Consolation, April 3, 1940

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Contents

Roosevelt’s Ambassador to the Pope (Part 2) 3

All Agree Except Liberty-Lovers 3

Unofficial Papal Representatives 4

Conspiracies Against the Children 6

“No Surprise” 7

Claims of the Hierarchy 8

The President’s Objective 8

Big Business and Peace 9

Railroads and Shipping 10

Saving Time Around the House 11

The New Government 12

“Justice” in Hubbard, Ohio 15

New York Sunday News 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

New World’s King at the Temple 17

Science 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag

“The Holy Souls” 20

The Misused Texts 20

La Guardia’s Eyes Opening 21

Can Hitler Conquer America 21

“Approved in Principle” 22

Republished by Request 23

Vatican Propaganda in Britain 24

Humanity’s Blackout 25

New Jersey 26

The Southwest 27

British Comment 28

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Appetizers

Their Time of Depression

The bride of a few weeks noticed that her husband was depressed.

“John, dearest,” she said, “I know something is troubling you, and I want you to tell me what it is; your worries are not your worries now, they are ours.”

“Oh, very well,” said John. “We’ve just had a letter from a girl in Birmingham, and she’s suing us for breach of promise.”—Reynolds.

At the Crowded Hour

The doctor was on a crowded streetcar and was forced to stand. Beside him a stout woman vainly endeavored to get her fare out of the pocket of her cloak tightly buttoned as a protection against pickpockets.

After some minutes the doctor said, “Please allow me to pay your fare.”

The woman declined with some asperity and renewed her attacks on the pocket. After some little time the doctor said again:

“You really must let me pay your fare. You have already unbuttoned my suspenders three times.”—Labor.

Pasadena Woman’s Reply to a Real Estate Man

A home? Why do I need a home? I was born in a hospital, educated in a college, courted in a motorcar, and married in a church; I live out of the delicatessen and paper bags; I spend my mornings on the golf course, my afternoons at the bridge table, and my evenings at the movies; and when I die, I am going to be buried at the undertaker’s.—Australian Consolidation.

Domestic Confusion

“Look at that girl dressed up like a man. I call it idiotic.”

“Pardon me, sir, that’s my son.”

“Oh, I’m sorry! I didn’t know you were his father.”

“I’m not. I’m his mother.”—Eau Claire Shopping News.

A Bad Spell

“Long Distance! I want to place a call to Damariscotta.”

“How do you spell it, please?”

“Shucks, lady, if I could spell it I would write.”—Kellygram.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 3, 1940 Number 536

Roosevelt's Ambassador to the Pope

(In Two Parts—Part 2)*

THE most astounding piece of business thus far perpetrated by any elected servant of the American people is Roosevelt’s presumption in sending a personal ambassador to the pope. The sinister implications of this act have been considered at some length in the first part of this article. The second part takes up some incidental aspects of the situation.

Humbugging the American People

The president of the United States, entrusted as he is with the greatest gift in the power of the people to bestow, ought to be above the humbugging of them, and it is a shame and a disgrace that Franklin D. Roosevelt, in sending his ambassador to the pope, pretended that it was done for the general benefit of mankind and in the cause of peace. It was nothing of the sort. The deal was all cooked up long ago. The Catholic journals were in on it and the stories that they published before Roosevelt made the appointment give the lie to the reasons alleged at Washington as to why the appointment was made.

The following story appeared in the London Catholic Herald of November 24, 1939, 29 days before Roosevelt summoned Spellman to Washington. It is obviously true, which is all the more remarkable because it emanated from the Vatican. The Catholic press can now point with pride to the fact that on this matter, and in advance, they told the truth about something of which the president of the United States, a professed Protestant, told a story.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VATICAN AND U.S.A.

From Our Own Correspondent

VATICAN CITY

The Holy Father has recently received in audience Cardinal Gasparri, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.

It is possible that the Pope discussed the probable renewal of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the U.S.A., which were interrupted in 1870. Cardinal Gasparri went to America some time ago to study, it is believed, the juridical status of such relations in the event of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations.

It is well known that the Holy Father is extremely desirous of seeing these diplomatic relations resumed.

FAVOURABLE TIME

This is a most favourable time for the success of such relations, because Roosevelt and his supporters have promised their renewal several times. Though the administration never kept these promises in spite of pressure from Cardinal Mundelein, the 1940 presidential elections make the chances greater because Roosevelt may have to obtain Catholic votes. The situation is favourable also because the Jews in America are now on good terms with the Church and the Communists have of late been less active.

The message sent by President Roosevelt on the occasion of the fifteenth birthday of the Commonweal, the well-known Catholic weekly, indicates the interest of the President in the Church.

“At all hazards,” said the President in his message, “we must preserve our liberties and above all else liberty of conscience. God speed you through the years in your determination to affirm the Christian conception of the dignity of the individual man.”

All Agree Except Liberty-Lovers

After Roosevelt appointed his personal ambassador to the pope, and invited the president of a Jewish theological seminary and the president of the Federal Council of Churches to sanctify the appointment, the Jewish representative, Dr. Cyrus Adler, made the statement, “We are all in agreement.” What he meant was that four persons are satisfied, Pacelli, Roosevelt, Buttrick (of the Federal Council) and himself. They speak for nobody else. The general secretary of the Baptist

* Part 1 was in No. 531.—Ed.

World Alliance, Dr. W. O. Lewis, issued a statement that "American Baptists oppose any possible combine of the United States Government with the Vatican", and there are more than four persons among those Baptists.

It has been repeatedly drawn to Roosevelt's attention that law-abiding American citizens have been attacked by subjects of the pope to whom the president is now doing obsequious homage. These attacks have been carried out under the direction of the Hierarchy's priests. Instead of doing or saying anything to protect his fellow citizens in their rights as against this bunch of foreign racketeers, he insults them by glorifying the head of this camorra, every principle of which is contrary to the American Constitution, to Christianity and to common decency and honesty.

An example of the riotous assaults characteristic of the pope-controlled part of the population follows.

Christian assembly room in Saco after friends of police visited it. No arrests.

Friends of Saco police invade a law-abiding Christian man's living room. Nobody arrested.

Unofficial Papal Representatives

The police of Saco, Maine, sincerely and honestly desire the destruction of the American form of government and have done and are willing to do all that they can to reproduce in this country the identical conditions that prevail in Germany. Instead of preserving order, or even trying to preserve order, they have encouraged anarchy in its most vicious form—the breaking up of assemblies of orderly Christian people, met together to study the Word of God. For thus breaking the oaths they have taken to preserve the liberties and the lives of American people, engaged in the exercise of their lawful rights, they deserve long terms of imprisonment behind bars—the usual American penalty for malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance in public office.

Sunday evening, October 1, 1939, a widely advertised meeting of Christian people was to have been held at Red Men's Hall, Main street, Saco, Maine. The police knew all about the purpose of this meeting, and conspired to have it wrecked. Before the meeting began, a radio shop next door to the hall turned on several radios and sound apparatus, with the volume as high as they could get it, and with no other possible objective than to interfere with the meeting advertised.

This conspiracy to interfere with a Christian assembly (illegal in every state in the United States) was supplemented by a mob of at least twenty men and youths who hooted, whistled, shouted and stamped their feet, trying to gain entrance after the meeting had started. Two personal visits to the police headquarters were made to draw the attention of the officers of the law to these facts. On the second trip the officers, engaged in playing cards, indicated that they resented being disturbed in their Sunday evening pastime. A third visit, more insistent, was made that steps be taken to protect the rights of the audience in the hall.

Thereupon one officer walked by on the sidewalk, asked the disturbers on the sidewalk to cross the street, which they did, but he did nothing about the disturbers in the hallway on the second floor, nor did he linger to prevent the throwing of missiles from across the street, which began at once.

As soon as the officer had departed, the man that conducted the radio shop disturbance led the mob to the attack on the hall, showing the gangsters which windows to break and which not to break. He manifestly tipped them off that they had nothing to fear from the police, and events showed this to be correct.

Nonfeasance of Police

Practically every window in the hall was smashed in the riot that followed, and for which riot the Saco police are directly responsible, and can blame no one else.

An automobile drove up loaded with missiles of all kinds; not only stones, but the usual vegetables and other accompaniments of those who have no other arguments with which to answer the truth. The number of the automobile is known and recorded.

A mob to the number of more than 1,000 collected. According to the Biddeford Daily Journal the police, mentioned by their official name ten times in five paragraphs, understood their duty very well, inasmuch as “neither the police nor county officers could find any law which would prevent the group from meeting”. The law does not specify in detail that police, paid by the taxpayers, shall stop playing cribbage on Sunday evening to protect Christian people from assault by mobs formed with the knowledge and consent of their higher-ups. The most hopeless moron knows that, whether they like to have their cribbage game interfered with or not, their duty is plain. That duty the Saco police definitely dodged.

Encouraged to do so, the mob went about its work after the pattern so well laid down in Germany, and now understood at all four corners in America. All that is necessary is connivance by the police and it may happen anywhere, and will.

The mob stoned the hall. Practically every window was smashed. Stink bombs were thrown into the hall. The worshipers were driven into the street. While this was going on several police and a deputy sheriff were outside encouraging the mob. One was sitting in a car, laughing and talking with some of the mob. Jehovah’s witnesses know the leaders of the mob, and so do the police, but no arrests were made, and none intended.

The work of destruction went on. Everything in the hall was smashed. The light fixtures were torn from the walls. Even the plaster on the ceiling was torn off. The equipment of Jehovah’s witnesses was destroyed, a phonograph and many records. Territory maps were annihilated, but the stock of literature of the Kingdom was missed, by God’s grace, for at the last minute one of the witnesses threw the master switch of the electric system, plunging the hall into darkness.

The work of destruction went on in the darkness. The mob forced its way into the living quarters of the company servant and pioneer, actually breaking the intervening door in two halves. In these living quarters everything was upset. Beds were torn apart, the alarm clock was broken, some of the clothing was ruined and destroyed and the rest of it was thrown all over the place.

“Without benefit of clergy—and strictly unofficial”

The Saco Gestapo out in their car were well pleased. A better job could not have been done in Germany. Now they can go back to the “Reverend Father” O’Whatshisname and get his “blessing”, but if they think that what they started in Saco will stop there, they do not know Jehovah’s people and least of all do they know Jehovah himself.

The meeting which was held in Saco was held in honor of Jehovah's name. The Biddeford Daily Journal used as its scarehead the words "Saco Hall Wrecked in Protest Against Jehovah's Meeting". It was not a bad headline. It was just that. It was Jehovah's meeting. It is not ended yet.

One woman, a Christian woman of good will, fainted in the police-encouraged riot. How do you Americans like that? And, now that you have put almost all of your police officials under the direction of the pope of Rome, where do you think you and your children are going to get off, presently, when you try to exercise some of the rights for which your ancestors came to America?

America is in for it, and no mistake! There can be only one end, Armageddon, and thank God that in that holocaust every subject of the pope will perish. It is the only solution; it is Jehovah's solution. And if you want to be on the safe side you should get on Jehovah's side now. It is either His side or the side of the Devil—the pope's side. Take your choice.

A Slip at Newburyport

The pope slipped on something more substantial than a banana peel at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jehovah's witnesses held an orderly meeting on a recent Sunday morning. Then the Papal heat was turned on and the owners of the building called the police to eject Jehovah's witnesses from the building on the ground that there was "going to be a riot". Witnesses thereupon called the state police, who told them to stand by their rights and bring charges of assault against any persons, regardless of badges or uniforms, who laid hands on them. When the city police arrived the witnesses were having a Bible study, which is not yet illegal, even in Newburyport. Nobody but the "old Harlot" knows who thought there was "going to be a riot". The Newburyport police never squawked as to who sent them on their wild-goose chase; and now half of Massachusetts is laughing at them. The pope slipped. Mayor Gillis' own paper, The Liberator, took a double-column crack at the police of his own city; and as Gillis is himself a Roman Catholic, this discloses him as a man of more than usual moral courage.

Conspiracies Against Faithful Employees

Conspiracies against faithful employees who are Jehovah's witnesses seem to be recurring with ever increasing frequency, and the information in each case shows the religious animus at the bottom of it, as is always found to be the case where violence has been shown against the Kingdom message. This is all regular. It is a part of the training of priests to skillfully stir up a mob of hoodlums, and, after they have done their will, to then pose in the papers and before the courts as the ones who stilled the tempests which but for them would never have arisen.

In the mails the other day was the story of one of the witnesses in a malt extract establishment. He lost his job through malicious and false testimony against him by a group of Catholic employees. The shameless lies that they told are, of course, all forgiven in advance by their priest, or certainly afterward at the confessional. The remedy is in Armageddon, when all the conspirators will be destroyed together and for ever.

In today's mails is the story of another one of Jehovah's witnesses, a railroad man. A religious fellow employee tried to get this man fired after twenty years of faithful service. The morning of the hearing the witness visited several interested families; two of them invited him to call again. Then came two hours of grilling before four railroad officials, all Catholics, but all honest men. The accuser did not get to first base. He admitted he had called the witness a Communist, which charge was proved to be false. Every other charge he made was also disproved. The result was that the witness was told that he would be given a day's pay and no charges would be held against him. Since then, the man who made the charges has gotten into trouble himself, not once, but twice.

Conspiracies Against the Children

It is a conspiracy against children to insist that priests or others must teach them traditions of men which are entirely contrary to the truths of God's Word. In the Guild Teacher (New York) Abraham Lefkowitz says on this subject:

Recently, several church leaders have given a new impetus to the movement for the introduction of religion into the schools in direct violation of this cardinal American tradition. This has not been attempted by a frontal assault, because these intelligent persons realize the futility of such a campaign. Instead, the approach has been more indirect. Thus far, it has taken a seemingly harmless form such as the right to excuse children during school hours for religious instruction,—the segregation of children along religious lines and sending them under teachers of their faith to their respective religious institutions. That this movement cannot be lightly regarded is obvious by the recent action of the state of Maine.

The legislature of Maine enacted a law providing that the school committee of each town may authorize a survey of the religious affiliation of pupils attending the public schools and have the consent of guardian for moral instruction. Pupils may be excused one hour weekly to attend their respective places of worship to receive instruction according to their faith. More recently, the National Catholic Alumni Federation adopted a resolution to bring about the enactment of legislation to include religious education within the public schools to be given by qualified teachers of the child’s own religious faith and upon the request of the parents. Such legislation has already been introduced into our own state legislature.

The natives in Africa and other countries are to a considerable extent children. They are trustful of the whites until they learn that the whites are unreliable. The missionaries are as ready as others to tell lies. The London Universe (Roman Catholic) says, in effect, that it has a missionary contributor in Liberia who makes the charge that persons distributing the literature of Jehovah’s witnesses in that country are also distributing Russian Communistic literature. This is a 100-percent lie. Jehovah’s witnesses are forbidden to enter Russia. The lie of this missionary was told before the Roman Catholic Hitler opened his arms and Stalin fell into them. The latest information just at hand is that Stalin and Pacelli are dickering for a re-establishment of religion in Russia, which plainly shows the Pacelli-Hitler-Stalin conspiracy.

Also (and it is a mighty interesting thing), weeks before the Russians invaded Finland all the Roman Catholic nuns in that country were taken out of the land. Why was that? How did the pope know they would be safer somewhere else? And if they are so eager to do something worth while in the world, why did they not remain in Finland to act as nurses? There can be no adequate answer. It is evident that the pope was in on it and probably directly counseled the attack on Finland.

“No Surprise”

John J. Saunders, writing in the London Catholic Herald, states that the pact between Hitler and Stalin was no surprise to any reader of the Herald, which may well be believed.

He also described Italy, Spain and Portugal as the Latin Fascist bloc. There should be no surprise in that either. The Roman Catholic Church is the wet nurse of the entire totalitarian idea.

It is an old story that you must toot your horn if you want to sell any fish; and so it is reasonable, even though it is funny beyond words, that the pope has the nerve to refer to his “spiritual authority” and to tell the world by radio that when they listen to him they “hear through our voice the voice of that Christ”, etc., etc. He went on to say, “We are armed by nothing more than the word of truth,” and, “We speak in the name of God.” No bigger lies were ever told on earth. The Papacy is the child of the Devil and speaks in his name only.

A dispatch from Rome that “Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, papal nuncio to Berlin, called at the chancellery at noon and was received immediately by Adolf Hitler” shows several things quite plainly, the outstanding ones being the good understanding between Hitler and the Vatican, the reverence of Hitler for the Vatican, and Hitler’s anxiety to find some way to use the pope so that Germany can work out a peace that will enable her to keep what she has so far obtained until she is ready to strike again, in her aim at world conquest.

A dispatch from Rome, published in the New York Herald Tribune, states that while the usual income of the Vatican is at least $50,000,000 a year, yet during war time this may fall to as low as $30,000,000. The dispatch makes the very truthful observation that Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna “was the first to welcome the Nazis when they took over Austria”. The United States is the Vatican’s chief contributor.

Acting under guidance of its Rome-controlled State Department, the United States performed one of the worst series of acts in its career in the way it treated the Spanish Republic. Nothing was done for the Republic, but Franco the Butcher was financed to the extent of $14,000,000 worth of cotton which will be used to compete with American textiles on the world market. The loan will never be repaid.

One of the first acts of the “government” of the Butcher was to provide for the annual appropriation of $6,200,000 a year for the support of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy which placed him in the saddle and them back in power as his overlords.

Claims of the Hierarchy

1. Under the pretense that he is God's vicar on earth, the pope claims that every soul on earth is a subject of the church, regardless of whether they are members of it or not.

2. When any question arises in which the pope and the civil government cannot reach an agreement, or in which there is a question as to which authority shall have jurisdiction, the decision of the pope shall be final. The head of every government shall be bound by the superior authority of the pope, but the pope is not bound by any authority on earth. True, the church contends that its decisions are infallible only in matters pertaining to "faith and morals", but the word "morals" can be so interpreted as to include practically anything. Cardinal Manning said: "Politics are a part of morals. What the moral law of the Ten Commandments is to the individual, politics are to society. Politics are nothing more than the morals of society, the collective morality of Christian men united together under social law—politics are morals on the widest scale."

3. The pope claims the right to use force, if necessary, to punish or exterminate non-believers or to force them into the church. Each government shall recognize this right and it is their duty to assist the church in enforcing this dogma.

4. Regarding dissenters or non-Catholics: they need not be treated with justice and humanity, nor accorded the elemental rights of human society. The pope claims that non-Catholics live in error and error has not the same right as truth; that inasmuch as their very existence is an offense to God, they are not entitled to the right of free speech and freedom of worship which the church demands for its subjects. Therefore the existence of any individual, or sect, or the dissemination of any fact or opinion which does not agree with Catholic doctrines shall be suppressed.

It is utterly impossible to believe these doctrines and at the same time believe in tolerance, free speech, and free press and religious freedom. To any one who believes in this medieval conception of human rights, democracy just does not make sense. Yet, every member of the Catholic church knowingly or unknowingly gives assent to these and other doctrines of similar un-American content, such as those concerning civil and mixed marriages, divorce, separation of church and state, the right of the electorate to choose how and by whom they shall be governed, etc.

In Question and Answer form, these doctrines are printed in the text books used in Catholic schools and instilled into the minds of Catholic youths; yet Churchmen constantly plead that government should be used to support the schools where these un-American Catholic doctrines are disseminated.

Very little attention has been given to the fact that the Roman Catholic organization is a dictatorship, identical in spirit and form with the modern Fascist dictatorships, for which it has served as the prototype.—The Truth Seeker.

The President's Objective

What can be the president's objective in appointing a personal ambassador to the Vatican, making that ambassador out of a former head of the steel trust, and dragging the spokesmen of the Protestants and Jews into the scheme? It is not to make peace. The attitude of the British speaks plainly enough on that. Quite possibly the pope knows that Adolf is licked and wants to help him find a way out; but a much more likely thing is that Jim Farley and Roosevelt want the combined influence of Big Church, Big Business and Big Politics to say that it is quite all right for America to take orders hereafter from the pope, which means, in essence and in fact, the stopping of the proclamation of the message of God's kingdom, if that can be accomplished.

As to the Protestants, it is inevitable that their bishops should be blind. The very fact that they are religious bishops makes them that way. So none should wonder that, when the "Right Reverend" Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, New York city, said in a sermon that future ages would look back to the twentieth century as one of the dark ages in the history of mankind, he followed that truthful statement with the proposition that "we must endeavor to establish a Kingdom of God on this earth" and thus "co-operate with Jesus Christ in bringing a kingdom of righteousness and justice to this sorely beset world". If the politicians, the preachers and the plutocrats have progressed no farther in some 6,000 years than to make the world the bedlam that it is today, when would the same crowd produce on earth a condition where God's will would be done as it is done in heaven? The answer is, Never; and religion, the Devil's substitute for The Theocracy, must go into oblivion, where it belongs.

Myron C. Taylor, former chairman of the United States Steel Trust, selected by Roosevelt as his personal ambassador to the pope, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and became the head of the steel trust by reason of that fact. Like Roosevelt, he is a professed Episcopalian and, according to Roman Catholic theology, could be put to death as a heretic for believing the same things Roosevelt is supposed to believe. But nobody need suppose that Taylor will be in any danger at the Vatican. He lives much of the year in Italy and is well acquainted with Pacelli and other higher-ups in and out of Vatican City. Besides that, he is said to be extremely religious.

Jehovah's people have been taught by the Lord, through The Watchtower (1938), that the conspiracy (2 Chronicles chapter 20) between the Moabites, Ammonites and the inhabitants of Mount Seir against the land of Judah pictured beforehand the conspiracy of the deeply religious Big Business crowd, the group of hypocritical politicians and the group of conscienceless religionists against The Theocracy. These all have as their objective their continued dominance of the world and the hindrance of the Kingdom message.

It must not be supposed that Roosevelt selected Taylor particularly because he is very religious, but because he is a shining representative of Big Business, and, for that matter, he is still a director of the United States Steel Corporation and an open and unblushing admirer of Mussolini and Fascism.

Big Business and Peace

◆ Big Business, especially the steel business, is not interested in peace; it is interested in the biggest business of all, which is mass murder. Petty hold-ups are impractical and unpopular. The money cost of the World War was sufficient to build a $2,500 house containing $1,000 worth of furniture, on five acres of land worth $100 an acre, for every family in the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Russia and Germany. The war slew ten million soldiers (one-fifth of all who went into it), and 28,000,000 civilians died of war-born starvation, disease and massacre. The munition makers made the most of the opportunity and are now secretly smacking their lips over the profits of the new war. All can remember Morgan's interest in the war of 1914-1918.

Some thirty-odd years ago J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., patron saint of the Steel Trust, pumped the New Haven Railroad so full of water that it oozed out at every joint. The New Haven bought steamboat lines, trolleys, hotels and other things at fancy prices, and just as they had arrived at the place where they no longer yielded a profit. Since then the stock of the road has been waterlogged and now the Interstate Commerce Commission advises that the best thing to do is to wipe out all the preferred and common stocks, because the corporation cannot pay anything on them.

During the World War there was a big difference in the price of cannon fodder. Uncle Sam paid the highest price. His soldiers received wages almost three times that paid the British soldier, ten times that of the German, twenty times that of the French, and twenty-five times that of the Italian. But, even then, his soldiers were expected to lay down their lives to make the world safe for democracy for only $1 a day.

A review of 3,421 years of human history shows that in that time there have been 268 years of peace. All the remaining years were years of war in which some 8,000 peace treaties were broken to smithereens.

A front-line veteran who was in every battle from Chateau Thierry to the Argonne says that he saw men with their stomachs torn open by shrapnel and with their bloody and muddy hands trying to gather their entrails out of the mud and stuff them back in place again, mud and all. He sees the same old propaganda now under way as he swallowed, hook, line and sinker, in 1917.

The British understand clearly that the United States Neutrality Act had as its objective the helping of the Allies to win the war against Hitler without coming into the open and saying so. The Germans understand the same thing. United States Senator Wm. E. Borah made the statement:

The Bill is, in fact, legislation providing in effect for intervention in a great European struggle for power, in the hope by some, and the belief of others, but not all, that we will be able to take part in this struggle under such terms and conditions as will enable us to escape the more serious sacrifices of war.—In the Manchester Guardian.

When the armistice came of age, 21 years after it was declared, the thing to celebrate was not that the world had been made safe for democracy, but that it was spending six times as much for armaments as in 1913, and was well into the second world war. Moreover, instead of "open covenants openly arrived at" the world witnessed an era of shameless double-crossing unequaled in history. None of the objectives of the first world war were attained; every solemn promise to the people was broken, as was, of course, to be expected. This generation seems to think loyalty to any trust whatever is a weakness.

Railroads and Shipping

Railroad Statistics

◆ Class I railroads have about 1,767,000 freight cars, 44,700 locomotives, and 40,000 passenger cars.

Large numbers of roses and other cut flowers are shipped from Pacific Coast to Atlantic Coast cities in refrigerator cars attached to fast passenger trains.

About fifteen million tons of ice—enough to make six hundred million 50-pound blocks—are used each year by the railroads to keep freight and passengers cool.

Cooled cars for the transportation of perishables were first used in 1857, when one railroad insulated some of its boxcars and, after loading, placed ice in the doorways.

Freight to New York City

◆ In the year 1931 the railroads brought 1,000,000 cars of fruit and vegetables into New York city, but six years later the number was reduced to 800,000. In the six years there was actually a large increase in the New York consumption of fruits and vegetables. These figures give some idea of the way in which the trucks are cutting into the business of the railroads. An odd feature, however, is that many of the railroads are cutting into their own business and buying truck lines which carry their freight all the way by truck instead of part way by rail.

Big Advertisement for Railroads

◆ A big advertisement for the railroads is H. L. Ferris, of Arkansas City, Kansas, who for the past 46 years (and he is now in his 90th year) has declined to sleep otherwise than in a chair because he had such a comfortable night in one on a western railroad a lifetime ago. Well, the railroads of the West do have some very comfortable reclining-chair seats, and no mistake, but most Americans will continue to long for the mattresses and springs and sheets and things sometime around the midnight hour.

Welded Rails in Britain

◆ Welded streetcar rails are in use in many parts of the United States. Now reports from Britain are that the London and North Eastern Railway has an unbroken track 1,260 feet long and that the experiment is a success in smoother travel and reduction of noise. All British rails are carried in cradles which may assist in making practicable in Britain what is not considered practical here.

Fun to Sail Around the World

◆ Mrs. Marion Rice Hart, not familiar with navigation, but a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conceived the notion that it would be fun to sail around the world in her own ship. So she bought a 73-foot ketch in England and made a start. By the time she had arrived at the Suez Canal she had discharged four skippers and decided to navigate the boat the rest of the way herself. In another two years she visited Australia and New Zealand and recently rounded Cape Horn, after more than 5,000 miles across the open ocean. Some skipper!

Out of New York Bay

◆ Out of New York bay, but attached to Bayonne, New Jersey, has arisen a new land of 160 acres, dug from the bottom of the bay itself. This new area is surrounded by a retaining structure forty-two feet thick. The inner edge is wooden sheeting. The outer edge is of concrete, and the interior of riprap. A channel 650 feet wide surrounds the new piers, providing 35-foot draft at low water. Fifty of the 160 acres are expected to provide transit facilities for 2,500,000 tons of freight annually, and 110 acres will be available for industrial sites.

Dodging the U-Boats

◆ Dodging the U-boats, shipments to Britain and France, from the Orient, New Zealand and Australia, no longer go by the Panama Canal but are sent to Vancouver, where they go by rail across Canada to Atlantic ports and are reshipped. To handle this business $30,000,000 of new equipment is being provided for the railroad.

Can Still Learn from Ancients

◆ Eighty years ago the British Admiralty conceived a new form of anchor and had it patented, and in 1939, in the island of Sardinia, an old Roman galley was found equipped with an iron anchor having the same features as those in use today. The movable transverse piece was in use 1,800 years ago, was forgotten, and then was rediscovered.

Saving Time Around the House

PUT silverware in a glass container and put the lid on tight and you will never have to clean or polish your silverware. If silver not in use is wrapped in waxed paper it will be free from tarnish and ready for use at any time. Moist table salt will remove egg tarnish from silverware.

When packing china for mailing or moving, have plenty of excelsior on hand. Each article should be wrapped in moist excelsior a few days before it is shipped or stored, so that when the straw dries it will have assumed the shape of the wrapped article, thus forming a protective framework.

One of the strongest cements and the easiest to apply for mending crockery is lime and the white of an egg. To use it, take a sufficient quantity of the egg to mend one article at a time. Shave off a quantity of lime and mix thoroughly. Apply quickly to the edges and place firmly together, when it will soon become set and strong. Mix but a small quantity at a time, as it hardens very soon so that it cannot be used.

When china cups are tea-stained, rub them with a cloth dipped in vinegar-moistened salt to remove the stain.

When purchasing inexpensive flower containers one may find them to be quite porous, permitting water to seep through and mark furniture. To prevent this pour melted paraffin into the vase to the depth of an inch, which does away with this trouble. The vase may be washed, avoiding very hot water.

Furniture of simple construction is easier to keep clean than that with fancy carvings and scrolls, and looks better by far.

To remedy furniture drawers which stick, sandpaper and wax their edges. When casters on furniture keep dropping out, pour a little paraffin into the hole, insert the caster and let the wax harden.

A little vinegar will soften dried glue.

If your polished table gets a white mark on it, due to heated plates, etc., rub with camphorated oil. This will remove the mark. To remove finger marks from furniture, use a piece of chamois wrung out in cold water and polish with dry chamois.

Furniture polish not only bestows a luster upon furniture but preserves and “feeds” it, prolonging its life. This is true only of an oil polish of good quality. Every application is beneficial to both woodwork and furniture. The use of an oiled cloth when dusting makes frequent polishing less urgent.

To keep mice away, scatter small pieces of camphor in your cupboards and drawers. They will go far away from the smell of camphor.

Legs of tables and chests soon dig into the kitchen linoleum and leave permanent marks. To prevent this, get from your neighborhood shoe repair man a strip of composition such as he uses to renew worn-down heels. Cut neat “heels” for your furniture and tack them on with headless nails that will sink down inside, and there will be no more scarred floors. Heavy felt will do as well as the composition material, except for very heavy furniture.

Dust is most successfully removed from reed furniture when a hose is used. Set the furniture on the lawn when the sun is shining and play the hose on it.

To wash oil paintings, make a suds of pure white soap. Have water lukewarm. Apply to small surface of picture at a time and dry immediately.

A couple of well-hung mirrors can do wonders to the small living room. Hang the mirrors where they add to the size as well as the attractiveness of the room.

A drop of perfume on an electric light bulb will scent the whole room. Perfume, however, is no substitute for fresh air.

Sundry Suggestions

To test silk, burn a small sample. If it curls up into a black charred ball, it contains practically no weighting, rayon or cotton adulteration.

To take the shine from serge goods, rub it with hot vinegar and then sponge with ammonia.

Wet umbrellas should always be turned upside down to dry, never left open, as this stretches them at the ribs and prevents their being tightly rolled afterwards. When not in use they should be kept unrolled.

Coal oil will soften hardened shoes made so by the rain.

A thin coat of shellac or colorless varnish will add life to straw matting, at the same time giving it a pleasing gloss.

Fresno News

◆ October 28, 1939, information march advertising “Government and Peace” at the Courthouse park the following day. Some 200 listened to the lecture. Sixty booklets and a number of Salvation books placed with audience. Some 75 witnesses participated in the march in the afternoon, and 60 in the evening. No opposition. One storekeeper seeing three people going back and forth was somewhat disturbed, and remarked, “They are taking the whole block,” although the three men were of ordinary size. One gentleman walked along a little with a witness and said, “I am with you folks! I mean I am with Jehovah Christ, and Judge Rutherford.” Some could not tell whether this was for religion or against it.

October, Visalia, California. Some 100 were in the march. The police said there was “an ordinance against it”; when the crowd marched they “couldn’t do anything—too many of them”. Following a march there, while we were witnessing, a woman spoke to one of the witnesses: “Do you know those who marched here? Are you one of them?” The witness replied, “I was one of them.” Then she said, “Do you know that you people are stirring up the people? The preachers here are fighting among themselves, and one of them has left town.” This woman took literature and is interested. A pioneer plays a German record, “Enemies.” The woman then remarks, “Is dat Hitler?” Before getting a reply, she says, “I want that book.”

Hanford, California. A march took place advertising meeting at the park. It was reported that a priest was at the lecture, “Government and Peace,” but left when he had heard all the records except the last two. Too bad! Too bad! Fresno witness reported that at a back-call the lady, feeling her responsibility, ordered ten Salvation books. They are going like bananas—by the bunch.

What causes a sigh? The Bible tells of some people who ‘sigh and cry because of the abominations’ in the land, and some who ‘sigh and groan’ under great trial. (Ezekiel 9: 4; Psalm 102: 19, 20) There is another class that sigh because of the truth being told. At a funeral held in California, when the one in charge announced that for ten minutes Judge Rutherford would be heard on “Dead” and “Resurrection”, a deep sigh went out of a woman who was present and such sighs continued throughout Judge Rutherford’s talk when the “clergy” were mentioned. It seems strange that the mention of the name “Judge Rutherford” almost kills some people.

“Ham and Eggs.” For months California has had one of the biggest campaigns for and against the “thirty dollars a week” retirement plan. Thousands of poor people and old people sent in their thirty cents per month to headquarters and leaders of the movement. Discussions could be heard everywhere, in meetings, in the parks, on buses, and elsewhere—“Thirty Dollars a Week”—the biggest thing that ever happened, and when it passes here it will spread all over.” Wholesalers poured forth their views to businessmen, warning them that under no circumstance would they ever accept “warrants” for merchandise. Banks fought in their way, accusing the movement as being “Communistic” and leading to “dictatorship”, and pictures illustrating such views on billboards everywhere. Ham & Eggers were organized and had districts with their captains. Many people who have read Judge Rutherford, not appreciating the situation fully, were strongly for “Ham & Eggs”. Over the radio fine arguments were presented to show how this movement could kick out the banks, etc., etc. Letters from Canadian Government purporting to show how prosperous they are there with warrants or similar things were spread everywhere. The other side had their letters from Canada showing there had been a failure. At the meetings here it was told by “Ham & Eggers” that the audience would be asked first of all to salute the flag. It amounted to a religious frenzy and to a belief that “this is beginning of God’s kingdom”. Ham & Eggers were absolutely certain this time they would win. Well, yesterday was November 7, and this morning papers report in big headlines, “Ham & Eggs Defeated 2 to 1.” They say the fight is not ended; and evidently it is not. But a great disappointment! Some who claim to be of the truth, and pretty good people, too, and who are associated with the work, more or less, were urg ing others to register and vote, and possibly these who did the urging voted. It seems such should see that the jw’s are “neutral” as to ham and eggs, even as we are about other worldly schemes. We hear some say that Governor Olsen talked favorably before about it, and “got in” or that, but now is unfavorable toward the scheme. Governor Olsen has done some good things, but, of course, it is hard to be a public man and please everybody.

Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers just before baptism in the Susquehanna river, near Pittston, Pennsylvania

Because many of these readers of our books were “Ham & Eggers” the witnesses here have had considerable difficulty in interesting “interested” people to come to our meetings, and since it has flopped for the present, these people may have greater interest in the Kingdom. These “Ham & Eggers” are not all poor people, nor jobless either. But they are for it because they think they are doing great good for the aged. Witnessing to some they say, “When ham and eggs fails, then I’ll read Judge Rutherford.” A year ago, while in Oakland giving out circulars on “Face the Facts”, an old gentleman took a circular and, looking at Judge Rutherford’s picture, remarked with considerable emphasis, “If that man is not for Thirty a Week, he’ll never get in!” Only the Kingdom will thoroughly solve the “old age” problem, because the obedient will remain young and have plenty and need never retire.

Religion. An undertaker reported to the writer that at a certain Catholic funeral the “solemn high mass cost $60”, and was paid. It takes three priests one full hour to perform “solemn high mass”. The poor cannot all get for their hard work even 20c an hour, but these priests earned $20 apiece per hour without giving real consideration therefor. It is a great racket and there are some people who “love to have it so”. If these people had obtained the little booklet Uncovered for only 2c, and believed the Bible as therein quoted, they would have saved $59.98.—D. Davidian.

A Victory for Common Sense

◆ The St. Louis Post Dispatch, referring to the victory of Jehovah’s witnesses in the flag-salute cases, said: “It is a victory for common sense over hysteria. It reasserts the common decency that calls for respect for another man’s conviction—a man who may be doing more than any of us to build a better nation even if he believes that he should make obedience only to the Deity.” "And Other Sheep I Have"

◆ Witness (with Bible and WATCHTOWER Bible helps, knocks on door; smilingly addresses man who opens door): Good morning. I have brought you a message of warning and of comfort [Ezekiel 33:7; Isaiah 61:1-3] that the new King is so graciously extending to His loyal subjects, that the willing-hearted may now learn of Him and find refuge in His name. [Isaiah 9:6, 7; Psalm 22:28; Isaiah 2:3; Zephaniah 2:1-3; Proverbs 18:10] (Witness sets up phonograph as he talks. Sheep and family listen attentively to lecture)

Sheep: I want to ask some questions about this new government you are talking about. My wife and I have been seeking a place to bring up our children, and we have not yet found what we want. The clergymen have told us quite a lot about places called Heaven and Hell. We know we don't want to locate in Hell, and, to tell the truth, Heaven doesn't exactly seem to suit our needs—we being just plain earthly sort of folks—but this city you've been speaking of sounds more like it might be the place we're looking for. What is the name of this city?

Witness: It's name is Jerusalem, a city of truth. [Zech. 8:3]

Sheep: Where is it located?

Witness: It is very beautifully situated alongside Mount Zion—so lovely that it is the joy of the whole earth, indeed! [Psalm 48:2]

Sheep: What form of government does it have?

Witness: A pure Theocracy. [Psalm 2:6; Psalm 47; Daniel 2:44; Revelation 11:17]

Sheep: Since we are used to a democratic form of government, would it be hard for us to live under such a new form?

Witness: Oh, no. The people rejoice when the righteous are in authority. [Proverbs 29:2]

All in one family at San Antonio—it's catching

Signs of the times (10 feet by 18 feet) near San Antonio, Texas

RELIGION IS A SNARE AND A RACKET

CHRISTIANITY IS THE WAY OF SALVATION

LEARN OF JEHOVAH'S THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT WITH CHRIST AS KING AND LIVE

ISAIAH 9:6, 7

DEUTERONOMY 7:6-16

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES - Kingdom Hall

144 DEVINE St., San Antonio, Tex.

Sheep: What are the requirements for citizenship?

Witness: Each citizen is required to have clean hands, pure heart, and humble mien. [Psalm 24:4; Micah 6:8]

Sheep: Is it a healthful place?

Witness: Indeed, yes. The Sun of righteousness shines upon the inhabitants with healing in His wings! [Isaiah 58:8; Jeremiah 30:17; Malachi 4:2]

Sheep: Do the people get along well with one another?

Witness: They surely do. You see they have but one way of doing and seeing things, and all are very willing, dwelling together in pleasant unity. [Jeremiah 32:39; Psalms 110:3; 133:1]

Sheep: Do we have to join anything to enter this city?

Witness: No. The Lord bids you seek Him and He will do the rest. [James 4:8; Amos 4:5; Zephaniah 2:3; Matthew 6:33]

Sheep: What does it cost to be admitted?

Witness: Admission to this beautiful city is entirely free to all loyal subjects of the Everlasting King. [Jeremiah 31:6-12; Isaiah 55:1]

Sheep: Then we will go with you—I and my house! [Zechariah 8:23; Joshua 24:15] - Contributed by Pat Casey Green, Texas. (Don't you dare try to guess my church!) “Justice” in Hubbard, Ohio

◆ Hubbard, Ohio, is in a bad way. Christian people cannot peaceably walk on the streets of that burg in an information march without going to jail for it. There was such a march on a day last summer. Tillie Williamson, Margaret Atsberger, Grace Eagin and Arthur G. Saylow testified that they saw certain people going down one side of the street and up the other, peaceably, without guns, without knives, without blackjacks, without clubs, without shillelahs, without shouting, without singing, without drums, without cymbals, without tambourines, without rocks, without bricks, without peculiar dress, without vile or profane language, without speech-making.

The witnesses could all remember well that the marchers had borne slogans reading, “Religion is a snare and a racket,” but seemed to have to have it drawn to their attention that they also bore the exhortation “Serve God and Christ the King”.

Counsel made it clear to the court that the ordinance is illegal. Under it the crowd emerging from a theater could be arrested for not having a parade permit; the same for children emerging from school; the same for persons emerging from churches or Sunday schools; the same for funerals; the same for vehicles of the fire department; the same for the Grand Army; the same for the Kiwanis, the Rotary, and the Boy Scouts; but all in vain. The bonehead on the bench fined McLenne $25 and costs or a sentence in jail, and McLenne was in the same situation as Christ before Pilate.

Of course, the real Judas in the case kept out of sight, but Tillie Williamson, Margaret Atsberger, Grace Eagin and Arthur G. Saylow and the police and magistrate of Hubbard, Ohio, probably know perfectly well who it is. Judas finally died with a peculiar collar around his neck. In the end it choked off his wind. The Judas in Hubbard, no doubt, has a peculiar collar, too.

At Convention time, 1939, Denver took solid comfort in the year text

Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers at Clinton, N. J.

Kingdom Joys in Alabama

◆ The car had broken down, and another one was loaned to the publisher to get to an adjoining town to wait for a car part to come from a larger city by bus. The time waiting for the part to come was spent in making back-calls in the town, and playing the “Government and Peace” lecture. At one place where a publisher had previously received an invitation to come back, the interested one listened to the lecture with the keenest interest, and at the conclusion, when Judge Rutherford called for all of those who are in favor of God’s kingdom to say “Aye”, the person of good will shouted out “Aye” and tears of joy filled her eyes. She readily took the book Salvation and the Government and Peace booklet, and asked that arrangements be made for her to be baptized. This was done, and on my turning to leave she said, “Don’t leave until you have left me some of the books and booklets so that I can go in the service around my home. Even though I am crippled, walking on crutches since I was three years old, I can go two or three miles.”

Truly this is the Lord’s doing and is marvelous in our eyes.—Zone 3, Region 2.

(To be continued) ---

FINAL SUNDAY NEWS

Copr. 1940 by News Syndicate Co. Inc. NEW YORK'S PICTURE NEWSPAPER Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. 5 CENTS PAY NO MORE

Vol. 19. No. 49. New York, Sunday, March 17, 1940 88 Main + 62 Brooklyn + 20 Comic - 20 Coloroto Pages

The circulation of the New York SUNDAY NEWS is said to be about 3,500,000 copies. So this is not a bad advertisement of the children's witnessing in the public schools, on the flag-salute issue. The U. S. Supreme Court will hear this cause about last week in April.

Baby Pacifists a School Problem

Homework Their Schoolwork

Ignace Opiekunski, Massachusetts dairy farmer, helps his children, Dominick, 14; Olga, 12, and Anna, 9, with studies after their dismissal from school for refusing to salute flag.

By MARTHA MARTIN

FOR nearly a decade the problem of how to handle baby pacifists—school children who refuse to salute the United States flag—because their faith and their parents forbid it—has been bothering educational authorities.

Now a decision by the Third United States Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding this right to refuse to salute, has them more confused than ever. It would seem that the federal decision would restore to the public schools all of those children who have been expelled from their classrooms for refusing to salute the flag. But it doesn't. For in spite of the decision, Vivian Hering, 11, has recently been refused a seat in the Secaucus, N. J., public school from which she was dismissed seven years ago.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hering, are continuing the fight.

Most of the flag salute opposition comes from members of Jehovah's Witnesses, a militant pacifist sect which is forbidden by its doctrine "to worship any image, emblem, person or things except God Himself." Each member believes that it is a sin "to salute, worship or do obeisance to any image, emblem, person or thing save Almighty God."

The federal decision made in Philadelphia is the first important one upholding their beliefs. It rests on the cases of Lillian and William Gobitis, 15 and 14 respectively, who four years ago were expelled from the Minersville, Pa., school. A District Court ruled that the school board was wrong. In June, 1939, this decision was upheld by Federal Judge Albert B. Maris. Now he has been upheld by the Federal Court of Appeals in a decision written by Judge William Clark. Judges John Biggs Jr. and Harry E. Kalodner concurred. Judge Clark wrote: "The conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness. Tolerance is manifestly something higher than the law."

Highest courts of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Georgia, however, in the past, decided as did Judge Clark. The Supreme Court has consistently refused to pass on the flag-salute cases on the ground that no substantial federal question is involved.

No state school boards have been more adamant than New Jersey's that the baby pacifists and their parents shall be punished for their determination not to salute Old Glory. The Hering child is only one of a dozen or more who have been kept from classes by refusal to salute.

Alma and Vivian, children of Mr. and Mrs. John Hering, were expelled in 1933 when a teacher discovered that Vivian, then 4, was reciting the fifth verse of the 20th Psalm to herself while her classmates were saluting the flag. She said her parents told her to do so. (The fifth verse of the 20th Psalm reads: "We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfill all thy petitions.")

After their dismissal, the Hering children were sent to a teacher member of their sect. But in January, 1936, their father was fined $10 for denying his daughters the right to education. It was held that their private tutoring was not enough.

Alma has become the bride of Henry Vogel, but Vivian is still a schoolgirl—or would be if her parents could enter her in a Secaucus school regardless of their religion.

Other "victims" of their religious beliefs are Daniel Morgan, of Fort Lee, N. J., and his three sons, Robert, 13, Adrian, 17, and Roger, 14.

Robert and Adrian were dismissed from the Fort Lee High School last Spring, although Robert lacked only thirty days more schooling to get his diploma.

When their father—a former United States wireless gun battery sergeant who was wounded and gassed in the World War—upheld them, he lost his position as a state motor vehicle inspector! Recently, Roger, his third son, was expelled from the same school.

Morgan isn't the first parent to lose his job in upholding his faith and his children.

George Leoles, a naturalized Greek of Atlanta, Ga., was forced to sell his hat-cleaning shop which was picketed by members of the Ku Klux Klan after his daughter, Dorothy, 12, a sixth-grade student, refused to salute the flag.

George spent more than $500 of his own money fighting Dorothy's case before the Atlanta Board of Education, the Superior Court, and the Georgia Supreme Court, but was to no avail. "To salute the flag is no more an act of worship than to salute a friend. To pay taxes to the Government is not to pay tribute in religious worship to the Government," declared Judge John D. Humphries sustaining the Board of Education.

Leoles is now engaged on a commission basis in soliciting dry cleaning and other work for Atlanta laundries. Dorothy and fifteen others attend a "Kingdom School" which was founded by her sect after her dismissal. There is no tuition. It is supported by contributions from members.

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