Consolation, March 22, 1939

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Contents

America Becoming Jesuitized (Part 1) 3

Ready for Action 5

Let the Church Keep Out of It 7

Will Teach "Democracy", and How! 8

Greater Control Threatened 11

The New Government 12

Truth Barred from Quebec 13

A Courageous Police Official 13

Nostrum Cures or Nature Cures? 15

Hurricane Losses 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17

The Christian's Defense 17

Protestantism 18

Greece 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag 20

Disappointment Follows Hierarchy's Botch 20

In the Land of the Enemy 21

The Smoking Habit and How to Overcome It 23

Innocent XI—"Propositiones Damnatae" 23

Germany 24

"The Breath of Life" 26

British Comment 28

Journey to Rome 28

Strife and Confusion 28

Industrial Conscription 29

Thunder from the Left 29

"Moral Rearmament" 30

Popes Pius IX and XII 31

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Clever Woman

A man was arrested on a charge of beating his wife and biting off a portion of her ear. The woman, however, was anxious to screen her husband.

"Your husband has been treating you very badly, eh?" asked the judge.

"Oh, no, your honor," replied the witness.

"No? Did he bite off a piece of your ear?"

"No, your honor; I did it myself."

The Last Straw

He pulled into the garage with a horrible grinding of brakes and, descending from his ramshackle two-seater, asked to be shown some second-hand cars.

"Got tired of the old bus, I suppose," the salesman remarked.

"No, not quite," replied the motorist, "but every time I park this thing, along dashes a policeman to make sure I've reported the accident."—Stray Stories Magazine.

Just a Habit

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were returning home one moonlight night after a strenuous day's shopping.

"Oh, John!" exclaimed his wife, "what a lovely moon!"

"Yes," he replied absent-mindedly; "how much is it?"—Labor.

A Mere Detail

Ringmaster: "The lady 'olds the lump of sugar between 'er lips, and the lion will take it between 'is teeth. Now, I offer a thousand pounds to any member of the audience who will perform this trick!"

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Bi-monthly School Joke

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To a Reformed Latecomer

You are early of late; you usually were behind before; but now at last you come in first. [Antique joke resurrected] CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, March 22, 1939 Number 509

America Becoming Jesuitized (In Two Parts—Part 1)

IGNATIUS LOYOLA, founder of the Jesuit organization, perceiving that in the Roman Catholic Church "saints" were highly esteemed, resolved to win for himself deathless glory by excelling them all. That spirit dominates the Jesuit system to this day. "The Society of Jesus," which is the name that Loyola and his followers appropriated to themselves as a distinctive designation, carries with it the suggestion that they, above all others, were the companions of Jesus, and is indicative of the claim they make both to superior sanctity and to sanctified superiority.

At one time or another the Jesuits have been suppressed and banned in every country of Europe, only to succeed in returning and continuing their activities. They are now very active in America.

Referring to the Jesuits the Milwaukee Catholic Herald-Citizen gives the following information:

Founded in 1534 by St. Ignatius Loyola (a Spaniard) in Paris, the Order was the chief instrument of the Catholic Reformation. Its work did much to stop the progress made by the so-called Protestant Reformation.

"Reverend Father" Robert I. Gannon, Jesuit president of Fordham University, in an address at Philadelphia, said:

Liberalism is like a worn-out shoe which should be thrown away.

The liberalism of the 19th century meant freedom to do as you please, but true liberty is freedom to do as you should. The old liberalism is dead and gone, and we should be glad of it.

What he really meant was that the whole world should submit to the pope of Rome (Pius XI), who himself confessed to a Jesuit and was guided by Jesuit "counsel".

Not only is Jesuitism opposed to liberalism; it is definitely in favor of co-operation with Fascism. Indeed, it is practically certain that the Fascist program as represented in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere is the result of Jesuit intrigues.

The editor of Our Sunday Visitor states, "... the Holy Father has not condemned Italian Fascism as such, and neither have we. We have often noted that it is conceivable that the Church can get along with a totalitarian ruler if he grants the Church full liberty to carry on her work."

The support of the Hierarchy and its chief representatives is definitely back of the Fascist program, as the following examples will clearly indicate.

Backing the Butcher

A dispatch from Philadelphia states that at a mass meeting called by Denis Cardinal Dougherty for the purpose 4,000 persons pledged their support to Franco the Butcher and his heathen Moors in their efforts to destroy the government of the Spanish Republic.

American volunteers in Spain were sneeringly referred to by Hierarchy leaders.

The Jesuit magazine misnamed "America" stated that of the American volunteers who served the Spanish Republic in the war against it waged by the combined forces of Hitler, Mussolini, the pope, Franco and the Moors,

Most of the 3,200 Americans were Jewish and foreign-born riff-raff Americans: a small percentage were respectable citizens.

Commenting on this The New Republic thinks the editors of "America" overplayed their hand, and questions both their sincerity and their truthfulness. Good!

"Reverend Father" Francis X. Talbot, editor of the foregoing Roman Catholic weekly, wrote to President Roosevelt protesting because an 8,000-ton freighter sailed from the United States to Valencia, Spain, with foodstuffs, clothing and medical supplies. If the vessel had sailed to some port controlled by Franco the Butcher, and had been loaded to the gunwales with munitions of war, would he have said anything?

Ignatius W. Cox, of Fordham University, who is a Jesuit, is in favor of letting Loyalist Spain have the surplus foodstuffs of other nations, provided the Roman pope is given charge of the distribution, so that he may illustrate the words "Do good to those who hate you"—using the goods of others to do it.

Now, what do you suppose was going through the mind of "Reverend Father" Ignatius W. Cox, when, in a magazine article entitled "Is Democracy Doomed?" he states, "There is little difference between Communism and a perverted form of Fascism." Look for it, and in every Catholic article you will find the tell-tale adjective that was the objective in the first place. Mr. Cox is merely boosting Fascism, which is Catholic Action, and is trying to help his readers to put on the blinders and think that there is a good Fascism, which he represents, and a bad one which nobody represents. For every sensible person knows that in Spain all kinds of Fascism, those of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and the pope, worked together to destroy the Spanish Republic and put all that is left of Spain back under the iron heel of the Roman Hierarchy.

The only reason why the Jesuits favor Fascism and oppose Communism is that Fascism recognizes the Roman Hierarchy. In an address in Jersey City "Reverend Father" R. Rush Rankin, Jesuit, in answer to a question, stated he would prefer Fascism to Communism. That stands to reason, but it is equally certain that the Jesuits and the Hierarchy would as readily co-operate with Communism as with Fascism, if that suited their purpose.

In this connection it is of interest to mention that the Communist party of western Pennsylvania, though the Communists are condemned by both Jesuits and Hierarchy, came out in a manifesto in behalf of Pennsylvania's Irish Catholic Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy.

Meanwhile America is being subjected to constant anti-Communist propaganda by means of which the Jesuits hope to divert attention away from their own subversive activities. Numerous booklets are on display in Catholic churches and bookshops whooping up the "Communist" bogey. However, intelligent observers are not being fooled, as is indicated by the following excerpt from an article by Aaron E. Carpenter, president of the Houghton Company, in "The Houghton Line":

The chief topic of discussion these days at every patriotic society to which I belong (and I belong to several) seems to be the danger of Communism. Personally, I think we are in greater danger of Fascism than of Communism.

I have talked with laboring men all over the east and I have met very few Communists. We have had one in our own organization for twenty years. Politically he seems quite harmless.

On the other hand, everybody who reads the papers today must realize the danger of Fascism and the Totalitarian State in this country.

Furthermore, I regret to say that in the past two years I have met many men of substantial means and education and with no little influence in their respective communities who are heartily in favor of the Fascist State.

The United States has gotten along for over 160 years without either form of the totalitarian state, and in my opinion one form is almost as bad as the other and I think that many patriotic societies and people of means could spend their time and money much better in trying to stamp out Fascism rather than Communism.

I do not think there is one chance in a million that America will ever go Communistic; but she could go Fascist; and Americans want neither.

Major General George Van Horn Moseley, in the New York Journal and American, stated:

We do not have to vote for a dictatorship to have one in America. The issue is not as clear-cut as that. We have merely to vote increased government responsibility for our individual lives, increased government authority over our daily habits, and the resultant Federal paternalism will inevitably become dictatorship. For, when we make the government responsible for finding a living for all of us, that government must inevitably crack down on talk of the more abundant life and shift the emphasis to the enforced duty of the worker to produce as a patriotic act—to produce or be liquidated.

Dissimulation a la Jesuit

The Catholic Press meanwhile tries to dissimulate in true Jesuit style by means of items to the effect that—

the Catholic press is against any form of dictatorship in this country, and therefore delighted with the defeat of President Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing and reorganization bill; but before 1,200 Roman Catholic firemen in Brooklyn the "Reverend Father" Duffy defended Germany, Italy and Japan and dedenounced the Spanish Republic. That, however, is not news. It is news, however, when a "Reverend Father" defends the Spanish people rather than their traducers.

Dr. Halford E. Luccock, of Yale Divinity School, in an address in New York city, observes that—

When Fascism comes to America, and it has already come in some parts, it will not be marked with the swastika and labeled "Made in Germany". It will not even be called Fascism, but will be called by that high-sounding and highly praised name "Americanism".

John T. Metcalfe, one of the Dies committee investigators, listed twenty-four Fascist organizations in the United States, and it is significant that seventeen of the twenty-four have the word "America" or "American" as part of the title of the un-American outfit the base of which is opposition to the principles of democracy which have made America a nation of intelligent, liberty-loving people.

The Franciscan, Roman Catholic periodical, carried an article which regretted that "the Dies' inquiry into un-American activities omitted one important 'ism'", the work of Jehovah's witnesses, which it dubs "Rutherfordism". It resents the liberty exercised by these Christian workers in the dissemination of Bible truth, and their exposure of rackets, including the religious racket.

Rather than enlighten the people The Franciscan, together with the Jesuits and the Hierarchy, would drag them back to the superstitions of the Dark Ages.

$50,000 of American taxpayers' money goes toward the erection of the statue of St. Francis of Assisi on Christmas Tree Point, near San Francisco. This gent, to advertise his "humility", once actually rolled in the mud with swine. But this was nothing compared to the moral mud in which the Franciscan monks rolled in Germany. Readers will recall that, in the summer of 1936, out of about 500 Franciscan (St. Francis of Assisi) monks in Westphalia 276 were convicted by fellow Catholics on charges of sodomy and 61 others confessed their guilt by fleeing across the border. Just then Pope Pius XI suppressed the order in that vicinity. It is now a good time to do something to build up a reputation for that old freak and the miscreants who revere him, and to get stupid Uncle Sam to foot the bill.

Condemned and deserted

Ready for Action

It appears evident that the Jesuit program is not merely an educational one, as is that of Jehovah's witnesses, who would not take up arms for or against any worldly cause. On August 28, 1938, at San Diego, Calif., only a month after the head of his church made the statement to which he has reference, the "Most Reverend" Charles Francis Buddy, bishop of San Diego, delivered himself of the following, in an address to Catholic Youth:

Days of sharp struggle confront you. Let's face it frankly and with courage. Do not be afraid. Once when the Fascist government would have hindered Catholic youth clubs, the pope said that whoever attacks Catholicism attacks him. And whoever attacks him dies. History proves this to be true.

Pius IX, in an encyclical letter of August 15, 1854, said: "The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error—a pest, of all others most to be dreaded in a state." In a later encyclical he condemned those "who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship" and "all such as maintain that the church may not employ force".

Obviously the principles of the Roman Catholic system are diametrically opposed to the principles upon which the government of the United States was founded. This conflict of principles, although clearly evident, is probably not fully appreciated by the average Catholic, but is well understood by the Hierarchy and "the more intelligent of the laity". This is shown in a statement made by Hilaire Belloc, the famous Catholic author, published in the Truth-Seeker of October 1, 1938:

"... the necessary conflict between the civil state and the Catholic Church, where the two are not identified," a conflict which has disturbed Europe for centuries, must still take place in the United States because the Catholic Church is in its root principles at issue with the civic definition both of freedom and of authority. For the purpose of the state, religion is either a universally admitted system or a matter of individual choice. But by the definition which is the very soul of Catholicism, religion must be, for the Catholic, first a supreme authority superior to any claims of the state; secondly, a corporate thing and not an individual thing; thirdly, a thing dependent upon authority and not upon a personal mood; fourthly, a guarantee of individual freedom in all that is not of faith.

"In general that conflict [between the civil state and the Catholic Church] with which Europe is acquainted to the full and which has filled the history of two thousand years from the time of Nero to our own, is inevitable. ... No one can know the United States without admitting that when the conflict shall there arise, an equilibrium will not be established or preserved, for the conflict will be novel and will seem monstrous. ... The chief political problem presented by religion has, then, still to be solved in the New World. ... Presented the problem certainly will be, and in one or other of the many fashions, stable or unstable, more or less tragic, it will have to be solved. ... The new and separate spirit which has made America, which created a spiritual condition peculiar to that continent, may produce, perhaps will soon produce, at any rate tends to produce, some quite unique experiment in the field of religion."

Meanwhile the Hierarchy is extending its influence and exerting its power in every direction, obtaining favors, concessions and privileges the granting of which is more or less in violation of the Constitution of the United States and the principles of democracy and freedom. A few scattered examples will serve to illustrate this point.

Favors to Catholics

February 15 Justice Gilbert V. Schenck of the State Supreme Court dismissed a petition brought by Joseph Wheless on behalf of the New York League for the Separation of Church and State to prevent the free use of the Chancellor's Hall in the State Education Building by the Roman Catholic Siena College for a lecture by a priest.

When Attorney Wheless was successful in the Court of Appeals case which ruled that the transportation of parochial school children at State cost was unconstitutional, the legislature at Albany adopted an amendment to make it constitutional.

With regard to the subject of transportation for parochial school pupils at Government expense, the Truth-Seeker remarked:

No one acquainted with the dogmas and policies of the Catholics will suppose that they will rest content with transportation at public expense of pupils of parochial schools. Next they will demand free text books, and then the payment by the State of the salaries of teachers in Catholic schools. They have so demanded in some of the States and came near winning lately in Ohio. Their partial victories will strengthen them in gaining full State support. Nor would they be content with that. The ultimate aim of Catholics is that their schools alone should be supported at public expense. Protestant schools in Catholic countries do not share in the public funds.

The explanation of this undermining of the secular public school lies in the militancy of the Catholics and the lack of militancy of Protestants and the vast unchurched majority. The Catholics are well organized. They constitute a compact and cohesive minority. Their votes are controlled and deliverable to a greater degree than that of any other large group of citizens. To the big newspaper, the Catholic Church is the holiest of "sacred cows".

An advertisement of the Eucharistic Congress at New Orleans mentions the city as one—

where Sisters are transported free in street cars in gratefulness for their many labors for the city in the past, where the Catholic faith is openly professed.

In 1938, for the first time in history, the United States Government, through the District of Columbia Health Department, apportioned 20 physicians to look after the teeth and the general health of students in the parochial schools. This was arranged for the Roman Hierarchy by an act of Congress in the last session, in which the word "public"

was omitted from before the word "schools". The work of turning everything in the country over to the Roman Hierarchy proceeds apace.

A $17,000 Gift

The city of Albany, always alert to please the Hierarchy, gave a Roman Catholic brotherhood a tract of land valued at $17,000, receiving in return the assurance that the land would be used for a school for Catholics. A certain taxpayer thought this was going too far, and instituted suit, being represented by Joseph Wheless, New York City attorney. As a result the deed giving the Roman Catholic brotherhood title to the land was declared void. The Catholic order entered an appeal to a higher court. They are not going to let $17,000 slip away as easily as all that.

The implicit concession that Catholic education would be a sufficient consideration for the gift of a $17,000 tract of land to a Catholic organization is a dangerous precedent and is another step toward the complete undermining of the American public school system, which, whatever its faults, is to be preferred a thousand times to the kind of "education" envisaged by the Roman Hierarchy and exemplified in such countries as Italy and Spain, where illiteracy is the rule rather than the exception.

That this danger is appreciated by educators and Americans generally is indicated by the alarm expressed by public-spirited citizens.

The provision in the report of the President's Advisory Committee on Education that part of the $855,000,000 Federal fund might be used by the states to furnish reading materials, transportation and scholarships for pupils in private (parochial) as well as public schools, brought a storm of protest from leading educators who instantly recognized it as a first step in the destruction of the American public school system. Among the opposers of the measure were Professor Jesse H. Newlon, of Teachers College, Columbia University, George S. Counts, professor of Education at the same institution, and Professor Jerome Davis, of Yale University, president of the American Federation of Teachers. The defense of the proposed measure came from Fred J. Kelly of the never-before-heard-of United States Office of Education.

In his book Rome Stoops to Conquer, E. Boyd Barrett points out that, in effect, the Hierarchy "demands that she have the exclusive right to decide when and where and how to erect schools (without any reference whatsoever to taxpayers) and that the taxpayer should be compelled to foot the bill. What in essence she demands is the imposition on non-Catholic citizens of the odious injustice of 'taxation without representation'."

Let the Church Keep Out of It

In the debate at Atlantic City on the advice of the President's Advisory Committee that millions of Federal funds be used by the states in furnishing reading materials, transportation and scholarships for pupils in parochial and other private schools, Professor George D. Strayer, of Teachers College, Columbia University, said:

Let's not have any church, Catholic, Protestant or Jewish, using public money to make propaganda for any policy or belief peculiar to itself. Let all these churches stand on their own feet. Let them not use the arm of government through controlled education to enforce their religious and political philosophies. History shows the tragedy of church-State-controlled education. Let's not have it repeated in America.

On the same occasion an audience of 800 persons adopted with only nine dissenting votes a resolution by Professor Harold Hand, of Stanford University, condemning the proposal for Federal aid to non-public schools as—a clear violation of the principle of separation of Church and State, therefore vicious and un-American.

The attitude of the Roman Hierarchy toward education is significant. It is expressed by its representatives in no ambiguous terms, as is evident from the following statement by "Reverend Father" Orestes Augustus Brownson, quoted with approval in his book on Catholic Schools by the "Reverend Father" James Aloysius Burns, late president of Notre Dame University:*

We deny, of course, as Catholics, the right of the civil government to educate, for education is a function of the spiritual society, as much so as the preaching and the administration of the sacraments; but we do not deny to the state the right to establish and maintain public schools. . . . It may found and endow schools and pay the teachers, but it cannot dictate or interfere with the education or discipline of the school.

* In view of the Hierarchy's constant cry that it is being misrepresented and "insulted", note should be taken of the fact that this is a statement by one of its outstanding proponents.—Ed.

This highly entertaining proposal, that the Hierarchy dictate the policy and the Government foot the bill is put forward in all seriousness by a man who stands in the forefront of Catholic educational circles. But there is more, much more!

Will Teach “Democracy”, and How!

Catholic leaders in the United States, in response to a call of the late Pius XI for defense of democratic government, have inaugurated an educational program, ostensibly to train more than 3,000,000 Catholic pupils in “enlightened, conscientious American citizenship”. The public schools are not good enough for “democratic” instruction of the kind approved by the Hierarchy.

At the behest of the pope, U. S. bishops are rallying, so they say, to the defense of democratic government and are preparing to teach democracy in 10,000 Catholic schools, high schools and colleges. What have they been teaching in these schools until now? Let a graduate of Duquesne University answer:

To protest at Duquesne University is futile. Petitions are ignored, the student paper is silenced, and smooth words about the Reds are tossed around. This applies even to us Catholic students.

There are times, however, when even devout Catholics must cry out against the decrees of the university's administration. Now is one of those times. For the administration has had the audacity to openly invite a Fascist ambassador of an Ethiopia-raping, Spain-bombing Italy to address this semester's graduating class! In this time of anti-democracy, in this time when the church is being more and more identified with Italian Fascism, Duquesne University bends over backward and invites “his excellency, the Royal Italian Ambassador to the United States, Fulvio Suvich”, to give its graduates a final message for their role in the world. And I, for one, protest.

I am a graduating student and a worker. My Catholic friends in both fields know the intellectual plight of the Italian student and the lingering misery of the Italian worker. And they don't want those conditions in America. Shall Fulvio Suvich tell us differently? Or shall the administration at Duquesne tell us differently? Most likely yes.

We call on the Catholic Radical Alliance and other progressive Catholics, the American Legion and other patriotic groups, to protest this open flirtation with Fascism by the administration at Duquesne University. To have Suvich tell us of democracy is similar to having Satan deliver a sermon on sin.—Duquesne Graduate, '38.

The Roman Hierarchy's proposal to teach “democracy” was treated in full in Consolation No. 504.

Catholic education is inseparably bound up with priestcraft, which is the summum bonum, the chief good, of the Hierarchy system. Consider the following.

Over his own signature Karl J. Alter, bishop of Toledo, Ohio, makes the statement:

It requires 20 years of continuous study to prepare a priest for the altar. If he is to serve later on in a special capacity as a doctor of theology, philosophy, canon law or some educational office, then three years more of graduate study must be provided.

Do you remember that place where Jesus said to His chosen twelve apostles, “Now go to some seminary and spend 23 years getting ready to do something and then go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”?

One would think, however, after all their education, the “learned” priests would know exactly where Cardinal Hayes went when he died. But note the confusion as indicated in newspapers, meanwhile remembering that newspapers seldom print anything concerning Catholicism that does not have the O.K. of some agent of the Hierarchy.

The San Francisco Chronicle had a big headline “Cardinal Hayes Dead”. Then it had a lesser headline that he was in an “eternal sleep”. Then the next day Mr. Cicognani cautiously stated that he could do more for his archdiocese in heaven than he could in New York. Then four days later thousands attended mass for the “repose of his soul” in “Purgatory”. Question: Where is Cardinal Hayes?

Sample of Catholic Education

Since actions speak louder, far louder, than mere words, their conclusion is that Cardinal Hayes went to “purgatory”—the cardinal who was called “the most spiritual man” and “the Cardinal of Charities” went to “purgatory”. Now consider the following utterance of one of the learned priests aforementioned, as published in The Register of November 15, 1936:

Not only does the Roman Catechism accept the reality of fire in purgatory, but the Fathers of the Western Church defend its existence. St. Augustine, speaking of purgatory, remarks that “the fire in purgatory is more painful than anything one can possibly suffer in this life”. So, too, in similar words of St. Ambrose we read: “I judge the transitory fire of purgatory to be more intolerable than "every tribulation in the present life"; and it was St. Thomas' opinion that "the least pain of purgatory exceeds the greatest punishment of this life". Some commentators have interpreted the Scriptural reference to the fire element in purgatory as being a spiritual fire, and Origen looked upon it as a mere figure of speech (De Principiis ii, 10). Despite these divergent opinions, we might well accept the salutary dictum of Cardinal Bellarmine that, "if there is no real fire, there will be something much more terrible, which God has prepared in order to demonstrate His power."

Fascism here, "purgatory" hereafter, seems to be the basic formula of Roman Catholic education. A little less learning and a little more Bible information would stand the priests and educators of Rome in good stead. They are still eager to extend their "religious" education to the public schools of America.

A report from Albany is that a special committee of the state board of regents, consisting of Owen D. Young, Roland B. Woodward, Susan Brandeis, Thomas J. Mangan and William J. Wallen, will try to figure out some way of giving "religious" instruction to the school children of New York state. The whole scheme is illegal, as all these regents well know.

But the Hierarchy practically controls New York state. It has repeatedly defeated in the New York legislature the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution. It is estimated that 83 percent of the citizens of New York state are for the amendment; but the Hierarchy has the politicians "by the snoot", and so the will of the people is not considered. The Hierarchy's opposition to the Child Labor legislation is based upon the flimsiest "reasons". It professes to fear Federal control of children and their education, but its real reason is that relieving children from work in mines and factories would make it possible for them to improve their minds, which is something the Hierarchy does not want.

Let Little Children Suffer

This calloused unconcern for the welfare of children, many of them Catholic, contrasts painfully with the following profession of love for the "Christ-child" who has since grown to manhood and been exalted to the rulership of the universe:

As a Ruler he could have had our respect, admiration, fear, love too, of a sort, but an aloof love, not the kind of love with tears and laughter in it, such as wells out of the heart when you take a baby in your arms, or when you give something to a baby. More than anything else, that is what Jesus wants from us, when we lift him out of His Christmas Crib and press Him to our hearts; that joyous love which the heart outpours when we give it to a baby.—The Confraternity of the Precious Blood, Reverend Father Stedman, Director, 5300 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Page 5 of a 24-page booklet entitled "Merry Christmas")

The Roman Hierarchy condemned the World Youth Congress recently held at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and as soon as it was over did all they could to blacken its name. The Congress passed praiseworthy resolutions of fraternity of all men, condemnation of war, conscientious refusal to kill, pressure for peaceful solutions, condemnation of bombardment of civilians, and appeals for arbitration, and these were signed by representatives of 47 nations.

Bulgaria, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Santo Domingo, Russia, Italy, Germany and the Vatican City state did not sign, and do not want what the youth want, anyway.

Under a Rome-controlled government one may expect courts to make rulings attempting to define what is worship or an act of worship and what is not. Obviously, when a court is privileged to make such a ruling, freedom of worship is at an end. It is tantamount to saying, "You may worship as you please provided you accept the court's definition of what is worship." An example of this tendency is furnished in the New York Court of Appeals' opinion that school children can be enforced to salute the flag because it "is not an act of worship".

A comment on this decision, published in the New York Herald-Tribune of January 22 (1939) is of interest here.

Jan. 18, 1939.

Judge Frederick E. Crane,

New York Court of Appeals, Albany, N. Y.

Dear Sir: I am writing an identical letter to you and to Judge Lehman, both of whose names appear in the New York Herald-Tribune of this date in connection with the decision in the "salute the flag case" against Grace Sandstrom.

So far as I know, similar cases in several states have been decided against the child. However, Judge Albert B. Maris, in a Federal court in Philadelphia, decided for the child. I understand that the matter can be settled for the nation only when it has been decided by the Supreme Court in Washington.

I have long thought that the cases are not different from the “shrine” cases in Corea, which are matters of supreme concern to every board of foreign missions; the subject of much discussion in the American Church, Roman Catholic and Protestant, and are beginning to result in violent action by the Japanese and in martyrdom by the Coreans. The Japanese say that there is no religious significance in the ceremony at the shrine of the Emperor; the Corean Christians say that it is a religious ceremony. So the Romans said to Polycarp in 155 A.D., before they executed him because he refused to engage in the ceremony at the bust of Caesar, which the Romans said was not a religious ceremony.

Judge Maris is reported to have said that “liberty of conscience means liberty for each individual to decide for himself what to him is religious.”

I deeply regret the decision of your court. I know that my letter is without effect because it is written after the decision.

[V. H. Lukens]

Masons Capitulating?

The New Age, Masonic monthly, July, 1937, published a letter which sets forth the American attitude toward Romanism:

The Vatican continues to claim for itself temporal power, to proclaim its belief in the divine right of kings, and to make its concordats and protocols with monarchs and dictators. It would fain establish diplomatic relations even with the United States, and bargain with this government, not for freedom of its members to worship according to their beliefs, for that right is declared and protected, but rather for some form of acknowledgment of its own authority over the souls and consciences of men. Such recognition is evidently beyond the power of this government to give, and it seems clear that it could not consistently take any action which would recognize or admit such authority. So the Vatican finds itself in the anomalous position of accepting and taking full advantage of the freedom of worship which prevails in this country, and at the same time denying the truth of the principle on which that freedom is based.

In view of this statement and the further fact that the Masonic order has been suppressed in Fascist countries, it is not a little astonishing to read that five hundred Master Masons met in Philadelphia to adopt ways and means to raise $7,200 for twelve scholarships to the Roman Catholic University of Washington, D. C., with the idea of fitting Masons or their sons for diplomatic or consular service.

This is probably as good a place as any to mention the fact that at the dedication of the Co-Cathedral of Christ the King, Roman Catholic Cardinal Dougherty of Bible-burning fame fraternized with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who participated in the idolatrous rites. “O Tolerance, what tricks are pulled in thy name!” It is doubtless all a part of the “educational” program of Rome.

Control of Movies

Whether you call them “movies”, “motion pictures” or “the cinema”, makes little difference to Rome, as long as she can control them sufficiently to eliminate things she does not want, and add such features as will glorify “the church”. This, too, is a part of the “educational” program.

Joseph Ignatius Breen, Hollywood’s No. 1 movie censor, is a Catholic, and is doing handsomely by the Catholics, inserting wherever suitable or unsuitable to the movie theme something about the Roman Catholic Church, and, believe it or not, never do these insertions say anything in the least unfavorable to the “Church” of Rome. Protestant preachers are frequently pictured in ludicrous fashion; Catholic priests, never. Joe’s son, the oldest one, is studying to be a Jesuit.

The Roman Hierarchy cheerfully admits that it has all wisdom and never errs. Out of the great depths of that wisdom it forbade the showing of the movie picture “Blockade” in Boston, and the movie “Spain in Flames” in Provincetown, Mass., and the public meekly submitted, so that they might see only what the priests want them to see. A few days later the “Reverend Father” Michael O’Flanagan was given a three-minute standing ovation in Boston when he urged Catholics to pay no attention to the political opinions of priests, bishops or popes and asserted that, over and over again, to his own knowledge, the Irish Hierarchy had taken the part of England against their own people.

Heywood Broun, in the Philadelphia Record, commenting on the “Blockade” episode, said:

The Boston City Council has unanimously passed a motion asking Mayor Tobin to ban the film “Blockade”. He stands more lonely than the little group of Concord freemen who took their post at the rude bridge which arched the flood. And yet he is not quite alone, for he is backed by a great tradition.

See “Impositions on the Movie Public” in Consolation, No. 508.

If he yields to the pressure a large New England city will put itself on record as believing that no finger should be lifted to abate that rain of death which falls upon the just and the unjust. Boston will consent to have its eyes put out lest anyone within its walls look well upon the picture of the slain babies of Spain. It is as if King Herod himself were elevated to high heaven. The Council was unanimous. The order was “passed without discussion or dissent”.

The members of the Council have not seen the film, nor has the mayor. But they have had a request from Mrs. David J. Johnson, of 118 Commonwealth avenue. Apparently that was sufficient. Mrs. Johnson has not been elected to any public office by the voters of Boston, but she is “a member of the executive board of the League of Catholic Women”. Her request was granted, and unless the mayor dissents a lone lady will henceforth be in complete charge of the cultural activities of Boston as represented in books and plays and motion pictures.

In the movie “Heidi”, featuring Shirley Temple, the child actress, one scene shows a group of nuns passing by and Shirley is made to say (in a close-up and looking appealingly at the audience) “I think every little boy and girl should go to church”. This is an example of the subtle propaganda that is introduced into numerous films, often in a way that bears no relationship to the theme of the picture, or has at most only an indirect bearing on it.

“News” films give considerable prominence to the activities and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic cult. Other denominations are seldom featured.

The Newspapers Too

Hierarchy-Jesuit censorship of the press is more and more in evidence. As a result pictures of persons kissing cardinals’ rings, etc., constantly appear in American papers, many of them seemingly posed for the benefit of the public. The idea seems to be to get Americans used to the idea and to break down their natural repugnance to such creature-worship. The ceremonies incident to the late pope’s demise were featured on a large scale, a vast propaganda.

The subservience of the press to special interests, including the Hierarchy, is manifested further in the editorials. With respect to this point, U. S. Senator Sherman Minton said:

“We find the editorial page receiving the ‘must orders’ from the high command, and articles are published for which no one is responsible, articles which can be traced to no source, and other articles which can be traced to subsidized sources. And behind all of this we find control by great banks and financial institutions, yes, and the power of the advertised representing big business. We find them believing they can control thought in this country by their command of money.

It is not that big business runs the newspapers. The newspapers are big business, and they give the people in their newspapers today what they want the people to think tomorrow.”

The United Catholic Organizations’ Press Relations Committee, under Jesuit management, will allot the various editors of the United States to supervision with a view to still more effective control of the news channels. As a result, one may expect to see more and more of the propaganda which has been shoved under the noses of liberty-loving Americans for the past decade or so.

New York newspapers sickened themselves and everybody else by claiming that Commodore Irving, Presbyterian commander of the Queen Mary, looked at a St. Christopher medal, given him by a passenger, allegedly asked the medal if he could successfully dock his big ship without the aid of the striking tugboatmen, and was told in reply to go ahead. This whole nonsense, dictated by the Devil, and exploited by Catholic newspapermen, could never have had any more foundation than mere joking on the part of Commodore Irving, but the suckers that believe the newspapers will take it all at 100 percent; and that the Roman Hierarchy knows well, and counts on it, to put its racket across.

Greater Control Threatened

Arguing that the Roman Catholic minority has been less efficient in controlling the American press than either the Christian Scientists or the Jews, William A. Henry, chairman of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Essex County, New Jersey, said in a statement in The National Hibernian:

Today, we have reached the point of knowing how to deal effectively with these same publishers and editor. We tried it locally; now we’ll try it nationally.

There was no need to make the threat. The average American editor no longer has any manhood as far as the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is concerned. Mr. Henry has the right dope. All the Hierarchy has to do is to crack the whip and most of them will go down on their bellies without a protest.

(To be continued) RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

Stepping Out on Firm Ground

◆ At the Seattle convention one church member approached the bookroom saying, "Where is one of those testimony cards? I am through with the church organizations." He obtained a supply of books and some territory and went out at once in the Kingdom witness work.

Some Canadian Sound Units

◆ The signs atop these Canadian sound cars read on one side, "And this good news of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come.—Matthew 24:14"; and on the other side, "Read Uncovered [an enlarged reproduction of the cover of the Uncovered booklet]. 'There is nothing veiled which will not become known' "--Matthew 10:26, Weymouth's translation. Side and rear views of one of the cars are also shown.

Some Canadian sound car units

Side view of the car in front

Rear view of the car in front

Pioneers in Newfoundland

◆ Two pioneers in Newfoundland are experiencing great hardships in carrying the Kingdom message to the people of that island, but are doing it nevertheless. The clergy, as usual, are infuriated that the people are told the truth. The following communication from them shows how mean the clergy can be:

We went to one town and could not get a room there at all. The Catholic priest ordered the boarding houses not to take us in. It was 25° below zero when we were there, and blowing a gale. At length we received permission to get in a home and sit by the fire for the night. The next afternoon we had to leave, on account of being unable to get a place to stay, and it had cost us $12 to go there and return.

In the Pacific Northwest

◆ The Canadian branch of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society maintains a boat that works along 7,000 miles of the Pacific coastline, reaching from the International Boundary north to Skagway, Alaska. This boat is called "Kingdom" because it carries to the people the message of God's kingdom. By this means many places are reached that otherwise would never be touched, such as lighthouses, logging camps and Indian villages. Great interest is manifested by the Indians in these villages. On many occasions they make request to broadcast the message of truth in their own language over the amplifying equipment carried on the boat, and this has resulted in leaving much literature in such districts.

Truth Barred from Quebec

◆ When Jehovah's witnesses receive their instructions from Him they go ahead and obey them, regardless of the orders of any puny man that stands in the way and attempts to put his man-made law above the law of God; hence the city of Quebec, one of the Catholic strongholds of the world, has been served by them and will yet again be served. There are some so-called "Protestants" in Quebec; there is even a French Baptist church. The pastor of that church, after Jehovah's witnesses had visited the city, left a copy of the New Testament with the police department of the city and applied for permission to distribute it. The next day he received a written refusal and, when he applied in person for the reason, was told that no reason would be given. Next thing you know he will be told to leave town or be locked up, and no reason will be given for that either. The only thing for anyone to do who is faced with the blasted anarchy of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is to go ahead and do the Lord's will and take his medicine. The Hierarchy will get their medicine in Armageddon, when they are dragged out by the heels to the dunghill, and left there, "an abhorring unto all flesh."—Isaiah 66:24.

Witnessing in Saskatchewan in midwinter. Horse and toboggan; phonograph, records and books are wrapped in the bundle.

A Courageous Police Official

◆ I write you about a courageous police official here in Saskatchewan, Canada. A mounted police is a custodian of the law having jurisdiction over a group of small country towns. Each of these towns also has its own constable. One Sunday we had our sound car set up in a small town called Vonda and played the "Hypocrisy Exposed" records. When the last record was being played the town constable, doubtless instigated by the clergy of the Roman cult, suddenly appeared and ordered the operator to "get the hell out of the town". But we calmly finished the lecture.

After seeing that his bluff did not work, the constable got greatly enraged and went to get the mounted police to arrest us. The driver of the sound car also took that to the police barracks, to explain our mission, and arrived in time to hear an interesting colloquy between the police and the constable. The Devil overplayed his part. The mounted police here was a man worthy of his title and position, and believes in upholding law and order instead of submitting himself to the old singing harlot. He explained to the constable that we were within our rights, and that no one might unlawfully interfere with our work.

Then the constable undertook to bluff the mounted police, saying that he would get someone else to drive us out of town; but his bluff did not work. The mounted police became severe with him, giving him most pointed and emphatic advice that no unlawful interference with our work by anybody whomsoever would be tolerated under any consideration. Seeing that his bluff had failed, the constable left the barracks in a hurry and disappeared. Then the mounted police said, "I guess the Catholics are afraid they are slipping."—William Ellinoy, Saskatchewan.

Blessings in Camaguey, Cuba

◆ A Cuban pioneer writes of a touching experience where the head of a family requested the Spanish record "Resurrection"-"Purgatory" to be played four times and at the end of the fourth playing said:

When you are coming back this way, please bring me this record and a Bible so that we may be able to find the way to life.

What a reward that pioneer had for bringing the truth to that honest man!

Don't Laugh, Boys! It Hurts

◆ "Your work will not be tolerated in Norwood. Get out of town and stay out."

Thus did the big noise, otherwise called "Mayor", one E. L. Eyler, of Norwood, Ohio, bombastically give orders to William Westcott and George Blackwell.

But he forgot that he was in the United States, where liberty has not yet been consigned to the valley of dry bones.

Therefore gaze on the certified copy of the perpetual injunction in the adjoining column and revel in the kiken di pantaloni administered to this small-town tycoon by the Common Pleas Court of Hamilton County, Ohio.

It is a great shock to some politicians who have merely a fungus growth above the ears, as a substitute for intelligence, to discover that, much as they wish it were otherwise, this is still the United States, not Germany, Russia, Italy or Spain.

The mayor of Norwood should give heed to the apostolic injunction, "Beware of dogs." It is to be feared that some of the "dumb dogs" that the prophet Isaiah mentions in chapter 56, verses 10 to 12, made him talk so foolishly.

Some "dogs" that are in high honor among men are in great dishonor with God. You might see what these verses say about the ignorant, lazy, greedy D.D.'s. (See page 22.)

(To be continued)

COMMON PLEAS COURT, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO

GEORGE BLACKWELL, WILLIAM WESTCOTT (deceased), and MARY McKENZIE, individually and in behalf of all others herein designated as Jehovah's witnesses operating in the City of Norwood, Ohio, Plaintiffs,

vs.

CITY OF NORWOOD, OHIO, a municipal corporation, A. L. EYLER, Mayor of City of Norwood, Ohio, and THOMAS JENNIKE, Chief of Police of the City of Norwood, Ohio, Defendants.

No. A64506

ENTRY FOR PERPETUAL INJUNCTION

Fred L. Hoffman, Judge of Common Pleas Court.

The parties herein named having come into court this day by their attorneys, and thereupon this cause came on for hearing on the pleadings and the evidence and was submitted to the Court. On consideration whereof the Court finds, on the issues joined, for the plaintiffs, and that the said plaintiffs are entitled to the relief prayed for.

It is therefore adjudged and decreed that the injunction prayed for be and is hereby made perpetual, that the plaintiffs may pursue their work of disseminating Bible Knowledge by means of books, booklets, leaflets, phonographs and whatever other lawful means they may choose in accordance with their commission from JEHOVAH GOD in the City of Norwood, Ohio, without let or hindrance on the part of the defendants in the above entitled cause of action. The costs of maintaining this cause of action are hereby taxed against the defendants.

Victor F. Schmidt, Atty. for Plaintiffs.

William M. Fridman, Atty. for Defendants.

Dated Feb. 27, 1939.

--Nostrum Cures or Nature Cures?

LORD LYTTON once said: "Discover what will destroy life, and you are a great man; what will prolong it, and you are an impostor." Although some may think that the solution of health or cancer topics should rightfully be monopolized by cliques of "members in good standing" of the American Medical Association, we Americans are awakening to the sordid fact that, as part and parcel of the cancer problem, we have a right to look into this question of monopoly in medical matters.

While "cancer specialists" seek and obtain ever-increasing funds plus legal restrictions and exclusive research privileges, they can and do use no small amount of fund and effort in the suppression and persecution of students in parallel fields of endeavor, to the general detriment of real progress and to the specific harm of the individual sufferers.

When instead of killing cancer they kill the patient, they cry "Contamination" in the handling of the nostrum—serum. How can it be any different when this body is subject only to a self-appointed "committee of investigation" rather than to the irrefutably logical fact that serums and vaccines are products of contamination and ipso facto their "essentia est contaminare".

Kant, the German philosopher, once said to his friend, a professor of medicine: "If a man reaching thirty years of age still believes in the beneficial action of medicines, he most certainly is an idiot."

Wilford Allen, Connecticut's famous physician, for many years faculty member of New York Homeopathic Medical College, at the meeting of his profession in New Haven, Conn., made an emphatic statement, that rise in cancer is attributed to the use of serums.

Dr. Sapir, of Yale University, once stressed that the treatment of the sick must be based on understanding him as an individual and that the basis of disease may be psychological.

Sir W. A. Lane, England's foremost physician, teaches a cancer-bewildered world how to live in order not to have cancer. Please tell me who is right, who is wrong.

And while cancer-cure specialists and self-appointed scientists quarrel among themselves like a bunch of schoolboys who are trying to devise a chain long enough to lift a sunken cruiser from the bottom of the sea, a truly advancing world has long found out that the cure of cancer and of any other human disorder or disease is not to be found in serums and vaccines, and that for the best part they are but handicaps to inherent healing forces of the human body, which alone has the powers to throw off disease and cure itself.

We are not concerned as to what one calls his nostrum, vaccine or serum, or what not; in truth, these are by-products of pus matter, which has been created in the flesh of some animal not able to defend itself, and after this has become a "scientific" utility and pronounced as "harmless" in theory. In reality and action it is worse than the proverbial "seven plagues", because our scientific boys fail to identify and isolate their tragic phantom.

This pus mixture, when injected into the blood-stream of the human body, remains dormant as long as vitality of the patient is maintained; and if this happens to occur the world then hears the blare of scientific trumpets via pyrotechnics of free publicity, with the view of exploiting the afflicted in the interest of profit-mongers and high-pressure sale-houses, but never for the good of suffering humanity.

And, the moment health is weakened by slight illness, which may be brought on by physical or mental overwork or debauchery, this sleeping phantom, the tissue-destroyer, has an opportunity to start its terrible work, for which it was created in hopeless ignorance of the existence of laws of nature, and then no one can tell whether it will attack the brain or other part of the body of its recipient.

One may go through life without having serious manifestations of what has been injected into his blood-stream, thus thinking he was "immunized", but, suddenly, it may begin its satanic work on his child, or even "unto third and fourth generation".

Among recent developments in certain quarters of the medical trust's own society, we find a so-called "liberal element" advocating a further policy of federal subsidization, while a more prosperous reactionary element will lobby that the old order of public exploitation may exist.

It apparently doesn't occur to either quarter that the main issue is one concerning health rather than whether they keep their hands in the right or the left pocket.—Francis Kaldon, N.D., Connecticut.

New England

Hurricane Losses

Hurricane losses in New England in September were 682 persons killed, 107 more missing, 4,743 summer cottages destroyed, 20,455 residences damaged, half a billion feet of lumber destroyed in Vermont, and even more in New Hampshire, and such damages to railroads that in one place a mile and a half of track was washed away. Property loss was over $400,000,000. There were more than sixty deaths from this storm in New York state, mainly on Long Island. The Hartford Catholic Transcript stated that in the diocese of Springfield alone more than $1,000,000 of damage was done to stained-glass windows, steeples and other religious paraphernalia. It was fourteen days after the hurricane that through service between New York and Boston was resumed over the New York, New Haven and Hartford shore line, owing to the fact that 30 miles of the track had been virtually demolished by the high tide.

Of 56 boats anchored at the fishing community of Block Island, 36 were sunk or washed out to sea. At Hartford, a week after the storm, the Red Cross was feeding 2,200 persons, including 100 babies.

Hurricane observers noted that the terraces across sloping fields prevented any loss of soil whatever, while in the immediate neighborhood a thousand tons of productive soil were swept by rain from the surface of a seven-acre field. It was estimated that in the hurricane about 4,000,000 bushels of apples, half the New England crop, were blown from the trees.

Yale bowl, New Haven, Connecticut

--COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

The Christian's Defense

RELIGIOUS politicians often make strange and inconsistent statements. A case in point is this: Recently a noted religionist in the National Congress pleaded for increased national armament, and in his speech declared that inadequate national armament for defense will "mean war . . . ending in the destruction of Christianity and our religious institutions". The gentleman was only partially right. That all religions will suffer complete destruction in the worst tribulation that ever came upon the world is certain, because the Lord Jesus stated that Jehovah God has so decreed. Christianity will abide forever, because Christ Jesus, the great Christian and Savior of the world, is alive for evermore and into His hands all power and authority in heaven and in earth are committed. (Revelation 1:18; Matthew 28:18) Christianity needs no amount of military armament for defense. If the nations of the earth see fit to provide great and extensive war equipment, that is the business of the nations and the nations' responsibility. Such armament will be no aid whatsoever to the true followers of Christ Jesus. The Christian is one who truly follows Christ Jesus and who relies upon Jehovah and who therefore says, as it is written in the Scriptures: "My help cometh from Jehovah, who made heaven and earth."—Psalm 121:2, A.R.V.

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