Consolation, October 5, 1938

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Contents

Tuberculin Testing of Cows 3

Tobacco, Aspirin, Aluminum

Is Tobacco Harmful? 6

The Craving for Tobacco 7

Canada 8

Making a Monkey of the League 9

China and Japan 10

The New Government

Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship 12

Big Business

The Timid Souls 15

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Unspotted from the World 17

World's Greatest Convention 18

Foods—Canned Goods, Prune Pie, etc. 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag

The Pope as a Man of War 20

The Ruin of Ethiopia 23

Jews in Vienna Give Up Hope 24

Autumn Flowers 25

Religion 26

British Comment

The Scare of Pakefield 28

The Bishop and War 29

Bedtime—Cover Design 31

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Jokes from Britain

■ Guard: "Look here, sir, if this train is so jolly slow, you'd better get out and walk."

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■ Teacher: "Johnny, suppose you had ten apples and ten oranges and gave nine-tenths of them to some other boys, what would you have?"

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■ "Are you sure this man was drunk?" asked the magistrate.

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■ Excited young father: "Quick! Tell me! Is it a boy?"

Nurse: "Well, the one in the middle is." —Tit-Bits.

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CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 5, 1938 Number 497

Tuberculin Testing of Cows

EUGENE UNDERHILL, M.D., Philadelphia, in the leading article in the Homeopathic Recorder for October 15, 1924, says:

"In the study of the effect of cows’ milk upon children, we have had some reason to believe that milk from tuberculin-tested cows may not always be as good for children as milk from healthy cows not so tested."

He believes after long study of the subject that "the tuberculin testing of cows is not the panacea claimed, either for the purification of the milk supply or as an economic factor in establishing and preserving the health of the bovine".

A Factor in Spreading the Disease

He quotes Dr. Veranus A. Moore, dean of the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, as saying, "During the last ten years tuberculosis in cattle has been spreading"—"and this [says Dr. Underhill] in spite of the herculean efforts put forward along the tuberculin testing line. There is good reason for believing that the test itself may be a factor, if not the chief factor, in the spread of the disease."

Haze and Doubt

The literature advocating the test is filled with "haze and doubt", he notes, "especially in respect to its effectiveness, while the influence of the milk of the tuberculin-tested cows appears to have been overlooked altogether."

Dangerous to the Livestock Industry

As is well known, county agents and Government veterinarians sent out to sell the idea to farmers are enthusiastic and keen for its adoption, but when the Department of Agriculture sets down the case in cold black and white, damaging admissions are made. Circular No. 249 of the Department has this:

"In the hands of unscrupulous persons it is a danger to the livestock industry of the nation, because it is known that some animals may be so frequently treated with tuberculin as to establish a tolerance against its action, or, in other words, they lose their sensitiveness to its action."

Again the circular says:

"It is obvious that sound judgment and diplomacy on the part of the veterinarian are essential to success in testing animals with tuberculin."

In other words, unless the testers are "sound of judgment" and "diplomatic", the thing is here conceded a dead failure, observes Dr. Underhill.

Further Official Uncertainty

Three methods for applying the test are described in the circular mentioned; namely, the subcutaneous, the intradermic and the ophthalmic, and it adds:

"As has been stated, each method and each combination (of methods) has certain advantages, and there are times when one should be used in preference to another."

"When are the times, and who is to pick them out with certainty?" asks Dr. Underhill. More "diplomacy" is evidently required.

Circular 249 states that frequent testing of cows establishes a tolerance to tuberculin so that they do not react, resulting in leaving diseased cattle in the herd.

On the other hand, says the circular, animals may be erroneously classified as reactors "when a slight thermal disturbance may be due to other causes", and healthy animals are then condemned as diseased.

If the test may leave diseased cattle in the herd and throw out healthy animals, of what good is it?

Pure Guesswork

Other speculative doubts are contained in the circular, among them this:

"Sound judgment should be used in classifying animals, the previous history of the herd relative to infection being taken into consideration in classifying very small swellings. The ability to make these distinctions is by some called INTUITION." (Our caps.)

In the current vernacular, "hunch" in the mind of the veterinaries is a necessary part of this wonderful test.

Deliberate Official Trickery

is more than hinted at in the following from the same circular:

"Only such animals as have failed to give a typical reaction to the other two methods should be injected with subcutaneous tuberculin. This is because it has been shown in many instances that certain reactors to other tests used in combination do not react again when the subcutaneous test has been used as a check. Therefore, to avoid confusing the operator, and possibly the owner, as to the accuracy of tuberculin, its use is not advised upon known reactors."

Read that again and notice:

1. The animal is to be shot with tuberculin until she reacts. Do you get that? And all it means?

2. Don't let the owner see that the test is really NOT "accurate". Keep him dancing to the jig-time tune of a big bluff, or the farce may suddenly end.

Keep Owners Away from Post-Mortems

Owners are also to be kept at a safe distance from all post-mortem examinations, for the reason that in many cases no discoverable lesion of a tuberculous nature can be found.

Re-Testing Increases the Uncertainty

Although the Department of Agriculture advises retesting six months after the first test, and thereafter once a year, the Department's Farmers' Bulletin No. 1069 has this:

"Tuberculin by its immunizing property, can cause tuberculous animals to fail to respond to its application at another time."

Dr. Underhill comments: "If the cow is not sufficiently devitalized by the first few tests, the attempt should be made every year during her life. She may at any time develop tuberculosis, but it may not be discoverable by this test," owing to the tolerance produced in her system by the repeated injections of tuberculin. Of course, if tuberculin were a true preventive of the disease, reactors would not be found on re-tests.

Unreliable and Impossible

"The present scheme, therefore [says Dr. Underhill], for the elimination of tuberculosis among cattle is unreliable and impossible. It is a destructive and killing process. All reactors are headed for the slaughterhouse; the major portion of the carcasses to be used for human food—tuberculosis notwithstanding!"

Simply Dealing with Results

"The second and third tests [he continues] show more reactors in the same herd; they follow the course of the first lot. The process is kept up until either the entire herd is slaughtered or a few have been found that resist the effects of the test.

"This killing process is simply dealing with results. Whatever was operating to produce tuberculosis among cattle is still operating.

"It has been found that some animals that do not react may have tuberculosis in its worst form. The uncertainties surrounding the test are so many and so confusing as to nullify whatever diagnostic value it is supposed to have; whereas, its harmful effects are certain and the economic loss of tremendous proportions."

Some Doctors and Stockmen Summarized

"Interviews and wide correspondence with physicians, veterinarians and prominent dairymen bring forth observations which may be summarized as follows:

"1. Tuberculin testing of cows tends to devitalize the animal, and while she may possibly be rendered immune to tuberculosis, she is more susceptible to other diseases.

"2. The animals require better care to protect them from diseases of various kinds.

"3. The milk of such cows does not contain the life-giving elements which characterize the milk from healthy, non-tuberculin-tested cows.

"4. In many instances the test does not succeed.

"5. Some cows having tuberculosis, being immune to the test, do not react.

"6. There are many possible errors in technique which may nullify the reactions.

"7. Tuberculin testing does more harm than good.

"8. It is a political graft and merely gives occupation to large numbers of political job-holders.

"9. It is a nuisance and an unjustifiable expense to stockraisers and dairymen.

"10. Tuberculosis develops and spreads more on account of improper care and ventilation than it does by contact with tuberculous animals.

"11. Ventilation, cleanliness, and excluding from the herd cows that do not appear from ordinary signs to be healthy and productive, are of more value than all the tuberculin testing."

A Devitalizing Process

Dr. Underhill declares the test "may prove devitalizing and destructive to health in many subtle and unobserved ways".

He comments on the contention that tuberculin can do no harm because it is sterile, saying that any foreign substance made sterile and plunged into a cow's body and left there long enough will set up conditions that devitalize the cow and eventually contaminate the milk supply.

"The tuberculin-tested cow is something different—a departure from nature.

"Study the product, milk, rather than devitalize the producer."

Essentials Lost Sight Of

He then urges scrupulous cleanliness on the part of the milker and milk handler.

"Next would come a careful observation of each cow in the herd and isolation of those showing signs of indisposition or disease of any kind. A little training in bovine symptomatology would soon qualify any intelligent dairyman to eliminate undesirable animals. So much emphasis has been placed on tuberculin testing, the vital and essential things have been largely overlooked."

One-tenth of the energy and outlay, he thinks, rightly directed, would give us a healthy bovine stock, a superior milk supply, and a saving of what is now a staggering economic loss.

Planting Disease in the Cow

"It is well known," he states, "that a cow that does not react this year may react next year. May not the test have so lowered the vital resistance as to cause that reaction?

"Those not reacting may nevertheless have their physical powers so taxed in resisting the effects of the test as to impair their vitality. It is like planting an infectious disease in the cow. Tuberculin-tested cows require more care and better protection from the weather and other adverse conditions than healthy non-tested cows; it is therefore evident they have less resistance and consequently less vitality.

Affecting the Milk Supply

"Milk as a food for children is chiefly valuable on account of its reconstructive and vitalizing power. The cow cannot impart to her milk life-giving elements which she does not possess. If her physical powers are in any way impaired, the value of her product is correspondingly diminished.

"Any disease or circumstance that acts profoundly upon the human mother may not materially affect the nursing child. On the other hand, when the mother is not markedly affected, the child may be quite profoundly affected. As a general rule, when the mother suffers (from such adverse circumstance) the child escapes; when the mother escapes, the child suffers.

"When the cow, therefore, reacts, that is, suffers in her own body the effects of tuberculin-testing, she goes to the block. When she does not react, she to a large extent passes certain subtle and harmful effects on to her foster-children of the human race.

"The object of tuberculin-testing is to purify the milk supply, but did anyone ever purify a stream by poisoning its headwaters?"

Paying the Price

"If the cow reacts, she pays the price with her life; if she does not react, humanity pays the price with a vitiated, devitalized, disease-producing milk supply, which is a threat of disaster to every child brought into the world; and in that threat is the very disease which tuberculin is supposed to eradicate."—American Medical Liberty League, Inc.

[Consolation is glad to give space to the foregoing article and appreciates its sane and sound outlook. The Scriptures furnish evidence that milk is an important article of diet, including milk products, such as butter and cheese. It seems too bad that meddling human busybodies must contaminate and befoul everything that God has made before they consider it fit for the consumption of mankind. If such men limited their experiments to things they themselves eat and drink, one would feel less disposed to tell them to jump into the lake, but when they insist on foisting their crazy notions on all and sundry it is time somebody said and did something about it. Sound sanitary measures do not require the introduction of filth into the systems of either animals or humans.—Ed.] Tobacco, Aspirin, Aluminum

Is Tobacco Harmful?

◆ If tobacco in its various forms is harmful, why do we not read about the dangers of smoking, chewing and snuff-taking in our daily papers? Why were we not taught as children, and why are our children not taught today, that the use of tobacco in this way is not only detrimental to health, but degrading and disgusting, as well as conducive to the forming of other bad habits?

The answer to these questions is to be found in each issue of your newspaper. Tobacco merchants are, by their advertisements, among the chief supporters of the press and, as you know, or should know, the policy of our newspapers is dictated by their advertisers. A journal such as Consolation, however, has no advertisers to consider, and in the interests of its readers can and does publish the truth on subjects such as this.

Do you remember your first whiff? With a few other youngsters you met in secret to show one another what fine fellows you were. How you had been looking forward to the event! But what a disappointment! It was not as you expected. Your eyes smarted, an unpleasant odor assailed your nose, and your vision became clouded, not merely because of the smoke you were producing, but because your nerves had become unbalanced and the normal functions of your body had become disturbed. Your legs became weak and there was a buzzing sensation in your ears. But you were too busy attending to the protests of an outraged stomach to feel regretful. To have confessed the truth would have been a disgrace; so you, like the fool you were, repeated the performance. After so unpleasant an experience surely nobody but a fool would desire to acquire the vicious habit of smoking! But taunts and jeers are hard to bear, and after the second and third attempts the effects were not so noticeable. The system had an opportunity to tune itself up—to set up a defensive mechanism against this violation of its normal routine. By the time you were smoking your tenth cigarette you felt quite proud of your ability.

Modern athletics demand the very highest state of physical fitness, and almost without exception the use of tobacco is forbidden to athletes in training. Nicotine has the same properties as opium, morphine and heroin and, so far as is known, no athletic champion has used things like these to prepare him for the contest. Although the mental state of many is so low that they believe that certain cigarettes are "specially made to prevent sore throats", they have not, as yet, been asked to accept the statement that so-and-so's cigarettes guarantee endurance, are a lung tonic, or "build bonnie babies".

Nicotine exercises such a harmful influence on the nerves that it eventually prevents defensive reflexive action and the drug-laden smoke has easy access to the breathing and digestive tracts. The cells that compose the nerves are deadened to the point of paralysis, and, as there is no other agent to resist the tobacco fumes, the poison begins to accumulate where it will do the most harm. But apart from nicotine, which is the chief cause of the trouble, prussic acid, ammonia, sulphuric acid and benzol play their part in undermining the constitution; and from the burning paper of a cigarette carbon monoxide is produced. If an infinitesimal amount of nicotine is injected into the nerve which regulates the heart-beat, this nerve immediately becomes paralyzed and, since there is no check, cardiac action is greatly increased. The normal heart beats 72 times per minute; but under the influence of tobacco this rate increases to between 90 and 150, or even higher. Such violent action can have but one effect: the weakening of the organ and ultimate diseases.

Everybody knows the fatal potency of prussic acid; and the more slowly your cigarette burns, the more prussic acid it contains. Carbon monoxide affects particularly the red blood cells, preventing them from discharging their function of distributing oxygen throughout the body.

Nicotine is responsible for dyspepsia in various forms, disturbing the digestive system, causing loss of appetite and frequently resulting in serious loss of weight. Tobacco reduces resistance to infection, provokes hardening of the arteries, and may be a cause of tuberculosis, as bronchitis and chronic laryngitis, frequently forerunners of tuberculosis, are common among smokers.

The present writer has known several fatal cases of cancer on the tongue. In each instance the question was asked, "Did he smoke a pipe?" and the answer was the same in each case. This is not suggesting that nicotine was the direct cause of the cancer in each case, but that the irritation caused by the pipestem, particularly in the cases of cancer on the tongue, sowed the first seeds.

It is admitted that many smokers live to a ripe old age and that some of the Tyrolean Alpine guides, noted for their endurance and feats of skill, are incessant smokers. Such instances can, however, be well matched with cases of violent stomach disturbances and fatal cases of poisoning. Recently in London a young girl died as the result of smoking her first cigarette.

Physical organisms differ, and there is a grain of truth in the proverb, "What's one man's meat is another man's poison." Some people have even used aluminum for many years without noticing any ill effects; but these are rare exceptions. One thing, however, is certain: toxic influence is present when tobacco is used, and inability to resist disease is certain to be produced eventually.—James A. Williams, Lithuania.

The Craving for Tobacco

◆ When I was seventeen years of age I was engaged in cutting mining timber high up in the mountains of Colorado. During the winter the mountains were covered with snow and drifts twenty feet deep were frequently formed while the great snow storms were sweeping over the mountains. One cold night when the snow was more than knee-deep all over the landscape and in some places the great drifts covered even the tops of the smaller pine trees, I sat by a roaring fire reading. I was so interested in my book that I did not realize that it was nearly midnight, when I laid it aside and began to get ready for bed. The wind was rattling the doors and windows and piling the snow almost to the eaves on the north side, when I heard a knock at the door. "Come in," I called, and a young man who lived in a lonely cabin in the timber about a mile away came stamping in, brushing the snow off his clothing. His first words were: "Have you any tobacco?" and when I told him I did not use it, he smiled ruefully and said: "Then I must go down to Sunset, for I have got to have some." "What!" said I. "Are you going to walk four miles in a blizzard like this after midnight just to get some tobacco? Why, man, you are crazy. You will never get there alive. If you must have it, why don't you wait until morning when you can at least see your way and avoid the danger of slipping into an old prospect hole or an abandoned mine shaft?" "No, I can't wait," he replied. "I got out of tobacco about noon today and I thought I could wait until tomorrow, but I found myself craving it so strongly that I hunted through all my pockets and all over the house for any that might have been laid aside. I cut my pockets where I usually carry my tobacco and chewed the cloth because it tasted like tobacco. But that doesn't satisfy me. I have just got to have tobacco." Off he trudged in the middle of the night in a blizzard such as only the Rocky Mountains produce. At half past two in the morning he found his way into the little town of Sunset, awakened the storekeeper and secured some tobacco to satisfy the craving.—Howard O. Welter, California.

Illiteracy and the Cigarette Habit

◆ We in America are far behind what a national conscience should demand for the public protection of our children. There is no agency in the world today that is so seriously affecting the health, efficiency, education and character of boys and girls as the cigarette habit. Yet very little attention is being paid to it. Nearly every illiterate boy is a cigarette smoker, which certainly has much to do with it. Cigarettes are a source of crime. To neglect crime at its source is a shortsighted policy, unworthy of a nation of our intelligence.—Herbert Hoover, ex-president of the United States.

The Use of Aspirin

◆ The Current Medical Digest contains an article reporting proceedings of the Mayo clinic, and treating of the use of aspirin. It mentions that four deaths followed the use of this drug, with many cases of asthma arising from its use, and that the only remedy in treatment of cases affected by it is to let it entirely alone, not use it at all. This advice was previously given in these columns. Aspirin is a hidden component of many patent medicines.

How to Get a Stomach Ulcer

◆ The American College of Surgeons is of the opinion that one of the quickest ways to get an ulcer of the stomach is to indulge in a smoke before breakfast. Another way, not mentioned by the surgeons, is to have all one's food cooked in aluminum utensils.

Canada

Hepburn and the Hypocrites

Wrathy because he had been hounded to buy tickets for hundreds of church organization draws, and yet the churches had stood in the way of the Ontario government's controlling the operation of sweepstakes in Ontario, Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn, of that province, stirred Canada by saying:

I am not going to be led around by the nose by any minister. I want to say I don't think there are any greater hypocrites than these gentlemen.

Sir Charles Edward Saunders

◆ Sir Charles Edward Saunders, the Canadian wheat expert, who died recently at the age of 70, spent several years crossing and breeding varieties of wheat until at last, in 1903, he obtained a grain of Marquis wheat which matured in 110 days. Within ten years that discovery opened up vast reaches of Canada previously unsuited to wheat culture and has since resulted in the addition of hundreds of millions of dollars to the wealth of the world. The experiments which resulted in the discovery were made in a little garden patch in Ottawa.

Civilization Saved in Montreal

◆ Civilization, Hitler, Mussolini and the pope were all saved at one and the same time in Montreal when police officers bravely seized 700 copies of a paper called The Clarion, printed in Toronto, but intended for subscribers for the paper in Montreal. Just think of the bravery of the Quebec government and the awful courage of those police officers in picking up and holding all those pieces of paper. They might have had ideas in them. And what a dreadful thing, in Quebec, are ideas at such a time as this!

Niagara Falls, Canadian side

--Making a Monkey of the League

It cost Haile Selassie about $1,000 to make a monkey out of the League of Nations and parade Great Britain's monumental hypocrisy before the world. Probably he never expended any money out of which he got as much satisfaction. The money was sent to the League as part of Ethiopia's annual dues; and the League could not refuse it, for the reason that at that time Ethiopia was a legal member of the League.

British politicians would have liked Selassie to play dead. They made a deal with Italy to recognize the complete Italian conquest of a land that is less than half conquered, and did it to save their own hides from the Italians, and now Ethiopia shames them before the world. That is, it would shame them if they had any shame, but they have none, not a particle.

Some honest Britishers are now reminding mankind that it was the British government that withheld war supplies from Ethiopia during the months preceding the outbreak of the war, and that advised Ethiopia to rely on the protection of the League. Now the same government wants Italy declared complete conqueror of the land, when it is less than half subdued and is fighting bravely to uphold the principles of liberty which Britain professes to so much appreciate.

Who left the screen open?

Tarring the Hypocrites

◆ Justly tarring the hypocrites, Britain and France, so that everybody could see who were meant, the spokesman for Ethiopia at the League of Nations said:

International morality disappeared. This was done by the most powerful nations in the world—nations which at the same time proclaimed their attachment to the League Covenant. The League is digging its grave. Is it to end its own existence by tearing up the Covenant which is its sole reason for existence?

It must have been a tough job for even a professional hypocrite for Lord Halifax to stand up before the representatives of outraged Ethiopia, Spain and China and defend the British deal with Italy; but he did it, in typical British diplomat style.

Said the New York Times, the outstanding champion of the League in America:

In his defeat Haile Selassie tasted the revenge of giving the Council of the League a half hour of the most acute discomfort it has ever experienced. Ethiopia, dying, delivered the funeral oration at a death that was not hers alone.

The so-called "statesmen" of the world have proved to all men that there is no throat they would not cut, no home they would not despoil and no grave they would not rob in order to continue to feed uninterruptedly at the public trough. Because they have no principle they are directly responsible for the appalling butcheries in Ethiopia, Spain and China and the next on the list.

Politicians, with their accepted code that "might makes right", will find to their cost that ultimate might coincides with right and that He who sits in the heavens will not pass by unnoticed their time-serving and compromising course. There is a definite hope for the oppressed peoples of earth in the assurance of the Word of Truth that Jehovah shall break in pieces the oppressor. The time of judgment hastens, and even now the nations are being weighed in the balances. They are trembling on the brink of catastrophe, experiencing that "distress of nations, with perplexity" which Jesus foretold as marking the final end.

China and Japan

Army Officers Afraid of Their Jobs

Edward C. Carter, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations, in an address in San Francisco, declared that he was in Peiping and Tientsin at the very time Tokio papers were alleging the murder and beating of Japanese in those cities and that he personally saw many Japanese of both sexes going about entirely unmolested. His explanation of the war now in progress is that a large Japanese business mission had visited China and had returned to Japan with the rosiest prospects of possible Sino-Japanese co-operation, but for one thing: Japan must agree to withdraw its armed forces from North China. Thereupon certain young, arrogant and anarchistic Japanese officers stationed in North China, seeing their positions endangered by such prospects, deliberately planned and executed the coup which has already resulted in the murder of more than a million of their fellow creatures.

Textile Statistics

◆ Cotton mills in United States 1,200

Cotton mill workers in U.S.A. 500,000

Cotton imports from Japan,

yards, 1931 770,000

do. 1932 789,000

do. 1933 1,016,000

do. 1934 16,000,000

do. 1935 36,000,000

do. 1936 75,000,000

do. 1937 147,000,000

Wages paid American workers,

average, per week $16.00

Wages paid Japanese workers,

average, per week 1.32

Charged for meals, per day, in Japan .04

In the Matter of Shirttails

◆ The world is full of excitement today about shirttails. A few months ago it was Germany insisting that hereafter no man might sport a shirttail longer than 35 inches. Now the Japanese are furnishing shirts to the people of the Malay States with tails several yards long, so that, although the shirts are designed as one garment, the tails can be cut off and sold as piece goods. This device is to enable the Japanese to circumvent the quota restriction on piece goods into Malaysia.

Big Difference in Figures

◆ Showing how little dependence may be placed on war news, the following facts are cited. On February 23, 1938, Chinese reported that seventy Chinese planes had made a raid on the Japanese island of Formosa and destroyed forty Japanese planes, two hangars and a gasoline storage plant. The first Japanese report was that one airplane bombed the city but did no damage; the second said that one airplane dropped ten bombs but did no serious damage; the third said that Chinese airplanes caused several casualties. Take your choice. The next day Japanese dispatches said there were twelve Chinese planes in the raid.

Patriotic Gangsters in Japan

◆ Patriotic gangsters in Japan, the equivalent of Fascists or Nazis elsewhere, beat up Soh Abe, a retired professor 74 years old, who in the Japanese Diet had championed a bill which they did not approve. It took only four of these young men to beat up this old man of 74, and it is believed that, inspired by their particular brand of patriotism, they could have done it if he had been 100. In America the Ku Klux Klan specializes in this particular brand of patriotism, but the American Legion is good at it, too.

Fish Makes Japs Tough

◆ It is claimed, and with good apparent reason, that one reason that the Japanese soldiers can stand such tremendous exertions, marching 14 hours a day double quick, and fourteen days in a row, is that they so largely subsist on fish. Japan harvests and consumes one-fourth of all the fish taken annually in the entire world. Japan eats but little meat—in 1929 only 100,000 tons.

An Expensive Error

◆ The attack upon the U.S.S. Panay resulted in Uncle Sam’s sending Japan a bill for $1,945,670.01 for property losses and $268,337.35 for deaths and personal injuries. The total bill of $2,214,007.36 included no items of punitive damages.

500 Whales in One Day

◆ In one day Japanese fishermen caught 500 baby whales, worth $100 each. The whales swam into the mouth of the Tone river, near Tokio.

"Dixie Land"

Prayer Speeded Them Up

John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, in an address in 1930, explained how he used prayer to speed up the workers. He said:

I am proud to say that morning prayer exercises in my factory [in Tennessee] have had the finest economic effects. Workers are producing far more goods than before the prayer system started some years ago.

The WPA in Miami

◆ There are many people right here in Miami who are abundantly able to support themselves but drawing $75 per month and upward from the WPA—in some instances people who own homes which they rent out for the winter season for enough to keep themselves in comfort for a year, in addition to other sources of revenue. Getting on the WPA has become one of the high spots in the fine art of chiseling. —Schuyler C. Hodge, in Miami Herald.

Bullfrog Legs Galore

◆ It isn't only Hollywood legs that gets in the news. Now it is bullfrogs' legs, big ones, from Louisiana. The Germans, Japanese, Hawaiians and Brazilians have found that the giant bullfrog of Louisiana makes good eating, and now they are raising them for home consumption. A shipment of 300 frogs for breeding purposes was recently sent to Brazil.

Had Them Look in the Mirror

◆ At Daisy, Tennessee, the Reverend John Watkins, pastor of the First Methodist church, realizing that the jig is up, and he will now have to work the same as other folks, solemnly preached a funeral sermon for what he declared is a dead church. Then he had the members file past the coffin and take a look at the corpse. He had a mirror in the bottom of the box.

Nobody Arrested in Memphis

◆ In Memphis, Tennessee, Norman Smith, organizer for the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, was looking for members for his organization, as was his right. He was set upon, however, in plain view of many witnesses, and his head beaten with an iron hammer, without any interference by the police, or any arrests.

Flag Wavers

◆ Editor The Herald: Mr. Haines has this to say in your "Voice of the People": Children are expelled from schools for not saluting the flag because their parents with muddled brain taught them false ideas about religion.

Mr. Haines, did you ever hear of any of these muddled people visiting the booze or gambling joints that you mention? How many of them are in prison for speeding and drunken driving, for embezzlement or murder? I will venture to say that if any of these muddled-minded people should be elected to office some polite, hat-tipping, flag-saluting politician would proceed to remove him from office. Ever since the days of Christ's crucifixion those people who upheld the commandments of Almighty God have been called lunatics and muddlers.

Caiaphas and his Sanhedrin pronounced Christ a meddler and a peddler of sedition. These people you call muddle-minded people are not up to date because they lack speed, drunkenness, gambling, political racketeering and murder.

Probably these muddle-minds make our land just as safe as do those who have their minds released by booze, speed and politics and then cover their tracks with the American flag.

Whom would you prefer, the man who respects the flag but does not salute it, or the man who continually salutes the flag and then drags it through all kinds of dirt and degradation?—R. R. Doty, in Miami Herald.

TVA and Flood Control

◆ By regulating the flow of the Clinch river into the Tennessee the Norris dam is estimated to have saved $750,000 flood damage in Chattanooga in a single season, and probably $15,000,000 damage at Cairo, Illinois, in reducing the flood level six inches in the great flood in the early part of 1937.

Preacher Bayonets Himself

◆ At Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Reverend Herbert Morgan was preaching against war and using a bayonet to illustrate its horrors. He caught his foot in a rug, fell, and the bayonet went through his leg and he went to a hospital.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship

The steamship American Legion plies between New York and South America and has many Spanish in her crew. Spanish lecture records were run in the galley of this ship, and it was strange to hear the message thundering forth amidst the gleaming pots and pans while a group of dusky cooks and stewards bent over, drinking in every word. They eagerly took the literature and said they recognized it to be the truth. On this same ship the master-at-arms complained that someone had taken his Enemies book and had omitted to return it, and took another. It wasn't hard to find out what had happened to it—at least four different persons had read portions of that book and were ready for one of their own.

The steamship Boston carries many colored stewards and waiters, and these at first showed great hostility to the message. They didn't seem to be under the influence of religionists, so an effort was made to find out what was wrong. At last it came out that they deeply resented a white man's trying to show his "superiority" by coming to them in this way. I explained to the leader that Jehovah had made of one blood all men, to live in peace on the earth, and showed him the picture in the front of Riches, where a colored man is seen in the van of those who receive the blessings of the Kingdom. His attitude changed there and then, and he personally took me around to his friends and urged them to take the book. Five copies were left among them, and thus he had a share in passing on the message of truth.

Things do not always end in that happy way. One day I set forth to work the Manhattan, of the United States Lines. This line has a staff of uniformed detectives who patrol the piers and ships of the company. They had passed me on up the pier, and I had boarded the liner without mishap and had proceeded to leave a number of books and booklets in both English and German amongst the officers and crew. I found another detective cleaning his gun, and he said he had the Riches book in Spanish, and liked it very much and told me to go ahead. The ship was almost finished when still another detective hove in sight. He turned out to be the gangway man and, as I afterwards found out, an Irish Catholic. He became somewhat abusive and ordered me off. I pointed out to him that the watchman and members of his same organization had already passed me gladly; but it was just waste of breath. At the pier entrance the watchmen, customs officials and other detectives were extremely angry when they learned what had happened. One customs man said that this is the truth, and he wouldn't stand in the way of it for anything.

On the South American freighter Montosa a card game was in progress on deck. Thinking this was a good opportunity to let a group of men hear the message, I ran a Spanish record. They all listened very respectfully, squatting on the hot deck plates, and one took a combination in Spanish before returning to his game. The watchman at this pier made a passing reference to the present war in Spain, and from the books I was able to show him who really was at the bottom of that bloody massacre. This resulted in another Spanish combination.

On the Oriente, sister ship to the ill-fated Morro Castle, there was considerable interest among the engineers, and most took books. One of them told me that he had realized for some time that religion is a racket, but had never up to now heard of an organized campaign to show the thing up. He has promised to pass the news on to all his pals who are like-minded.

WITH THE NORSEMEN

The men of Norway and of Sweden have ever been known for their love of ocean travel, from the days of the Vikings, and before that, probably. They have produced some of the greatest explorers the world has ever known; even the name of this vast continent "America" is derived from the hardy Norse adventurer who first set foot on these shores. Usually tall, blond and blue-eyed, these peace-loving sons of the northland have set an example of active industry without bloodshed that could be followed with profit by many nations at the present time. Seeing the effect elsewhere of its political dabblings both nations have done their utmost to keep the Roman Hierarchy from getting a foothold in their fair lands.

They have succeeded in this more or less, but through the rise of the other religions the people have been kept in ignorance just the same.

It is always a joy to work on the ships of the Norwegian-American line. Their two big vessels, the Stavangerfjord and the Bergensfjord, carry each about 250 as crew. The new Oslofjord carries more than that. The former ships have been covered with the message of the Kingdom, and it is well received there. Not yet having records in Norwegian or Swedish, it is rather difficult to carry on a conversation regarding the work, as most of the men speak very little English and my Norwegian is very weak, although the recent purchase of a good grammar may help this along. Anyway, they are very courteous and want to know more about Jehovah and His kingdom.

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers; one of the boats used in the Australasian sector

One educated Norwegian expressed great surprise at the up-to-date spelling of the word Rikdom. It appears that such spelling is only just now going into general use in Norway, and he thought it strange that our literature should be among the pioneers in this. When he reads more he will realize that Jehovah not only is abreast of the present time, but is far ahead of His adversary the Devil, and indeed foretold in His Word, the Bible, the rise and fall of the present satanic organization.

The ships are spotlessly clean, and it is a sight to go into the galley and look up at the rows of shining metal teapots and jugs polished to the last degree, while the well-scrubbed tables bear great platters of crisp Scandinavian bread and sweet butter, with a large cheese here and there. There are now 23 books and 97 booklets on these two ships, and room for many more. They liked Cure in their own tongue very much.

The three Swedish-American liners Kungsholm, Drottningholm and Gripsholm were also visited during the recent Cure campaign, with a total of 13 books and 86 booklets, which will, no doubt, be read by hundreds more in the course of their travels. On the Gripsholm the crew acted very strangely and must have been warned beforehand by their religious leaders not to have anything to do with such "red propaganda", but the officers were quite different. In one cabin there were five of them, talking, and when one of their number read the testimony card in Swedish aloud to the rest they all willingly took bound books and expressed their amazement that one unable to speak their language should bring the message to them.

These ships have pure white hulls and yellow-and-blue funnels and make a pretty sight as they come up the bay. Clean and orderly as in the Norwegian boats the crew's cabins are full of views of Norway and Sweden and countless little souvenirs and ornaments that reflect the native spirit. After reading the card the men would usually break forth into a torrent of rapid Swedish. I would break in, "Jeg taler ikke svensk" ("I don't speak Swedish"), when they would stop and say "Nei?" ("No?") in a surprised tone that was really comical. After that it was all right. —Erie W. Symondson, New York.

The Voice from Watchtower

◆ Consolation readers, particularly in the New York metropolitan area served by Watchtower Radio WBBR, have for a number of years been delighted by radio programs of unusual interest and enlightenment. Not only are WBBR listeners dependably served with musical entertainment of the highest standard, but the station regularly features the world's foremost authority on Bible matters, Judge Rutherford, in KINGDOM INSTRUCTION. The station is unique in this service, for it has no competitors. Commercial stations are not interested in Jehovah's kingdom or the message pertaining to it.

KINGDOM INSTRUCTION is an educational feature dealing with the fundamentals of Jehovah's kingdom as outlined in the Scriptures and taught by Christ Jesus during His earthly ministry nineteen hundred years ago. In a world left utterly without hope by its rulers and so-called "spiritual guides", what could be of greater public interest, convenience and necessity than instruction in Jehovah's kingdom as the only hope of the world? This grand message is, then, so far as is possible under present conditions, quite fittingly framed by the highest standard of music attainable today. Because Consolation readers everywhere, and those within the area served by WBBR particularly, are keenly interested in this station, there are given below the hours daily that Watchtower WBBR is on the air.

Sunday 8:00-11:00 a.m.; 3:00- 8:00 p.m.

Monday 6:30- 7:00 a.m.; 10:00-12:00 a.m.

Tuesday 6:30- 7:00 a.m.; 10:00-12:00 a.m.; 6:00-8:00 p.m.

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Thursday " " "

Friday " " "

(Schedule is so set for the convenience of any who may wish to clip it for permanent reference)

Kingdom Privileges in the Near East (1)

◆ While waiting for my passport I happened to notice a Syrian Catholic priest—an old man, of about seventy-five years of age. I recognized him by his insignia, his beard and his general appearance. Because of the crowded condition of the steamer, he was unable to secure a room; so he spoke to me and asked me to talk to the purser and try to get accommodations for him, as he was old and in poor health. This I did, and was successful in getting him a room.

Pretending that I did not recognize his status, I asked him regarding his occupation and he told me he was surprised to learn that I spoke Arabic and was unable to identify him. But he plainly told me that he was a Catholic priest of the Maronite branch, which branch uses the Syriac instead of Latin when saying the mass.

He had been to Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and Africa, covering a period of three years, and he said he was sick and tired. I asked him if he did not think he was doing wrong to travel so far away from home to carry to the people doctrines which brought reproach and defamation upon Jehovah's name. He defended his stand, stating that the Roman Catholic church was the only church. However, he complained of the higher-ups' not treating him right; that he had to render a statement to them on how much money he collected and that he was required to give an account of every cent he spent, and, above all, he had to give a certain percentage to the Jesuit branch for propagating their scheme of destroying every established government on earth. That gave me an opportunity to give him a witness regarding the Kingdom, and, by the Lord's grace, it seemed to touch his heart. We talked about hell, purgatory, the fundamental doctrines, immortality of the soul, and many other interesting subjects. I told him that if man had an immortal soul it would not have been necessary for Jesus to die and redeem the human race from death. That perplexed him, and he had to admit that he could not harmonize the Bible and believe this falsehood of human immortality.

He then opened up and told me that his brother's son had married S——'s niece and that when calling at S——'s home, in Lebanon, he had often seen Watch Tower publications there, and he admitted he had read them and found no fault with them. After a few days I found that this man really had a pure heart even though he had been nursing from the bosom of the harlot (Revelation 17:1) for over fifty years. I placed (the book) Riches with him, as well as Uncovered, Protection, and Armageddon. He read them with much interest and came back requesting more literature, stating his willingness to contribute for same. I had no more literature, so he took my name and address in Lebanon and wrote me on several different occasions, inviting me to come to his home. He further told me that he was going to free himself from the yoke of that devilish organization.—J. E. Rahal.

(To be continued) Big Business

The Timid Souls

Unless modern capitalism destroys the old feudalism, capitalism itself will be destroyed.

In Hungary 2 percent of the farm population own as much land as the other 98 percent. The old feudal barons—1,444 of them—own 36 percent of the land. (Pasvolsky, 1928, Brookings Inst.)

And if these 750,000 Caspar Milquetoasts read our own declaration of independence and throw out with violence these feudal lords, all of us, in the middle and higher brackets, will call them Communists.

However, we need not worry, as Hitler, with the approval of the present feudal-minded Government of England, will save them.

Rumania, because it has broken up the large estates and therefore "is tending towards Communism", must also be "saved" by Hitler, but he will find no Caspar Milquetoasts among these peasants, who will fight for their land and freedom.

The violent seizure of land by the "red" peasants in China should, but probably will not, stimulate decent people in all lands to demand land reform. (Read Red Star Over China.)

Today, the Foreign Policy Association in anticipating the victory of Franco points out that "to raise its masses from the poverty level it must increase agricultural production, which almost inevitably involves some measure of agrarian reform", which is exactly what the loyalists are fighting for.

Also today, Tinkham of Massachusetts says that Mexico has become a Communistic state because it is endeavoring to institute land reforms which will divide up the million-acre estates of the old Spanish grandees, not forgetting those of our own feudal barons.

He should have listened to Bruce Barton who—in effect—advocated a higher tax for land not used for production. A debate between these two Republicans would be educational.

Two years ago, Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Those who care for democracy should be more concerned with ending land tenancy in this country . . . and welcoming a vigorous, responsible trade unionism."

The Irish, trying first with peaceful means, then compelled to use violent ones, have finally regained their land and freedom.

Do the decent peoples of the world need a house with a thousand walls with the historical "handwriting" on each wall to come to their senses?—Clarence C. Marder, in New York Post.

Stealing from the Poor

◆ Careful studies in New York city show that two out of three grocery stores, delicatessens and meat shops are as crooked as America's greatest financiers. Short-weighting of customers, and especially of the very poor, who can least afford it, results in an average annual loss to each housewife of $54.

Rise and Fall of American Business Activity Since 1790 Pictured in Statistical Record

The seesaw of American prosperity (From Free Economy, the Way Out, San Antonio, Texas)

--Birds and Bees

Speed of Birds

The duck hawk (ancient peregrine falcon) is believed to be the most powerful flier in the world, and has been timed at speeds of 165 to 180 miles per hour. The golden eagle has been clocked at a speed of 120 miles an hour in Scotland. The canvasback duck can do better than 70 miles per hour, and has been timed at 72, while the American golden plover and the European plover can also touch 70. The teal is another fast one, having been clocked at 68; the pintail duck is next, with a speed of 65; and then the mallard, with 60. Other birds that have been clocked at 60 are crows, pheasants and Canada geese. Quail, it is argued, can "run" from 12 to 15 miles per hour.—New York Times.

Stingless Bees Not Stingless

◆ It seems that the stingless bees, which may be put on one's head, or even in the mouth, without any fireworks, draw the line at being squeezed. At an exhibition of such bees at Philadelphia a four-year-old child tried the squeezing operation and got stung good and hard. Some of earth's biggest surprises have come to those imposing on the peaceable, and thinking they could do it without limit.

Migration a Great Strain on Birds

◆ Travelers in Venezuela and other southern countries have noted great numbers of dead North American songbirds in the tropics in late fall. They seem worn out by their long journey from the north, and too thin and exhausted to enjoy their food.

Dressing Their Own Wounds

◆ The woodcock, partridge and some other birds apparently dress their own wounds, using as a dressing down plucked from the stems of feathers and arranging it over the wound, often forming a solid plaster.

Waiting for breakfast

--COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Unspotted from the World

AS PREVIOUSLY quoted from James 1:27 the Syriac Version says: "For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world."

World properly defined, according to the Scriptures, is the people of earth under the power and rule of an invisible overlord. God created Adam the first man perfect and placed him under the supervision or rule of Lucifer, who was made the invisible overlord of the world. Lucifer rebelled and turned man to rebellion against God. Because of his rebellion God took away the name Lucifer and gave him four names, each of which describes that wicked one. His name Satan means opposer of God; his name Serpent means deceiver of men; his name Dragon means that wicked one who attempts to devour all who do right in serving God; and his name Devil means slanderer of God and all that are trying to obey Him. Because the Devil challenged God to put on this earth men that would remain faithful and true to Him, and declared that God could not have on earth such men, Jehovah God permitted Satan to remain and live and carry on his wicked work until Jehovah's due time to destroy him. He said to the Devil: "But for this cause have I allowed thee to remain, in order to show thee my power; and in order that they [God's witnesses] may proclaim my name throughout all the earth."—Exodus 9:16, Leeser.

Permitting Satan to remain has afforded him an opportunity to prove that he is a liar, also an opportunity for honest and faithful men to prove by their faithfulness that God is supreme. For this reason the Devil has continued to exercise power over men of the earth, and hence it is written that 'all of the world lieth in the wicked one'. (1 John 5:19) Men have organized nations, and the visible ruling power thereof has been exercised by religionists and politicians and therefore their rule is symbolically called "the earth". The world is composed of the invisible and the visible: the invisible being Satan and his angels; and the visible, the imperfect rulers above mentioned. That world, in the Scriptures, is designated "this present evil world". (Galatians 1:4) The Scriptures further state that Satan is the 'god of this world and blinds the people to the truth'. (2 Corinthians 4:4) Jehovah God has taken out from amongst this world certain men and women who are devoted to Him, and these are taken out to be witnesses to His name, and they are the ones that must bear testimony to His name. (Acts 15:14) These are Christians and indulge in the pure and holy worship of God. They are wholly devoted to God and cannot consistently form any part of the present evil world. If they practiced religion they would be going contrary to the Word of God. If they indulged in politics, that would be acting contrary to the Word of God and they would have upon them 'spots', symbolically meaning identification as being a part of the world. Therefore the admonition of the Lord to Christians is that a part of His pure and holy worship requires that such one "keep himself unspotted from the world". He must not participate in religious practices or political practices, but must devote himself to serving God and His kingdom in advertising to others the kingdom of Jehovah under Christ as the only means of salvation for humankind. The apostle Peter was one who indulged in pure and holy worship, as did the other faithful apostles, and Peter, addressing himself to his fellow Christians, said: "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."—2 Peter 3:13.

The 'world wherein dwelleth righteousness' will consist of Christ Jesus and those associated with Him in the heavenly rule, together with the men on earth such as the faithful ones described in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. That will be a righteous world of which Christ Jesus is the invisible Head and Ruler, and the visible part or representatives of Christ on earth will also rule in righteousness. (Isaiah 9:6, 7; 32:1) The faithful followers of Christ Jesus, true Christians, have their hope centered in that new world and have devoted themselves to it and refuse to have anything to do with the present evil world; and this they do in obedience to God's commandments, and thus they practice pure and holy worship.

World's Greatest Convention

JUDGE RUTHERFORD is back in Brooklyn after delivering the two greatest discourses, to the greatest audiences in human history. It is the hand of God.

So many exciting things occurred re this convention that it will take some tall squeezing to get it into 64 pages of this size.

The international convention of Jehovah's witnesses featured by the two broadcasts of September 10, 11, from Royal Albert Hall, London, in more than fifty cities connected by radio beam and telephone, had an amazing attendance. Incomplete reports show that many thousands heard the Saturday's speech; at the Sunday's broadcast of the lecture "FACE THE FACTS" the attendance already on the office records gives a grand total (from only about two-thirds of the cities which held joint assemblies) of 150,000. Cables received show that the whole world received the broadcast in auditoriums in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Singapore, India, Trinidad, Africa, Europe, and Oceania; in the United States, besides the auditorium centers above mentioned, more than 115 radio stations re-broadcast the message; thus from incomplete returns it is scarcely giving the minimum total to say that upward of three million people listened to Jehovah's thrilling ultimatums delivered through Judge Rutherford, His servant.

Stirring cablegrams were received from Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Strathfield, and Sydney, Australia; Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; Helsinki, Finland; Belfast, Ireland; Haarlem, Holland; Bombay, and Lahore, India; Wellington, New Zealand; Oslo, Norway; Glasgow, Scotland; Singapore, Straits Settlements; Kalmar, Sweden; Berne, Switzerland; Launceston, Tasmania; Port of Spain, Trinidad; Swansea, Wales; Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, Canada; and from Birmingham, Ala., Brooklyn, N. Y., Charlotte, N. C., Chicago, Ill., Cincinnati, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Dallas, Texas, Detroit, Mich., Denver, Colo., Geneva, N. Y., Harlingen, Texas, Hartford, Conn., Houston, Texas, Jacksonville, Fla., Jamaica, N. Y., Kansas City, Mo., Little Rock, Ark., Los Angeles, Calif., Minneapolis, Minn., New Orleans, La., New York, N. Y., Oakland, Calif., Omaha, Nebr., Philadelphia, Pa., Pittsburgh, Pa., Rainelle, W. Va., Rochester, N. Y., Spartanburg, S. C., Tacoma, Wash., and Washington, D. C.

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