Consolation—1939

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Contents

A Mighty Catholic in the “Pit” (3) 3

Judge Manton’s Religion 4

Latin America and West Indies 8

Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois 9

From Rangoon, Burma 10

Another South Sea Paradise 11

The New Government 12

Two West African Pioneers 13

God’s Glories in the Smoky Mountains 15

Belated Convention News 16

Northern Europe

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Unpardonable 17

Animal Husbandry 18

Crops and Soils 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag

Some Pagan Ceremonies 20

Idolatry in New Orleans 22

Lying About the Almighty 23

All Things Considered 25

British Comment

War Conditions 28

Roman Catholic Militiamen 29

The Bomb Outrages 29

“Upon the Earth Distress of Nations” 29

On the Briny Deep 31

Last Deeds of a Tiger 31

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Appetizers

Then the Fight Began

When the boys of the 90th Division were in France, some were in a French barbershop teaching the barber to greet his American customers politely in their own language.

After drilling him over several times, they assured him that he was perfect in his lesson.

The boys then stepped outside to hear their student recite his lesson.

About thirty minutes later the captain of the company came in and hung up his cap.

The barber, standing by the chair with his towel in one hand, bowed politely and said to the captain:

“All right, you bone-headed cootie chaser, you are next.”—Labor.

A Business Day

A. M. (as outlined by secretary over telephone)

A. M. “He hasn’t come in yet.”

“I expect him in any minute.”

“He just sent word he’d be a little late.”

“He’s been in, but he went out again.”

“He’s gone to lunch.”

P. M. “I expect him in any minute.”

“He hasn’t come back yet. Can I take a message?”

“He’s somewhere in the building. His hat is here.”

“Yes, he was in, but he went out again.”

“I don’t know whether he’ll be back or not.”

“No, he’s gone for the day.”—Punch Bowl.

Not Much Difference

Stranger: “Boy, your corn looks yellow.”

“Yes, that’s the kind we planted.”

“Don’t look as if you’d get more’n half a crop.”

“Don’t expect to. The landlord gets the other half.”

“Boy,” said the stranger, after a pause, “there isn’t much difference between you and a fool.”

“No,” replied the boy, “only the fence.”

—Labor.

Damp Dry

Patient Parent—What on earth is the matter now?

Young Hopeful (who has been bathing with his bigger brother)—Willie dropped the towel in the water and he’s dried me wetter than I was before.—Labor Herald.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 6, 1939 Number 521

A Mighty Catholic in the "Pit" (In Three Parts—Part 3)

IN THE two preceding issues of Consolation the infamy of Martin T. Manton which resulted in his conviction and sentence to prison June 1939 for "selling justice", and his earlier conspiracy to keep eight innocent men in prison during the stormy years of 1918-19, was reviewed. Those who know Manton's career as revealed in his trial and conviction for accepting $186,000 in bribes for six decisions were not surprised to learn how he conspired with other high Catholics to keep Judge Rutherford and seven other Christians in the Atlanta penitentiary for nine months by refusing them bail.

Manton gave no reason for refusing them bail. When the case finally came before himself, Ward and Rogers, justices of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the judgment was reversed by the prevailing opinion of Ward and Rogers, Manton dissented. Although not required to do so, he also submitted an opinion. The readers will be interested in this opinion, which is reproduced in detail in this issue, showing how more than twenty years ago the "commercial judge" was determined to do the will of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

Nor is this merely one past chapter in the misdeeds of a criminal. In passing it might be noted, and this without criticism of the officiating judge, that while Manton is now by continuance of his bail permitted to enjoy his Long Island home of luxurious comfort and spend the thousands he extorted from other Americans whom he blackmailed, when Manton himself was confronted by innocent Christians seeking bail he consigned them to the rigors of prison. But even this inequality of justice is not the important thing.

Manton a Mere Stooge

The significant fact for Americans, both Protestant and Catholic, to note is this: The Hierarchy used Manton to keep these men WRONGFULLY in prison for nine months, and to this day they denounce Judge Rutherford as an "ex-convict", which he was NOT; yet their presses are now silent at the conviction of Manton, "KNIGHT OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT," who reduced the appellate bench to a court of blackmail. With this amazing opportunity before them the Roman Catholic press might come forward with an editorial decrying the abuses of this honored member of the church, but they do not. The American people are thus left to the assumption that the Romanists do not approve the punishment of a Catholic, be he blackmailer, briber or thief. What say you, Hierarchy of Rome?

The Hierarchy claim infallibility in matters of jurisdiction, and, no doubt, had Manton been tried in their courts he would have been acquitted and made a KNIGHT of some other THE-GREAT. However, Consolation submits the only infallible rule of injunctions to judges, that found in God's Word of truth, the Bible, as evidence that the American Constitution, and not church authority, approximates the Lord's commands as touching judiciary conduct. Some of those who figured prominently in Manton's conviction, Attorney General Murphy, U. S. Prosecutor John T. Cahill, Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, and Chief of "G-Men", Edgar Hoover, even though they are not commended by the Catholic church, their course of action is approved by the GREAT KING OF JUSTICE; and this is shown by the scriptures which follow.

“Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.”—Exodus 23: 6-8.

“Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which [Jehovah] thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live.”—Deuteronomy 16:18-20.

“Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men; in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.”—Psalm 26:9, 10.

“He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; he shall dwell on high.”—Isaiah 33:15, 16.

“For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.”—Amos 5:12.

The Canon Law of the Catholic Church assumes an authority much higher than the mere Word of God just quoted. The tradition of men, and not the Bible, is their authority for Canon 2341, which provides that anyone who sues a bishop or cardinal is automatically excommunicated. Canon 120 provides that the clergy may be tried only in ecclesiastical courts; no judgment can be rendered against the Canon Law (paragraph 461); jurors are bound to absolve the defendants in such cases, and are to affirm that the crime of the cleric is not proved. Penalties to the clergy must be benignant. (Canon 2219) The judge cannot increase the prescribed penalty. (Canon 2223) Suspended sentences are prescribed, even where penalties are designated. (Canon 2233) Jesus condemns the traditions of men contrary to the law of God, according to Matthew 15:3; nor is it possible to find a more glaring example of following the tradition of men than by rendering partial judgments in favor of the persons of clerics or other men.

Even as the “Church” profited in Manton’s ill-gotten wealth, so it must share in the ignominy of his disgrace. For an organization that approves a system of obtaining money under FALSE PRETENSES, such as that involved in “purgatory prayers”, must of necessity share the condemnation of a son who models his court practices on the teachings of the Catholic Church of Rome.

Judge Manton’s Religion

The high honors bestowed upon Manton by the Roman Catholic Church were never modified by a word of censure upon his villainous conduct. Nor is it to be expected of the church which has spawned Catherine de Medici, “Bloody” Mary, Al Caponi, Franco “The Butcher”, Hitler and Mussolini, to mention only a few of the most “illustrious”. Far from condemning his conduct, one of the agents of the Hierarchy, a priest, was the first person to call on the “commercial judge” after he had been arrested. And one of Manton’s last acts in office was to receive in his chambers “Reverend Father” William E. Cashin, of the nearby St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church, where Red Mass for the Judiciary is held annually. Is not the “Church” which thus approves him, as well as Manton himself, weighed in the balance and found wanting?

When an INNOCENT man who had criticized the “Church” was WRONGFULLY condemned, O Hierarchy, your merciless and fiendish laughs were heard from pole to pole. Now, when the product of your teachings, the ideal of Papal training, has been sentenced as a FELON, what say YOU, Hierarchy of Rome?

Manton Makes a Pile

In his position as the tenth ranking judge of the United States (next to the nine on the Supreme Court) Manton made at one time over a million dollars. He should have been content with his salary of $12,500 a year, as set out in the code of ethics of the American Bar Association, Canons 4, 24, 26 and 32. On this point President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said:

It is repugnant to our sense of the proper administration of justice that judges should be permitted to engage in business during their terms of office. This principle admits of no doubt and should be applied throughout the State.

Business was good at first, and Manton at one time considered himself worth over $1,000,000. Then things began to slip, and on two consecutive days in July, 1938, complaints came in to the New York World-Telegram office that Manton was sitting in cases that involved lawyers or litigants from whom the judge or his associates had obtained financial benefits such as loans. This evidence came into the hands of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He made an investigation, and found that six of the loans totaled $439,481.44, which is considerable change for a Federal judge to take in on the side. In all, it is reported that Manton had twenty-five corporations on the string, among them the American Tobacco Co. and Warner Brothers.

After Twenty-one Years

For twenty-one years the Roman Catholic press has raved approval of Manton’s refusal to grant bail to Judge Rutherford and his companions, which refusal he twice executed by order, July 1 and July 12, 1918. As a consequence these men spent nine months in the Atlanta penitentiary. When admitted to bail by order of the Supreme Court of the United States they were released and acquitted. This incarceration which Manton forced upon these Christians pending their new trial and acquittal is the basis upon which the Roman Catholic Church has libelously called Judge Rutherford an “ex-convict” for twenty-one years. Even the flagrance of this injustice is not the most important thing. But when an organization lauds a felon and persecutes a Christian and at the same time claims to be the representative of Christ the people should be told that their claims are false, and their lie is open for all men to see. What say you, Hierarchy of Rome?

In times past anybody who offended the Papal organization was branded “heretic”, a term which in Catholic usage has meaning similar to the word “unpatriotic”, namely, a critic of Romanism. Their fertility in coining false and inconsistent charges and hurling them at an opponent is amazing. For instance, most of the Protestant martyrs were burned for disputing the authority of the pope, and this was claimed to be punishment for attacking God’s representative. But the lechery and bestiality of these same popes was never for a moment questioned, just as today the felony of Manton is tacitly approved.

In their efforts to dispose of Judge Rutherford their inconsistency has had no bounds. During the war he was accused of having “Hun” sympathies; at this day he is denounced as an anti-German Nazi; on occasion in Switzerland he was reported by agents of Rome to have been the trial judge in the famous conviction of the Communists Sacco and Vanzetti, and he narrowly escaped death from a rioting band of Communists; an article in the Hierarchy’s Brooklyn Tablet says his speeches are “Communism in another dress”; in Madrid he was very nearly murdered by a mob who said he was a “Jesuit”. (this rumor was undoubtedly circulated by a Jesuit); in Germany the cry was “Kill that Jew”; in Lisbon, “Shoot that anti-Communist.” If you are a Catholic and accept without examination whatever is told you by a priest, which of these stories do you believe? The Hierarchy’s real charge against Judge Rutherford they dare not make: that he is a Christian and therefore, as a true follower of Jesus Christ, uncompromisingly opposed to their hypocrisy and wickedness.

For many years Consolation has been saving a page for the answer of the Hierarchy to these charges. This page is still blank, but the paper is becoming somewhat yellow from age. What says the gentle reader, shall we throw it away?

The Leopard’s Whelp

When a Catholic is elevated to the distinguished position of “Knight of St. Gregory the Great” he must have overcome all weakness that might lead him to prefer principle to the interests of the Catholic Church. He must be a true whelp of the leopard, with all the spots and never a flaw. Such a man was found in Manton, but he must be tested.

The Hierarchy noted with gleeful approval that he twice refused bail to the eight Christians they were determined to destroy. But in the spring of 1919, and even before, seven hundred thousand letters were flooding Washington and the trial judge, Howe, had wired his recommendation for “commutation”, hoping thus to cast off some of the ignominy of his prejudiced conduct of the trial; eminent lawyers and officials, such as Governor Selzer, of New York, Senator Hiram Johnson, and Senator Tom Watson, were offering their services free to correct this odious miscarriage of justice. The appeal was certain to come before Rogers, Ward and Manton because the Supreme Court of the United States had ordered bail. What would the leopard’s whelp do now?

It was not until some time thereafter that Manton was created “Knight of St. Gregory the Great” by Papal decree. But he established his record for wicked prejudice in his dissenting opinion which affirmed judgment in a trial with 125 errors. The spawn of the leopard never changes its spots! His vote was nullified by the prevailing opinion of Judges Rogers and Ward reversing the judgment, but Manton had distinguished himself for the Hierarchy. The record of this appeal and Manton’s amazing opinion, which has on occasions since been produced as evidence to prejudice against Judge Rutherford, is set forth below.

Action of the Court of Appeals

When bail had finally been allowed, after their imprisonment for nine months because Manton refused to grant bail (in great contrast to the manner in which Judge W. Calvin Chesnut, of Catholic Baltimore, continued Manton’s own bail even after conviction), the case came before Judges Ward, Rogers and Manton. This appeal is described in detail in Rutherford et al. v. U. S., Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. May 14, 1919. Federal Reporter, Vol. 258, Criminal Law 657, Trial No. 239. The decision of the lower court was reversed in the majority opinion by Justices Rogers and Ward. From that opinion the following is quoted:

In error to the District Court of the U. S. for the Eastern District of N. Y.

Joseph F. Rutherford and others were convicted of violating the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, Tit. 1, §§ 3, 4, and they bring error. Reversed and remanded for trial.

OPINION OF WARD, CIRCUIT JUDGE

This is a writ of error to a judgment of conviction of the defendants, eight in number, indicted for violation of section 3 and 4, title 1, of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. . . . Seven of the defendants were sentenced to terms of twenty years [on each of four counts of the indictment, the sentence to commence and run concurrently, and “that they stand committed until the sentence is complied with”, a total of eighty years each!] and the eighth to a term of ten years in the federal penitentiary of Atlanta.

Judge Ward recounted some of the prejudicial actions of the trial court, many examples of which appear in the record. An actual count discloses 125 different errors committed in the trial court.

He concluded his opinion with these words:

“The defendants in this case did not have the temperate and impartial trial to which they were entitled and for that reason the judgment was reversed.”

Before taking up the dissenting opinion of Manton, which had no effect on the reversal of judgment, was unnecessary and quite evidently spiteful, it is interesting to note that even Howe, the trial judge, had already admitted his harshness and lack of judicial temperance in a letter set out below dated at Burlington, Vermont, March 3, 1919:

The Honorable Attorney General,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

Answering your telegram of the 1st inst., I wired you last evening as follows:

“Recommend immediate commutation for Joseph F. Rutherford, William E. Van Amburgh, Robert J. Martin, Fred H. Robinson, George H. Fisher, Clayton J. Woodworth, Giovanni De Cecca, and Hugh Macmillan. They were all defendants in same case in Eastern District of New York. My position is to be generous now that the war is over. They did much damage by preaching and publishing their religious doctrines.”

The severe sentence of twenty years was imposed upon each of the defendants except De Cecca. His was ten years. My principal purpose was to make an example, as a warning to others, and I believed that the President would release them after the war was over. As I said in my telegram, they did much damage, and it may well be claimed that they ought not to be set at liberty so soon, but as they cannot do any more harm now, I am in favor of being as lenient as I was severe in imposing sentence. I believe most of them were sincere, if not all, and I am not in favor of keeping such persons in confinement after their opportunity for making trouble is past. Their case has not yet been heard in the Circuit Court of Appeals.

Respectfully,

[Signed] HARLAND B. HOWE,

United States District Judge.

Also referring to some of this harshness where even the department of justice “said prisoners had been victims of war-time passion or prejudice”, a dispatch widely published throughout the nation on March 5, 1919, stated:

ASK CLEMENCY FOR EIGHT

Thousands of letters have been received by the department of justice asking executive clemency for J. F. Rutherford, head of the International Bible Students Association, and seven associates now serving sentences in the Atlanta federal prison on charges of disloyalty growing out of publication of the “FINISHED MYSTERY”, a Bible handbook. These cases were appealed by the convicted men from the federal district court in Brooklyn, and are pending in the appellate court. Officials indicated that no action would be taken in their cases until the appellate court had rendered a decision.

Likewise a petition bearing 700,000 names had been presented at Washington. It will thus be seen that the rehearing of this case and the subsequent reversal of judgment hardly came as a voluntary desire on the part of the officials to amend an error of justice, as they had all previously refused to allow bail. It came as a result of much public agitation of the subject, and it was doubtless fear of this publicity that prompted the above-quoted letter and telegram of Harland B. Howe, who had originally tried the case.

The war was over. Nothing had been done by Rutherford and his fellow Christians to interrupt the war. They had only aided their brethren in filing application for exemption under the Selective Draft Act. All the foregoing facts were before Manton and without any reason he filed a dissenting opinion insisting that the defendants should be kept in prison for the whole term of 80 years because of the publication of The Finished Mystery, which book was written before the war began and no part of it being written by Rutherford.

A book written by President Wilson before the war contained much stronger language than The Finished Mystery. The salient part of Manton’s Opinion follows:

Manton, Circuit Judge. I dissent.

The offenses charged were committed between June 16, 1917, and May 6, 1918. The corporations, acting through their officers and employes, who were indicted, between June 30, 1917, and March, 1918, caused to be published 850,000 copies of a book called “The Finished Mystery”. These copies were distributed in large numbers in the army camps of the United States, and many hundreds of thousands of copies were distributed throughout the United States and Canada. The book purported to be an interpretation of the Book of Revelations and the Book of Ezekiel. The book has taken the shape of a small bible or prayer book. The first half is devoted to many quotation, with interpretations, from the Scriptures. Then, in about the center of the book, are found writings, placed there in a very insinuative manner, of which the following extracts are a type:

“Standing opposite to those Satan has placed three great untruths, human immortality, the Antichrist and a certain delusion which is best described by the word Patriotism, but which is in reality murder, the spirit of the very Devil. . . . Under the guise of Patriotism the civil governments of earth demand of peace-loving men the sacrifice of themselves and their loved ones and the butchery of their fellows, and hail it as a duty demanded by the laws of heaven.” Page 247.

“If you say that this war is a last resort in a situation which every other method, patiently tried, has failed to meet, I must answer that this is not true—that other ways and means of action, tried by experience and justified by success, have been laid before the administration and will fully rejected.

“In its ultimate causes, this war is the natural product of our unchristian civilization. . . . There is not a question raised, an issue involved, a cause at stake, which is worth the life of one blue-jacket on the sea or one khaki-coat in the trenches.” Page 251.

At about this stage, the fertile mind of the reader would be very much interested, if sanctimonious at all. At this stage, he is supplied this food or poison for his patriotism and loyalty to his country. Under the mockery of religion or religious teaching, I can conceive of no worse thrust at America and at America’s needs, at the time of the publication of this book, than that which was published in this book by the defendants. We in America all accord to men of all religious faiths the right to an honest and faithful belief in their creed and the practice of it accordingly, but that the defendants’ efforts were intentional and for the desired purpose is apparent from a mere recital of some of the happenings during this period.

I see no error warranting a reversal of this conviction in the conduct of the trial judge, and in my opinion the judgment should be affirmed.

Manton’s patriotic fervor as expressed in this opinion gives further light on the meaning of the word “patriotic” as used by distinguished Catholics. He found great dangers to the nation in the actions of true Christians. And he found no objection in his own case to selling his judicial decisions for lucre.

Here is a clear example of how eminent Catholics consider they should be immune to all restrictions as is decreed by Catholic canon law for their clerics. As no criticism has yet come from the Catholic press for Manton’s treacherous conduct, it must be assumed that these self-constituted guards of “patriotism” must approve his action. Of course, the laws of a country do not apply to an honored Catholic who takes his orders from Rome.

Thus it appears that in 1919 Manton was already warped in the Jesuit school of bribery. A leopard never changes its spots. Thus stamping on honor, justice, and truth Manton acted as the ideal servant of the Hierarchy and has their tacit approval to this day. The spots will never change, but perhaps a striped uniform will shortly in Manton’s case form an appropriate “mark of distinction”.—Elton Groves.

It Could Have Been Worse

IN THE Windsor (Ont.) Daily Star, the writer of the “Now” column gleefully boasted of the fact that while some of Jehovah’s witnesses visited Paincourt, telling of God’s kingdom, certain persons filled the luggage carrier with “the most fragrant fertilizers known to Kent County farmers”. He adds, “Paincourt happens to be an almost wholly Roman Catholic community.”

Oh well, that was pretty bad. But just think what could have happened if the editor of the “Now” column had been as small of stature as he is of intellect and he himself had been put in the carrier.

Latin America and West Indies

Another Devilish Invention

◆ Another devilish invention is that of an acid which, when mixed with salt water, forms a solution under the water that eats into any kind of metal. Drums of this acid, made in Germany, were brought to a point off Mexico by the German freighter Edna. There they were transferred to the Japanese fishing boat Flying Cloud, and landed at Ensenada, ninety miles from San Diego, in June, 1937. Though watched day and night, one of these drums was obtained three months after they landed. The acid drums are twice as large as gasoline drums, and are lined with rubber.

“Little Devil” in Mexico

◆ The Mexican Light and Power Company estimates that 25 percent of its power is stolen by using the so-called “little devil” to carry the electricity around the meter. In Scranton, Pennsylvania, some years ago a clever electrician tapped the electric wires in such a manner as to cause the family of a widow, living in the same apartment house, to pay for the current he and his family consumed. It’s a wonderful world.

Panama No Spaghetti

◆ Panama should shame itself. The Italian flagship called on a good-will tour, and the people of Panama rotten-egged the show, also freely distributing dead cats, antique vegetables and other tokens, until the officials in the automobile had to return to ship and change uniforms, before they could complete their calls.

Japanese Airport in Costa Rica

◆ The Japanese airport in Costa Rica, 250 miles, or about one hour’s flight, from the Panama canal, is said to be ideal for the purposes. Bought and still operated as a cotton field, the prices paid for the field, and the location, make its use as a landing field in time of war almost certain.

Fickle Sea Gulls

◆ In 1937 sea gulls destroyed millions of locusts in Nicaragua, but when 1938 came around and the same pests destroyed the bean crop, Nicaragua’s chief food, those gulls just would not show up. What is the reason? You explain it.

The Treasures of Silver Bank

◆ Thirty-five miles off the coast of San Domingo lie sixteen galleons which went down in a hurricane in 1632, loaded with $70,000,000 of treasure, some $3,500,000 of which has been salvaged. The wrecks, under 65 feet of water, are completely covered with coral formations. The waters thereabout are particularly dangerous, being exposed to hurricanes, and armies of man-eating sharks and barracudas, as well as treacherous undersea currents.

The Avalanches in St. Lucia

◆ The avalanches in the island of St. Lucia, in the Windward islands, and which avalanches resulted in the death of about a hundred persons, came so swiftly that few had time to escape from the path, and in some instances legs and arms were severed from bodies by the rush of the debris. The region is volcanic. The landslides were caused by continuous rains, causing mountains and hills to split wide open.

An Honor to Costa Rica

◆ The constitution of Costa Rica provides that the president may serve four years, and no more, and is not eligible for re-election. The present president, Leon Castro Cortes, urged by politicians to declare himself a candidate for re-election, declined to violate the constitution, and thereby showed, if he was sincere, that he is an honor to the country he now serves.

Government Lottery in Puerto Rico

◆ The United States mails cannot be legally used for sending lottery tickets or distributing lottery news, yet in Puerto Rico there is a government lottery which in five years collected nearly $12,000,000 from the poor people of that land. Meantime 750,000 Puerto Ricans are without means of subsistence.

Torture Colony at Santiago

◆ A torture colony for monkeys was established at the island of Santiago, a tract of land 35 acres in extent lying a half mile from San Juan, Puerto Rico. A colony of 500 was brought from the jungles of India and will be used for vivisection purposes. Vivisection is bad for the animals used; worse for the ones who practice it.

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois

Lawbreakers in Milwaukee

◆ Because gambling is contrary to the state law of Wisconsin, the police of Milwaukee requested warrants for the arrest of certain racketeers operating under the name of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Post 2963 of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Germania Mutual Life Society, and Aurora Lodge 145 of I.O.O.F. The warrants were refused, although the city and district attorneys admit that they would be willing to proceed against common prostitutes or persons selling booze to minors. But they have not the nerve to proceed against racketeers who have an ambition to run the country.

What Do You Pay for Milk?

◆ G. H. Lowe, Neillsville, Wisconsin, writing in the Milwaukee Journal, explains that he delivered 2,163 pounds of milk (1,082 quarts) with 3.6 percent butterfat test for 1c a pound (2c a quart). Mr. Lowe could not understand why anybody in Milwaukee should be paying more than 5c a quart for milk which the farmers were getting but 2c. If 5c would be a fair price in Milwaukee, why do they charge 14c in Scranton? It is gravely to be suspected that farmers in the east get but little more than they do in Wisconsin, and that the public are paying more than twice a fair price for the milk they consume.

2½ Tons of Cheese

◆ On the ground that there are about 50,000 tons of cheese in storage in American warehouses, Louis A. Hartly, Marshfield, Wisconsin, gave each school child a present of two pounds of good cheese; and as there were 2,683 of the little folks, it made an immediate market for more than 2½ tons.

The Sale of Sewage

◆ Milwaukee sells 50,000 tons of fertilizer a year, made from its sewage. The profits have run as high as $850,000 a year, while the annual cost does not exceed $1,250,000. This seems better sense than pouring the sewage all over the water supplies, or the beaches, as is commonly done elsewhere.

“Oh, ’Tis Love, and Love Alone”.

◆ The value of love was shown in a Chicago experiment. Thirteen mentally retarded babies were put in the care of an equal number of feeble-minded young women, with the result that twelve of the children speedily became normal and seven were adopted and found good homes; and the explanation is that the young women loved them; and love is the greatest remedy in all the world. “God so loved the world” that He gave everybody a chance to meet His reasonable requirements and gain life. Those who respond to God’s love become sane, normal and happy.

Robert Wadlow, of Alton

◆ Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, has the misfortune of having a pituitary gland that is overactive, with the result that he is now, at 20 years of age, 8 feet 8½ inches tall and weighs 465 pounds. His growth is expected to continue at a reduced rate for two or three years more. Last year he grew only 1½ inches. His shoes cost $75. His chair seat is 10 inches higher than the seat of other chairs. Most homes have ceilings 8 feet above the floor. Wadlow cannot stand erect in such a room.

Common Sense in Michigan

◆ The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a policeman who accepts membership in an illegal gang like the Black Legion is permanently disqualified from serving as a law-enforcement officer. That was common sense; and the same rule should be followed with regard to any policeman who puts his loyalty to a foreign power above his loyalty to the United States. Many Irish Catholic policemen would not arrest a bishop even if they knew he had committed every crime on the calendar.

Hermes Had a Thought

◆ Judge Joseph B. Hermes, of Chicago, the same gentleman who fined Mrs. Schlorochetka $200 for refusal to worship the flag, has had a thought. Hooray! He had just sentenced a man to the house of correction to work out a fine of $50 for stealing coal. The man had claimed he had neither fuel nor food in his home. After sentencing the man, Hermes had his thought. An examination of the man’s home was made and his wife was found starved to death.

Asia

From Rangoon, Burma

SINCE July, 1938, we have had very unsettled conditions throughout Burma. First we had communal riots—the Buddhists with the Mohammedans—over a book which a Mohammedan published about ten years ago putting forth several points to prove the superiority of the Moslem religion over the Buddhism. This only now seems to have upset “the religious susceptibilities” of the Burmese; but that is an excuse. The real cause is political agitation.

After that the University students went on a strike and started picketing all the other schools. They were petty enough to smash a number of the street lights, with the result that many sections of Rangoon have been in pitch darkness. Little children are now induced by irresponsible leaders and “jobless politicians” to go on a hunger strike.

A number of cultivators have marched to Rangoon from far country places and are encamped at the slopes of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda (the largest Buddhist cathedral in Burma), which is become the center of Hooliganism and politics. The monks are taking active lead in civil disobedience and occasional violence, such as caning old women and assaulting isolated people. Hooliganism reigneth in the land!

Burma was given her own government about two years ago. There are many politicians who are anxious to get into office, and the disturbances are aimed at overthrowing the present ministry. They claim also that even if they have to be under some power, they had rather be under any other than Britain. In this, however, they show their ignorance of conditions obtaining in countries such as Germany, Italy or Japan. The people of Burma enjoy more freedom than any other people in the world, but they don’t appreciate it. Instead the local press often publishes a lot of falsehoods or deliberate lies, just to excite the populace, mainly the ignorant ones. Britain has given them a free hand to try to manage the affairs of their country, but they are making a mess of things.

The employees of nearly all the leading corporations were forced to go on strike, some even being kept in custody in the pagoda grounds. Foreign influence has a good deal to do with these disturbances, undoubtedly.

What yet may happen we can’t say. Day by day it appears clearly that the Devil is gathering the nations to Armageddon.

A road just constructed connects Burma with China. Goods and ammunition are being sent now to China via this route. It is remarkable that since the opening of this road all the aforesaid disturbances in Burma began. An attempt was made at causing a general strike, which so far has failed, and particularly the railway service has been regular. It is now proposed to link India with Burma by rail. That would be useful in time of war but also will help trade during peace. The cost of construction is estimated at a crore of rupees.—Contributed.

The World’s Largest City.

◆ This record is now held by Zamboanga, previously a small town at the southern extremity of the Philippines archipelago. The town has recently been given a charter by which it possesses a total area of 1,059 square miles. The record was previously held by Tokyo, with 833 square miles, followed by London, with just under 700. The next in order are Los Angeles, 443.5; Berlin, 348; and New York, 310. From the standpoint of population, however, Zamboanga is not even the largest city in the Philippines; for it boasts only 101,048 inhabitants.—James A. Williams, Lithuania.

Today’s Pilgrims to Mecca

◆ Today’s pilgrims to Mecca go in motorcars, many of them. They go on roads that are free from bandits. They lodge in villages where they are not overcharged. They are not overtaxed. When they arrive at Mecca they find a good water supply, camping facilities and police supervision. Few of them die by the roadside en route. Egypt’s money and influence has done most of this.

Filling the Gap in the Bagdad Railway

◆ The gap of 290 miles in the Bagdad railway is now being filled, and before long it will be possible to board a train in London and not leave it until it reaches the port of Fao, 475 miles southeast of Bagdad on the Persian Gulf. The railway negotiates 55 tunnels in the Taurus mountains, one of them three miles in length.

Australasia

Another South Sea Paradise

THERE recently appeared in Consolation an article dealing with the little-known island of Bali. Probably less known are the Tongan islands, sometimes called the Friendly islands, the queen of which recently celebrated her fiftieth jubilee.

Treacherous reefs surrounding the islands, and particularly the main one of the group, help to keep visitors away. This is possibly advantageous to the Tongans, for "civilized" visitors frequently spoil the world's natural beauty spots.

Tonga is the last of the Pacific kingdoms, and a happy and beautiful kingdom it is. Poverty and want are unknown. The air is wonderfully pure, the rain gentle and sweet, and, as in Bali, life is natural and free.

One hundred and fifty-nine islands, scattered over an area of two hundred and sixty-nine square miles, comprise the group. The inhabitants, pure Polynesians, numbered slightly over 31,000 a year ago. A further resemblance to Bali is seen in the physique of the Tongans. They have fine, brown bodies; the young men are stalwart, and the girls really beautiful. The climate of the islands is not as good as that of Bali; for Tonga suffers from severe humidity and hurricanes.

Not many of the so-called amenities of civilization are to be had on the islands. There is no electric light, and there are no newspapers. In these days of a prostituted press, the absence of the latter is perhaps a blessing. What appeals to the visitor most of all is the natural warm-heartedness of the Tongans themselves. Soon after one's arrival gifts in token of welcome and friendship are presented, and the dignity and courtesy of the people is immediately apparent.

A small steamer from New Zealand visits the main island about once a month, but the sea is generally so rough that letters have to be tied in oiled paper and attached to sticks, which are carried by native swimmers to the steamer. Inward mail is put into a sealed tin and thrown over the ship's side, to be picked up by the swimmers. This is the "Tin-Can Mail" well known to travelers in those parts.

Cocoanut trees form the basis of the wealth of the inhabitants, providing copra for export as well as building material for the houses, refreshment in the form of food and drink, and other household commodities. Tropical fruits and vegetables grow in abundance, and the only meat eaten is that provided by pigs and fowls. It is said that the Tongans sing as naturally as most other people speak. They play no instruments, but blend their voices in beautiful harmony.

A tortoise, presented to the chiefs of Tongatabu in 1777 is still alive in the grounds of the royal palace, and is reputed to be over 200 years old. It bears the title of Chief of the district of Malila and gets the respect due to such a rank!

Besides the queen, there is a privy council and parliament, the latter holding an annual meeting which lasts one month. All the members of the government are full-blooded Tongans, with the exception of the treasurer and the chief justice, who are Europeans. Every Tongan-born male subject receives eight and a quarter acres of land, fully planted with cocoanuts, on reaching the age of sixteen. Education is being developed on sound lines, agriculture and technical training being looked upon as more important than academic knowledge.

In these days, when the governments of "civilized" lands are 'reeling to and fro and staggering like drunken men', when millions upon millions of dollars are being spent every year on weapons of destruction and when fear rules in the hearts of the majority, it is refreshing to know that there are one or two places on this earth as yet so little affected by the blight of religion, politics and commerce.

Public Health Service of Tasmania

◆ Tasmania has ten health districts the doctors of which are paid by the States £800 a year, with housing allowance, a month's holiday and a month's research work on pay, and six months' leave every five years to study abroad. On top of this the doctor receives from the patients double the cost of his automobile mileage, with heavier charges for night work, Sundays and holidays. How the taxpayers can stand this load is a mystery.—Sydney Labor Daily Condensation.

[It seems as if the doctor racket runs a close second to the religious racket, from which it traces its descent. In fact, the terms doctor and cure are common to both.] Two West African Pioneers

◆ To Jehovah, the great Theocrat, we give all praise for the privilege granted us to serve Him at this hour of great distress amongst the peoples of earth. In Jehovah’s service, we are now ten months on tour in the Northern Provinces, where we have been able, by Jehovah’s grace, to carry the message of God’s Kingdom in printed form to the hungry and thirsty souls in the following places, to wit: Idah, Lokoja, Loco, Makurdi, Kafanchan, Bukuru, Jos, Bauchi, Potiskum, Maiduguri, Zaria, Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Minna, and Zungeru, the former capital of the Provinces.

By Jehovah’s grace we succeeded in placing 100 bound books and 2,724 booklets for the period of four months, January to April, 1939, in which we rejoice greatly because this is a good report compared with our reports submitted to the Branch office, Lagos, in the previous campaigns.

At Lokoja we were arrested and charged with the offense of hawking in the Township without permit, and the next day we were tried by the Commissioner of Police, who propounded many questions to us; and having received satisfactory answers backed up with scriptures, he concluded with, “May God bless your work.” At Sokoto we were again arrested and the same charge was repeated. On this occasion the trial was conducted by the District Officer, who, after we had given answer to his questions, received the booklets Face the Facts, Protection, and Where Are the Dead? in the Hausa language. There were arrests of similar kinds which are not worth mentioning, and we had pleasure in them all because the arrests afforded us full chance to deliver good testimony to the authorities of the Provinces, and thus we rejoice as partakers of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God. (2 Timothy 1:8)

Our zeal was tripled when unexpectedly we saw the Watch Tower representative, who drove his sound-car from Lagos to Zaria, a distance of over 617 miles, where he met us. Leaving us for Lagos, he left many cartons of books and booklets for us, encouraging us to keep on moving.

The picture shows one of the methods we used in Minna township in advertising the King and His kingdom and which method curiously arrested the attention of the public to get the booklets Face the Facts and Fascism or Freedom. In this very method our speaking trumpet has been a great help to us in this part, because when it is sounded, all heads can be seen through the windows peeping, we approach them, and in this way we can place more books and booklets.

In one village where we called it was observed at the first sounding of our speaking trumpet that all the villagers were jumping into the bush and some were seen locking their doors; and when we asked them the reason for their running, they said they heard that war was coming. We then gathered the people and explained to them about God’s kingdom, the only hope of the world, and also about the war, how it would be fought and those that would be saved. In the circumstances, they gladly obtained booklets in their (Hausa) language.—Thomas Ozurumbah and Benson N. Ogbonnah, pioneers.

Blessings in La Grange, Georgia

◆ I made a back-call on a party who had taken a booklet from me and who showed interest. I found the party had read the booklet through three times and gladly took more. At another home, which I visited with the phonograph, the lady of the house would not listen, because, she said, she had heard the phonograph a few weeks before. I smiled and told her we had a new record. She listened to “Miracles” and “Instruction” and was so impressed that she subscribed for The Watchtower.

I called at another home with the phonograph, and the man of the house told me that if I was calling as a Christian I could play the phonograph, but that he wanted nothing to do with Jehovah’s witnesses. He seemed sincere, that he really thought Jehovah’s witnesses were a bad group of people, so I went ahead and played the records, “Miracles” and “Instruction”. About half way through the first record he discovered I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses, but remarked to his wife that he saw nothing wrong with the recorded message. After listening to the other side he told me he saw where he had been wrong about his belief regarding Jehovah’s people, that what he had heard was not true, and that he would not be against us any more.

Witnessing on another street, I found a man who had a goat-like disposition. He said he was going to call the police, and he did follow me down the street, going into the homes I had just left. It became so noticeable that I asked at one home who this man was. When the goat arrived at this home, and found I had closely inquired concerning him, he became very fearful and withdrew from sight.

I called at a home with the phonograph and the wife called her husband out of the garden to listen. At first he did not seem much interested, but listened, said he enjoyed the record and would subscribe for The Watchtower. I visited him later with a set of records, and he is now greatly interested in the truth and came to the study Sunday night.

I called on Mayor O’Neal and Chief of Police Matthews. Both were still somewhat embittered, but the most of the people receive us kindly in their homes and appreciate the message which we bring to them by means of the phonograph.—Odie De Berry, Georgia.

God’s Glories in the Smoky Mountains

◆ How beautiful the earth is even in its unfinished condition and marred as it is by unsightly billboards, each advertising its own particular brand of death in the form of tobacco! Babylonish steeples rising in the sky are usually the first things one sees when entering picturesque little towns, as well as commercial signs pointing out the special wonders and beauties to be seen, at a price! All of these things remind a Jehovah’s witness how completely Satan has commercialized his world; and even the wonders of nature bring in a steady stream of gold to his organization.

Much has been said and written about the great beauties and wonders of creation, which fill the Lord’s people with awe and reverence and a greater love for their great Creator. Come with me now to western North Carolina, where the great Smoky mountains raise their mighty heads, rugged and lofty, tier upon tier, all clothed in verdant green. This is one of the most beautiful sights it is possible to imagine, and beggars description. No poetry or painting could express its loveliness.

As we drive into this section from Georgia the mountains lie ahead of us in a hazy blue, outlined against the sky; and as we drive on the hue changes to emerald green, and we are in the Smokies! Here we begin to climb, and the road circles round and round up, up, up; wonderful engineering, showing what even imperfect man can do when his thoughts are not on war. We are at the top of one of the crests and look down—a sheer drop of thousands of feet below—to cabins nestled in fertile valleys, with rivers and creeks winding in and out. Faintly we catch the tinkle of a cowbell, and the rushing of waters as they dash over natural dams of stone and rock. By the way, many of the farmers make their own electricity by means of water-wheels.

Looking at these great hills, one would never dream that farming could be carried on so efficiently; but there are very fertile farms even at the tops of these mountains. Sometimes the fields being cultivated are so steep and slanting that, looking from one hill to another, it seems as if the farmer and his animal must come tumbling down, and makes one feel that “thar ain’t no law of gravity”. I said “animal” advisedly, for these farmers use horses, mules, oxen with the old-fashioned yokes, Ferdinand the bull, and even the family milch cow!

Many of these farms are miles off the roads, and one must walk up the steep mountainsides, cross rushing creeks over logs thrown from bank to bank, and, panting and winded, stumble to the cabin door to be greeted by the whole family; for, as you may imagine, it is a great event to have a stranger drop “up” to see them. Everything has to be “toted” to these places either by muleback or man power. The mountains are too steep for even a wagon. We visited one farm on a river bank which had no road on the side the farm was on, and the only means of getting across was by a swinging footbridge or by boat. The farmer had to wait until the river was low enough to ford, in the fall, before he could take any crops out or bring heavy supplies in.

These valleys and farm communities are called “coves”, and take their names usually from the rivers and creeks on which they are situated. There are hundreds of these creeks and coves, and many of them are thickly inhabited. The mountainsides are covered with wonderful apple orchards; for this is a famous apple country.

We have seen several thunderstorms lately, and it is a wonderful sight to witness the lofty heights outlined against the inky blackness of the clouds, with the lightning splitting the blackness, and the deep rumble of thunders. We try to picture what these mountains will be like when the might and power of Jehovah is manifested at Armageddon.

As we drive on evening falls, and dusky night begins to cover the landscape. We now see these great mountains silhouetted against the sky and are reminded of Jehovah’s watchcare over His own, as expressed in Psalm 125:1, 2. Twinkling lights appear in little cabins scattered over the hills, and from the hedgerows comes the most delicate scent of honeysuckle, which literally covers the roadside, and blossoms all summer long.

Now darkness completely covers the earth, and, as if at a signal, thousands of fireflies appear and flit around us, turning on and off their phosphorescent light. I cannot begin to describe this last loveliness of the day, and can only say with the psalmist, “O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.”—Mrs. G. E. Fiske, Pioneer.

Kingdom Blessings in Saskatchewan

◆ On January 1, I began the “Watchtower Campaign”, anxious to have a part in it, but with very little hope of finding anyone interested enough to take a subscription.

I called on a lady who had been witnessed to many times before by myself and other publishers. She always allowed us to play the record, but had never seemed to take any interest, and, in fact, would interrupt the record to talk about other things. I was very happily surprised, therefore, when she told me she had been waiting for a Jehovah’s witness to call. Her husband had subscribed for Consolation about six months ago and she found it very interesting. She had put $2.00 away for “Christmas” presents, but after reading the advertisement on the back of the Consolation magazine offering The Watchtower she decided she would like to obtain it.

She remarked to me that we did not believe in “Christmas”. I explained to her and showed her, in Jeremiah 10, what the heathen do.

I had made arrangements for a back-call and called the following week. She asked numerous questions, one being, “What is a Jonadab?” She told us that when we had called before she had thought, “What right have they to come and try to change people to their religion?” Then she began thinking, “Only eight went through at the time of Noah, and when Jesus Christ was on the earth, there were only a very few; so why wouldn’t it be the same now?”

She went down in the basement and brought up the books and booklets she had obtained from witnesses before, mostly, she said, to get rid of the caller.

I have made arrangements for her to receive the Informant, and believe that very shortly she will become a “laborer” with us.

—N. Shafer, Canada.

Town Clerk of Ephesus Example

◆ Sir Alexander Maxwell, Permanent Under-Secretary of the British Home Office, listened to deputations of clergymen demanding suppression of demonstrations and processions. He told them, “I wonder what would have happened if the town clerk of Ephesus had suppressed Paul and his companions, who were attacking the established church of the place and its industry [business].” He surmised that the clerk, prompted by the chief constable, took the stand that there should be no interference with the propagation of Paul’s message.

New Market for Telescopes

In the town of Calway, California, a clergyman of the so-called “Church of God” chased the witness away from the porch. After he left another witness chanced to see the clergyman behind some bushes with a spy-glass in hand, evidently very curious to know what really is the “Cure”, but not sufficiently courageous to come across with a copper cent to find out. The correspondent who sent in this item astutely remarks that all clergymen should now be furnished with telescopes.

“Up Behind the Door”

◆ At Kendal, England, a Catholic youth said to his Protestant uncle, when he saw The Harp of God and other of Judge Rutherford’s books in the latter’s bookcase, “I cannot read any of them, because they are up behind the door.” This puzzled the uncle, and on inquiry he found that the lad referred to a list of books pinned up behind their church door, containing the names of various books which Catholics may not read, lest they learn something.

Belated Convention News

SIX witnesses, three of them ladies, drove from Oklahoma to the New York Convention. Arrived in Brooklyn, the ladies had not had time to get out of the car when three men came up in pompous manner and their spokesman wearing a Knights of Columbus button ordered them to remove from their car the banner advertising Judge Rutherford’s public address. The Oklahoma men were not impressed. The Knights of Columbus spokesman swung at one of the Oklahoma citizens, when the smallest man among them all knocked two of the Brooklynites flat upon the pavement. Then another Oklahoma man, with his knee in the back of one of the Brooklyn parties, and his strong right arm pulling back on his collar, wiped his face on the sidewalk. He rose, tried it a second time, was treated to a second wiping on the sidewalk, and gave it up. A good time was had by all. Westerners are very informal.

At one unknown convention point a hostile person picked up a brick, intending to heave it through the side of one of Jehovah’s witnesses’ sound-cars. A husky colored witness struck him so hard under the chin that he dropped the brick and took an involuntary rest on the flat of his back.

One individual, with less sense than recklessness, attacked a marcher, and broke the stick which bore aloft the sign “Religion is a snare and a racket”—“Serve God and Christ the King”. The witness peacefully restrained him from doing further damage by causing him to recline upon the sidewalk, somewhat suddenly, and went on holding in his raised hand the sign, “Serve God and Christ the King.” This happened near Madison Square Garden, New York.

In Brooklyn one husky witness received a glancing blow from some passing Fascistic fist. He returned it on the jaw; and while the troublemaker was gathering himself up from the pavement, two passers-by jumped into the line of march, and cried, “We are with you.” They begged the privilege of carrying a sign, and received it. They gladly continued to the end of the march, leaving the witness two hands for distributing circulars, having no further need of them for defense.

At Denver a crowd of gangsters, sympathetic with one “Reverend Father” McMenamin (guess his “church”), grabbed some of the information march placards. An athletic witness recovered the placards and, when struck on the head for doing it, laid out the assailant on the sidewalk. A crowd gathered, and it looked as if a fight was inevitable, when proffered assistance was unexpectedly received from one of the onlookers. A well-known prize-fighter called out to the witness, asking, “Do you need any help, Dick?” The fight was all off. The Lord has His own way of taking care of His people. It may be added that six well-known boxers, one from Texas, famous throughout the West, and one from the Pacific Coast fleet, famous in the seven seas, were at that convention and well prepared to defend American liberties in Western style. Sometimes those who look for trouble are surprised when they really find it.

At the Oklahoma convention the assistant chairman, Julius Johnson, was 7 feet 1 inch tall, while A. H. Macmillan, of Brooklyn, who came to preside at the meeting, is only 6 feet 1 inch.

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