Consolation, July 13, 1938

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Contents

Infantile Paralysis Fund 3

John Milton, Senator for Frank Hague 7

New York, Michigan and Wisconsin 8, 9

The Great Southwest 10

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path—Swallowtails 11

President's Advisory Committee 12

Three Great Decisions 13

Birds and Insects 14

Invention 15

The Northwest Convention of Jehovah's witnesses 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Tribute to Caesar 17

Mexico 18

Japanese Troops in Nanking 20

Details of Nanking Atrocities 21

Africa and Italy 22, 23

Germany 24

Greenland 27

British Comment 28

Mexican Indian—Cover Design 31

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Appetizers

Poor Bill (From Labor Herald)

■ Bill Smith, a country shopkeeper in England, went to the city to buy goods. They were sent immediately, and reached home before he did. When the boxes were delivered, Mrs. Smith, who was keeping the shop, uttered a scream, seized a hatchet, and began frantically to open the largest one.

"What's the matter, Sarah?" said one of the bystanders, who had watched her in amazement.

Pale and faint, Mrs. Smith pointed to an inscription on the box. It read: "Bill inside."

Balancing the Books

■ The two men had been partners in business for more than fifty years, but now the partnership was about to be dissolved, for one of the two lay dying. The sufferer called his friend to his bedside and said:

"I know I haven't much longer to live, old man. Before I go I've got a confession I must make. During our years of partnership I've swindled you out of thousands of dollars. Can you forgive me?"

"That's all right," said the other cheerfully. "Don't you worry about it. I poisoned you."

Irregular Service

■ Young wife (at post-office window)—I wish to complain about the service.

Postmaster—What is the trouble, madam?

Young wife—My husband is in Albany on business and the card he sent me is marked Atlantic City.

Merely Air-conditioned

■ Bill collector (having a hard time of it trying to collect an old account, and much pestered by small child): "That child is pretty badly spoiled, isn't he, Mandy?"

Mandy: "No, sah, dat chile ain't spoiled; he jus' smell dat way."

Next Generation Joins in Chorus

■ He (before taking): "Oh, tell me that you love me; it is the sweetest story ever told."

She (after): "Don't tell me that you love me; it is the biggest story ever told."

Three Classes Blessed

■ Blessed are the illiterate, the dumb, and statesmen. They don't realize what is coming. —Miami (Fla.) Herald.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 13, 1938 Number 491

Infantile Paralysis Fund

Glenside, Pa., May 11, 1938

Mr. Edward R. Fuller and Mr. Wm. F. Leach, Co-Chairmen, Phila. Infantile Paralysis Fund, c/o Corn Exchange National Bank, Second and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

GENTLEMEN:

I recently received a letter from you at my Philadelphia address, requesting a contribution, and bearing in the letterhead the words "Help Keep Infantile Paralysis Away from Your Door."

In the body of your letter, after stating how terrible the disease is, you go on to say "The problem of prevention and the problem of treatment are not yet solved" and that "any money spent on either of these problems will be money well spent", and at the bottom of your letter appear the names of some well-known Philadelphians.

And in another part of your letter you quote Dr. Willard of the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Medicine, saying "To be struck down by this disease is the greatest disaster that can happen to a child, because of permanent crippling."

I do not know who you are—whether you are members of the medical profession—or just well-meaning citizens—but of one thing I am certain, and that is, your failure to mention the fact that the white pus organism found in those afflicted with infantile paralysis is also found in the virus used to vaccinate children and others against smallpox; that after a batch of this virus was shipped here and there throughout the country from a distributing point, infantile paralysis broke out wherever it was shipped; that said virus is nothing more nor less than the putrid discharge from the sores of diseased animals; and that when it is introduced into the pure blood stream of a healthy person it contaminates it, causing illness, disease and death—disease sometimes far worse than the one claimed to be guarded against. And doctors wonder where cancer, heart trouble and numerous other ailments of unknown origin come from.

With the medical profession profitably inflicting on their fellow men innumerable diseases and tragedies through compulsory vaccination, and adding to these indescribable misery and torture in cutting up living animals in useless experimentation, I must respectfully decline to contribute to your funds. Instead I shall give all I can to the cause of that courageous man, John Marsh, imprisoned indefinitely at Carlisle, Pa., for refusing to consent to poison virus' being put into his boy. I am amazed that the president and other well-meaning citizens permit their names to be used in this self-enriching undertaking of the medical dictatorship.

The best medical scientists of the world condemn vaccination in black and white as a dangerous practice. They cannot be fooled by the manufacturers of virus and vaccine who make millions each year on stuff destined to blight and destroy lives—stuff which their paid propaganda advertises as beneficial and protective.

This stuff—the putrid discharge from the running sores of diseased persons and animals—something that you certainly would not put into your mouth or in the mouths of children—is put directly into the pure blood stream, causing worse contamination there than if taken into the mouth. And then it steals the credit for improved conditions brought about by contemporaneous improvements in sanitation, water supply, food supply and improved heating, housing, ventilation and living conditions.

This is a terrible wrong to humanity by virus makers who are either ignorant or unscrupulous, to say nothing of the tremendous number of animals rendered unfit for milk or food and afflicted with hoof and mouth and other diseases to produce this poison until they die in misery and agony or are uselessly slaughtered, and to say nothing of the countless numbers of smaller animals cut up alive and poisoned in the making of experiments and left to die in misery and suffering to see effects on them, and to say nothing of the human virus or poison coming from persons afflicted with disease in thickly populated colored sections of the South and Eastern Asia.

And yet no medical man can guarantee that your child is a "fit" subject of vaccination. Nor can he guarantee that the stuff will not cause present harm in the form of lockjaw or infantile paralysis or future harm in the form of cancer, syphilis, insanity, etc.

Time was when smallpox was caused by unsanitary and other conditions. Then, between 1700 and 1800, the medical profession inoculated against smallpox, causing everyone to carry the disease, and bringing on epidemics so that finally inoculation was forbidden by law—just another mistake of the medical profession—which caused untold misery and countless deaths.

Another so-called remedy of the medical profession was bloodletting. George Washington was a victim of this bit of medical experimentation. Taken ill at the age of 67, but still strong and hardy, they let so much of his blood out in combating the illness that he succumbed—not to the illness—but just bled to death.

And now we have vaccination. It is claimed that vaccination stopped terrible smallpox epidemics. This is not true. This is propaganda manufactured by virus and serum makers to boost their sales and profits. The epidemics were caused by poor sewerage of the 1700 to 1800 period, contaminated water supply, bad food, shallow graves in city limits, etc. When these, intensified by inoculation, disappeared, the epidemics disappeared to some extent, and would have disappeared completely but for the new medical fad started by Jenner about the year 1800. This continued the ailment. Where vaccination is no longer compulsory it is dying out as a practice and smallpox is disappearing. On the other hand, statistics show that epidemics, disease and death have followed wholesale vaccination and revaccination and that unvaccinated communities are comparatively free from disease.

I also have in my possession a list of children all over Pennsylvania and elsewhere who died immediately after or shortly following vaccination, from diseases it brought on. The law of Pennsylvania and of the few other states that require this terrible thing must be changed. An entirely new lower house of the state legislature, half of the state senate and a new governor will be elected this year. Those candidates who will not pledge themselves to vote against the compulsory feature of the law will be opposed.

Why did England abolish compulsory vaccination in 1907, with a drop in smallpox and the death rate therefrom to a small fraction of what it used to be? Why did Denmark abolish compulsory vaccination last year after having it since the year 1810? Why do 39 of our 48 states not require compulsory vaccination, and 5 states actually forbid it? And why is Pennsylvania one of nine states having compulsory vaccination in one form or another—compelling all public school children to have their blood poisoned with the putrid discharge from the running sores of diseased animals? No wonder we have so many backward children, so many children's diseases, so many diseases with causes unknown to the doctors, and overflowing insane asylums, hospitals, and institutions for the blind, etc., and innumerable premature deaths.

The answer is that Pennsylvania and the other eight states have allowed the medical profession, financed by the millionaire virus and serum makers, to come in and run their state governments, to dictate to their people, to enter their homes, to tyrannically impose upon them compulsory medication, and to require injections and operations costing countless numbers of lives and causing untold misery and suffering for millions. They have forgotten completely that the school is public, and not the child; but no doctor has a right to operate on or treat or vaccinate any child without the parent's consent; that the Constitutions of the United States and of Pennsylvania are written instruments, and that what they meant when they were drawn they still mean, and that the Common Law rights, privileges and immunities of citizens guaranguaranteed by these constitutions are still theirs, and any law taking away these rights and immunities is null and void and not to be obeyed.

It is the duty of our courts to protect us in our Constitutional rights. And the time is ripe and has now arrived for all citizens—all true lovers of American liberty—to rise in rebellion against this medical tyranny and dictatorship in nine states; in the District of Columbia and in our Federal Government, driving it out of public office, and taking its self-helping hands out of the public treasury, placing all methods of treating human ills on an equal footing in the eyes of the law, without discrimination against one or the other, and with each subject to a governing board of its own.

Let Pennsylvania lead the way in this glorious fight for human liberty and for medical freedom. Let Pennsylvania show the way for the other eight states to follow. This nation cannot exist part slave and part free. Let us all have the privilege of choosing the type and kind of treatment each one desires just as freely as each one has the freedom to choose his food, his clothes and his religion. Until this is done complete freedom will not be known in America.

I have assumed the leadership in this fight. I realize that I am not fighting the medical profession so much as a mistake of that profession in allowing itself to be run by virus and serum racketeers from outside—racketeers who have gotten the profession to interfere with our governments, our laws, and our private lives. There are many noble men and women in the profession and some of them are very good friends of mine. To these I appeal to purge their profession of undesirables—to these I appeal to take medicine out of politics—to these I appeal to join with their fellow citizens in recovering for them the medical freedom to which they are entitled—that Common Law right of personal security guaranteed by our Constitution and which secures each individual in the enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health and his reputation. (Blackstone's Commentaries)

As leader in this great cause I pledge that there shall be no interference with the legitimate functioning of the medical profession for the benefit of those who desire its services. The Golden Rule shall prevail. And to this end I invite communication from medical men in sympathy with what I have outlined above, as there will be ample opportunity for them to co-operate in this undertaking and to aid in bringing about a new and better order of things.

Please pardon the length of this letter, but I just could not resist the opportunity to tell you why I will not contribute one cent to the Philadelphia Infantile Paralysis Fund. I feel that the good citizens whose names have been used have been misled, just as the rank and file of the medical profession has been misled. I sympathize with the sufferers from this terrible medical blunder. But so long as the medical profession brings such things on through putting poison in the human system, and so long as the funds are needlessly used to cut up living dogs, and other pets and monkeys, with untold suffering and torture, I cannot see my way clear to contribute.

Sincerely yours,

H. EUGENE GARDNER.

[Prominent attorney of Philadelphia, Pa.--Ed.]

Postscript—Three times during the term of an ex-governor of Pennsylvania the legislature voted by a large majority to curb compulsory vaccination, and three times he vetoed the bill directly or by pocket veto. Thereafter, whenever a child died or suffered from vaccination the governor received notice of it—of the child's death and funeral—until he finally said "For God's sake stop sending me those notices", and expressed his regret that he had vetoed the bills.

A subject of vaccination found that it did not take until four years after the operation. The mark appeared on the arm four years after the operation. This is one of many instances showing that the virus, sometimes not quite so strong when put into a person, may increase in strength, and become active after lodging inactive in a recess of the arm or other part of the body for years, possibly causing untold mischief without the cause thereof being detected. Something like the corn found in the tombs in Egypt, which lay there for thousands of years and when taken out and planted grew.

The virus causes an attack or riot at the point introduced into the system, drawing the natural forces of the person to that point and reducing strength elsewhere all along the line. The disease becomes masked and inverted. The white corpuscles are increased in number to meet the attack, but reduced in potency.

That is why a doctor who vaccinated himself fifteen times, and boasted he was still healthy, burned his lip with a cigarette and found insufficient in his system to resist the burn, which became cancer of the face, ate his face away, and caused his death about six months after he made his boast.

Blindness from Vaccination

SOME years ago a newspaperman in New York state, by the name of James A. Loyster, lost his only son within a month after vaccination against smallpox. Previously the boy had been in good health. Right after vaccination, he got infantile paralysis, became paralyzed, and died within a month. Loyster, who had believed in vaccination, was not only a newspaperman, but also a Republican leader in the New York Legislature and head of the Globe Ticket Company in Philadelphia. He sent letters to newspapers all over New York state asking for information concerning fatal and serious cases of illness following vaccination. A printed postal card for reply was enclosed with each letter. Almost half of the newspapers approached returned cards. From among these were obtained the names of 27 children who died subsequent to vaccination, and almost 100 who had been seriously ill. Thus it was found that more persons were injured by vaccination than by the ailment which vaccination is supposed to protect against. It was found in an area of 20 miles square where there had never been a case of smallpox in the memory of any living inhabitant that four children died following vaccination from illness caused by it within the one year—1914. The figures elsewhere in New York were also quite astounding, and as a result of the survey the compulsory feature was abolished by the New York Legislature almost all over the state of New York.

I have been imprisoned in Cumberland County jail at Carlisle almost continuously since November 15, 1937, for refusal to consent to the vaccination of my son, Eugene, age 8, to qualify him by vaccination for admission to school. I have been referred to as "stubborn" and "bullheaded" for not giving consent, but I am not stubborn and bullheaded. I have seen my brother's two girls go blind following vaccination and I have seen one of them die from it. Their eyes swelled up in their heads and burst, leaving only empty eye pits. And then my own boy was vaccinated four years ago without my consent while they kept me in jail for eight months for refusing to consent, and since then the boy has not been well, whereas before he was in good health. I have also received letters from others injured by vaccination and from still others who have lost dear ones following it and I have learned enough about vaccination to make me afraid of what might happen to my boy if he is vaccinated.

I understand that vaccination does not hurt everyone vaccinated immediately after vaccination; that immediate injury is caused only to persons susceptible to certain diseases, such as infantile paralysis, tetanus and syphilis; that diseases such as cancer, consumption and tumors are induced in later life by quicker growth of animal cells than the human, causing bunching and growths here and there in the system which otherwise would not have occurred; and that no doctor can tell in advance whether or not one vaccinated is susceptible to illness which may be induced by it. As a matter of fact, I have been informed of three children in one family being vaccinated by the same doctor at the same time, using the same vaccine on each of them, and of whom one got tetanus and died within a week, one got infantile paralysis and went blind within a month, and the third was not affected at all.

If vaccination immunizes and protects those who are vaccinated, then they have nothing to fear from those who are not vaccinated. Each one should be left free to choose for himself, and no one should be forced by law to undergo a practice or operation that may induce a disease in his system which may cause loss of life or of health or which may result in permanent invalidism.—John Marsh, Cumberland County Prison, Carlisle, Pa., in the Middle Ages [1938].

Johnstown Police Data Destroyed

◆ Imagine how the mayor of Johnstown must have felt, if he was a real man, when, asked by Senator La Follette to produce the names of 500 special police sworn in by himself at the time of the steel strike, and the amounts that had been paid to them, he was forced to admit that he had destroyed all the records. It is easy enough to imagine why the records were destroyed and the motive that was back of it all.

New Jersey

John Milton, Senator for Frank Hague

Meet John Milton, theoretically United States senator for New Jersey; in fact and in truth the United States senator for Frank Hague, whose attorney he has been and is. Milton was in the Senate only 48 hours when he was accorded the honor of presiding over the Senate's deliberations as a substitute for Vice-President Garner. In his capacity as attorney for Mr. Hague, in the seven years from 1921 to 1928 he paid out in checks $380,910.50, which amount Mr. Hague refunded to him in cash.

Nobody would dare come right out and say that Mr. Hague compels every office holder in New Jersey to come across with 2 percent of his salary, or else be left out in the cold, but many have wondered how the dictator of the Garden State managed to save the neat little sum of nearly half a million dollars in seven years, on a salary never over $8,000 a year. A job where a man can save $56,130.07 a year for seven years running on a salary of less than one-seventh of that amount, is surely some job.

However, Hague has never yet descended to the putrescent depths of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Even New Jersey, and even Frank Hague, at his lowest and meanest, have hardly come down to the level of the butchers of Ethiopia and of Spain.

Recently, Mr. Hague, Mr. Milton's boss, had 26 C.I.O. workers forced into automobiles, driven to the city limits, and warned to stay out. Seven who returned were given five days in jail; six others who returned were held for possible indictment for unlawful assembly. The excuse for the arrests was the ordinance of distributing circulars without police permission. This the courts have declared is an unconstitutional ordinance. In their illegal work the police not only resorted to kidnaping, which is a particularly indictable offense, but even pried open lunch boxes looking for circulars, though they found nothing more deadly than pickles and sandwiches.

"I Am the Law" Hague

◆ Mayor Hague advances the premise that a defense of persons arrested or incarcerated in violation of the Bill of Rights is a 'communistic' activity. In support of this statement, he lists my numerous appearances in court in defense of religious organizations and individuals, many of whom were deprived of their constitutional rights by Hague's police whose often-expressed creed is that the mayor's orders are sufficient warrant to deport and jail individuals whose crime is the exercise of freedom of worship and other civil rights.

Mayor Hague, sworn to uphold the Constitution, has the official obligation to protect all persons from invasion of their rights without distinction as to their creed, race, color, political or trade union affiliation. In this he has failed. Of this he boasts. He said recently, "I am the law." No wonder, then, that those who think that the Constitution is higher authority than the mayor of Jersey City are "Reds." To Jersey City's "dictator" all believers in democratic rights are Communists. Under that definition I cannot escape his charges. I still believe in civil liberty and democracy.—Abraham J. Isserman. [Prominent Newark (N. J.) attorney, in The Jersey Journal]

Norman Thomas "Communist"

◆ To a politician every person that is not a ring-kisser or toe-kisser is a "Communist"; and therefore it is of interest that Norman Thomas, college graduate, Presbyterian minister and many times candidate for president on the Socialist ticket, was chased out of Fascist (Catholic Action) Jersey City, along with his wife, because Dictator Hague's legions thought if he remained he would corrupt their morals, if any, and they might also learn something—a thing not to be tolerated.

Too Many Does

◆ There are too many does in New Jersey, and farmers and berry growers have petitioned the State Fish and Game Commission to do something about it. The does lightly leap over a fence fourteen feet high; so they want to know why they cannot kill a few, so they can raise something without having it eaten by the beautiful and graceful creatures that so much appreciate their labors.

New York

Milk Burglars at It Again

◆ The burglars that supply New York city with milk are experts in their line. They give the farmers that produce the milk barely enough to exist; but do they know how to feather burglars’ nests? On July 1, 1937, they boosted the price to consumers to 14c a quart, a net rake-off of $90,000 a day, or more than $32,000,000 a year, over and above their previous takings. In case of another World Foolishness, as in 1914-1918, they would expect every American to do his duty, even if some of his babies do starve to death in the meantime. City and state laws are fixed to protect the milk burglars.

The Clever Muchwano Gypsies

◆ The clever Muchwano gypsies of New York are specialists in the art of taking the life savings away from the gullible, having recently taken $8,100 from a city watchman, $3,000 from a Maspeth family, $14,000 from a German housewife, $5,000 from a French maid of 62, and $2,450 from a German laundry worker; so says the New York Sunday News. The big money in this line of business lies in the "Purgatory" racket, and is safe. The gypsies, working the same line of flimflam, are liable to do time if they are caught. But they seldom are.

"No God, and Never Was"

◆ The "Reverend Doctor" William Norman Guthrie, rector of St. Marks-in-the-Bowerie Protestant Episcopal church, New York city, came out in the open and stated his real position when he told a reporter, "There is no God; there never was; truth does not exist." It was well that he said this, thus placing himself definitely in the "man of sin" class, who hold to the same position. He thus admitted that in all the years in which he has been professing to be a servant of the Most High God he has been part of the class mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2: 3.

For Not Supervising Students

◆ For not supervising students during recess periods the trustees of Stuyvesant, N. Y., School District No. 1 must pay Edward Hoose, 11 years old, the sum of $30,000. A fellow student struck him with a piece of goldenrod growing on the school property.

Who Is the Sucker?

◆ Herman Rosenzweig, New York tailor, returned a wallet that contained only $1,598, and received a polite "Thank you" from the customer who had left it in his suit. Friends in the tailor business called him a sucker; but the matter got into the papers, and Herman received kind letters from all over. Many of the letters contained dollar bills; but even if they did not, any one of them was worth more than any mere cash reward. Herman, reading the letters, asked "Who is the sucker now?" He had it right.

"I Dare You"

◆ In Laurelton, Queens, New York city, a six-year-old in an "I dare you" game swallowed 10 yards of string, which tangled and snarled all through his bronchial tubes and lungs. The surgeons got it out in two operations, by opening the boy's throat. A very remarkable operation.

Fascism Unpopular in New York

◆ Fascism is unpopular in New York city, in spite of all efforts of the Hierarchy gang to make it palatable. Whenever pictures of Hitler, Mussolini or Franco are shown on the screen the inevitable result is a good volume of hisses. Fascism will never be really popular in America.

Tearing Itself to Pieces

◆ Twenty-three years ago our white civilization started in to tear itself to pieces. Today, Japan's only serious national opponent, Soviet Russia, is apparently engaged in a half-choked civil war. Who is to stop the Japanese?—Editorial in the New York Times.

Dunkirk's Present to Taxpayers

◆ The Board of Water Commissioners of Dunkirk, N. Y., voted to remit all city water and light taxes in 1937, making a saving to the taxpayers of about $39,000 on the municipally owned and operated services.

Scientists Torture a Sheep

◆ At Cornell University two scientists tortured a sheep until it had a nervous breakdown. This was done by a succession of mild shocks by electric current. In Russia, by similar methods, dogs were driven insane.

Michigan and Wisconsin

Walking in Mussolini’s Footsteps

◆ Walking in Mussolini’s footsteps, doing exactly the same thing that Mussolini did to gain power in Italy, Governor Murphy, of Michigan, sponsored a bill in the legislature of his state authorizing him to take over industrial plants and operate them when they have been closed by labor disputes. It seems that America knows all about how countries go Fascist, but does not know how to keep from going that way herself.

Nice Teacher in Detroit

◆ Detroit, Michigan, has a nice teacher, in the person of Michael Lutomski. A fourteen-year-old boy, Joseph Kruszewski, failed to bring his notebook to the manual training class, with the result that his hipbone was chipped, and he suffered injuries at the hands of Mr. Lutomski. Wonder where Mr. Lutomski learned all his technique about how to treat future American citizens.

Anarchist in Dearborn Police Station

◆ Dearborn, Michigan, boasts that an anarchist runs the police station. A gent wearing a policeman’s uniform snatched a notebook out of a reporter’s hands and turned it over to others, who tore out the written pages. One wonders what could be the “clutch” of a sworn officer of the law that would do such an anarchistic act.

Diver Goes Down 420 Feet

◆ Off Port Washington, Wisconsin, Max E. Nohl went down in a diving suit 59 feet farther than any other dive on record. He touched bottom of Lake Michigan at 420 feet, obtaining his breathing mixture from a tank of mixed oxygen and helium strapped to his back, the helium taking the place of nitrogen usually taken in. The invention worked perfectly.

Bingo Players in Milwaukee

◆ The bingo game craze has spread so rapidly in Milwaukee in recent weeks that some Catholic churches in adjoining neighborhoods have arranged different nights of the week for their games so there will be less competition. The church halls are jammed with bingo players.—Milwaukee Journal.

Coughlin Goes Fascist

◆ “Reverend Father” Coughlin goes Fascist. He might as well. He goes everything. His latest proposal is abandonment of the American form of government, and a Fascist system of representation in which the members of the House of Representatives would be elected according to class, as in Italy. Thus cotton farmers, steel workers, coal miners, doctors, industrialists in each branch of industry, and all other classes, would incorporate and choose their own representatives. People are easier to control “a la chessboard”. Divide the country up into such classes (as it was in the Dark Ages, with its various guilds), and all that is necessary is to secretly control the leaders. Can you guess who would do the controlling? See Italy, Germany, Spain.

A Courageous Michigan Judge

◆ A courageous Michigan judge, Malcolm Hatfield, tried to live for a week on the $2 allowance for a man and his wife granted to the out-of-works in his state. The couple had oatmeal and condensed milk for breakfast, a few vegetables and bread and butter for other meals, and 15 cents worth of Hamburger for the Sunday dinner. At the conclusion the judge was half starved, and indignant, and wants members of Congress to try this for a week and see how they like it.

Detroit Edison’s Tax Bill

◆ The Detroit Edison Company has a huge tax bill; it runs from around $7,000,000 to nearly $8,000,000 a year. But for fear some may be too much distressed over these large sums turned in to the public treasury, attention should also be drawn to the fact that the net profits, after taxes and all other expenses are paid, is in the immediate neighborhood of $10,000,000 a year, and sometimes more than that.

Give the Elephant a Chance

◆ In Milwaukee, lovers of other life than their own are indignant that a pet elephant, Venus, is confined there in a space so small that she cannot lift her head and so narrow that she has injured her trunk beating it in a vain effort to free herself. Why act like Hitler or Stalin!

The Great Southwest

Imported from Europe in 1918

◆ I grew up before this "ordering-the-other-fellow's-attitude" idiocy began; yet I have never saluted the flag, pulled off my hat when strutting fellows, soldiers or high-school kids passed with it; nor have I ever taken any care to place the stamp on my envelope face rightly placed, because neither the flag nor stamp to me is anything more than a symbol: the meaning of that thing is couched within my own heart, and unless I make some overt move against one or the other, no one has any right to question how I stand, pose, or deport my body in the presence of either.

You know that it is un-American for school board or legislature to attempt to question a child's loyalty, or even an adult's loyalty, to his government, or to set up a test of his loyalty. I never took an oath to love, uphold or support my government, its constitution or its laws; yet I do. I never took an oath to stand, sit, wear a hat, or strip in the presence of flag, governor, or even president. Why? Because there is no authority on earth that has the right to administer that oath, regardless of what half-baked legislation may set forth. A servant cannot require an oath of his master. The citizen is the master, and, until he offers to become the people's servant by accepting some office, he may walk as seemeth best to him and manifest his love for his flag and his country by silent composure, or by boisterously shouting his loyalty.

All this un-American flag-saluting idiocy, this demanding that the other fellow take orders from me and salute a flag when I said so, or not, all this "compelling people to look, act and talk like patriots", came back from Europe in 1918, and has been a stench in the nostrils of true Americans.—S. W. Adams, in the Tyler, Texas, Courier-Times-Telegraph.

St. Louis Feeds the Fish

◆ At 40c per ton St. Louis grinds its garbage to pulp and ejects it into the Mississippi, there to feed luxuriously the gars, carp and channel catfish that are waiting for it. The fish grace St. Louis tables. Their bones, heads, fins, scales, feathers and whatever else they have go back into the garbage, when the merry-go-round starts all over again. The only one out of luck is the poor fish that gets caught. And, at present, that is the way of life.

Potatoes in the Slough

◆ An episode has just occurred at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, that will doubtless appear in the same footnote to history with the slaughter of the little pigs.

A shipment of Idaho potatoes, about 7,500 pounds, arrived at Poplar Bluff, for relief distribution by the Surplus Commodity Corporation, a Federal agency. The district supervisor said they failed to pass inspection, and the State supervisor ordered them thrown into the slough. Word got around, and soon scores of persons were on the scene, salvaging the potatoes from the muck and ooze of the swamp. "I've never seen finer ones in my life," said one of the salvagers.

Distributing surplus foodstuffs to the needy is a fine idea; certainly a far better idea than limiting production in order to keep prices high. But inspection standards for such surplus foods need not be those of a grocer catering to a clientele of epicures. The result in this case, as in that of the celebrated little pigs, was that a product acceptable for human consumption was thrown away. In this instance, however, potential consumers found out in time to rescue the discards from the slough and dine heartily on mashed potatoes, hashed brown, German fries and potato soup in spite of the official edict.—St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Bankrupt Cardin

◆ The population of Cardin, Oklahoma, in 1930 was 2,640. Expecting to continue to grow, the city installed expensive waterworks and sewage, but the population shrank to only a few hundred and the town has been compelled to vote to disincorporate to free itself of its burdens. It will have many successors in bankruptcy. Wait a little and see.

And Never Got an Idea

◆ A dispatch from Scranton, Kansas, tells that in the Methodist church there 72 readers began reading at Matthew 1:1 and read steadily down to the last verse of Revelation in 15-minute turns. The show began at 3:00 a.m. and ended at 9:00 p.m. The only reasonably sure thing in connection with the exercise is that nobody learned a thing in the eighteen hours. They were reading, not thinking.

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path — Swallowtails

JANE, have you ever paid any attention to butterflies?"

"Quite often, Sally.

'All day I watched a butterfly

That flitted through my garden,

Sipping from the sweetest flowers

And never asking pardon.' "

"I like that, Jane. And I like butterflies. I often think, 'Beauty is its own excuse for being'; so that is reason enough for butterflies.

"I suppose all of us have watched the airy, graceful flight and noticed the gay beauty of our butterfly friends. Who would care to think of sweet flowers, summer fields, and sunlit afternoons without our lovely butterflies to dip and dance and flutter through it all?"

"Yes, they are beautiful. But they have another use, Sally. They are true and valuable helpers. Watch this great yellow and black fellow drifting lazily across the garden. Doesn't he remind you of a living sunbeam?"

"He's a gorgeous thing, Jane!"

"There! he has settled on the weigela just beside us, nodding a little, dipping up and down. From between his eyes he has uncurled a funny little spring and is thrusting it deep into the pink throat of the flower. If we could see that spring greatly enlarged, we would find that it is a hollow tube. Through this tube, or proboscis, the butterfly drinks the sweet nectar of the flower. When he has finished his feast, the tube rolls up again and is almost completely hidden from sight."

"Do Luna and Cecropia and the other moths get nectar from the same kind of flowers?"

"Those moths never eat anything. They have no digestive systems, but live on food already stored in their bodies."

"I think that's wonderful, Jane! Ah, the butterfly is flying away."

"Yes, but not far. The brilliant four-o'clocks have attracted him. As he tries to reach the delicious nectar, his barbed feet brush across the stamens of the flower; and upon flying away he carries with him on those little barbs some yellow pollen which is the life of the flower. This process is repeated with each visit, but each time he not only gathers new pollen on his feet, but scrapes off into the blossom some of the golden dust belonging to another flower. This is just what is needed to make seeds grow and develop and produce new plants."

"Why, the dear little fellow! Isn't that nice of him—to help give us flowers, I mean."

"Of course, our little winged friend is not at all concerned about that. He doesn't even know what a help he is to us. All he cares about is the sweet liquid which he must have to keep alive. It is the provision of the Creator that he should be helpful as well as beautiful."

"How marvelously God has arranged everything! It is unbelievable that anyone could doubt His existence."

"And the more you learn of these creations, the more impressed you will be with the greatness and sweep of them. Look, now. The butterfly is lifting his lovely wings. He rises high and higher above the trees, and is gone."

"What is his name?"

"Tiger Swallowtail. A strange but very fitting name. Did you notice the two long tail-like pieces on his hindwings? They remind one very much of the two parts into which the tail of our swallow bird is divided; therefore the name."

"Are there any other butterflies with tails like that?"

"Yes, there are quite a few different kinds of swallowtails. One, called the Pipe-vine Swallowtail, has a blue or green luster on the hindwings—a shimmery sheen like hidden lights on metallic paint. There are a few light, crescent-shaped spots near the 'tails'. The forewings are soft and dark and velvety. There is no other color except a slight edging of yellow on both sets of wings. The under side of the forewings has a touch of yellow, while the hindwings are brightly spotted with orange."

"Jane!" came a boy's voice from up the road, "Mom wants you!"

"Oh, that's Buddy. I'll have to go."

"When will you be back? I'm really beginning to get interested in the names of butterflies."

"Jane! Mom wants you, Mom wants you, Mom—"

"All right," Jane laughed, "I'm coming! I'll see you a little later, Sally."

"Don't forget. Good-bye, Jane."—Contributed.

President's Advisory Committee

PUBLIC-MINDED school teachers at Atlantic City were well heated mentally at the proposal of the President’s Advisory Committee to extend federal aid to parochial schools. This division of tax receipts along religious lines was tried out in both Australia and Ontario, and abandoned because of the immediate and endless strife and disorder resulting therefrom. In Ontario the religious gangsters, after obtaining control of their pro-rata share of the tax receipts, insisted also on pro-rata share of dividends of industrial companies along the same lines and for the same objectives. With that the Ontario government figuratively threw up its hands and said the law must be abandoned or the entire province would be involved in anarchy. If the President’s Advisory Committee learned nothing from the experiments in Australia and Ontario, how would it do for them to spend a few minutes thinking about the effort the founders of America made to keep church and state separate and apart in this land? Or maybe they do not like to think of such things. And, further, if one set of gangsters or racketeers can get a percentage of the taxes for the maintenance of schools which will teach their particular form of racketeering, all can see that there is nothing whatever to restrain the 210 other sects from doing the same thing, and the public schools must perish and a Mexico or Spain be the outcome. Indeed, that is what the religious gangsters most desire.

Excelsior!

The Roosevelt "Recession"

◆ What is the government doing about it? According to the big business authorities, there is only one thing for the government to do, and the president, now thoroughly chastened and tamed, is doing it. He is going to stop frightening business men and hurting their feelings. He is going to reduce their taxes and make it possible for them to put people back to work. All the government credit agencies, such as the RFC, are going to lend money to business men, big and little, that the business men can start producing goods and hiring labor. Once more the old Hoover gag; the one method that Hoover had for ending the depression, and which he started applying at the beginning of 1930 and continued to apply until the beginning of 1933—during all of which period business conditions took one plunge after another into the abyss.

What else is there to do? Nothing else that President Roosevelt can think of except to go back to the “pump-priming”. For practical purposes, this might just as well be achieved by taking a billion dollars in cash every now and then and throwing it off the roofs of the office buildings in all the cities and towns of America. This money would be picked up by anybody who could grab it; he would immediately take it to some store and spend it, and before night it would be in some bank, and next morning it would arrive by air mail in one of the big Wall Street banks—all ready for President Roosevelt to borrow it once more and ship it out to be scattered from the roofs of the office buildings again. That is, in effect, what has been going on for five years. The method is so obviously futile that the New Dealers hesitate to start it again; and so profits grow scarcer and jobs the same, and more and more people are slowly starving to death in this richest country of the world.—Upton Sinclair, in Epic News.

Three Great Decisions

THE United States Supreme Court handed down three great decisions this week.

Alma Lovell, a minister of the Jehovah’s witnesses sect, distributed religious pamphlets in Griffin, Ga. She was sentenced to 50 days in jail for violating a city ordinance against distribution of literature of any kind without written permission from the City Manager.

But Alma Lovell will not have to go to jail. She can go ahead and distribute her pamphlets. For the Supreme Court denounced that city ordinance as setting up a “system of license and censorship in its baldest form”. The Court said:

“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”

The second decision makes it clear that the “liberty of peaceful picketing” is not a special privilege for labor unions, but a right belonging to any citizen or any organization involved in an employment dispute.

A District of Columbia Federal Court enjoined an organization called the New Negro Alliance from picketing a grocery which was alleged to discriminate against Negroes in employing workers. The grocery contended, and the lower court ruled, that it was a racial rather than a labor dispute, hence not covered by the Norris-La Guardia Anti-injunction Act.

Back to primaries

The Supreme Court held that the Anti-injunction Act “does not concern itself with the background or motives of the dispute”, but guarantees all persons interested in employment conditions “liberty to advertise and disseminate facts and information with respect to terms and conditions of employment, and peacefully to persuade others to concur in their views respecting an employer’s practices.”

There was another blow in defense of civil liberties and equality of protection by laws.

The third decision makes it clear that even fifteen billion dollars’ worth of corporate wealth and power cannot command a special privilege.

It was the celebrated Electric Bond & Share cases—a test case involving the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

The issue was whether holding companies which control public utility operations in various states, and whose relationships with investors and customers cross state lines, could be compelled to make public statements of their corporate and financial setups. Congress had passed a law requiring such holding companies to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of the companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against the law, and after it was passed refused to comply with it.

But the efforts of the lobbyists and lawyers have come to nothing. The Supreme Court held that they must register. The law-defying majority of these holding companies must follow the lead of the law-observing minority. The freebooting era is passing into history.

Decisions like these justify the people’s confidence in our democratic processes—processes which safeguard the precious liberties of a free people and at the same time uphold the power of the Government to make the mightiest financial combinations obey the people’s laws.—Indianapolis Times.

Birds and Insects

Flight of Wild Geese

This mighty bird army, which winters along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, becomes restive in the early half of March, lured by the age-old enticements of the higher latitudes of the North. At a favorable time in the latter part of the month the flocks take to the air and commence the long flight to Canada along the Mississippi flyway. Noisy advances and enforced halts mark the northward flight, as the weather may be fickle and backward with belated snowstorms, but finally, with the appearance of real spring, and very often on a strong south wind, the army of migrants sweeps into Manitoba by the hundreds of thousands.

The average date of arrival is about the end of the first week of April, and a few days of ideal weather conditions are sufficient to bring the birds to the Manitoba feeding grounds in maximum numbers. This total is unknown and probably always will be, but is commonly referred to as running into the millions. Some of the greatest concentrations of geese occur within a few miles of Winnipeg, and prodigious numbers are to be seen in the lowlands about Grant's Lake and near Rosser, Marquette, Grosse Isle and Woodlands. Frequently tens of thousands of mixed snow and blue geese come together in a single locality, and at such times acres of ground are covered white as with drifted snow. The springtime halt in Manitoba lasts for about one month, during which period the geese feed and recuperate after the long flight from the Gulf of Mexico. Then, depending on seasonal conditions, the flocks depart in late April or early May for the nesting grounds in the Arctic regions.

The Biggest Eater of All

◆ The biggest eater of all is the common house spider that consumes twenty-five times its own weight every day in insects. On the same basis a man would gorge himself to the extent of about 1 1/2 tons of food a day.

Bees Migrate South

◆ New York bees, 300 colonies of them, migrated south in the fall of 1937, to spend the winter in Florida. They went by truck. They work all winter in the season when Florida bees are idle.

Globe-trotting Birds

◆ The powers of endurance displayed by large numbers of North American birds on their lengthy migratory journeys is amazing, but there is one species that outrivals them all. This is the Arctic tern, aptly referred to as "the champion globe-trotter and long-distance flier of the bird world". The species is well named, as its range is circumpolar and it nests over the Arctic land as far north as suitable conditions can be found. When the young are well-grown the Canadian and Greenland terns disappear from their breeding grounds and a few months later may be found even as far away as Africa. In fact, the longest flight on record for an individual bird was achieved by an Arctic tern that in three months flew from the coast of Labrador to the Niger river in western Africa.

The journey of the terns is believed to follow a route touching upon the west coasts of Spain and Africa, and on the return trip northward individuals are known to fly along the east coast of South America. The route indicated for this bird is altogether unique, as no other species is known to breed abundantly in North America and to traverse the Atlantic ocean to or from the Old World. These globe-trotting birds travel many thousands of miles and touch on four continents in the course of a year.

How Birds Spread Fires

◆ Now that the artists working for the tobacco trust have gotten almost the entire United States to smoking cigarettes, fires, so it is found, are being caused by birds which pick up stubs and carry them, while still alight, to roofs and other places where conflagrations follow as a matter of course. The birds know no more than the smokers, nor have they any more regard for the rights of the non-smokers. Cigarette-smoking is now a national nuisance.

New Method of Collecting Eider Down

◆ The old method of collecting eider down from the nests of eider ducks rapidly reduced the number of ducks, and thus the enterprise killed itself. Since 1933 the nests are robbed more skillfully, the ducks replace the stolen material, and the net result is a very high proportion of successful nestings and a steady increase in the number of eider ducks.

Invention

At Three Thousand Miles

◆ The new 200-inch telescope will be installed shortly at Mount Palomar, between San Diego and Pasadena. If this telescope could be trained on New York city, the observer looking at a building at that distance would be able to tell whether it was a one-story or a two-story structure. By the same calculation the moon will be eighty miles away. The new telescope, with this lens 16 feet 8 inches across, is costing $6,000,000. It will be carried to its destination on a road 20 miles long which is being specially constructed for the purpose. It will disclose what lies at a distance of 1,200,000,000 light-years. The telescope itself will be 70 feet long, and will require 800 tons of rotating machinery to operate it. It took a year for the lens to cool, and over two years have been spent in grinding and polishing it.

The Average Man in 25 Years

◆ G. Edward Pendray, assistant to the president of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, in an address to 500 members of the New York Railroad Club, predicted that in twenty-five years the average man may be getting his food from soilless farms, wearing clothing made from spun glass, and occupying a home lighted, heated, cooled, humidified and cleaned automatically the year round by electricity. His library may be a few small films, the size of a watch, read with the aid of a projecting machine smaller than a typewriter. His weather reports will come from regular rocket soundings of the upper atmosphere. His European mail may come by rocket. All these inventions are now either available or well under way.

Machine for Clearing Brushland

◆ It used to be that one good man could clear an acre of mesquite brushland in one week; but he had to be 'a mighty good man'. Then tractors were used for pulling out trees, and three acres a day could be cleared, using one machine and eight men. Drag lines were next used, clearing three acres a day. Then a tree-dozer was used, clearing eighteen acres a day with one man, and now the improved machine clears, grubs, and plows from eight to ten acres a day under the operation of one skilled worker. A neat windrow of trunks and branches is left in its wake.

The Art of Slicing Rock

◆ In the laboratory of the Geological Survey rock can be sliced to a thickness of only one-thousandth of an inch. Slicers Frank Reed and John Merger learned the art from a naturalized Dane, who in turn learned it in Norway. The first step is to take a bit of rock and grind it smooth on a wheel. Then the smooth face is cemented to a glass slide. Next the other side is ground to the required thickness of a thousandth of an inch. Under the microscope the slice is a fairyland of brilliant hues and intricate patterns. Some 4,000 rock specimens are thus prepared every year. From them it is possible to determine the mineral content. Away goes the old hit-and-miss method.—New York Times.

Tuf-Flex Glass

◆ The claim is made for Tuf-flex, a glass made by the Libby-Owens-Ford Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, that a three-ton elephant stood on a suspended pane of such glass, less than an inch thick, without breaking it. It can be bent or twisted, and does not shatter when placed on a cake of ice and deluged with a stream of molten lead. It can be made of any color, and the makers envisage structures requiring only a washcloth to keep them always lustrous and new. It is evident that glass is bound to come into much more general use, for fabrics, buildings and for many other human needs, than at present.

Flies Like Rough Paper

◆ A Pennsylvania inventor, noticing that flies prefer to walk on rough paper, and that they are invited by some colors and repelled by others, invented a new kind of fly paper which has rough sections, smooth sections, colored sections and adhesive sections. The fly is attracted by a color, he seeks a rough path, and it leads to the end of his career.

New Method of Depositing Gold

◆ By a new method of depositing gold, a lady's hand mirror six inches in diameter was covered with gold at a cost of only one-eighth of a penny. Pure gold films are, by this process, actually more easily produced than those of silver.

The Northwest Convention of Jehovah's witnesses

MANY of our readers have requested that we publish more complete reports of conventions of Jehovah's witnesses. That such conventions are important is readily conceded. It is further conceded that news-channels do not give adequate publicity to them, being apparently agreed that this must not be done. Consolation has heretofore given considerable space to news about such conventions, but it has not seemed advisable to omit too many of the regular features of the magazine and to give to convention news what might to some readers appear to be a disproportionate amount of space. The difficulty is solved in the case of the Northwest Convention of Jehovah's witnesses by the publication of a special report, and which will appear as a supplement to this issue of Consolation.

The Northwest convention was outstanding in many respects. It was the largest convention of Jehovah's witnesses ever held in that part of the United States. Conventioners came from all the states, though the Northwest was most heavily represented.

Jehovah's witnesses come to conventions, not as "delegates", but as personal representatives of Jehovah's organization, each meeting his own expenses and contributing his share of co-operative effort to the success of the convention. No distance is too great for them to travel, even though in many cases the journey must be made with a house-car or trailer. The business of the witnesses is to publish the truth concerning the King and the kingdom of Jehovah, and a convention serves to accomplish that object.

In addition to affording an opportunity of widely advertising or publishing the gospel of the Kingdom, in obedience to Matthew 24:14 and other Scriptural instructions, a convention of Jehovah's witnesses is an occasion of together considering timely Bible truths that enable the witnesses to keep abreast of events by the light that divine prophecy sheds upon them.

A widely advertised lecture by Judge Rutherford, one of Jehovah's witnesses and president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, is always a feature of a general convention. In the case of the lecture "VIOLENCE", the climax of the Northwest convention, over 1,000,000 announcements were personally delivered by the witnesses to the people of Seattle and of the territory fifty miles in every direction from that center. Additionally, a special Western chain of radio stations, carrying the message to the inhabitants of the West, was given wide publicity.

Further means of advertising the lecture consisted of signs on cars. In passing mention may be made of the fact that members of the Knights of Columbus took license numbers of cars bearing signs, ostensibly to send them Catholic literature, but more as a covert threat of that violence exposed in the lecture. Jehovah's witnesses could not forbear a smile at this gesture.

Newspapers are sometimes employed, but only sometimes. Frequently the editors and owners are so white-livered that they are afraid to give publicity to such a truth-telling group as Jehovah's witnesses have proved to be. Truth is dangerous to those whose chief claim to fame is their personal conviction that they've got to live. That notion is open to argument. At any rate, the truth is considered of little importance to "newspapers" moved by that sentiment.

The supplement will give Consolation readers all the vital information that the newspapers failed to publish. The truth will be made known, and Consolation is glad to give special attention to giving the public the facts which they have a right to know.

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