Consolation, December 15, 1937
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Contents
Hitlerizing Ronkonkoma 1
It Is the Superintendent Who Is Delinquent 7
Salutes and More Salutes 7
New Jersey Doctors Despise U. S. Government 8
Organized Religion the Opposite of Christianity 12
Making Libels Safe for the Hierarchy 13
Pennsylvania in Bad Shape 13
The Great Southwest 14
A Mathematical Discovery 16
Your Questions Answered by Judge Rutherford 17
President of the U. S. A. 18
Executive Departments of U. S. Government 20
Treasury of U. S. Government 21
Hookers, Stool-Pigeons and Finks 22
Liberty in Southern Rhodesia 23
Terror in the "Third Reich" 27
Jehovah's Courageous Witnesses 28
Brave Words by Martin Niemoeller 28
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path 30
Winter Stillness—Cover Design 31
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Letter from "a Dejobbed"
WITH "FIVE SAVAGE WIVES AND 16 VORACIOUS CHILDREN"
◆ An African government servant was dismissed in a certain district of West Africa, and here is the letter he wrote to the local district officer:
Kind Sir, On opening this epistle you will behold the work of a dejobbed person, and a very bewifed and much childrenised gentleman, who was violently dejobbed in twinkling by your goodself.
For Heaven's sake, Sir, consider this catastrophe as falling on your own head, and remind yourself as walking home at the moon's end of five savage wives and sixteen voracious children with your pocket filled with non-existent £. S. D., not a solitudery sixpence; pity my horrible state when being dejobbed and proceeding with a heart and intestine filled with misery to this den of doom, myself did greedily contemplate culpable homicide, but Him who did protect Daniel (poet) safely through the lions' dens will protect this Servant in his home of evil.
As to reason given by yourself goodself esquire for my dejobbment the incrimination was laziness.
No Sir. It were impossible that myself who has pitched sixteen infants children into this valley of tears, can have a lazy atom in his mortal frame, and the sudden departure of eleven pounds monthly has left me on the verge of the abyss of destitution and despair.
I hope this vision of horror will enrich your dreams this night, and good Angel will meet and pulverise your heart of nether milestone so that you will awaken, and with as much alacrity as may be compatable with your personal safety, you will hasten to rejobbulate your Servant. So mote it be—Amen. Yours despairfully, A...O...L...
Silly, Blasphemous Monkeyshines
◆ In Chicago, at the funeral of a monkey, a woman sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and her daughter read the 23d Psalm. There was a $35 embalming job, a white plush casket, and a prayer which went to the Devil. Four boys and girls acted as pallbearers. The whole thing was a blasphemy from beginning to end.
Are You Sure About It?
◆ How do you pronounce f-o-l-k? And how do you pronounce the white of an egg?
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 15, 1937 Number 476
Hitlerizing Ronkonkoma
RONKONKOMA (Long Island, New York) has been stirred to its very depths. Educational forces have become aroused. Hundred-percenters have mobilized their forces, and the flag-wavers have grimly set their faces, with mighty resolves to save and preserve the flag, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Charta, the school system, the Union Jack, e pluribus unum and the whole ding-busted country.
And why all this sudden militancy and warlike actions? What great danger has so aroused and stirred these valiant preservers of the public weal? Believe it or not, it all comes from the actions of a little thirteen-year-old pupil of the eighth grade of the Lake Ronkonkoma school. One morning in October Grace Sandstrom stood with her arms by her side while the flag-salute ceremonies were conducted. She had good reasons for so doing, for it is the law of Almighty God that no creature shall render obeisance to an image, symbol or emblem.
Daniel R. Terry, principal of the school, saw her standing mute, and promptly informed her and the whole school that it was a criminal act against the country to refuse to salute and anyone not saluting the flag could be arrested and imprisoned. Daniel knew better than that. If he didn't, he has no business teaching school. But in his zeal to save the state and jam love for the national emblem down the throat of the pupils he overlooked the necessity of adhering to the truth.
A Perfervid Disciple of Hitler
With fervor worthy of a better cause the principal endeavored to gag the conscience of his pupil. Threats and coercion were tried. She was sent home from school daily. Daily she appeared ready for classes, and each day she was thrust away from the school doors. All to no avail. Grace Sandstrom had been taught that God's law is supreme. She stuck to that principle regardless of the cruel tactics brought to bear. Reinforcements were then called in, in the person of Walter M. Ormsby, superintendent of schools. Ormsby labored with Grace. He threatened her and her parents with immediate arrest. That didn't work. Something had to be done.
The high official, the superintendent, could not face defeat by a child. So a compromise suggestion was made. If Grace would raise her hand with the others she could repeat Psalm 20:5 in place of the pledge of allegiance. Grace then went to the schoolroom. She held her hand to the ceiling, and repeated: "We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions." And Walter M. Ormsby thought he had saved the day, his face, and his country.
It didn't last. Grace was troubled in conscience. She could see that she had been decoyed into a compromise, and on the next school day she again stood with hands by her side while the others bowed before the flag. So once again the foundations of the Republic appeared to be rocking, and the whole educational system in peril. Therefore it was time to adopt drastic measures, and consequently Charles and Hilda Sandstrom, parents of Grace, were summoned to court.
Did they charge them with teaching Grace not to salute the flag? No. They knew they couldn't get by with that. These patriotic pedagogues who had been daily preventing the girl from attending the public school caused a complaint to be filed in court charging that the parents wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully, corruptly, falsely, maliciously and knowingly kept Grace Sandstrom from attending upon full-time instruction in the public school.
If Auld Clootie has any cuter tricks than that in his repertory, let’s see them.
The Village Gestapo
While the case was pending in court it was deemed wise to send the girl to some other school. The matter was presented to William B. Hartley, principal of the North Babylon school. He gladly consented to give her refuge. Mr. Terry was notified, and immediately wanted to know where she was going. He was not informed, and forthwith the search was on. Chief snooper, Thomas W. Fish, truant officer, was put on the trail and evidently worked well, for within a few hours Mr. Hartley was deluged with phone calls, and received an intimation from the Department of Education at Albany that it might be bad for the financial health of the school if they persisted in the heinous offense of sheltering this conscientious objector. It worked. Regretfully he informed her that she would have to go elsewhere.
The bloodhounds had their way, and chances for survival of the State grew brighter.
The Civil Liberties Union observed these un-American tactics and offered assistance. Arthur Garfield Hays, veteran of many a court battle in the interest of civic rights, volunteered to defend the parents in court. His services were accepted. The case was tried. A jury of six brought in a verdict of “Guilty”, but—at what a cost! For out of the melee came a clear picture of ignoble, Fascist-minded school officials trying to run an American community in Nazi Hitler style.
Any reasonably intelligent person knows that the Bill of Rights is a limitation on the power of the government. It prevents the government from infringing on freedom of conscience, freedom of worship, freedom of speech, press and assembly. Freedom of worship means the right to believe what you will, and to act in accordance with that belief. The government is barred, restrained and prohibited from interfering therewith.
The Tiny Hitlers of Ronkonkoma
The New Swastika Freedom
Listen to Daniel R. Terry, principal of the Lake Ronkonkoma school, as he tells the court, under oath, his conception of religious freedom:
Mr. Hays: You teach that the State has a right to make laws contrary to one’s religious convictions, even though we are guaranteed religious rights; you teach that?
Mr. Terry: Yes.
Mr. Hays: Don’t you teach that a law contrary to that is not a proper law?
Mr. Terry: No. I believe first in the State.
Also, keeping in mind that the parents were on trial for keeping the child from attending school, note this admission from the principal:
Mr. Hays: Weren’t you the man that kept her from attending school?
Mr. Terry: No, I sent her home.
Mr. Hays: Isn’t that keeping her from attending school? Weren’t you the man that kept her from attending school?
Mr. Terry: Yes, I suppose so.
Next we present to you the totalitarian sentiments of Sterling C. Girardet, president of the school board. Mr. Girardet is like Mr. Hitler. Hitler believes in religious freedom if it does not in any way infringe on the state, which is Hitler. Note the similarity of Girardet’s views.
Bill of Rights—with Limitations
Mr. Hays: You believe in religious freedom?
Mr. Girardet: I do when it does not conflict with the rights of the government.
Mr. Hays: One of the things the government is prohibited from doing, and that is to suppress freedom of religion?
Mr. Girardet: I do not know.
Mr. Hays: You don't agree with the Constitution?
Mr. Girardet: Only with limitations.
Mr. Hays: Do you think that people should be allowed to enjoy their religious views without discrimination of any kind?
Mr. Girardet: I don't care to answer that question.
So there you have another good disciple of Hitler in the person of the president of the board of education. According to him, the men who wrote the Constitution made a terrible mistake in granting the people full freedom of conscience and worship. Should have had him and Daniel and Adolph there to mold it alright.
The great Mr. Ormsby did not take the stand and testify. Possibly he didn't desire to have his real thoughts and purposes brought to view on cross-examination. But he became careless and unfolded his inmost desires to do injury in the following statement made in the presence of reporters:
"I will prefer charges of juvenile delinquency against the girl, and try to have her put in an institution if she persists in her refusal to honor the flag."
In other words, if this perverted pedant has his way, the girl must squelch conscience, violate the law of God, or be committed to a reform school with sexual perverts, thieves, and other criminals.
And that, fellow countrymen, is the learned mentor who guides the education of the youth of the area.
Six Frightened Men
The jury was composed of six residents of the community. Their names: Frederick Smith, Joseph Corbett, Frank Bowers, Sherman Jay, Charles Davis, and Harold Murray. They, under oath, assured defendant's counsel that they believed in religious freedom and would acquit the defendants if the testimony showed that they were exercising that right. They were reminded of this promise in the closing arguments of the case, and were told plainly that when they decided the case they would be determining whether or not men in the state believed in the Constitution.
The jury found Charles and Hilda Sandstrom guilty of wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully, corruptly, falsely, maliciously and knowingly keeping their daughter from attendance at the public school. The things that go on in the jury room are not often revealed to the public, but in this case Consolation learns that the jury were too scared to bring in any other kind of verdict than "Guilty". One member held out for acquittal for about an hour, but as the argument continued, and there was no evidence that anyone was going to furnish them with either hay or oats, he succumbed and joined in the guillotining of freedom of conscience. The secretary of the equus asinus fraternity may now receive applications for six more members.
And what about the judge, Harold C. Sorenson, who presided over the trial? Did he join in the slaughter? He was given an opportunity to remedy the wrong when motions were presented to him to set aside the verdict. He ruled otherwise, and must likewise share the responsibility of denial of the public school to one who obeys the rule of conscience.
'By their fruits shall ye know them.' This patriotic (?) trio of Ronkonkoma, to wit, Ormsby, Terry and Girardet, have been shown up, through their acts and words, as sailing under false colors. They were left hanging on the end of the limb to the full view of all, not as lovers of flag and country, but as Fascist-minded individuals who would junk the Constitution with its guarantees of liberty. They would chisel off religious freedom a la Hitler style, and hound, persecute and jail those who object to their authority.
Citizens of Ronkonkoma had better check up on the fruits of Hitler and Mussolini before they endorse the new educational system of this unholy trinity.
Ecclesiastical Purification
The Ronkonkoma gestapo having purged Grace Sandstrom from the public school and having also fastened a criminal conviction upon the parents, it appeared necessary to deodorize the matter through sanctity of clergy. So a self-designated "Reverend", David E. Sloatman, announced that he would speak at the local Methodist religious joint on the subject, "Would Jesus Salute the Flag?" Naturally his answer was "Yes". It would take a brave man to say "No" with the Fascist-minded "educationalists" Terry and Girardet sitting before him as members of his congregation. He talked much about rendering unto Caesar what belonged to him, but made no comment on the Biblical prohibition of rendering obeisance to the image of anything. He overlooked the record made by the three Hebrews who refused to salute the national emblem of Babylon. He knew about them, but they didn't fit in with conclusions acceptable to his prominent church members; so why mention them? He mentioned the early Christians but neglected to tell how they were thrown to the lions because they refused to salute the image of Caesar.
"The glory of our history is that the rights of minorities have been protected from continued tyranny by a ruthless majority." Nice words those, Mr. Sloatman. But isn't it tyranny to jail people for obeying conscience? Isn't it tyranny to ruthlessly threaten, abuse, and coerce a little girl whose only offense is that she is doing what she believes the Lord commands her to do? Isn't it a fact that Charles and Hilda Sandstrom stand convicted of crime solely because their child acted in accordance with the dictates of conscience? Isn't that tyranny? It is fine to protest against tyranny when it is far away, but when it is close at home, then tyranny must be hushed and soft-pedaled.
Mr. Sloatman further grandly stated, "We thank our American heritage for the liberty which we enjoy in preaching this sermon this morning." He was very much favored. The State was on his side. He was giving Caesar everything, and letting the Lord have what was left over. He wasn't threatened with arrest or imprisonment.
Grace Sandstrom desired to preach loyalty to the great Creator by acts of obedience. She wasn't granted that liberty. She was barred from educational privileges, and her parents stigmatized with a criminal sentence. Except for the assistance of American citizens who love liberty and truth much more than Sloatman, Terry, Ormsby, et al, she would be incarcerated in a penal institution today.
Mr. Sloatman's statement and position bring to mind the case of the Reverend Pharisee of Jesus' day who stood in the temple and grandiloquently prayed: "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, . . . or even as this publican." This Ronkonkoma dominie thus feels glad and grateful that he is not as other men are, particularly Jehovah's witnesses, who obey God's law and thus are deprived of the liberty to preach. He may be well approved by the Hitlerites; but who will be justified before Almighty God?—Luke 18:14.
The editorial from the New York Times appended hereto shows that there are still some Americans in the land of the free and the home of the brave, and not all have bowed in their hearts to Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Ratti and Stalin, but a few still have a modicum of the common sense which once was a considerable stock in trade of Americans.
THE FLAG AND GRACE
A religious sect calling itself Jehovah's witnesses has appeared in news dispatches from various Eastern points recently because its members regard flag-saluting as idolatrous. The parents of 13-year-old Grace Sandstrom of Centereach, L. I., have just received a suspended fine of $10 because they seem to have encouraged Grace in her refusal to "bow down before any one or anything but God," and were thus technically guilty of "keeping the child away from school," since the school authorities insisted on the flag salute. To Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union, who defended the accused, this appears to be a violation of religious liberties, and he has appealed the case.
The issue is not whether Grace loves her country. She testified that she did. The issue is whether she should be compelled to show her love in a manner prescribed by the school authorities. For most of us the flag salute is a gesture into which we can read what symbolism we like. For Grace it is a violation of conscience. But if the meaning of the flag were reduced to a single word, that word would probably be freedom. This is the "sweet land of liberty." And it is a little hard to see any consistency in compelling a school child or any one else, by threats and fines, imprisonment or physical violence, to salute a symbol of liberty. No Communist was ever less a Communist for being kicked into kissing the flag.
The compulsory worship of a symbol is a dangerous, flourishing mainly in periods and countries where there is no freedom. Let any one perform a Fascist salute in Moscow or a Communist salute in Berlin or Rome—or let any citizen of Russia, Germany or Italy fail to perform the proper salute at the proper time—and he is at once regarded as a suspect and a criminal. Americans ought to keep as far as they can from that sort of fetish worship.
Nearly all of us, in a perfectly honest and self-respecting way, are glad to lift our hats when the colors go by. We can read into the pattern and hues the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Speech, the hopes of a free democracy, and a tribute to the men who died for these ideals. But we can read those things less clearly when somebody’s hat is knocked off, either by mistaken authority or by some self-appointed drill sergeant. If Grace Sandstrom and her parents sincerely believe that God does not want them to salute the flag, the very principles which the flag symbolizes suggest that they should not be compelled to do so. If they didn’t have to, they might want to.
It Is the Superintendent Who Is Delinquent
A FATHER in a New York school district has been fined $10 and his thirteen-year-old daughter is threatened with a charge of juvenile delinquency and confinement in an institution because she refuses to salute the flag in school.
They belong to that New England sect which regards a gesture of obeisance to any material symbol as idolatrous. The little girl says, “I love my country and its laws; but I do not believe I should bow down to anyone or anything but God.” And her love for her country doubtless was inspired by learning in school that its laws protect her in her religious convictions.
Granted that the rest of us don’t agree with that belief, there must be a hundred religious sects in the United States, each of whose followers disagree with certain tenets of all the others; yet they respect one another’s religious rights and rites. Ignorant and lowly as they may be, and numerically weak, the church to which this family belongs is entitled to protection.
Far from being delinquent, the child exhibits moral stamina the Superintendent lacks to oppose some fanatical pressure group. That group should be sentenced to learn the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States by heart and the Superintendent sent to an institution. He it is who is delinquent.—Louisville Courier-Journal, November 9, 1937.
Salutes and More Salutes
WE’RE getting there fast! In many states they have bludgeoned and forced school children into saluting the flag. Now they are beginning with city employees. Jacksonville (Fla.) has decreed that every municipal employee must salute the United States flag and sign a declaration of allegiance to the national government or be discharged. This is all done, we suppose, to promote love of flag and love of country. The next logical step would be to require such salute and written oath from state and federal employees, attorneys, bank presidents, priests, preachers and every person who lives in the country. And seeing that it is so beneficial and effective in inspiring individuals with burning zeal for the state, it should be done frequently.
Consolation suggests that the flag salute be used at every opportunity.
Put a flag over every depot and let incoming and outgoing passengers salute.
Let the courts be opened with the flag salute. Let each witness salute in place of swearing to tell the truth.
Let the jury salute before and after the decision.
Let the lawyers salute, with each question propounded.
Why not introduce the salute in the movies? Let the audience salute on entering the theater and before and after each reel that is put on the screen.
And so also at the subways: Let the people salute on entering the hole in the ground. Let them salute going through the turnstiles and on coming out. Let them salute on entering the car and leaving it.
Put the flag salute on at banquets, and with each course let the banqueters salute the flag and repeat the pledge of allegiance.
Anything that is so helpful to the interests of the state should be used to its fullest extent.
New Jersey Doctors Despise U. S. Government
THE contempt of New Jersey officials for the constitution of the United States and of New Jersey is proverbial. One fine illustration was when an assembly of Christian people at Plainfield heard Judge Rutherford lecture on a Bible topic under the muzzle of machine guns toted in by the chief of police to overawe and threaten him because he is one of Jehovah's witnesses.
It is the only place in the United States or elsewhere in "Christendom" where men and women have been dragged out of their automobiles and thrown into prison for thirty days because they were suspected of being Jehovah's witnesses, and the only place where parents have been prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of minors because they allowed their children to preach the gospel of God's kingdom from house to house.
Its doctors are like its officers of the law; at least some of them are. They assume to override the laws of the United States; they assume the right and the power to deprive any United States veteran of his just rights and to throw him "out into the cold" if he offends them, or if they discover that he is one of Jehovah's witnesses.
If a citizen of New Jersey has attained to the age of parenthood, and has become the parent of three children, and has never done one other thing to justify his existence in the world, he can ask for and receive relief to the amount of $55.00 per month for himself and wife and three children, and the state will pay it with a smile, if he belongs to the right "church".
But if a citizen of the state of New Jersey was in the front lines of six of the worst battles of the World War, and his nervous system is greatly impaired, and he is old before his time, and several boards of competent physicians have declared him totally and permanently disabled, and he is one of Jehovah's witnesses, and stands for his rights before a board of New Jersey physicians, which board is dominated by a Roman Catholic physician, the most he can get for himself and wife and three children is $18.90 per month, grudgingly paid; and he may not accept any relief from the state. In other words, he is fined $36.10 per month for having been such a fool as to participate in the campaign of the New Jersey politician, Woodrow Wilson, to "make the world safe for democracy".
Let's see. It was Thomas McCampbell (was it not?) who made the statement in the New Jersey legislature, "I consider it the rottenest, the most corrupt government, of any state in the Union." Now to get down to the facts.
Doctors Look after Themselves
The doctors of New Jersey take with great seriousness the adage that "self-preservation is the first law of nature". Whoever else suffers, they are not inclined to add themselves to the list. The general tendency in this direction was indicated nicely when the Emergency Officers' Retirement Act was passed, in 1928.
When it was passed it was intended to compensate officers who had actually been injured in war service, and as records indicated that about 1,800 officers had actually been injured in battle, that was the number expected to be retired, so that the cost was estimated at approximately $4,000,000 per year. But when the attorney general ruled that injuries or disabilities which might be presumed to have resulted from service also entitled those so afflicted to the same retirement, it let down the bars, with the result that many medical officers rushed in to get nice incomes for themselves by qualifying for this retirement. Instead of a total of 1,800 beneficiaries, there were, therefore, more than 1,800 physicians alone who were able to qualify. Of course, there was a slight increase in the number of others who were admitted, but it was the phenomenal influx of medical officers which seemed to attract the attention of the Congressmen. While there were twice as many officers of other branches retired, the number of medical officers retired was about 18 times the number they had anticipated.—American Bureau of Chiropractic.
Atlanta Penitentiary is full of men that have done things almost as bad. They saw a chance to get something for themselves, no matter how they got it, took a chance, and got caught. Being a doctor does not necessarily add anything to a man's honesty. Some think it makes it harder to be honest.
Some Examples of Medical Honor
The following are some of the high-minded physicians of the veterans' bureau drawing full salary and disability pay at the same time. Unlike the New Jersey Jehovah's witness veteran, there is nothing of any consequence the matter with these men; they never suffered as he suffered; they are not old before their time as he is old; they are not tied down to a grand total of $18.90 a month to support a wife and three children.
Just see what these men get, and reflect that very probably some of them never saw any kind of service except a short time at camp. Two of their "brethren" (chaplains) are drawing life pensions of $125 a month, one of whom was called to the service on November 1, 1918, and the other on November 6, 1918. Now for explicit citations of doctors:
Dr. Carlin C. Phillips, New York, salary $5,307; disability allowance $2,250. Grand total, $629.75 per month.
Dr. William C. Ames, District of Columbia, salary $8,000; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $816.67 per month.
Dr. Thomas C. Foster, District of Columbia, salary $5,200; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $583.33 per month.
Dr. James W. Donnelly, District of Columbia, salary $5,600; disability allowance $1,500. Grand total, $591.67 per month.
Dr. Booton S. Compton, Kentucky, salary $5,800; disability allowance $1,500. Grand total, $608.33 per month.
Dr. Herbert E. Whiteledge, Kentucky, salary $6,500; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $691.67 per month.
Dr. Claude C. Keeler, Minnesota, salary $5,200; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $583.33 per month.
Dr. Frank Roberts Sedgeley, Minnesota, salary $5,600; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $616.67 per month.
Dr. Robert P. Smith, Montana, salary $5,000; disability allowance $2,250. Grand total, $604.17 per month.
Dr. Wilfred Ernest Chambers, Missouri, salary $6,500; disability allowance $2,475. Grand total, $747.92 per month.
Dr. William T. Doherty, Kansas, salary $5,007; disability allowance $1,500. Grand total, $542.25 per month.
Dr. Ignatz David Loewy, Arizona, salary $6,000; disability allowance $2,475. Grand total, $706.25 per month.
Dr. John C. Carling, California, salary $5,000; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $566.67 per month.
Dr. Miles Jordan Duncan, California, salary $5,007; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $567.25 per month.
Dr. Clayton Allen Patterson, California, salary $5,157; disability allowance $1,980. Grand total, $594.75 per month.
Dr. Richard A. Roach, California, salary $5,007; disability allowance $1,800. Grand total, $567.25 per month.
Dr. Justus Marshall Wheate, California, salary $5,200; disability allowance $2,887.44. Grand total, $673.95 per month.
Monthly average shakedown of these seventeen "sufferers", $628.93.
Doctors Have Other Duties
It should not be thought that these doctors do not have other duties besides awarding themselves moneys intended for the benefit of the veterans. They do. Nothing is known of their private practice, but their practice on veterans is a matter of record.
Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, July, 1934, Volume II, Number 1, for sale by Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C., at 15c, lists on pages 31-58 the treatment of 49 insane soldiers. They received 63 injections of neoarsphenamine, 539 of mercury, 1,308 of sulpharsphenamine, 4,840 of tryparsamide, and 5,417 of bismuth, making a total of 12,167. This is an average of 248 "shots" apiece, and all that takes time.
Another thing that takes much time of the doctors is to so arrange their records that as few of the veterans as possible shall obtain what is their due. The more there is paid to the veterans the less there is for the physicians. Just a suggestion here: Much time would be saved the doctors if after the next war all the surviving veterans are lined up against a wall and machine-gunned to the last man. This would enable the doctors to take it all.
Harry Bochert, of New York city, liaison officer of the State Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, shows the progress that has been made in this direction. He says:
For the ordinary soldier to draw compensation he would have been required to have gone into the World War accompanied by a motion picture camera and two witnesses to watch him every hour of the day and night, a stenographer, a notary public, two doctors and a lawyer, also an X-ray machine. He should also have been careful in selecting his ancestors for several generations back, in order that no one had ever been unbalanced in mind or had ever been afflicted with disability of any kind. We challenge any lawyer living to understand the technicalities connected with the procedure necessary for a disabled veteran to secure justice for himself and his dependents.
Occasionally the Doctors Write
Occasionally the doctors write for publication and tell what they know or do not know, and it makes interesting reading. The following are a few items:
"The nature of the tuberculin reaction is still largely a matter of speculation." L. U. Gardner, M.D., and Edward R. Baldwin, M.D., member of Medical Council, Veterans' Administration, Saranac Lake, N.Y. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, April, 1934, page 270-27.
"What we call heart failure in acute disease is therefore a widespread complex about which we have very much to learn . . . When we say that a pneumonia patient died because his heart gave out, it seems threadbare; but when we come to analyze what has actually happened, we find ourselves at once in a maze, difficult to thread." R. J. Coney, M.D., Veterans' Administration Facility, Portland, Oregon. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, October, 1935, page 154.
"How many of us would be immune from a statute that would sterilize all individuals with transmissible hereditary defects, especially since our knowledge of heredity and the transmission of hereditary defects is not exact . . . There is no certain way of distinguishing the accidental mental defective from the hereditary type." Edwin M. Levy, M.D., Veterans' Administration Facility, Canandaigua, N.Y. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, January, 1935, pages 234, 235.
"Encephalitis Lethargica is an acute and chronic disease of the nervous system of unknown etiology (cause)." Hiland L. Flowers, B.S., M.D., Veterans' Administration Facility, Bronx, N. Y. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, January, 1935, page 247.
"Many a person has been labelled tuberculous upon evidence that fell far short of minimum requirements for even a suspicion of manifest tuberculosis. . . . In the physical examination of the chest there has been such a discrepancy in the description of abnormal physical findings and their interpretation by physicians as to throw the whole process of physical examination into a more or less chaotic condition . . . The X-ray does not make a diagnosis of lung disease." Harry B. Williams, M.D., Roentgenologist, Veterans' Administration Facility, Sunmount, N.Y. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, October, 1934, pages 85, 86, 87.
"We have recently been subjected to repeated mental jolts, where autopsies demonstrated cardiac hypertrophy that X-ray examination, by our usual standards, had not shown. . . . In the end the value of any laboratory method is, does it help the clinician or does it cause confusion in his mind and in the end make a hard diagnosis still more difficult? . . . Correlation of X-ray and autopsy findings has demonstrated to us the inaccuracy of the cardio-thoracic ratio as ordinarily determined." J. A. Howell, M.D., Veterans' Administration Facility, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, July, 1937, pages 16-19.
"That medicine is not an exact science, and that qualified physicians may differ markedly, not only in opinion, but even in their observation and findings: these facts are, of course, recognized by physicians and intelligent laymen and are taken into consideration." C. P. Harrod, M.D., Veterans' Administration Facility, San Fernando, California. Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Administration, April, 1937, page 533.
A Chance for Use of Common Sense
The foregoing and much similar evidence shows that there is a rare chance for doctors to use common sense in judging veterans' cases and this they have signally failed to do in the case of U. S. Marine C-1 369 505, Daniel E. Morgan, sergeant of machine gunners, a part of whose service record follows:
Verdun, April-May, 1918, 54 days in front line trenches, 14 without shoes.
Chateau Thierry, June, 1918. Twenty-seven days without washing; lived by food taken from bodies of the dead; surrounded day and night by decomposing bodies of former comrades, mixed with strangling fumes of poison gas. One of the worst battles of all time. Nervous wreck, covered with intense itching rash at end of this battle, but needed at front and so not evacuated.
Soissons, June, 1918. Fell exhausted in the rain and slept for hours in the mud; face worn raw with gas mask; eyes bulging from sockets with fatigue; tongue swollen to full of the mouth with thirst; a ravine filled with living and dead; a butcher shop.
St. Mihiel, August 1, 1918. Ill with diarrhea but within a month on the march again night and day; it became a torture to put one foot ahead of the other; slept behind trees in the woods; ate contaminated cabbage from the fields; witnessed and participated in scenes of horror too terrible to pen.
Champagne, Mont Blanc, Sept. 27, 1918. Nerves so far gone that sense of touch, taste and smell largely disappeared and numbness made it almost impossible to stand; for three days lived in an abandoned toilet, pulling the dirt down from the sides to cover the dung, coming only to rob the dead for food.
Meuse Argonne, November 1, 1918. Ears nearly deaf; nasal passages dry; throat and voice shrunk; wading through swamp, slept on brush pile to keep above water; no longer able to police self; when the armistice was declared, was a casualty, in state of collapse. His personal health file never caught up to him and consequently no entries for disease or disabilities were made thereon.
Every man that was through those six engagements, Verdun, Chateau Thierry, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Mont Blanc and the Argonne (and there were relatively few that survived and were in all these major engagements), says immediately when this case is drawn to his attention:
"No man could ever have gone through with those experiences and come out anything but a wreck for the rest of his life."
And that is the truth!
And Now the Reward!
January 23, 1930, this man's personal physician certified him 75 percent occupationally disabled, with chronic myocarditis, marked cardiac hypertrophy, dyspnea on exertion, extremely nervous, chronic catarrhal deafness and chronic catarrhal irritation of the frontal sinus, due to continual exposure during the war; but that before the war he was a magnificent specimen of manhood.
April 6, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa., Veterans' Administration granted a pension of $40 per month from February 12, 1931, for permanent total disability.
June 28, 1933, Lyons, New Jersey, Veterans' Administration cut down the pension to $30 per month.
Pensioner appealed, whereupon the Lyons (New Jersey) Facility sent Miss Elsie B. Hixson, P.O. Box 103, Journal Square Station, Jersey City, New Jersey, to explain to his wife that if she would swear him mentally unsound she could perhaps have a pension of $100 a month and he could be put away in a mental hospital for life. Basis for this New Jersey medical action is that he is one of Jehovah's witnesses. Pension was then cut again to $14.40 per month for himself, $1 for each of his three boys, and $1.50 for his wife. A veteran can do a lot for a woman on $1.50 per month, awarded by a grateful government for killing himself in its service!
But the New Jersey substitute for government says that if he had never gone to war, and never been broken down as a result, and had only become the father of the three boys, and never done anything else, the family could draw $55 a month relief. So all he is fined for what he suffered in the World War is $36.10 a month. Now he actually gets $18.90 for the family of five.
The average pay per month of the doctors mentioned on page 9 is $628.93. Every time they give a dollar to a man like this case No. C-1 369 505 they give themselves $33.27. And this thing is going right on in the Veterans' Administration this very day.
On one occasion when this man visited the Lyons Facility to try to get justice for himself and his family he was told in so many words that because he is insistent upon justice he would be "left out in the cold". It was a threat against the United States Government, nothing less. It purposed to thwart the intent of the government to reward those that did its bidding in 1918 and lost their health in so doing. They made good their threat.
The Lyons Facility has refused to give this veteran copies of papers and documents to which he is legally entitled, on the specious grounds that such disclosures, on their part, of the wretched way they have treated him, would be:
Injurious to the physical or mental health of the claimant.
What hypocrisy! Here is an outfit that did not hesitate to send emissaries to a man's home to surreptitiously destroy his domestic peace and to try to get him railroaded into an asylum for life (despite the insistence of the government's own alienist experts at Washington, D.C., that he is in perfect mental health, though a complete physical wreck), where they can shoot his blood stream full of all kinds of contaminations, and eventually kill him with their experiments, but when he wants to get a modicum of justice, a small part of the pension to which he is justly entitled, they are afraid it will injure his physical or mental health. Good night!
A Buck-Passing Run-Around
To see the correspondence in this case for the last seven years is enough to make an honest man sick. Back and forth, Lyons to Washington, Washington to Lyons, have gone the papers, the only apparent object being to wear out the applicant until he gives up in despair.
After he was twice examined and pronounced permanently and totally disabled the Board of Veterans' Appeals at Washington, acting on the advices from Lyons, New Jersey, and without any legal or moral right to do so, threw out the previous findings of the other boards and accepted the say-so of this New Jersey crowd that had insolently and vindictively threatened that they would leave him "out in the cold". They have done it and there is no apparent redress and no apparent appeal to any court but that of the Almighty God, who will render a just judgment that will settle the score—at Armageddon.
Organized Religion the Opposite of Christianity
THREE months ago I met a Catholic, one of the choicest and best of the flock. After hearing the record on "Fathers" he decided to take a Riches book and a Bible, which, he said, it "was a sin to even touch".
The shipyard in Mariners Harbor, where he worked, went on strike and he was one of the strikers on picket duty continually. Every day the priest would visit these picket lines and look around and talk to the cops, of which sometimes there would be as many as three or four hundred. One day he came up to this Jonadab and told him he wanted to see him. Right in front of all the police and the pickets the Jonadab said, "You don't want to see me: you're a holdup man; you hold people up without a gun. You will never get another nickel from me."
Another preacher, who had been on a vacation, came home and prayed that God might settle the strike by arresting all the leaders. This was on a Sunday night. On the following Monday morning all the leaders were arrested, and the strike broke up.
I asked the Catholic man if he could not arrange for me to speak to the strikers at their hall; which was very readily complied with. So the opportunity was given to speak to between 400 and 500 of these strikers. The chairman wanted to know what I wanted to speak on. I told him that in view of all the difficulty encountered between the religious systems, both Catholic and Protestant, I would like to show them the difference between religion and Christianity, and that religion has always been a menace to the workingman. He, the chairman, jumped at the opportunity and said, "That's it: 'Organized Religion a Menace to the Workingman'"; so he introduced me as "Mr. Bogard, from the Watch Tower, who will speak to us on the subject 'Organized Religion a Menace to the Workingman'".
The outcome of it all was that 120 booklets (Uncovered and Protection) were grabbed up like hot cakes, and the comments that were made to the Jonadab brother the next day were that the talk was not long enough and there weren't enough booklets.—J. Bogard, New York.
The Veterans' Administration decisions at Washington and Lyons, New Jersey, not only do not agree with each other, but when, at either place, the discrepancies are drawn to their attention the result is silence, in some cases running to two years. The plain intent is to despise the United States Government, and make it appear despicable in the sight of all men who know the promises it made to the soldier boys in 1917-1918.
The New York Fair
◆ The biggest job in the east is the New York Fair, which will occupy 1,200 acres in the Flushing meadows and leave behind it a beautiful park New Yorkers will be glad to have. The grading is now going on night and day. The floodlights at night are so bright that people two miles away complain that they cannot sleep. The exposition buildings will be a solid mile square. An attendance of 50,000,000 is expected for the exposition, to be held in 1939, and which will be opened on what is alleged to be the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration.
Vivisection of Humans Openly Advocated
◆ At the American Congress of Physical Therapy, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, in New York, Howard A. Carter openly advocated research on living human creatures (vivisection) to supplement experimentation with guinea pigs. As a matter of fact, the vivisection is already under way on a huge scale, and the doctors are uneasy about it and would like to be able to publicly admit what they cannot deny.
Making Libels Safe for the Hierarchy
WHEN is a libel not a libel? Ordinary specimens of the genus Homo sapiens would not have difficulty in answering the question, but when those who wear the judicial robes have it presented to them it becomes weighty, involved, complicated, circuitous, labyrinthine, and technical. Simplicity flieth, one knoweth not whither, and the job takes shape to fill some pages of the law books.
James J. Clarke, Catholic priest of Philadelphia, who designates himself as the Reverend James J. Clarke, signed his name to a written statement declaring that Judge Rutherford had misrepresented Catholic teachings and fomented religious hatred and bigotry. Thereupon he was summoned into court to answer to a claim for damages for libel.
To misrepresent Catholic teachings would mean to tell lies about them. To foment religious hatred and bigotry would mean to stir up intolerance and hatred; to cause people to become intolerant, bigoted, and to hate others. Publishing any false statement which would injure the reputation of another or tend to induce an evil opinion of him in the minds of right-thinking persons is libelous.
The statements made by Clarke concerning Judge Rutherford are false. Their tendency would be to induce an evil opinion of him in the minds of others. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals was asked to pass upon the question whether such statements were libelous. The Court answered, "To say one's opponent misrepresents any belief is not libelous." . . . "we cannot say that to state the plaintiff's address foments religious hatred and bigotry is libelous."
What's wrong here?
Consistency is a great virtue, and therefore Consolation feels constrained to comment on the difference between this decision and that of Judge Thomas F. Meany of the Hudson County Court of Common Pleas. Five of Jehovah's witnesses delivered to residents of Weehawken some copies of The Golden Age which contained truthful but disparaging statements about Cardinal Dougherty and other Catholic dignitaries. For this offense (?) Judge Meany sentenced the defendants to thirty days in jail. Priest James J. Clarke, with the wholehearted approval and co-operation of Dennis J. Dougherty, self-designated His Eminence, Dennis J. Dougherty, publishes falsehoods concerning one of Jehovah's witnesses and the Court doesn't even consider that to be a libel.
So there you are. Tell the truth about the dignitaries of the Hierarchy, and you go to jail. Tell some lies about Jehovah's witnesses, and you go free.
And justice is said to be free and equal to all persons.
Pennsylvania in Bad Shape
◆ Pennsylvania is in bad shape. One person in every six is dependent upon charity for his daily bread, making 1,630,000 persons having to be helped in the one state. In the country as a whole about 20,000,000 are on relief, with no end in sight. Some report Governor Earle, of Pennsylvania, as saying relief must go on or revolution will be right along. Others say that in ten years all the banks will be busted if public relief on a large scale continues. Those great minds, the great financiers, are now wondering if they were so clever after all, to only pay their help the least amount possible to exist. Now they have to still feed them, as taxpayers, and the surplus is vanishing.
Reading Wants to Know
◆ Reading, Pa., wants to know why it is that on an average rate of 3.41 cents per kilowatt-hour the cities of Austin, Cleveland, Columbus, Fort Wayne, Glendale, Holyoke, Jamestown, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Lansing, Lincoln, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Seattle, Springfield (Ill.) and Tacoma made net cash profits of $12,176,480.87 and Reading, with a rate of 6.04, which is almost twice as high, got nothing but the privilege of paying the higher rates and seeing the money go elsewhere. Public ownership in the cities named is the answer.
Western Pennsylvania Company Towns
◆ A well-known Pennsylvania politician told the truth on one subject anyway when he said:
In some of these towns, chiefly in western Pennsylvania, men and women are brought into this world by company doctors, live in company towns, buy their food and clothing from company stores, work in company mines or mills, die in company hospitals, and finally are buried in company cemeteries.
The Great Southwest
Trying to Improve Tennessee Hospitals
◆ Trying to improve Tennessee hospitals a Nashville paper states that in the tuberculosis hospital there is at least one bed the blankets of which have not been washed for seven years. There is but one ice bag in the institution; when a patient asked for it she was told: "You don't need it; for you are going to die anyway." Nurses, internes and some patients dance in the basement until the wee sm' hours. Moving over to the Central State Hospital, the same publication says that patients are given dope that knocks them out for twenty-four hours; a bucket of salmon was brought in, with rats in it; soup contained coffee grounds, and, to quote the paper, "Roaches are a delicacy." The governor of the state is reported as saying that he could do nothing about it. If that is true, he should resign and the people of the state should advertise for a real man, any real man, to put a stop to such conditions.
Anarchists in Texas
◆ Texas is troubled by anarchists—in silk shirts. Railroads own the state so completely and dominate it so perfectly that while in no other state in the union is the load limit for highway trucks less than 14,000 pounds, in Texas it is 7,000 pounds. Moreover, while it is contrary to law to arrest any person without a warrant, yet gangs of gunmen, working in the interests of the railroads, patrol the Texas state highways, heavily armed, ready to throw into prison any farmer or other person or firm that dares carry a pound more than the permitted load.
Security for Government Loans
◆ Those desiring good big loans from the government without anything serious demanded in the way of security were encouraged by the loan of $661 made on one spotted cow and $821.30 on two black mares and three pigs. This was in Caldwell County, Mo., and the chattel mortgages may be seen on file at the office of the recorder of deeds in Kingston, the county seat. The loans were made respectively to Willard D. and Mattie Cashatt and Glenn R. and Katherine Looney.
Dividing the Sheep from the Goats
◆ A gentleman writes in from Texas that when he applied for work one of the questions asked was, "What church do you belong to?" He inquired if a person has to belong to some church in order to get relief or work, and was given a negative answer. Later, when he sought an Identification Card he was confronted with the same question, and this time the question was pressed as to whether he was a Catholic or a Protestant. All this is a crafty way of joining church and state.
Good Word for the Department of Justice
◆ Give the Department of Justice credit for doing a good job showing up the rascality of the Democratic ballot box stuffers in Kansas City. The efficient "G" men made photographic enlargements of batches of ballots that had been changed; they obtained fingerprints of the men who did the work; they obtained numerous midnight confessions from the guilty men; and, best of all, they are getting hundreds of indictments and convictions.
Bigoted Propaganda Exhibit
◆ Of all intolerant and bigoted sects the old Roman cult is the worst, and it is therefore with some satisfaction that one reads in the Catholic Register that at a Catholic exhibit of "Bigoted Propaganda" there would be shown publications by "Rev. Richard Felix, S.O.B., of Pilot Grove, Mo.", attacking Judge Rutherford. The exhibit was held at St. Louis.
Snow-white Hair Turning Black
◆ Mrs. Vicenta Verrarial, 109 Morales street, San Antonio, Texas, confessing to 117 winters and as many summers, and the mother of 20 children, one of whom is 85 years of age, is having the rare experience of her snow-white hair's turning black again, as in the days of her youth. Her eyes also are getting stronger, and she sews without glasses.
Lynchings in South Carolina and Texas
◆ In the last 54 years there have been 180 lynchings in the state of South Carolina and 549 lynchings in the state of Texas. Patagonian papers, please copy.
California
Explanation of a Dream
◆ At Oakland, Calif., Marie Silva, 18, an invalid, dreamed her father was dead. Startled, she awoke and asked her brother to search for the father. He was found dead, a suicide by hanging. Demons, aware of the fact, made the impression upon the invalid’s mind. This is in no sense a criticism of the young woman. She was not a party to what went on in her mind while she was asleep. Had she been wide awake, and willingly given her mind over to demoniac influence, it would be quite another story.
$5,000 for a Brass Key
◆ A friend of mine reports that a few years ago a wealthy man, Gianini, died, in this valley, and in his will he left $5,000 to the “church”. It seems that in return for this generous gift a brass key was placed in the dead man’s hand, and buried with the body. The thought seems to be that he could get into the pearly gates even before “St. Peter” got there, a special privilege. This friend got the information from members of the family of the dead man. Pretty good business, $5,000 for a brass key.—David Davidian.
To Rewater San Joaquin Valley
◆ One of the garden spots of creation is the San Joaquin valley, central California, but the water supply is scant, and lessening. This will be overcome by the building of a $170,000,000 dam near the headwaters of the Sacramento river, 600 miles away. The net result will be improved navigation throughout the great central valley of California (which is almost level), and waters impounded 600 miles away will be placed where they are most needed in the valley of another river.
Oiling Up 230 Banks
◆ Oiling up 230 country banks with deposits of $1,500,000 on which no interest is paid, Pacific Gas and Electric Company effectively uses these bankers for its interests and against the interests of the people in the state of California. On one occasion they got these banks to send out hundreds of thousands of pieces of propaganda, including personal letters, condemning plans for state ownership of public utilities.
Joe Pietrobono Visits Italy
◆ Joe Pietrobono, of Monterey, Calif., visited Italy and came back an even better American than when he visited his native land. He found husbands in Italy afraid to talk to their wives; uniforms were everywhere; the young men were flocking into the church to get out of army service; he saw a receipt inscribed “final payment on your share of the war debt to the United States”, which debt, though collected thus, is repudiated by Italy and will never be paid; he overhead a girl bidding good-bye to her soldier sweetheart, off to the pope’s war in Spain, and urging him to be taken prisoner as soon as possible rather than to fight. He found young children reporting to their Fascist organizations on the doings and sayings of their parents, and everybody in fear, and at heart hating the Fascist (Catholic Action) régime.
The Big Telescope for Mount Palaomar
◆ The big telescope for Mount Palaomar, California, though weighing about 1,000,000 pounds, and having the general dimensions of a six-story building, is a precision instrument. Observers will ride the instrument as it rotates; observations may be made at three points. The instrument, which is expected to be in place in 1940, is floated on oil at high pressure.
Legalized Vice in Hawaii?
◆ In view of the fact that Hawaii has 20,000 soldiers, 6,000 sailors and 15,000 unmarried plantation workers, a joint resolution was considered in the Hawaiian Islands legislature that would legalize prostitution in the Islands. The only object in legalizing would be to get a share of the cash. If the legislature passes the law, it can thus claim pimpship honors.
Wallowing Once More in the Mire
◆ Miss Rachel McDowell, alleged Protestant editor of “church” news for the New York Times (but probably a female Jesuit), was back in Rome again in 1937, to show the pope what a fine job she did for him in 1936 in the Catholic responses to her booklet “My Audience with the Holy Father”. It was a nice piece of publicity, cleverly done, and she should be well paid.
A Mathematical Discovery
SINCE the days of Greek splendor mathematicians have sought for a method by which they could divide any angle into three equal parts, using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge as instruments. About a century ago someone proved, or thought that he proved, that this geometrical feat cannot be accomplished, and today the departments of pure mathematics of most universities still claim that it cannot be done.
Yet, Jos. B. Gillespie, instructor in mathematics, now comes forward with a solution that is so simple that it seems strange that it has not heretofore been discovered. The solution is given herewith in simple nontechnical terms.
Let AOD be any angle, as shown in three figures: Figure 1, an acute angle; Figure 2, an obtuse angle; and Figure 3, a reflex angle.
To divide AOD into three equal parts.
1. With the point O as its center draw a circle. A and D must be on the circle, as shown in the three figures.
2. Extend the line AO to C, cutting the circle again at B and making OC at least equal to the diameter as shown.
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