Consolation, January 26, 1938
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Contents
Secret Instructions of the Jesuits 3
Celery Juice for Epilepsy 6
Correct Eating 6
Education 9
Germs 12
Hydrophobia 13
Interesting Facts Concerning Aircraft 14
Your Questions Answered
by Judge Rutherford 17
In the Creator's House 18
Germany 21
Greece and Turkey 23
Italy 24
Britain and Spain 25
Sound Car in Quebec 26
An Open Letter to Mr. Felix 28
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path
(Feeding the Birds) 30
Winter Sport—Cover Design 31
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Appetizers
Why Don't You Dig Up?
◆ A card from "Father" Vincent, O.C.D., 1125 South Walker Street, Oklahoma City, Okla., wants to know why you don't dig up. To show you that the salvation of man depends upon the amount you count out on the barrel he says:
Don't you realize that the Sacred Heart is losing souls, which He bought with His own blood, just because His so-called "friends" neglect to help His poor missionaries?
Saint Teresa Cured the Pope
◆ A dispatch from Vatican City says Saint Teresa of Lisieux, Carmelite nun, the pope's own handpicked saint, cured him of his recent illness. Oh, well, might as well give her the credit. But if Franco had been able to walk right into Madrid, as the pope hoped, he would never have had any bellyache at all.
This Joke Was Cribbed
◆ Wife (to her husband in the next room): My dear, what are you opening that can with?
Husband: Why, with a can-opener. What did you think I was doing it with?
Wife: Well, I thought from your remarks that you were opening it with prayer.
When Do They Start?
◆ Edward, duke of Windsor, showed that he has a good sense of humor (usually known as common sense) when somebody asked him what he thought of civilization. His reply was, "It's not a bad idea. When are they going to start it?"
An Original Proposal
◆ In Los Angeles a young man took the lady of his choice for a walk in a cemetery and cautiously inquired how she would like to have his name on her tombstone some day. In less than sixty days she had his name, and him too.
Degrees of Chinese Happiness
◆ The Chinese have a proverb:
If you wish to be happy for an hour, get intoxicated. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for eight days, kill your pig and eat it. But if you wish to be happy forever, become a gardener.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 26, 1938 Number 479
Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
THE Jesuits are trying desperately to get control of the United States of America, and the Devil and the politicians are playing everything into their hands. In bygone centuries their order was suppressed in every country in Europe. It was even suppressed by Pope Clement XIV, and he was murdered because of it.
In 1762 the parliament of France dissolved and abolished the order in that country, assigning the following as the reasons of their abolition:
The consequences of their doctrines destroy the law of nature: they break all the bonds of civil society, by authorizing theft, lying, perjury, the utmost licentiousness, murder, criminal passions, and all manner of sins. These doctrines, moreover, root out all sentiments of humanity: they overthrow all governments; excite rebellion; and uproot the foundation and practice of [Christianity]. And they substitute all sorts of superstitions, irreligion, blasphemy and idolatry.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Angelopolis, in a letter published at Cologne in 1666, made the truthful charge:
The superiors of the Jesuits do not govern them by the Rules of the Church, but by certain "Secret Instructions and Rules", which are known only to those superiors.
The existence of these "Secret Instructions" has been known for centuries. Copies were found, one at Venice in 1596, one in the Jesuits' College at Paderborn, Westphalia, and another copy in the city of Prague. In the preface is found the injunction:
If these Rules fall into the hands of strangers, they must be positively denied to be the Rules of the Society.
Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu. Caput I. Qualem societas præstare sese debeat, cum incipit de novo alicujus loci fundationem.
The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits. Chapter I. How the Society must behave themselves when they begin any new foundation.
Some of the Rules
5. Caveant nostri emere fundos in initio; sed si quos emerint nobis bene sitos, fiat hoc mutato nomine aliquorum amicorum fidelium et secretorum; et ut melius luceat paupertas nostra, bona quæ sunt vicina locis, in quibus collegia habeamus, per provincialem assignentur collegiis remotis, quo fiet ut nunquam principes vel magistratus habeant certam notitiam redituum societatis.
V. At their first settlement, let our members be cautious of purchasing lands; but if they happen to buy such as are well situated, let this be done in the name of some faithful and trusty friend. And that our poverty may have the more colorable gloss of reality, let the purchases, adjacent to the places where our colleges are founded, be assigned by the provincial to colleges at a distance; by which means it will be impossible that princes and magistrates can ever attain to a certain knowledge what the revenues of the Society amount to.
Caput II. Quomodo principum, magnatum et primariorum PP. societatis familiaritatem acquirent et conservabunt.
Chapter II. In what manner the Society must deport, that they may work themselves into, and after that preserve a familiarity with princes, noblemen, and persons of the greatest distinction.
12. Inimicitiæ et dessentiones inter magnates ad nos distrahendæ erunt ut componantur, sic enim in notitiam familiarium et secretorum paulatim poterimus devenire, et alterutram partem nobis devincere.
XII. Let proper methods be used to get knowledge of the animosities that arise among great men, that we may have a finger in reconciling their differences; for by this means we shall gradually become acquainted with their friends and secret affairs, and of necessity engage one of the parties in our interests.
15. Denique ita omnes solliciti sint, principes, magnates, et magistratus cujusque loci conciliare, ut etiam contra consanguineos, et affines, et amicos suos, pro illis, quando occasio sese obtulerit, strenue fideliterque agant.
XV. Finally,—Let all with such artfulness gain the ascendant over princes, noblemen, and the magistrates of every place, that they may be ready at our beck, even to sacrifice their nearest relations and most intimate friends, when we say it is for our interest and advantage.
Caput III. Quomodo agendum societati cum illis qui magnos sunt auctoritatis in republica, et quamvis divites non sint, aliis tamen modis juvare possunt.
Chapter III. How the Society must behave themselves towards those who are at the helm of affairs, and others who, although they be not rich, are notwithstanding in a capacity of being otherwise serviceable.
3. Adhibendi etiam ut mitigent et compescant homines viliores, et plebem societati nostrae contrariam.
III. They must be also employed in calming the minds of the meaner sort of people, and in wheedling the aversions of the populace into an affection for our Society.
Caput IV. Quæ commendata esse debeant concionatoribus et confessariis magnatum.
Chapter IV. The chief things to be recommended to preachers and confessors of noblemen.
1. Nostri, principes virosque illustres ita dirigant, ut solum ad majorem Dei gloriam tendere videantur et ad talem austeritatem conscientiæ, quam ipsimet principes concedunt; neque enim statim sed sensim spectare debet directio illorum externam et politicam gubernationem.
I. Let the members of our Society direct princes and great men in such a manner that they may seem to have nothing else in view but the promotion of God's glory; and advise them to no other austerity of conscience but what they themselves are willing to comply with; for their aim must, not immediately, but by degrees and insensibly, be directed towards political and secular dominion.
4. Meminerint summopere confessarii et concionatores, principes suaviter et blande tractare, nullo modo in concionibus et privatis colloquiis perstringere, omnes pavores ab illis removere, et in ipsâ fide, justitiâ politicâ potissimum adhortari.
IV. Let the confessors and preachers always remember, with complaisance and a winning address, to sooth princes, and never give them the least offence in their sermons or private conversations; to dispossess their minds of all imaginary doubts and fears; and exhort them principally to faith, hope and political justice.
All the Rules Are at Hand
All the rules are at hand, 145 of them, both in Latin and in English, being exact copies of those found, and accurately translated. To save space and labor several of the rules are now given only in English, but anyone who desires the Latin for any of these may have it on presentation of an adequate reason for desiring the same.
Chapter VI. Of proper methods for inducing rich widows to be liberal to our Society.
IV. Care must be taken to remove such servants particularly as do not keep a good understanding with the Society; but let this be done by little and little; and when we have managed to work them out, let such be recommended as already are, or willingly would become our creatures; thus shall we dive into every secret, and have a finger in every affair transacted in the family. IX. It will be proper, every now and then, cunningly to propose to her some match, but such a one, be sure, as you know she has an aversion to; and if it be thought that she has a kindness for any one, let his vices and failings be represented to her in a proper light, that she may abhor the thoughts of altering her condition with any person whatsoever.
Chapter VII. How such widows are to be secured, and in what manner their effects are to be disposed of.
XVI. The same art must be used with princes and other benefactors; for they must be wrought up to a belief, that these are the only acts which will perpetuate their memories in this world, and secure them eternal glory in the next: but should any persons out of ill-will pretend to trump up the example of our Saviour, who had not whereon to lay his head, and from thence urge that the Society of Jesus ought to distinguish themselves by their poverty, in answer to such insinuations as these, we must seriously inculcate on the minds of all, that the state of the church, being altered from what it was, and now changed into a monarchy, it cannot maintain its ground against mighty enemies, unless supported by great authority and power, and that it is that little stone which was foretold by the prophet should be hewn out of the rock, and afterwards rise into a vast mountain.
Chapter IX. Of increasing the revenues of our colleges.
V. Let the rectors of colleges endeavor to procure thorough information of the houses, gardens, farms, vine-yards, villages, and other effects belonging to the prime nobility, merchants and citizens; and (if possible) of the taxes and rents with which they are incumbered: but this may be done with caution, and most effectually at confessions, in familiar conversation, and private discourses. And whenever a confessor has got a rich penitent, let him immediately inform the rectors, and try all winning artifices to secure him. XI. The better to convince the world of the Society's poverty, let the superiors borrow money on bond, of some rich persons who are our friends, and when it is due defer the payment thereof. Afterwards let the person who lent the money (especially in time of dangerous sickness) be constantly visited, and by all methods wrought upon to deliver up the bond; by this means we shall not be mentioned in the deceased's will; and yet gain handsomely without incurring the ill-will of their heirs. XVI. Lastly, let the women who complain of the vices or ill-humor of their husbands, be instructed secretly to withdraw a sum of money, that by making an offering thereof to God, they may expiate the crimes of their sinful help-mates, and secure a pardon for them.
Chapter XI. How our members are unanimously to behave towards those who are expelled from the Society.
VII. Let them (as far as is possible) be timely removed from the exercise of honorable functions in the church, such as preaching, confessing, and publishing of books, &c., lest by these means they attract the affection and applause of the people. The strictest inquiries must therefore be made into their lives, manners, and conversations, what they apply themselves to, and their very intentions: to which end, matters must be so managed, that we may keep up a good correspondence with some of the family in which they live, and the minute the least trip be discovered, or anything deserving censure, let it be industriously spread abroad in the world by some of the lower rank of people, who are our friends, that so the noblemen or prelates may be restrained from showing them any farther countenance, for fear of the scandal it may bring upon themselves; and should they behave so as to leave us no room to find fault, let their virtues and laudable actions be depreciated by subtile insinuation and doubtful expressions; till the esteem and credit they had formerly acquired be lessened in the opinion of the world; for it is altogether for the interest of the Society, that the dismissed, especially such as of their own accord desert it, should be entirely kept under.
Chapter XVII. Of the methods of advancing the Society.
III. Let kings and princes be kept up in this principle, that the Catholic faith, as matters now stand, cannot subsist without the civil power, which however must be managed with the greatest discretion. By this means our members will work themselves into the favor of persons in the highest post of government, and consequently be admitted into their most secret councils.
The copy of these instructions from which citations herein are made is accurate; taken from the copy seized at Paderborn, Westphalia, Germany, when Christian, duke of Brunswick, took the city and seized the Jesuit college there.
Some of the published and admitted tenets of the Jesuits are that it is lawful to murder the innocent, rob, and commit lewdness (Aquinas-Alagona); to repudiate and violate oaths of fidelity and obedience (Philopater); to kill the innocent husband of an adulteress to conceal the guilt of a priest (Henriquez); to accuse parents of heresy even though knowing they may be burnt alive for it (Fagundez); for a priest to murder anybody who prevents him from taking any ecclesiastical office (Amicus); to kill an accuser whose testimony jeopardizes one's life and honor (Escobar); to steal from an employer (Cardenas, Taberna); for a wife to rob her husband (Gordonus); to lie on the witness stand to avoid injury to self or posterity (Taberna); for priests to murder any layman to preserve their goods (Molina).
At a very early period after the establishment of the order of Jesuits, the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of France proclaimed the Society "dangerous to the Christian faith, disturbers of the peace, and more fitted to corrupt than to edify".
The present pope confesses to a Jesuit. All Jesuits agree to do unhesitatingly anything whatever desired by the pope. Occasional interception of letters has proved that there are female Jesuits and that some Jesuits occupy Protestant pulpits. Also, there are polished courtiers, brilliant scholars and captivating gentlemen who are Jesuits who know nothing whatever of these authentic "Secret Instructions", and would swear on the cross that no such instructions were ever given to or received by them, and in this they would be correct. The instructions are not for the rank and file.
Celery Juice for Epilepsy
T. D. BUCK, one of Jehovah's witnesses in Massachusetts, and a very earnest and faithful worker, wrote the following, which should be of interest to epilepsy sufferers:
I have been a victim of epilepsy for nearly forty years, which necessitated the continued use of drugs during that time; I have taken from three to four and one-half grains of phenobarbital daily for the last twelve years.
For seven weeks now I have taken one pint of celery juice half an hour before breakfast each morning; and I expect to continue another seven weeks, when I hope to be cured permanently. To say I am feeling better would be putting it mildly; I feel like a new man, having reduced my medicine gradually each week so that now I have been entirely free from drugs for two weeks. I use unbleached celery, and a juicer may be obtained at health food shops.
I have discontinued all refined sugar (eating honey instead), all tea and coffee (for which I substitute hot water), and practically all flesh foods. I find raw vegetables very beneficial, such as lettuce, carrots and cabbage shredded, with mayonnaise, radishes, etc., with plenty of fruit and nuts. Cooked greens are excellent; also cottage cheese. I obtain some fine celery and greens from Italian stores.
Correct Eating By Dr. Ben Opsahl (Minnesota)
(If this shocks your particular health susceptibilities, be tolerant.—Ed.)
I AM enclosing an article on "Correct Eating". This plan was originated some thirty years ago by Dr. J. H. Tilden, of Denver, Colo. Dr. Tilden, although a graduate of medicine, saw its weaknesses and through his research found that most of man's ills were the result of his own wrong doing. He established what he called "The Tilden Health School", and, by taking the failures of the regular profession and returning them to health, as well as showing them how to stay well, built an institution valued at $250,000.
His procedure was, first of all, to explain to the patients that by their wrong eating they had poisoned their bodies. Thus the first thing to do was to fast for several days and clean out the accumulation of toxins. After he was satisfied that the body was fairly clean, he then set about instructing the patient how to eat so that his ills would not recur.
For many years Dr. Tilden published a monthly periodical called The Stuffed Club, in which he exposed the fallacies of the modern cures. Naturally, this brought upon him the wrath of the regulars and he was a lone wolf ostracized by medical associations. And at this time, to the best of my knowledge, Dr. Tilden is still alive and well and living in Denver, Colo.
The thought that I would like to give you is that it seems that such an organization as yours should try to instill through education the wrong that has been promoted by the orthodox churches of all denominations. I have but to call to your mind how these groups sponsor and run many of the largest hospitals in the country. These hospitals are surgical plants and surely under the guise of religion; it is hard to conceive of them as being in harmony with the teachings of Jehovah.
So I would like to contribute what little I can of the teachings of Dr. Tilden. It seems to me too bad that such institutions of learning as our many large universities do not touch these great truths, but, in their stead, dilly-dally around with a lot of ultra pseudo science.
Foods are here classified in four groups: Column 1, starches; column 2, non-starchy vegetables; column 3, proteins or meats; and column 4, fruits.
COLUMN 1
Starch
(Acid-Forming)
Bread
** white
* whole wheat
* rye
* corn
* Crackers
** Cakes
Cereals
* unrefined
** refined
** Cookies
** Macaroni
** Noodles
** Pancakes
Rice
unrefined
** refined
Tapioca
* Potatoes
* white
* sweet
* Squash
* Pumpkin
* Hominy
* Beans
* Canned Peas
* Canned Corn
COLUMN 2
Non-starchy
Vegetables
(Alkaline)
Artichokes
Asparagus
Beets
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Cucumbers
Egg Plant
Endive
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Okra
Onions
Parsley
Radishes
Rhubarb
Spinach
String Beans
Turnips
Watercress
Fresh Peas
Fresh Corn
Sauerkraut
Tomatoes
* Foods that are constipating.
** Foods that are most constipating.
Any foods in the same column may be eaten at the same meal.
Any foods in columns 1 and 2 may be eaten at the same meal.
Any foods in columns 2 and 3 may be eaten at the same meal.
Any foods in columns 2, 3 and 4 may be eaten at the same meal.
ANY FOODS IN COLUMNS 1 AND 3 MAY NOT BE EATEN AT THE SAME MEAL.
ANY FOODS IN COLUMNS 1 AND 4 MAY NOT BE EATEN AT THE SAME MEAL.
Learn to eat every kind of food, but in its proper place.
COLUMN 3
Protein
(Acid-Forming)
Chicken
Duck
Turkey
Goose
Wild Game
Fish
Sea Foods
Lamb
Beef
Bacon
Nuts
Ham
Eggs
Veal
Fresh Pork
COLUMN 4
Citrus-Acid
Fruits
(Alkaline)
Lemons
Oranges
Lime
Grapefruit
Pineapple
Tomato Juice
Semi-Acid Fruits
Apples
Peaches
Pears
Cherries
Cantaloupe
Plums
All Berries
All Melons
All Grapes
All Sun-dried Fruits
Apricots
Currants
Sweet Fruits
Dates
Figs
Raisins
Prunes
Ripe Bananas
A CORRECTIVE PLAN OF EATING FOR PEOPLE DOING LIGHT WORK
For Breakfast—One or more fruits (column 4) but no other food.
For Dinner—Meat or fish (column 3). One or more non-starchy vegetables cooked (column 2) and as much of fresh green vegetables (column 2) as desired (combination salad), also a fruit salad (column 4). For dessert any food that is not starchy (ice cream). This meal may be eaten at noon or evening.
For Supper—A starch meal (column 1); for example, cereals, bread, baked dish, or baked potatoes, or any vegetable (column 2).
THE PLAN FOR PEOPLE DOING HEAVY WORK
For Breakfast—A starch meal (column 1): cereals, bread, pancakes, etc., but no fruit (column 4) nor meats (column 3).
For Dinner—The same as the dinner given above.
For Supper—Another starch meal (column 1): baked dish, or baked potatoes with some non-starchy vegetable (column 2) but no meat (column 3) nor fruit (column 4).
Over-eating of starch foods such as bread and potatoes stiffens the body.
Acids are the destructive elements if allowed to get out of their proper place or in too large amounts.
Foods in columns 1 and 3 are acid-forming. Foods in columns 2 and 4 are alkaline.
Eat more of the alkaline foods and less of the acid-forming.
It takes time to change one's eating habits; but don't quit. You will enjoy this plan of eating, once you become accustomed to it.
This plan of eating is recommended for the whole family.
White flour and white sugar are too refined and are not recommended.
Sugar and cream are chemical enemies and should not be used together.
For sweetening use honey, unrefined sugar, or molasses.
Coffee and tea should be used very moderately.
Let me correct one general idea that is prevalent; and that is, that all of these foods are digested in the stomach proper. This is not true. The foods listed under starches are digested by saliva, and therefore must be thoroughly masticated. Non-starchy vegetables are mainly water and are very easy to digest. Proteins, which include meats, fish, eggs, cheese and nuts are digested by the acids in the stomach. Fats, including fat meats, and butter are digested by the action of bile in the small intestine; and the pancreas takes care of the digestion of sugars. Two plans of eating are given: one for people doing light work, and one for people doing heavy work. If you are a light worker, that is, not doing manual labor, you should eat a breakfast of only fruits. Your dinner may be eaten at noon or in the evening, as you choose, and should consist of boiled, broiled, or baked meat (column 3), one or more non-starchy vegetables cooked (column 2), any fresh and green vegetables, such as a combination salad of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers, dressed with olive oil and lemon juice preferably. For dessert, fruits, fresh, cooked or baked.
For your lunch, a starch meal consisting of anything you may want in column 1; and you could not go wrong by adding any of the vegetables in column 2 except the last two, sauerkraut and tomatoes, which are too acid to be used with a starch meal.
For people doing manual labor, we suggest a starch breakfast of cereals and bread but no meat or eggs and no acid fruits. The dinner is the same as prescribed for the light worker, with the exception that some acid fruit should be added to this meal, and the lunch or supper could be a baked potato (column 1) or some other baked dish and any of the vegetables that come under the non-starchy vegetables (column 2).
The reason for not eating foods in the different classes or groups all at the same meal is explained as follows: For example, the dinner. We stated above that meats are digested by the acids in the stomach. That means this: that when you eat meat it excites the flow of acid into the stomach to tear down the meat so that it can be assimilated into the body when it gets to the intestine. If you eat any form of starches with meat the starch goes into the stomach and picks up the acids, thereby robbing the meat of sufficient acid to digest it; and not only that, but, once the acid is absorbed into the starch, when the meal is finally passed on into the small intestine the starch acts as a conveyer or carrier of the acid that it has picked up in the stomach. Thus the acid is misplaced, because the construction of the stomach and that of the small and of the large intestine are extremely different. The stomach is tough; it is so constructed that the acids do not injure it, while the intestine is a delicate organ lined with a delicate mucous membrane and bathed with bile. Bile is alkaline; therefore the intestine should be alkaline; and when acids get into the intestine they set up an irritation of the delicate mucous membrane lining it. This means a congestion of blood and a thickening of the mucous membrane. It means many things, such as setting up a chronic sore at whatever point is the weakest. The most common place is the caecum, which is the beginning of the large bowel. Nature realizing that it must not, if avoidable, allow this misplaced acid to accumulate in the bowel, the blood picks it up and carries it to the liver. One of the functions of the liver is to screen out this foreign material from the blood so that the kidneys or skin must carry it out of the body. By wrong eating the liver is overworked to the extent that it is soon unable to keep the blood free of acid, mucus and other poisons and they are allowed to go on their journey in the blood to every part of the body.
a, salivary glands; b, liver; c, gall bladder; d, stomach; e, small intestine; f, large intestine or bowel; g, pancreas.
Thus this haphazard method of eating starts a chain of disease conditions which include practically every disease to which man is subject.
This plan of eating is correct; it is practical; it works; it is the truth; and I know that your readers are going to like it, because many of them are my patients.
Education
Arms and Education
◆ In 1937 Britain was spending three times as much for armaments as it was for education; France was spending five times as much; Italy was spending ten times as much. In other words, in the eyes of Mussolini, it is ten times as important that the Italian people be furnished with the implements of destruction as that they learn how to live.
Christian Science!
◆ According to "Christian Science" 'it is a sin to think that sin, which does not exist, really does exist, because by thinking that sin exists when it couldn't possibly exist (because God is all good) you cause a lot of trouble (although, for your information, the trouble isn't really there; you only think so)'. In other words, "Christian Science" proves that 'there is much trouble because people think there is trouble when there is not any trouble at all, and naturally that would be troublesome'. Moral: Why bother?
"Still Good Reading"
◆ A postal card request: "Would you please send us some copies of your paper? Old ones would be gladly received. My husband has been sick for four years. We are on relief but we do enjoy good reading. We have just finished a copy that was given to us. It was three years old and still good reading."
Please Have a Heart
◆ When you deem it desirable to write to Consolation about this, that or the other, make your letter as brief as possible, and write legibly. Always give name and address. Unsigned letters are consigned to the wastebasket without being read.
Do not send a voluminous manuscript without first writing and ascertaining whether it may or may not be acceptable. Consolation cannot be responsible for material thus sent in, nor can it undertake to return manuscript unless postage is furnished for that purpose. Also, please do not send in a manuscript with the request that it be returned even if used. Manuscript that is used is retained for the records and cannot be returned.
Interesting clippings are always very much appreciated, even though they are not acknowledged in writing. Clippings should always show name and date of paper or publication, but other markings should be avoided. Cartoons should always be unmarked. If you have any comments to make, make them on a separate piece of paper.
The goal of higher education
Consolation Is Larger
◆ Consolation, with 58 columns, 56 lines to the column, 43 letters and spaces to the line, and 5 1/2 letters and spaces to the word, contains in each issue 210 words more than The Golden Age contained with its 57 columns, 54 lines to the column, 45 letters and spaces to the line, and 5 1/2 letters and spaces to the word. Consolation could carry 25,394 words; The Golden Age, 25,184. The height of the type face in Consolation is only 1/72 of an inch less than in The Golden Age. There is a considerable saving in paper in Consolation, but the new magazine is more attractive, and fits better in the pocket and in the kit and in the mail box.
Unclassified
Best Intentions in the World
◆ A subscriber who has the best intentions in the world, but did not linger as long with the old blue-backed Webster spelling book as some of his confreres, writes thus, and it is good to read, regardless of originality in the way the words are put down on paper:
Dear Sants of Jehover god after readen Sevel Books For a peard of time i have became a full blever in the holy Bible i bleve every Word of it to be the truth i am truely taken my Stand on the right Side the lord Side and have dun so Willingly intelligently obedience to Jehover god and his Sun Jesus Christ praise his Name. i am going cleane to the end of the Way With Christ i love god With all my hart Sole mine and Strenght i am Willing and reddie to gow out and do Some one else Som good by the help of the lord it is my hart dezar to try to get other frieds and Nabers to take hold of this gosspell and good News i thank god For Brother Judge Rutherford and all of god true Sants your trule
100 Lynchings a Year
◆ The United States does not average 100 lynchings a year—not quite. The total number since 1882 (55 years) is 5,108. That is only 93 a year. It is quite safe to commit murder in the United States in this manner, and many enjoy the pastime very much. The lynchers escaped punishment in 99.2 percent of the cases. So, if you feel like murdering, join the next lynching crowd, and help shoot or hang some fellow man without a trial. It gives the lynchers a great feeling that they are men, instead of the pestiferous cowardly skunks they are.
Healing Power of Mothers' Milk
◆ One of Jehovah's witnesses in Chile remarks on discoveries of the healing powers of mothers' milk, announced at a congregation of physicians in Vienna, and states that in his travels in Chile he found the Chilean Indian women using it in the reduction of fevers.
The Whatnots of Long Ago
◆ A man that you wouldn't think could remember back that far writes:
If you like lace doilies, lace petticoats, bric-a-brac and curios, by all means go to the Catholic "Church"; they have loads of them in their whatnots.
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 dowries of $600 on good girls of the poorer classes, between the ages of 21 and 30, provided they marry within three years after the dowry is assigned. Reduced railway fares are given to large families. Public employees are awarded increases in their pay with every increase in their families.
Colmery Believes in the Constitution
◆ Unlike many members of the American Legion, Harry W. Colmery, its former national commander, still has faith in the Constitution. At the Cleveland convention he said:
The Legion is opposed to Communism, and so am I, but there is nothing in our mandate which remotely implies that we should suspend the Constitution of the United States, violate the principles of our own organization, and use force or violence or intimidation to suppress any group.
100,000 Students Strike Against War
◆ On Peace Day, April 23, 100,000 college boys and girls in American colleges and high schools struck against war. Governor Benson, of Minnesota, was so impressed that he set aside the day as a Peace Day. The object is the futile one of trying to eliminate compulsory military training. The big financiers who bestow largess upon the colleges will never give up the military backing.
Double Sunset at Huaraz, Peru
◆ Huaraz, Peru, 200 miles north of Lima, was favored June 8, 1937, with a double sunset. This phenomenon, which could occur only once in 1,200 years, was brought about by a lengthy eclipse of the sun just at the sunset hour.
Franco Will Be Covered Up
◆ Because the Roman Hierarchy wants Franco to win in Spain, nothing will be done by the U. S. Government about the attack on a United States destroyer by one of Franco's planes.
Vivisection
Medical Opinions Against Vivisection
◆ R. Lawson Tait, LL.D., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., Birmingham, England, said:
Every year for centuries, thousands of animals have been vivisected and nothing whatever has been learned from it.
William Blackwood, R.D., M.D., Brigadier General, U.S.A., Philadelphia, Pa., said:
It is physically impossible that other than misleading and false doctrines should be the result of the cruel and degrading work of vivisection.
J. B. S. King, M.D., Editor Medical Advance, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry of Herring Medical College, Chicago, Ill., said:
It is my opinion that vivisection is a procedure entirely unnecessary to the advance of science, and unproductive of any good to human suffering, or human disease.
Albert Leffingwell, M.D., Aurora, N. Y., said:
During the last twenty-five years, infliction of intense torture upon myriads of creatures has failed to develop one remedy of generally accepted value in the cure of disease.
Dr. William Howard Hay said:
I do not know of one single thing of material benefit to health or longevity emanating from this practice that could not have been determined in other and less cruel ways.
Vivisection in Elgin, Illinois
◆ The newspapers tell about vivisection in Elgin, Illinois. Speaking of the animals upon whom the vivisection experiments were tried, the account says: "Sulphur suspended in oil was injected into the muscles of their thighs. Then they were sent to bed with fevers ranging from 101 to 104 degrees. They remained in the infirmary three weeks." And the animals vivisected, what kind of animals were they? Oh, they were people; just plain folks, humans. They were insane; they could not help themselves. The doctors in charge of the experiments claim improvements resulted in nearly half the cases.
Torturing an Ape at New Haven
◆ Electronics, October, 1935, (379) 37, contains a picture of an ape whose brain tissue is coupled magnetically to a circuit. There is also a reproduction of an X-ray photograph of the ape's brain, showing a coil and wires buried in the tissue. This torturing of the ape by sending electric currents through his brain is reported in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. The report shows the poor ape cooped up in a cage just big enough to hold him, and there is the admission that—the wires greatly impede the freedom of action of the animal and constitute a definite disturbing factor in the investigation.
The "brain excitation device" was developed by Prof. E. L. Chaffee, of Harvard University, and Dr. Richard U. Light, of the Yale University School of Medicine. Men will be next.
Thanks, Just the Same
◆ A reader with a heart, and interested in the little four-legged folks that run around among human creatures, wants the editor to read some articles from The American Journal of Physiology, explaining thus:
These deal respectively with boiling live rabbits, and with uniting two dogs so that the blood circulation will pour back and forth between them (40 pairs used in the experiment) as a sort of Siamese twin and that, surviving the frightful operation necessary to accomplish the feat, the two animals live, eat, walk and sleep in a forced union of their bodies until they rot apart or tear apart or one bleeds to death into his mate.
Thanks, just the same, but it makes the heart sick to know that such things are done every year in vivisection laboratories, and that they will continue until Jehovah God destroys the human vermin that now clutters up the earth. Meantime, "fret not thyself because of evil doers." A better day dawns.
What He Learned and How
◆ In St. Louis Dr. Kissane, Columbus, Ohio, told the American College of Physicians how he struck dogs sharp blows on the chest and produced various types of heart irregularities which followed almost immediately after the blow was struck.
Now, isn't that wonderful? And, just to think, Dr. Kissane learned that all by himself! like the bride who discovered that she could open a can of tomatoes by using her husband's razor.
1,000 Monkeys for Vivisection
◆ On November 21, 1936, 1,000 monkeys for vivisection purposes left Calcutta for the United States, booked for Chicago, Philadelphia and other points.
Germs By Mrs. May Parrett (Tasmania)
(Broadcast over 7HO)
"WHERE are you going?" asked an Eastern pilgrim on meeting the plague one day. "I am going to Bagdad to kill 5,000 people," was the reply. A few days later the same pilgrim met the plague returning. "You told me you were going to Bagdad to kill 5,000 people," he said, "but instead you killed 50,000." "No," said the plague, "I killed only 5,000 as I told you I would; the others died of fright."
Waldo Trine says: "Fear can paralyze every muscle in the body. Fear affects the flow of the blood; likewise the normal and healthy action of all the life forces. Fear can make the body rigid, motionless and powerless to move. Practically all disease, with its consequent suffering, has its origin in perverted mental and emotional states and conditions. The mental attitude we take toward anything determines to a greater or less extent its effects upon us. If we fear it, the chances are it will have detrimental or even disastrous effects upon us. No disease can enter into or take hold of our bodies unless it finds therein something corresponding to itself which makes it possible." I wish you specially to bear the foregoing quotation in mind in studying this germ question.
All life starts originally from a germ cell, whether it be a human, animal, plant or any other form, and nothing can start unless it is present; so you can see that it really becomes the basis of everything created, and without it nothing could be that is.
But, unfortunately, following some investigation into the processes of fermentation, Pasteur, in April, 1864, gave utterance to the generalization, "Life is a germ, and a germ is life." Had he stopped there, it would have harmed no one; but he did not. Within ten years his advertising instincts led him to coin a new generalization, "Disease is a germ, and a germ is disease."
A great hunt was then started to locate the different germs. Different diseases must have different germs, and each specific germ must therefore produce its specific disease. Plants depend for their growth and development upon germs that are in the earth; and Pasteur asserted that the disease germs were found in the air, and that the reason, for example, that an open wound would become septic was, because these air-borne germs get access to the broken surface and into the blood stream. If Pasteur were right, that all disease arises from air-borne germs, then none of us should be alive, seeing that they exist in countless millions and that within a few hours one germ, in a suitable medium, may have three million descendants.
The most necessary people in our city life today are the sanitary engineers and those whose work it is to keep the city clean. In like manner are the germs; for without them we could not live. The moment human or vegetable matter becomes unhealthy the germs attack and change it into its various constituents, nature's way of scavenging.
If we allow the natural defenses of our bodies to become unhealthy by constipation, and our resistance and vitality lowered by nerve pressure, etc., why blame the germs because they attack us? That is the work to which they have been appointed by the Creator, and His laws cannot be broken. In the words of Dr. Claude Bernard, the greatest physiologist of his day, "The microbe is nothing; it is the soil that is everything."
Injecting filthy serums, such as antitoxin, etc., into your blood stream and that of your little child, will not save you or it, but only makes matters a great deal worse; for, the blood being the life, its natural resistance is broken.
To quote Fitzgerald: "So tender and so delicate are the various organs within us, and so precious the blood stream which flows through all our veins and arteries and through the millions of microscopic capillary vessels, that nature has provided a thick and tough protection for them in the skin which covers us all over. Only by means of the mouth and gullet can anything enter us without grave danger; and even this means of access is elaborately furnished with tender membranes and delicate senses of taste and smell to warn us of lurking danger in the things we swallow. A stupendous, complicated and mysterious apparatus awaits these things inside, analyzes them and separates the good from the bad and injurious substances without delay. This elaborate organization, however, is far too cumbersome for the twentieth-century experts of medical science, who, 'knowing better what is needful for us than the God who made us,' have devised costly nostrums to be injected direct into the blood stream by means of a syringe furnished with a hollow needle, which penetrates the tough skin provided by nature as a shield."
The great pioneer of the nursing profession, Florence Nightingale, wrote: "The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions." To appreciate the full significance of this, let me call to your mind again Dr. Claude Bernard's famous dictum, "The microbe is nothing; it is the soil that is everything."
A very eminent French doctor, Dr. Martin du Theil, has just published in Paris a book Defence by Means of the Nervous System.
In order to demonstrate the weakness of the germ theory of disease causation, this distinguished doctor takes, among others, the specific example of typhoid fever. He asks why we should regard the typhoid germ as the main factor in the disease if in a town of a thousand people only forty are taken with typhoid fever, although all the inhabitants drink the same polluted water. Obviously, he says, it is the soil in the diseased body, rather than the germ, to which we should direct our attention.
Hydrophobia Contributed by a Physician
A NOTABLE failure was that of a young French postman, named Pierre Rascol, who, with another man, was attacked by a dog supposed to be mad, but not bitten, for the dog's teeth did not penetrate his clothing; but his companion received severe bites. The latter refused to go to the Pasteur Institute, and remained in perfect health; but unfortunate Rascol was forced by the postal authorities to undergo the treatment, beginning March 9. On the following April 12, severe symptoms set in, with pain at the point of inoculation, not at the place of the "bite", for he had never been bitten. On April 14 he died of paralytic hydrophobia, the new disease brought into the world by Pasteur.—Dr. Lataud, page 277. For a similar case, see page 345.
Two young Frenchmen were bitten by the same dog at Havre. One died from the effects within a month, but before this the other man had sailed for America, where he lived for fifteen years in ignorance of the end of his former companion. Returning to France, he heard of the tragedy, and actually himself developed symptoms and within three weeks was dead of hydrophobia.—Dr. Lataud, page 262.
A lady returned from bathing and stated that she had been bitten by a dog. The anxious parents rushed her for Pasteur treatment. After fifteen treatments she became violently ill. Stricture at the throat, convulsions, coma and death followed. On the way home from the funeral, the two girl companions who were bathing with her told the parents of the dead girl that she was not bitten by a dog, but by her young man friend.
Over 3,000 deaths are on record in reports from Pasteur Institute, of persons bitten by dogs, all of which deluded sufferers had taken the Pasteur treatment. On the other hand, the record of the London Hospital a few years ago showed 2,668 persons bitten by angry dogs; not one of them developed hydrophobia, and not one had been pasteurized.
Good Joke on Palm Springs
◆ Palm Springs, Calif., is an attractive resort, but still superstitious; and so, when Clyde Yates came down with smallpox, it had everybody in town vaccinated except Russell David Baumgardner, an ex-service man who had already had all the vaccines pumped into him that he cared for in this life. The town then quarantined Mr. Baumgardner in his trailer, and his attorney, following plain warnings of his intentions, circulated the story all over that part of the world that Palm Springs was virtually one vast pest-house. That did not help the town any, and, besides, at last accounts Baumgardner was threatening to sue the town for depriving him of his liberties.
Interesting Facts Concerning Aircraft (Contributed)
AIRPLANES are lifted by the wings, not the engine. The engine pulls the craft through the air with sufficient speed to cause lift.
A plane at an altitude and with the engine stopped can glide to earth by nosing down to a degree necessary to maintain forward speed. Gliding distance in still air is about twelve times the altitude.
Both the top and bottom surfaces of a wing give lift, the greater part of which comes as a result of a partial vacuum caused by the curve peculiar to the upper surface.
Speed gives controllability.
The controls may be described as flaps which act on the air as they pass through it. There are three such flaps: the rudder, the ailerons for balance, and the elevators to rise or descend.
An airplane that is stalled in the air has lost forward speed, lift and controllability, though the engine may be operating normally.
Stalling may be done purposely or accidentally by climbing too steeply, resulting in an involuntary dive until speed, lift and control are regained. A stall near the ground is dangerous, due to the resultant dive and possible tailspin which starts from a stall.
Throttles are hand-operated, and steering is done by foot pedals which actuate the rudder. Ailerons and elevators are connected to a hand control or "joy" stick, which in a circular movement operates both controls, simultaneously or independently.
Heavier loads may be lifted in cold air than in hot.
Department of Commerce regulations require aircraft manufacturers to have airworthiness certificates before commercial planes can be sold.
Each important structural part of a plane must be several times stronger than needed for any strain put on it in flight. When planes are damaged, a report must be filed with the Department of Commerce, and repairs made to specifications and approved by a department inspector. Flying time of airmen and aircraft must be recorded in a log book, subject to periodic inspection. In the vicinity of busy airports all ships must circle to the left, to avoid confusion.
Wings are called "planes", hence the name "airplane". Heavier-than-air craft have been built which carry a load greater than the weight of the craft itself.
Steam and Diesel engines have been used successfully to propel modern aircraft.
Planes are in use which have immovable fins instead of a rudder, and are steered by banking. By means of flaps, high speed in the air with a heavy load is possible, and still comparatively slow landings are made with the flaps depressed.
Tail skids act as a brake and a preventive of "ground loops".
With individually operated wheel brakes, the skid may be eliminated in favor of a swiveling tail wheel. Brakes are used to steer on the ground.
Ships in the air balance on the wing at a point designated "center of lift". About this point the useful load centers, including fuel which, in diminishing, does not affect balance.
Fuel is carried in wing tanks and fed by gravity, thus eliminating troublesome pumps. All such small items cut down weight.
Controllable propellers, the pitch of which may be varied in flight, enable a ship to climb steeper, cruise faster, and, on multi-engined ships, when one engine is inoperative the propeller blades can be feathered to give a minimum of air resistance.
Baffle plates in tanks prevent an unbalancing rush of fuel during maneuvers.
Take-offs and landings are made against the wind for better lift, quicker climb and slower landing.
Banked turns prevent skids.
When in a vertical bank, the action of rudder and elevators reverse and must be compensated for by the pilot's skill.
One type of plane has flaps to quickly cut down excess speed gained in a dive.
Conventional construction is welded tubing framework in the body called "fuselage", wings of wood, and covering of cloth shrunk tight by a cellulose solution, or "dope".
Tapered wings are most efficient for stunting.
Landing gear is well forward of the balancing point, making planes tail-heavy on the ground.
A recent trend is just the opposite, nose-heavy with a steerable wheel ahead of the main landing gear. In large sleeper transports, this makes a more comfortable horizontal position for the beds in landing.
Bumps felt when flying in disturbed air are not "air pockets", but are caused by rising and descending currents of warm and cool air.
Air becomes thinner with altitude; hence aircraft are limited to a maximum ceiling averaging twelve to twenty thousand feet. Greater altitudes are attained with supercharged engines and breathing equipment for the crew.
Aircraft engines will sometimes weigh less than two pounds per horsepower.
Wings carry loads ranging from six to more than twenty pounds per square foot of area.
Popular with beginners are light planes that are slow flying and easy to operate. By a light plane is meant one that may be as large in general proportions as a heavier ship but lighter in construction, lower in power and with smaller load-carrying capacity. There are many such in operation that carry two persons, cruise at seventy miles per hour, land at thirty, and use less than three gallons of fuel per hour. They are, however, hard to handle in high winds.
Air traffic at large airports is so great that red and green electric signal lights, aimed like a gun, are used to direct planes as to whether they may or not land.
Transport ships are guided by radio beams; and when visibility is so poor that an airport without a beam terminal cannot be seen from one thousand feet altitude, the ship is required to proceed to another port with better visibility or one with a beam terminal to be guided to the ground.
Two Round Trips in One Day
◆ By the American Airlines it is now possible to leave Chicago at 12:30 midnight; arrive New York 6:08 a.m.; leave New York 8:00 a.m.; arrive Chicago 12:30 noon; leave Chicago 1:30 p.m.; arrive New York 7:10 p.m.; leave New York 8:10 p.m. and arrive at Chicago at 12:40 midnight. Thus, lacking 10 minutes, in one 24-hour day one can four times span the distance of 751 miles separating America's largest cities, with two complete round trips, and a lay-over of 2 hours 52 minutes in New York, and one hour in Chicago in the middle of the day. If a businessman wishes to do so, by the same service he can leave New York at noon, arrive in Chicago at 3:45 p.m.; leave Chicago at 5:00 p.m., and be back in New York at 9:55 p.m. The two trips last named are non-stop flights. These are merely examples of the extraordinary way in which America is now all tied together by airplane service.
"The Latest Prospect"
◆ In the Golden Age magazine for January 20, 1932, appeared maps showing a proposed route for air services to the East, the first time, so far as known, that the suggestion was ever made. The route is receiving more and more attention and now Reynolds' News, London, states:
The latest prospect is an Arctic air-route to the East via Canada, Alaska and Siberia, and this may be developed once the British and American Transportation services are in operation, and there is peace again in China.
Four Days to Singapore
◆ The Royal Dutch Air Lines purchased eight American Lockheed planes which cruise at 240 miles per hour and carry twelve passengers. They will be used to make the journey from London to Singapore in four days. Imperial Airways take eight; Douglas air-liners, six.
German Plane Route to Far East
◆ The German airplane route to the Far East will be via the island of Rhodes, Damascus, Bagdad, Teheran, Kabul, Kansu, Canton and Hong Kong. It saves 1,250 miles over the route via India and is the shortest route to the Far East that is possible without going over Russian territory.
Plane Rises Vertically
◆ A British inventor has devised a form of automatic variation of blade angles which enable an airplane to rise straight up, or nearly so. The plane so equipped rose from the ground at Hatfield Airdrome in 4 1/2 seconds from the time the engine started.
Increasing Safety of Air Travel
◆ Though occasional air fatalities occur, safety in the air continues to increase. In 1929, with 173,405 passengers taken aloft, one out of every 9,634 passengers was killed. In 1936, out of 1,147,696 passengers taken aloft, one out of every 24,950 passengers was killed.
Big Business
The Federal Reserve Racket
◆ Seventy-five of the largest banks in the United States own more than 50 percent of the assets of the 15,000 banks now doing business. Twenty-seven percent of the loans and investments of all the 15,000 banks are held by 20 of those banks. Less than 600 firms own over half of the corporate wealth. At a cost of 27c per $1,000 the 12 Federal Reserve banks issue money that is a blanket mortgage upon all the property and wealth of the people of this nation. Don’t you wish you could issue money that would be legal tender for $1,000 and that it would cost you only 27c? Barring this 27c, the Federal Reserve banking system uses the Government’s credit free of charge. Originally it was to pay some interest (the amount to be fixed by themselves), so the Federal Reserve Board fixed it at zero!!! Originally the racket was to be for twenty years; this has been amended so that it is to be perpetual (?). Next to the Roman Hierarchy, the Federal Reserve racket is one of the most powerful in the world. And the two work together. There is hardly a bank of any size that is not loaded up to the gills with the Hierarchy’s “securities”.
Harpies to the Feast
◆ Let no one suppose the money harpies will go unfed in America if there is an extension of the Hierarchy’s war in Spain. According to the Johnson Act the United States may not lend any more money in Europe, but a way out has been found. It will just deposit a few billions in the World Bank and the bank will do the lending. Ah, how lovely! The net result is that the credit of the United States Government will be used to finance the world-scheme for making all nations kiss the pope’s toe in his mad drive to conquer the world for Fascism.
Who Got the Money?
◆ Every twenty-dollar bill invested in stock of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana before 1903 has since become worth forty-three thousand dollars. When you figure out who got all this money you will know why so many American families have to live from hand to mouth and why 5,000,000 are permanently idle.
"I Hate War"
◆ I hate war, I hate war because I have seen it. I hate war for what it does to our own men. I have seen them come in freshly gassed from the front line trenches. I have watched the long, long trains loaded with their mutilated bodies. I have heard the raving of those that were crazed and the cries of those who wanted to die and could not. I hate war for what it forces us to do to our enemies, slaying their children with our blockades, bombing their mothers in their villages, and laughing at our breakfast tables over our coffee cups at every damnable and devilish thing we have been able to do to them. I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another!—Harry Emerson Fosdick.
The Stock Market Shake Down
◆ The big fellows that control credit have been having a good time shaking out the little folks. Early in 1937 forty-seven of the principal industrial, railroad and utilities stocks were marketed at an average price of 88.7. By the end of October they had dropped to 39.4, representing a shrinkage of $25,000,000,000. Don’t ask who got the money; it was the same old crowd, merely working the pump again, cleaning out the pockets of those who had saved something. There is no occupation they enjoy more. They sold out at the right time and the public bought at the wrong time; as soon as the public were loaded to the gills they were forced to sell and their lords took all.
$55,000,000 Worth of Foolishness
◆ Uncle Sam has money to throw away; so he is making two new battleships costing $55,000,000 each, in his own navy yards. In case of a war a battleship would be of about as much use as a palm-leaf fan in hades. All that would be necessary would be for some young fellow to fly overhead and drop a bomb down the smokestack and there would be a grand rush for another bigger, better and more expensive vessel to replace it.
Your Questions Answered
By J. F. Rutherford
QUESTION: Recently the chief executive of the State of New York told the National Preachers' Mission that "once again religion must come to rescue the world from barbarism and destruction". How does this compare with the course of religious organizations during the World War period and since?
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