Consolation, November 17, 1937

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Contents

A Chat from Karachi, India 3

Hindu Miscellany 7

Motoring 9

France 10

Spain 12

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path (On Beauty and Kindness) 14

New York and Massachusetts 15

California 16

Your Questions Answered by Judge Rutherford (Who is the greatest public enemy?) 17

Statement and Protest 18

Britain 20

China 21

The Oslo and Baltic Nations 22

Eastern Europe 23

An Amusing Experience in Brazil 24

Hitler Régime Nearing Oblivion 25

Germany 26

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Mussolini as Ridiculous as Ever

◆ Mussolini is asininely ridiculous. When he visited Libya he had everything fixed up to crash the headlines in great shape. He had hardly landed before a bull rushed for him, and if General Balbo had not grabbed it by the horns the world would have been the gainer. He timed his visit so as to get a great flood of glory from the achievements of the Italian troops in Spain, under the general Bergonzoli, first to enter Addis Ababa at the head of a tank column. The Spanish women licked the Italian men to a frazzle. Mussolini, so it is alleged, demanded that Bergonzoli put many of his officers to death; so he committed suicide instead, and the Sawdust Caesar hastened back to the Imperial City, into which, in the "march on Rome", he came by sleeping car, on invitation from the king.

Dr. Norris Is Sore

◆ Dr. Foxley Norris, dean of Westminster Abbey, is sore because the Reverend C. G. Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, wrote, in a "church" magazine, objecting to the turnstiles and tills used at the time of the coronation. Dr. Norris wants to know, if a guy in the religious business can't get back his money for cleaning up every night after big crowds have been running over his show place all day, who can. Reverend Holland should shame himself for pinning the bug on Reverend Norris like that. And don't ask how Holland gets his. It is enough for you to know that he gets it. Meantime the farms are shrieking for both.

The Hitler Circus

◆ When Hitler puts on one of his circus acts he has before him a row of buttons which he presses as part of the show. One button, by means of a searchlight, draws attention to the Nazi flag, another to the audience, another to himself, so that his body guard may know when to clap, stamp and "heil". There is a button for photographers, and if they fail to get the exact scene required they do time in a concentration camp.

CONSOLATION

"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.

Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 17, 1937 Number 474

A Chat from Karachi, India By G. B. Garrard, Pioneer

(Karachi is 500 miles northwest of Bombay, at the head of the Arabian Sea.)

TAKING advantage of the lull in battle—there is yet an hour before we go out on service again—I am getting down to it. Owing to the added zest we had been getting recently due to introducing the G.A. [now Consolation] I had had it in mind to write. Often when returning from battle we get such joy that we feel like letting off steam a bit, and a letter (if we are not too tired) is a good substitute for a chat in our circumstances.

Among the Jerry-Purana Wallas

You mustn't mind this typewriter. It does some funny tricks sometimes, and, believe me, it has seen its day, and by rights should be ready for the jerry-purana walla, as the rag-and-bone merchant is called here. However, catch pioneers giving away such useful luxuries!

At present I am up here in Karachi (250,000 population), and have been with Pioneer Vanderbeek, working it for some two months, during which time we have managed to place about 2,000 pieces of literature. The Lord has surely been very bountiful in His blessings. In addition to this there have been 22 new subscribers for the G.A., which is a record for us.

I was here in 1933. When meeting many of those who took literature then, we ask if they have read them and whether they would like more, and some say they have only glanced through them, etc., but have been too busy—really an excuse for not having interested themselves. At first they are not interested in getting further literature. So out comes the G.A., and after pointing out the underhand methods of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's engineering for world control through Fascism, and other things of general interest that may be appearing in the G.A., I suggest that they subscribe for the journal; and this often arouses their interest, and they agree to subscribe.

Having quickened this interest, then I urge them to take the latest of Judge Rutherford's works, together with his side of the proposed debate which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy funked accepting, and to determine for themselves as to what true Christianity involves and what the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and allied religions really are.

In most cases they take the Riches and one or two booklets, including Uncovered and Protection. In one or two cases where I have returned already they have expressed their appreciation of Riches and Uncovered. I am here referring particularly to business folks. In India, in order to see the European menfolk and many of the Indians in the big cities it is sometimes almost impossible to do so in their private residences.

We do appreciate The Golden Age with its fearless exposing of the harlot's activities. It's a real treat to hear Van (my companion—he used to be a ship's officer) give his deep nautical chuckles as he goes into tucks over the various tit-bits in the G.A. Yes, it is fine. It is hard for some of the Indians to understand, as many are so unfamiliar with events in America, etc., but there are many issues that I am sure they will appreciate.

But the great thing that we appreciate in the field here is Uncovered, with its predecessor Riches. These two pieces are some of the finest weapons that we have for our warfare.

Where some cannot afford to contribute for Riches they can at least take Uncovered.

Is Uncovered doing a work, and a strange one at that? I guess some of these Catholic priests are cursing that booklet up hill and down dale. Opposition to their "church" they can meet by kidding their folks that it's Communist, but exposure from the Word of the Almighty God is devastating and sweeping away their lies. Uncovered has let the light in on their racket, pucca.

Pucca of Jerry-Purana Wallas

This uncovering will surely begin to sap their revenue in course of time, and with the great multitude now growing stronger and taking their stand, they will feel the hand of Jehovah in His strange work. The fools who say in their hearts, 'There is no God who sees us,' even as they sweep on to their zenith of power, when they will feel safe and secure from opposition, cannot stop His work of exposing their hiding place built on lies.

When they say "Peace and safety", at the brink of Armageddon, and then get their premonition of trouble even as a woman in the pangs of childbirth, may they remember the strange work Jehovah did during their ruthless ascent to power and realize that they are known as frauds, liars and hypocrites both by their lovers and by the Catholic population upon whose backs they have ridden; and may they remember the burden of the message which Jehovah commanded His servants to bear before them of His righteous judgment, that His first act (again strange to some) in Armageddon would be to destroy that city which they had built called "Babylon", symbolic of their wicked organization.

We are having a right royal time of it here. We have joined in the obedience to the command to "rise up against [the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and 'daughters'] in battle", and are simply rejoicing in the thrills of battle, meeting many Roman Catholics who appreciate the truth and the books, even though they are getting sermons not to take them, and having notices put upon the "church" door.

The more they oppose, the more energy we will put into it; and if they think that we will tire of it, and reason that it's best to let us get on with it, as they cannot contest the truth, then we get them both ways; for, whichever way they work to oppose, we get on with it.

At the Stuttering Old Typewriter Again

I've had one or two cuts at finishing this letter since starting. Guess you'll have to take a day off to get through it; it's a pity to lumber up your w.p.b. with it; however, it affords me a bit of pleasure in writing, so hope you don't mind.

Another month finished. Van and I had a very satisfactory month's work. We managed to place 173 volumes, 1,149 booklets, and 35 vernacular booklets, and, in addition, the G.A. subscriptions. We are finding many of the Catholics are quite tolerant and ready to listen but dread taking the books for fear of the priests; but after a few home truths as to why the priests don't wish them to read, some of them pluck up courage. We let them see that "Protestants" who know their Bible are more responsible than those Catholics who don't.

It's the fear of being ostracized or excommunicated. In India—probably above most other places—religion spells social status, because it means that one belongs to a community. It's not so bad in the big cities. The truth will soon set them free from such fears.

One call last week brought me in contact with a Catholic. He had been at a friend's house when a priest had been talking with them and had mentioned Judge Rutherford. Don't know what was said, but can guess what the religious fraud said; anyway, this gentleman said he wanted to read the books to find out all about it. I've got to see him tomorrow, to find whether he will take any of the books.

[Later. At a sacrifice to himself he is taking all books and booklets by degrees. May the Lord open his eyes that he may take his stand.]

Down in Goa the papers have carried notices that anyone having various books by Judge Rutherford would be excommunicated. What a bunch of mean and unmanly scallywags! Remember the blind man who was healed at the pool of Siloam, that when the man told the religious fellows where to get off they excommunicated him (John 9:34, margin), and his parents before that had feared being put out of the synagogue by the "Jews". Isn't that the same cowardly action of the clergy in these days towards those who desire to have their eyes open and to "see"? "We'll excommunicate you!"

Cheers of the Fighters

Cheers! We have just received the "Uncovered", etc., records and look forward to good results from use of these. Fine advent, the phonograph and records. While giving the lectures at a European's house a week or two back a friend of his turned up, and after hearing the lectures this friend took all the volumes, all the booklets, and subscribed for The Watchtower and The Golden Age. Wasn't that a cheering result?

What has got those folks who are a bit upset over the G.A. cartoons? I think they are grand! What is the difference between reading a thing in characters which we call type and seeing a thing in sketch? They both do the same thing—convey an idea and knowledge to the mind.

It is something like those who objected to the picture in Light, Book Two. John saw or was informed about a harlot being stripped, and said so in so many words. The illustration showed a woman being stripped, and further conveyed to the mind what the author had been writing in words. Moreover the picture conveyed the meaning in prophecy.

It reminds me of the type we sometimes meet, who in all seeming sincerity say that the Bible should not be read in certain parts because the authors state things which they consider too indecent to mention. Such is foolish reasoning. However, I guess the few who have written complaints about the cartoons are very few in number.

Your giving publicity to the Salter affair [The G.A. No. 460] will surely do a good work; for it will put the faithful on guard more than ever (2 Timothy 3:9) and let all would-be traitors see that publicity follows any similar course.

It is very despicable, betraying a fiduciary trust so willfully, and then turning round on Judge Rutherford like that; happily the Lord showed that such things must be expected, and we can continue knowing that His organization invisible has a check on all these things. Jesus said that 'offenses must come, but woe be to those by whom they come'.

From his letter in the Tower Judge Rutherford shows that these things do not deter him one iota from following that course of loyalty and devotion in faithfulness to Jehovah. The Lord must love him for his faithfulness.

We have only just received our G.A. No. 460. A fellow who gets it into his head that he is of great importance and therefore the Lord has a special work for him more than likely has a big kink. Many mad folks believe they are somebody else or some special kind of creature. Lust for power like that shows a carnal mind, and it is just what those who are of the world seek; those who seek the wisdom of this world desire it; and we are told that 'if any man among us seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise', otherwise this satanic temptation will draw one away and cause the lust to conceive and bring forth sin unto death. It is better to become a fool for Christ's sake and bear His reproaches and thus gain the wisdom that comes from above.

Best Antidote for a Swelled Head

If anyone has the idea that he is so important that the Lord has a special work in store for him it would be well for him to ask for pioneer territory in New Jersey, or let him volunteer for the Irish Free State, or work some of the countries of Continental Europe, say a year or two dodging the concierges in Paris, etc., or smuggle himself in a tin trunk into Germany and do the important work of spreading the gospel of the Kingdom there, where our brethren carry on so bravely.

Or, perhaps it won't do any harm for him to volunteer for two or three years for a country like India, or any similar tropical country. Let him get at least two or three summers here, and give him some big cities to work with a push bike, and let him get his hours in if possible under a tropical sun; or put him in charge of a house-car, traveling over the plains, getting up at 6:00 a.m. and often working under the blazing sun, and feeling pleased if he finds his daily work is finished by 8:30 or 9:00 p.m., keeping the bus in running order, away from signs of modern civilization sometimes; or give him the business houses to work, in the big cities, during the heat of the day, wearing a collar and tie, with all the underclothes soaked with sweat; or let him go to the Bombay office and observe the branch servant working every day, barring Sunday afternoon, from about 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., with about two hours for meals, etc., carrying on single-handed generally, with office work, packing, transcription machine work, phonograph work, studies, and door-to-door witnessing, plus any "overtime" (in a stewing humidity all the year round, mostly).

Let him have at least two or three summers here, and if this doesn't knock the nonsense out of his head I don't know what would. If after that he really had the Kingdom and organization instructions at heart he would end up with a sane outlook, realizing that he in himself amounts to nothing. He would then be one of the happiest men alive, because he had got on with the work he was told to do; and I bet that of his own volition he wouldn't want to swap jobs with any man or covet the position occupied by another for anything, for the simple reason that he would be rejoicing at being faithful where he was sent.

He would realize in a humble way that although he had not perhaps reached the point of overcoming by resisting to the blood, he had at least overcome that far, and could give thanks for the victory in overcoming hitherto through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The alternative would be that he wouldn't stick it. It is just what some dreamers who dream dreams of the time when the Lord will use them because of their great (self-imagined) importance cannot realize—that it is better to obey than to sacrifice.

Jesus Hid Not His Face—Isaiah 50:6

When we see the way in which Jesus and His apostles humbled themselves to obey God's commandments and instructions, and the way in which His remnant, our fellow servants, likewise lay down their lives as living sacrifices, and read of the sterling example set by Judge Rutherford and others who are so very dear to us, it makes one sick to read of others so lazy, and when deliberate treachery comes into it.

Our covenant is to look to ourselves to see that we fulfill our commitments, and work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. When remembering David's statement, "Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar," I realize how good the Lord is to bring us into His organization and give us the instructions which enable this to be done.

We are living sacrifices, and where we might perhaps go barging off at a tangent we find ourselves brought in line obeying instructions from the [Watch Tower] Society; this gives us great joy. We are duly presented as sacrifices inasmuch as we are carrying out the orders or obeying the commandments received from the Head, which we agreed to do.

Well, I hope you don't mind all this rigmarole—but, as I said, it's a good substitute for a chat.

Demons Deceive Hindu Boy

◆ Demons deceived a seven-year-old boy in India into thinking he is a reincarnation of a dead sheik. He went to a village he had never been in, called every one by the right name, recited the Koran, which he had never read, and unearthed coins which he claimed that he hid from his wife when he was the sheik Nuruddin. The account says that "he met and recognized his fifty-five-year-old 'wife', his 'sons' and 'daughters', and asked them questions of an intimate family nature". In the dispatches there is no indication on the part of the public or the press of any understanding that this is all the work of devils, out to discredit the God of the Bible. The sheik Nuruddin is stone dead, and well the devils know that to be the truth. The clergy know that, too, and if they would but tell the truth about it humanity would have some knowledge of facts with which to meet such phenomena.

Hindu Miscellany

From a Hindu Army Service Clerk

◆ I have studied very carefully the book Riches by Judge Rutherford. I find that his works are straightforward, correct and proved by the Bible. His teachings are quite new to us, but so up to the mark as to demand that they be followed forthwith. Under the circumstances I would be very much obliged to know how I can become a member of this Society.

As regards myself, I am a retired head clerk of the India Army Service Corps, and a Roman Catholic for about 33 years. To my utter astonishment and bewilderment, I have now found the correct doctrine, and certainly now, and henceforth, all that is useless shall be quit forthwith.

Silver and gold have I none, being one of the Lord’s poor, but what I have I place at the disposal of the Society. The solemn truth should be pointed out forcibly, and the wrongs done to the poor and uninformed should be corrected as soon as practicable by every one who knows of them.

Few here can read English, and the pamphlets in Urdu explain only certain subjects, but works like Riches it is important should be translated into Urdu as soon as possible. If permission is granted to me to translate this work into Urdu I will certainly make efforts to do so, or along with any other person or persons. No charge will be made, and all clerical labor will be done by me. In case the Society has already arranged this otherwise, then well and good, but, in any event, I am under orders and desire to be counted a coworker of the Society from now henceforth.—Walter Mahtab Khan.

Presence of Mind Saves 40

◆ At a movie fire in Hyderabad, India, 60 women were caught in a balcony, with no way of escape. One of the purdah women leaped to her feet, took off her veil, tied it to the balcony and bade her sisters to slide down it to safety. Forty were thus saved, including the woman herself.

From a Hindu Watch Repairer

◆ A Hindu watch repairer, a former Roman Catholic, now rejoices in the truth, because of the book Riches. From his far-off home in India B. J. Kutino wrote to the Bombay Watch Tower branch office:

I, the undersigned, until now spent all my life (which is a gift from Jehovah the eternal) in ignorance, owing to the fact that my elders, as well as myself, were in the Devil’s organization. But how can I stay any more in it, after knowing of the truth as you have brought it to me? So, brethren, help me, now, to give the good news about God and His works to my fellow men.

It is now some days since I had the privilege of obtaining some of your publications from the hands of Brother Abhistekam, who gave me good advice as to how to find out God and walk in ways pleasing to Him. He also gave me information as to how you are helping many people who are really in need of help.

Brethren, I do not know how many of you are engaged in this work, but I know you are very few, as you are teaching what is right. I would like to co-operate with you, but I really do not know much about God’s holy Word; I was not free to look into the wonderful works of Jehovah, as I was kept in darkness by the leaders of my Roman Catholic church, and also by my elders. But now, after reading the book Riches, I know that I am no more to be a babe in their hands, and I will no longer hear their worthless words.

Hindu Miners Get 12c a Day

◆ Workers in Hindu coal mines now receive not more than 5 annas (12c) a day, which is half what they received six years ago. But they now spend for drink twice what they did then, and the Government has fixed it so they can get four to five times as much liquor for a given sum. Result: The coal miners now drink eight to ten times as much liquor as formerly and have absolutely nothing to live upon at any time in the week except two meals of rice a day, with a little dal (Hindu split peas). To get one bound book telling about God’s kingdom, earth’s only hope, necessitates that the Hindu give up his entire earnings for two whole days. Yet some of them do it.

Demonism Advertised in Daily Eagle

◆ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which, under a former management, showed great animosity against Jehovah’s people, recently published a five-column article advertising the claims of the demons that reincarnation is going on in various parts of the world. The dispatch, sent from Ceylon by the special correspondent of the Eagle, narrates the story of the demonized girl Kumari Shanti Devi, of Delhi, who claims to have previously died in childbirth. She “identified” her former ‘husband’ and wanted to return to him. The demons had told her all the outstanding circumstances of his life.

The Eagle, nonplussed, also told of a bride in Budapest who, with her husband, visited the castle where, she claimed, she had been murdered in a previous “incarnation”. At length the room was found, locked tightly for years. She told where the key would be found. The room was opened and there lay the skeleton, and by its side a rusty dagger. When she saw it she fainted. These stories, retailed by the Eagle, must be strange mental food for it and for its readers. No explanation is offered except reincarnation, which is opposed by every word of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

Female Swastika in Litigation

◆ At Fort William, Bengal, two Hindus made a metal female swastika of eight different metals piled on top of one another, set it up in a room and began worshiping it. Later, land was dedicated to the idol by a deed and litigation arose. The High Court finally decided that the idol was to get only the property specified in the deed, but was to get the income from another part. Of course a priest does all the monkey business for the idol, like burning incense, making offerings and getting his hooks on the cash.

Jesuits Back in Portuguese India

◆ Pursuant to their course of conquering the entire world for the Roman Hierarchy, the Jesuits are returning in power to Goa, Portuguese India, from which, for the good of the country, they were expelled 200 years ago. A new seminary, to house 500, is being built.

The Moneylenders of India

◆ India’s moneylenders are down to even as low a level as those of New York city or Brooklyn. A report in the Manchester Guardian, after citing recent forcing down of wages, and Government attempts to boost its revenues from drink and opium, prefaces its description of streets or public sewers three feet wide and single-room tenements for five persons, with the following:

Indebtedness is another widespread evil, and wherever I went it was the same report: almost everyone in debt, 75 to 150 percent being the usual rate of interest, though in a recent case the incredibly high figure of 2,300 percent was mentioned. The Kabuli or the Marwari moneylender still flourishes in every center of industry, whatever legislation may be introduced or intended to put down the evil. The workers cannot do without loans, and, strangely, perhaps, there is among them a fairly high code of honor in regard to loans. To supplement it the Kabuli, naturally endowed with a stronger physique than the men of the plains, is never without his big stick, the “lathi”, which he does not hesitate to use when gentler methods prove ineffective.

The Sorrows of India

◆ The Indian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, summing up a few of the many sorrows of the Hindu people, says:

In India there are in a year fifty to a hundred million cases of malaria alone; and hookworm, tuberculosis and venereal disease all count their victims by the million, not to mention other ailments. The worst forms of exploitation of labor go without any legislative check whatever. Children of five and six work for ten to twelve hours a day in beedy (the indigenous cigarette) factories, with no holidays, on two or three shillings a month.

500 Fire-Walkers in Ceylon

◆ Demonism is getting ever bolder. At Colombo, Ceylon, 500 persons, including a woman, walked across red-hot coals without showing any traces of burns. The demons understand methods of insulating flesh from hot surfaces. This knowledge is common to all the angels, good and bad. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were insulated against harm in the furnace heated seven times as hot as was usual. —Daniel 3.

Motoring

Marquette’s Inducement to Tourists

◆ The municipality of Marquette, Michigan, acting with wisdom to make the city attractive to tourists, serves electricity for the tourist camp, spring water, a fine community hall and tables, electricity for cooking, cold and hot water shower bath, and a fine park for camping, all for 25c per day; 50c for three days; $1 per week. With commercial light rates 5c per kilowatt-hour, and cooking rates only 1c per kw-h, the Marquette municipal plant last year made a profit of over $100,000.

How to Save Gasoline

◆ Rules for saving gasoline, put out by the Pontiac Motor Company, are, to accelerate gently, keep the foot steady, hold the car in second gear no longer than necessary, try to coast to a gradual stop, keep tires inflated, avoid long idling of engine, test spark plugs frequently, keep car and crankcase well lubricated, keep radiator filled, watch the pointer of the seasonal control on the intake and manifold heater and have the motor tuned up every 5,000 miles.

Modern Roadbuilding

◆ A mile of new road a day is made by the road-building machine of the Barber-Green Company of Rockford, Illinois. Of course, this is possible only in sandy, flat, dry regions. The desert sand is picked up and carried by elevators to a platform where fine stone, stone dust and liquid asphalt are added and mixed. The mixture is spread out mechanically and the machine moves slowly forward on a road twenty feet wide made by itself.

All-Canadian Route

◆ The Canadian Government has again announced the All-Canadian Route—Winnipeg to Vancouver—but explains that there is still a gap, known as the “Big Bend” highway between Golden, B.C., and Revelstoke, B.C. (90 miles), over which the automobiles are carried by rail.

“Alcohol Drivers” in Illinois

◆ Eighty percent of the fatal automobile accidents in Illinois in 1936 were attributed to “alcohol drivers” and 6 percent to “alcohol pedestrians”. The figures which bring these items to light also show that though traffic deaths in the United States were at a new high of 37,800, fatal injuries in the home were 700 in excess of even that high figure. So the conclusion arises that, after all, home is the most dangerous place, and the most likely causes of injuries are falling down stairs, slipping in the bathtub, electric shocks, scaldings, poisonings, burns and cuts from kitchen utensils.

The World’s Greatest Bridge

◆ The $77,000,000 bridge over San Francisco Bay is 8 1/4 miles over water and 3 miles over land, rising to a height of 216 feet. Twenty-four men were killed, and 1,157 injured, in the three years in which the bridge was in construction. It is expected to pay for itself in twenty years. The cables of the bridge, 28 3/4 inches thick, weigh a ton for every foot. Each is made up of 17,464 wires about as thick as a lead pencil. Four of the towers are as large as the Woolworth Building. A fifth contains enough concrete to build the Empire State Building.

A Modern Marvel

◆ The Golden Gate bridge, 4,200 feet between piers, has the longest span and the tallest towers of any bridge ever built by man. Each of the 746-foot towers is the equivalent of a sixty-story building. Over 100,000 tons of steel were used in the construction of the bridge.

Disloyal French Troops in Morocco

◆ The Week, privately circulated London newspaper, usually extremely accurate, declares that in French Morocco are many French troops who openly declare their intention to follow in France Franco’s course in Spain.

France

The French Fascist Law

◆ The French Fascist law that "any writer who insults the heads of foreign governments or their foreign ministers is liable to fine and imprisonment" was slipped into the government's proposals by the then Premier Laval without his colleagues' knowing anything whatever of it. This indicates a crooked, and probably Jesuit, origin of the "emergency" law or rule, and ends a free press in France. The world is going Fascist (Catholic-Action-wise) by leaps and bounds.

A Horror Story Made to Order

◆ Without a word of truth in the story the Daily Mail's correspondent in Paris was ordered to fix up and send to London what was published there in Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch with a triple banner line across the front page to the effect that France was in chaos, tourists were afraid for their lives, France had gone Bolshevik, etc. The correspondent, when reproved by the French Government for sending out such manifest and complete falsehoods, admitted that he had been ordered by Lord Rothermere to send the story.

Waiting for a favorable opportunity

The Maginot Line

◆ The Maginot line of forts between France and Germany costs France £40,000,000 a year, but she feels that she can afford it, ever since she welched on her repayments to the United States of money loaned since the World War ended. The line contains 300 forts, extending to 80 feet beneath the ground, stored with food and wine sufficient to last ten years. On the surface are the nests for machine guns and heavy guns which can be fired by radio. On the next floor down are the living quarters, equipped with all comforts and conveniences, including movies and soft drink parlors. The fourth floor down contains the railroads which emerge on the surface 60 miles behind the lines. The store rooms are on the third floor down. Elevator service is provided at all the forts.

France Wants Larger Population

◆ France wants a larger population, for the reason that the German population is growing and the French population is shrinking. The French Government now bestows doweries of $600 on good girls of the poorer classes, between the ages of 21 and 30, provided they marry within three years after the dowery is assigned. Reduced railway fares are given to large families. Public employees are awarded increases in their pay with every increase in their families.

French Disgusted with Their Newspapers

◆ The French, disgusted with their newspapers, are trying to see what can be done to make them less venal. Up till now it has been easy for anybody with money to purchase what should not be for sale at any price. Influential newspapers of Paris received subsidies from munition makers. In the midst of the World War Germany bought one of the four largest papers in the city. News is colored to suit the views of the proprietors—and that is common in Hearstdom, too.

Mass Hypnotism in the Lille Refinery

◆ In the first attack of mass hypnotism in the Lille (France) sugar refinery, four hundred women were working in a large well-aired room when one woman fell unconscious. There was no gas emanation to cause the collapse. In a few moments 200 women were in convulsions; some fainted; some tore the clothing and scratched the faces of others. All the women affected were between the ages of 16 and 20.

Mass Faintings in France

◆ Mass faintings occurred at Lille, France, all among girls 16 to 20 years of age. In the first instance 200 girls fell to the floor while older workers in the same sugar refinery were unaffected. Ten days later 70 more girls swooned while a physician was endeavoring to explain to them how not to do so. The cause of the faintings is unknown. Quite probably it is mass hypnotism, another form of demonism.

Protestant Burial Places in France

◆ In the Protestant districts in central France, around Poitou and Saintonge, for many generations, the dead are buried on the farms where they were born, and where they lived and loved and worked and hoped. There are few tombstones. The burial lots are the size of a room, fifty yards from the house, with enclosing hedges and a cypress tree at each corner.

The Labor Government in France

◆ The Labor government in France has given the workers a 40-hour week, collective labor contracts, paid vacations, ample damages for discharge, compulsory arbitration governmentally supervised, minimum wages, recognition of workers' rights to organize, and the right to strike. Sit-down strikes have been declared illegal, but have taken place.

The Black Legion in France

◆ France reports the discovery there of a secret order named the Order of the Sword which much resembles the Black Legion of Michigan, and may have the same paternity.

More Workers on French Railways

◆ French railways are now on a 40-hour-week basis, thus providing employment for 60,000 additional workers. Train and engine service employees must have a 40-hour rest period once every seven days, and every railway employee must have at least ten Sundays or legal holidays a year.

Does Anybody Believe This?

◆ In the latter part of the year 1935, at Dinan, France, it is alleged that rain fell which actually tasted like wine. The explanation offered is that minute bits of fruit were caught up by winds passing over the vineyards, underwent fermentation in the heated upper air, and fell as rain.

Located Nearly 6 in 100 of Those Slain

◆ By trinkets found on their persons, or other means, 17,000 soldiers were identified out of the 300,000 buried in Douaumont cemetery, France, where the 400,000 killed at Verdun largely lie. Recently 100,000 ex-soldiers of 16 nations met at these graves swearing to preserve the peace.

Stoned to Death Because of His Hair

◆ At Lyon, France, eight-year-old Paul Gignoux was stoned to death by fifteen small boys and girls, none of them over ten years of age, all because his mother had refused to cut his hair. Very evidently demons were at the bottom of this.

French Stand by Their Government

◆ The French people stand by their Socialist government. Not since 1871 have they rushed to the defense of their country as in their subscriptions to the 10,500,000,000-franc loan. The oversubscription was so great that many banks had to turn part of the crowds away.

Sunday Work in Quarry

◆ At a Catholic school at Souillac, France, on Sunday, October 20, sixteen pupils were being punished by forced work in a stone quarry; there was a slippage of rock and five of the little folks were killed, one of them being literally cut in two.

Spain

The Rebel Bombardment of Durango

The Rebel bombardment of Durango, Spain, was arranged for the hour of the morning mass. The Basque population of that city was solidly for the regularly elected republican government. It is also solidly Roman Catholic, and hence went to morning mass. The special targets were the churches. The Rebels flew 12 large bombers over Durango three times at intervals of fifteen minutes, bombing the churches and machine-gunning the worshipers. Sixty were slain and 150 injured; 25 bodies were recovered from one church; 12 nuns were slain in one convent. The pope wants Franco to win, and no doubt secretly chuckled over what happened at Durango.

Shooting at Tortured Children

Just to have it in the record as to what it was that the pope rejoiced about when he heard of the fall of Malaga, the following is a physician's story of what he saw on the 100-mile march of the children that streamed out of the doomed city on their way to Almeria:

I saw thousands of children, many of them barefooted and clad in a single garment, old men and women, staggering along. Some of them gave up and lay down by the roadside to wait for death. The children had bloodstained rags wrapped around their arms and legs. There were children without shoes. Their feet were swollen to twice their size. This terrible journey by foot took most of them five days, with barely any food, and with cruisers shooting from the sea and Rebel warplanes bombing the road.

The Catholic Transcript says, "Franco's God is the God of the Catholics." This truthful statement, made by this Hartford (Conn.) paper, contains grim humor of which the editor who made the statement knows not.

"A murderer from the beginning"

Setting the Government an Example

Setting the United States Government an example of courage and honesty, 98 American writers joined in a manifesto in which they said:

We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless. Specifically, we condemn the murder of women, children and other unarmed non-combatants by the military faction which with its foreign allies is making war on the legally and democratically elected republican government of Spain. We condemn the deliberate bombing of hospitals, playgrounds, orphan asylums, relief stations and breadlines, and the cowardly and cruel bombardment of Madrid.

The Courage of Madrid

The courage of Madrid is the talk of the world. After the city was assailed by airplanes for one year, street cars were running as usual, motor traffic was dense, market gardeners were busy as ever, the town was regularly cleaned, the water supply was abundant and excellent, the people were in excellent health and they did not wish to leave. The normal population of the city, 1,200,000, was increased by 300,000 refugees from territory overrun by the Hierarchy's Moorish army under Franco.

What It Was Ambrose Blessed

As everybody knows, Ambrose Ratti, present pope of Rome, went out of his way to bless the Moorish, Italian and German army of Franco the Butcher. Just to have it in the record as to what it was he blessed, the following is a translation of a statement made by the Madrid College of Lawyers regarding the conduct of Franco's troops:

"In many of these villages women would form long queues outside the baker shops, and the Fascist airmen were pleased to drop bombs on these crowds of defenseless women. Many pregnant women were forced to drink a mixture of castor oil and petrol. One of these in Algeciras, whose husband they discovered had fled to Gibraltar, was made to drink a large quantity of the stuff and then allowed to join her husband. She died the next day.

"When our forces retook the town of Moron—on a wall in the town (they found) the following vile inscription written: 'We shall die, but your wives will give birth to Fascists.' At the other places the workmen's wives' hair was cut off and they were forced to dance naked in the public squares.

"At Caspe (Aragon) a captain Negrete and the lieutenant under him shot the mother, the sister, whose husband was in the Civil guard, the widow and the four-year-old daughter, of the mayor Latorro, whom they had already shot some time previously. The same fate befell the lawyer Alejandro Blanco. The rebels made a parapet of the children and wives of the men of the Left in the district when they fired from the balconies in the square of the town.

"When the insurgents captured Navalmoral de la Mata the Moorish troops showed the utmost savagery, killing the inhabitants and plundering the houses. The elements of the extreme Right, since they possessed the best furniture, were the worst affected. Many women who had been praying for the arrival of the Fascists were raped and killed."

Living example of the mind of the Roman Hierarchy

Franco Behind His Schedule

Said Heywood Broun, one of the most distinguished columnists in America:

It seems curious to me that here in America there should be any question as to our sympathy with the Loyalists of Spain. They are making as gallant a stand as modern history affords. Time is on the side of the defenders of Madrid. Each day they manage to cling to their precarious position makes good the faith that liberty is truly more powerful than tyrants. No matter what the outcome of the siege may be, Fascism has had its answer from free men. Franco was to walk proudly into power while all the trains ran on time. He is behind his schedule. The dead workers of Spain and those who still fight on beneath the shadow have made no vain sacrifice.

Aunt Eulalie Lost Her Pile

Alfonso's aunt, the Infanta Eulalie, "ain't what she used to be, many long years ago." She is 73 now and has even less sense than she had when she was banished from Spain by Alfonso for having written a book in which she told too much about the way things are done by royalty. However, she is good hearted, after a fashion; for she cheerfully gave up her fortune to help Alfonso collect $10,000,000$ to aid Franco. She thinks Franco will surely win and then she will get her money back. It looks now as if all she will get will be a few promissory notes not worth the paper they are written on.

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path - (On Beauty and Kindness)

(Contributed)

“JANE, look at that sunset—deep, flaming, boundless. Isn’t it splendid!”

“Yes, Sally. It’s vast and grand. And look, over there in that pale turquoise streak is a star as clean and clear as if it had just been washed in a cool shower.”

“And the dark-limbed trees! Even when they have no green or golden leaves, they are beautiful.”

“Especially at dusk, Sally. Notice that feathery elm against the sunset. It looks like a great vase made by the Creator to hold the endless flowers of the firmament, stars, moons, sunrises and sunsets, clouds and rains.

“The glory, the sweep of it! And to think that some poor ignoramuses think it all ‘just happened’!”

“How quickly the landscape changes! Only yesterday, it seems, the woods were brightly colored and the sky was a brilliant blue.”

“It reminds me of the poem we learned:

‘A golden leaf flew past me like a yellow bird—

‘And suddenly ’twas fall, though nothing stirred.

‘A brown leaf rattled harshly on the drear earth-bed—

‘To mutter that the autumn hush had softly fled.’”

“Jane, listen. Someone’s coming across the field from the upper road.”

“It’s Tony and his little boy, Joe. Good evening, Tony.”

“Hallo, Miss Jane!”

“Sally, do you know Tony and Joe?”

“Oh, yes. I’ve seen Tony often on his way to work. And Joe used to be our newsboy.”

“Look!” Jane interrupted. Down a tiny “road” scarcely an inch wide hurried a wee brown meadow mouse, carrying food to her home for the winter store.

Tony stooped and picked up a stone. “Watch, so I hit him.”

“Tony! Don’t do that! It’s mean! Why should you hit her? She’s not bothering you.”

“He’s no good, these mouses. He’s come in my house.”

“No, Tony. Field mice don’t like people. They live out in the open away from houses.”

“He’s no good. When I work on farm for my brother, John, I find these bad things in his field. I put much grass on him, get match, and—poof!—he’s burn up.”

“Tony! That’s cruel! It’s wrong to be cruel to anything, even if it is something useless—or even harmful.”

“Flies are no good, are they, Jane?” asked Joe.

“No, Joe.”

“They should be killed, shouldn’t they?”

“Of course!”

“I knew it. I catch flies—lots of ’em. I pull off their wings. They look awful funny rolling around without any wings.”

“Oh, Joe! How could you? Listen, Joe.

“Can you imagine Jesus hurting anything? In God’s arrangement there will be no place for cruelty. Why, twice in the book of Isaiah—once in the eleventh and once in the sixty-fifth chapter—it says, ‘They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.’

“There are different kinds of cruelty. Some people who wouldn’t hurt an animal will let men and women and tiny children starve so that they may make money for themselves. But whatever kind of cruelty it may be, it is certainly not pleasing to God.

“Dictators are cruel—that is why the Devil can use them. Big business is cruel, and the men controlling it are tools for the Devil.

“Don’t you see, Joe? Tony? It’s so wrong—so very wrong—to hurt any living thing needlessly, or to kill anything in a cruel manner.”

Yantorny Knew How to Make Shoes

◆ The world can afford to consider for a minute Pierre Yantorny, Italian shoemaker, who spent a large part of his life learning how to make shoes, and his later years in taking orders from select customers of not less than five pairs of shoes at a time, at the fixed price of $300 per pair. If he decided that any pair was not a perfect fit, he destroyed it, no matter how well the customer was pleased. He spent more than forty years in Paris, the acknowledged prize shoemaker of the world.

New York and Massachusetts

“Satisfaktionsfaehig”

◆ Mayor La Guardia, of New York city, went to some pains to explain his using the term “not satisfaktionsfähig” in a public address as referring to Adolf Hitler; that the term means “a person so low in social standing that a gentleman could have no dealing with him” and that the German government was perfectly correct in interpreting the term as meaning that Hitler is “a man without honor”. All this seems regular and perfectly O.K. all round. Adolf Hitler has shown, over and over again, that he is “not satisfaktionsfähig” and is fully entitled to the Payette degree of “D.B.”

Too Many Efficiency Experts

◆ Testimony adduced in New York showed 12 nurses in Bellevue hospital required to take care of 2,000 patients. In another municipal hospital 19 babies died out of 50 assigned to one nurse, simply because it was physically impossible for her to feed and otherwise care for that number of infants. Meantime, there are millions of honest and capable women who are out of work. New York has too many efficiency experts that are cramped in their style for lack of good, old-fashioned horse sense.

New York No Asylum for Poverty

◆ The Altoona Mirror contains pictures of four lovely children deported from New York state to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, because their father, having moved to the metropolis in order to get work, was unable to obtain it. This is believed to be the first time in the United States that children have been deported from one state to another because of the failure of a parent to find work.

New York’s State Insurance Fund

◆ New York’s state insurance fund, for holding the avarice of private insurance companies in check, works well. In 1935 the state fund wrote 28.6 percent of the total premiums in the state for industrial compensation, at a saving to the policyholders of about $3,000,000 and to the taxpayers of about $145,000.

No Communist Ticket in New York State

◆ In the 1936 elections the Communist party polled so few votes in New York state (less than 50,000) that it lost its right to a place on the ticket in the 1937 elections. And in spite of all this the Roman Hierarchy is flooding newspapers, radio and every other means of publicity with the most awful prognostications of what will happen right away unless Communism is curbed. The whole thing is a camouflage, a smoke screen, a blind. What the American people have to fear is the seizure of all their liberties by the Hierarchy, not by Communism.

“Relief Investigators”

◆ In New York city three “Relief Investigators”, Louis B. Starr, Joseph Fisher and Harry Safran, were held on the sworn testimony of seventeen witnesses that they conspired together to defraud homeless men of part of their relief clothing vouchers. One wonders just how it happened that men of this stripe managed to get themselves put in position of “Investigators”. It is like appointing a bank robber to become a bank inspector. But just how would the robber go about it to get the job as an inspector?

Cause for Thanksgiving

◆ The first Thanksgiving Day proclamation in the American colonies was by the Dutch governor of New York in the early winter of 1637. It was in celebration of the slaughter of 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Indian tribe, and the burning of their homes, without a scream or a groan on the part of those who went into death. Most of the early Thanksgiving Days were for acts of similar bloody victory over those whose lands the whites came to possess.

Massachusetts Acts to End Age Stigma

◆ Age discriminations in Massachusetts must end. A new law authorizes the Commissioner of Labor to advertise in newspapers circulated in the Commonwealth the names of employers discriminating against persons over 45 years of age.

California

Pumping a River 1,633 Feet up Hill

◆ A river, and a very large one too, will soon be flowing from the Colorado river at Parker, Arizona, up five vertical hills respectively 290, 318, 147, 438 and 440 feet high, one above the other, until finally, at Hayfield, California, the bed of the stream is 1,807 feet above sea level and 1,357 feet above the place where it started. The river flows through 92 miles of tunnel through the solid rock, one of the tunnels being 13 miles in length. All in all, the Colorado Aqueduct passes through 340 miles until its waters are lost in the Pacific ocean at Santa Monica—unless they are first used to water the garden spot of creation, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Fullerton, Long Beach, Torrance, Compton, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, San Marino and their environs. This project, involving an expenditure of $283,000,000, is having the help and co-operation of the federal government. Public Ownership (127 North Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.) carries details and beautiful maps and pictures of the work in its June, 1936, issue.

Proposed Union of Church and State

◆ The Los Angeles Times proposes for California and for the United States a union of church and state, whereby the state and perchance the federal government will certify the credentials of every person claiming to be an ordained minister of the gospel. The hand of the Devil is plainly to be seen in this whole matter. It started by a spiritist crook ordaining ministers and even bishops at from $10 to $40 each. As a matter of fact, the human ordination of every one of the 207 varieties of clergymen is worth nothing at all, and the state could not guarantee any of them.

Surveyors Did the Trick

◆ Surveyors spent two weeks establishing the fact that at a rumhole the bar was situated in Nevada and the tables in California. Then arrests were made for transporting liquor from one state to another without securing an importer's license.

Judge Who Sentenced Tom Mooney

◆ Judge Franklin A. Griffin, who presided at the trial of Tom Mooney, and sentenced him on the perjured testimony of Oxman the cattle dealer, says:

In the face of this demonstrated perjury, in light of its willful presentation to the jury trying Mooney, and in view of the willful suppression, at the time, of all evidence favorable to him, no fair-minded person who will familiarize himself with the details of the truth of the Mooney case will now deny that Mooney is entitled to be pardoned.

California Headed Toward Bankruptcy

◆ For its state and local governments in 1935 the people of California expended $468,000,000. The state's share of the Federal expenditures was $432,000,000; total $900,000,000. For each person in the state gainfully employed, that is an average of $360, and is more than the combined gross value of all the farm crops, livestock, oil, gold, minerals and lumber produced in the state that year. Meantime, Mooney is still in prison and still innocent.

New Kink in Los Angeles' Cop Business

◆ The cop business gets more and more complicated. In Los Angeles the cops drawing their pay from the city also drew $1,100 for acting as strike guards at furniture plants, and when the furniture companies overlooked the donations their attention was called to it by their protectors.

When Tom Mooney Was Desperately Ill

◆ When Tom Mooney, as innocent of the Preparedness Day bombing as you are, was a desperately ill man, in San Quentin prison, he was denied the food the doctor prescribed, and was put in a cell where the man before him died of syphilis.

The Area of Los Angeles

◆ The area of Los Angeles is 24 square miles larger than the combined area of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Pittsburgh.

Your Questions Answered

By J. F. Rutherford

QUESTION: Who is the greatest public enemy?

Answer: Satan the Devil is God’s opposer and man’s worst enemy, and his religious agents who operate the various religious systems are the worst enemies amongst men. They are the worst because they reproach the name of God and lead the people into error and darkness. While keeping the people in ignorance of the truth religionists operate the most destructive and devastating racket that has ever been practiced. For more than five thousand years religion has been the chief instrument used by the Devil to deceive the people. Today religion is apparently a refined way of carrying on a racket by which the people are robbed of their money, their peace of mind, and their hope for the future. Into the religious organizations are drawn many persons who are induced to believe that such religious organizations are necessary for the welfare of mankind, and thus many good, honest people are deceived by religion and are caused to act as the Devil’s agents, and consequently they are the enemies of themselves and enemies of their fellow men. By means of religion the Devil has caused the people to become very superstitious, and by means of politics he has caused the people to submit to the theories advanced by religionists and to be governed by selfish men, and by means of commerce he has caused the people to be robbed of their hard earnings by men who have bestowed no labor upon the great wealth that they use. For these reasons here assigned the religious leaders are the greatest public enemies to be found amongst the people.

Question: Is the real choice of the people today one of choosing Fascism as against Communism, or vice versa, or as against democracy, or as against what?

Answer: The emphatic answer to that question is No. Fascism, Communism, Nazism, and so-called “democracy” are all organized and operated by the same selfish and wicked element composed of religion, politics, and commerce, and all are against the real interests of the people. All of such organizations have been brought forth under the subtle supervision of the Devil. Now the time has come for the people to be informed of the truth, and they must choose between wicked rulers amongst men and Christ Jesus, the righteous Ruler. It is utterly impossible for any political organization, whether the same be Communism, Fascism, or Roman Catholicism, to bring any lasting relief to the people. This is necessarily true because all of such organizations have been brought forward by the Devil. The only hope for the human race is the kingdom of God under Christ Jesus, and all those who are informed of the truth and who accept and obey it will receive the blessings of the Lord, including that of life everlasting. That which is of greatest importance to man is life. The brief period of existence that man now enjoys is filled with sorrow. Under the righteous reign of Christ Jesus the obedient ones will be brought up to a state of perfection and live for ever on earth. Concerning Jehovah the Father and Christ Jesus the Son and His kingdom it is written: “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:35, 36) Thus it is seen that those who choose Christ Jesus as their Lord, Redeemer, and Master, and obey Him, have life; the others have not. God caused His prophet to write in His Word, the Bible, the following for the instruction of men who desire to choose the right way: “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread [for such things as prayers to be said by Catholic priests upon the pretext that such prayers will get your loved ones out of 'purgatory', or save you some time in 'purgatory']? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him [Christ Jesus] for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." (Isaiah 55: 1-4) Under the command of the Lord Jehovah God, His witnesses are now going through the earth to inform the people of the great change that is taking place, namely, that Satan's organization has reached a climax and that the kingdom of God under Christ is here. To these men and women, who do not practice religion but who are true Christians following Christ Jesus, Jehovah God gives this command, to wit: "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people."—Isaiah 62: 10.

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