Consolation, February 7, 1940

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Contents

Big Business Bemoans the War 3

Advertising the Religious Business 4

Big Business Is for Religion 5

Giants in the Earth 6

Benevolent Standard Oil 7

Invention 9

Miscellany 10

In and Around the House 11

A Polite Officer of the Law 12

A Good Picture of Religion 13

Jonadabs Rejoicing in Blessings 15

The Awful Floggings 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Typical Theocratic War 17

India 18

Days of Our Years 19

The Rape of Palestine 20

“Lion of the Tribe of Judah” 21

“Fascism in the English Church” 24

France and Switzerland 26

The European Pariahs 27

British Comment

A Pacifist Among the Parsons 28

An Unholy Mix-up 28

The Witness to the Kingdom 30

Britain’s Health 31

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The story is told of a Kentucky colonel who had an argument with Satan. The latter claimed that no one had a perfect memory, but the colonel maintained that there was an Indian on his plantation who never forgot anything. The colonel agreed to forfeit his soul to Satan if the Indian ever forgot anything.

Satan went up to the Indian and said, “Do you like eggs?”

The Indian replied, “Yes.” And Satan went away.

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Quick as a wink the Indian replied, “Fried.”

—Kellygram.

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“That’s a nice umbrella you’ve got there,” said Robinson.

“Yes, it is,” replied Smith. “And it was funny how I got it, too.

“I was going home one night without a coat, and it started to rain cats and dogs, so I dodged into a doorway for shelter. Then I saw a young chap coming along with an umbrella, and I thought I’d ask him to let me share it with him.

“So I stepped up to him and said: ‘Where are you going with that umbrella?’ and, without saying a word, he flung it down and ran off as fast as his legs could carry him.”—Labor.

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Questionable Returns

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“Yes, this is Mr. ’Arrison. What! you can’t ’ear? This is Mr. ’Arrison — haitch, hay, two hars, a hi, a hess, a ho, and a hen — ’Arrison.” CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 7, 1940 Number 532

Big Business Bemoans the War

BIG BUSINESS, and particularly big business in America, will profit from the war, intends to profit from the war now raging in Europe; but it wishes to do so discreetly. Hence, first of all, the positive and unequivocal statement by Big Business that it does not want war, does not like war, and will not under any circumstances seek to profit from war. Of course not!

Say the McGraw-Hill industrial and business publications, reaching over a million readers: “To say that Industry and Business want war or will encourage, directly or indirectly, our participation in the present war, is a vicious and deliberate lie.” All right, then, here it is: Industry and Business want war and will encourage, directly and indirectly, America’s participation in war just as soon as it thinks it can profit by that course of action!

Next comes the “Neutrality” legislation, which must make it possible for business to profit from the war to the fullest extent, but at the least possible risk. Hence America will sell all the arms possible to the belligerents. When the bill was passed which made this possible there was tremendous trading on the stock market and stocks rose remarkably. This was an indication of the sorrow of Big Business over the situation.

Eugene G. Grace, munitions maker No. 1 of the United States, and head of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, says he is against war from every aspect.

One industry which stands to profit materially from war is the chemical industry. Charles Belknap, executive vice president of the Monsanto Chemical Co. of St. Louis, said, “We don’t want a war—we can’t afford one.”

But, then, there are a lot of other things “we” can’t afford. For instance, it is rather expensive to keep on feeding millions of mouths at public expense, and making parks and public improvements right and left out of an empty treasury. It may be possible to figure out a way to balance the public ledger.

Past experience suggests that wars have served the purposes of Big Business rather than the interests of the people, and even where such public interests seem to have been in a measure safeguarded by recourse to arms Big Business has generally managed to insert its right front foot at the propitious moment and come away with a not inconsiderable profit. Can you blame the people for being a little suspicious and uneasy?

Newspaper correspondents, at any rate, do not altogether rule out the probability of America’s doing something, in case . . . In weighing the possibilities of failure or success, defeat or victory, in the present European war, Eugene Staley, in the New York Times, says:

An element which throws all calculations into doubt, however, is the policy of the Soviet Union. [Clarified by his a la Mein Kampf invasion of Finland, and shameless lying incident thereto.—Ed.] Stalin would seem to be in a position where, by withholding supplies, he could insure Hitler’s ultimate defeat, or, by giving or lending to Hitler, or perhaps even by trading vigorously, he could threaten to prolong the war intolerably for the Allies. All this, of course, omits many imponderables: uprisings, strokes of military genius, or what Americans might decide to do as events shaped themselves.

So, however much Big Business does not want to have war, it may change its attitude very quickly. Just now it seems not willing to admit that it can see that anything could be gained by resorting to war—and that, of course, is the main consideration: gain.

Taking Sorrow by the Forelock

Said H. Gordon Selfridge, of London, “The opportunity to achieve and to show results has been eliminated all over the world. The world in the future will perhaps be better for the underdog, but for the man who takes risks and engages in enterprise there will be little incentive.” Too bad!

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of General Motors Corp., said that in case of war, “irrespective of all the facts and circumstances, all ultimately lose.”

The automobile industry, as represented by the Automobile Manufacturers Association, has not done so badly during the past fiscal year. The wholesale value of cars and trucks produced (United States and Canada) was $2,224,475,000; and that of tires, parts and accessories for replacement and service, $1,243,236,000; a tidy total of $3,467,711,000. It would seem, then, that Big Business in this field would not be particularly interested in war, unless, of course, it should help to solve problems of strikes, lockouts and unemployment.

The General Electric Company showed a net profit of $25,022,631 for the first nine months of the year 1939, an increase of 43 percent over the same period of the preceding year. The figures suggest a neat profit, although they do not, to the public, disclose the percentage of gain on the capital stock.

Comparison of export trade figures with the World War nations for the two and a half years before and after the war started is significant. The total for that period before the war was $4,094,728,000. The first two and a half years of war saw the total rise to $7,662,573,000, an increase which made it possible for American workers to wear silk shirts and otherwise ‘put on the dog’. Of course, that couldn’t last, and didn’t. It is merely mentioned in passing.

Wars must be paid for, and England’s income tax rate has accordingly been drastically increased. Note the comparison between the United States and England:

Annual income of $2,000 United States England

Family with two children None $70.08

Married couple, no children None 246.26

Bachelor $40 350.40

Annual income of $4,000

Family with two children 28 721.26

Married couple, no children 60 871.26

Bachelor 120 976.26

Annual income of $20,000

Family with two children 1,164 8,047.26

Married couple, no children 1,260 8,202.06

Bachelor 1,450 8,326.26

And this is as good a point as any to mention that the so-called “Holy See” also does not like war, because it interferes with revenue. A special press dispatch dealing with this sad fact mentions that during the first three months of war these revenues were reduced by more than forty percent. The dispatch is amusing in that it is introduced with a paragraph which mentions how the war has caused Pope Pius XII deep anguish because of the human suffering and the millions who are deprived of religious solace. It also remarks that Vatican quarters, ‘preoccupied with the humanitarian and spiritual problems created by Hitler’s war,’ do not care to indicate how seriously “Church” revenues have been curtailed. Suppose the pope and his familiars will have to go without new dresses and a few other luxuries for the time being. One can never tell. Anyway, the item is headed “Catholic Church Hard Hit by War and Dictators. Worship Is Made Difficult and Cash Gifts Are Curtailed”. In Italy and Germany the item doubtless reads a bit differently, substituting, say, “Democracies” for “Dictators”.

Advertising the Religious Business

The religious business is being widely advertised by one of the Hearst outfits, i.e., by King Features Syndicate, Inc., which he controls. The advertisements are by James Arnold, and quite attractive in appearance. They occupied full pages in The Morning Herald, Gloversville and Johnstown, N. Y.; Highland Park News Herald, Los Angeles, Calif.; the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch; the Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel; the New York Journal and American; The Herald-Advertiser, Huntington, W.Va., and wherever else they could be sold.

At Gloversville the advertisements were paid for by the Protestant and Catholic churches and the Jewish community center; the Milwaukee Sentinel contributed the space; the New York Journal and American and others did not say who footed the bill; the Huntington advertisements were “sponsored by the Huntington Brotherhood Conference of Christians and Jews”.

The first advertisement shows a Protestant church, or, at least, if it is a Catholic church the cross is turned sidewise. The Jews and Catholics must have been oh so pleased to help pay for showing off that church. The theme is, “May God keep us tolerant,” as in some thousands of places where Jehovah’s witnesses have been jailed and abused in the United States, not to mention Germany.

The second advertisement shows the Puritans landing on New England shores. They are skillfully dressed to look like monks and nuns, and the average American sucker will think that they are. The Catholics and Jews must have been delighted to pay for that advertisement.

The third advertisement is of a boy asking his mother, “Who is the unknown soldier?” That is to glorify war, wholesale murder. And, no joking, all the Protestants, Catholics and Jews ought to have been delighted to pay for that advertisement, for without their aid and co-operation there would be no war.

The fourth advertisement represents Jesus telling the boys and girls to love one another, so that when they grow up they can murder one another in another world war, and either imprison Jehovah’s witnesses for telling the truth about war, “purgatory,” hell and other theological nonsense, or else burn them at the stake. Hearst has done another fool job very well.

Another grand ride to prosperity

Big Business Is for Religion

Big Business is for more religion. The New York State Chamber of Commerce (not connected in any way with the New York Stock Exchange) issued a confession that—

In these workaday, warring, strenuous times, we have been paying less and less attention to our religious convictions and feeling. If this nation does not maintain its religious foundation, its whole structure will fall.

Now there was Richard Whitney, late president of the New York Stock Exchange, and public lecturer on honesty. When he stole about $2,000,000 his conviction was what might be called a religious conviction. Also, it caused much feeling that one so religious should be “sent up the river”. So there we have both the religious conviction and the feeling; but has it changed the religious foundation of the New York Chamber of Commerce? Not a whit. So somebody must be all wet.

Whitney’s theft of $110,000 of bonds of the New York Yacht Club caused the closing of its Pier No. 2 and the discharge of faithful employees who had worked there for a lifetime. The manager had a nervous breakdown and died. The secretary of the Club, who had the job of firing his old friends, suffered a stroke of paralysis and is at death’s door.

After Whitney stole two million dollars from his customers, the Exchange purified itself by making Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, one of its board of governors. Hutchins has just resigned because the rest of the governors did not have nerve enough to go after the House of Morgan because of their guilty knowledge of what Whitney was doing at the time he was giving his inspiring lessons on honesty to American youths, and helping himself freely to money that did not belong to him. Hutchins thinks that even the House of Morgan could be investigated to good public advantage, but his comrades on the board of governors just could not go that far; so he quit.

History of a Great Businessman

Philip Musica, son of an Italian immigrant barber, was imprisoned for customs fraud in 1909; arrested for defrauding banks of $1,000,000 in 1912; arrested on a perjury charge in a murder case in 1920; called himself Dr. Coster and went in for the manufac ture on a huge scale of bootleg liquor called “hair tonic”, in 1922; made a huge pile of money and bought the presidency of McKesson & Robbins in 1925; renamed his two brothers George Dietrich and George Vernard and made them assistant treasurer and fiscal agent of the corporation which the three of them then trimmed to the tune of $18,000,000. Meanwhile Musica became director of the Bridgeport Trust Company and of the Fairfield Trust Company, had a 140-foot yacht and an elegant country house. Then got caught and committed suicide. Where else but in America could a poor boy get away with such a program? Still, there is Hitler.

Besides the large-scale illegal liquor operations for which he was adopted by the Wall Street crowd as worthy of their trust, he was reputedly engaged in gang murders and gun running and was therefore well worthy a place in the bright galaxy in which Whitney moved at the time he was president of the New York Stock Exchange and its chief lecturer on honesty.

The leaders in the list of certified public accountants in the United States, Price, Waterhouse & Company, distinguished themselves by certifying the accounts of McKesson & Robbins from 1935 to 1939. During all those years F. Donald Coster-Philip Musica managed to cover up the fact that he had stolen $18,000,000 from the McKesson & Robbins Company, and he put over such a fine line of fictitious inventories, fictitious accounts receivable from fictitious foreign concerns, and fictitious profits, that Price, Waterhouse & Company gave their official O.K. and certified that everything was all right.

A boy eight years of age that did not know it is impossible to ship drugs from Canada to Pretoria, South Africa, by truck, would hardly be worth bringing up. Yet the $1,000,000 auditing that Price, Waterhouse & Company gave in the McKesson & Robbins case was not sufficient to catch an item of this kind. The same auditing institution also approved shipments to Scotland and England and other overseas countries by truck. The joke of it is that Price, Waterhouse & Company are supposed to be the very topnotchers in the auditing business. This makes it look as if, in New York, the only qualification needed to become a successful auditor is the ability and the nerve to charge the biggest kind of prices. Richard Whitney should be let out of prison and put in charge of the advertising booth of Price, Waterhouse & Company at the World’s Fair next summer.

Testimony adduced in Waterbury, Connecticut, seems to show that if you want expert auditing done and you cannot get Price, Waterhouse & Company you might try the accounting firm of George H. Kingsley, Inc. To be sure, the mayor of Waterbury, T. Frank Hayes, and the twenty-two others accused in the $1,000,000 graft conspiracy indictments, got only about five percent as much graft as the Musica brothers who wrecked McKesson & Robbins; but is it not some achievement to audit the accounts of a gang that can dust a city treasury for $1,000,000, and give them a clean bill of health? And should not something be done to give glory to a civic administration that can burn the contents of ninety-nine official filing cases?

Giants in the Earth

There were giants in the earth before the Deluge, and there are giants now, before Armageddon. In 1919, in the United States there were but 6 companies in the billion-dollar class and their total assets were less than $10,000,000,000. Now there are 28 in the same class, and in 1937 their assets were $47,228,527,082. In fifty years, i.e., in 1987, with the assets doubling every 12 1/2 years, the sum total in the hands of the billionaires would be $755,656,433,312, or about double the value of all the property in the world. Anybody who can figure interest must see that Armageddon would have to come soon, to put an end to such an evil system. The eight interest groups controlling most of the essential industries are among the modern giants, American category.

The industrial and bank assets of the eight interest groups are set at $61,025,000,000. Through their 83 directors these groups control 96 percent of the assets of all railroads, 75 percent of all public utilities, 48 percent of all commercial banks, and 34 percent of all manufacturing corporations in the country.

How many of the present-day giants got their start is indicated in an article by Oscar Ameringer, in The American Guardian. He says:

Landhogs in and out of government grabbed the fertile river valleys and tidewater plains east of the Appalachian mountains and reared lordly estates on the backs of slaves, both white and black. Land sharks with the aid of pliant politicians bought tracts of virgin land the size of Old World principalities for a few pennies and sold it to land-hungry peasants for all that the traffic would bear.

Later, timber wolves in man's clothing devoured millions of square miles of virgin timber, leaving nothing but blackened stumps, burned-off top soil, and deserted lumber camps behind. Still later came railroad buccaneers, grabbing, with the consent of America's public servants (God save the mark), stretches of territory the size of Old World empires. With the surface went the sub-surface mineral wealth the Creator had stored in the course of millions of years for all. And finally came the captains of industry, commerce and banking, building their empires on patents, franchises, brute force, mere bigness, monopoly, the power to make and unmake statesmen, crowned by the imperial might to make or unmake, grant or withhold money, the lifeblood of the nation.

Until by now virtually every avenue and means which 130 million Americans must use in their struggle for life, liberty and happiness are in the possession of a few hundred corporations manipulated by a half dozen banking rings, robbing their laborers, customers and stockholders with even-handed impartiality. OUR AMERICA is shell; the kernel belongs to others and the others are a few.

Benevolent Standard Oil

One of the kernel owners is John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of Standard Oil fame. Unintentionally explaining why so few men control America, and why, in the richest land in the world, there are more unemployed people than in most of the remainder of the civilized world, John made the statement that "this country was founded on religion". John could not say this country was founded on Christianity. The untruth of such a remark would have been too palpably self-evident.

The benevolences of the Standard Oil crowd are matters of history. Labor tells of that happy day when Christy Payne, one of its vice presidents and directors (Standard Oil Company of New Jersey), handed over $350,000 in cash in a sealed envelope, which envelope, still sealed, went to the then editor of the Denver Post to buy that newspaper's support for a city gas ordinance sanctioning the 40c gas rate now in effect in Denver, and which the Denver people find extortionate. The paper suddenly switched from opposition to the ordinance to its support and "Standard" probably felt that it had made a good investment.

Standard Oil showed its touching patriotism when it placed six of its tankers under the Panama flag and fired the American sailors who had previously made a living on them. In pursuing this typically Standard Oil move, Big Business shows its enthusiasm for participating in the war profits sniffed from afar.

The Chance for Profits

Big Business, always on the lookout for profits, smacks its lips when it thinks of cash business for Britain and France, carried in British and French vessels, and cash business for Italy, carried in Italian vessels. Italy accomplishes more for Germany by acting as her shipping agent than by entering the war direct.

The deadliest of all bombs, used in Barcelona to kill people an eighth of a mile away and to stun them a quarter of a mile away, are claimed to be the invention of two Americans, whose parents should be sorry they ever came into the world. The contents of the killers are liquid air, synthetic wool and a small quantity of oil, and the accursed things can be made even in an automobile truck. They are fine for making plenty of corpses.

Corpses are treated with formaldehyde to keep them nice and fresh; and now Big Business has found a new use for this valuable chemical. Patent No. 2,159,743, awarded to two Wilmington men, has been assigned to the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, of that city. It is stated that cellulose sheets, treated with formaldehyde, will keep bread fresh almost indefinitely, the same as it does milk and corpses and other things that are treated with it. It sounds a little bit disturbing to those, if any, who wish to stay alive, but it is wonderful for the corpses, funeral directors and large shippers of milk, and for these Wilmington patriots that made such hundreds of millions of dollars during the World War that they hardly know what to do with all their money. You know yourself that they don't want to pay taxes on their incomes; so let them buy patents. The only thing is that when you get to eating formaldehyde-treated bread, your body will stay nice and fresh, but you will be out of luck; for "the dead know not any thing". (Ecclesiastes 9:5) But that is something Big Business doesn't mind.

Use for Proprionic Acid

The inventions and discoveries of big business are not primarily concerned with the welfare of the people. There are, for instance, the bakers that discovered how plaster of Paris could be incorporated into bread, not mentioning any names. Then there is the Ward Baking Company, of New York, which is now the owner of patent No. 2,154,449, by which proprionic acid and its salts can be mixed into the dough and no mold will form. In this way humans can eat bread, cereals, cakes and other edibles that are ten days old and will have no way of knowing they are unfit to eat, because they will show no mold. Maybe, after a little, by adding a few more chemicals to the plaster of Paris and the proprionic acid salts, the Ward company can avoid putting in any milk or flour or other eatable materials, and then when the eater does eat their product he will have something that will stay with him for life. Won't that be nice?

Are you fond of candy? Some people are. If you are you will be interested to learn that seven of the big candy manufacturers were hauled up for putting on the market huge quantities of candies infested with rodent hairs, sticks, splinters, bits of paper, excreta, lead, and sulphur-dioxide, besides lots of ordinary dirt.

Forty thousand ladies that wanted to anoint their lips and ruin their looks by painting them with concoctions containing cadmium and selenium will be deprived of that opportunity. Uncle Sam doesn't want American girls poisoned; so he held up a shipment from Gierlain, Inc., of Paris, which contained these allegedly deleterious substances.

Big Business doesn't mind telling a fib when it is convenient. But now Lord and Taylor will stop advertising their cosmetics as "nourishing". Mary Dunhill may no longer say her lotions correct acne or that her products come from Paris. Richard Hudnut will stop claiming that their products prevent or eliminate wrinkles or feed the skin. Varady, Inc., will no longer claim that their stuff will cure dry skin or keep it young. The Federal Trade Commission has been after them, and now they will be good, maybe.

The life of radio tubes for new radio sets obtainable on the market is 1,000 hours, but since the year 1923 the telephone companies have constantly used a tube which uses less power and lasts 50,000 hours. Why can't you get these tubes, then? Simply because fifty profits are more attractive to Big Business than one.

Heaping Up Treasure

Heaping up treasure for the last days continues to be the occupation of some of the executives of concerns famous for the small wages paid employees. Thus, C. W. Deyo, and nine other figureheads of the Woolworth Company, not only received huge salaries, but awarded themselves a total of $574,551 in bonuses besides. In the "recession" of 1938 the General Motors Corporation cheerfully laid off thousands of low-paid workers, but paid William S. Knudsen, president, and thirteen other high officials, splendid salaries and $625,825 in bonuses. Betcha Deyo and Knudsen are among the most patriotic flag-salooters in the country.

High annual salaries are not uncommon. The following are a few of the outstanding ones:

Louis B. Mayer, movie executive $1,161,753

J. Robert Rubin, movie executive 641,123

William Randolph Hearst, publisher

($500,000 in 1936 also) 500,000

N. M. Schenck, movie executive 498,602

Greta Garbo, movie actress 472,602

Major Edward Bowes, radio entertainer 427,817

Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corporation 419,398

E. G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corporation 394,586

George W. Hill, president of American Tobacco Company 380,976

Marlene Dietrich, movie actress 370,000

A. M. Loew, movie executive 356,074

Joan Crawford, movie actress

($302,307 in 1936) 351,538

Fredric March, movie actor 334,687

F. B. Davis, president of United States Rubber Products, Inc. 322,999

David Bernstein, movie executive 320,416

Spyros P. Skouras, president of National Theatres Amusement Company 320,054

David O. Selznick, movie executive 303,500

Of the 30,000,000 American families, it is said that 8,000,000 families with incomes less than $750 a year are continually facing starvation; 11,000,000 families with incomes less than $1,800 a year have it hard to get along; 8,000,000 families with incomes up to $3,000 a year are in comfortable circumstances; 1,585,000 families with incomes up to $7,500 a year can enjoy luxuries; and 800,000 families have incomes that are embarrassingly large. The 283,000 families with incomes of over $10,000 a year get as large a share of the total income as nearly 11,000,000 families at the bottom of the ladder.

Invention

Better Price for Old Papers

A new invention will result in a better price for old papers, in due time. Tens of thousands of acres of woodlands have been stripped to furnish wood-pulp newsprint at $50 to $55 per ton. Old papers, magazines, poster sheets and even carbon paper can now be cleaned of dirt and ink, made white and rolled again into nice, new, clean newsprint paper at $30 to $35 per ton, with a reasonable profit to the manufacturers. This is bound to result in a greater demand for old papers, with a resultant better price. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was the first newspaper to use the made-over paper, and declared it a great success.

Good-bye to Cobblers

◆ It was bad enough for the cobblers when the 5-and-10-cent stores began selling composition soles and a tube of glue for 10c, and everybody could put on new soles over their worn-out old ones, and the new ones would last a year. But now a German inventor has invented a fixative containing grains of bitumen, calcium carbonate, sand and resin, and when this is applied to the soles they outlast the uppers of the shoes. Seems like a bad outlook for the cobblers.

Television Perfected by an Immigrant

◆ It is good for all to know that the basic patent of successful television rests upon the work of Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, who had been in the United States, as an immigrant from Russia, only four years when he worked out the details of the electronic eye which is now the basis of all successful television. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh is the present owner of the patents.

Terrain Clearance Indicator

◆ The new "terrain clearance indicator" shoots a radio wave earthward, picks up its electrical echo reflected from the ground skyward, and—though sending and receiving are almost instantaneous—the time interval is recorded on a dial in terms of feet. This tells a pilot his exact distance above objects below.—Bell Telephone Bulletin.

Artificial Quartz

◆ At the Corning, N. Y., Glass Works a new form of glass, an artificial quartz, has been produced which can be heated to a cherry red and plunged into ice water without breaking. In the manufacture of this singular substance a dish 10 1/2 inches in diameter must be manufactured to produce a finished product 9 inches in diameter, yet in this shrinkage the glass suffers no distortion in form.

Freak Reception of Television

◆ The British Broadcasting Company's normal television transmission area is within a radius of thirty miles from Alexandra Palace, though programs are received at greater distances. On November 3, the programs were picked up at the Riverhead, L.I., N.Y., receiving station of the Radio Corporation of America, and a British girl, Joan Miller, an actress, was seen at her desk, 3,000 miles away.

Bicycle Entirely of Paper

◆ A sensation in bicycle circles is the production at Osaka, Japan, of a cycle made entirely of paper. This includes frame, saddle, mud guards and all, and the new method of manufacture bids fair to revolutionize the entire bicycle-making industry.

Tempered Glass Shingles

◆ Patent No. 2,159,665, assigned to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, looks like a valuable and practical invention. Tempered glass, made by quenching hot glass sheets in baths of oil, is bendable, and well suited to making good shingles of any color desired.

Good-bye, Horse

◆ Up until now the finest violin bows have been made of 110 hairs from the tails of Siberian horses. But now a Philadelphia man has invented a stainless steel wire lighter than the hair of the horse, and with 150 hairs to the bow the end of the horsehair bow is in sight.

The New Dynamite

◆ A new dynamite, as destructive as nitro-glycerine, is now made from air, natural gas and steam alone. The three, suitably treated with formaldehyde, become a solid.

Miscellany

Persecution Begets Only Zeal

◆ Persecution of the witnesses in Louisiana during the past several months has only welded the Lord’s people closer together and made them more eager for a fight with the enemy forces.

Some of the lukewarm ones have fallen by the way, fearful lest the enemy do them hurt. But the Lord has raised up many others and given them unbounded zeal and courage. It is especially interesting to note the great numbers of very young folks that are coming to the Kingdom organization. Many of these were in evidence at the Goudeau campaign lately. Some of them show far greater zeal than others who have long been in the Truth. —Victor Van Horn Blackwell, Louisiana.

Studies in Pain

◆ A scientific study of the effects of pain shows that a tight clamping of the arm dulls a pain in the forehead, and that biting the lips does really reduce pain in other parts of the body. Also, an injection of alcohol reduces pain 40 percent, while aspirin reduces it but 35 percent, and six aspirin tablets are no more effective than one. In any event, aspirin actually kills the nerves, and should not be taken by anybody.

For Tobacco Addicts

◆ From Vienna comes interesting information for those who are fighting the smoking habit. Take a deep breath, as deep as possible, and then hold your breath for four seconds. Then exhale energetically and try to dispel all the air from your lungs. Repeat this exercise four or five times. You will find that it completely destroys the desire to smoke.—Modern Living.

Jackasses Bless Dogs

◆ Dispatches from London tell of human jackasses blessing dogs and at the same time give the information that all creatures in the London zoos were given the death sentence on account of the war. Some consistency, eh?

Kindness to Lepers

◆ An American millionaire, William B. Leeds, showed a kind heart by arranging that the lepers of Orofara, Tahiti, may regularly enjoy motion-picture shows.

Muffed the Ball

◆ In a near-by country store the proprietor told me he had stopped attending the local Baptist church because the preacher reproached him in public for opening his store on the only day in the week, Sunday, when some country people do their trading. When the preacher missed their donations he stood it for some time, but one Sunday morning stalked into the store and shouted angrily, “I see you are still serving the Devil.” The storekeeper replied, “Yes, we don’t mind; what will you have?”—Helen Ruelberg, Tenn.

Argentine Dog Food

◆ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen convey the interesting but revolting information that imports of Argentine dog food into the United States jumped from 1,800,000 pounds in 1937 to 4,000,000 pounds in 1938. But please do not think that this interesting combination of meat, bone meal, carrots and spinach goes into the making of bigger and better dogs. It is used in the South to feed Negroes and poor whites.

Fish Farms in Louisiana

◆ Fish farms are possible in certain sections and are profitable adventures in certain parts of France. A fish farm is now in operation at Griswold, Louisiana. A lake was formed by the removal of 215,000 cubic yards of dirt, which was piled along the edges to allow raising of the water level. Water is supplied by eight windmills, pumping from 50-foot wells. The farmer claims he has 12,000,000 fish.

1,200 Research Men

◆ It is claimed that the Du Ponts at Wilmington have 1,200 research men and 1,700 assistants finding out how to make new textiles out of coal, air and water, and how to make rubber out of coal, limestone and salt, and to do a thousand and one other things, including making munitions, etc., and at less expense, out of the commonest of materials. The bill for research alone comes to $7,000,000 a year.

Loss of Jobs

◆ Dr. Aaron Rosanoff, director of the State Department of Institutions of the state of California, declared that more than half the inmates of the asylums of his state are there because of loss of their jobs.

In and Around the House

KEROSENE is useful at cleaning time. Any rusted metal may be soaked in it, or the kerosene may be poured over the surface and left there an hour or so. Nickel piping in the bathroom, which sometimes turns a dull-green color that resists applications of soap and water and scouring powders, should be well soaked in kerosene. A cloth dipped in kerosene may be wound around the pipe and left there for some time.

A little kerosene in the water used for washing windows prevents streaking when the glass is rubbed dry.

Tissue paper makes an excellent polish for window glass and mirrors. Wash, dry, and then polish with the paper.

When windows are hard to raise, pour a little hot lard between the window frame and the casing; also on the pulleys and ropes.

Paint the window screen on the inside with thin white paint; then persons who are inside the house can see out, but passers-by cannot see within.

Powdered borax sprinkled around window sills and thresholds will keep ants out of the house.

To prevent hot grease from sinking into the floor, sop cold water on it to harden it. Scrape off what is on the surface with a dull knife. Remove stain with a wet cloth sprinkled with baking soda.

The Housewife and Her Family

The housewife who does her own work and is obliged to use strong soap will keep her hands in good condition by washing them in salt water.

Salt is good for the complexion. Twice a week at least, rinse the face with a salt-water solution—a basin of cold water in which a tablespoonful of salt has been added. Sea bathing is not within everyone's reach. The next best thing is a salt-water bath. To a gallon of water add a pint of salt and apply to the body with a towel. Do not wash off, but rub dry with a coarse towel. This is a good tonic in case of depression, loss of appetite and sleeplessness. Salt rubbed into wounds, if you can stand it, is very healing, but may leave a scar.

A little salt on the fingers when cleaning fowls or meat will prevent slipping.

Salt also makes a good cleanser for the teeth. One of the best things to cleanse the scalp thoroughly is to dissolve one-half teaspoonful of borax in a quart of water, and apply it, rubbing it in well. Rinse well in clear water.

A vinegar rinse makes the hair soft and silky because it removes soap scum. It should not be left in the hair, but flooded away with clear water. Lemon juice is also good.

Ringworms will yield to borax treatment. Apply a strong solution of borax three times a day; also dust on the fine, dry powder often.

To remove ink stains from the fingers moisten them with warm water, then rub the sulphur end of a match well over the stains, and the ink will disappear.

If you've forgotten to enclose something in a letter, you can reopen the sealed envelope by laying a wet cloth over the flap and pressing with a warm iron.

A raw egg taken immediately will carry down a fish bone that has lodged in the throat.

To fill a steaming teakettle, place a small funnel in the spout, to prevent burning the hands by taking off the cover.

Be careful about the house. About 30,000 persons annually die as a result of accidents at home.

Color in the Home

There is the best of reasons why a home should have beauty as well as utility, be attractive as well as useful. This does not necessarily involve the expenditure of an excessive amount of time or money. A little forethought will serve to make surroundings harmonious and pleasing to the eye. It has been found that white, ivory and green have been best sellers in stoves. Coral and lilac are popular colors in toilet sets. In plumbing and sanitary fixtures ivory, pink and jade-green are favorite colors. For interior paints cream, ivory and green are most frequently chosen. Blue, gray and green are restful colors, while yellow, orange and red are cheering. Strong colors should be used sparingly. Rooms with little sun should let cheerful colors predominate, while rooms with plenty of sun may more safely be finished in the cooler hues. Red should be used only as a trim, never in large areas. Large patterns on draperies, furniture and walls are a weariness to the flesh. Choose restful, quiet, unobtrusive designs, if any, and avoid vivid contrasts. Simplicity and harmony make for beauty.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

A Polite Officer of the Law

◆ Because they have the power of the state back of them the police should be, as in England, the most polite citizens of the state. Occasionally one finds such a one in the United States. At an information march in Kingsburg, California, an officer approached one of the marchers with the inquiry, "What's this all about, anyway?" He was given a Liberty to Preach and a Fascism or Freedom booklet and the address of the one in charge of the march, to whom he subsequently wrote the following letter:

Dear Friend: I wish to thank you for your kindness and am returning your copy, as I suppose you will wish to keep it. I was curious to know what was going on the night you folks were marching. I drive the state mail express car from Los Angeles to Kingsburg and back every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I hope you do not think I was trying to interfere with your march. With best wishes, Wm. L. Reardon.

Joseph Howarth, zone servant, states that whereas but 8 would come to a meeting in the hall, there were 40 on the benches and 7 well-filled cars besides. These listeners to the number of 28 requested literature, 4 asked for back-calls, and 6 persons of good will that the publishers had not interviewed made themselves known. The outdoor meetings are very satisfactory, and especially for the small companies, as there is no expense attached to it.

"No Use to Call in the Rear"

◆ I had just been told at the door (by an uninterested party), "There is no use to call at the house in the rear. The woman that works for us lives there. This is her day off and she is away." I went back, and at the foot of the steps a small boy accosted me, saying, "What have you there, books like Enemies?" I asked him, "What do you know about Enemies?" He said, "I have Enemies and have read it. It explains all about our enemies." I showed the book Salvation to him and he wanted it and said he had his own money, for me to call about 2 p.m. and see if his mother would let him have it. The mother, being a Catholic, opposed his having another of those books, but finally we prevailed and he got the book. He then told his companion, "I'll let you read it." "We will read it together." "You will like it." Two weeks later I called and he had half of Salvation read. He was working during his vacation and didn't have so much time to read. He is ten years old.—Esther F. Smith.

Happened in California

◆ The postman brings a package of books to the home of a pioneer, and says, "These books are going everywhere, aren't they?" "Yes," was the reply; "would you like to see one of them?" The box was opened and out comes Salvation, and the postman takes one and contributes. Two days later he comes and says: "I read the first chapter. It is the truth. I want two more to send to others." Two more are placed with him. Day later he comes to the same home and "Government and Peace" is played. He drinks it in. Then he subscribes for The Watchtower and Consolation. He is now in the meetings studying Salvation and inquiring about the work. This postman also stated to us: "I used to carry The Watchtower to people, in the mail, and you know we are not supposed to read what we carry, but I used to read when I could." 'Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for THEY shall be filled.'—Contributed.

Reaction to Kingdom 'News

◆ I have just read through Vol. 1, No. 4, of the paper [Kingdom News] you distribute. May I express my admiration of your courage and forthrightness in telling the truth publicly to and about the Catholic Hierarchy, its Fascist activities and philosophy? I agree wholeheartedly with these and other social views expressed in literature and by members of your faith; I have long respected them for their fine zeal in trying to put forward the truth as they and you see it—unadulterated, regardless of the risks and unpopularity of such truths. In a time of rising Nationalism, it is good that one group, at least, retains the courage to refuse to participate in the fetishism of the flag. I shall make it a point of duty to visit your meeting hall in Broad street, Newark, to learn more about you and make the too-little cash contribution which represents a small part payment of the debt any social-minded person owes you.—Charles Berlinrut.

Four-legged automobiles to carry Jehovah's Kingdom publishers to the truth-hungry in Saskatchewan, in midwinter

Action Against Prague, Oklahoma

◆ CHANDLER, Aug. 17. — (Special.) — Four damage suits totaling $8,190 have been filed in Lincoln County district court here as the aftermath of a near riot at Prague a month ago when members of the Jehovah's witnesses sect attempted to spread literature and propaganda of an antireligious nature.

Mrs. Laura Miller, court clerk, said the suits named as defendants the city of Prague, three Prague ministers, three police officers, a member of the city council and another Prague resident.

The suits were filed by Mrs. Margaret Meredith of Shawnee, Mrs. Sallie Johnson of Oklahoma City, Charles Sanders of Oklahoma City and W. B. Taylor of near Norman.

The petitions accused the defendants of inciting a crowd of Prague residents into an angry mob who "cursed at, abused, misused, grossly insulted and jostled about in an angry and insolent manner" the plaintiffs.

The four plaintiffs were members of the group of Jehovah's witnesses who staged a parade in Prague July 15 carrying banners and placards reading "Religion Is a Snare and a Racket", "Fascism or Freedom" and similar signs.

Several minor fights broke out and a near riot resulted.

The defendants in the suits in addition to the city of Prague are Rev. Roscoe F. Ferguson, pastor of the Methodist church; Rev. A. T. Hill, pastor of the Methodist Protestant church; Rev. W. P. Weeks, former pastor of the Baptist church; Ellis Gray, police chief; Johnson Hignite, police deputy; Charles Underwood, acting police chief at the time of the attempted parade; P. M. Bradbury, member of the city council, and Roy Sales.—Oklahoma City Times.

A Good Picture of Religion

◆ Have you ever visited a "movie" lot? Within an area comprising about five to ten acres are congregated structures representing various sections of the world and nearly every period of civilization. Before you there may be a stately French villa built to scale, and landscaped to conform with those common to the Riviera. Less than two hundred feet away there is a drab, squatty, clapboard building of the general store type of the California gold rush days. The dusty road before it and the sun-bleached sign designating the proprietor are in contrast to the elegance of the villa. On farther one is confronted by a little bit of the middle ages—a quaint old English village. Within a stone's throw of this peaceful scene he is amazed to see in an open field a modern wharf and a replica of an ocean liner with all the atmosphere of one of the world's largest seaports. The fronts of these structures are so realistic, even to the most minute detail, that one is compelled to admire them. One accepts them for what they appear to be. When one investigates a little further, when he ventures to peer behind the front, what disillusionment awaits him! The villa, ocean liner, English village, and general store are a maze of props, braces, boards, and studs. They lack everything the imagination had engendered about them. From then on one accepts the "sets" for what they are—just false fronts, shams, something merely intended to deceive one visually. This is a good picture of religion; a sham, fraud and hypocrisy from beginning to end.

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at High Prairie, northern Alberta, in midwinter. Sleeping in the sleigh, the publishers find it easier to stop with the people en route.

West view of Fort Vermilion, northern Alberta. A typical scene---a half-starved dog team transporting trappers (or even children to and from school)

How I Obtained the Truth

◆ I used to get all the WATCHTOWER literature at my door, but never opened the books to see what was inside, until one day in March of last year. We were gathering a lot of articles to sell at our rummage sale, when someone sent us a set of your books. There were six of them, all together with a band around them. One of the ladies said:

"Oh, those books! Our minister said to destroy them all, as they belong to the Devil."

With that she opened the door of the stove and cast them all into the flames, saying, "These will never get into anyone's hands if we can help it." I began to cry, thinking she had destroyed something precious. When I went home that night I searched out the book Enemies, and since that time I have most of the books and also get The Watchtower and Consolation. Most of all, I read them and understand the good work you are doing, and that all you say about the clergy and their religion is the truth. You certainly do not find Christianity in the church today. Now that my eyes are open, I thank God for it and hope you can keep up the good work, until some other blind fools are awakened before it is too late. - Mrs. J. Whinniers, Manitoba.

Jonadabs in St. Paul

◆ At a recent zone assembly in St. Paul, Minnesota, the following representatives of a single family were immersed: a great-grandmother 81 years of age, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law, five grandchildren, a granddaughter-in-law, and two great-grandsons, one of them ten years of age. Well, that's eleven toward "filling the earth", right there.---Genesis 1 : 28.

Extermination of Jehovah's witnesses

◆ Referring to the practical extermination of Jehovah's witnesses in Germany, a German refugee is reported in the Pueblo (Colo.) Star Journal and Sunday Chieftain as saying that though the Jews have been widely persecuted they have not been as severely treated as the Bible Searchers (Jehovah's witnesses), who, because they insist that man owes service only to God, have been virtually exterminated. The same gang in Pueblo itself has tried to do the same thing.

"Night unto Night Showeth Knowledge"

◆ As I walk into silent night, and upward gaze into that spacious dome in which an unseen hand has swung a myriad of scintillating lights, I pause, and feast my eyes and smile and think what power is expressed by these orbs that move with such precision to obey God's will. I marvel at the wisdom and the patience that deigns to notice on this terrestrial ball even those who seek to do the little they can do to honor the Name of names. ---William E. Johnson, New York.

Happened in Wisconsin

◆ Businessman to boy: "You are growing long hair back of your ears; are you going to be a preacher?" "No!" "Don't you ever go to church?" "No! I don't believe in it." "How can your soul go to heaven if you don't believe in church?" "The soul that sinneth it shall die; when it is dead your body goes into the grave." "Where did you learn that? You know more than I do." "In the book Enemies." "You go right home and get me that book; I want to read about that."

Curry County, Oregon, deaf hear and enjoy “Government and Peace”. See the tube.

Five-year-old witness in Elkhart, Indiana

Jonadabs Rejoicing in Blessings

◆ We have a little girl five years old who has gone with us in the service since she was two. Last June, during the Cure booklet campaign, she went alone to the doors and placed twenty-two Cure booklets. She would knock at the door, then ask, “Would you ‘tribute a penny and read this booklet? It’s about God.” If the person had no money, she would continue, “If you promise to read it, I’ll give it to you; then pass it on to someone else.” She always met us with contributions more than covering booklets placed. This spring, during the Watchtower magazine campaign, she put in ten and a half hours alone (not counting all the hours she went with us from door to door), and placed fifteen booklets during that time. This year she asked, “Would you contribute five cents for Fascism or Freedom, and the world-wide broadcast of ‘Face the Facts’? It’s all about God, and what’s coming here.” While I was on a porch next door, I overheard a lady say, “I haven’t time to read now.” Jayne quickly replied, “Take them now and read them when you have time.”

Following are a few incidents showing the benefit of early instruction concerning Jehovah’s purposes:

The other day she was at a neighbor’s home. The lady has a son twenty-one years old, to whom Jayne said, “We’re going to Enemies meeting tonight. You ought to come along, Carl. It’s very interesting. Tells you who your real enemies are. It’s very interesting.”

During school vacation at “Christmas” time, a ten-year-old cousin of Jayne’s was in our home a few days, and I overheard this conversation:

Jayne: Do you like preachers, Genee?

Genee: Yes.

Jayne: I don’t, and anybody that says that Easter bunnies lay eggs or that there is a Santa Claus is either lying or don’t know any better.

We are now reading The Harp of God to her, and she answers almost any question in the first three chapters.

Ever since we have had the privilege of raising a child, we have prayed to Jehovah to direct our teaching of her, so that she might take her stand on Jehovah’s side, if it is His will.

She has gone to meetings with us since infancy. We have never permitted her to stay at home in someone else’s care. From the time my parents came into the Truth, in 1913, I went with them, and I know that we children heard discussions at the hall, between our whisperings and scribblings, that we never forgot.

My husband and I are thrilled over the new Salvation book. But, of course, our biggest thrill came last September at the revealing of the prophecy of the divine mandate to “fill the earth” by us Jonadabs.

Actually Happened

Publisher: Your Consolation expires this month. May I renew it for you?

Teacher: It is not what I expected; I wanted to use it in my school.

Publisher: It tells the truth, does it not?

Teacher: Yes, in a way.

Publisher: Would it hurt to teach the children the truth?

Teacher: I would lose my job.

That Bad Magazine

◆ Once upon a time, up in western New York, a fine young man and his equally fine wife subscribed for a magazine. It's name was not "Consternation", as falsely stated by some. As the wife read it she got mad; the more she read, the madder she got; the madder she got, the more she read. Then one of Jehovah's witnesses called about six times with a Bible and some phonograph records and the lady stopped going to church, and is having the happiest times of her life. But she certainly was mad at that 'ignorant editor' when the witness first showed up. She was a Catholic, but now she says they don't get any of her money any more. Just think of all the trouble that 'bad magazine' made for that priest. 'Sfunny that anybody would print a magazine that would make a woman get mad and quit her "church", when she could just as well keep paying and finally land in "Purgatory" if the magazine hadn't made her mad.

They Didn't Come Back

◆ In a church in Fresno the Sunday-school teacher was indignant because none of the children had brought any money. He sent all the children home to get something in the way of cash before they went on with the instruction. None of the children returned. Burp!

Britain (1)

The Awful Floggings

◆ Although the brutal practice of flogging with a "cat-o'-nine-tails" has been abolished in the British Army and Navy, it is still practiced in British prisons, the net result thereof being that the one flogged becomes even more degenerate and brutalized. Such a practice is perhaps to be expected in a "religious" country. Eighty years ago England, under the cloak of "religion", was "civilizing" the world and, incidentally, adding to her empire. The following is quoted from Reynold's Weekly News under date February 28, 1858:

The victim of the flogging which took place at Newcastle Barracks was a private of the Northumberland Fusiliers, who had been sentenced by court-martial to 50 lashes. The "cat" with which the torture was inflicted had a handle eight inches long and nine tails of equal length each weighted with pentagonal pieces of steel, 81 in number. The regiment having been paraded on the barracks square, the triangle was set up and the victim was forcibly stripped and tied up. His voice trembling with emotion, he requested them to take his life, but spare him this dishonor. The plea was ignored and forth stepped one of the burliest drummers, armed with the "cat". At the first blow a piercing shriek rung from the victim in his agony. His lacerated flesh gaped under the blow, and lumps of flesh were detached from his bleeding back at each blow. At the 45th stroke of the instrument—that is, after receiving 405 lashes—the unhappy wretch positively burst his bonds in the contortions of agony and fell a bloody heap to the ground. He was again tied up and another 45 wounds were inflicted. When the poor sufferer was eventually released from his torture, the whole of his spine had been laid bare. He was carried to hospital in a delirious state.

—J. W. Williams, Lithuania.

The "Free" Press of Cyprus

◆ Under date of May 31, 1939, the editor of Embros published the following interesting statement:

On Saturday last the commissioner for Nicosia (Cyprus) called the editors of the Nicosia newspapers, with the exception of Embros, and instructed them not to publish any further reference to Cyprus politics, even if in the form of articles reproduced from home newspapers. Yesterday the commissioner for Nicosia transmitted the same instructions to Embros. Such is freedom of the press in this part of the British Empire.

Devil Busy in Ulster

◆ Spurred on by the evil examples set in the United States and in Australia, the Belfast, Ireland, Corporation Children Act Committee was to consider the suggestion that the pupils of the Balmoral Boys' High School should parade each morning to salute the Union Jack.

Half a Billion Herring

◆ Last year Britain ate half a billion herring, the largest quantity for some years. But it is not so many after all: only about one a month for each person.

COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Typical Theocratic War

THE ancient nation of Israel was not organized by any political ruler or dictator or usurper. That was God's typical nation, a small pattern formed and organized by the great Theocrat for the purpose of picturing the real Theocracy that shall rule the world by the righteous Ruler, Christ Jesus. That nation had no man-made laws and no political parties and no religious advisers to direct any political affairs, as long as that nation remained faithful to the great Theocrat.

Earth's Creator chose the earthly location for His typical theocratic nation. (Deuteronomy 11:12; 32:8) Jehovah God, the great Theocrat, was the Ruler invisible of that typical nation Israel, and His will the only law of the nation. The Promised Land, assigned to that nation, was previously held in possession by the Canaanites and others devoted to devil-worship and therefore against Jehovah God. That land Jehovah God had given to Israel's forefather, Abraham, and to his seed or offspring after him. (See Genesis 13:14-17; 15:18-21; Psalm 105:8-12.) The Canaanites refused to surrender possession to God's chosen people and refused to come over on the side of the great Theocrat. Therefore they must be ousted. The sole exception thereto was the people of Gibeon, who voluntarily put themselves on the side of Jehovah and who therefore received protection and deliverance at the hand of God's chosen servant, Joshua, Moses' minister.

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