Consolation, June 14, 1939
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Contents
All the World Wondering—
Exactly as Foretold (1) 3
‘The Master People’ 4
Lord of the World 5
Totally Devoid of Justice 7
Completely Disdains Truth 9
Hitler a Millionaire 10
The New Government
Massachusetts—There She Cringes 12
Agriculture and Forestry 15
Share Cropping and the Dust Bowl 15
Natural Phenomena 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
Legalized Wickedness 17
Under the Totalitarian Flag 20
Earth’s Most Successful Racket 20
“Ancient Religion Totalitarian” 21
Some Items About Deer 23
Education 24
Northwestern States 25
Australasia 26
World’s Oldest Ship 26
Missionaries in Western Australia 26
Destruction of Scotland Under Way 27
◆ British Comment 28
“Peace” 28
Astrology 30
“Away Down South in Dixie” 31
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Her Father Took It All Right
He came down the garden path, a sad, sorrowful figure. The beautiful girl watched him with anxious eyes. She tried to read the thoughts that were passing in his troubled mind. When he had come near to her she whispered, “How did father take it?”
“Oh, he took it all right,” replied the young man.
“Oh, I am so glad, George!” she cried.
“Are you?” he replied, flopping forlornly by her side. “Well, I can’t say that I am, dear. At first your father wouldn’t listen to me.”
“Why didn’t you tell him that you have $2,500 in the bank, like I told you?” she demanded.
“I did, after every other argument had failed to convince him that we could afford to get married.” And George bowed his head in utter dejection.
“And what did father do then?”
“Do!” echoed the young man, passing his fingers despairingly through his hair. “He borrowed it!”
The Helpful Scot
“Good gracious! What have I done now?” gasped the young man, collapsing heavily on the car seat on an English train.
“What’s the matter, mon?” asked a startled Scotsman in the corner.
“Why, I’ve accidentally pulled the communication cord while searching in my luggage,” the other explained. “What shall I do? I’ll be fined five pounds.”
The Scot looked thoughtful.
“Don’t worry, laddie, don’t worry,” he said, calmly. “Just gi’e me three pounds and I’ll throw a fit.”—Labor.
Imported Jokes
Extract from the Last Will and Testament of Sandy McWhirter:
“. . . and to my cousin Angus I leave all the money he owes me.”
“Be sure and keep the Sabbath,” said a Scots father to his son, as the latter was about to travel to London, “and everything else ye can lay your hands on.” CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 14, 1939 Number 515
All the World Wondering—Exactly as Foretold
(In Three Parts—Part 1)
THE HIERARCHY'S HITLER
THE human mind tires of horrors. German terrorism led by Hitler first shocked the decent people of the world; then, by its amazing continuance over more than six years of governmental crime, it has come to dull and paralyze the emotions. The good people of earth have begun to accept the consumption of Europe by the Nazi plague as the all-too-familiar commonplace. In this forced acceptance the hireling press has had a large responsibility. With its talons always on the pulse of world opinion, gauging the international tempo and creating that tempo with experienced cunning, it now takes advantage of this spreading lassitude to present the HIERARCHY'S HITLER in a glamorous light, the hero of terrorism.
In complete control of the news agencies of the world, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy continues to promote Hitler, even in the United States, as a world savior. That he, as well as all the other dictators of Europe, is the Hierarchy's tool is a fact that much simulated Catholic persecution and other lies disseminated especially by American newspapers have not succeeded in hiding. The ugly truth, disgusting even to many Catholics in this country, cannot be concealed. Like a shark's fin cleaving the murky waters of propaganda as it approaches its victim, the American nation, neither its vicious body nor murderous intent can be disguised. The fact cannot be disproved nor will any real effort be made to contradict the statement that Hitler is a staunch Catholic and the ideal servant of the pope. (See inset on page 5.)
AMERICA MAY NO LONGER WARM ITSELF BY THE DYING FIRES OF LIBERTY! THE HIERARCHY'S HITLER MARCHES ON! For long years the pope's promoters in the United States have been preparing the road, and now by columns of newspaper advertisement of Germany's tyrant, and forced flag-saluting, which duplicates the Nazi spirit, the time is made ripe for taking things over here. No doubt it will prove an easy matter to later teach the stiffening of the arm at the elbow in the salute, and substitute the swastika or an image of the pope for the flag. These are mere details. Then the Inquisition will be invoked and the ravishing of America, whose flag was once the proud symbol of the land of the free and the home of the brave, completed. Nazism is the grave of freedom.
Let those who have shrugged their shoulders about Germany as a far country now consider with concern this report of unbiased commentators on Germany à la Catholic-Nazi mode. Let those who desire to go along the road to Nazi Rome at least approach with their eyes open, mindful that it is to abandon all hope, ye who enter here. The thoughtful will do well to pause and consider the account herewith.
NOTHING in human history is more astounding than the present terrorization of all the nations of the earth by Germany. Jehovah God foreknew the present and very real fear of all the nations, "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." —Luke 21:26.
It was nine long years ago, when Adolf Hitler was unknown to the world in general, that Judge Rutherford, in Light, Book One, page 273, expounding the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, wrote as follows:
In 1914 Satan's offspring, to wit, 'the beast that came up out of the sea,' got into a fight, its heads fighting each other. Germany the head on one side and Britain the head on the other side led the fight. Every nation involved in that war was and is a part of Satan's organization. That World War resulted in a terrible punishment to Germany and her allies, and it looked for some time as though Germany was completely done for. This harmonizes with John's statement: "And I saw one of his [Satan's beastly government's] heads, as it were wounded to death." The John or servant class of the Lord for some time thought that it was literally true that Germany would be destroyed. To many it seemed impossible for Germany ever to recover. Then John says in the same connection: "And his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."—Revelation 13:3.
What an astounding recovery of that wounded head has taken place since that time! First went the Saar, then the Rhineland, then Austria, then the Sudetenland, then all of Czechoslovakia, then Memel, and as this is written the fate of Danzig is in the balance. Again, as in 1914, German militarists are boasting of their purpose to subjugate the entire world.
World mastery could not be gained except by the employment of a military people that will do just as they are told, regardless of results to anybody, even themselves. There must be millions of them; they must have a genius for organization; they must worship power, the state. The German people is such a people.
"I wantcha t' meet da boss. He's a swell guy: Miss Europe's crazy over 'im."
'The Master People'
No doubt many readers of this magazine have met Germans who share the aspirations of Hitler's storm troopers and make no bones of their desire and expectation that Germany will some day have the entire world at her feet. In an oculist's office in New York city in 1916 the following conversation occurred between this writer and an apparently good-natured German sitting next in line:
"Germany vill vin de var."
"Maybe so."
"Germany can lick all the nations of Europe."
"Maybe so."
"Germany can lick the United States."
"Maybe so."
"Germany can lick the whole world."
"Maybe so, but why would they wish to do so?"
"Vy? Den Germany vould be de poss."
"But why would Germany wish to be the boss?"
There was no answer. The old fellow could not imagine a world of justice and peace, of truth and honor and kindness. His ideal was that somebody "vould be de poss". The idea is from the Devil and comes to mankind through the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Hitler had Jesuit training in his youth. That is where he got it.
This idea, if put into execution, would wreck civilization. Judge Rutherford, in the lecture "Fascism or Freedom", puts it so that all can see the danger and see just who and what is at the bottom of it. He said:
Fanatical Fascists and Nazi dictators, with the aid and co-operation of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy at Vatican City, are now wrecking continental Europe. They may for a brief period of time gain control of the British Empire and of America, and then, God declares, He will act and through Christ Jesus, His great Executive Officer and Executioner, will completely destroy all such organizations. Then the people who obey God and Christ shall survive and live for ever in peace and happiness and will fill the earth with a righteous people, all to the praise of Jehovah. Choose ye therefore, whom ye will serve! Shall we have Fascistic Catholicism, slavery and death? OR shall we embrace Christ and His kingdom and receive true freedom and everlasting life? It is not within your power to stop the onward march of the wicked, but it is your privilege to flee to God and to His kingdom under Christ and thus find security, refuge and salvation.
An Idea Long Held
Not only do Hitler's storm troopers boldly sing* that first they will control all Germans, and after that the whole world, but as far back as 1855 the Viennese journalist, Ferdinand Kürnberger, though he was never in America, yet said in his novel, “Der Amerikamüde”:
*A song, sung by the Storm Troopers everywhere in Berlin on Hitler's 47th birthday, and generally on so-called "patriotic" days, contains the following:
"Today we own Germany
And tomorrow the whole world."
--When I look into America’s future, I see our own German greatness. For this I know in my heart: America will not perish until Germany has completed her revolutions, beyond which lie unity and freedom. Until then, I can wait. The spark of German spirit that I shall hand on to my heirs will stay alive. Have not the German farmers of Pennsylvania instinctively known how to hold fast to their German ways for one hundred years? So fast that whole communities understood not a single word of English today. . . . The fall which I see facing this mongrel people concerns me no more than the fate of the goat that suckled Jupiter. Let it come—we shall not perish. Germany will send her fleet and know how to defend her German province Pennsylvania. What am I saying? Pennsylvania? All of North America will become German, for our immigration will then rest upon a mighty motherland. But why merely North America? The whole world will become German, for Germany’s rise will mean England’s decline. When Germany awakes, no nation in the world will maintain its old rank.
From a photograph of Hitler coming out of a Catholic church.—In London Catholic Herald
Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign secretary, in March, 1915, made the following statement of the German ideal as it was revealed to most men in the war plans of Kaiser Wilhelm. That gentleman, after having a large share of the responsibility for the killing of 10,000,000 young men, is spending a happy and peaceful old age on his estate at Doorn, Holland. Sir Edward Grey said:
The German ideal—we have had it poured out by German professors and publicists since the war began—is that of the Germans as a superior people to whom all things are lawful in the securing of their own power; against whom resistance of every sort is unlawful and to be savagely put down; a people establishing a domination over the nations of the continent, imposing a peace that is not to be a liberty for other nations but subservience to Germany. I would rather perish than live in it under such conditions. After this war we and the other nations of Europe must be free to live, not menaced by talk of supreme war-lords and shining armor and the sword continually rattled in the scabbard and Heaven continually invoked as an accomplice to German arms, and not having our policy dictated and our national destinies and activities controlled by the military caste of Prussia.
Lord of the World
Nobody but an ass would want for himself that which the Creator has awarded to the Redeemer and Vindicator, but what do you suppose was in Hitler’s mind when he said, on the last page of Mein Kampf:
A State which works in the era of race corruption for the cultivation of its best racial elements is bound to become one day the lord of the world.
On page 438 he mentions peace in the victorious sword of a master people who seize the world in the service of a higher culture; and on page 315 he mentions the unnamed “man of highest value” (der höchststehende Mensch) who will have “so completely conquered and subjected the world that he is sole lord of the earth”. Question: In Hitler’s mind, who are the master people and who is the man of highest value? Another question: In the mind of the great Creator, Jehovah God, who are they, and will Hitler win or lose in the great battle of Armageddon, which will settle the matter for ever?
Hitler's program, and in his own handwriting, too, according to the noted European correspondent Ladislas Farago, is Hungary and Poland in 1939, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria in 1940, and Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and the Ukraine in 1941. The timetable was among the personal papers of Konrad Henlein seized by the Czech government when he escaped to Germany. He contemplates that all Europe and western Asia will be under complete subjugation by 1948.
This information does not rest merely upon the memorandum given to Henlein by Hitler, but is in map form and hundreds of these maps were seized on the night of September 16, 1938, and were in the possession of the London News Chronicle the day before Chamberlain left for Munich. He suppressed their publication: it might have interfered with the betrayal of Czechoslovakia.
It Requires Infinite Conceit
It requires infinite conceit for any mortal man to wish to dominate the earth. Hitler has that conceit in all its turpitude. In Mein Kampf, chapter 2, he said:
The pacifist-humane idea may be perfectly fine when the highest man has conquered the world, and is its absolute ruler; for an idea can do no harm when its practical application is impossible.
As showing how this bee of his own personal greatness is buzzing around in his bonnet, take this further expression on the subject from the same work:
When great problems arise in the course of history, masses of people come to long for salvation, and so individuals begin to rise up to lead the way, or to attempt to. But one man is chosen by destiny for the task, although usually it takes a long time for it to be understood by the others that this is really the leader, when he first appears. Yet an inevitable law of nature, no matter if only after centuries of struggle, finally allows the correct man to arrive in the position awaiting him. This always has been and forever will be. Therefore, it is not to be regretted when several or many people battle to lead the way to the same goal—the best will be recognized, and inevitably he will win. Nothing that is great in this world is the result of coalitions—victories are always won by individuals.
In one of his recent addresses Adolf Hitler, after boasting of his great achievements, made the statement:
I have succeeded in casting off for ever the terrible shackles which were destined to enslave our people for all time.
He said that while 6,000 of Jehovah's witnesses suffer intolerable and indescribable hardships in his concentration camps. He does not know that his triumphs are but for a day, and that when his for-ever-lifeless carcass stinks to high heaven, and his memory is abhorred by all men, the objects of his present wrath and murderous ill-treatment will rejoice forever in the presence of the great God who will have put him to death.
Martha Dodd, daughter of the ex-United States ambassador in Berlin, sees a great change having taken place in Hitler in the six years in which he has had power. She says he does not look any older than the day when von Hindenburg weakly placed everything in his hands, but—
In place of the rather slender body, pale, soft, neurotic face, modest bearing, self-conscious social self-effacement, is a figure whose bearing is insolent and arrogant, with shoulders flung back pompously, who walks and marches as though he had made the earth under his feet and the people around him whom he honors with the fantastic, taut, outstretched arm. If I were to sum up Hitler's character in a few words, I would say that he is one of the most fanatical and nearly-insane men ruling in any country of the modern world.
Press Not Without Blame
The press is not without blame in the manner in which it plays up this worthless wretch. When he was made an honorary citizen of Danzig the New York Times felt called upon to sacrifice six columns of the valuable space at the top of the page, to tell about it and to supply its readers with a radiophoto. It would say it has to tell the news; but is it so necessary to carry the sayings and doings of the insane to earth's remotest bounds?
A careful reading of Hitler's long-winded speeches shows that he uses over and over such expressions as "over a thousand years belonged to the German Reich"; "an order which had been built up over nearly 2,000 years"; "states with history going back a thousand years"; "in the history of our people, now approximately 2,000 years, there are occasions and actions enough to fill us with sincere pride"; "justice to a thousand years of history"; showing that he wants to familiarize the German people, and other peoples too, with the idea of the re-establishment of the "Holy Roman Empire", with himself at its head. It is freely predicted by some that his crowning as such emperor will take place within the current year. The German press frequently now bestows upon him a title bestowed on medieval German emperors who particularly distinguished themselves in enlarging the empire.
It is interesting to know that in ancient Rome the citizens greeted one another with handshakes, but slaves were compelled to extend the hand in the manner now required in Germany and in Franco’s Spain.
William Patrick Hitler, 28 years of age, now residing in the United States with his mother (the one-time sister-in-law of Adolf Hitler), says that his uncle is a menace to the whole world and that many of the Führer’s friends think he is mentally unbalanced. Evidence has been repeatedly published in these columns indicating that he is in constant touch with the demons, either direct or through the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, controlled by them.
It is well known that Hitler has only one speech; it is a denunciation of the peace treaties and filled with hatred of the Jews. When President Roosevelt sent him a telegram urging world peace he spent ten days working over the old speech and, when he came to deliver it, occupied two hours and seventeen minutes of the almost undivided attention of the world without giving expression to a single new idea. He has unlimited egotism and therefore thinks himself a marvelous orator, whereas he is, in fact, earth’s biggest demagogue.
Like all demagogues, Hitler is clever, in a way, but only superficially. He is alleged to have said of poverty: “Whoever has not himself been in the tentacles of this throttling viper will never know its fangs.” And then the biologists laugh at him by explaining that a viper has no tentacles, a snake which can coil around a man has no fangs, and if a man is throttled by a snake he does not make acquaintance with its fangs.
Totally Devoid of Justice
Of the great Creator it is said that justice is the habitation of His throne (Psalm 89:14), and of His Vindicator it says that He will “reprove with equity for the meek of the earth” (Isaiah 11:4); but what can be said for a man that boasts of his injustice and is teaching it to every young couple and therefore to every home in Germany? In Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf Hitler said:
The moment one’s own propaganda grants even a glimmer of justice to the other side, seeds are sown for the doubting of one’s own cause. The masses are incapable of deciding where the one-man’s sins end and their own begin.
In Chapter 3 of the same dastardly work he describes why his addresses are so filled with hate and fury:
If they had only realized the stupidity of the masses, and understood that for purely psychological reasons one must present not two enemies to the masses, but only one! A single enemy must be pushed forward and all hate must be concentrated upon this sole opponent. It is part of the genius of a true leader to make even widely different enemies appear to belong to but a single category. . . . Moreover, the thought that there are various enemies will frighten people and cause them to doubt their own right. Then they come to fear that perhaps they themselves are wrong and the others are right. Then they are paralyzed. But if the masses believe that they battle but a single enemy, then belief in their own cause is strengthened and hate of one enemy is ever more bitter, is in fact, boundless.
Listen again, in Chapter 17, to the words of this Jesuit-trained son of the Devil, exalting his new (?) view of rule by force and cruelty:
A new view of life is intolerant, and cannot be content with being merely “one party among others”. It must proudly demand absolute recognition of its supremacy, and must never rest until the world is completely readjusted. Thus while it is struggling for power it must violently attack everyone with any opposite view, and once it achieves authority it must not tolerate even the existence of anyone still representing the old condition.
These outbursts of insanity have their fruitage. Thus at Augsburg, Germany, every newborn boy whose father is a storm trooper receives a dagger as a gift, with the expectation that he will wear it in his belt when he comes to young manhood, and, as a matter of course, stab his fellow man in the back with it, should the occasion arise.
In the same general line of thought, the Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger sympathized with a man that attacked Mayor La Guardia, rather than with the mayor himself. Yet the Anzeiger would have all the Jews in Germany slain if one more Jew kills another German embassy official. How shortsighted! Cannot anybody see that to encourage murder anywhere is to encourage it everywhere? When the Anzeiger wants some person to kill Mayor La Guardia it also wants some other person to kill Maniac Hitler; at least, that is the logic of it.
Injustice Universally Despised
It is inevitable that a person who boasts of his injustice would become hated by persons who love justice. Westbrook Pegler, in the New York World-Telegram, tells what he thinks of this man, and it is not flattering. He said:
Is there any sane answer to a man who holds anti-American meetings under the protection of American laws, but in his own country decrees that any act against “the sound feeling of the nation” shall be punished even if there is no law against the act? All the biographies of Hitler, except the official issues—which, of course, don’t count—agree that he is a querie of some sort. He shrieks and weeps, which is unmanly conduct according to our ideas at least; he lives on rhubarb and whey; he is a sulker and thumbsucker, and when the moon is high he may kill his best friend or give orders that an old pal of his bosom be taken for a ride in a plane and made to walk the plank without so much as an umbrella.
How can you make talk with a nut who brags that he has the toughest army and air force in the world and calls you a war-mongering world-terrorist because you decide to buy yourself a Boy Scout suit and a kite? What answer can you give a maniac who slaughters and persecutes people of all religions and himself worships bonfires in the mood of a tenement firebug, but sends agents here to establish religious freedom in America? Or can you talk sense to an international conspirator, already convicted in court of spying on this nation, who sends agents here to become naturalized and do treason among us, but roars warnings that native American Jews are disloyal?
The methods by which der Führer gains his objectives are now well understood, but only a person with the heart of a devil could find any pleasure in them. The Amalgamated Clothing Union gives a recipe for anybody who would be low enough and mean enough to follow in his steps. The rules are ten in number:
1. Blame all local troubles on the Jews.
2. Taunt all those who are trying to improve economic conditions, and promise prosperity for all. Don’t offer a program, but just ask for power; “Give me four years,” Hitler pleaded.
3. Spread discontent by provoking incidents. Keep the people in a feverish state of alarm.
4. Elevate all second-rate scientists, artists, professors, and mediocrities from every field to prominent positions. Give big parades and decorations to foreign envoys who may be friendly.
5. Bribe and threaten local officials of a “friendly” government until sections of the government are in Nazi hands, and the anti-Nazi administration can’t trust its own police and army.
6. Encourage sedition, sabotage and treason among the people of the victimized country. Provoke “anti-German” incidents and use these as a cause for interventions.
7. Create rumors about the mysterious strength of the Nazi military and air force.
8. Insult the personalities at the heads of foreign states. Smear their names, as in the case of Chancellor Dollfuss, Schuschnigg, and President Benes. Try to control the internal affairs of democracies by pointing out that men such as Eden, Duff-Cooper and Churchill are undesirable men to head the British Government. Howl at President Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, Harold Ickes, etc.
Wanted:—For 50,000 Deaths
POST THIS IN ALL PUBLIC PLACES
WANTED
FOR KIDNAPPING
ADOLF HITLER
alias Adolf Schicklgruber
alias der Führer
alias Adolf Shicklgruber
DESCRIPTION
Born in Braunau, Austria, April 20, 1889. Height, 5 feet 9 inches; weight, 162 pounds; hair, black; left of mustache; wide of forehead; narrow mustache. Vegetarian; loves narcotics. Favorite pastime: holding big Nazi rallies, shooting, speeches to subordinates. Said Hitler: “Claim to be Christian, which is especially best in early Autumn. Hate uncleanliness of person, especially odor of alcohol as ‘villain juice in Napoleon’s campaigns.’” Speaks German. Wears: is a dangerous to mankind “mad dog” with promise.
Relatives: Sister, Paula, alias psychopath. Brother: (Fraü) Wolf. Lives in Vienna. Brother: Alois Hitler, Jr. Austrian patriot, ex-rocket, married several convictions, not for political activity. Now runs a bar in Berlin and a very happy wife is named “Hilda Hitler.”
INDICTED BY WORLD OPINION FOR MURDER AND KIDNAPPING WITH INTENT TO KILL.
He is held by sixty-two million people in bondage and “defenseless.” Six hundred thousand Jews and Catholics executed in a number of crimes. Reported that he will demand the blood of ten or fifteen nations.
Pay Him No Money! Have no truck with him and report any of his agents who try to sell you bonds of Nazi Germany.
THIS INFORMATION IS CORRECT
Write to your Congressman, or your U. S. Senator, or to the President of the United States, Washington, D. C., for details and to learn who are the Nazi agents.
Voters of New York and vicinity, please notify,
NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE
(The Championship Civic Club of Nazi Germany, Inc.)
20 WEST 47th STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y.
5,000 posted throughout New York
--dent Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, Harold Ickes, etc.
9. Accuse your enemy of having committed all your own crimes. Pin your violent acts on them, as in the case of the Reichstag trial, when General Goering accused Communists of having started his fire.
10. Supply free movies, scholarships, books and special news and radio services to spread the new Nazi "culture" throughout the world.
Completely Disdains Truth
Professor Jung, the eminent Zurich psychologist, lecturing in London, made the following statement of the subject of this sketch:
Mussolini, however reckless and ruthless he may be, still is a human being with whom one can reasonably argue. Hitler, on the other side, is a phenomenon of nature. He is a mask of the collective unconscious of the German people. He might be compared with Mohammed. For Hitler no human obligations, no ethical laws, and therefore no such things as promises which are to be kept, can exist. Hitler feels himself far above human methods and institutions.
Napoleon, another corporal, admitted that he would not hesitate to do any act that others might regard as dishonest, to gain his ends, but no man in public life has ever exhibited his shame to all the world as Adolf Hitler has done in his book Mein Kampf. Following are citations from various chapters:
Propaganda appeals forever only to the masses! The business of propaganda is not scientific training of the individual, but instead is the directing of the attention of the masses to certain facts, events, needs, etc.—the purpose is to make things seem important. The whole art consists in attacking a point so skillfully that a universal belief in its reality is induced, and a righteous faith constructed. Propaganda must be popularly toned, dropped to the intellectual level of the dullest of those at whom it is directed. Thus the greater the mass which must be influenced, the lower must be the form of the propaganda used. The less scientific ballast used, the more brilliant will be the success of the propaganda. The absorbent-capacity of the masses is most limited. Their understanding is small while their forgetfulness is great. Therefore, propaganda must be strictly limited to a very few essential points, and these must be used again and again until the dullest man of all cannot help knowing what is meant. As soon as this principle is abandoned the force of propaganda fades.—Mein Kampf, Chapter 6. [Jesuitry!]
Every movement must use propaganda to attract followers, and organization to get numbers. There will always be about ten followers of a movement, to every two actual members of the organization—for the follower must merely agree with a movement, while the member must actively serve it. The ten followers represent, in a way, the great majority of mankind, which is lazy and cowardly; the two members correspond to the active minority which always leads the world. Thus propaganda must always be out to win followers, but the organization must scrupulously restrict membership.
Propaganda strives to force an idea upon people, but the organization itself must include only those whose intellectual talents do not make them a barrier standing in the way of actual realization of ends. Propaganda prepares the way for the victory of an idea in a community of men—the organization achieves this victory. The followers of an idea cannot be too great in number, but the members of the fighting organization can much more easily be too many than too few. The supreme danger which an organization faces is that early successes may create too large an early membership, for in this way weaklings get inside where later they can destroy the power of the entire movement. This explains why so often new movements apparently destined for brilliant success suddenly wither and die away. As the Bourgeois world usually says, and in this particular case it would be correct: "The wine has been spoilt with water."
The first task of propaganda is to win followers of the movement who are eventually to become members of the organization; the second task is to prepare the collapse of existing conditions. The first task of the organization is to unite people for the continuance and the spread of propaganda; the second task of the organization is the battle for power which insures the final victory of the idea. All great movements, religious and political, owe their successes only to the understanding and the use of these principles, and lasting victories are impossible without them.
As the leader of party propaganda, I from the very first endeavored to scare away weaklings with my radical and inflammatory propaganda. I did not want them. If, at first, they nevertheless became followers of the movement they were the type who would nervously conceal the fact—in those days. Thousands assured me then that they completely agreed with us—but that they could under no circumstances join the movement! And that was fine. The live, reckless form which I gave to our propaganda strengthened our movement, since only the vigorous people—with a few exceptions—were willing to join. Yet this propaganda in a short time won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people who desired our victory even though they were too cowardly to stand up for the cause.—Mein Kampf, Chapter 23. [Jesuitry!]
The primitive simplicity of the mind of the masses is more easily misled by a great than a tiny lie—they are accustomed to telling insignificant lies themselves, and so can detect them. But, never having dreamed of the vast possibilities of lies, they generally fail to detect a truly gigantic distortion. Even when in the process of being enlightened as to the actual truth of the matter, after a great lie has once been told, they will for a long time have their doubts, completely unable to believe that some truth was not contained in what they had so completely accepted. This is a fact which all the great falsifiers and lying societies know all too well.—Mein Kampf, Chapter 10. [Jesuitry!]
The masses can only be captured by a ruthless and fanatic one-sided presentation of our nationalistic ideas. Most people are neither professors nor diplomats; their views are based upon sentiment and not upon reason. These people are not susceptible to half-measures—they fall victim to force. Their attitudes are generally stable, just because they are little influenced by reasoning. For faith is stronger than knowledge, love less changeable than respect, hate more everlasting than mere dislike. The dynamic force which has made the most important changes in history has always been—not scientific intellect—but rather a fanatic feeling of hysteria which has hurled the masses in one direction or the other.
To win the soul of the people, it is not enough merely to fight for one’s own end—one must at the same time destroy the upholders of the opposite cause. A savage attack upon some adversary is proof to the people of the justice of their own cause. The masses feel that if their leaders refrain from destroying an opponent, this must be a sign of uncertainty of their own cause—if not a sign that the cause is unjust. The masses are only a fragment of nature, and their feelings cannot understand a handclasp between men who proclaim opposite views. What they want is the victory of the stronger and the annihilation of the weaker, or else his unconditional enslavement.
Every idea designed to change the world has not only the right but the duty to adopt any means which make possible the achievement of its aims.—Mein Kampf, Chapter 12. [Jesuitry!]
No man in his right mind would label himself an unprincipled liar as many times as Hitler does in the foregoing quotations. He is as low as the men who pretend to believe the “eternal torture” and “purgatory” stories merely because it furnishes them with a name and a bread-ticket.
The Manchester Guardian, always well informed on European matters, says of this man:
Today, as in the days of Napoleon, European history is being made by one man. He sets the pace, he holds the world in suspense, and the question that transcends all other questions, day after day, is, “What will he do?”
He is the greatest living demagogue. He is a master of political strategy. He is extremely shrewd and a man of abrupt action. He regards himself as an instrument of Providence sent with a divine mission.
What is Hitler’s ambition? What, in other words, drives him on and makes him drive Europe on? He believes in a kind of heaven on earth of which the National Socialist revolution is the beginning. It was originally begun on August 3, 1914, when the Great War began. In Mein Kampf he relates how he was overwhelmed with inexpressible joy because war had broken out. All his purpose and policy are dominated by the one thought that in such another war he must control the sequence of events so that there will be victory instead of defeat and the National Socialist revolution will have triumphed; for Hitler it will only have triumphed when the enemies that, as he declares, “encircle” it are prostrate. The Third Realm will then, and only then, have been established on permanent foundations. It will be, not merely the third, but the eternal realm, or heaven on earth as Hitler conceives it.
The “Providence” that Hitler feels urging him on is the Devil, the “god of this world”, also urging on the Jesuits and others of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy who have made lies and cruelty their refuge.
Hitler a Millionaire
It did not take Hitler long to rise from impecuniosity to wealth. Most of the rise was due to the circulation of the unspeakable Mein Kampf, practically forced into every home in Germany at $3.40 per copy, with 68c of it going as royalty to its author. Hitler is now a millionaire, with huge bank deposits in nine foreign countries, but none in Italy.
The London Sunday Express contains a description of Hitler’s new hideout on Kehlstein Summit, 5,500 feet above sea level. It is reached only by a tunnel 390 feet long and an elevator 400 feet high. Perched like a bird on the top of an inaccessible mountain, it is large enough to comfortably house 18 people. The entrance to the tunnel is through bronze doors in the side of the mountain, guarded day and night, inside, by armed guards ready to open on the instant the Fuehrer arrives, and to deny admittance to all others.
Hitler’s new study, 88 feet long by 45 feet wide and with ceilings 32 feet high, is the largest study maintained by any ruler.
Hitler, when in Berlin, takes tea almost invariably in the public room of the Kaiserhof Hotel, and anyone may sit at the next table, if it is unoccupied. But in the same dining room are always at least five members of his personal body guard, armed to the teeth, quick on the draw and ready for immediate action. But there is no danger; the German people are like sheep, ready to be driven anywhere by any demagogue that demands obedience and backs it up by a show of force.
His Too Smart Companion
The too smart young man seems to be Dr. Goebbels, whose business it was to see that the German people should lose their reason and their principle. In that he succeeded all too well, but he seems to have been too fond of actresses. Though he has a good-looking and very intelligent wife of his own, Goebbels concluded he would also like Lida Baarova; so he sent her actor husband, Gustav Froelich, to a concentration camp to get him out of the way.
Everything was going fine when friends of Froelich visited the Propaganda minister at Froelich's flat, blacked both of Goebbels's eyes, knocked out a front tooth, and cut and bruised his head so that it was necessary to take him to a hospital. Meantime Frau Goebbels, who is really the first lady of the land in Germany, wanted to get a divorce, but Hitler would not let her leave Germany. Baarova was punished by all her pictures' being withdrawn from the German screen.
To lessen the scandal Goebbels gave a tame broadcast from his hospital ten days after his tooth was knocked out. All the men involved in beating him up are in prison, and will no doubt be murdered, according to present German custom. The official explanation of Goebbels' predicament is that he was confined to his bed with intestinal grippe.
But intestinal grippe does not usually blacken both a man's eyes and knock out his teeth and otherwise batter him up. Nor does it send his wife scurrying to the border to try to get out so that she can sue for divorce. Hitler and Goebbels both deserve this disgrace. Their only solution to every problem is force and propaganda. Truth and honor and justice to any is entirely outside their purview.
Goebbels got in wrong again because he could not have prosperity without boasting of it. He bought an island on a lake near Berlin, fitted it up with fine architecture, hothouses, riding horses, etc., and then was fool enough to put it on the screen in a movie house in Berlin, thinking he was so popular, as Hitler's minister of propaganda, that the crowd would cheer. Somebody had the nerve to hiss instead, and in a moment the whole house was in an uproar, everybody hissing.
Himmler--the Oxford Grouper
According to an article by A. J. Cummings in the London News Chronicle for January 5, Herr Himmler, chief of the German Police, and thought by many to be the likely successor to Hitler, is a member of the religious "Oxford Group". The article in question states:
One day last week I was informed by one of her fellow-citizens that Frau Himmler, wife of the notorious German Chief of Police, is a zealous member of the Oxford Group. When I mentioned this afterwards rather skeptically to a prominent English Conservative he replied: "Of course, there is nothing new in that piece of information. You are evidently unaware that Himmler himself is an eminent Oxford Grouper." Himmler, as an exponent of "moral rearmament"—a rallying-cry of the Oxford Group—will surely evoke a shout of demoniac laughter in the nether world. One supposes that Hitler, whose private intelligence service is of the best, knows perfectly well that Himmler is grooming himself as the unrivaled successor to his present lord and master. The party friends of this man of unbounded ambitions assert proudly that as the new Fuehrer he will out-Hitler Hitler.
Himmler is said to be Germany's most dreaded man, and as chief of the German Police as well as the S. S. Storm Troopers, this is probably true, for he controls with ruthless determination an army of tremendous and terrifying efficiency.
His promotion in the Nazi organization has been astoundingly rapid, even for a Nazi leader. As early as 1927, when he was but twenty-seven years old, he commanded the entire S. S. Guard in Germany. He had joined this organization two years previously! Later he was entrusted with the organization of the secret police and, in April, 1934, was given control of all the political police in Germany. Two years later he was appointed chief of the entire German police force. He is also a member of the inner Nazi cabinet of 19 members, which is ultimately responsible. In the name of two of the forces which he controls, the Gestapo, or Secret State Police, and the S.S. Storm Troopers, the most unspeakable tyranny is exercised daily.
It is reported that when he found the Roman Catholic faith conflicting with Nazi principles, he publicly renounced it. If the article from the News Chronicle above quoted is true, no doubt the Oxford Group is proud of its member.
(To be continued) RIGHTEOUS RULER
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Massachusetts—There She Cringes
Hon. Leverett Saltonstall,
Governor of Massachusetts,
Boston, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir:
Two newspaper clippings come to my desk this morning which so strikingly display a glaring inconsistency in actions of your General Court that I feel impelled to write to you concerning them.
The first is from the New York Sun of yesterday telling of the recognition and ratification of the Bill of Rights by the General Court. You are quoted as making the following statement in a letter to Secretary of State Hull:
I hope it will serve to make the present and future generations conscious of the deep significance of the Bill of Rights.
You are further quoted as asking the General Court to ratify the Bill of Rights to "remind the nation of the need for vigilance in guarding liberties".
Those are grand words, worthy of the careful consideration of all people. But words without consistent action are of little value. The language of the apostle, 'But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, thereby deceiving yourselves,' would seem applicable to statesmen as well as others.
Clipping Number Two is from the Springfield (Mass.) Union and informs all people that the General Court of Massachusetts is ready to reject an amendment to the compulsory flag-salute law exempting children who conscientiously and sincerely believe that such ceremonial is a violation of the law of God. This means that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts insincerely acknowledges the Bill of Rights in words only, not in deeds.
How can future generations be expected to become more "conscious of the deep significance of the Bill of Rights" when in the same breath with its adoption the General Court spurns and denies the right of a little school child to determine for himself whether his act is one of obedience to the command of Almighty God? What business does the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have to "remind the nation of the need for vigilance in guarding liberties", when its high legislative body sustains and upholds a law which subjects parents to criminal prosecution for teaching children to obey God in accordance with the dictates of conscience?
I am enclosing copy of a memorandum* submitted to the General Court by Jehovah’s witnesses. On page two this statement is made:
To claim that this law does not infringe upon religious liberty is either hypocritical misrepresentation or a clear case of mental incompetence to recognize indisputable facts.
I don't believe the members of your General Court are mentally incompetent to recognize facts. The other alternative must then be true. They sanctimoniously join with you in lip service to the Bill of Rights, but in the same moment they cruelly deny those rights to God-fearing children of the Commonwealth. "Massachusetts—There she stands."
May I respectfully state that you should not shirk responsibility in the matter. On your election to office thousands of citizens of your Commonwealth rejoiced in the belief that you would faithfully uphold the rights of all people. You now have an excellent opportunity to publicly demonstrate your worthiness of that confidence. The unjust and cruel condition of affairs upheld and confirmed by your General Court merits your immediate attention. Any state executive, having a just regard for the value of his words, should protest vigorously and emphatically over the smooth-tongued mouthing of nice words about the Bill of Rights and scornful rejection of its fundamental principles at one and the same time. This political hypocrisy does not touch you yet, but you will be contaminated if you do not protest promptly and vigorously to the General Court. You should demonstrate definitely and clearly that you mean what you say about guarding liberties in a special message to the legislature calling attention to the fact that the liberties of the little school children are just as important as others, and recommending reconsideration and reversal of the action of the General Court.
The door is open to you to have a worthwhile part in preserving liberty in Massachusetts.
Yours very truly,
OLIN R. MOYLE,
General Counsel for Jehovah's witnesses.
[* Memorandum follows herewith.—Ed.] To the General Court of Massachusetts:
You have before you for consideration two measures calling for amendment of Section 69 of Chapter 71 General Laws. These bills would exempt from participation in the school flag-salute ceremonies all those who object to such salute on conscientious grounds. One bill is Senate No. 207. The other, House No. 1045. They are similar in form, and the adoption of either one will remedy a very deplorable situation.
Section 69 of Chapter 71 General Laws provides for the daily salute to the flag in the public schools of Massachusetts. It has no provision for exemption of those who conscientiously hold and believe that the saluting of a flag is a violation of the law of Almighty God. Jehovah's witnesses maintain and believe, that as Christians consecrated to Jehovah God they must obey His laws and refrain from any act of obeisance to a flag or any other kind of image. As a result of their adherence to this principle an intolerant and unjust condition of affairs has been engendered throughout the state.
THE SITUATION
The Legislature should face squarely the evil and unjust conditions now existing as a result of the indiscriminate enforcement of this law. On the one side you have a law and school officials obligated to enforce it. On the other side is the God-fearing child desiring to live in accordance with righteous principles and obey the law of Almighty God. Such child is taught and believes that such law of God forbids the salute to any flag. The law, as it now stands, says he must salute or be kicked out of school. It thus denies the child the right of private judgment and unmercifully interferes with freedom of conscience. Arguing about the benefits of patriotic instruction cannot change a situation. Facts cannot be talked away. The General Court must face and should fearlessly consider these incontrovertible FACTS:
1. The law as it now stands denies the school child the right to determine for himself whether his act is one of obedience or disobedience to the commands of Almighty God.
Massachusetts’ idea of Bill of Rights
2. The law as it now stands removes from the parent and child the right of private judgment and determines for them the validity of their beliefs.
3. The law as it now stands subjects a parent to criminal prosecution for teaching his child to obey God in accordance with the dictates of conscience.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and other high courts have solemnly held that the compulsory flag-salute in no wise infringes on freedom of worship. Courts may render opinions, but they cannot change FACTS. They may hand down decisions, but they cannot set aside fundamental principles of righteousness. Some courts have evaded the incontrovertible FACTS above stated, and have denied the eternal principle that no man, be he judge or school official, has the right to determine for another the validity of his conscientious beliefs. In the case of Gobitis v. Minersville School District (21 Fed. Supp. 584), Judge Maris held:
To permit public officers to determine whether the views of individuals sincerely held and their acts sincerely undertaken on religious grounds are in fact based on convictions religious in character would be to sound the death knell of religious liberty.
In all the various cases involving this question, no court or attorney has answered, or attempted to answer, this fundamental declaration of the right of private judgment. They have ignored it and solemnly set forth decrees contrary thereto. These decrees if followed and maintained will indeed sound the death knell of religious liberty.
ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS
For nearly four years this Commonwealth has sought to solve the problem through the rule of force. The law has been declared supreme over the rights of conscience. The right of private judgment has been shelved and attempts made to force Christian children to smother their convictions, stifle conscience, and blindly perform an act which they sincerely believe to be morally wrong. Illustrative of this medieval war against conscience is the case of William A. Johnson, and his three children, William, Jr., Dorothy and Gloria, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The parents requested exemption of the children from the flag-salute exercise for reasons as here set forth. The request was denied. The children declined to salute. They were then expelled from the South Deerfield public schools. For a month they endeavored to secure admittance to the school, but they were shouldered out. Johnson did his best to secure equivalent education elsewhere but was unable to. Twenty-five others have been similarly treated in this Commonwealth.
The next step was to summon the father into court, where he was charged with unlawfully causing his children to be absent from instruction in the schools. This charge was made in spite of the fact that he had been doing his level best to secure instruction for them, and that the school authorities had barred them from school. Three years ago Ignace Opielouski, of Belchertown, was fined forty dollars by the court on a similar charge.
The next step in this inquisition, in accordance with the threats of school officers and prosecutor, will be to tear the Johnson children from their home and commit them to a reformatory*.
To claim that this law does not infringe upon religious liberty is either hypocritical misrepresentation or a clear case of mental incompetence to recognize indisputable facts. Any honest-minded person must admit that the compulsory flag-salute as now applied is wrong in principle and outrageous in its operation. It is a glaring denial to law-abiding citizens of that “liberty and justice FOR ALL” guaranteed by the language of the flag-salute pledge, and even more emphatically vouchsafed to everyone in the United States of America by the Constitution of the Republic ‘for which the flag stands’. The following comment of Judge Lehman, of the New York Court of Appeals, is very appropriate to the situation:
“The salute of the flag is a gesture of love and respect—fine when there is real love and respect back of the gesture. The flag is dishonored by a salute by a child in reluctant and terrified obedience to a command of secular authority which clashes with the dictates of conscience. The flag ‘cherished by all our hearts’ should not be soiled by the tears of a little child. The Constitution does not permit, and the Legislature never intended, that the flag should be so soiled and dishonored.”
This mode of solving the problem created by this statute has settled nothing and will settle nothing. It has brought about a deplorable and unjust condition of affairs which demands the unbiased consideration of the General Court. The amendments here in question will go a long way toward remedying the evils complained of.
* The prophecy of action against the Johnson children proved to be true. On May 1 the children were sentenced to an indefinite term in the Hampden County Training School, a reformatory, by the District Court in Greenfield, Mass. An appeal has been taken, so the children are still at liberty.
DO NOT BE SWAYED BY RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE
A deliberate attempt was made by one of the members of the Committee on Education at the hearing on these amendments to inject a religious prejudice into the issue. Henry Judson, one of Jehovah’s witnesses and a speaker in favor of the amendment, was asked by a committee member if he was in accord with a letter sent by counsel for Jehovah’s witnesses to the president of the United States, wherein it was alleged that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is Enemy Number One of honest, God-fearing American people. This letter had no bearing whatsoever on the matter before the committee, and the question was obviously put to create prejudice against the proponents of the measure. Jehovah’s witnesses unqualifiedly endorse the statement of the letter, and in a hearing before a competent tribunal where that issue is involved they will gladly bring evidence to prove the allegation. In addition, they can likewise present in this matter much evidence of intolerant and wicked acts of persecution by deluded subjects of that foreign Roman power, in connection with this flag-salute inquisition. We believe, however, that the issue should be decided on its merits without reference to the particular acts of those who believe totalitarian rule should prevail over the rights of conscience. We protest against this malicious attempt to becloud the issue through religious prejudice. The General Court should consider the matter and pass upon it solely upon its merits.
The General Court has two alternatives. It can take the easy course, deny passage of either amendment, and let the present unjust condition of affairs continue. By so doing it will continue to deny children of God-fearing parents the right of education in the public schools; it will continue to deny them the right of self-decision relative to obedience to Almighty God; it will continue to besmirch and degrade the emblem of the Republic which it insists the children must revere, and will continue to uphold and strengthen the hands of those who would “sound the death knell of religious liberty” in this country.
On the other hand, why not boldly take the initiative in restoring “freedom to worship Almighty God” in Massachusetts to the original high plane intended by the Commonwealth’s Bill of Rights?
We respectfully submit that one of the proposed amendments should be adopted.
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
By H. L. Philbrick, Company Servant
294 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts.
(To be continued) Agriculture and Forestry
Share Cropping and the Dust Bowl
◆ As one born and having spent over fifty years on a farm, I have this to say about farming: If farmers were restricted in their holdings to, say 200 acres, in every country, and if any acquiring additional farms were compelled to work these themselves or to put tenants on the farms, there would be less poverty among the farmer class. Also if shares were on the scale Joseph set in Egypt—one part for Pharaoh and four parts for themselves (Genesis 47:24)—this would solve the problem; for it shows that if slavery was rife in Egypt, justice was meted out in a very different style from the present in what is called a “free” country right here.
A noticeable thing was mentioned in the G.A. [Consolation] a few months back, and a favorable comment was made upon it: The point had been suggested that about six inches of limestone be applied to the land in “the dust bowl”, to prevent harmful removal of the soil. If a little calculation had been made it would surely have been seen that this would be futile; not that it would not hold the soil in place, but how could it be plowed or worked with any implement?
Then again: We are told that an inch of rain makes a weight of about 113 tons of water to the acre; and since limestone is upward of two and one-half times the weight of water, it would require 282½ tons of limestone to the acre.
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