handled rough (or something of that nature) here, according to reports along the road. True, they were a tough bunch, but about thirty bound books and many small pieces were distributed in two days, and several Golden Age subscriptions obtained. A young Fijian who was of French parentage identified himself as being greatly interested in the Watch Tower publications. The amplifier soon found him out.

We left the rocks of Tennants Creek with its yellow metal and struck north once again. A few stations were encountered at intervals of about fifty miles. These proved rather uninteresting. Four hundred miles from Darwin we came onto the air-mail route at Daly Waters, consisting of a store and telegraph station. Just arrived in time to see the Quantas mail plane land, which, incidentally, brought a letter of instructions from the office and which made our route from Darwin to be down the west coast of West Australia to Perth. This is a distance of about 3,500 miles.

The road generally from Alice Springs was good. Next we reached Berdum, which is the rail head from Darwin, 350 miles of railway. Next Matarauba. These were just little places of a dozen buildings or less. Some literature was left at each place, the amplifier also being appreciated. The road now was rather rough 84 miles via Marauboy (tin mines) to Katherine on the Katherine river. This is a town of a day's work, and is kept in existence chiefly by numbers of peanut farmers round about who are mostly Chinese and Russian.

Katherine received Jehovah’s witnesses with open arms. The amplifier was greatly appreciated, nothing of such nature having ever been at Katherine before.

The Worst 200 Miles in Australia

Then came the worst two hundred miles of road or track in Australia. From Katherine to Darwin the road crosses and recrosses the railway line. Many bad creeks have to be negotiated, often being very steep, rough and rock-strewn. A bad side slope caused the truck to slide holus-bolus against the lower bank in a cutting, busting up the water tank. Rough ridges of solid rock and black soil strewn with big gibbers (rocks anywhere up to the size of a man’s head).

With witnessing the various stations and cottages of gangers, etc., along the railway line, it took us a week to do the trip up. The return trip was a straight run, but, nevertheless, took four days to accomplish.

We were in Darwin twelve days. Using our amplifier nightly we raised quite a stir. A local ally of the Philistines inserted a warning concerning our “pernicious literature” in the local church news and also the local paper. The Society’s auxiliary ketch “Lightbearer” witnessed at Darwin some fifteen months ago. However, some hundreds of pieces of literature were distributed. Along the railway just as much literature was placed as on the previous trip three years ago.

At Katherine the local baker identified himself as a person of good will and as a friend in need to us. From Katherine our track led us westward 210 miles, then south 100 miles, west again for 120 miles, then northwest 250 miles to Wyndham, in Western Australia.

Fifteen Days to Get a Clutch Plate

Fifty-five miles from Katherine the clutch plate gave out, and we were fifteen days before we were able to move on. This country is very dry and we were warned to take plenty of water. Fortunately, therefore, we had a forty-gallon drum of water aboard. Jehovah’s witnesses in Australia always have a push bike (bicycle) or several, as part of their service equipment. We had one, and here was where it came in useful. Bill Newlands, my comrade in arms, got back to Katherine and wired to Darwin for the necessary part. But the track was sandy and he had to walk a great deal of it.

Kicked My Heels for Two Weeks

Here was where the baker, our friend at Katherine, helped us by putting Bill up for the fortnight, board and lodgings free. I kicked my heels at the track as best I could. It was a tedious fortnight. There was a water-hole near by, but it was dry. Later the mailman passing that way brought me some more water.

We hit the trail again for Wave Hill via Victoria River Downs (or Borril Estates), 250 miles. Wave Hill is a wireless station, police station and air-mail port. The road was black-soil plains strewn with big gibbers. Thence to a cattle station, Inverway. Seventy miles between water here to those not familiar with the country. The cattlemen generally are very hospitable. Free board and lodgings are the rule. Sheep stations are not so gracious, although bread and meat are always free.

A Serious Disaster in the Desert

The track now led through desert country, red-gravelly country, gum trees, etc., but little or no water. Twenty-five miles from Inverway we suffered a second and more serious disaster. In a rock creek bed a stud stripped in the universal, which came to pieces and broke the end off the mainshaft of the gearbox. Inverway was the nearest station, but we did not know if it was on the air-mail route or not. The bike again came into use and one rode back to Inverway while the other remained with the truck as a safeguard against pilferers, and because that was the only thing to do.

We learned to our disappointment that Inverway was not on the air-mail route and the nearest port of call was Ord River, 105 miles to the north by road. The journey to Ord River took two days of alternate riding and walking over rough, stony ground and sometimes over a good track on black-soil plains. Fortunately, there was water every twenty or twenty-five miles. We still had a 44-gallon drum of water on the truck.

Help from the Skies (by Airplane)

A letter was sent by air mail to the Society at Strathfield, Sydney, N.S.W., over 3,000 miles away, and in fourteen days a new universal and mainshaft arrived by air. There is a good air-mail service completely encircling Australia twice a week. The parts were posted for the plane previous, but it was all booked up, so we had to wait until the next one.

Twelve thousand miles of witnessing for Jehovah IN AUSTRALIA over trackless wastes and waterless deserts that His name might be magnified to the ends of the earth

--Thus we were held up for twenty days in the wildest part of Northern Territory. This track is seldom used, and one might wait two months before a traveler came along. It involved 170 miles of walking and bike-riding in the tropical heat. However, we rejoice to have obstacles to overcome in order to show our appreciation of the goodness of our heavenly Father, who, we know, always holds us in the hollow of His hand.

He That Feeds the Sparrows Cares

Ord River station supplied free board and lodging for the fortnight while waiting for the parts, and a rock water-hole was located four miles from the truck; so, He that feeds the sparrows cares for His own.

October 1 saw us en route for Wyndham. Our mechanical troubles had not ended, however. In the four days to Wyndham we sustained the following: stripped speeds gear, broken king pin, back axle broken, and stripped bearing front wheel. We carried spares for these.

Naturally our resources were somewhat low; but our heavenly Father knows we have need of all these things. Then 4½ sets were placed in quick order; 3½ on one day. A set comprises fifteen bound books, thirty booklets, two Golden Age, one Watchtower, a small Bible, and a year's subscription for The Golden Age, in acknowledgment of a total contribution of ——.

So at Wyndham we were able to procure petrol stores and spares.

The next hop was to Halls Creek, 250 miles; a similar rough, rock-strewn track through mountainous country. Three or four cattle stations were passed en route.

This is the driest season for many years in the Kimberleys of West Australia and Northern Territory. After a number of dry seasons the water situation becomes acute. Everywhere wells are being deepened and new bores being put down. Now we traveled due west across Kimberley, 450 miles to Derby, a small township on the coast. Thence 150 miles to Broome, also on the coast.

Broome a Cosmopolitan Town

Broome is a cosmopolitan town of fair size for these parts. Half the population are Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Kopang, Manila, Greek, etc. Among these foreigners we had a royal time, placing 173 pieces of literature in one day, whereas the Europeans were the usual prototypes of "Christendom". We put on the lecture "Fathers" one night. The priest rang up the police as usual, but the constable was evidently not under his control and was satisfied without much ado.

Another 450 miles south took us to Port Hedland, via the ninety-mile beach. Here the amplifier caused a dividing of the people. One man, a Catholic, said that he admitted ours was a wonderful organization, and if he could get a few fellows to work for him as we work for the Watch Tower he would be able to sit back.

No doubt! But the remnant work for love, and not for profit. At Derby another said, "I heard you chaps in Tennants Creek the other night (1,500 miles away). Why, those books are all the way from here to Adelaide." I assured him they were much farther than that.

Another 160 miles saw us at Bamboo Creek, among the spinifex-covered ranges where a small village of a dozen bough sheds exists. Here we placed thirty books and fifty booklets in two hours.

No Livestock for the Butcher

Drought conditions prevail here as elsewhere. Sheep stations living on tinned meat. The butcher shop in Marble Bar had to close down because no stock was available. At station Ethel Creek, West Australia, they had to travel forty miles from the homestead to find a killer (beast suitable to butcher). They couldn't go near their stock, because the animals were so weak that they would fall over and die when frightened.

Eleven hundred and fifty miles from Port Hedland to Perth took us eleven days. Stations were from 20 to 130 miles apart; so witnessing took up a minimum of time. Arrived at Perth on November 10.

After nearly eight months on the road we were certainly glad to reach civilization again. Here we spent a happy six weeks among the Perth friends, also taking a tour down the southwest farming districts, visiting the small companies and witnessing with them. We had little to count in the way of cash when we arrived at Perth. However, Jehovah's witnesses depend on no human creatures, and their heavenly Father knows all their needs. Therefore on January 2, 1937, we left the bitumen roads of Perth for the last lap of over 4,000 miles for Sydney, loaded with four drums of gas and all necessary supplies, this latter being a token of the hearts of the Perth friends, who love the Lord’s work and His witnesses. Our party had now increased by the addition of a third member, a new pioneer seeing his privilege of serving the Most High.

From Perth to Kalgoorlie

The first call of note was Kalgoorlie, 375 miles inland. Here is a small company of zealous witnesses, and here we stopped a week-end. On the 8th of January we set off again along what is known as the “trans” railway line, since it is the link between Perth and Adelaide. Working the small railway villages of perhaps a dozen houses each, we had many happy moments with our sound machine. Nothing of this nature had ever before been in these parts. Two hundred miles from Kalgoorlie the road turns south for 90 miles to within a few miles of the coast; then eastward again and across the Great Australian Bight. The track here was excellent. A few sheep stations were called on, about 80 to 100 miles apart. A thousand miles from Perth we reached Eucla, on the border of South Australia, an abandoned wireless receiving station. A further 600 miles brought us to Port Augusta, situated at the head of Spencer Gulf. This portion is partly farming and partly sheep country.

On January 25 we left Port Augusta in one of its famous howling dust storms, following the “trans” line again back toward Perth for 230 miles. Then we left it and struck out north for the Opal Fields of Coober Pedy, 160 miles.

Living in Caves in the Hillsides

Coober Pedy is a village of about sixty inhabitants. Not a dwelling or building is to be seen on approaching it, nor a stick of wood on the horizon. All the diggers live in dwellings cut into the hillside, like rabbits. One small hill looked like a rabbit warren, with holes all over it. Even the post office is located in one of these.

During the afternoon we placed 53 bound books and ninety-odd booklets and obtained two Golden Age subscriptions. All were invited to come around to the local store in the evening to hear “a musical program with some educational lectures”.

About 25 turned up and enjoyed a 1 1/4-hour mixed program. After running “Fathers” and “Hypocrisy” one old digger became somewhat rattled and asked certain questions, which were answered over the microphone, to everyone’s entertainment and the aforesaid’s discomfiture. “Guess his church!”

We now returned on our tracks 120 miles. The road northward was under water, and therefore impassable. Then a remaining 100 miles to Coward Springs and our Jonadab brethren whom we visited last June, previously mentioned. Celebrations continued until early morning.

After leaving Coward Springs we had some real fun getting in and out of bogs, running creeks, etc. Finally we took to taking down fences and putting them up again, and thus avoiding the roadway. We got stuck in running creeks and in one place got right down to the differential in mud. We got out by levering up each wheel with a twelve-foot length of railway line and placing a plank beneath. Arrived at Adelaide on February 22. It was good to see familiar faces again. The next lap was to Broken Hill. Here, as on our way over, we spent a happy week. From here we did little witnessing, and in ten days covered the 700 miles to Sydney, arriving in time to celebrate the Memorial, on March 26, 1937, one year and five days since we set off.

A Momentous Trip Safely Ended

So ends another momentous trip, involving 12,250 miles of traveling. Only the highest praise should be given where it is due: to Jehovah, who blesses the efforts of His people to honor His name. Throughout our varied adventures, we always knew there would be a way of overcoming every obstacle.

Our Chevrolet truck, 1929 model, did splendidly. Its total mileage must be well over the 100,000 mark. The engine behaved excellently. Throughout the many miles and the hard work she was always to be relied on. Not once on the whole trip were we ever pulled out of bog, sand or creek. The engine always did it. Our troubles were transmission and wheel bearings only, and this is to be expected with a secondhand vehicle. Over 1,000 gallons of gas were used, and fifteen gallons of oil.

How Clergy Induce People to Give Them Money

(Translation from Malay of an article which appeared in the Pewarta Deli [Deli News], Medan, Sumatra, June 22, 1936. Address by E. C. Ewins)

SATAN’S ORGANIZATION

ABOUT TO BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!

YESTERDAY evening, beginning at four o’clock, a meeting was held in the church of the Christian Batak Community, Paleisweg, at which Mr. E. C. Ewins, a representative of the Watch Tower Society, who only arrived in Belawan a few days ago by the sailing vessel “Lightbearer”, gave an address. It is estimated that about 100 persons were present, including also ladies. [Note: Actually about 200 present.]

The address was given in English and translated into the Batak language by Mr. Sinaga, an elder of the church. It was followed with great interest by the audience, and the meeting ended at 5:30.

The meeting was opened with a song and a prayer, after which the time was given to Mr. Ewins for his address. Mr. Ewins said that before beginning his address he would let them hear a song of praise in English by means of gramophone records made by the Society and aided by a loud-speaker also made by the Society. After that a record in Dutch on the subject “Life” was also used, and this was followed by Mr. Ewins’ speech.

Mr. Ewins began his speech by saying that the Lord is Jehovah, who possesses all power, above the world and above all creation. When Lucifer rebelled many of the angels turned against God, and Adam also was induced to sin, together with Eve.

Since then two organizations have been in existence, one serving Satan and the other serving God.

RELIGION USED TO MAKE MONEY!

Various religious organizations claiming to teach the people and to turn them to God are actually leading them to destruction, and such organizations are working to profit themselves while claiming that they are serving God. Because of this a movement started in America by Mr. Rutherford for the instruction of the people so that they might return to God. The Watch Tower Society was formed in 1880, in America, and has various branches throughout the world.

As has been said, this organization has suffered much persecution in many places, such as Japan, Germany, Canada, Austria, and in some parts of the U.S.A.

CHRISTIANITY SHOULD BE BASED ON THE BIBLE

Christianity, to be carried out perfectly, should be based on the Bible, but many preachers do not give true interpretations of the contents of the Bible, but merely quote and then give their own interpretations, so that the people are no longer guided by God’s Word, but by the words of men. This is done for the purpose of profiting themselves.

What constitutes Satan’s organization? It is comprised of the religious systems which are not operating in accordance with true Christianity. Worldly powers also form a part of this organization. The result of the operations of such is that the people are turned further away from God.

The Roman Catholic system is particularly responsible for turning the people away from God, and the Protestant systems are no better. All are operating for selfish purposes in using the name of God, with the ultimate result that all will be destroyed.

The greater the power of these organizations, the more Satan uses and overreaches them.

Present-day events prove, however, that Satan’s organization is soon to be destroyed, to be followed by the full establishment of God’s kingdom.

From the foregoing statements you can judge whether the Watch Tower Society belongs to Satan or whether the above-mentioned organizations belong to Satan.

The Watch Tower Society is sending witnesses throughout the world to spread the Gospel. All questions, from the smallest to the greatest, are fully explained by the Watch Tower Society by means of books and booklets and also by radio. The Watch Tower Society has no churches, desiring only to tell the people about the kingdom of God, soon to be established.

Expressing the hope that the audience would appreciate the truth of what had been said, and thanking those present for their attention, Mr. Ewins closed his address with a prayer of thanksgiving.

TOUR OF THE EAST

At the close of his lecture we asked several questions of Mr. Ewins through one of his friends. Mr. Ewins informs us that the Watch Tower Society was founded in 1880, in America. The president is Judge J. F. Rutherford, a famous writer and a good speaker who has given many discourses on the Bible by means of the radio. The organization is established in London under the name of the International Bible Students Association, and also in Haarlem, Holland. 220,000,000 books have been distributed throughout the world, in 73 languages.

After their visit to Medan they will sail for Tandjoeng Balai, Bagan, Siapi Api, Singapore, Borneo and Celebes, and probably also Shanghai.

They sail and live aboard their yacht. The sale of the books in the Dutch, English and Malay languages is tremendous, which is not astonishing considering the low price charged.

The Rabbit Pest

THE religious business is picking up in New Zealand. That is to say, it is picking up everything it can get its hands on. Here is the Roman Catholic publication called the New Zealand Tablet. The first item in a certain column is an advertisement of the New Zealand Breweries, Limited. The idea in this is that those who are hooked for “purgatory” might as well crook their elbows while they can.

The next advertisement tells how for one shilling you can get 300 masses annually, during life and after death, by sending your coin of the realm to the St. Peter Claver Sodality, Gibbons Road, Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The net value of these 300 masses is much less than one and one-half undersized whoops in Hades; but why worry about that, when you can get so many of them for a shilling?

Rabbits Overrun Australia

THE Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Melbourne, Australia, after careful consideration of all the plans tried, has concluded that there is no hope of exterminating the rabbits which now overrun the whole island. They live where nothing else can. The control now in effect costs £1,000,000 a year, just about the amount received for rabbit skins and frozen rabbits, but the loss in ruined pastures is at least a hundred times as much.

The rabbit pest

Why Their Houses Were Burned

EXPLAINING why he ordered the houses of three Lutherans burned, “Reverend Father” Anthony Cranssen, Roman Catholic missionary in New Guinea, at first sentenced to five years’ and afterwards commuted to six months’ imprisonment, stated that he had ordered the Lutherans to leave and warned them, too. And so, if some priest warns you to leave your home, you better “get” while the getting is good.

Showed Them How to Do It

AT St. Michael’s “church”, Vaucluse, Australia, Captain Cowland of the Church Army was telling the congregation of the means by which pickpockets and other crooks earn their money. At that very moment thieves removed a pane of glass, entered the vestry of the “church”, and helped themselves to a variety of valuable articles, including a small sum of money.

The Quest for the Lost Stimson Plane By F. J. Bond (Australia)

WHAT has been described as one of the most comprehensive land quests ever instituted for a lost plane in Australia has just ended with the rescue of two survivors and the burial of five others, including the two pilots. The plane, which was owned by the Airlines of Australia, Ltd., started on its usual journey from Brisbane to Sydney at 1:00 p.m., on February 19, in very bad weather. When it did not reach Lismore at its schedule time a search was commenced. Lismore provides the first stopping place of the route, about one hour's flying time from Brisbane. But owing to reports that the machine had been seen and heard farther south, the search was concentrated on a point about 500 miles from where the crash actually happened. At one time one hundred planes were expected out in the search, which was officially continued for eight days.

Not everyone, however, was satisfied that the missing plane had passed Lismore. Among them was one Bernard O'Reily, an experienced bushman living and keeping a guesthouse on the Lamington Plateau, National Park, Queensland, situated on the route over which mail planes pass. Setting out two days after the official search ended, O'Reily intended to make a three-days' search among the hills along the inland route. On the second day out, about eight o'clock his attention was drawn to a brown patch on the hillside about six miles distant, and he decided to investigate. Such is the nature of the country that it took him eight hours to cover those six miles, to find the wrecked plane, and two survivors, one of whom had a broken leg. An account given by them revealed the fact that the plane crashed forty minutes after leaving Brisbane. In an interview given the Press of Binstead one of the survivors said, in part:

"We struck bad weather over the ranges, and the pilot was trying to bank and climb; but owing to the downward currents of the gale coming over the top of the gorge he could not lift her high enough. I glanced through the window, and was struck with the nearness of the trees. I was about to press a button and call the attention of the pilot; but when I looked through the glass panel of the cockpit door Boyden was conversing unconcernedly with Shepherd. So I thought there could not be anything to be alarmed about. I attributed my sense of danger to my inexperience. The pilot certainly did not seem to be alarmed. A few minutes later a crash came. Everything was in a turmoil. The Stimson broke over the top of one tree, and crashed against a second tree about eighteen inches thick. The machine struck the tree twenty feet from the ground and crashed."

Continuing, Binstead said that Proud, the other survivor, smashed a window, and they together with another passenger gained safety. It is believed that the pilots and two passengers were killed instantly. The plane burst into flames immediately, and was gutted in half an hour, the three men barely getting out alive. The third passenger, J. Westray, leaving Binstead to tend the injured man, set off the next day to look for help, but later was found dead in the bush, having died as a result of burns and exposure. The two men kept fires going while their matches lasted; but as it rained nearly all the time and they had no shelter, these fires were soon useless.

Binstead obtained water from a creek in a precipitous gorge about a mile away. As hunger and exposure began to tell, these trips became harder, and he was forced to spend the night at the creek to gather strength to return. One trip back took five hours to complete. Gathering berries to eat, his hands were so scratched and torn from crawling through undergrowth that he was unable to use them, and so carried the berries in his mouth to his companion.

It was necessary to cut a track fifteen miles along mountain slopes through dense undergrowth to get them out. As no vehicle could be taken to the scene, they were carried on improvised litters, sixteen men to each litter, relieved at intervals of ten minutes. No reports give the exact distance traveled from the plane to the point where the ambulance could reach; but some idea of the class of country traversed will be gathered from the following features of the search: The place where the plane was found was about 2,000 feet above O'Reily's house, which itself is situated in the hills about 4,000 feet, and can be reached only on horseback. It took an army of men one day and two nights to cut a track through to the survivors. The trip back took from daylight to 4:14 p.m., the first mile taking three hours. In the morning a horse carrying provisions to the rescuers missed its footing, and hurtled to its death 150 feet below.

International Murderers

What the War Did to Italy

IN Italy everyone with an annual income of more than $180 must pay a tax. Some of the other taxes are a general sales tax, with additional taxes on war profits, cigarette paper, cigarette lighters, matches, candies, chocolate, cheese, milk, perfumes, toilet soaps, building materials, furniture, pianos, radios, billiard tables, sheep, dogs, mules, donkeys, cows, buffaloes, goats, servants, animal-drawn vehicles, bicycles, motor cars, funeral coaches, gondolas, electric light bulbs, playing cards, theatrical performances, movies, sports meetings, horse racing, civil and commercial documents, public notices, manufacture of sugar, gas, electricity, coffee substitutes, glucose, maltose, seed oils, gunpowder, explosives, and acetic acid. There are special taxes for the maintenance of sewers, the rental of public benches, and excessive wear of the public streets. There are huge taxes on gasoline, and there have been increases on bachelors' taxes and those on gas, electricity, wool, and cotton. There are heavy taxes on tobacco and on lotteries.

What Mr. Cuse Deals In

EVER hear of Mr. Robert Cuse, of Jersey City? Probably not. This gent, in Mayor Hague's home town, has a big plant enclosed with barbed wire, and according to his own testimony at Washington he is prepared to equip whole armies anywhere at any time with the following assortment of products, in all sizes, and in all their various mountings: mustard and other lethal gases, vessels of war, submarines, machine guns, automatic rifles, bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, tanks, armed trains, flame throwers, howitzers, mortars, military aircraft, cannons, ammunition. Now you know one reason why army and navy officers declare brand-new stuff out of date as soon as it comes out of the factory. Where do you guess Mr. Cuse gets his stuff?

Italy's War Loss 4,359

ITALY'S war loss in the Ethiopian war was 4,359 actually slain. The wounded were many times that, and the Ethiopian losses were huge. In all probability, at least 25,000 homes were broken up in Italy and Ethiopia, with an amount of suffering brought upon innocent women and children that there is no possible way to measure.

Queer Distribution of Military Secrets

THE French developed airplane guns which fire 800 explosive shells a minute through the "boss" of the propeller, along a barrel through the engine, as well as between revolving propeller blades. Remarking that the possession of this weapon makes France mistress of the air, an ex-war-pilot demanded to know why France had already given this design to Russia, and what reply would be made to the British and Czechoslovakian war offices that have asked for models. The odd reply was that the design would even be given to Italy and Germany if these governments would "give proof of adherence to collective security by signing mutual assistance pacts against an aggressor". The French chamber coincided. Incidentally, munition-making in France has been taken out of private hands and placed in the hands of the government.

Pro-Fascism (Catholic Action) in Washington

SOMEBODY, sometime, is going to have a fine chance to explain why, when the Spanish Republic had its back to the wall, and was fighting the combined armies of Italy and Germany, it was perfectly all right for the International Murderers of America to sell arms and ammunition to both Italy and Germany but entirely wrong for them to sell either arms or ammunition to the Spanish people in their hour of betrayal by Franco the Butcher.

Mussolini's Call to Glory

FOLLOWING the path of the greatest militarist of them all, Napoleon, Benito Mussolini asked the Bersaglieri soldiers (the feather-wearers) if they would guarantee that the second century of their existence as a troop unit would be still richer in glory than their first; and the answer was a great shout of Si, the Italian Yes. How strange that men still think it glory to murder their fellow creatures!

Clever Italian Strategy

AT ONE of the two islands, Leros or Rhodes, in the Aegean sea, dug into the face of a perpendicular cliff, the Italian government (now controlling the Dodecanese islands) has an airplane base large enough to hold 200 planes; and the planes are there and ready for immediate use. They cannot be attacked by bombs from overhead.

Doctor Betts' Quaint Humor

READERS of The Golden Age are well acquainted with Doctor C. T. Betts, 332 Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio, and many of them have his valuable work on Aluminum Poisoning [the publication and circulation of which cost him several thousand dollars more than he ever got out of it]. In a recent communication he says, quaintly:

The metal is soft and forms various poisons with the foods with which it is in contact, There is no objection to the use of this metal for casket purposes or as a mordant in the dye which is used to color the clothing which covers a corpse. The manufacturers of dyes state in their literature that we should NOT do our dyeing IN ALUMINUM. There is a reason. The substance is used for tanning hides, wall-paper sizing, etc. It is the principal metal base used in making bricks, sewer pipe and road-building materials. The writer is not of the belief that such a substance is a good food product; especially so since it has been learned that the material is extensively used by morticians for the purpose of embalming the dead.

Boil some of your drinking water in an aluminum dish for one-half hour, pour in a clear glass can and after cooling several hours note the white feathery substance in the bottom of the can. This is the poison dissolved from the utensil, which readily combines with other chemicals, forming aluminum compounds. Some of these are: aluminum acetate, chloride of aluminum, aluminum phosphate, aluminum sulphate. A host of other potent poisons are manufactured during the ordinary process of cooking foods in aluminum dishes. These are formed according to the kind of food cooked therein.

That aluminum utensils manufacture these poisons was stoutly denied when the aluminum crusade first began, four years ago, by very prominent persons and nationally known medical writers throughout the United States. They now admit the truth of these things but are attempting to give the public to understand, through extensive syndicated articles, that these poisons are not injurious to public health, but, instead, are really necessary for the body metabolism. When these statements are also found to be falsehoods it will be hard to tell what claims will be made next by these so-called "public health benefactors".

A few items may be of interest to the reader regarding the action of foods upon aluminum and aluminum upon foods. Following are a few experiments anyone can make, proving the truths herein set forth:

Cherries boiled in an aluminum dish and allowed to stand for twelve hours will cause little pits or holes in the aluminum; grapes will do the same thing; jello made and allowed to cool in an aluminum dish tastes bitter; tomatoes, apple sauce or rhubarb boiled in aluminum five minutes will make the dish bright and clean; your hands will become darkened or black by using an aluminum throttle on an automobile; when carrying your food in an aluminum tray in a cafeteria the metal will rub off and soil your hands—the cleaner or hotter the tray, the more easily the black rubs off; cabbage boiled in aluminum will turn the dish dark or black; butterscotch pie filling boiled a few minutes and stirred in an aluminum dish will turn from a brown to a dark-green color; vegetables boiled in aluminum until nearly dry will be covered with a light frost or powdery substance; lemonade made and left standing in an aluminum dish over night has a very bitter or bad taste; angel food cake having been stirred in an aluminum dish will have dark streaks through the batter which can also be noticed in the finished product; ordinary peeled potatoes will turn yellow if left in an aluminum dish twelve hours, and after having been cooked will have black streaks through them.

Bread dough will become blackened if rubbed on a piece of aluminum; pie dough will become gray if made upon a sheet of aluminum; cranberries cooked in an aluminum dish will turn from a bright red to a black color in five minutes; a fresh egg if allowed to burn on a piece of aluminum has an unusually bad odor; tea will look cloudy instead of clear if made in an aluminum teapot; apple sauce or rhubarb will turn to a dark green if left standing in an aluminum dish twelve hours; "Livery" jellies cannot be made, neither can hard soap be produced in an aluminum dish or kettle. Mayonnaise dressing will be brown instead of yellow if made in an aluminum dish.

These and a thousand other experiments with foods in connection with aluminum prove conclusively that various poisons are made by these dishes when in ordinary use in the home. This is what is generally termed "food contamination".

The Agriculture department of the federal government, Washington, D.C., has issued a 25-page bibliography all pertaining to the good qualities of aluminum utensils. This was published in spite of the fact that the writer's book Aluminum Poisoning, which largely gives a résumé of Docket 540 Federal Trade Commission upon the subject of the physiological effects of aluminum compounds, as determined by Edward M. Averill after an examination of five years, taking more than four thousand closely typewritten pages of testimony from 158 witnesses and reviewing more than one thousand exhibits, and another work published called An Opinion Upon Aluminum before hearing of the above-named case, and the works of Leo Spira, M.D., and R. M. Le Hunte Cooper, M.D., both of London, published in 36-page brochures by the John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd., 91 Great Titchfield St., London, W.1, and other papers of equal importance upon the subject of aluminum poisoning were in their possession, yet for some unknown reason none of these were mentioned in the department's compilation.

It is easy to see why our public health department knows nothing of the evil effects of aluminum cooking utensils, when the National department issues such a list and the health and hygiene laboratories have had no time to give to this subject in the way of an examination or investigation.

The manufacturers of luminous clock and watch dials employed about 125 persons for radium painting. These workers were merely in the presence of the metal and at times moistened the brushes with their lips. None of it, so far as is known, was ingested. Very soon they had the appearance of metallic poisoning, the bones softened to such an extent they could no longer sit or stand and it was necessary to remove them to hospitals. Twenty-two have died and the others are helpless. We don't know of what these are suffering; I am only a dentist, and Mr. H. J. Force of Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a chemist; naturally we would not be able to determine of what they are ill or of what the others died.

The law stepped in and claimed they were affected by a luminous metal called radium. Each was given ten thousand dollars in cash, plus doctor and hospital fees. Recently an appeal was made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find an antidote for radium poisoning, and to date, so far as we know, none has been found.

Another luminous metal is mercury. It has been used for mirror purposes during many years. When applied to the body or rubbed on the hands with cold water and soap the skin will slough off, due to its burning quality. This frequently happens to me when it is used in the mixing of amalgam fillings. Constant care is required to avoid being severely burned.

We have many records pertaining to poisoning by lead, especially when water has been allowed to stand in pipes in newly built homes. The amount of metal in the water is unmeasurable, but the effects are just as lethal as though they could be measured.

We have record of cases where persons have died from arsenical poisoning yet at death not one particle of the metal could be found by analysis. Of course, I being only a dentist and Mr. H. J. Force being only a chemist, we are not supposed to know anything about these metals' burning us or the effects thereof in contact with the human body.

Aluminum also belongs to the heavy metal series known as the burning or luminous class. It has been found to be twice as reflective as mercury; therefore it was selected in preference to all others to be used upon the million dollar "eye" of the Mount Palomar Observatory now being installed in California. Its energy (radio activity) is so great that when foods touch it vitamines are destroyed. Its burning power is so pronounced that when a pinch of soda is added to hot water in an aluminum vessel it will immediately eat off all the oxidization from a piece of immersed silver. In fact, the aluminum organization sells these "magic" cleaners designed especially for the purpose of cleaning silverware. Some call them "lightning workers". Any metal having lightning effects has no business in connection with foods either for storage or for cooking. Of course, I being only a dentist and Mr. H. J. Force only a chemist, we 'don't know anything about these things'.

The writer was recognized last September as having done something worthy of consideration from a medical standpoint. The American Association for Medico-Physical Research forwarded a life membership in that great medical organization. A copy of the letter is presented herewith as follows:

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR

MEDICO-PHYSICAL RESEARCH

September 18, 1936

Dr. Charles T. Betts

332 Superior Street

Toledo, Ohio

DEAR DOCTOR BETTS:

It gives me great pleasure to notify you that you were unanimously elected to LIFE MEMBERSHIP in our association, and I present herewith your life membership card.

Come to our convention when you can or write us a good paper and keep active with your brain and pen.

(Signed) I. J. EALES, M.D.,

Secretary.

Mr. H. J. Force, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was for thirteen years pharmaceutical chemist in New York city, for twenty-two years chief chemist for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, also a chemist of the American Chemical Society. Of course, one would naturally expect a person having such a short period of activity along chemical lines 'would know very little about it'.

The writer has been practicing dentistry approximately forty years in the same location at 332 Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio. So, very little could be expected of a person of this type, especially being only a dentist.

The aluminum crowd refers to Mr. Force and myself as a medicine compounder and an obscure dentist. We could not possibly expect the Health Department of Ohio to know anything about either of us or where we are located, when our articles and magazine publicity has reached millions of persons in every section of the world. In fact, we are known to every professional in far away places like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Considering this, how could we expect anyone in the Health Department in Columbus to know anything about us?

It is apparent from Doctor Hayhurst's letter of the 21st of November one would think it would be impossible for any but a medic to determine the danger of anything pertaining to health. Their names must appear on the regular orthodox lists; and if not there, no work that they might present could even be considered.

It has been known that a young child could recognize danger by coming in contact with a rattlesnake or even near one. An alarm could be sounded and in this manner the rest of the family could be warned and escape the effects of such venom. The good doctor assumes the child would not be able to comprehend the exact formula of the poison; therefore, should be entirely out of the picture in sounding an alarm. Mr. H. J. Force and myself have recognized the effects of aluminum poisoning, and we are doing the best we can to help others to know of them. Our good physicians who continued to use aluminum ware have long since been buried under the sod, while we are still here enjoying the best of health.

It is sad indeed when our state officials become so blinded from some cause that they cannot investigate this matter of aluminum poisoning to their entire satisfaction instead of always referring to others as having found aluminum utensils harmless. This has been done many times by references to the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that they would give the facts about such cooking utensils. How can the American public hope to get the truth from public officials, especially when one is referred to an institute which is endowed and supported solely by the aluminum interests or the leading aluminum genius of the world?

The food centers having large restaurants in Boston, Cambridge, Lynn, Worcester, Brookline, Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Providence, Pawtucket, etc., have written the following letter which we received today:

January 16, 1937

Replying to your letter of the 8th instant, would state that no aluminum ware whatsoever is used in our restaurants. You can assure your client that the above statement is absolutely true, as we would not use aluminum in our kitchens.

Sincerely yours,

Thompson's is recognized as one of the largest restaurant chains in America. They too discarded all aluminum ware, as have many great hotels, like the Edgewater Beach, of Chicago. There must be a reason for such action. We read almost daily that fifty to one hundred have been poisoned here; that two hundred or five hundred were poisoned there. These extensive group-poisoning cases are constantly coming to our attention, and in every case we trace the cause and find aluminum cooking utensils were used in which to store and cook the food from eight to twelve hours before serving. Of course, Dr. Hayhurst couldn't expect us to find the exact cause, as I am only a dentist and Mr. H. J. Force is only a chemist.

Protestant Propositions

Talmage Fifty Years Ago

T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Presbyterian preacher, was a considerable force in the United States fifty years ago. At one time he had spunk enough to say:

We can never forget, forgive or trust the church that burned John Oldcastel and scattered the ashes of Wycliffe, and massacred the Waldenses, and dug the Inquisition, and roasted over slow fire Nicholas Ridley, and had medals struck in honor of St. Bartholomew's massacre, and took God's dear children and cut out their tongues, and poured hot lead into their ears and tore out their nails with pincers, and let water fall upon their heads until it wore to the brain, and wrenched their bodies limb from limb.

The Bloodiest Century

AFTER an analysis of 902 wars and 1,615 internal disturbances which have occurred on this war-cursed planet during the last 2,500 years, Dr. P. A. Sorokin, chairman of the department of sociology at Harvard University, declares that the first quarter of the twentieth century was eight times as bloody as all the preceding centuries. How could it have been otherwise? The "church" of the Devil, and the clergy of the Devil, have only recently come to the pinnacle of their cussedness.

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