Consolation, September 21, 1938

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Contents

Vaccination and Vivisection 3

"Death in the Pot" 7

The Serumization of Humanity

Points for Thinking People 8

The Doctor's Daughter 8

Oslo and Baltic States 9

"Nature's Own Food Metal" (?) 10

The New Government

A "Strange Work" 12

Aviation 15

Labor 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Pure Worship 17

Protestantism 18

Under the Totalitarian Flag

From Forgotten Women 20

Catholic Press Betrays Its Terror 20

California 23

New York 24

Apple Pie—Cover Design 24

By Trail and Stream and Garden

Path—More Butterfly Friends 27

British Comment

Author of the League 28

Index to Volume XIX of Consolation 30

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A Fish Story [Sad British Joke]

■ A man went fishing, and in his catch there was one outstanding fish. It was such a fine specimen that the fisherman kept it for a pet. The man and the fish became very fond of each other, and the fish used to follow the man around just like a dog. Wherever the man went the fish was sure to go, bounding along the dusty roads or skipping down the main street of the town.

Years went by, and then one day the two companions were strolling across the fields. They came to a creek which was bridged by a log. The man stepped across the log and the fish followed. But the fish was overcome by a sudden fit of dizziness and disgust at the sight of water. He fell off the log into the creek, and in spite of all the man could do, the poor fish was drowned.—Tit-Bits.

A Dirty Story [British Joke]

■ This story is about a little girl who was invited to a party of another little girl. So her mother washed her and scrubbed her. Then she dressed her in her newly laundered white dress and, while tying on the pink sash, the mother, who was very strict in raising her children right, smacked the little girl for being fidgety and then cautioned her. "If you dirty this nice, clean dress," she said, "I'll kill you." So the little girl went to the party and had ice cream and cake and jello and played games. And when she got home she was all dirty. And her mother killed her.

Imported British Joke

■ The Rev. Mathews had been a guest with his family at Eph Jackson's farm and liked the place except for the fact that the maid was untidy and the pigsty was too close to the dining-room, so that he could not enjoy the unadulterated flavor of the fresh farm food. Upon receipt of Eph's letter asking whether the rooms of last year be reserved, the reverend gentleman frankly gave Eph the reason for his reluctance to spend his vacation on that otherwise excellent farm. By return mail the Rev. Mathews received Eph's reassuring reply. "Dear Doctor," he wrote, "Mary has went and we ain't had no hogs on the farm since you was here last summer."

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 21, 1938 Number 498

Vaccination and Vivisection

I HAVE thought many times, of all the insane things that we have advocated in medicine, that is one of the most insane—to insist on the vaccination of children or anybody else, for the prevention of smallpox, when, as a matter of fact, we are never able to prove that vaccination saved one man from smallpox. Naturally not. When you have protected anybody, as we denote protection in medicine, you have at the same time destroyed your evidence. If that man doesn't take the disease against which he is supposed to be protected, how can you ever know he would have taken it if he hadn't been protected? We have destroyed the evidence.

As a matter of fact, perhaps it is safe to say that not more than 10 percent of the people ever would take smallpox if sleeping in the same bed with an infected smallpox victim. We know there is a large immunity to smallpox. Very few people are subject to it, and these usually in the filthiest surroundings. Now if we carry that natural immunity to smallpox as we do to other diseases, and we have been protected by vaccination and then we are exposed to smallpox and don't take it, don't you see there is no proof there? We may be carrying a natural immunity. If one case that has been successfully vaccinated afterwards develops smallpox, that is proof that it isn't protection; now, isn't it?

How to Get Smallpox

I know of one epidemic of smallpox, comprising 900 and some cases, in which 95 percent of the infected had been vaccinated, and most of them recently. I have had in my own experience one very small epidemic comprising 33 cases of which 29 had vaccination histories and a good scar, and some of them vaccinated within the last year. There was no protection there.

Among these was one girl who was not vaccinated, never had been, who had five cases of smallpox in the family, nursed those cases that were ill, a baby among the others, the worst case of smallpox among them, refused vaccination and was never infected at all—a natural immunity.

What is true of smallpox is true of every other disease. We are not all equally subject to all the diseases that occur. We know that without thinking. An epidemic of influenza sweeps over the country. Why doesn't everyone have it? The germ, if it is a germ, and we don't know that it is, is ubiquitous. They are everywhere. You can't hide from them. And yet perhaps but 10 percent of the population of any region will be infected. What protects the 90 percent? Natural immunity.

We may have natural immunity this year and we may not have it next year, but we can't create it artificially by using a so-called "immune serum". As I say, when we do use an immune serum we have destroyed every possibility of using that case as evidence, because we have no way of knowing whether it would ever have been infected.

Not Many Can Get Diphtheria

We have always recognized the fact that but 15 percent of children are subject to diphtheria, no matter how thoroughly they are exposed. Statistics of every epidemic of diphtheria in every section of the country, if averaged, will show that average, with 85 percent who are not infected. We have taken diphtheria antitoxin, we have used toxin-antitoxin and toxoid, and if we found a susceptibility or reaction to this, we have immunized that case against diphtheria by a series of three injections of anti-diphtheritic serum. We have to admit 15 percent of the children are still unprotected, because they take diphtheria. Isn't that the same 15 percent? We have no way of proving it isn't.

A number of years ago when we were just beginning to study diphtheria antitoxin minutely, Cook County, Illinois, hospital decided to immunize one-half of the nursing staff and not the other half. Diphtheria broke out soon afterwards among the immunized cases, not the others. It invaded both halves, both the immunized and the unimmunized, and the total of cases was much higher among the supposedly immunized cases than among those not immunized. We didn't do much for those nurses.

When we took over the management of the Philippines and all of its destinies, we announced to the bloomin' cockeyed world we were going to clean up smallpox in the Philippines. Well, we waited a few years, but we did make a serious effort. In fact, in a population of 10,000,000 people we consummated 30,000,000 vaccinations within a period of six years. The province of Rizal, of which Manila was the center, was the most accessible, of course; the little rascals couldn't get away there, we could catch them, and did, and some of them were vaccinated three and four and five and six times in the six years. We were going to make it thorough. In Mindanao and some of the other more outlying provinces, more mountainous, we couldn't catch the little rascals, so there was a smaller percentage of vaccinations in the outlying districts. Rizal had to take it.

Results in the Philippines

◆ Within six years of that time the Philippines suffered the worst attack of smallpox, the worst epidemic three times over, that had ever occurred in the history of the Islands, and it was almost three times as fatal. The death rate ran as high as 60 percent in certain areas where formerly it had been 10 percent and 15 percent, and the thing that climaxed the whole point was this: In Rizal we had the highest incidence and the highest mortality of any part of the Archipelago. The Navy reported that vaccination of the sailors went on as regularly as drill: every so often they were vaccinated; but they had their usual percentage of smallpox; and yet they were protected!

Now we are asking in many states to have the privilege of deciding whether we will be vaccinated or not. No one wishes to deny his brother the privilege of being vaccinated if he has any faith in it, but here is the ridiculous thing about it: The ones who are objecting to abolishing the law and who are insisting on vaccination are the ones who are afraid that they will take smallpox if their brothers are not vaccinated. Now if you are vaccinated, you are protected, aren't you? What are you afraid of? Suppose your next-door neighbor does get smallpox because he was not vaccinated; that is his business; he has a right to have smallpox if he wants to; he can't give it to you if you have been vaccinated, so what are you worrying about? Let him do as he pleases. That is all we are asking; we are not asking that they forbid vaccination. Let everyone have what he wants, but let us not compel those to have vaccination who know there is nothing in it, who know it is not a protection.

How to Get and Stay Sick

It is now thirty years since I have been confining myself to the treatment of chronic diseases. During those thirty years I have run against so many histories of little children who had never seen a sick day until they were vaccinated and who in the several years that have followed have never seen a well day since. I couldn't put my finger on the disease they have. They just weren't strong. Their resistance was gone. They were perfectly well before they were vaccinated. They have never been well since. Now you can't record those as deaths from vaccination, because they are still alive; but in England, where statistics are a little more frank than they are with us, where they are kept a little more accurately, a little more aboveboard than in this country, the actual official records show three times as many deaths directly from vaccinations as from smallpox for the last twenty-one years. If they record three times as many deaths, I will guarantee you that there are three times that many that were not recorded that are directly traceable to vaccination. That doesn't take into account the many, many cases of encephalitis or sleeping sickness, of this or that form of degeneration, that occur as a direct result of vaccination. That case is still alive. It hasn't entered here the mortality records yet, but it is suffering and has suffered ever since vaccination.

And if you had been dealing, as I have, with the derelicts from all over the world for thirty years, you would find an almost fatal relationship between this history of vaccination and some failing that follows this for many years that has kept a person from being as well as he should have been.

It is nonsense to think that you can inject pus—and it is usually from the pustule of the dead smallpox victim; that is the basis of it; we used to think it was from cowpox, but the manufacturers deny that and say the most reliable form originates in the pustule of someone who has died from smallpox—it is unthinkable that you can inject that into a little child and in any way improve its health.

There Is No Immunization

What is true of vaccination is exactly as true of all forms of "serum-immunization", so called. There is no such thing as immunization, but we sell it under that name—immunization. We jab a needle full of pus germ, we will say the streptococcus, for instance, in attenuated form so it won't pollute too badly, and we increase the dose or potency of that little by little until we build up what we call "a resistance to it". You can do the same thing with the rattlesnake venom. You can be bitten just a little by a rattlesnake and not die, and if you are bitten often enough, you can be bitten in a vital part and not die; you have built up a resistance to the venom of the rattlesnake, but have you improved your physique by doing so? If we could by any means build up a natural resistance to disease through these artificial means, I would applaud it to the echo; but we can't do it. The body has its own methods of defense. These depend on the vitality of the body at the time. If it is vital enough it will resist all infections; if it isn't vital enough, it won't; and you can't change the vitality of the body for the better by introducing poison of any kind into it.

I don't like to discuss the cruelties of vivisection. I think you can all visualize those. Don't let any laboratory mislead you by saying these experiments are done under an anesthetic. Their own recital of their experiments proves that an anesthetic could not have been used in most of the cases, because they are of such a nature that the animal has to be under observation in a mutilated condition sometimes for weeks, until it dies. It can't live under the anesthetic. That is a matter for a very few minutes.

Insanities of Vivisection

Aside from the horrible cruelties that the thing entails, I have not been able to discover in thirty years of painful and careful search one thing of practical utility that has been adduced in all this time from vivisection. To be sure, we have learned much of the processes of the animal, but after we have learned the utmost of the animal's processes we still have only the processes of the animal. We are not sure they are very closely related to those of the human. But if they paralleled the human reactions exactly, what has this led to in the way of curative treatment? Our results are exactly zero, and always will be.

I can hear somebody objecting to insulin. They say, "Hasn't insulin benefited diabetes?" Why, of course; of course it has, but has it prolonged the life of the diabetic? As Al Smith says, let us look at the record. Diabetes has been on a percentage increase ever since we knew what diabetes is. That rate of increase has been maintained in exactly the same ratio since we introduced insulin as before. We have not prolonged the life of the diabetic. We have allowed him to carry on in a little better flesh, a little better strength, but acidosis or starvation gets him in the end just as surely, and at about the time he would have died otherwise. This must necessarily be true or we would show a decline in mortality in diabetes; and we do not. There is a percentage increase every year.

Of course, we have those occasional cases that die from insulin shock or hyperglycemia. We have over-insulinized the patient and he goes out through quick collapse. If we get busy, open a vein and introduce glucose or pour some orange juice into him quickly, sometimes we can get him out of that shock, and sometimes we can't. So we have those occasional accidents that have swelled our total mortality statistics by a little.

I cannot think of one thing of practical utility that has evolved from all of our years of crucifixion of 500,000 dogs a year. If it is a cruel practice, and if there is nothing but inutility behind it, if it can't show anything of real importance looking toward the improvement in health or the lengthening of life, then in heaven's name why do we maintain it? I suppose it is safe to say that not one percent of the vivisection that is done today would be classed as useful research. It is admitted that 90 percent of it is for demonstration only — demonstration to medical students. It is impressive, but not very instructive. When going through lectures many, many years ago, we paid very little attention to the work of the physiological laboratory; it was of academic interest but we didn't attend it very regularly. We saw the dogs crucified without anesthetics. It wasn't pleasant, and the result was nothing that left a good impression behind or any useful information whatever.

The Work of Fiends

I just want to tell you of one experiment that seems to me one of the most cruel things I ever heard of. A dog's side was opened and the heart was pulled out into the wound where it could be manipulated. A clamp was put on the coronary artery so that when they pulled a wire, they shut off the circulation in the artery. The dog couldn't tell there was pain there, but he cried. That is evidence that he was in great pain. Every time they would pull the string and shut off the blood, the dog would cry. What did that prove? It proved just what we have always known, that there is a type of angina that is caused by interference with the coronary circulation. We knew it before. What did that teach? Post-mortem showed us in death from angina we usually found an embolized artery—the artery was plugged with a clot. It dilated rapidly and usually ruptured—angina.

Now from all this experimenting, from this intimate study of the mechanism of angina, what has developed? Can we do anything for angina today that they couldn't do when Noah was a small boy? If there is anything done for it, I don't know it. We use the nitrates to give relief from the pain; we dilate the arteries and it eases up the tension and there is a little less pain for an hour or two; and then we do it over again. That doesn't cure anything. In the back of our heads all the time is that death certificate. We know here is a case of angina; we don't know why he had it; we may know it is an embolism, but we don't know why the embolism occurred. We don't know what to do to prevent another embolism, and we can't do anything to clear up this one; so we wait with very dismal forebodings for the next attack.

That is not very constructive treatment, and since we mutilated these dogs we haven't been able to do any more to relieve angina than before. That is merely an illustration of what research leads us to through vivisection. That is only one illustration. Vivisection has been entirely impractical as far as any benefit to the human race is concerned.

There is a great hue and cry every time a bill is presented making for the abolishment or even a marked restriction of the cruelties of vivisection. The vivisectors want a free hand; they want to be able to decide what manner of experiment they perform and be their own judges as to whether an anesthetic shall be used or not, and they want the snooping public completely excluded from their laboratories. They have that. They have the permission to do certain experiments. They presume to do many others for which they were not granted permission, and they are rather naive, I think, when they recite at great length many other experiments that they were not supposed to have performed; but there is their record in black and white.

The result of that is that when a bill is introduced asking for the abolishment of vivisection, the most eminent men in medicine are rounded up and hurled into that committee meeting to recite the wonderful achievements of research. I wish I knew what they were. I have never seen them, and I believe I have been a rather close student of research.

Cowards Always Fear Truth

A few years ago, when a bill was offered to Congress—I don't remember its number or its name, but it was for the abolishment of vivisection of dogs in the District—it had great difficulty getting through the House Committee. The friends became rather impatient and they presented an identical bill before the Senate. This was heard in full committee. I had appeared at the re-hearing before the Congressional committee, but there was nobody there to give me any argument. This was a hearing of the proponents. The opponents were heard later. I felt that I was wasting time. When they asked me to go down for the hearing before the Senate Committee I telegraphed back: "I have hitherto wasted time. Have the heads of the three laboratories of Washington present or I won't go down."

Well, they were present and their personnel with them. They packed the committee room. There I had them on the other side of the table. Senator Capper was presiding. I asked permission to allow these men to stop me and heckle me and demand proof of everything that I said, and I promised that the proof would be forthcoming. I told the truth without gloves and there wasn't one of these men that peeped. If I had said anything that he could have challenged, wouldn't he have been on his feet instantly?

Unfortunately, the Senate rose before that bill was reported. It didn't even reach consideration in the committee; the house bill was reported out favorably, but it never will be heard on the floor; it never will be discussed. It is always blocked whenever anyone proposes to bring it up, and it always will be. There is a powerful medical lobby that looks after that. They don't want the facts of vivisection to get before the public. They will not discuss them in public.

I have appeared several times before in public addresses on this subject, and at each one of these it was advertised as a debate between some member of the county society or the academy of medicine of the city and myself. I always knew it would not be a debate, and it never was. Always, every man invited to present the other side had a perfectly good alibi. He never came. They don't dare debate the subject before the public.—William Howard Hay, M.D., in an address at Washington, D. C.

Tortures in Urbana, Illinois

◆ Drs. P. S. Shurrager and E. A. Culler, of the University of Illinois, Urbana, reported that they split a living dog into three parts by severing the dog's spinal cord in two places; then they tortured the separated parts by electrical shocks. The great discovery that they made was that when they shocked the dog's tail it caused the dog's paw to move, because the two were connected by nerves through a section of the severed spine. The dog was kept alive artificially so that he could enjoy the tortures, or at least so the doctors could.

Vivisection in Britain

◆ In the year 1936 considerably over eight hundred thousand experiments were performed on living animals in this country. (The animals used in such experiments are dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and others.)

Of the above-mentioned experiments only thirty-six thousand are stated to have been performed with anesthetics, and in over two-thirds of these latter the animal, after a severe cutting operation, was allowed to recover consciousness.

With regard to the enormous number of experiments without any anesthetics, the vivisectors' own descriptions show that many of these involve great pain. The Government Inspector before a Royal Commission admitted in so many words that this is so.

The public has little conception of the dreadful procedures coldly recorded from time to time in the scientific journals. Here, to give just one example (from the Lancet, September 19, 1931), is a case of monkeys being driven mad, so that they "bit themselves severely, two chewing off the end of a finger and one the whole skin of the forearm." Many of the most severe experiments are done on dogs and cats.—National Anti-Vivisection Society of London.

"Death in the Pot"

A determined and capable scientist can pack a lot of information in a 48-page book, as is shown in Death in the Pot, by Harold W. Keens (C. W. Daniel Co., Limited, London, 2/6 net). As a young man Mr. Keens developed tuberculosis; this made him a scientist and for the past ten years he has spent his time and fortune on cancer research, carrying out his tests on his own body. In this book, which contains his latest findings, he establishes a connection between cancer and allied diseases and inorganic chemical substances, aluminum in particular, and tracks down these diseases to the very food we eat and the water we drink; much of our vegetable produce is rendered poisonous through treatment by sprays, artificial manures and soil dressings with a high content of aluminum and other chemical substances; the water draining through the land is similarly affected. Examination of diseased plants reveals growths corresponding to cancer in the human body. (See also Consolation No. 485.) The Serumization of Humanity

Points for Thinking People

In 1904, Professor F. Blochmann, a noted zoologist of Tubingen, published a work raising the question whether vaccination was surrounded with adequate safeguards. Blochmann (although himself not primarily engaged with medicine) was sufficiently broadminded to appreciate, when his own son had lost an eye as the result of accidental vaccination, that the problem involved did not relate to the wisdom of vaccinating, but rather to the question of sufficient care in vaccinating. In his research, covering the period from 1880 to 1903, he found that in 140 cases of vaccinal infection, infectious material was conveyed by recently vaccinated children. In sixty-one cases the eyes were seriously involved, with severe disturbance or actual loss of vision in nine. In sixty-five cases, mothers were affected, and unvaccinated children in twenty. In nineteen cases of this group of children in which eczema was present, vaccinia became widespread and death resulted in five. In one case ulcerative keratitis occurred, ending fatally.—New York State Journal of Medicine.

Ten Deaths from Lockjaw

◆ One doctor in Orlando, Florida, had ten deaths among his patients in four days after giving them shots of a cancer serum manufactured by the Biochemical Research Foundation of Philadelphia. Lockjaw constitutes one of the most terrible of deaths. This does not tend to make serums attractive.

"The Most Pre-disposing Cause"

◆ The most predisposing cause of cancer is infused into the blood by vaccination and revaccination. — Dr. Turnbull, cancer specialist, London, England.

William Dosh

◆ William Dosh is a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. He has imposed 66 jail sentences on John Marsh because the latter does not believe in vaccination. See Consolation No. 491.

Smells like religion

The Doctor's Daughter

She was a doctor's child, and he

Embraced the opportunity

From all disease to make her free

With absolute immunity.

“And first,” said he, “as I endorse

Prevention of diphtheria,

This anti-toxin from a horse

Should kill some bad bacteria.

“This vaccine virus from a cow

(And I endorse it fully)

Should help along, and anyhow

’Twill make the child feel ‘bully’.

“Of snake-bite serum just a touch;

We get it from a rabbit

Which we have bitten up so much

It really likes the habit.

“Some meningitis toxin, too,

Would better be injected;

A guinea pig we strain it through

To get it disinfected.

“Some various serums of my own

I’m rather sure will answer;

I make them for all troubles known,

From freckles up to cancer.”

Alas! Alas! for all his pains

The end was scarce desirous;

She soon had nothing in her veins

But various kinds of virus.

Part horse, part cow, part sheep, part goat;

Her laugh was half a whinny;

“Dear me,” said he, “she’s half a shoat

And badly mixed with guinea.

“A girl who bleats and chews a cud

Will never make a woman;

I’d better get some good clean blood

And make her partly human!”

—Edmund Vance Cooke, Dodge Pub. Co., N. Y.

Oslo and Baltic States

Estonia's New Constitution

◆ The new Constitution went into effect in January, 1938, with a brief time for full adjustment. Among its provisions are the following: All citizens are free before the law; there are no classes or class titles; the home is inviolable; freedom of conscience and of religious faith is guaranteed; the expression of thought by word of mouth, print, script, image and sculpture is free; there is no censorship with regard to printing; the family, being the basis of the existence and growth of the people as well as of national life, is under the protection of the State; educational instruction is compulsory for children of school age; work is the honor and duty of every able-bodied citizen; it is the right and duty of every citizen to find work for himself, and the State assists him in finding work; assisting a person in need is primarily the duty of the members of his family; the law organizes assistance for citizens in the case of old age, incapacity to work, or poverty, by social insurance or welfare work; persons refusing to work, those who neglect the duties of assisting members of their families, and vicious claimants for public assistance, may be taken under compulsory guardianship.—New York Times.

"Inclined to Tell Lies"

◆ For writing a psychological study of Hitler, in which he stated, as any other student of the mind must have done, that Hitler is inclined to tell lies, the Hollandish government fined Maurits Dekker £11. It feared his truthful statement might be offensive to the Terror that is spreading consternation in every land that borders upon the Reich.

Power of the Insane

◆ What a single demonized man can do to upset the equilibrium of a normally well-balanced people can be seen in Denmark's decision to expend $11,000,000 for war supplies, to offset the threat to peace caused by Hitler.

Few Catholics in Norway

◆ In Norway, out of a population of 2,881,605 (as of the year 1935) there are less than 3,000 Roman Catholics, or about one-tenth of one percent.

All About Hell

◆ It seems that Hell has a population of 1,465, no crime, no jail, no fire department, no wealthy men, no prize fights. It does have two big dances every week, it is peaceful in summer, cold in winter and easy to reach for $1.10 a round trip from Trondheim, Norway. So says its mayor, Lorentz Stenzie, visiting New York. In Norwegian the word "hell" means "slope", related to the English "hell" meaning a hole, that is, the grave.

A Means of Fighting Gas Attacks

◆ A practical means of fighting gas attacks was developed in Belgium, where the upward current of air formed by burning piles of logs lifted fogs and their poisonous gases 500 feet off the earth.

Reykjavik to Be Heated by Hot Water

◆ The entire city of Reykjavik, Iceland, will be heated by hot water from the volcanic hot springs of Reykir, near the city. A British firm will lay the pipes that will carry the hot water through every house.

At the North Cape

◆ At North cape, Norway, the sun rises on May 12 and remains in sight until August 1. At Tromso, Norway, it rises on May 18 and shines until July 25.

A mountain pass in Norway. See the white house just above the word "Ovre" at base.

--“Nature’s Own Food Metal” (?)

THERE is no question that there are infinitesimal quantities of aluminum in practically everything that grows. An excessive amount is found in rayless goldenrod or snakeroot. It has been found that when animals eat either of these two herbs they soon contract a disease known as “trembles”. If milk contains much of this poison it results in milk sickness. When food animals, like rabbits, are eaten, persons also become affected with trembles, a paralytic condition. The animals themselves become diseased with the eating of the herbs, contracting trembles. The symptom—they are unable to use their hind legs.

We now have a new disease known as radium poisoning. It was discovered that radium could be used on watch and clock dials to make them luminous in the dark. The workers were affected with a disease that caused them to lose their power of locomotion, sort of a semi-paralytic condition. In a short time they were unable to move hand or foot. They had to be cared for as infants. Twenty of those working for the U. S. Radium Corporation of New Jersey have already died, and the others are simply hopeless.

Now a new case has occurred at the Ottawa, Ill., factory. Eight of these have died, and the others are condemned to a living death of paralysis known as radium poisoning.

There are many persons who have been given another luminous metal, called mercury, for the treatment of various diseases. When taken as a cathartic with something sour it eats out and destroys the peridental membrane (tissue surrounding the teeth), the patient having what is termed “salivation”, terminating in pyorrhea, focal infection—death. When taken internally for the treatment of syphilis the metal destroys the periosteum surrounding the joints. When this dissolves, locomotor ataxia is the name given to the disease.

Now we find aluminum belongs to this luminous class of metals. It has twice the potency of silver nitrate, and, therefore, has been chosen above that metal to be used upon the new million-dollar eye of the Mount Palomar Observatory. It sifts out many of the atmospheric rays which silver does not affect. It is also extensively used for boudoirs and other mirror purposes.

We find that aluminum has the distinction of also belonging to the heavy metal series which is soft and poisonous. Among these, we find it is similar to lead, bismuth, arsenic, zinc, tin, copper, etc. The quantities necessary for a lethal dose of lead poisoning is often so small it is unmeasurable. It is hard to believe that anyone would suggest that arsenic is not poisonous. We certainly know that verdigris will form on copper when in contact with acetic acid, sufficient to cause death within 24 hours. Zinc poison is said to be so harmful that government warnings have been issued that galvanized pails should not be used in connection with milk on the farms.

Aluminum belongs to the series, also dissolves when in contact with all foods, as they contain both the acids and alkalis; both dissolve aluminum. When these particles enter the alimentary canal they come in contact with acids and peptic ferments of the body; consequently, we find, when they are in contact with these juices, various poisons are produced, such as aluminum acetate, aluminum muriate, aluminum sulphate, aluminum chlorate. These are the principal chemicals used by morticians for embalming the dead.

Aluminum, having a high potency, is known as a catalytic agent, being used by sugar refineries to produce the crystals known as white granulated sugar. When it comes in contact with the juices in the gall bladder or kidneys the little crystals formed produce what is known as bodies, gallstones, kidney stones, etc. Many go to the physician regularly to have their gall bladder drained, something unknown twenty-five years ago.

The general health of the nation is such that the government itself has become alarmed. The department of health claims that our illness bill per annum now reaches ten billion dollars; that approximately 3 percent of our population is totally incapacitated; that 90 percent of adults need medical care; 80 percent of our school children are undernourished and need medical and dental care; that we are now operating five billion dollars’ worth of hospitals at a cost of three million dollars per day; that an average of one out of each twelve persons spends an average of ten days per annum in some hospital. Such a condition was unknown before aluminum cooking utensils were placed in our homes.

Large federations of women’s clubs are now for the first time becoming wide awake as to the danger of aluminum. Why should this metal be accepted as non-poisonous when all others are in the oxide form when ingested? This should not be just because someone makes money from its sale.—Dr. C. T. Betts, Ohio.

Husbands, Foxes and Mothers

◆ My husband has had pains in his side and stomach for several years, could not put on any weight, his complexion was yellow and he was always complaining of pains here and there. We discarded aluminum, after much thought and consideration, and to our surprise he added 15 pounds weight, which he so much needed, and his face is as pink as you could ask for.

We fed our foxes in pretty, shiny aluminum dishes. Their eyes became all pasted up. They seemed to be heading for death. We called several veterinarians, paying $15 to the last one; he could not say why the foxes were ill. Moon blindness, distemper and wrong diet were offered as explanations, but nothing was said about aluminum. I even had the foxes inoculated, at a cost of $10, all to no purpose. When I got your magazine I discarded all those pretty aluminum dishes. The eyes of the foxes became normal and their health perfect.

My husband's mother is very ill with stomach ulcers. These have eaten through the walls of her stomach, but she still insists on using the aluminum utensils which she has used for twenty years. I have warned her, but she persists; and what can one do if another persists in a course that is bringing them to the grave? I wish your magazine could be read by everybody.—Rose M. Grybosh, Massachusetts.

Doctor Betts Confirms This

◆ In the making of dental plates some of the rubbers forming the bases of vulcanite dentures are impregnated with aluminum metal flakes to supposedly enhance the appearance of the finished case and to make it stronger, as a gold-colored metallic-like finish is produced. My experience with this material has been that it very strongly tends to produce marked irritations of the mucous membrane upon which it rests and should never be used as a denture base; nor should any aluminum alloy denture, for that matter, and there are several such.—Irving L. Conover, New York.

Mnimosinon a la Cemetery

◆ Mnimosinon a la Cemetery is a dish of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. It consists of boiled wheat, chopped nuts, raisins, pastrami, sesame seeds and fine colored sugar. The mixture is all right of itself, but becomes "a la cemetery" by being prepared in an aluminum pot and left to stand therein. At least that is what was discovered at Fitchburg. Out of about 200 portions served to the congregation 157 were made seriously ill with what readers of Consolation merely call "aluminum poisoning", that being the correct name for it. In some instances there were eight to twelve cases for the doctors in a single family. Business was good, and the doctors cannot be blamed (perhaps) for failing to consider the aluminum angle. The more food that is cooked and stored in aluminum, the better the doctor business. However, there are honest physicians, and they tell their patients to dodge the cemetery goods. It is too bad the news did not get to Fitchburg yet.

Aluminum Dental Plate Did It

◆ Thirteen years ago my father, a well, healthy man, had his teeth removed and the dentist put in aluminum plates. Shortly afterwards a cancer appeared on his face; we removed it with radium; then he went stone blind. A year ago we thought he had prostate trouble. An operation was performed and his body was found full of cancer. Of course, nothing could be done; it was too late.—T. C. Broshears, Oreg.

Have Your Lungs Removed?

◆ The Toronto Star was told by J. J. Denny, a New York geologist, that one of the ways to prevent silicosis is to put aluminum dust in the lungs. Quite an idea. Still better way would be to remove every child's lungs the moment it is born and put a solid aluminum respirator in their place; also the child's blood might be drained off and serums or hot molasses or something put in its place.

Why the Silence?

◆ If the public press is the friend of the people, why is it that it remains silent as the grave over the hundreds of cases of aluminum poisoning? It takes some years and some patience to grasp the fact that the bigger the racket the better care it gets.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

A "Strange Work"

◆ It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses refuse to salute or serve flags and other images, tip hats to their women or buildings, because of the 1st and 2nd Commandments of God.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses are proclaiming God's name, Jehovah, in all the earth, that His name may be vindicated to all creation, proving Satan is a liar.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses are giving more glory to Jehovah God, the Creator, than to Christ Jesus, the Creature. They have no God but Jehovah.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses are proclaiming that Jesus Christ has come again and is setting up His kingdom in the earth in the midst of His enemies and breaking in pieces all the nations of this world.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses have separated themselves from all the religious denominations of the world.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses take a bold stand against religion and expose all religious doctrines as false and of the tradition and precepts of man, not of the Bible, but fathered by Satan.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses are hated by all the religious element, just as Jesus and the apostles were hated by the religious leaders and followers of the Jewish religion, yet the religionists profess to be of the same God.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses make this bold statement to all nations and peoples: That all present governments and religions of this world will perish for ever because of Jehovah's wrath, for they have broken the everlasting covenant, changed the ordinance and not kept the laws of God.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses gladly proclaim that the kingdom of Jehovah God under Christ Jesus is the only hope of this old sick, dying world and that the people of good will toward God may find comfort and safety and learn the purpose of Jehovah toward His people.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses go from door to door and house to house and use other means such as radio and phonograph with the Kingdom message and warning of Jehovah's vengeance, without a permit from man, and gladly face death, persecution, threats, and serve time in jail, that their fellow man may receive the truth and take his stand on Jehovah's side and live, or on the Devil's side and die.

It is strange, Jehovah's witnesses give all credit to Jehovah, that He, through Christ Jesus, is directing all their movements in their service of the Kingdom and that it is not the work of any man, but the fulfillment of the following prophecy: 'For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.' (Isaiah 28 : 21) 'Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, and assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.' (Zephaniah 3 : 8)— J. Winger, in the Jersey Observer.

Connecticut Returning to the Union

◆ Through action of municipal officials egged on by religionists the state of Connecticut has been well on the way towards a complete divorce from the principles of religious freedom and freedom of speech and press. There were 134 convictions of Jehovah's witnesses entered in police courts in a number of communities in a short space of time. Priests, Knights of Columbus, Irish cops, and prominent 'principals of the flocks', all joined in the effort to suppress and censor the book Enemies and the booklet Cure.

Appeals were taken from all of the 134 convictions. Of these appeals, 128 were in Hartford County, which is blessed with a state's attorney, Hugh M. Alcorn by name, who has a reputation for honesty, integrity and fearlessness second to none. Alcorn didn't approve the prosecutions, and entered a nolle prosequi as to each of the 128 cases. This included the case of Louis Garloni, divisional servant, who received a $25 fine for sending a letter of information to officials in the state.

Although in the past few months 212 of Jehovah's witnesses were placed under arrest in the state, to this date not one of them has paid a fine or spent a night in jail.

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers' office staff at branch headquarters at Oslo, Norway

Monessen Takes It with a Smile

◆ Monessen, where 146 of Jehovah's witnesses were packed in cells like cattle, welcomes civil liberty with acclaim and gladness. The Monessen Daily Independent says:

The sweeping civil liberties decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Jehovah's witnesses suit should be sufficient to satisfy those who have taken special interest in the persecution of members of this religious sect.

Monessen had a sad experience—it was costly, non-profitable, and held the city up to ridicule while it was going on. The United States Supreme Court ruled that to interfere with this sect in the distribution of literature in municipalities where ordinances were used to stop them, would be to strike a blow at the freedom of the press and free speech. The Court in its decision said that legislation of this type would restore the system of license and censorship in its baldest form. The Court added that press freedom was not confined to newspapers and periodicals, but other sources had the same rights under the law as newspapers.

The freedom of religion and the rights of all citizens under the American Constitution to worship as they see fit is a right that the courts have not yet abridged, and while occasionally it is necessary to put up a fight to sustain this Constitutional right, yet these opportunities come and it must be gratifying that the high courts continue to curb official acts of those who would place in the way an obstruction to free speech, free press, or freedom of religious convictions.

And thus the fresh air of freedom sends its soft and gentle breezes over the land. In the darkened Fascist areas of New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other places, Jehovah's witnesses now carry the Kingdom message to the people without much opposition by the strong-arm squads. Does this mean that the religionists have given up and are going to be good? It is doubtful. As soon as they can recover from the shock they will undoubtedly again incubate new charges in their vain attempts to stifle and smother the truth. They do not want liberty, except the liberty to prey upon the people, and must therefore receive proper education when the Lord Jehovah cleans up the mess in Armageddon.

Petition Massachusetts for Liberty

Parents of five children (Jehovah's witnesses) living in the state of Massachusetts petitioned the school committee of Sudbury Center, December 27, 1937, to reinstate the pupils in the public schools and thus restore freedom to worship Almighty God in Massachusetts. This necessity is enough to make the Pilgrim Fathers turn over in their graves. Warning the committee of its responsibility if it continues to deprive the children of God-fearing and patriotic parents of the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution, it said in part:

You will (thus) continue to besmirch and degrade the emblem of the Republic which you insist children shall revere. You will also continue to contradict the fundamental law of the Republic, as well as of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Instead you will uphold and strengthen the hands of those who are trying to enforce in this country pernicious and alien doctrines which now serve to grind in the dust millions of defenseless mortals in those modern Communistic and Fascistic states overseas.

Are You Listening?

◆ Not only has radio become a thing of great public interest, but it is definitely a household convenience and necessity. From early morning to late at night the radio is to the average home a center of contact with all phases of life. During the course of the day one hears much that is not worth hearing, but also some things that are of practical value. The most important thing anyone can hear anywhere at anytime is the good news that soon Jehovah's kingdom will for ever end the Devil's present evil world and bring the heart's desire of all honest people, to the vindication of His own great name. Many of the Lord's "other sheep" are hearing this message from the WATCHTOWER station WBBR, in Brooklyn. The noble purpose of this station stands as a fiery condemnation of all commercial radio that has no time for the Kingdom message. Are you listening?

In Terror of Death

In terror of death (which in his case, the Scriptures indicate, will most certainly and justly be eternal for what he has done to Jehovah's witnesses), Hitler took along his own cook on his trip to Italy, so that nobody would poison him.

A Vicious Woman's Malice Upset

◆ Nothing else on earth is so mean, so small, so vicious as a mean, small, vicious woman. In Texas a woman left her husband and child because both are Jehovah's witnesses. The woman married again, which was a godsend to her ex-husband, but she maneuvered a court decision that her charming and intelligent 12-year-old child should be taken away from her father and put in an institution. A higher court reversed the decision and gave the child back to her father. The woman in the case had sought to make capital out of the fact that the child put God above the flag. The judge of the higher court said:

. . . Does the admitted refusal of the father and daughter to salute the flag of the United States because they think such act manifests a reverence that would violate the religious creed upon their fidelity to which, they believe, depends their future salvation, furnish convincing proof? History is replete with the bigotry, intolerance and dogmatism of religious sects and the pages thereof are strewn with martyrs who died for their faith . . .

President Roosevelt's Prayer

In a letter read for him at a solemn high mass in the St. Patrick's cathedral, New York city, President Roosevelt said:

There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education. My prayer shall be that this nation, under God, may vindicate through all coming time the sanctity of the right of all within our borders to the free exercise of religion according to the dictate of conscience.

How any man could write a thing like that and refuse to answer Judge Rutherford's letter calling attention to over 1,000 cases of persecution of Jehovah's witnesses by the very organization that owns the cathedral in which his letter was read is something that only a politician could understand. While politicians continue to mouth glittering platitudes, their henchmen, the clergy, are absolutely intolerant.

Should Have, Been Ashamed

◆ After the deal he gave Jehovah's witnesses on their petitions, President Roosevelt should have been ashamed to write to the "Most Reverend" Francis J. L. Beckman, archbishop of Dubuque, that the insuring of freedom of worship constitutes one of the first obligations of a democratic government.

(To be continued) Aviation

Three and a Third Times as Fast

American railways now operate at the most rapid speed in their history; and they must, in order to stand up under the fierce competition of the airplanes. The United States postal department prints a list of 168 important places, all over the United States. The average time between Brooklyn and a representative point is 37 hours by rail and 11.1 hours by airplane, or 3.3 times as fast by plane as by rail. Samples: Brooklyn to San Diego by rail, 79 hours; by plane, 20 hours; Brooklyn to Seattle by rail, 78 hours; by plane, 22 hours. It is 2,843 miles from New York to San Diego and 2,875 miles from New York to Seattle. Average speed by rail, 36 miles per hour; by airplane, 120 miles per hour, but with greater speeds bound to come soon.

Record Diesel Flight

◆ Captain Hans von Engel made a record Diesel flight from the deck of a German steamship in the English Channel to Caravellas, Brazil. Many believe that the airplane fuel of the future will be crude oil and that Diesel engines will be so perfected that any other form of fuel would be sheer folly.

No More Flying Coffins

◆ After expending $50,000,000 on the Macon, Akron and Shenandoah, and getting, to show for it, nothing but rows of tombstones, the government decided not to invest in any more flying coffins; so the zeppelins, which at one time seemed to have considerable possibilities, now give way altogether to airplanes.

Free Travel for Wives

◆ Some of the air lines, to popularize air travel, have been giving free rides to wives when accompanying their husbands; and this noticeably added to the number of Americans enjoying the greatest trip of life.

Few Accidents on China Clippers

◆ It is quite remarkable that the China Clippers (weighing 82,500 pounds) had flown upward of 7,000,000 passenger miles without an accident before their loss of a plane near the Philippines.

A Thrilling Six Hours

◆ A thrilling six hours in the night was that of an airplane which left Newark, New Jersey, airport at 8:32 p.m., expecting to reach Washington, D. C., in about two hours. A very high wind came up and blew the plane around like a toy. After a six hours' fight to land at Camden, and later at Newark, the plane finally landed at Hartford, Connecticut, some 340 miles from its intended destination, and in the opposite direction. It was a wild night for the passengers, but nobody was hurt, except in their nerves.

Delayed Drop of Five Miles

◆ The French airman, James Williams, leaped from a plane at 27,550 feet, considerably over five miles, and dropped a little over five miles before he opened his parachute, at 1,046 feet above the ground. The drop occupied 2 minutes 20 seconds, and was made at the average speed of 134 miles per hour. He was able to breathe normally, move his arms and legs without difficulty, and by using his hands as fins was able to alter the course of his fall. It was merely a stunt, serving no good purpose.

Accidents to Airplane Buoys

◆ On their air lines to South Africa and India the British use buoys consisting of huge red rubber balls anchored to the bottom by steel chains. On Lake Victoria, in Africa, the natives used one of these for target practice and it was fished up full of spears and looking like a huge pincushion. In India the crocodiles ate holes in them at five of the stops.

The Douglas DC-4

The Douglas DC-4, the largest passenger land plane yet built, measures 139 feet from wing tip to wing tip, stands 24 feet high, and is 90 feet from nose to tail. The plane weighs 65,000 pounds and cost more than $1,500,000 to build.

24,000 Miles in Eleven Days

◆ Flying officer Clouston and Victor Ricketts made the 24,000 miles from Croydon airport, London, to New Zealand and return in three hours less than eleven days — a noteworthy record.

Labor

Strong-Arm Squad as Strikebreakers

◆ In the United States policemen carry guns. And twenty-four strikers have been killed this year by police—more than the whole police force of England, Scotland and Wales killed in the preservation of law and order in fifty years. English policemen do not carry guns. Yet English crowds are the most orderly in the world. In England there have been strikes for seventy-five years without a single death from violence.

Our industrial moguls, when faced by a strike, let out a yelp for police aid and, all too often, get it. This is sometimes re-enforced by the state guards of an obliging governor. (The taxpayers of Ohio must dig up $60,000 to pay state guard expenses in helping Tom Girdler break the strike in Little Steel.) Before the World War European countries did not consider strikebreaking a part of police duty. In the half century before the World War not as many strikers were killed by the police forces of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway and Sweden as were killed in the Memorial Day massacre by a small part of Chicago's police force. Workingmen in this country are paying a high price for the extracurricular activity of police forces.

What are the answers? That's for you to figure out.—The Railway Clerk.

Who Can Deny It?

◆ Westbrook Pegler, pointing out that one union demands $1,000 down for a job, $60 annual dues, a flat income tax of 3 percent on gross earnings, and a varying amount in special assessments, makes the following common-sense proposition, and who can deny that it is the truth?—

Intimidation, extortion, irresponsibility, graft and dictatorship must be eliminated if labor is to be any better off under the rule of the unioneer than under the oppression of bad employers.

Cuddly or Soft-Body Dolls

◆ Cuddly or soft-body dolls do not look so cute when you learn that some of the contractors for this line of Christmas goods pay their workers only 35c a gross for sewing them up, and on a home machine (and much of this work is done in homes) the worker can make only about one gross in an entire day.

Andrew Furuseth, Able Seaman

◆ Andrew Furuseth, able seaman, is dead at 84. He spent his entire life in ameliorating the condition of seamen, and knew more about the subject, and accomplished more, than any other authority. He had no family, traveled in the steerage, and when president of the International Seamen’s Union he refused to accept more than seaman's wages. When a judge in San Francisco threatened to send him to prison he replied in open court:

You cannot make me more lonely than I have always been. You cannot give me food worse than I have always had. My sleeping quarters will be no more cramped than they have been at any time.

For nineteen years this man lobbied in Congress for seamen's laws that are now on the statute books. He was an acknowledged authority on maritime law, was tall, gaunt and full of fire to make his life count for others.

Robot Bank Tellers Now

◆ Robot bank tellers are coming into use in New York and Philadelphia, so that those who have only checks to deposit need no longer stand in line to reach a teller's window. The depositor drops his deposit slip and his checks one at a time into the machine, which automatically takes photographs of every slip and check. At the close of the day the checks are taken out of the machine and entered to the depositor's credit.

Mighty Good News if True

◆ If it is true that the C.I.O. settlement with the Steel Trust was brought about because John L. Lewis, president of the C.I.O., and Thomas Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. (a subsidiary of the Steel Trust), were boyhood friends and worked together as miners when they were young men, then it is mighty good news. Seems like the America that used to be.

The Man with a Heart

◆ It is narrated that when the letters from the unemployed began to come in, letters which accompanied the reports of unemployment asked for by the government, one of the men was so disturbed at the horrors laid before him that the first day he tried to read and answer some of these pathetic communications he went home violently ill.

COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Pure Worship

IN ORDER to appreciate what constitutes pure worship, as defined in the Scriptures, the clear distinction between religion and Christianity must be made. Those who practice religion indulge in a form of worship whereby they appear to be pious, and which appearance is made manifest to be seen of men. One's appearance before men does not reach as high as God and receive His approval. The scribes and Pharisees were religionists and indulged in a form of worship, and concerning them Jesus said: "But all their works they do for to be seen of men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi."—Matthew 23:5-7.

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