Consolation, May 31, 1939
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Contents
The Crime of Vaccination 3
How Smallpox Vaccine Virus Is Made 4
Compulsory Blood-Poisoning 5
Not One Penny for One Crutch 9
Aluminium 11
The New Government 12
Witness Assaulted at Glasgow 12
Catholic Violence in Britain 12
Balkan States 15
New England 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
Religion Rejects Jehovah 17
Railroads 18
Netherlands Reductio ad Absurdum 19
Under the Totalitarian Flag 20
France and the Hierarchy 20
Vatican Policy 20
Britain 23
“If There Should Ever Be a War” 23
“Young Women Driven Mad with Shame” 23
Birds 24
California 25
Kingdom Warfare in Britain 26
Employer-Fostered Lawlessness 27
British Comment 28
Political Situation 28
Roman Catholicism and Criminals 28
Baltic States 31
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Appetizers
Schoolboy Howlers
Lords and Commons are the places where cricket is played.
Silence is what you don’t hear when you listen.
You break the law if you use mallet and forethought.
They fought Trafalgar on the sea and so they often call it Waterloo.
National government is when all the parties forget themselves and go for each other.
New York is behind Greenwich time because America was discovered a lot later.
The horse you bet on is called a cert; if it loses it is called a dead cert.
Henry VIII was not good at husbandry.
A schoolboy who was asked to use the words cool and collected in a sentence wrote: “The man was cool before the accident but was collected afterwards.”
Hit It 100%
A young lady, asked to define a bolt and nut, received a 100% for the answer:
A bolt is a thing like a stick of hard metal such as iron with a square bunch at one end and a lot of scratching wound around the other end. A nut is similar to the bolt only just the opposite, being a hole in a little chunk of iron sawed off short with wrinkles around the inside of the hole.
The Cause of It All
“Brudders and sisters, you knows an’ Ah knows dat Ah ain’t been what Ah oughter been. Ah’s robbed hen-roosts, an’ stole hawgs, an’ tole lies, an’ got drunk, an’ slashed folks wi’ mah razah, an’ shot craps, an’ cussed an’ swore; but Ah thank de Lawd ders one thing Ah ain’t nebber done: Ah ain’t nebber lost mah ’ligion,”
Sold!
The decrepit old car rolled up to the toll bridge.
“Fifty cents,” called out the gateman.
“Sold,” replied the driver.
Good Story Coming
Husband (arriving home late)—“You can’t guess where I’ve been.”
Wife—“I can; but go on with your story.” CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope." — Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, May 31, 1939 Number 514
The Crime of Vaccination
AS THE clergy thrive by exploiting the spiritual perplexities of the people, and politicians prosper by their governmental difficulties, so the medical profession makes merchandise of the people by capitalizing on their physical ailments. While the ecclesiastics inoculate the people with spiritually poisonous doctrines, the medicos vaccinate them with deadly serums. How the Devil must laugh at the cruel hoax by which bodies are said to be made healthy through the injection of diseased tissues, and immunity to disease is obtained by corrupting the blood-stream!
If the Medical Association had been in existence in the days of Christ they would have insisted on vaccinating the babe Jesus, on the assumption that He was not in proper condition until they had injected a goodly number of 1,300-odd serums and vaccines of filthy pus. It would not have done Mary any good to protest, either. They would have laughed at her objections and dismay and would have put Joseph in jail (as they did John Marsh of Carlisle, Pennsylvania), reduced Mary to want, and finally vaccinated Jesus anyway, by force. They would have had no compunction whatever about doing this, even as they have no compunction about doing the same thing now to followers of Christ, the least of His brethren. Mary and Joseph were able to flee from Herod, but they would have been hard put to it to escape the watchful eye and far-reaching tentacles of the Medical Association.
The foregoing hypothetical illustration is set forth to emphasize the arrant wickedness of the entire vaccine and serum setup and those who sponsor it and profit by it. Their proposition reduces itself to the dictum that God's creatures, even if pictures of health and beauty, are not fit for life until the Medical Association has injected a score or more vaccines and serums; the more, the better. And though one may feel that such a practice is nothing short of ungodly, his conscientious scruples are ignored and violently overruled.
The Medical Association is not content with one vaccination. There would be slight profit in that. Vaccinations of various kinds are recommended, and, where possible, insisted upon, in order to "guard" the individual against known and unknown diseases.
What a Discovery!
What a discovery it was when the doctors found out that healthy persons needed their services (at a price)! The world was well on the way to an appreciation of the fact that cleanliness, moderation in food, fresh air, exercise and attention to other natural health rules were the best preventives against disease, when the doctors decided that even if people did look healthy enough to outlive Methuselah they were really in a bad way until they had had at least a few shots of serum and vaccine; and the more, the safer the individual would be. Where would the doctors and serum-peddlers be today if it had not been for this "marvelous discovery", and the further discovery that the law could be called in to make sure that nobody got away. You've got to be vaccinated, or else—!
By the way, that "or else—" business has become a little too prominent since the world was 'made safe for democracy'. You've got to be vaccinated, and your children especially, or else—! You've got to salute Hitler, or Mussolini, or the swastika or the flag, or else—! That tendency should be watched and opposed. It is the essence of totalitarianism and the denial of the most fundamental of human rights. It resolves itself into the question, "Will you do this or that because it is right and proper, or will you do it because of fear of reprisal and punishment, whether it is right or not?” It is like the ultimatum of the racketeer, “You’ll take it and like it.” It is the spirit of Satan.
You’ve got to be vaccinated, or else—! That “or else” may mean a lot. The children may be expelled from school, and have been. The parents may be arrested for failing to send the child to school, even though the child comes every day only to be refused admittance. The father may lose his job. The family may come to want and be obliged to apply for relief. Then the representatives of “law and order” step in and vaccinate the child in spite of the parents’ well-founded objections. The John Marsh case is an example of the way in which doctors through “the law” set aside the inalienable right of an individual to say what shall be done with his own body, and the bodies of his children. Vaccination is in reality an assault upon the individual and a violation of his body. This by way of introduction to a symposium of views and reviews on the subject of ‘Vaccination and Serumization’, with some additional observations on vivisection, which may be viewed as closely related. As the practice of vivisection is medical and surgical experimentation upon animals, so the injection of serums and vaccines is virtual experimentation upon human creatures. The following material has been gathered from various sources, which are indicated, and constitutes a telling array of facts in support of the contention that these practices are criminal in the extreme, human laws in their support to the contrary notwithstanding.
How Smallpox Vaccine Virus Is Made
A calf is tied down to an operating table, the stomach is shaved from twelve to fifteen inches square, and about one hundred incisions are made. Into these incisions one drop of glycerinated lymph (a culture of smallpox passed through a solution of glycerine) is allowed to drop and is thoroughly rubbed in. Fever sets in and the animal becomes exceedingly sick. In a few days the vesicles appear, the scabs form, and the elimination of impurities of various kinds from the blood of the calf begins, in the form of pus, which is thrown out of the blood into the vesicles. At the end of six days the process of elimination has proceeded so far that the vesicles are full of pus, putrid cells, etc., and a scab has formed over the reservoir of disease. The calf is once more bound and laid upon the operating table. The inoculated area is washed with warm water, and each vesicle is clasped with clamps, separately. The crust is carefully scraped with the edge of a steel instrument and the dead skin, lymph, poisonous pus and blood that are exuded are transferred to a small crucible.
To this horrible mass of putrid matter is added an equal measure of glycerine, and the mass then thoroughly stirred and mixed by a small electric motor. As soon as it is rendered homogeneous it is placed in another crucible and passed through a very fine sieve, in order to remove the coarse pieces of rotten flesh, hair, etc.; then the mixture is again beaten up, thoroughly mixed, transferred to tubes and distributed throughout the country as pure calf lymph, when in reality there is no such thing as pure lymph. It is this rotten stuff that our health boards, school boards and family physicians insist upon having introduced directly into the circulation of the blood of millions of school children every year.
But this is not the worst. Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, at the Victoria University of Manchester, April 25, 1904, said:
The most satisfactory material was found to be vesicle pulp, obtained in the post-mortem room from cases of discrete smallpox that had died during a comparatively early stage of the eruption.
Dr. Copeman goes on to tell how, after this “pulp” had been mixed with glycerine, it was inoculated into monkeys, next into calves, and then into children. Vaccine lymph made from vesicle pulp taken from sores in the body of a living patient is revoltingly unsanitary, and, we hold, clearly an illegal product. But what shall be said if made from the putrid sores on a smallpox corpse?—California Animal Defense and Anti-Vivisection League, Inc., Los Angeles.
Ella Maillart, writing in John o’ London’s Weekly, states that Weigl anti-typhus vaccine is produced in the following way: A guinea-pig is injected with some blood from a person suffering from typhus, but in order to produce a vaccine efficacious for humans, the disease has to be transmitted to lice. The Peking laboratory has a nursery of these insects, the only one in the world. Chinese who have recovered from typhus and are immune come twice a day to act as grazing grounds for the lice. For half an hour the insects suck the blood, which is a necessity to them. On each leg a man nourishes a hundred, distributed in little boxes which have netting on one side. The men who nurse the lice are often ragged beggars surprised to find themselves paid for nursing parasites which they used to carry on themselves all day and night for nothing.
The old method of ripening pus for injection into the human blood-stream was to squirt it into a calf, and when the calf got sick enough, and the pus was rotten enough, it was collected and the “pure” rot of uncertain origin was put forth to produce infantile paralysis, blindness or whatever other disease besides cowpox it may have at first contained or later collected. All this is now improved by a Japanese method. The Japanese take the same filthy stuff, mix it with “meat juice”, certain tissues from rotten hens’ eggs and other choice bits, and it is ready to be shot into humans without going through the calf. Surely “the world do move”. To make sure the stuff is all O. K. and will be suitable for pumping into Westerners, they tried it out on 2,500 patients in one of their hospitals. It now remains to be seen if American pus-growers can rise to the occasion and duplicate the stunt here. Otherwise the pus trade will go to the Japanese.
Methods of Increasing Vaccine Sales
Dr. John P. Koehler, health commissioner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, frankly describes the startling method of increasing the sales of any vaccine they decide to force upon the public, as follows:
This we attempted to do in three ways—first, by education; second, by fright; and third, by pressure. During the months of March and April we tried education and vaccinated only 62,000. During May we made use of fright and pressure and vaccinated 223,000 people.
Not content with this, as there were still many people who would not be educated or frightened, officials compelled all employers to force their employees to be vaccinated or lose their positions.—California Animal Defense and Anti-Vivisection League, Inc., Los Angeles.
Poisoning* stupefying and robbing mankind
Compulsory Vaccination
I cannot understand why there should be any attempt to compel anyone to be vaccinated against his will. We who are vaccinated have nothing to fear from anyone who is not vaccinated, unless we are sadly mistaken about the value of vaccination.
It has been my observation that health department officials who are most active in this persecution of people who do not wish to be vaccinated are generally of questionable character and honesty. By making a great show of zeal in the protection of the public health in that contemptible way the grafters and crooks holding health board jobs and collecting illicit money on the side manage to escape close scrutiny of their official conduct by the public.—Dr. William Brady, in Milwaukee Sentinel.
Compulsory Blood-Poisoning
If someone should ask you if you believed in and were an advocate of blood-poisoning you no doubt would answer emphatically in the negative. If someone should ask you if you believed in and were an advocate of vaccination, perhaps you would answer in the affirmative; and yet the practice of vaccination is nothing more nor less than deliberate blood-poisoning.
If you have never doubted the supposed virtue of this practice you may be inclined to take issue with the foregoing statement. If this is true, then what is to follow will be all the more interesting to you. The practice of vaccination consists in the introduction into the system of a substance called "vaccine virus". Have you ever stopped to consider what this virus is, and how it is obtained? In reality it is the slimy, poisonous oozings of ulcers from a diseased calf.
The word "virus" is of Latin origin, meaning "a slimy liquid; poisonous liquid; poison; stench".
The New Universal Dictionary defines "virus" as "organic, contagious or poisonous matter by which disease is introduced into the system".
According to the Century Dictionary, it means "a morbid poison; slime or poison".
Webster's International Dictionary says it is "contagious or poisonous matter as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc., applied to organic poisons".
According to Gould's Medical Dictionary, "virus" means "a poison that causes a morbid process or disease".
All dictionaries, it will be seen, are agreed that virus is a poison; and when we consider how the substance is produced, when we call to mind that it is nothing more nor less than the morbid filth that nature wisely eliminates from the body of a diseased calf, we can readily appreciate the correctness of these definitions. The calf's blood is poisoned by seed virus, and the reaction that results is but the natural operation of the law of self-preservation that applies to all living creatures. The purpose of the reaction is to eliminate the impurities that have been introduced into the blood, thus to preserve the life of the beast. The filthy slime thus eliminated from the calf is collected and put through a series of processes and then used to vaccinate human creatures.
The reaction in the human body that results when vaccine is introduced into the system is similar to the reaction that takes place in the calf when so-called "seed" virus is injected into it. The object and purpose of the reaction in both cases is to purify the blood and preserve the life of beast or child as the case may be.
Instinct and reason should prompt every person to keep the blood-stream pure. Sanitary drinking cups, individual towels, etc., are the outgrowth of the desire to avoid contamination and promote the purity of the blood. Health is absolutely impossible unless the blood approximates a certain degree of purity. Then what scientific foundation can there be for justifying the practice of vaccination?
Science as well as Scripture teaches that "as ye sow, so shall ye reap"; in other words, that the harvest must conform to the seed sown; that we cannot "gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles"; that "a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit". Vaccination is a "corrupt tree" and must bring forth fruit after its own kind. By the practice of vaccination the seeds of disease are implanted in the body, and health is always placed in jeopardy. Even life itself is often sacrificed because of this blood-contaminating operation.
This practice is justified and forced upon the public because of the false belief that health is thereby safeguarded, or, more specifically, that it prevents smallpox—a disease that has largely been eliminated by improvements in sanitation and personal hygiene. This false conclusion is zealously fostered by a powerful commercial-medical-political combination that is almost impossible to overcome. It is subsidized in practically every nation on earth and deeply entrenched in national, state and city governments. This state of affairs has been brought about by recourse to mob psychology and careful cultivation of the fear complex.
But as sure as truth liberates, the time is coming when this destructive practice of compulsory blood-poisoning will cease, and people will no longer be deprived of their inalienable right to maintain the purity of their blood-stream. It will become obvious to every sane-minded individual, even physicians, that health cannot be promoted by polluting the blood, but, on the contrary, only evil can result from such a filthy practice.
When it is so apparent that the practice of vaccination is founded on falsehood and error, the question logically arises, Why do doctors continue to believe in and advocate it? There may be several reasons for this, but the principal one, no doubt, is that they have been taught that vaccination has rid the world of smallpox. This belief is promulgated as one of the verities of science, and statistics are advanced to substantiate it. The result is that seldom will a doctor of the orthodox school bother to give the matter so much as an inquiring thought. Then, too, the political and commercial aspects of vaccination are a strong factor in its perpetuation.
But let the true nature of vaccination be known, and the practice will rapidly die out.
Doctors themselves will gradually become disillusioned, just as they did in regard to the practice of bloodletting and many other pernicious remedies that have long since been discarded. Let it be known that compulsory vaccination is the inoculation of the body with a “morbid poison”, and gradually there will be a revision of sentiment in, as well as out of, the medical profession toward this evil practice, which eventually will result in the repeal of all laws making it compulsory. Many years ago we were assured by the greatest of all teachers, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”—George W. Reid, M.D., D.O., Massachusetts.
Are the Serums Harmless?
One of the greatest lies is the statement, “Inoculations and injections are HARMLESS.” Be convinced now, last and always, that it is a LIE, and I will prove it to you here and now—not by my say-so, but I will let you read what one of the leading manufacturers of this filth has to say about “serum sickness”.
You have all either read or heard of this condition at times, in the medical propaganda you have read, or from persons who have suffered because of having had serum vaccines and toxins injected into them, but it was never explained to you just what serum sickness is, and its results. Of course, medicine will not inform you of the bad results of anything.
This is a doctor-made disease, as vaccinia is, which results after vaccination from smallpox. I will give you parts of that lengthy article, which was printed in “Roche Review”, a monthly booklet published by Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N. J., a manufacturer of medical preparations, serums, vaccines and toxins for injections. This story was published in their July issue, 1937, Vol. I, No. 10, on page 281. The following explains itself, leaving nothing for me to say, and plenty for you to think about.
. . . The clinical picture of serum sickness is distinctive and, with the history of serum administration, presents no diagnostic difficulty. There are two types of delayed reaction whose symptoms are essentially similar, the only difference being in intensity. One type occurs after the patient’s first experience with antiserum, and the other occurs in cases in which previous injection has sensitized the patient. In the latter type the incubation period is shorter and the symptoms more severe.
The most constant findings are Urticaria, Adenopathy, Arthralgia, Fever, and Edema. In addition Abdominal Pain, Vomiting, Diarrhea, Headache and sore throat may be present. In extreme cases, shock (collapse) and even death may occur. . . .
Serum sickness rarely occurs without skin lesions. Usually urticarial in form, or a mixture of urticaria and erythema, the eruption is always attended by pruritus, which may be severe.
Joint manifestations occur in about half of the patients. They may be entirely subjective, without outward evidence; or a true arthritis may develop, with swellings, heat exudate and redness. The knees, ankles, elbows and wrists are most commonly affected. In about 30 percent of the cases, fever ranging from 99 to 104 occurs. It is usually remittent and may last for a week or more. Edema also occurs in about one-third of patients, occasionally accompanied by signs of impaired renal (kidney) function. The face, sacrum, pretibial regions, ankles and upper extremities are most commonly affected. The evidence of transient kidney damage are chloride and water retention, a reduced phenolsulphonephthalein excretion, albumin and cylindrical casts.
Treatment is symptomatic. [There is no cure or specific for all these conditions. You have to battle your way out yourself. If you don’t, it is just too bad.—Author]
. . . Immediate serum reactions, the so-called “serum accidents” [great injury and death], occur immediately following the administration of serum, sometimes even before the needle is withdrawn. In such instances the cause of the reaction lies in the specific sensitivity of the individual to the type of serum administered, a sensitivity which may be inherent and not necessarily induced by previous serum administration. [Blame it on the patient.—Author] As has already been noted, severe, even fatal, reactions may occur in persons who have received previous injections of serum. These are called “secondary serum accidents”. . . .
And still, my good friends, you continue to read and believe that inoculations are harmless, because the M.D., who listens to the manufacturers, tells you so. The newspapers and magazines give millions of dollars of free advertising to these firms and doctors yearly. Such news sheets are causing thousands of deaths yearly because of this—unknowingly perhaps, for business reasons principally in many cases.
The above is a story written by the manufacturer who makes such filthy products. I believe that should be convincing enough. But you are not allowed to read this side of the story.
Still knowing all this, the manufacturer is allowed to make it, and the medicine man continues to inject this material into healthy blood-streams, making up their own statistics and results, to satisfy the public mind that it is all for "public welfare". With all their test tubes, white gowns, knives, etc., medicine becomes very intriguing to the public mind, and makes wonderful "copy" for the newspapers and magazines. But have they ever stopped to think of the results, or checked their statements? The crippling, blinding and death caused by such practice is appalling. If they would print in the newspapers what they print in their personal journals about the results of their practices, medicine would collapse overnight.
A few results printed: At Los Angeles a youth of 20 years was caught in the act of choking a woman of 75. Arrested, and suspected of three murders, he claims that the urge to kill came as a result of serum inoculations given him in a CCC camp.
If you want to turn to stone, and you have heard of a number of these cases lately, you might try receiving anti-typhoid injections. It worked that way with Mrs. Iola Swinnerton, of Chicago, who has been in a hospital ten years because she let her blood-stream be thus polluted. She is now but 33 years of age.
Has anyone ever heard of a pure mountain stream of water being made more pure by running a sewer into it? Would medical science (?) have us believe that our secretions, serums, organs and reactions match those of the lowest animals? Is there one disease that medicine can prove they have prevented with vaccines? To prove prevention, you first have to prove that person would get that disease in the first place; and who in the world is going to prove THAT?
Oh, yes, serums, vaccines, toxins, inoculations, are all "harmless", because the man who is selling them says so. You, my friends, believe this LIE, and continue to submit your body to these violations; then all I can say is, "God have mercy on your soul."—James I. Bardsley, D.C., Ph.C., N.D., Ph.N., Pennsylvania.
Tribute to Vaccination
It may be that you do not know what vaccination and inoculation are—it may be that you do not know that these practices consist of putting the putrid discharge from the running sores of diseased persons and animals and other diseased human and animal substances into the blood-stream of healthy persons, contaminating it so that, in the case of persons susceptible to particular diseases, one disease or another may result either immediately or at some time in the future. And to make these putrid substances, great cruelty is practiced upon animals by diseasing them, causing them untold pain and suffering and eventually killing them uselessly with disease. These practices sow the seed of infantile paralysis, tetanus, syphilis, cancer, consumption, and other loathsome diseases.
The vaccine makers contend that their product isn't so harmful because it comes from a calf after originally coming from a human [creature], believing apparently that calf pus is not so bad as human pus after the human pus has been smeared into the calf and has festered on the calf into calf pus. But there are reasons why calf pus is a worse substance to introduce into the human circulation than human pus (or human cellular substance); for observe: The calf cells multiply fifteen or twenty times as rapidly as human cells. These calf cells introduced into the human circulation are not digested as they would be if taken into the stomach—they remain living cells indefinitely. Killing the calf does not at once kill the cells of the animal, as many biologists will testify. Thus getting into the circulation, the foreign cells are carried through lymph ducts to glands and there deposited. Should they retain life and subsequently multiply, as they undoubtedly do in many cases, they multiply according to their nature, rapidly, causing bunches—tumors, cancer and other morbid growths have had their most rapid increase since bovine vaccines have become the rule. All vaccination is unphysiological—a crime against nature.
Out of what hell of research could the idea of such grafting have sprung but from that lowest region where misnamed doctors combine disease cultivation with animal torture and carry it on as their life work?—H. Eugene Gardner, prominent Philadelphia attorney.
Picric acid and zinc sulphate have been introduced to aid in cases of infantile paralysis. According to the dictionary, picric acid is used in dyeing and in explosives and zinc sulphate (white vitriol) is made by combining sulphuric acid and zinc. A prophylactic is something that is supposed to prevent disease. All right. What do you say to trying out a combination of these two chemicals, one so useful in dyeing and explosives, and the other so effective as an emetic and astringent? Maybe the two of them together might prevent the spreading plague of infantile paralysis (which some able physicians believe di rectly traceable to vaccination). With this little introduction, one is able to understand the following conclusions of Dr. Mervin C. Myerson, director of the nose and throat department of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., based on a long study at that institution, recently made public.
The effectiveness of astringent chemicals when used in preventing infantile paralysis in monkeys was so great . . . that the prophylactic method was tried out on mass populations, first in the South and last year in Toronto. In both instances no conclusions of any kind were drawn because of the uncertainty of the results.
Just a mild suggestion from one who does not know it all, but loves his fellow men: How about cutting out both the vaccination and the picric acid and zinc sulphate and all similar experiments for a while, and teach hygiene, and see what effect that has on the infantile paralysis curse.
Not One Penny for One Crutch
At a recent hearing for a bill before a subcommittee of the House District Committee, Dr. Joseph Wall, professor of children’s diseases at Georgetown University, and acting chief of staff at Children’s Hospital, Washington, D. C., said: “The chief purpose of the Birthday Balls is to raise an enormous fund for research. Not one penny of that fund will go to buying a crutch for a crippled child. Not one dollar will go to President Roosevelt’s pet foundation in Georgia. The majority of the dollars will go for the purchase of monkeys in order that we may carry out proper animal research.”
In recent years, many thousands of monkeys have been tortured to “discover” a scrum to “prevent” infantile paralysis, and countless other animals have been diseased and “bled white” to make various serums, which were given to about 20,000 children, injuring their health and actually killing some, till United States health officials called a halt. Surely those who contributed to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis do not wish their money, given to infantile paralysis sufferers, to be sunk in still more tortures, more injured and dead children? Then write at once to the Trustees, 120 Broadway, New York City, and tell them so!—Alice K. Millard, New York.
Results of Vaccination
Reynold W. Wilcox, M.D., in his book on “The Treatment of Disease, a Manual of Practical Medicine”, states, at page 244:
Complications of Vaccination: Cellulitis may occur, especially in debilitated children, as a result of contamination. Erysipelas is a serious complication and in certain instances dormant disease such as tuberculosis and syphilis may manifest itself. Vaccinia may prove fatal to children, for various bacteria and amoeboid bodies have been found in the vaccine lymph.
A specific illustration of the possibility of introducing injurious bacteria by means of vaccination is that of the daughter of Prof. Michael Kinnear of Dublin, who died of galloping consumption after being inoculated with a serum intended to prevent diphtheria (which the child might never have contracted in any event). The professor sued the serum manufacturers, Burroughs Wellcome, for £16,100 ($80,000) damages. Twenty-five other children similarly inoculated likewise contracted consumption or tubercular disease.
“. . . Eczema and impetigo [skin disease with pustules] in particular have, post hoc, been attributed to vaccination, but no direct connection has been proved to exist between the operation and the occurrence of these disorders. Of a different order is the post-vaccinal encephalitis described by Turnbull and McIntosh of the British Medical Association meeting in July 1928. The condition has been noticed in some hundreds of cases and manifests itself, on the average, ten to fourteen days after vaccination, as headache, delirium, paresis, and ultimately coma and death in fatal cases.”—Copied from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th Edition (1929), Vol. 22, page 922, 2nd column, under the subject of “Vaccination”, subheaded “Alleged Injurious Effects”, by The American Medical Liberty League, Inc., 404 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Achievements of vaccination are hardly of the kind to be extolled. In the year 1935, in the whole of England and Wales there were no deaths from smallpox; but do not think from this that nothing was accomplished by vaccination. There was. In that year eight deaths were registered as having been caused by vaccination. Superstition dies hard. Mexico, with the most rigid vaccination and revaccination law, has the highest smallpox death rate in the world. There is good reason to believe that smallpox is spread only by the bite of bedbugs that had previously had a smallpox dinner.
At Erie, Pennsylvania, five-year-old Maxine Yarrington has slept with her eyes wide open for half of her life. Encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness), often brought on by vaccination, is believed to be incurable in this case.
How They Bolster Up False Statistics
Dr. Carr, former editor of the Columbus Medical Journal, said:
We had in this city (Columbus, Ohio) an alleged epidemic of smallpox. A great many people were quarantined, and a great many were vaccinated.
I took the pains to obtain this list of people, who were put down as never vaccinated. I obtained the list from the books at the Board of Health, and started out to visit the list. I visited the first thirty, and without exception they had been vaccinated, some of them three or four times. I went back to the office, demanding an explanation of their false statistics, and the reply I got was as follows:
"It doesn't make any difference how many vaccination scars a man may be carrying, he has not been properly vaccinated if he gets the smallpox. The only proof we need that he has not been properly vaccinated is the fact that he catches smallpox. And if he had not been properly vaccinated, it is equivalent to never vaccinated." Therefore, they simply find out who has the smallpox, and then put them down as never vaccinated.
Another method of reducing smallpox statistics is to list smallpox cases in previously vaccinated children as chicken pox. — California Animal Defense and Anti-Vivisection League, Inc., Los Angeles.
How Diphtheria Antitoxin Is Made
The method of manufacture of diphtheria anti-toxin furnishes a classical example of the manufacture of all serums used in the modern cult of serum therapy, whether of anti-plague serum, anti-tetanus serum, Sclavo's anthrax serum, anti-snake venom serum, anti-pneumococcic serum, anti-meningitis serum, etc., etc. In most of the preparations a horse is used as the medium for obtaining the serum, but for the preparation of anthrax serum Sclavo uses a donkey and for that of anti-plague serum Haffkine usually uses a goat.
A portion of the membranous excretion which appears upon the throat of a patient suffering from diphtheria is first extracted therefrom. It is necessary that it should contain the diphtheria bacillus; for many diphtheritic throats contain no diphtheria bacillus at all. This excretion is then transferred to a special beef broth, which is kept at a certain even temperature in an incubator for ten to fourteen days, until the germs multiply millionsfold, and the broth becomes alive with them. It is recommended that the meat which is used for making the broth should be kept for some days until incipient putrefaction has taken place. The broth is then filtered, and the filtrate is employed for injecting into horses. At first only a few drops are injected under the skin. The injections are administered twice a week in gradually increasing doses for a period of five or six months until the dose ultimately reaches as much as a pint to a pint and a half.
At first injections give rise to a considerable constitutional disturbance—as might be expected in such a blood-poisoning process. The animal's temperature rises, it goes off its food, it may have diarrhea and shivering fits, etc., but the injections are continued until the animal—if it does not succumb—ceases to react. It is then said to be "immune", and its blood is supposed to contain an anti-toxin capable of neutralizing the toxin (i.e., poison) of diphtheria. The bleeding process then begins, usually on the third day after the last injection of the poisoned beef broth.
The animal's head is firmly secured; if at all refractory a cruel instrument called a twitch is fixed on the upper lip, and a long sharp-pointed tube is driven into the horse's neck over a large blood vessel, and two or three gallons of blood are drawn off into a receptacle. This process is repeated from time to time until the animal is exhausted, or is sold or dies. The blood coagulates and the clear fluid which rises to the surface—called serum—is then put into tubes and sold at fancy prices under the name of diphtheria anti-toxin.—Washington Humane Education and Anti-Vivisection Society, Spokane, Wash.
The cheerful work of pumping experimental serums goes on in Canada, as in other semi-civilized areas of the world, including the United States. The Calgary Herald tells of one of the so-called "anti-diphtheria" serums' being pumped into Basil Forester, nine-year-old son of a widow, at Olds, Alberta, and after a few days of intense suffering he died. Of thirty healthy children inoculated with the pus, twelve had to have their arms lanced and a dozen more were ill. It will now be up to the serum manufacturers to get out one more new serum and to get the news published far and wide of their "great discovery", so that a market can be maintained for the filth they have to sell.
Aluminum
Don't Blame the Wrong Thing
◆ A correspondent writes that Trommers are putting up their malt beer in aluminum kegs for delivery to beer gardens. However, it is not the business of Consolation to worry about who gets sick in beer gardens, or why. Anybody who will let any kind of alcoholic liquor stand overnight in an aluminum container and then drink it the next morning might learn something.
Why, Newcomb!
◆ Ever since the first issue of The Golden Age, down to the last issue of Consolation, I have been a faithful reader of your paper and have swallowed everything contained therein "hook, line, and sinker".
It is my painful duty to inform you that at last you have been found out and you are now being shown up in your true light. You who stand as a protector of the people, warning them of violent death from eating foods cooked in aluminum ware, are now shown up as a base deceiver bringing hardship and privation upon a long-suffering, down-trodden humanity.
Do you not know that 'Sales Mean Jobs'? If you don't, look around you and see the signs, buttons and banners to that effect, and then see if you don't believe it. But what do we find you doing? I should think you would hide your head in shame. A helper of humanity! (???) Ha, ha! Doing your best to drive aluminum cooking utensils off the market and, in so doing, drive many an honest toiler out of a job so that he has to get a pension from Mr. Roosevelt on the A.P.A.
Don't you know that nearly all foods contain aluminum? If not, look over the enclosed booklet. Why, it even has aluminum ink used in its printing, along with its pretty colors of tempting fruits and vegetables.
Don't you know that approximately one-twelfth the earth's crust is composed of aluminum? If not, look at the booklet.
Don't you know that aluminum compounds are essential to life? If not, take another look at the booklet.
Don't you know that all the big hospitals and all the big men use 'Never Wear Aluminum Cooking Utensils'? If not, take seven more looks at the booklet, a page a look.
Now what have you got to say to vindicate yourself? I suppose you will try to tell me that they don't grind up the aluminum metal and put it into the food after they infer it is there.
Well, I am going to start saving all the aluminum metal I find in the foods I eat from now on, and as soon as I get enough to make a dish I will send it on to you and insist that you cook all your foods in it until you take back all you have said against aluminum ware.
So there now, I have got that off my chest. Say, it was fine of them to let us know what hospitals, hotels and canned goods to keep away from.
Aluminumly yours,
H. W. NEWCOMB.
Another Honest Newspaper
◆ Another honest newspaper was discovered in the Alton (Ill.) Evening Telegraph. It had the courage to record the fact that the entire family of Mrs. Gus Tomlinson, 2121 County Club Avenue, was poisoned because a large goose, cooked for the Sunday dinner, was left, with its dressing, for several hours, in the aluminum pan in which it was cooked. Just why it requires so much courage to honestly report cases of aluminum poisoning becomes clear at once to any newspaper that tries it. The persons that make the aluminum utensils, the hardware stores that sell them, and the doctors that profit from the illnesses caused by their use, are all vitally affected in their pocket books. The papers seldom offend twice. There are now 150,000 aluminum beer barrels in use.
Undertakers' Assistants
◆ It is claimed that in the United States today there are 42 companies engaged in making aluminum cooking utensils, and 400,000,000 pieces of aluminum ware are in use in the nation's kitchens. The amount of misery thus expressed is beyond all human calculation.
Cancer Increase
◆ In Great Britain more than 100,000 persons are suffering from cancer, according to Walter Elliot, health minister. The death rate from cancer has nearly doubled in a generation. Meanwhile Britishers continue to use aluminum cooking utensils.
RIGHTEOUS RULER
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Witness Assaulted at Glasgow
◆ A very bad case of assault and battery on Jehovah’s witnesses, the most serious that has yet been reported in Britain, occurred recently in the Clydebank district of Glasgow. A party of about sixty publishers started to work on the new housing scheme opposite John Brown’s shipbuilding yard, and Harold Youngman proceeded ahead of them to give lectures from the sound-car. “I was giving latter parts of ‘Safety’,” he reports. “It was a very strong Roman Catholic district, and I remember being told by a young fellow last year that I had better not come back here with ‘that stuff’. As there were a lot of kiddies around the car, I asked Malcolm Scott to stand by while the records were being run and keep the youngsters off. Malcolm says he casually noticed four fellows coming down the street behind the car. He paid no particular attention to them. Suddenly he received a blow on the face, then another fellow gave him a blow on the back of the head, while a third hit him in the back. The one who struck him first then walked to the car, opened the door, lifted his foot and brought his heel down on the transcription machine, breaking the record; then closing the door and jumping on the back of the car he threw the box speaker from the roof onto the ground. By this time some of the householders had come out and told the fellow that this sort of thing was not playing the game. Had it not been for the number who came from their houses, one of the roughs would have put a piece of wood through the windows of the car.”
The matter was reported to the police, resulting in a comb-out of the district, and subsequently four fellows were arrested, but only one of them could be identified as participating in the attack. His name is McGrory—’nough said—and he is to be tried at court shortly. Owing mainly to the fact that the one so violently attacked by these gangsters was rendered practically unconscious, it is doubtful whether all four will get their just deserts; but to ensure successful identification in the future it would be well for publishers to note features, peculiarities of walk, or other distinguishing characteristics, so as not to let such assaults pass without punishment. —C. Daniels.
Listening to the Kingdom message in the Scottish Highlands
Catholic Violence in Britain
◆ The exposure of the Catholic Hierarchy and its racket in Britain is now beginning to draw the venom from some of its ardent religionists and, in one instance at least, has led to a pioneer publisher’s being roughly manhandled. In the city of Leicester, where two attacks have recently been made upon Jehovah’s witnesses, resident pioneer F. Headley for the past twenty years has been visiting the local populace at their homes and places of business and has called upon nearly 100,000 residents in the last eight years, while during the last four years over 8,000 people have gladly listened to, and given thanks for, the Kingdom message from the phonograph. Such a record speaks for itself concerning the peaceful, inoffensive manner and good work of Jehovah’s witnesses.
In pursuance of his God-given commission to preach the gospel of the Kingdom, pioneer Headley called at the home of Mr. Campbell, a Catholic, of Groby Road, Leicester, on Sunday, January 22, and when asked to listen to the message from the phonograph the man’s wife gave consent. The machine was started, and then Mr. Campbell came to the door and after listening for about a minute he suddenly became violent. To use Headley’s own words,
He told me to get out or he would smash the machine. He was so violent that I had not time to close up the phonograph, and while I was protecting it he handled me so roughly that I could not get off his premises with my belongings. His wife then took action and kicked my case of literature (containing about 60 pieces) from the doorstep, and when I protested they both took all the matter out of the case and strewed and kicked it about the garden. My leather case was taken and deliberately ripped, and they refused to let me pick anything up. They finally threw everything over the garden fence. Many booklets were, of course, damaged, and my nerves were so affected that I could not continue the work and have been unable to sleep.
Legal action is contemplated.—C. Daniels, London.
◆ Five witnesses of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) company chanced to come across a group of linemen at the lunch hour. The witnesses could talk to them in German, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian and English, but they had something better. They had Judge Rutherford’s lectures in English, which all understood, and played several of them on the phonograph. Result: 6 bound books, 31 booklets, 27 phonograph attendance. Part of the group of listeners are shown in the picture.
Linemen Listening In
Comical Note from a Fat Man
◆ Fat men are proverbially good-natured;
and when one of the best-natured of all of them was arrested and tried to express his anger, it was fun to hear from him, and to notice that when he did try to get angry his wrath seemed to be specially vented toward one of his own type. He said:
Was picked up today with another witness and we were taken to the police station where the radio desk sergeant tried to scare us out of seven years’ growth. We were not much impressed. He raged, he stormed, he threatened, and when he had heard as much of the testimony as we could work in between noises, he howled, but to no avail.
The chief of police told us we could go, but if they had any more complaints they would have to arrest us and lock us up. It turned out that they knew all about our work and were only trying to bluff us. However, it was remarkable how civil the chief of police became after he had listened to Judge Rutherford on the “Enemies” record. And it sounded so much better because the obese desk sergeant stormed and raged so his own ears would not hear it.
As we went out the chief of police asked how long we were going to work. I said “a full hour”, and we did without further trouble. The fat “goat” only had one complaint. The other officers were much amused at the fat one’s agony. The reason, of course, that Fatso was so apoplectic was because we refused to ask for a permit, and told him the same as Jeremiah told the Jews.—Jeremiah 26:8-15.
If Your Name Were Copscak
◆ If your name were A. Copscak, and you boarded at the home of a Spanish woman in Monessen, Pa., and a lady of your own nationality, one of Jehovah's witnesses, called at the home of your landlady to set up a phonograph and put on some wonderful lectures on Bible topics; and if you got mad and smashed her machine, and called her vile names; and if you added to all this that you called up the police and had her taken to the police station [where she was released]; and then if Jehovah's witnesses had you arrested for malicious mischief; and if it happened that even the alderman passed the house while you were making a fool of yourself, and the net result was that you had to pay for repairing the machine and to pay the costs of the suit, or else serve time behind bars one day for every dollar, wouldn't it make you mad that you were such a fool? And how long would it take you to learn that it was your fool religion at the bottom of it all?
A little California girl
Over two years a Kingdom publisher
Beneath Contempt
◆ Beneath contempt is the United Press dispatch from Alexandria, La., stating that the assistant district attorney "investigated five men arrested for the distribution of 'Fascist' circulars". The accused men were Jehovah's witnesses. The literature described as "'Fascist' circulars" is the most outspoken condemnation of Fascism ever circulated; for it goes straight to the heart of the whole matter. But see the light in which the United Press puts it. The men were arrested, so the account goes on to say, for an "attack on the Catholic Church". The average dumb reader is thus led to believe that the Catholic Church, which is the heart and soul of all Fascism, is against all Fascism, while Jehovah's witnesses, the only real patriots in the country who have the guts to tell who is back of Fascism, are accused of being "Fascist". If you can beat that for general all-round cussedness you will have to go some.
Does It Happen This Way in the States?
◆ We had finished our monthly sound-car program at Pirapitinguí and were on the way back to São Paulo for our regular Sunday afternoon program at Luz Park, when a tire went flat and we stopped on the side of the highway to change it. It was a hot, dusty afternoon, with a fair amount of traffic. Every car that came along stopped and offered assistance. The traffic cop came by and offered his services. At last came the ice-cream man. He stopped, offered to help us, then said: "What is this message of the Kingdom? This car has passed me a number of times and I've always wanted to know." We gave him a Kingdom booklet and Uncovered to read, and then he treated us to ice cream.
Bananas 2c a dozen, avocados 2c apiece, pineapples 5c apiece, in São Paulo Free Market, Brazil, January 9, 1939.—Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at São Paulo, Brazil.
Consolation Is Your Magazine
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(To be continued) Balkan States
Rumanian Orthodox Racket
The Rumanian Orthodox racket, commonly called the "Rumanian Orthodox Church", has been making it hot for the Baptists and other sects, bringing about their arrests and imprisonment. The Baptists do not appreciate these little attentions, and remind the world that the Rumanian Orthodox Church sat in at the Oxford conference and was one of the signatories to the statement:
All churches should renounce the use of the coercive power of the State in matters of religion.
The whole thing is laughable. The Oxford conference was merely a conference of racketeers, and the signatures to agreements made there were of no more value than the signatures of the powers most recently agreeing to protect Czechoslovakia.
Latest Elections in Yugoslavia
◆ Latest elections in Yugoslavia are down to the level of elections in Jersey City or Kansas City. The Government announced over the radio that the Greek Catholic archbishop had voted in its favor, and then refused to let him tell the truth that he had voted against it. Election inspectors who tried to prevent falsification of votes were expelled or arrested. Many voters, when they came to vote, were told they had already voted. Identification cards were given to blocks of illegal voters so that they could vote instead of the rightful persons. Many voters sold themselves to the highest bidders. Others voted as they were instructed by dispensers of shoes, firewood or other necessities. Thus, by one crooked means or another, the Stoyadinovitch gang stayed in power.
The Downfall of Czechoslovakia
◆ The downfall of Czechoslovakia was due primarily to French double-crossing and deliberate British betrayal. The Russians were ready to stand by their agreement to support Czechoslovakia, provided the French would do so. And right up to September 18 the French government assured Benes that it would do so. Only British treachery encouraged Hitler to demand annexation of the Sudeten area:
"Hitler would have accepted autonomy for the Germans in Czechoslovakia, and the German program until the last few days did not go beyond that; but then came Lord Runciman who reported favorably on dismemberment.
"This conclusion inevitably was known to Hitler before he committed himself to annexation, clearly with the full knowledge that Great Britain would not go to war, that therefore France would not meet her obligations, and that in turn Russia was not obligated to move, since her treaty with Czechoslovakia was contingent upon French support."
"One must join Professor Frederick L. Schuman in concluding that there was no war crisis at any time, only an unparalleled conspiracy, and even a hoax, to intimidate public opinion and to clothe with a garment of necessity as ugly an act as the history of international politics presents for a thousand years."—Dr. Charles Pergler, in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
In the Refugee Camp at Mischdorf
◆ In the refugee camp at Mischdorf, near Bratislava, Hungary, last winter 300 men, women and children were dumped in an open field for one week in temperatures of 20 degrees below zero during the daytime and 50 degrees below zero at night. They built scanty huts of cornstalks and in four vans put the helpless cripples, the blind and those seriously ill with high fevers and tuberculosis. One brave physician, himself a refugee, worked day and night to render all the aid in his power to these victims of man's inhumanity to man.
Pressure upon the Jews
◆ Pressure upon the Jews continues all over the Balkan States, and, of course, emanates from a common center. In Czechoslovakia an order was issued suspending all Jewish professors and teachers from German universities and high schools. In Hungary and Rumania legislation is under way to force all Jews to emigrate. Poland and Yugoslavia, as well as Germany and Italy, show similar intolerance and bigotry. Rumania is now treating as foreigners all Jews who arrived in that country since 1916, is regulating the number that may be engaged in any single occupation, and is forbidding Jewish establishments to close on Saturday.
New England
Reardon Must Go
◆ Of all the appointments made by that "only Catholic governor", Charles F. Hurley, of Massachusetts, one that was most objectionable was that of James G. Reardon, state commissioner of education, and it was good to learn that one of the first acts of the new governor was to put a new and better man in his place. Others to go were William F. Callahan, public works commissioner, Frank Kane, associate public works commissioner, and many others of the same stripe. Americans are gradually learning it is never safe to put a subject of the Hierarchy into an office of trust.
A Good Mother in Massachusetts
◆ In Massachusetts a trusty escaped from the Dedham jail and found his way to the home of his mother, and the mother rose to the occasion. She persuaded him to return; and, to make sure that he did, she accompanied him to the door of the prison. It was mother love put to a great test, and this mother proved that she really loved her boy. She was looking to the future, not the immediate present.
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Hard-hearted Massachusetts
◆ At Peabody, Massachusetts, William F. Waterhouse, a young man of 87, was refused permission to marry Mrs. Mary Hill, a young woman of 72. It seems that each of these young people is now getting $30 a month pension, but if they marry their income will be automatically reduced to $50 for the two. Now, if that isn't tough luck for those just starting out in life!
COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford
Religion Rejects Jehovah
THE VARIOUS universities maintain a “divinity school”, the purpose of which is to give instruction in matters religious. Recently the dean of Yale Divinity School issued a statement that the name Jehovah is to be removed from the Standard Bible used by the religious organizations and added these words in his statement: “Jehovah is not a functioning religious term.” Religionists therefore openly and formally reject the name of Jehovah. During the past few years there has been such a wide publicity of the name of Jehovah by faithful Christians that the worldly authorities of religion see the necessity of turning the minds of religious people entirely away from Jehovah God in order that they might hold the parishioners in the organization. Manifestly the reason is fear that some sincere persons might learn the meaning of the name Jehovah, and completely abandon religion. It is true that religious practitioners have no desire to use the name of Jehovah, for the reason that religion is Satan’s chief instrument employed to fight against the Almighty God, whose name alone is Jehovah. In fact, the name Jehovah has never been a “functioning religious term”.
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