Consolation, December 28, 1938

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Contents

Burma and the Burmese 3

India 7

Kingdom Privileges in Burma 8

If Your Name Were Maloney 10

New York 11

Big Business 12

New England 13

Pennsylvania 14

Popularizing a Murderer 14

In the Northwest 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17

Catholic Action 17

Natural Phenomena 18

Palestine 19

Great Religionists: Catherine de Medici 20

President of the United States 23

"Let Us Have the Courage" 23

Africa 24

Germany 25

China and Japan 26

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path—A Sled Ride 27

British Comment 28

The Political Situation 28

Il Duce and His Empire 29

Hong Kong and Japan 29

The Bishops 30

South Sea—Cover Design 31

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Appetizers

Happened in Massachusetts

Lady gets off train at nightfall at a little railway station in Massachusetts, asks how she can get on to her further destination, and trainman tells her the last bus has gone and she cannot go on till the next day. Lady, disturbed, asks, "But where will I spend the night? I can't sleep on the ground." Trainman replies, "Oh, that is all right; you can sleep with the station agent." Lady responds, "What? What do you take me for? I am a lady"; and trainman finishes conversation with the information, "So is the station agent."

Positive Identification

It was just about midnight while the "Twentieth Century Limited" was speeding through the country that an absent-minded college professor left his berth in the sleeper to get a drink of ice water. Returning, he was hopelessly lost in trying to find his berth.

"Don't you remember the number of your berth?" asked the conductor.

"I'm—er—afraid not," was the reply.

"Well, haven't you any idea where it was?"

"Why, uh—oh, yes, to be sure." The professor brightened perceptibly. "I did notice one time this afternoon that the window looked out upon a little lake!"—Labor.

The Day of Finer Feeling

"In heathen tribes, where skulls were thick,

did primal passions rage;

They had a system sure and quick to cure

the blight of age.

When one grew old and youth had fled, and

time had sapped his vim

They simply popped him on the head—which

was the last of him.

But now, in our enlightened age, we're made

of finer stuff,

And so we look with righteous rage on means

so crude and rough.

So when our men grow old and gray and

bent and short of breath,

We simply take their jobs away and let them

starve to death."—London (Ont.) News.

Looking the Other Way

The Statue of Liberty, very appropriately, has her back to Jersey City.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 28, 1938 Number 503

Burma and the Burmese

BURMA, the land of golden pagodas (temples) and perpetual spring, has always been counted as part of India, but from April, 1937, it was politically separated from India. The population totals about 15,000,000, and is a mixed one, consisting of well-to-do Europeans, Burmans, Indians of assorted castes and creeds, Chinese, Karens, Shans, Kachins, Chins, Palaungs, Arakanese, Jews and Japanese, a regular Babel of castes, creeds and dialects. Such is the East!

The European is enjoying Edenic conditions; hence it is hard to approach him. Generally speaking, he is snobbish. The Indian dreams of national independence and hates western control. Often we are told very insultingly, "We Indians do not need Christianity; we practice it. Go preach to the western nations!" Such acts as the conquest of Abyssinia, the war in Spain, etc., are often pitched against "Christendom", and properly so. After the political, financial and ecclesiastical conspiracy against democracy as manifested at Munich, who could have any confidence in "Christendom's" rulers?

The Buddhist Burmese are not lovers of reading. They are people for fun and frolic and feeding. Their festivals are full of enjoyment and feasting. One of such, the water festival, is an occasion when all Buddhist Burmans crowd the street in cars or on the sidewalks and throw water at one another. They seldom hesitate to give those other than Burmans a share of the dousing. For three days they rage wild in the streets as the waves did in Jonah's case.

Tough-looking god in Rangoon

Another very popular festival is the "light" festival. At this time paper lanterns are lighted around Buddhist homes, hung in rows and in various shapes and designs, which at night turns the whole town into a panorama. Huge paper balloons are sent up, too, and the belief is that the home whose balloon reaches the sky will enjoy prosperity during the ensuing year, the contrary being the case if it gets burnt.

A great deal of dancing goes on by dancers possessed at the moment by "gnats"—spirits. But their greatest enjoyment at this feast is in being able to talk to their females in obscene language, without anyone's taking offense; all of them love it so. One of the most sickening aspects of humanity is the glee with which it moves gutterward and drags its fellows along.

I was told that some time ago the deputy commissioner of a certain town, who 'did not believe in people being possessed', had the privilege, during the feast, of seeing his own wife, with whom he went to see the celebrations, possessed and dancing with the rest. It was indeed very humiliating to the Englishman.

Burmese women are experts at witchcraft. Often when they fall seriously ill they make a vow promising to marry the "gnat" if they get cured. This they are known to do. At certain times the spirits get possession of their bodies and the females behave just as with a human husband, even conversing and preparing food for the invisible hubby. The final end of all such victims is usually disastrous.

In every Buddhist home one sees an altar in which is placed a bronze statue of Buddha. Around the altar little saucers of rice, fruit, etc., are placed as an offering to the spirits, lest they become annoyed and bring misfortune upon the household. Recently I was called to a rich Chinese home, to treat an old man. As I entered the drawing-room, I saw a large table on which were a number of plates containing rice and fruits of different varieties. Quite thoughtlessly I said, "Since your breakfast is ready, I'll wait." "No, no, come in," said they. "This is only an offering."

The Buddhist monks, Apongyis, dressed in yellow robes, and with heads shaved, every morning in numbers, and in single file, march along to the various Buddhist homes. At each home some eatables are put into the large bowls they carry with them. That's all their work for the day. They are not supposed to eat after noon. You in America can see plainly that this is a racket, but we here can see that your religious rackets in America, though less crude, are more cruel.

The older monks among them are greatly reverenced. They indulge in spiritism and fortune-telling and in selling charms. A friend who was staying at a Burmese home while out for a shoot was told that the charm around the neck of his host was to protect him from murder. He even challenged his guest to shoot at him, so great a faith had he in it. My friend, of course, had brains enough not to comply with such a request, but in order to prove to the man how foolish he was, he asked him to hang the charm around the neck of a rooster, and it was done. He fired, and the rooster was dead. Were they not amazed! Not only that, but very wroth with the old monk who had sold them the charm. When they next met, the monk cleverly appeased the anger by inducing him to believe that it was intended to protect him and none other; no, sir, not even his wife.

A maid of Burma

To this country belong the Kamalays (maidens) with the elongated necks, which are thus made by means of rings, which are added around their necks year by year. It is a common thing to see little children and girls with "salaes" (cigars) eight inches long and about an inch in diameter, made from special leaves and pith, with very little tobacco added, sticking out of their mouths.

Another widespread habit among the natives is to chew a leaf (betel leaf) on which they spread a little live lime, "cutch," and bits of a certain nut. The result is that their mouths are stained a dark red on account of the "cutch." This chewing naturally accumulates a lot of spittle in their mouths, which they do not swallow, but spit just wherever they are. One hardly finds a stairway or street pavement that does not bear red patches. It is nauseating, I assure you, but in time one has to get accustomed to all this.

It helps one to bear it when he reflects how patiently Jesus bore with the fallen and degraded all about Him nineteen centuries ago.

Passing by the streets, in the heart of the town at eventide in dry weather, one sees numbers of Indian coolies sleeping upon the pavements. That is their bedroom and bed. It is most amazing how some of them can subsist on four or five annas (about 9 cents) a day for food, etc.

It is very interesting to hear the many and peculiar ways English words are pronounced.

A Buddhist god in Burma

Kami girls, Arakan tribes

Shwe Dagon pagoda, Rangoon

Bridge over moat and West Gate, Fort Dufferin, Mandalay

In Rangoon it is interesting to hear the numerous street calls. For instance, if you heard "Ee-ee-oh" or "Yap-bathool" you may know it is the man who buys empty bottles. Some are mere articulations and not words of any language. Others sing as they call out, "Argiah,"

Argiah, Halve'wallah," which means, "Is come, is come, the halva seller." Halva is a kind of Indian sweet. Quite frequently beggars are seen going about singing pathetic songs.

Burma has a very peculiar fruit, the durean. This fruit has a thick, thorny skin, and large seeds covered with a butter-like substance which is the only part that is eatable. Westerners who advise that the skins of all fruits should be eaten should come and have a bite of the durean skin, or skins of other tropical fruits, and I doubt if they would sing the same song. Before it is peeled off it has an offensive odor, but once clean it tastes delicious. Animals relish it. It is wholesome indeed.

Rangoon, which is the largest city in Burma, forms its capital. Its population is slightly in excess of 400,000. Its chief attraction for tourists is the artificial riding woods between clear lakes and the Shwe Dagon pagoda. This pagoda is the largest Buddhist temple, and the whole of the outside is covered with gold leaf, which glitters in the sunlight, making it an unavoidable sight for travelers.

Mandalay, about 150,000, about 400 miles to the north of Rangoon, was the capital in the time of the Burmese kings. Tourists visit it to see the palace of the Burmese kings. It stands inside a fort which is again surrounded by a moat. Another attraction is the Mingon bell, which is made of iron, and the base of which is about twelve feet in diameter.

Burma is well provided with railways and motor roads. Railway fares are fairly high; so is the cost of petrol and lodging.

The climate of Burma is not a favorable one. We have a spell of rainy weather from the end of May to October. When the monsoons are over the cold weather sets in and keeps on till February, after which the temperature gradually increases till the heat is almost unbearable in March and April. The heavy rains then come on again, and, though a hindrance in many ways, are also a boon, as they help to overcome the intense heat. —Basil X. Tsatos, Burma. (See page 8.)

Prison Life in Zamboanga

◆ The Zamboanga prison farm, in the southern Philippine Islands, occupies 3,000 acres, and has between 1,000 and 2,000 prisoners and a few guards. There have been no escapes in four years. Several prisoners live with their families, and in some instances they have asked not to be released when their time was up. As in other U. S. prisons, there are movies, a library, a brass band, a stringed orchestra, athletics and night classes, with opportunities for learning something about various trades. Nevertheless, the chances are that if you were an inmate of Zamboanga you would wish to be elsewhere. Prison life is unnatural for either man or beast. (See The Watchtower of December 1, 1938.)

Freedom of Speech in Malaya

Efforts persist to bring the whole world into subjection to the foreign power now so boastful in every land. An amendment, the purpose of which is self-evident to every reader of this magazine, came before the Legislative Council of Malaya, containing the following familiar language:

Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, promotes or attempts to promote feelings of enmity or hatred between different classes of the public, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description which may extend to two years, or with fine or with both.

The Singapore Sunday Tribune inquires innocently why there should be any reason for enacting legislation to suppress offenses which do not exist. It does not see the real objective, which is to shut the mouths of those exposing religion for what it is, the meanest, most cowardly, dishonorable, despicable racket ever inaugurated or maintained in the earth.

In the Building of Singapore

◆ In the building of the £20,000,000 base at Singapore thirty-four miles of piles were driven through mud to the solid strata, and six million cubic yards of hills were moved. The result is the strongest naval base in the world, with docks, sidings, fuel oil reservoirs, airdromes, roads and other ancillary features necessary to make Singapore the seventh seaport of the world.

Singapore Island is 26 miles long by 14 miles wide, and is connected with the Malay Peninsula by a causeway 3/4 of a mile long. The naval base on the island occupies six square miles, and has 4 1/2 miles of water frontage, 5,000 feet of wharf walls, and a drydock that can take care of a vessel 1,000 feet long, 130 feet wide, and drawing 35 feet of water. There have been 8,000,000 cubic yards of excavation, 5,000,000 cubic yards of dredging, and a placing of 1,000,000 cubic yards of concrete. The work has taken fifteen years, with two more to finish it in all its parts.

India

Objected to Being Flogged

At Rawalpindi, India, Kiroo, a night watchman, was arrested, charged with theft. The constable had no evidence, so he tried by the usual third-degree methods to get a confession, whereupon Kiroo killed him, and the High Court justified him, as it was a clear case of self-defense. Then the police got after him again. Kiroo was hung head downward, flogged, caned and kicked and slapped, whereupon he had the police inspector, the head constable and two other constables brought into court for cruelty, and white men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders corroborated his testimony. Seems that the best thing to do with this man Kiroo is to let him alone and respect his manliness and spunk. This Hitler stuff leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Created Man to Take Him to Heaven

◆ A little paragraph in the Madras (India) Mail refers to a sermon by the "Right Reverend" H. Pakenham Walsh, at the local Anglican cathedral. Reverend Walsh explained that God created man so as to eventually make him perfect and take him to heaven:

God placed powers of love, holiness and understanding in man so that man may know Him, love Him, serve Him and attain everlasting happiness with Him in heaven.

According to that bright idea Lucifer was only doing the decent thing when he started off with Adam and Eve and inaugurated the campaign of lying, poverty, dishonor, disgrace, shame, murder, war, racketeering and religion now known as "civilization". Man wants to get happiness by getting out of it at all costs. It is a wholly false story, but it is not a bad canvass.

The Result of Fifteen Years' Work

◆ Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, an unbeliever, set out on an extended trip to prove the Bible a fraud. After fifteen years of expedition through Bible lands to unearth evidence against the truthfulness of the Scriptures he wrote a book entitled St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen. At page 238 he said, "The narrative never makes a false step amid all the many details; the New Testament is unique in vivid truthfulness. Luke is a safe guide." —B. X. Tsatos, Burma.

The Bayadere Nuns of India

◆ The League of Nations issued a report on the bayadere nuns of India. These women are religious prostitutes. Sometimes called pagoda girls, or dancers, or nautch girls, their business is to look after certain features of the religious business as has been done from the days of Nimrod, and is still done. These prostitutes or "nuns" never marry, and their daughters follow in their mothers' footsteps. The same report shows that girls often marry in India at the age of 7 or less, and if and when their husbands die they become slaves of their husband's folks, have the hardest and meanest tasks to perform, and receive but one meal a day. Do the people need more religion? India has plenty of it.

Havoc Caused by Insects

◆ In an address to the Science Congress, Calcutta, Mohammed Afzal Hussain claimed that there are not less than 2,500,000 existing species of insects in India, and that a single one of these, the ox warble fly, causes an annual loss to the country's hide industry of $5,625,000. Over a hundred million of the people suffer from malaria every year, and over a million die from its effects, or rather from the effects of the anopheles insects which cause it.

Amnesty for Indian Rebels

◆ The British Government has done wisely and well in granting amnesty to hundreds of men and women in Indian jails for years as agitators, also in withdrawing pending cases against such, and in granting freedom of action to some 200 political associations hitherto banned. It is hard to agitate successfully against any government that shows such a democratic spirit—so opposite in every way to that shown by Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco.

"Let Us Prey"

◆ An Indian subscriber in Bombay writes that some time back, at a public meeting, one of his comrades said that the white rulers of "Christendom" pray once a week upon their knees and the other six days prey upon the dark men, women and children of other lands whom they have enslaved for commercial purposes.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

Kingdom Privileges in Burma

The Kingdom work which was once supervised in Burma by the Bombay, India, office has since the spring of 1938 been under the Australian office. India alone is a territory vast enough for the Indian office to supervise; so, for the sake of convenience, the work will from now on be conducted from the depot at Singapore, which is under the Australian office.

Even in Burma the Lord has men on His side. Some of them shared in the 1918 persecutions. During the past few years all the principal towns in Burma have been visited and much literature has been placed with the people. Thanks to Jehovah, we have had no interference from the enemy, excepting a lengthy article which appeared in three issues of the local Catholic paper, and some pulpit denunciations. The Hierarchy has many in official positions throughout Burma.

On account of the assumed superiority of most Europeans out here, we get our best hearing with the Indians, and place much literature with the Tamils and Telugus, many of whom are Christians.

Among the Burmese there are very few so-called "Christians". The church-goers here are very afraid of their priests. They worship the priests more than the Creator, who alone is worthy of all praise and honor. They are slow in every respect. Recently a Church of England priest advised his flock not to listen to Jehovah's witnesses, as they make much use of the "Old Testament", which, he says, is now out of date and, besides, was written by imperfect and sinful men. Well, too bad for this "HOLY" clergyman! He forgets that it was the "Old Testament" that Christ called the "truth". Another clergyman said that the Bible is a book no more inspired than a newspaper.

Not long ago a great joke was played upon Roman Catholic people who own radios. They jumped for joy when it was announced that the death of Rutherford had occurred. "Aha! dead at last," said some. Their joy did not last long; for on the following day the press account showed that it was Lord Rutherford, and not Judge Rutherford. What a joke!

Another joke was played on a simple but staunch Roman Catholic. His son-in-law gave him a few Cure booklets to distribute in church on Sunday, telling him that the booklets were specially written for Roman Catholics. He did so, and got away with it.

In all there are about twenty-five active witnesses and a few Jonadabs in Burma.—Basil X. Tsatos, Burma.

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers, Istanbul, Turkey

Witnessing to the Albanian Princesses

◆ When the Albanian princesses came to Boston, two of us from the Albanian unit of the Boston company of Jehovah's witnesses called at their hotel and presented them with a message of God's kingdom. They received us very kindly. After brief customary greetings we asked to have our message read, to which request they readily gave consent. There were nine of us in audience, including the Albanian ambassador to the United States. The princesses and all present gave close attention as the following testimony was read in Albanian.

TESTIMONY

As witnesses of Jehovah God it is our privilege and duty to testify concerning God's kingdom as we have opportunity and in the presence of any person. Having just begun a campaign of witnessing among the Albanian people of this section by means of discourses as well as literature, it seemed proper likewise to present a message to your R.H. on the occasion of your visit to Boston.

God's kingdom or government with Christ as King is of the greatest importance. This government of righteousness is now about to be fully established and it is the only hope and the only solution to every problem that confronts the world today, be it economic, political, social, cultural, or whatever it be.

The nations are in great distress at this time and the conditions are growing worse, exactly in fulfillment of a prophetic statement uttered by Jesus concerning the present time, to wit: ‘Upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, men’s hearts failing them for fear of what they see coming upon them.’ What is more, we read in the Bible that Armageddon, the greatest war of all time, is rapidly approaching and at that time all the nations of the earth shall be supplanted by the kingdom of righteousness and peace of Jesus Christ. It shall endure forever and it will be for the common good. It will result in the complete vindication of Jehovah’s name.

The benefits and blessings of this kingdom will be so grand as to be indescribable; and briefly they are as follows: Life everlasting with all the blessings incident thereto, such as health, happiness, prosperity, peace, joy and contentment. The Lord has promised that even ‘those who are in their graves will hear his voice and return therefrom’. These words are true; for they are not the words of any man. They are found in the Bible, the inspired Word of God.

In accordance with the Lord’s commandments this Kingdom message has been preached over all the earth as a warning to all people of good will, and upward of 250,000,000 books have been placed in the hands of the different peoples, translated in more than seventy languages, one of them the Albanian language. It has also been proclaimed through the radio for many years in many languages, in the Albanian language as well. We are glad to inform you that this message has also been proclaimed in Albania for many years and tens of thousands of books have been placed in the hands of the officials and the people of Albania for their enlightenment and comfort. However, at times, in certain parts of Albania this work is opposed and hindered, and the Roman Catholic clergy are back of it because the Bible exposes religion as a means of the Devil to turn the people away from God and from a knowledge of his purpose. Therefore it is our desire that your R.H. use your influence that this witness work go on freely in that land. Do so, and we are confident that the Lord will remember it to your everlasting good.

Crossing a river in Greece

We shall be pleased to deliver to you, through the ambassador, some of our Bible literature so that you may have first-hand information as to the cause of the evil conditions existing today, as well as for the only remedy.

When that part of the message that had to do with the opposition of our work by the Hierarchy was read the princesses looked at one another as to indicate that something very significant was called to their attention and as though to make a mental note, and so it was; for they later promised that they would take the matter up with their brother, King Zog.

At the conclusion of our message the ambassador, Mr. Konitza, turning to the princesses, reiterated by saying, “It is their wish that you use your influence that their preaching go on unmolested in Albania.”

At the same time he went on to say that “theirs is a ‘new’ faith, and they believe that the world [present world organization] will soon come to an end and after that Christ shall reign and then even the dead will be resurrected”.

We thought it was very good indeed of the ambassador to comment as he did. Incidentally, Mr. Konitza is not at all unfamiliar with the Kingdom message, because a witness, prior to his coming into the truth years ago, knew him well in connection with Albania’s cause for independence, and had on several occasions discussed the truth with him and had placed much of the literature with the present Albanian envoy. Owing to a rule of the palace, literature could not be placed directly with the princesses, but it was suggested by the ambassador that it be forwarded through him, which we did the very next day, including the above testimony.—A. L. B.

If Your Name Were Maloney

◆ Suppose your name was Maloney, and you were a district attorney, and a Roman Catholic, and a good subject of the pope, and you did not know much about the American right of free speech, and you did not understand that the United States is a government of the people, and you thought the pope should be the real governor.

And suppose WBBR broadcast a series of articles from Consolation entitled "Jesuitized Germany", and did broadcast one section thereof, and suppose it heated up the Jesuit brethren at Fordham University, and suppose those same brethren, by their spokesman, "Reverend Father" Cox, scorched the telephone wires to WBBR demanding an immediate copy of the script.

And then suppose you got on the wire and applied all the heat you could muster. And suppose you also demanded an immediate copy of the script. And suppose your demand eventually came to a cool-headed American attorney who replied to your heated demand. And suppose you did not get the copy which you might have had if you had made your request like a gentleman, instead of like an Irish Catholic politician. And suppose it was indicated to you that you had been a little remiss in your politeness.

And then suppose another section of the broadcast was put on the air, and your permission was not asked, and not needed. And suppose you knew that you had no right and no power to interfere, because it was none of your business. And suppose WBBR sent word to "Reverend Father" Cox and his friends to listen in. And suppose the stage was all set for trouble.

And suppose the editor of Consolation was all ready for a ride in the black wagon (either the Black Maria or the undertaker's wagon) and you knew in your heart that you had tried to pull off a big bluff and could not get away with it, and suppose WBBR then made a monkey of you publicly over the air, and suppose everybody laughed at you because you had barked up the wrong tree,

Wouldn't It Make You Mad?

To make the above suppositions clear to the average reader, there now follows the introduction (written for WBBR by Judge Rutherford, by special request) to the broadcast of Part 2 of "Jesuitized Germany":

"This station broadcasts strictly in the public interest, public convenience and public necessity as the radio law provides. It does not indulge in personalities nor permit its copy to be censored by individuals but tells the truth as God has commanded.

"The present conditions that exist in Germany are so contrary to the fundamental principles of America and so despicable in the eyes of honest men, and threats and activities of some to Hitlerize America are such that this radio station deems it of great public interest, convenience and necessity to inform its audience of the facts. There is a studied effort in America, prosecuted now with vigor by certain religionists and politicians, to control the American people as Germany is now controlled, and the American people should be thoroughly warned.

"The 'Consolation' magazine is devoted to the publication of facts. Its representative regularly broadcasts from this station facts of importance. Last week its representative broadcast concerning the 'Jesuitized Germany', and then the fireworks began.

"A phone call from someone who identified himself as 'Father Cox' of the Fordham University, informed the station that he had all the Jesuits of that college present to listen to the afore-mentioned broadcast and he demanded that a copy of the broadcast be sent him, and expressed himself in anger and declared his purpose to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission.

"If the Jesuits wish to take the station before the Federal Communications Commission, that will be fine. We will welcome an opportunity to lay before the Federal Communications Commission, in the interests of the public, the un-American conduct of the Jesuits and the Hierarchy to prevent the people from hearing the truth by radio.

"Then came immediately another call from someone who identified himself as Mr. Maloney, United States district attorney, who demanded the name of the one who broadcast the speech. He was told that a representative of 'Consolation' magazine was the person and that this station did not indulge in personalities.

"He then exploded angrily with the words: 'It is not customary for the district attorney's office to bicker for official information it demands.' Asked if he was calling officially as the district attorney, he replied: 'Certainly!' He then demanded a delivery immediately of a transcript of the broadcast to his office.

"This station, knowing that the district attorney has nothing whatsoever to do with the radio, and also knowing that high public officials by law are the servants and not the bosses of the people, it seemed strange that such a high official would make that unusual demand. We concluded, therefore, it must be that someone else was misrepresenting that important and distinguished public official. So it may be that it was not Mr. Maloney who called the station, but that someone used his name and his high office. Probably the Jesuits at the college induced someone to misrepresent Mr. Maloney.

"Regardless of who it was, such an unusual demand and threat is in full keeping with the practice of Jesuits and others of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. They have bluffed almost every radio station in the land and seemingly have been able to get away with it. They feel their 'great importance' and like to frighten the people by threatening official action by government officials. This station does not like to be bluffed, not even by such distinguished officials as the district attorney.

"Bluffing is the extent to which the Hierarchy and the Jesuits may now go, since they have no authority to censor radio programs. The action of those Jesuits, however, is strong proof of what would take place in America if the Catholic Hierarchy-Nazi-Jesuit combine got control of this country. This makes it doubly necessary to warn the American people, and hence our broadcast is much more than usual of public interest, necessity and convenience.

"Don't you think the American people should hear the facts about Jesuitized Germany? We think so; and since this station is operated in the interests of the people, and to the honor of Jehovah God, and not to please some private religio-political concern, we must go on telling the truth to the public. So now you will be pleased to listen again to the editor of 'Consolation'."

(To be continued) New York

Best to Be Stupid (?)

Mrs. Ethel Taranovich, 34, housewife, New York city, had the odd misfortune to find a loaded revolver on the seat of a bus. As a law-abiding citizen she reported the matter to the first policeman and he took her to the station-house. There the highly intelligent Detective Tutt and Lieutenant Dallas placed Mrs. Taranovich under arrest, put her in a patrol wagon, took her to headquarters, had her photographed, fingerprinted and locked up for the night. The next day the owner of the gun displayed a permit which he had held for twenty years; he is the owner of an apartment house. He got out of the bus and accidentally left the gun behind him. The magistrate was sorry the police were so stupid as to abuse a person who was trying to help them. If you were Mrs. Taranovich and you found another gun, what would you do? It is fortunate that not every policeman and detective is as stupid as the ones in this story. But there are far too many of them.

Nazism in Practice

◆ Charles Weiss, 21-year-old cripple, is editor of an anti-Communist, anti-Fascist and anti-Nazist publication in New York styled Uncle Sam. While he was alone four towering men entered his office, laid a swastika flag on his desk and demanded that he kiss it. When he refused they tore American flags from the wall, beat him with the flag staffs, kicked him in the groin, broke a chair on his head, tore away his coat and shirt, scratched a swastika on his back and chest, and left him unconscious with his skull fractured. This is a true picture of Fascism in practice. Think it over.

Peekskill on the Carpet

◆ Rip van Winkle's descendants must still be living in Peekskill. A judge there apparently had not heard about the decision of the Supreme Court that freedom of the press implies the right to distribute printed matter, and the governor of the state had to call the mayor of the city to Albany to tell him that Peekskill is still in the United States. Two weeks later a postcard was delivered that was mailed in the city twenty-one years earlier and reached its destination by the somewhat leisurely speed of one block every seven years.

As in a Glass, Darkly

◆ As in a glass, darkly, one can see a complete capsule picture of our somewhat scattered civilization from a certain point on the East River today. The point is the newly opened Wall Street seaplane ramp, where financial district men come in each morning in their private planes.

Within five blocks of this point we find: (a) seaplanes, almost an end-product of modern technology; (b) kerosene lamps, still used in New York dwellings which have yet to reap the benefits of electricity; (c) the financial center of the world, the Exchange, the Sub-Treasury; (d) clotheslines flapping between tenements shadowed by skyscrapers, (e) high-speed elevators, (f) toiletless apartments.

The old and the new mingle in a provocative manner. It takes a year for some modern inventions to go round the world, and a century to travel three blocks in New York.—New York Post.

One-Fourth on Government Rolls

◆ A survey of New York city shows that 2,200,000 persons are on Federal, state or city pay rolls, either as jobholders or as recipients of some form of relief. Washington relief officials state that Mayor La Guardia, admittedly New York's best mayor in a lifetime, is managing the relief work in the big city better than it is being handled in any other American metropolis.

World's Largest Incinerator

◆ Until recently bathers within fifty miles of New York had to dodge the garbage of the big city, towed out to sea and dumped from the fleet of scows used for the purpose. Now the garbage is burned in the world's biggest incinerator and supplies enough heat to consume itself and manufacture a large amount of electricity besides.

Sweet Mystery of Love

◆ At Niagara Falls in midwinter a year ago a homeless black-and-white mongrel dog stood guard three days and two nights over the body of its mate, killed by an automobile. He dragged the body to a vacant lot, ignoring hunger, bitter cold and stinging sleet, licking the dead dog's face until it was carried off to be cremated.

Big Business

Market for Scrap Iron

International Murderers are much cheered by the news from Shanghai. One of the little children slain on the streets of Shanghai was killed by shrapnel made of scrap iron imported from the United States. There is a big market. In the first eleven months of the undeclared war 100,000 Japanese soldiers, 450,000 Chinese soldiers and 200,000 Chinese civilians were slain, 1,700,000 more were wounded, and 30,000,000 Chinese were made homeless and destitute. In the Japanese raids on Canton 8,000 persons were slain, but business is good for International Murderers, Inc., and more goods are being shipped from America to help the Japanese overrun China than in any other like period in history. The Murderers feel that it is all right to supply arms to the Japanese to destroy the Chinese Republic, and to supply arms to Germany to destroy the Spanish Republic, so long as there is money in it.

A glorious future awaits you, children

Plenty of Armories

◆ A copyrighted article in the Portland (Oreg.) News Telegram states that 925 armories are either being built now or are projected to be built in the United States at a cost of $65,000,000. The article states:

Though this construction work is a major feature of the WPA's activities, there has not been a single publicity release on the subject. Even in the state lists—where the various projects are itemized in detail—the word "armory" is not to be found. They are merely listed as "federal buildings".

When these armories are all built, and all equipped with the latest machine guns and tear and gas bombs, who do you suppose will have them in charge, and who will control the United States? What do you bet that the Hierarchy has plans of every one of them?

Three Times as Foolish

◆ Everybody admits that the great men of the world were foolish, in 1913, in spending some four billion dollars of the people's money in getting ready to butcher their fellow men. But hold. In 1937 the same great men expended nearly three times as much for the same purpose. This raises a nice question in mathematics. If the smartest men in the world admit that in 24 years they have become three times as foolish as they were when they were plain idiots, back in 1913, how many years will it be before the common people wake up to the fact that these so-called "higher powers" are the representatives of the Devil and that the only hope of man is in the kingdom for which Jesus taught His disciples to pray?

Pinnacle of Twentieth Century

◆ The Twentieth Century continues to shine triumphant in its great achievements. The latest word is that if you get caught in a gas attack, and have no other protection handy from the so-called "higher powers" of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, et al., you may live if you breathe through a cloth soaked with urine, and so fulfill Isaiah 36:12. Fine business; fine civilization. On the level, now, could you, down in your heart, blame the Creator if He blotted out the whole works? Man has descended, due to his devilish religions, which dishonor God and man, to depths lower than ever reached by the brute beasts. Aryans? Christians? Civilized? Decent? Bah!

New England

The Fastest Human on Legs

So far as records exist, the fastest human on legs is Glenn Cunningham, of Kansas, whose mile in 4: 04.4 at Dartmouth College is two seconds under the previous record, made last year by Syd Wooderson, of England. Cunningham’s quarters were done in 58.5, 64, 61.7 and 60.2 seconds, respectively.

Fifteen Off Relief in Woburn

◆ Suspecting that relief money was being spent for booze, and suspecting correctly, the mayor of Woburn, Massachusetts, walked into the front door of ten booze joints in his city and found fifteen men and women, receiving relief from the city, who yet had plenty of money to drink intoxicating liquors at the city’s expense. They were dropped from the relief rolls, and many others will follow. Some of these men and women have children who have no shoes on their feet. The wonderful idea of handing out money by the shovelful is not so wonderful after all.

Earthquakes in New England

◆ In New England and New York three quite serious earthquakes occurred in the seventeenth century, five in the eighteenth century, seven in the nineteenth century, and, so far, there have been six in the twentieth century, in 1904, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1929, and 1931.

New Use for Praties

◆ M. J. Brought, Connecticut, says he has a cat so fond of raw potatoes that he begs to go into the cellar to eat them, if he can find none in the kitchen. It is your turn next.

Harvard stadium, Cambridge, Massachusetts

--Pennsylvania

Popularizing a Murderer

It is a hard job to popularize a murderer, but it can be done, and is being done. It ought to be a well-paying business, if the murderer happens to be the dictator of some 80,000,000 people. The German efficiency experts have taken more than 100,000 pictures of Hitler. In thousands of these he is shown with children, fondling them, smiling upon them. These postcards sell well and help maintain the delusion in Germany that they have something besides a mere gangster at the helm. In its December 6, 1937, issue Life had nine of these pictures. Joseph E. Bolden, a citizen of Pennsylvania, thought he knew why they were published, and wrote Life:

Accept my congratulations on the profound perception and keen insight registered on page 7, December 6 issue of Life. I refer to the third line of the second paragraph under the title "This is Jugend um Hitler". Quote: "he (Hitler) is genuinely fond of children." I am grateful that you put that in, because few people would believe it otherwise. In the next issue, to stop the mouths of whatever carping critics may yet remain of your subscribers, it would be an excellent idea to show equally lovely pictures of Hitler, the lover of Free Speech, consoling the bereft children of Nazi-murdered political opponents; Hitler the Tolerant, weeping bitter tears over the pitiful fate of the children of Jehovah's witnesses in prison and concentration camp, and dying daily from brutal treatment with other harmless minorities; Hitler the author of the Brotherhood of Man, bewailing the cruel destiny of Jewish children orphaned by storm troopers and crazed populace. By all means let us have more of these sublime records of Hitler the Bigot, Hitler the Fool, Hitler the Murderer, Hitler the Tyrant, Hitler the Madman, and we will rejoice in the glorious humanities of this new age.

Life came back crying that they had said at the outset that the photographs were propaganda pictures and they thought that made their position clear. But it did not satisfy Bolden, and he concluded the correspondence thus:

Your letter of December 21 is a not too interesting example of reiteration; that is all. The editors of Life must be very young and pubescent to believe that its readers are all simple-minded. I will only remind you that labeling something propaganda does not pull its teeth, especially when the label is wrapped in the silly and syrupy language generally found on the editorial page of a woman's magazine.

William Penn, Heil Hitler! ? ? ? ? ?

◆ "We take the position that the flag represents all of our people and the country itself and that all people here should be willing to display their respect, love and devotion in an outward manner for America, through the salute to the flag.

"Church and State are separate in this country, consequently the religious belief of any one is not sufficient reason to make exceptions. . . . We are fearful if officials fail to take a definite stand in this matter, indifference and disrespect will grow continually.

"Why not issue an order that all school children must display proper respect for the national anthem, including saluting the flag?" — Patriotic Order of Sons of America of Pennsylvania. [Patriotic ? ? ? ? ? — Ed.]

Natural Gas Under Pittsburgh

◆ Natural gas is so plentiful under Pittsburgh that in almost any place within the city limits where a well is drilled gas is likely to come out along with the water, and in many places when water is pumped the pump will spit fire if a match is touched to the spout. In one place in the Pittsburgh area it was necessary to close a school until the water tank could be removed to the roof, as it was feared the mixture of gas in the water pipes might cause an explosion similar to the catastrophe in New London, Texas, in which several hundred little folks lost their lives.

Some Tall Plants

◆ In one issue The Pennsylvania Farmer presents letters from subscribers describing plants grown on their places: a leaf of tobacco 37 inches by 23 inches; a dahlia 9 1/2 feet tall, with 20 blooms and buds; a tomato plant 9 feet high; a hollyhock 9 feet 10 inches in height; and an apple tree that for twelve years in succession averaged 55 bushels of apples per year. Next!

Communists Rent a Hall in Philadelphia

◆ Judge Alessandroni, in Philadelphia, acting on a writ of mandamus, ruled that trustees of the Municipal Convention Hall must rent the building to the Communists for a Lenin memorial meeting. It was a common-sense decision. The judge said truly that it is a dangerous thing to prevent a meeting.

Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana

Clover Splint Coal Corporation

◆ Having admitted in open court that it is one of the twenty corporations and forty-four persons indicted by the United States Government for a conspiracy to commit violence, to deprive union members of their rights to organize, the Clover Splint Coal Corporation really admitted guilt for all the defendants, for the reign of terror in Harlan County, Kentucky. The general superintendent of the Black Mountain Coal Corporation also admitted that he was present when the defendants met and agreed on their policy of murder, beatings, kidnapings and torture.

The Silly Van Sweringens

◆ The silly Van Sweringens (Cleveland milkmen, real estate operators and railroad busters) failed, and should have failed. Their estate of 600 acres is a vast park with some 50 buildings on it. The main house has three dining rooms. The main table in the big dining room has 84 legs. It cost $300 a month to supply the big house with its hot water. There is a barber shop, a laundry that would be big enough for a small city, and a swimming pool big enough for a big club.

Sixteen Persons in Two Beds

◆ In the richest country in the world, in a two-room farmhouse near Wabash, Indiana, sixteen persons, a father, mother, twelve children, a son-in-law and a new-born grandchild, slept in two beds or on the floor, and on a cold night last winter the 24-day-old baby was suffocated and died. Both fathers were unemployed.

Amherst Does It Twice

◆ For the second time Amherst, Ohio, sent its electricity consumers its December bills marked "Paid". The board of public welfare had a surplus of $3,275 at the end of the year, and they thought the people would appreciate dividends on their municipally owned plant; and they thought right.

Let Them Live

◆ Mice can be caught fast with the humane one-mouse steel-wire-spring trap. They should not be treated cruelly. If we can put up with a mouse or more, let them live.—W. G. Reasor, Kentucky. [See Watchtower of Dec. 1.—Ed.]

"Post Vaccination Paralysis"

◆ At East Palestine, Ohio, Mrs. Ralph W. Heck, 40 years of age, had a pet dog that she thought was mad. It was probably nothing of the kind. But, anyway, the lady was encouraged to take the Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia. It killed her. She died, leaving her husband and three daughters. The physicians stated that the cause of death was "post vaccination paralysis", but added that this should not deter others from taking the rabies treatment.

Interesting Situation at Niles

◆ That was an interesting situation at Niles, Ohio, where, for over three weeks, 278 workers did not dare leave the Republic Steel plant, and the only way they could get food was to have an airplane fly overhead and drop the food in a net. The workers claimed that C.I.O. men even tried to shoot down the plane. Such methods of winning a strike do not look good, and are not good.

Care of the Insane in Indiana

◆ At Madison State Hospital (for the insane) four guards instructed one of the patients to cut the lawn, which he did, but moved too slowly to suit them. The four attendants jumped on him, crushed his chest and killed him. A check of the patient's record showed he had not been unruly during the ten years in which he was in the asylum.

Proud of His Baby Daughter

◆ Proud of his baby daughter, Robert Brice, of Evansville, Indiana, sat on a bed beside her, and struck a match to light a cigarette. It happened that there were gasoline fumes in the room; these exploded when the match was lit, and the little newcomer in the world was so badly burned that her recovery was doubtful. What a price for a cigarette!

Rushville's Educated Cow

◆ Rushville, Indiana, has an educated cow. In some manner unknown it learned to hook one horn over a pump handle and to work the pump handle up and down until the tub beneath the spout is filled with water. Sometimes, when unusually thirsty the cow licks up some of the water as it falls from the spout at each stroke.

In the Northwest

The Nunn-Bush Shoe Company

◆ The Nunn-Bush Shoe Company, Milwaukee, has a sensible and practical plan of giving every employee a pay check once a week, no matter what the condition of business. All pay into a wage fund. Each has a drawing account. As business improves the drawing account is subject to improvement. As slack times come on the amount is reduced, but the worker always has something coming in. In three years in which the plan operated the annual income of the average worker rose from $1,006 to $1,385. Eleven hundred men and women are employed, and only one person was discharged in three years. New employees are taken on probation, and may be discharged in six months by a vote of the employees.

Up-to-Date Fergus Falls

◆ Up-to-date Fergus Falls, Minnesota, distributes electricity to its citizens at a cost of about one-third of what neighboring towns pay. Even that was making money too fast for the city-owned plant; so electricity for the month of February, 1937, was furnished free.

Coming Out for the C.I.O.

◆ The Roman Hierarchy is gradually coming out and recognizing the C.I.O. Thus, Archbishop Edward Mooney, of Detroit, rebuking Coughlin for reproaching the C.I.O., makes the statement:

No Catholic Church authority has ever asserted that the C.I.O. is incompatible with Catholicity.

$24,000 to Keep Still

◆ Now Congress is interested, and the people of Iowa are interested, because an eminent citizen, with a good knowledge of the advantages to the public of publicly-owned utilities, is found to have received $24,000 in the last five years simply to keep his mouth shut and not tell the people of Fort Dodge and vicinity anything that “may be regarded by the United Light and Power Co. as being inimical or against the interest or property of the said company or any of its subsidiaries”. The worst of it is that the people of Fort Dodge are thus compelled to pay for the privilege of keeping themselves in ignorance of what would be for their benefit.

Getting Down to Business

◆ Getting down to business, seven Methodist ministers at Rolfe, Iowa, engaged in a corn-husking contest. The “Reverend” Harold Dayton, Dickens, Iowa, won by husking 1,240 pounds (17.7 bushels net) in 60 minutes. He was clocked at 30 ears to the minute, one every two seconds; a good record.

Audience of 25,000 listening to Judge Rutherford at Sydney, Australia

The Glass Schoolhouse at Elkader

◆ The glass schoolhouse at Elkader, Iowa, is built of glass blocks eight inches square and four inches thick. Made with an irregular or lens surface, the blocks keep out glare and heat, but admit 75 percent of the light. There are only four windows in the building, and no window shades.

COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Catholic Action

WHAT is known as "Catholic Action" is a world-wide movement originating in the mind of the present-day pope to further the interests of the political religious organization known as the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Many persons do not understand exactly what "Catholic Action" means or what is its purpose. This magazine has heretofore called attention to the strangle-hold that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has on Australia. In defining "Catholic Action" a publication recently issued by the Legislative Committee of the Loyal Orange Institution of New Zealand has this to say: "'Catholic Action' is a movement inaugurated by Pope Pius XI directed to be extended to every country to advance the interests of the Roman Catholic Church, not as a Christian spiritual institution, but as a political organization to dominate governments, to control the making and administration of the law by securing the election to the legislature and local authorities of Romanists or non-Romanists who will favor that Church and by the appointment of Romanists to the principal offices in the Civil Service, in local bodies' administration and in all public bodies. Further, business houses, factories, trade unions, sports bodies, etc., are all included in the ambit of this papal organization."

A short time ago the archbishop of Australia addressed the "Catholic Action Guild" at Sydney, and, amongst other things, he said with reference to New South Wales: "The public service today is in the grip of the Roman Catholic Church. It is 63-percent Roman Catholic. The applicants for positions are 92-percent Catholic, and within the next five years it is the demand of the Holy Father that the civil service shall be 100-percent Roman Catholic." Continuing his speech, the archbishop further stated that every department of the transportation, both road and rail, in each section is splendidly organized, that the Police and Postal departments have their particular attention in the organization; and then he gave the instruction that where a vacancy occurs the Catholic must be placed a step higher, and further said: "Care must be taken that no suspicion can be raised as to the number of Catholics as against non-Catholics."

No one has ever denied the Catholics the right to preach their doctrines, but when that organization is turned from religious to political action wholly, then it is time for the people to awaken to the danger. For many years the Hierarchy have had their covetous eyes on the United States. That organization is fully determined to gain complete control of the political affairs of the United States of America. For several years the Watch Tower publications have been calling the people's attention to the ambitious efforts of the Hierarchy to gain control of and rule America. Probably now, since the secular press is publishing daily as a matter of news the activities of the Hierarchy in conjunction with the leading politicians of America, such may have a tendency to open the eyes of some people to the real danger. The Protestant clergy seem to have gone completely to sleep. They give no heed to the warning, and at least give their silent support to Catholic Action.

In the political administrative departments of the nation and of every state the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has placed its trusted agents and representatives. These men are first for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and secondarily for whatsoever state or government they represent. In practically every metropolitan newspaper in America there are trusted agents of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy who keep the Hierarchy officials duly informed as to what is going on and see to it that the publication of things derogatory to the Hierarchy is reduced to the minimum. There has never before been such an organized effort put forth by any people under the sun to get control of the entire earth.

Fascists, Nazis and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are working together, the Hierarchy occupying the place of spiritual overlord and a kind of super-government over the others. This combine first grabbed Italy, then Germany. It carried on an unholy war in destroying Abyssinia. For two years it has been prosecuting a revolution in Spain. And the efforts of such organization are extended to every part of the earth.

Two years ago I called attention to the people of Switzerland that the 'Fascists, Nazis and Hierarchy combine would grab Switzerland.

That statement so incensed the Hierarchy that they caused the police to announce the rule that no alien could make a speech hereafter in Switzerland unless he first filed a copy of it with the Police Department. Now, on the 5th of November, 1938, the New York Post carries a double-column headline as follows: "Switzerland Is Ripe for Picking by Nazis." Amongst other things, the Post says: "It is an open secret that the Swiss army officers corps contains numerous Nazi sympathizers. They argue that Switzerland was once a part of Germany and that modern conditions have deprived it of any economic reason for independent existence." "It is rumored that there is an agreement between Hitler and Mussolini giving German-Switzerland to Hitler and the canton Tessin and the southern part of Graubuenden to Italy, making the Lake of Geneva the border between the two Fascist nations. Switzerland is ripe for the picking and Berlin knows it. . . . There are enough Nazi spies and Nazi propagandists in Switzerland to create a temporary reign of terror whenever the signal is given. After that the same old program: intervention to defend the 130,000 Reich Germans living in Switzerland."

Catholic Action is stronger in Switzerland today than at any other time since the time of William Tell. The republic is completely doomed. This result has been brought about by Catholic Action in Switzerland.

It appears that America will not awaken to the danger until it is too late and a Fascist Hierarchy dictator will rule this nation. Such is the aim of Catholic Action, and many of the leading politicians of America are working hand in glove with the Hierarchy to accomplish this result.

Natural Phenomena

Epsilon Aurigae

◆ For 49 years suspected of existence, Epsilon Aurigae, a partly cold star which now gives off only infra-red rays, has been partly located. At last, instruments and use of infra-red-sensitive materials completed the task of location and brought to light the astonishing fact that here is a sun so large that if it were hollow and earth's sun were placed at its center, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus could keep right on revolving within the shell and only Neptune and Pluto would be outside. Uranus is only 1,782,000,000 miles from the sun, but this new star has itself a radius of approximately 2,000,000,000 miles. "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?"—Psalm 8 : 4.

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