Consolation, December 14, 1938

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Contents

Jesuitized Germany (Part 2) 3

Nazi-Jesuit Anti-Semitism 7

Modern Martyrs 9

Sublime Courage of Witnesses 11

The New Government 12

Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship (V) 12

Turning on the Heat 14

Fascism in Pennsylvania 15

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17

Speaking with Tongues 17

Home and Health 18

Under the Totalitarian Flag 20

Great Religionists: Mary I of England 20

Chamberlain's Sympathies 20

Murder of Innocents 22

More Blood, More Money for Rome 23

Perpetuation of the Christmas Lie 24

The "Baby Jesus" Racket 24

Mexico and West Indies 25

Illinois 26

Industry of Chicago Police 26

Windle Could Not Answer 26

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path—A Builder 27

British Comment 28

The Political Situation 28

Infidel Parsons 30

Natural Bridge—Cover Design 31

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Appetizers

Ominous

Two powerful colored stevedores, who had had some sort of falling out, were engaged in loading a vessel at a St. Louis dock. Uncomplimentary remarks and warnings of intended violence were exchanged whenever the two passed each other with their trucks.

"You jest keep on pesterin' around wid me," declared one of the men, "an' you is gwine be able to settle a mighty big question for the scientific folks!"

"What question dat?" asked the other.

"Kin the dead speak!"—Labor.

Mild Sentence

"How long you in jail for, Mose?"

"Two weeks."

"What am de charge?"

"No charge: everything am free."

"Ah mean, what has you did?"

"Done shot my wife."

"You shot your wife and only in jail for two weeks?"

"Dat's all—den I gets hung."

The Last Rites

Mr. Binks was busily engaged with a spade in the mud beside his car, when a stranger hailed him.

"Stuck in the mud?" he asked.

"Oh, no," explained Mr. Binks, cheerily. "My engine died here and I'm digging a grave for it."

Knew What She Wanted

The woman that telephoned her butcher not to send her any more airplane fowls knew what she wanted. When he inquired what was on her mind she explained that on the last previous occasion he had sent her a bird that was all wings and machinery and no body, and she wanted a different kind.

Not His Specialty

Said the lawyer, "We don't care what you think: we want to know what you know"; and back came the answer, "Then I may as well get off the stand, for I cannot talk without thinking; I am no lawyer."

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 14, 1938 Number 502

Jesuitized Germany (In Two Parts—Part 2)

(Hitler and the German cardinal, Faulhaber, are in constant consultation with each other at Munich.)

THE continual threat of war (to other nations) demands that there shall be plenty of cannon fodder. Hence boys and girls in Germany who desire to marry are loaned 1,000 marks without interest, payable in household goods, linen, furniture and the like. The prospective wife must give up her job, however. Marriages thus subsidized have resulted in 600,000 births in three years. A good crop of the afore-mentioned fodder.

The Conspiracy Against Czechoslovakia

It is of particular interest here that in the conspiracy against Czechoslovakia undertaken by Henlein under direct instructions from Hitler, all the Catholic theological students of Prague University joined the Henleinist movement en masse. Does anyone need to ask, Why?

In an address, October, 1932, three months before Hitler came into power, Konrad Henlein said:

The welfare of the Sudetens is indissolubly bound up with the welfare of the Czechoslovak Republic. We stand, in principle, and unanimously, for loyalty to this state. For more than a thousand years Germans and Czechs have lived together in these lands, and always their fate has been common, in times of distress and in times of prosperity. We feel too vividly the power of historical tradition seriously to consider any kind of territorial revision.

But that was then. It seems not to have been hard for Henlein to change his mind and his loyalty, if any. In one of his manifestoes, addressing the Sudeten Germans he disclosed the Roman Hierarchy's backing of his plan for the dismemberment of his country when he said to them, "You still have to bear a reign of terror of Hussite-Bolshevik criminals in Prague." Ah! That's it! That discloses the whole scheme and its source. Czechoslovakia must be subjected to Hierarchy control. It was a remnant of Protestantism. Huss was burned at the stake because he loved God and truth, and hated the Hierarchy. Czechoslovakia was to be sacrificed for the good of the latter. The New York Times, carefully concealing the Hierarchy, makes the following hedging comment:

It is pretty generally acknowledged that John Huss's ideas were largely borrowed from the English reformer Wycliffe. Hostile proclamations spoke of the former's followers as Wycliffites or Hussites. It is not, however, a point to be pressed. By now it is commonplace that the most explicit treaty obligations and the strongest moral commitments fade with time, and John Wycliffe has been dead more than five hundred and fifty years.

Priests Would Destroy Czechoslovakia

With the threat of war with Germany in the very air Czechoslovakia called 500,000 men to the colors and France announced that if the frontier were crossed she would live up to her treaty to the letter, which meant another world war. Britain also notified Berlin that she could not and would not stay out. As a result Hitler made no move. But somebody else did. The "Reverend Father" Andrej Hlinka, leader of Czechoslovakia's 2,300,000 Slovaks, announced that the province of Slovakia would break away and become a part of Germany or Poland unless the rights of self-government granted to the Sudeten Germans were also granted to the Catholic Slovaks. The move was entirely a Catholic move, and the speakers were entirely Catholic priests, showing intimate, close working relations between Hitler and the Hierarchy, in their mutual efforts to destroy all republics and place the control in the hands of cruel dictators.

In the forty days between May 21 and July 1, the Central German Broadcasting Station made 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak Republic, criticised its president 194 times, made attacks on its officials and law courts.

172 times, and insulted its army 106 times. Further, on 31 occasions it stated falsely that the country is ruled by Communists. Nice neighbors, eh? What?

The effect of mischievous politics was seen in the sudden decision of two Jewish-owned industries to leave the Sudeten German section of Czechoslovakia and reopen their factories in Prague, where they figured they were much more likely to get a square deal. But the result was that 400 Sudeten Germans and 199 Czechoslovakians lost their jobs.

Nazi regard for the rights of others was illustrated by the Nazi or Henlein party in Czechoslovakia when inconceivable pressure was applied to the German population to make them decorate their homes with Henlein portraits and placards, as is the custom in the realm of Frank Hague. Those who refused to fall in line were the targets for organized threats and intimidations. Employees were sent for by their employers and threatened with dismissal; those out of work were warned that they would never be given employment by any factory owner or builder of their district. In effect this was equivalent to a threat to murder the man's whole family, and actually caused some to suicide.

Czechoslovakians in Germany

There are 400,000 Czechoslovakians in Germany; they have no rights, and if they have grievances they do not dare mention them. This is by way of comment on the supposed right to make all the trouble possible for Czechoslovakia which was claimed by the Sudeten minority in that land. Moreover, there are Germans in the Italian Tyrol that are really oppressed. Hence Henlein, the troublemaker, is without excuse, and so is the murderer, Hitler, for whom he works.

1,200,000 Poles in Germany complain that they are insulted, assaulted and maltreated, that they are unable to secure police protection, that their businesses are boycotted, and that Germans who have anything to do with them are denounced as traitors. Yet Hitler wants to run the whole world, and treat all but Aryan Germans as he treats the Poles.

In its opening phases in Czechoslovakia the Nazi civilization showed all the familiar features that have made it so hated by all decent men. In perfect order the Henleinists smashed the windows of Jew and Czech stores and looted them of their contents. Behind the smashers and the looters came the smear brigades, equipped with tar and paint for making all Czech signs unintelligible. Mere boys warned newspapermen not to take pictures. Hitler has trained them well in all the accursed philosophy of Jesuitic bedevilment.

Because you are human you will be pained to learn that as late as October 19, 1938, there were hundreds of your fellow creatures (penniless Jews) expelled from their homes in the Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia taken over by Hitler's coup, and that these unfortunates were not allowed to enter Czechoslovakia proper, and hence were existing, in the rain, sleeping in the ditches between the German and Czechoslovak lines. Among these was an expectant mother. She wrote a letter to a friend that she was lying underneath a hedge, with no money and only the clothing she had when expelled. Nice civilization, eh?

In the German-speaking sections of Czechoslovakia women were clubbed by young Nazi bullies in broad daylight because they undertook to trade in co-operative stores of societies to which they actually belonged. Henlein, speaking for the Nazis, says that every co-operative store in Czechoslovakia, and every co-operative society (of which there are 700), must be closed because Hitler says so.

With the taking over of the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia, embracing some 3,585,000 persons, the total population of Germany is now 78,700,000.

While Chamberlain was trying to figure out a way of giving Hitler what he had been promised, he thought it would be nice if the pope would speak a little piece over the radio, just to make everybody feel better; which the pope was very willing to do, of course. So he broadcast to the world, taking advantage of the opportunity to make them feel hopeful, though it is not quite clear what the world is to hope for, what with Mussolini and Hitler running around loose, not to mention Chamberlain and the pope himself.

Hitler's Personal Fury

Of course, Hitler is only a gangster, and a madman at that, but even a gangster and a madman, one would think, would almost halt at the language he used in speaking of President Benes of Czechoslovakia, one of the most cultured, intelligent, capable statesmen of modern times. His mention of Benes over the radio as a liar, while Benes was still president, was most unusual. Now it comes out that there was personal reason for his hatred. Czechoslovakia, when it was still a republic, was a refuge for the oppressed, and among others whom it sheltered were men who escaped from Germany and who hated Hitler and all for which he stands, and who broadcast truths about him, in German, which he did not wish German people to hear. It is certain that many and horrible deaths will follow the madman's control of the little republic that was civilization's outpost in Middle Europe.

The rape of Czechoslovakia was accomplished in four hours by four men who did not allow the injured country to be heard or to present a brief. Russia also, very much a party to the problem, was excluded from the group. Mussolini was the only one able to speak in all the languages there used—Italian, French, German and English.

The joke is on Mussolini. The Italians do not like his German imported goose step, and Pegler thinks that, because they did not want to, they could not even learn it. Mussolini is now an "also ran", and unless he can teach his warriors to eat sauerkraut and frankfurters and like Wagnerian music, all is lost. The accompanying cartoon tells the story well.

Music hath charms—or hathn't it?

To save something from the wreck, the Czechoslovak government was compelled to appoint Dr. Joseph Tiso, a Roman Catholic priest, as prime minister of Slovakia and to grant the Slovaks full autonomy. Tiso selected all his associate ministers, and thus Slovakia is governed directly from Vatican City.

Wolves are not famous for consideration when engaged in the mangling of the meat thrown to them, but the Nazi wolves are entitled to the blue ribbon in the way they divided the city of Policka between themselves and Czechoslovakia. The town has a population of 5,891, of whom only 149 were Germans at the last census, but, when the town was divided, 100 homes, a cemetery and a cinema went to Czechoslovakia and the Nazis took the rest for the new Germany.

As is always the case when democratic institutions go down and totalitarian influences are in the ascendant, all Freemason lodges in Czechoslovakia have had to decide on self-dissolution. The Inquisition will start at once all over Czechoslovakia; indeed, it has already started, as this plainly shows. Censorship of news, compulsory labor camps, shifting of diplomats, and suppression of newspapers, show that all the curses of totalitarian government are under way.

No one with an animus against the innocent can conceal it. It was the slimy hand of Vatican diplomacy that betrayed Czechoslovakia. Rejoicing in the downfall of the man who tried to prevent the destruction of the little mid-European republic, the "Reverend Father" Coughlin's paper entitled "Social Justice" had a headline reading, "Czech people freed of Benes." Dr. Benes, the ousted president of the country, will become a professor in the University of Chicago, where he will give a series of lectures on democratic institutions, for all of which institutions the Vatican has only the bitterest hatred, despite soft words and lying statements to the contrary.

An honest man, who did not know that the Vatican outfit was behind the destruction of Czechoslovakia, would be led to wonder just how it happened that when the German and Polish troops seized the portions of the country which the four wolves of Munich had allotted to them, it was the Roman Catholic young ladies in the Sudeten and Teschen areas who bombarded the German and Polish invaders with roses. The only possible explanation nation of this bombardment is that these young women were under the direct influence of the Roman Hierarchy, which sold out the Protestant democracy of Czechoslovakia.

"Reverend Father" Coughlin, also under complete Vatican domination and influence, describes the sell-out at Munich as "a victory not for Hitler and aggression, but for peace, truth and justice". Lovers of real truth will be interested to learn that the founder of the Czechoslovak republic was a lover of the Bible, and that is why his memory is so hated by the Hierarchy.

Mourning the British loan of £10,000,000 to Czechoslovakia before Germany gobbled it up, the London News Chronicle invites the mourners to also mourn for £10,000,000 loaned to Austrian Socialists to build model tenements and another £10,000,000 loaned to the Austrian Nationalists to buy shot and shell to knock the tenements down, and still another £10,000,000 to correct the damages sustained before the house-painter of Berchtesgaden came down and seized the whole country, tenements and all.

Kennedy Shares the Glory

It was singularly appropriate that when the time came to betray Czechoslovakia America had a Roman Catholic as its representative at the court of St. James's, and report has it that he was at Chamberlain's right hand constantly throughout the Nazi-Czech crisis. The same story that gives this information also quotes Chamberlain as saying, "Don't you see? Franco is fighting for our class. If he loses, we shall have labor governments everywhere."

"The Munich agreement has for the moment averted war in Europe but it has not secured peace," states the American League for Peace and Democracy. Continuing:

"We now face the results of a proceedings unprecedented in history. When, even after defeat in war, was a nation ever deprived of its territory and resources without being present at the Council table? Instead of the democratic procedure suggested by our president as the approach to peace, namely, a conference of all interested nations upon neutral territory, we have seen four powers disposing of the vital resources of a small nation without its presence or consent and without consultation with other nations directly interested. We have now a settlement dictated by the threat of force. Peace can no more rest on such a basis than it could upon the Versailles Treaty.

"The Munich agreement is no settlement of the minorities problem. How could that problem be settled by terms dictated by a man whose treatment of minorities in his own land has shocked mankind? This agreement, dictated by force, has created new minorities to plague the conscience of mankind and disturb the peace of the world.

"The problem of peace today is the problem of the aggressor. The Munich agreement has increased, not diminished, the prestige and the power of the Fascist aggressors. It has accomplished the economic dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. It has opened the way for further and more effective aggression. It has successfully enthroned force above reason, right, and justice. It has paid as the price of peace the destruction of the basis of peace.

"What has been yielded in this settlement is not merely territory, economic resources, prestige and power; it is the democratic process itself which has been abandoned in this acceptance and imposition of terms dictated by force."

Danzig Next on List

Indications are that Danzig is next on the list. The same methods are being pursued as were followed in Austria and Czechoslovakia. Enough munitions have been brought into the city to arm 25,000 men, and the young Nazis are training for the zero hour. Their insolence is so great that recently they threw a Polish official off a railway train, severing both hands and one foot.

From the free city of Danzig, with a total population of 589,000, the Nazi senate, since it came into control, sent 8,449 people to concentration camps in Germany, and 3,246 more Danzig citizens to German jails as political prisoners, and 2,327 others vanished without a trace.

Hitler gave his word that when he got what he wanted of Czechoslovakia he wouldn't ask for any more of Europe, but maps of Germany, confiscated in Poland, show two provinces of that country as provinces of greater Germany. The maps were printed in Germany. Other maps, published in Marshal Goering's paper and in use among teachers, show the whole of Switzerland as included in what is called "Greater Germany". Four days after this news was published in Switzerland came the public announcement that Switzerland will spend $100,000,000 in defense, showing that she does not intend to lose her liberties without a fight.

Half a million men are working night and day to give Germany a triple line of machine-gun turrets along its western border, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Another large German force is making a similar line between France and Spain. These may come in handy sometime, especially in friendly overtures to France.

Not only has Hitler ambitions to dominate Europe; his minions are also active in America. In Brazil President Vargas, dictator, found that the Fascist party there was receiving funds from Germany. He suppressed the whole outfit before they knew what was happening.

No matter where they live, all Germans must "Heil Hitler". If carried out, in the sense in which the Nazis demand, it would mean that even in the United States the German-speaking people must break away from their allegiance to the American government and demand physical union with Germany. If that principle is right, the Italians should do the same, the Irish the same, the Hungarians the same, etc., etc., ad infinitum, and the United States would be broken up into as many snarling, fighting, warring factions as there are languages in Europe. The existence of the United States government is the greatest reproach to the Nazi theory that could possibly exist. It stands for liberty of all, and not liberty of any to oppress or injure others, no matter what their tongue.

Says Sigmund Livingston in "Facts About Fictions": "On March 26 of this year [1938], eighteen American youths, all under the age of 18, all of German parentage, were sent from America to Germany to be trained in the German Fuehrerschulen. They will be taught the art of dictatorship, of terror, of hate, of falsehood. When they have finished their training, they will be returned to this land as qualified fuehrers to lead in the warfare against freedom, liberty and democracy." This procedure manifests the gratitude of vipers.

The German spy ring, of whom some eighteen were indicted in the United States Federal courts, showed an amazing stupidity, despite the fact that some of them got away, due to parallel stupidity in the United States. One of the spies was caught with a violin case loaded with the plans of an American bomber, and another was so foolish as to pose as an American under-secretary of state and to try on that basis to get fifty blank passports.

Other Germans, however, who have had a taste of German culture and "civilization", have no desire to spread it to other lands. Doubtless there are many such, and they should make their stand clearly known.

Distorted News

Newspapers which are completely silent about the altogether diabolical persecution of Jehovah's witnesses give considerable space to the sufferings of the Jews. Some of these dispatches and reports are astounding. Discrimination against the Jew is reminiscent of previous persecution of this race when the Hierarchy had the measure of power which it is now seeking to regain. The pope's feeble expression of disapproval with respect to racial prejudices comes with bad grace, when the record of the Hierarchy of which he is a part includes so long a list of atrocities perpetrated upon the Jewish people in the heyday of Hierarchy power. Where encyclopedias have not been censored by Hierarchy agents much valuable information about this aspect of its activities in the past may be found under the heading "Jews".

Nazi-Jesuit Anti-Semitism

In five years the Jewish population of Germany has fallen from 510,000 to 350,000, at which rate there would not be a Jew left in the Reich after another eleven years. Hitler and his gang would be deprived of one of their chief pastimes, but the Devil would doubtless find something else for them to do.

It is now illegal in Germany for a Jewish bookseller to sell any but Jewish books, or to any but Jewish customers. Employment agencies may not help Jews to find employment even in Jewish factories.

In Vienna Jews may not live in apartments which face the street because, being forbidden to fly the swastika flag, such apartments would not be decorated on gala occasions.

A Jew may not visit the public parks with his children, may not sit in any of the seats in the Ringstrasse or cross the open places or enter public gardens.

In certain sections Jews are forbidden to wear the white stockings and Tyrolese hats often worn in summer in that part of the world.

Jewish doctors have been deprived of their tenancies and forbidden to practice their professions in Vienna. Jewish college and university students dare not continue their studies, and any Jew is liable to arrest at any moment and to be confined to a concentration camp. Jewish doctors may not practice in Germany.

Jews are now forbidden to attend any meetings of stock or produce exchanges in Germany or to have any direct dealings there, and the German post office will hereafter refuse to distribute any postal advertisements of Jewish businesses.

Jews are forbidden to conduct information bureaus on financial matters, may not operate tourist traffic agencies or watchmen's agencies. At health resorts Jews, if admitted at all, must have yellow admission cards, and be kept separate from other attendants.

Jews may no longer be admitted to the Bourse or other markets.

The deputy governor of Hesse showed what happens when gangsters rise to power, by making the declaration that the only right the Jews enjoy is the right to die.

In Darmstadt Jews are forbidden to visit motion-picture theaters, the city museum and archives, public libraries, reading rooms, the City Hall visitors' gallery, and numerous other public recreational buildings.

Jewish landlords may not employ Jewish house administrators, and Aryan landlords may not employ Jewish house administrators or sign contracts with Jewish tenants.

As soon as legislation now under way is completed, police will have the "legal" right to expel new-born German Jewish babies from the country on the ground that they are foreigners without papers.

Berlin's useless police kept out of sight while every place of business in the city even partly owned by Jews was smeared with red letters three feet high warning everybody to keep away. In some districts, besides the six-pointed star and the word "Jude", the words "Jewish pig" and "Race defiler" were used. Photographing of the disfigured premises was forbidden. Five thousand Jews were arrested throughout Germany for the crime of being Jews.

If an employee belongs to the Jewish race his employer may dismiss him or her without notice. A man was granted a divorce because his wife engaged a Jewish lawyer. These are recent judgments of Nazi courts, the first of the two decisions being that of the Supreme Reich Court, February 3, 1938.

After January 1, 1939, every Jewish person in Germany who does not possess a Jewish first name must add the name Israel or Sarah so that his Jewish origin may be detected the moment he signs his name. Hereafter all Jewish infants must receive only Jewish names at birth and a list of such Jewish names has been compiled by the Ministry of the Interior. Seems incredible, doesn't it?

In the Jewish Quarter of Vienna

In the Jewish quarter of Vienna the Nazis compelled the owners of Jewish shops to stand outside of their stores holding up notices which read:

Do not buy from Jews; buy from Aryans.

One of the striking features of the Nazi attack upon Jews of Vienna is that although their automobiles were confiscated they were compelled to continue paying taxes on them, and even to pay for gas, oil and upkeep.

Every night at half-past ten the telephone bell rings in the flat of a retired Jewish civil servant and a furious voice asks the terrified listener: "You are still not hanged? Wait till tomorrow." Six times in the last fortnight the house has been searched in vain by police and storm troopers. Now the infirm old mother faints every time the doorbell rings more loudly than usual. The only member of the family who dares to leave the house, the 20-year-old son, has been fetched five times to clean the lavatories in the barracks of the storm troopers.

--London News Chronicle.

Robbing the Jews

Germany is financing itself by the robbery of the Jews, not only those at home, but those abroad. Every Jew, regardless of where he lives, if he is a citizen of Germany, has had to set forth in a statement the whole of his property, including bank balances, jewels and personal possessions of all sorts. This is then pre-empted by the state. If a Jew gets permission to leave his homeland he may take with him only sixteen shillings, or about $4.00. In some sections of Germany, and perhaps all over the country, the persecutions have become so petty that a Jew may no longer use the elevators of a public building, but must climb the stairs.

German efficiency has made the robbery of Jews a fine art. By one act after another not only have the Jews been compelled to sell their businesses at the cost price of the goods in stock, or less than that cost, but even then a Jew could leave Germany with only about 8 percent of the value of his property. Since June 4, 1938, even this has been stopped, and now he may leave the country only with the 10 marks (16 shillings) which every traveler leaving Germany temporarily may take with him. He may not even take personal belongings such as furniture or medical instruments. It seems incredible that any people could have fallen to such levels of inhuman beastliness.

The German government has now ruled that any tenant of a building may break his lease if the landlord fails to remove a Jewish tenant on his demand, and that when a landlord intends to sign a new lease with a Jew he must inform every Aryan tenant of his decision.

In the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, 65 miles from Leipzig, Germany, 80 Jews died in a single month. They were compelled to work at quarrying and stone-breaking from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. When they fainted beneath the hot summer sun the only treatment received was to have a bucket of cold water thrown over them and to be left where they fell. Breach of discipline was followed by flogging, 50 strokes, during which the victim usually dies. (Condensed from London News Chronicle)

A reporter for the London Daily Express interviewed the 56 outcast Austrian Jews, robbed of all their property and ordered out of the country into the No Man’s Land between Austria and Yugoslavia. One of these, an elderly, well-dressed man, mentioned that his family had lived in Austria for five centuries, during all of which time they had been law-abiding people, and had accumulated a fortune of £16,000 in mills. Now, he said sobbing, he had not even the means to commit suicide. The Nazi gangsters had seized everything he owned.

At an address in Aldgate, England, Rabbi J. H. Hertz declared that when the Nazis seized Austria the staff of a Jewish orphan asylum near Vienna was arrested and the children were bullied and driven away. Many of them, boys and girls, swam at night across the March river and reached the Czech border. However, Czech police drove them back again, and, exhausted through hunger, cold and terror, they perished in the water.

In New York city Miss Liesel Wolf, 37, a Jewish refugee, facing the prospect of having to return to Germany, leaped from a window, committing suicide. It shows what Germany is to the Jews.

More than 1,700 Jews suicided during the first three weeks of the Nazi occupation of Austria. Even as late as two months afterwards they were still slaying themselves at the rate of 25 to 50 per day, on account of the intolerable persecutions brought against them by the Beast of Berchtesgaden.

An Appeal for Mercy

The Jews of Germany, like Dives in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, made a pitiful appeal for mercy from gentiles not under control of Hitler. A portion of the appeal follows:

Our means become daily smaller. Exclusion from trade and industry forces the greater part of German Jews into unemployment.

Our strength threatens to fail. We do not forget that a world so anxious for peace and security cannot devote its whole attention to us. We do not forget that other people have heavy care and needs, but we dare to hope, at least, that the frontiers may be opened for our people for organized emigration and a plan made for temporary settlement for those capable of work.

We yearn for a life of self-sacrifice in the free air of the world. We wish to associate in the work of peaceful construction. May these words of the late hour be heard.

Following Hitler’s lead, Mussolini caused the dismissal of all Jewish officers from the Italian army, nineteen functionaries of the Ministry of the Interior and fourteen Jewish professors of the University of Pisa. From the latter city 265 foreign Jewish university students, mostly Polish, fled. All Jews who found refuge under the Italian flag since January, 1919, must leave the country. They will be permitted to settle on the lands stolen from Ethiopia. See the cartoon on page 5.

Modern Martyrs

It should give cause for solemn reflection to realize that it is possible today to suffer as deeply for devotion to God as do Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany. The dispatches, though relatively few, are deeply significant. First, by way of contrast, mention is made of the quandary of German priests, as reported in an article blasphemously styled “The Golgotha of German Catholicism”.

One can readily imagine the struggle of conscience endured by the clergy of Bade who received orders to take the oath of fidelity to the Fuehrer. The bishopric of Fribourg was unable to obtain the least amendment to the formula of the oath, so that the priests continue to promise obedience to a dictator who calumniates them, laughs at their faith, wishes to suppress them, and dreams of the annihilation of their religion.

The National Journal of Basle (Switzerland) calls the course of these priests “extraordinary spiritual heroism”! What is there heroic in this ignominious capitulation before their so-called “enemy” and the entire absence of devotion to principle? There is not the slightest degree of martyrdom in evidence.

Contrast therewith now the sufferings of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany:

The utter inhumanity of the fiends ruling Germany is discernible in the fact that the relatives of Jehovah’s people in that accursed land do not know and have not known for years where their loved ones are, and their only solace is in the hope that the imprisoned ones are dead as a result of their mistreatment and have thus escaped from the hands of their tormentors; so says Trost, the German edition of Consolation.

Reuter’s, reporting heavy sentences against Jehovah’s witnesses in Bremen, narrate that the spokesman of the group made the following noble response to the court’s questions:

Jesus was silent before Pilate. I am His disciple and remain equally silent.

The Manchester Guardian reports the following regarding the sufferings of the

Bibelforscher [Jehovah's witnesses]

Bibelforscher are deprived of parental rights by law! The mothers among them are martyrs to their convictions in the most gruesome meaning of the term. They are invariably good mothers, and have brought their children up religiously, and the thought that they are being corrupted has made many a mother ill. There are many young women prisoners whose fiancés are in penal institutions for men, both serving long sentences. Outwardly they are very composed. How many human lives have been blighted through such conflicts it is impossible to say. But there can scarcely be a single family in whose wider circle there is not at least one case of political disaster. Very often there are several cases in one family. Not so much is known about them, because people keep silent about it.

Then there is the matter of sterilization. This is frequently resorted to, among women as well as men. One can, if one wants to, readily enough declare a human being who refuses to change his “wrong” opinion to be morbidly feeble-minded -- the most frequent ground for sterilization. This is especially often resorted to in the case of the Bibelforscher. A sterilized person may marry only another sterilized person.

The dreaded Buchenwald concentration camp is in a dark forest. It is surrounded by a barbed-wire fence twelve feet high, guarded by watch towers. Paths through the forest have been plowed up, to deter visitors, and across the paths huge signs have been constructed bearing the legend “Danger Zone” in letters of white on a red background, surmounted by a skull and crossbones.

“New Republic” Fans the Flames

Holding in utter contempt the words of the Savior that His true and faithful followers would be hated of all men for His name’s sake, The New Republic designates the faithfulness of these witnesses in the Buchenwald concentration camp as “stubborn religious fanaticism” as it quotes the following from the Manchester Guardian:

Some have undergone a so-called ‘German baptism’. They were placed in a barrel of sewage and asked if they still believed in Jehovah. The Bible students have shown a dour fervor in all camps and prisons, and at Buchenwald they refused to answer the question. They were then completely submerged in the sewage again and again.

Made to rise at 4:00 a.m. the prisoners at Buchenwald are compelled to do the heaviest work in quarries and on roads, and on food not fit for a dog. When, through weakness, they cannot keep the pace they are flogged 25 strokes. When two prisoners escaped, all the rest of the men in camp had to stand at attention 17 consecutive hours, all through the night. Those who collapsed under the strain were allowed no food for three days. Of the escaped prisoners one was recaptured and beheaded. In this one camp in one year 145 prisoners were murdered or committed suicide. Why does The New Republic encourage Hitler?

Jehovah’s witnesses continue to suffer and to testify to the Truth and the honor of Jehovah’s name, declaring that the day of deliverance for the oppressed people of good will is near, and the day of the destruction of the wicked. Knowing they are right, they suffer with patient endurance.

Thus are Jehovah’s witnesses privileged to lay down their very lives in these “latter days” as a final witness.

Sublime Courage of Witnesses

The German Argentinisches Tageblatt, Buenos Aires, of February 6, 1938, in a half-page article entitled “From German Concentration Camps” (first published in Prague), reports that in the camp in Dachau (Bavaria) the prisoners are marked by different broad stripes around the trousers, sleeves and upon the back, thus designating the reason for their internment and the grade of cruel treatment they should receive. Those stripes mark the following “companies”: returned Aryan emigrants, homosexuals, habitual criminals, returned Jewish emigrants, political prisoners, second political prisoners (second offenders), political Jews (liberals), Jews who “defiled the Aryan race”, and last, Jehovah’s witnesses.

Punishments consist of punitive exercises (to the point of exhaustion and unconsciousness), flogging, together with solitary confinement (before and after the flogging, chained in a dark, very small cell without window). Normal punishment consists of 25 strokes with the whip and 8 days solitary. Second grade consists of 50 strokes and 14 days solitary. That goes up to 100 strokes and 4 weeks solitary. When one is kept for eight days in that hole he gets something to eat only every second day, and in many cases only every third day. . . . Punishments that exceed 50 strokes are, out of “humane consideration”, paid out “in installments”.

Concerning the witnesses of Jehovah the report contains the following remarkable testimony:

They endure all punishments with stoic composure, and even continue successfully to work amongst their fellow-sufferers for their cause.

Regarding the concentration camp in Sachsenburg (near Berlin), where most sadistic fiends are their tormentors, one report similarly testifies:

Astonishing is the conduct of the Bible students. These, often young people, evidence unshakable courage. They demonstrate the loyalty of martyrs and are unyielding as no other group in the camp.

The political prisoners are determined from the beginning to obey all orders, well knowing that otherwise the SS-men would make short work of them and only wait for an opportunity to do so; whereas nothing can induce the Bible students to render the Hitler salute. Their faith in Jehovah forbids them to do it. To be sure, amongst them occur as a result the most suicides and suicide attempts [read homicide and homicide attempts]!

A further proof of the secret union between the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Hitler government is the conspicuously partial treatment that the few priests (mostly sex perverts) receive in this camp, which is situated, not in the Catholic, but in the Protestant part of the country:

The Protestant pastors are not treated differently from the other prisoners in the camp. They also must do hard labor, and their hair too has been cropped. But when two Catholic clergymen were brought in [as prisoners] the commanding officers of the camp were quite embarrassed. They did not dare to crop the consecrated and anointed heads.

In Sachsenburg they enjoy making sport with the newly arrived prisoners in the following heartless manner: In the middle of the night loud commands are given to the SS-guards, which can be heard far and wide, “Firing squad, fall in line!” The prisoners hear the command. They [the new arrivals in their special barrack] stand trembling at their plank-beds. Until morning one after the other is being marched off and questioned. In the morning the command is given, “Execution postponed.”

In regard to the concentration camp for women in Mohringen one report tells,

The old Bible student women give the matrons much trouble; they neither render the Hitler salute nor can they be deterred from attending their devotions.

The martyrdom of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany [not self-made] is easily the most outstanding as well as the most startling fact in current history. Following the path which their Master trod, they are treated like Him; taken from prison and from judgment and subjected to every illegal and violent abuse that their depraved captors can devise.

The fact that the press has nothing or next to nothing to say about these outrages helps one to understand how it happened that the death of Christ Jesus upon the tree is almost totally ignored in profane history. The Devil would blot out the remembrance of the righteous servants of God from under heaven. He will not succeed. “The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance, [but] the desire of the wicked shall perish.”—Psalm 112: 6, 10.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship (V)

The Fascists and Nazis, acting in conjunction with the Catholic Hierarchy, have kept their shipping pretty well shielded against the truth, even as they do the people in their respective countries.

Hence it has been impossible to do anything up to now on the ships of the Italian line and the larger German lines. The Polish Gdynia-America line also refused a pass, stating that "the crews of their ships are all of the Catholic faith and they have resident chaplains on board to attend to their spiritual needs", which was just a polite intimation to keep off their private preserves. One can imagine, in the light of Spain, Italy and Germany, just how these "spiritual needs" will be attended to. The French line, also, refused through its secretary to renew its pass, although the door is not definitely closed by such refusal.

There are, however, several German ships of the all-tourist class where it is still possible to work without much interference. These were once under the control of the unfortunate Jewish shipping magnate Arnold Bernstein, who is now in a Nazi prison and has, in addition, forfeited his ships to the government of Nazi Germany. Though these ships fly the swastika and are run by Nazi crews, there are many persons aboard who are not in harmony with Nazi ideas and haven't much use for the usual Nazi high-pressure regimentation of the thoughts and actions of honest men.

It is a peculiar experience to work on these vessels, and one not easily forgotten. At once there is manifest a feeling of distrust and fear, and a tight-lipped silence that speaks volumes. The very air is electric. Throughout the ships are pictures of Hitler, usually flanked on each side by a large swastika, and the customary exhortation to render obeisance to the Nazi chief is not wanting. In the messroom of one of these ships I had the certain satisfaction of leaving a Riches book in German with a couple of honest men there, while all the time Der Fuehrer looked down from his exalted position with almost a benevolent expression on his classical features. I hope he enjoyed it all.

Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers draw a good crowd at Sao Paulo, Brazil

On one of these ships there is now a copy of Riches in the library, and several have told me they have read it. They are, of course, very noncommittal as to their reaction. On these ships walls have ears and the men are very careful indeed as to what they say. One steward made this statement in a burst of confidence, after making sure he was not overheard: "We cannot think as we like any more here. Our minds are not our own." There in a few words lies the whole tragedy of Germany. What a damning indictment of the social system and rule of Adolf Hitler!

Notwithstanding all this handicap there are several, both officers and men, who will brave the alert attentions of even a passing member of the Gestapo to obtain the literature. Most of them know about the work, and it was laughable to see the reaction of some towards it. One captain, of immense proportions, positively shook like a jelly behind his fierce handlebar mustache when he opened up the book and saw the name of the publisher. Another captain, of entirely different disposition, gladly took Riches as a steward stood by. Incidentally, it was rather amusing to see the expression on the face of the steward, as only a short time before he had said that he didn't think any would take the books on that ship. Still another captain showed me an old and worn copy of Prophecy that he kept hidden in a brown paper bag.

Portuguese witness in Rio de Janeiro

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers' unique equipment at Ramsgate, England (with enlarged and smiling view of smaller unit)

Many aboard are unable to speak English, so I would have to resort to the old method of opening up the books at various "hot" passages and directing the attention of the men thereto. The phonograph was tried, but the already jittery seamen were scared to death by so much publicity and would depart, leaving me running a German record to myself; so this was discarded here as being unpractical. It was another problem to get directions as to how to get to a certain part of the ship. After the average sailor had at length grasped what was required of him he generally rattled off directions in a stream of fluent German that wasn't much help. All I could do was murmur "Danke schön!" ("Thank you!") and wander off as wise as before.

On one of these ships the chief purser said that he, too, was of the opinion that religion was a racket of the worst kind, but he classed the Bible in with religion and had no use for that either. That is the usual opinion there. Nazism has about destroyed any faith the Germans once had in Jehovah God and His Word, which they now hate because of its Jewish connections. On this same ship there was a pleasing contrast in the galley, where three cook boys were talking.

One of these by signs and broken English said that he had "seven books in house" in Germany, and was overjoyed to get a damaged Prophecy at a cheaper rate. The others accepted booklets and warmly shook hands in gratitude therefor. Truly these lads were not Nazis in spirit.

As in other places where Fascists, Nazis or the Roman Hierarchy have control, there were the usual cries of "Communist!", etc., and harsh words. There were also those there that resented anything being said about the doings of the Hierarchy, showing that Catholics and Nazis have very much in common. Incidentally, when working aboard Japanese ships, the self-same yell of "Communist!" has gone up, proving, as set out in Enemies and Cure, that the Hierarchy has made an alliance with Japan in its effort to grab China and that the tactics of the Devil's totalitarian giant are still the same, no matter where it rears its ugly head in the earth. Soon, by the Lord's grace, that giant will be destroyed and then the way will be plain and easy for all right-minded persons to get peace and joy in security and vibrant health.

The foregoing experiences will tend to show that there are very many really fine and honest men amongst the sailors who sail the seas: men who want to see righteousness established and who love the truth and want to do what is right. They have been pumped full of religion for years, until, as one put it, the very sight of a clergyman makes them feel physically sick. They see all around them wars and revolutions and the horrible massacre of millions of innocent persons, and, not being quite blind, they see the filthy finger of religion smeared over the whole thing. So it is a joy to be able to tell them from the Bible itself that their feelings are right and proper and that soon the entire nasty, slimy mess is going to be cleared from the earth in the "strange act" of Jehovah God himself. Of course, there are always plenty of the other kind, who laugh and jeer at the truth and try to pour ridicule on it from every angle, and these include the religious ones and also the atheists. The Lord must laugh at their feeble efforts to hold back the message.

It is a strange and wonderful thing, how the Lord removes the obstacles so that the testimony may be given. Many times officers on ships have expressed their amazement to have someone visit them with the truth. They have themselves been unable to obtain permission for even their closest friends and families to visit them, and can't make out how an outsider could get aboard. What they leave out of consideration is the fact that, while the witness is of himself completely unimportant, the message he bears is a sacred commission from the Most High, and the Lord has promised that His hand will be over His people to the very end.—Eric W. Symondson, New York.

Turning on the Heat

◆ The blessings of Jehovah are not limited to the autumn of the year; yet this season has been one of exceptional favor toward Jehovah's witnesses and their companions, the great multitude or "other sheep" of the Lord. The international convention of the Lord's people September 9-11, also Judge Rutherford's lecture, "Fascism or Freedom," on October 2, have filled the cup to overflowing. Jehovah's messages on these occasions constituted the strongest "tanning" ever of His enemies, and the greatest blessing of His own people. Be it in London, England, or New York city—locale means little—thanks to the modern marvel of radio communications. Jehovah's warning is truly world-wide. Nor is radio the only marvel of our day. While millions throughout the world thrilled to the lectures "Face the Facts", "Fill the Earth" and "Fascism or Freedom" these lectures were being simultaneously recorded, making it possible weeks later to reproduce with unbelievable accuracy the earnestness of the occasion.

Now it is time to "turn on the heat". Thousands of portable phonographs, transcription machines, sound ears, etc., will combine to keep the "old lady" warm with the fire contained in these speeches. Joined to this mass attack is the Society's radio station WBBR, which features in special rebroadcast these memorable radio addresses by Judge Rutherford. Surely this warfare will warm the hearts of all who avail themselves of their share in it.

SCHEDULE

Dec. 18 – 4:00 p.m. – "Fascism or Freedom"

Dec. 25 – 4:00 p.m. – "Violence"

Jan. 1 – 10:00 a.m. – "Face the Facts"

Jan. 8 – 10:00 a.m. – "Fill the Earth"

Jan. 15 – 10:00 a.m. – "Fascism or Freedom"

Jan. 22 – 10:00 a.m. – "Warning"

Jan. 29 – 10:00 a.m. – "Safety"

(To be continued) Pennsylvania

Fascism in Pennsylvania

As I am a World War veteran, I have the privilege of enrolling in CCC (for veterans only) when I am out of work. While I was taking the physical examination the Consolation magazine which I intended to read fell out of my pocket. It was immediately recognized by one of the officers, who informed me that none of Jehovah's witnesses are wanted around camp, and the commanding officer let me know that it would go hard with me if I got to his camp. The argument ended by the commanding officer's flatly refusing to take me along, though he left the way open that I may be enrolled during the next enrollment period. He let me know that no salute a la Fascism means no job in his camp; but it is not so in all veterans' CCC camps; as I have been to two others before and had no trouble.—E. J. Bady, Pennsylvania.

ST BONIFACE RECTORY

225 BLACKMAN STREET

WILKES-BARRE PA

August 5, 1936

Dear Friend and Parishioner:

We want your assistance in our efforts to beautify the Altar of our Church. You can help us by heeding the announcement made last Sunday about the Old Gold Drive.

In your home, as in every home, there are old discarded rings, pins, watch chains, spectacle frames, dental bridgework, etc. containing gold or silver that I can use in procuring new furnishings. Why not offer them to the service of the Altar and tabernacle?

And let us be the judge of these articles that contain gold or silver. Whether great or small in value we can use them.

"Gather up the fragments that remain" by starting your treasure hunt at once, even though it takes you to the top shelf in your closet or to the last corner in your bureau drawer.

Then put your findings, even though not solid gold and trifling in value, in the envelope mailed to you and drop it in the basket before Mass next Sunday, or if you prefer bring it to the Rectory during the week and receive my personal thanks.

That God may bless you and yours for any sacrifice you make. We are

Devotedly yours,

Rev. Francis P. Straub

Pastor

P. S. We have no authorized collectors for this campaign; therefore bring your treasure in yourself.

Hands up!

And Sand Is Better Yet

◆ I have an urge to write you about these icy days, when you see so many accidents caused by sleet and rain. If every householder would sprinkle salt or salt water on the sidewalks and steps, instead of cinders, it would be more lasting. Salt soon thaws the ice, and can be walked on with ease; whereas cinders, which so many people put on, only freeze in again if it continues to rain. If the highway department would use the salt method instead of cinders, it wouldn't be so dangerous at curves and railroad crossings; at least, I think so, from my experience using it around the walks and steps. I have no desire to have my name used in any way, but if it is suggested on the radio or in the Consolation magazine, there may be many an accident avoided.—Myrtle A. Rodenhauser, Pennsylvania.

Another Dirty Dougherty

◆ In 1919 John Dougherty, Philadelphia collector for a baking company, lost $90 of his employers' money shooting dice. He thereupon (probably with assistance) picked a man that he claimed had held him up and robbed him of the amount. The innocent man was sent to prison and served five years on a robbery charge. He left prison years ago, got his family back together, moved, and changed his name. Dougherty recently confessed to his part in the frame-up and was given six months behind bars.

Betsy Ross Falls Overboard

◆ One by one the heroes and heroines that were stuffed with sawdust fall overboard; among them Betsy Ross, and in Philadelphia, of all cities. One Louis Barcroft Runk, of Germantown, the most exclusive part of Philadelphia, member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Sons of the Revolution, in a history of the United States flag says that the Betsy Ross story is pure hokum, that he does not think Betsy Ross ever lived at the house, 239 Arch street, Philadelphia, which certain "Americans" desire to turn into a shrine to the memory of the flag's origin, and that he does not think that she made the first flag.

For proof that this whole relic business is wrong in God's sight, read the account of the brazen serpent and what happened to it: Numbers 21:6-9 and 2 Kings 18:4, margin.

Georgia and Florida

Florida Re-enters the United States

◆ The cops that at the beginning of 1937 guarded the five arterial highways into Florida, keeping out the poor that wanted to find winter jobs in the state, were not engaged in their illegal work in 1938. Governor Fred P. Cone decided that it is not these that constitute Florida's worst menace, but the crooks and racketeers that enter in fine limousines and Pullman cars. Congratulations to Florida on re-entering the United States.

Loyal Canine Broadcasters

◆ Mr. John Mann is fireman on the Southern Railroad, between Athens and Lula, Georgia. He makes two round trips daily. On his return trips, both in the morning about eleven and in the evening about five his two terriers, on their own initiative, just before the train whistle is due for the road crossing near his home, get themselves located and wait for the whistle, regardless of how late the train may be. When the whistle is heard they carry on a duet in dog fashion, lasting about two minutes. This continues daily with the exception of a couple of days at the end of the month when Mr. Mann is off duty. There are other trains on the same railroad that pass the premises during the day, but the dogs pay not the slightest attention to them. I have been to the home often during the past seven years and the dogs never fail to broadcast on schedule, and never off schedule.—H. C. B.

Patriots in Florida

◆ Pegler did not say who it was, but, in his “Fair Enough” column, mentioned a woman who gets $150 a month for surveying the value of the tourist trade, while her husband draws $350 from the state, and her son $175. It is a safe bet that if the United States should suddenly make a big holler for the patriots in Florida to shout “Heil Hitler” or some other equally foolish cry, this family that is dragging down $675 a month of public funds would be in the front ranks, and be ready to spend the lives of any number of American boys in order that their liberties might be preserved. Patriots? Why, sure!

Pan-American airport, Key West, Florida

--COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

QUESTION: Why do not "tongues" form a part of Jehovah's witnesses' equipment now as in apostolic times?

ANSWER: Today certain religionists insist on miraculously given "tongues" as proof of true Christianity, more than nineteen hundred years after Pentecost of A.D. 33. Manifestly, if Jehovah God wanted His faithful servants to now exercise powers of tongues, He would impart such to them for their use. The fact that He does not now do so shows that He has other means and ways for accomplishing His purpose that "this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations" before the final end of Satan's world comes, soon. (Matthew 24:14) Today the literature which is distributed by millions of copies each year by Jehovah's witnesses is published in more than 75 "tongues", the principal languages of the nations.

In lands or in foreign colonies where Jehovah's witnesses do not know the language they use a printed "testimony card" or "testimony booklet" to introduce the literature in the tongue which the people there speak, as, for instance, here in New York city, where, as in Jerusalem at Pentecost time, are found practically all the main languages of the earth. Also, the Kingdom message has been recorded on phonograph discs in many languages, and Jehovah's witnesses carry with them a small phonograph with records in the particular language or languages needed and let the phonograph reproduce the speech in the hearer's native tongue. Sound cars and sound boats equipped with loudspeakers are also used to reproduce such recorded speeches, that thousands may hear at one time. By this means, since 1922 particularly, Jehovah's witnesses have preached the Kingdom gospel to literally hundreds of millions, in many tongues, in all quarters of earth.

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