Consolation, January 7, 1942
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Contents
Where the Vatican Rules (Part 2) 3
The Nazi Brand of Papal Rule 4
Draftees Retained Indefinitely 7
Nazism Flourishes in Moose Jaw 7
The Little Pope's Shop in Canada 8
The New Government
From a Lawyer to a Lawyer 12
The French Consolation 16
The Prime Cause of Infidelity 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Holy Spirit 17
Invention 19
Italy -- Mussolini a Well-hated Man 20
Japan Faces Her Folly 21
Labor -- Pegler and the Unions 22
Mexico, Bahamas, Greenland, Iceland 23
Michigan -- Undermining Public Schools 24
Motoring -- Deer as a Menace to Autos 25
By Motor to Buenos Aires 25
U. S. Occupation of Dutch Guiana 26
The Flag Salute Case in Retrospect 27
British Comment
Contrary Teachings on Image Worship 29
Instinctive and Reasoning Powers of Birds 30
Birds and Animals Under Fire 29
All-Night Schools 18
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◆ As a frog or a turtle can smell water in the distance and make a more or less straight path to it, so a priest can smell money wherever it is to be found, and the itch that he has to get it is worse than that caused by poison ivy. Now word comes from the mother of the Dionne quintuplets that she is hoping that "they may all develop vocations for the religious life". Why, sure! And when they develop those vocations the priests will get it all. And it now runs into the millions.
Grandma Carroll Is 114
◆ Grandma Carroll, of North River, Newfoundland, has lived under seven British sovereigns and twenty-eight American presidents. She remembers the coronation of Queen Victoria and the death of Napoleon on St. Helena. Her oldest boy is 92, and her youngest daughter, with whom she lives, is 68. She has 109 grandchildren, 148 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren. She is quite well, thank you, and able to walk about unaided.
Defilement of Blood
◆ Defilement of blood, artificially induced, continues to make business for the undertakers in Canada. Toronto lost an insurance executive two days after receiving an injection of inorganic equivalent for Vitamin B; while at Wiarton an eight-year-old died in less than three-quarters of an hour after an injection of anti-tetanus serum given to him as a precaution following the dressing of a slight wound in his forehead.
No Flesh Would Be Saved
◆ If every bullet made in Canada in two years of wartime found its way into a human heart, not a soul would be left alive on the planet.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXIII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 7, 1942 Number 582
Where the Vatican Rules
(In Two Parts—Part 2)
IN Canada it is now a crime even to possess publications of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. The law enforcement officers have been transformed into agents of the Inquisition, and no more may men lay their heads upon their pillows with free conscience, but are now fretted by anxiety as to when the marauders of the pope will invade their homes and tear them apart in an eager-nostriled search after "heresy". Meanwhile Canada is ostensibly engaged in a war to destroy the foes of freedom.
Trials of Jehovah's witnesses are reported all over Canada; but those who serve the Lord are not dismayed. They know that He is faithful who promised, and that in due time He will avenge the injustices and abuse heaped upon them.—Luke 18:7, 8.
Meanwhile the destruction of rights goes on at a terrific pace. Houses are rifled to find a book or literature proscribed by the pope, among which is the Bible. The chief Protestant preacher of Toronto, Mr. T. T. Shields, unfriendly critic of Jehovah's witnesses, has been barred from radio and threatened on account of his protest against Catholic abuses. Just how bold are the agents of the Hierarchy is revealed by the following news dispatch:
"OTTAWA FINDS ILLEGAL MOTIVE. Reason Use of Mails Banned to Bible House. Mulock Explains. Ottawa, Oct. 2 (CP).—Use of the mails has been forbidden the North Toronto Bible House following Justice Department [Lapointe] opinion that literature sent out by it was published for an illegal purpose, Postmaster-General Mulock announced today.
Colonel Mulock said he answered by telegram today a protest on this ruling received from Rev. E. J. Taylor, proprietor of the Bible House.
Mr. Taylor was informed that if he gave written assurance he would discontinue use of the mails for distribution of pamphlets held to be published for an illegal purpose, full mailing privileges would be restored, Colonel Mulock said.
Colonel Mulock said the postoffice inspection department directed attention to complaints received about the use of the mails for distribution of 'certain literature' bearing the names and addresses of 'The North Toronto Bible House, 2721 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,' and 'The Protestant Book House, Station B, Box 125, Toledo, Ohio, U. S. A.'
"In view of the nature of the pamphlets, the officials of the department reached the decision that the Department of Justice [Lapointe] should be consulted," Colonel Mulock said.
(It was learned in Toronto that the pamphlets denied the use of the mails were denunciatory of the Roman Catholic Church. It was pointed out this was considered an illegal purpose within the meaning of Regulation 205 of the Canada Official Guide. "All the pamphlets denounce the Roman Catholic Church," The Globe and Mail was informed.) [The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Friday, October 3, 1941]
Canada law thus makes criticism of the Roman Catholic Church illegal. This differs from the medieval courts of heresy only in the degree of punishment. Then the victim who advocated "pestilential error" was tortured and burned to death. But Canada may come to that too. Jehovah’s witnesses have been shot and killed in Quebec, and thousands of books burned by public order. Lapointe* stands ready to go any lengths to please his masters in Quebec. Our Northern Neighbor it is well for those to ponder who want the pope to rule.
The Nazi Brand of Papal Rule
Out of Germany comes propaganda. Deception and murder is lauded and criminals made national heroes. Since all the bishops of Germany commend the Nazi methods to the skies, and Hitler is the ally of the pope, the conditions there must be taken as pleasing to the pontiff. The howl about Catholic persecution is intended for American consumption only. Also note these words by a friend of the Papacy: “The [Catholic] church has not condemned Nazism as an anti-religious movement.” (Herbert L. Matthews, New York Times correspondent, admirer of the Vatican, dispatch of September 20, 1941, Buffalo Evening News)
Some of the deeds of the Nazi section of the “abomination that maketh desolate” are exposed by Clara Leiser and Edith Roper’s Nazi-judiciary mockery entitled “Skeleton of Justice”. The New York Law Journal of October 17, 1941, reviews this book at great length, and from this review excerpts are quoted below.
This book must be placed in the top listings of exposés about Germany. It is unique in that it is an exposé not of men, politics, or the army, but of the judiciary. The fiber of a nation’s structure is so interwoven that this revelation about the judicial processes gives clarity and roundness to all the other interpretations. It explains the phenomenon whose impact has been as stunning as it has been unbelievable.
One can only hope in the words of Pascal that “Justice and power will be brought together so that whatever is just will be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
—LOUIS NIZER.
* Died November 26, 1941.
Clara Leiser will be remembered as writing many sympathetic articles about Jehovah’s witnesses in the Manchester Guardian and elsewhere. Just how such a factual account was ever permitted to leave Germany is revealed by the reviewer:
SKELETON OF JUSTICE, by Edith Roper and Clara Leiser; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., N. Y.; pp. 346. $3.
One of the authors of this book, Edith Roper, was the only court correspondent of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the only Berlin court correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung from 1936 to 1939.
Under the pretext of writing a book to reveal the progress of German jurisprudence, she obtained leave of absence to Switzerland for six months. She removed from the country her notes and evidence, and escaped to France and then to America. From her personal observations and data come the first documented, authoritative report of the judicial system as it now operates in Nazi Germany.
It is unfortunate that this detailed account should not have been had earlier, for the perversion of domestic justice and the substitution of judicial anarchy were the inevitable precursors of Nazi international lawlessness. One is merely the extension of the other. If sooner published, perhaps this story might have registered on the barometer of foreign relations a still clearer warning of the fury of the approaching storm.
The lies of the Nazis are so brazen that they acquire credibility because we cannot conceive of such gross mendacity. Conversely, the truths about the Nazis are so bizarre that we require documentation lest they appear to be the inventions of prejudice. This book supplies reliable, concrete evidence for its every revelation.
The corruption of the judicial system in Germany is complete. The Secretary of State of the German Ministry of Justice is in command of all judicial functionaries. He drafts new laws and decrees, and directs the entire administration of justice. Hitler selected for this post Dr. Roland Freisler, who had been convicted several times before 1933 for general fraud, making false statements under oath, and aiding fraudulent bankruptcies. In 1928, after serving a prison sentence, the Chamber of Lawyers had expelled him. It is Dr. Freisler who boldly pronounces the doctrine that objective justice in any individual case is unimportant. Only the welfare and the security of the state matter. A judge who does not obey this supreme edict must be severely punished. Thus, the doctrine is promulgated of the "royal" judge who is unfettered by laws. His sole duty is to the state. The state's witnesses are frequently the Gestapo, and to disbelieve the Gestapo is to cast aspersion upon the state. A judge is in danger of his life should he fail to heed the government's accusation. Thousands of judges now languish in concentration camps.
A judge must not decide. Like a soldier, he must obey. The Ministry of Propaganda provides the instructions. Press releases are prepared in advance of the trial. The evidence does not matter. Certain impressions must be created for public consumption. This theory operates likewise to exclude reports of certain trials. No contest involving a National Socialist organization, or a member of the party, if membership is a factor in the case, embezzlement of party funds, or aspersions, upon party members, may be mentioned. The list of "offensive" trials is so long that very few trials are ever reported. Thus, Dr. Doerner, head of the Press Bureau in the Ministry of Justice, by exclusion and distorted inclusion, uses the courts as a mere adjunct of the propaganda machinery.
Note the "high" requirements for official Nazi appointment:
Chief of all German court physicians and expert witnesses, and at the same time head of the Institute for Medical Jurisprudence, is Dr. Mueller Hess. Before 1933 Dr. Hess was dismissed by the University of Bonn as unfit. By the inverted standards of Hitlerism this qualified him for one of the most important positions in German jurisprudence. Dr. Hess and his chosen associates find defendants sane or insane in accordance with the desire of the Gestapo and Ministry of Propaganda. Consequently, any defendant is at the mercy of the state; formal testimony is supplied by its agents irrespective of truth.
“Killed in battle” is often an expression of Gestapo “justice”:
Occasionally the prominence of the victim requires more subtle tactics. Thus General von Fritsch, who refused to permit Heinrich Himmler to obtain weapons for the S. S. from the army, was tried before a special court. The charge was homosexuality. The witnesses, who were prepared by the Gestapo, broke down and the General Staff was powerful enough to prevent the disregard of the testimony. He was neither found guilty nor acquitted, but declared to be “rehabilitated”. The wishes of the Gestapo were, however, fully complied with during the Polish campaign when General von Fritsch was declared to have been killed in battle.
Not only political opponents, but party workers who must be done away with, are murdered in deepest silence and secrecy. The war offers a splendid opportunity. Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, candidate of the monarchists, has also died a “hero’s death” in the war.
There is competition among official and unofficial thieves:
The complications of official chicanery are varied. It was a common practice for thieves to pose as Gestapo agents and loot Jewish homes. Rarely were complaints made by its victims, for to challenge the state’s agents was to invite greater disaster. The terror spread to “Aryan” homes, where the fear for the S. A. was no less. The Gestapo became jealous of the encroachment upon its domain and reserved to itself this species of extortion. Private thieves were then punished in several exemplary trials. Plunder is now duly official.
Horst Wessel, “enshrined hero,” was the procurer for a bawdyhouse:
There is a complete disclosure of the Horst Wessel case. He was a procurer who was killed in 1930 by one Ali Hochler in a brawl over a prostitute. Hoehler was convicted for manslaughter by the pre-Hitler courts. Four years later the Nazis, after killing Hoehler in a concentration camp, retried the case. The incident was distorted as a Communist attack on Horst Wessel, who had in the early days assisted Dr. Goebbels in organizing the group of hagglers later to come to such great power.
Three Communists were dragged from a concentration camp and convicted. Horst Wessel was made a national hero. The inn where he was murdered became a shrine. The Gestapo has had a busy time, however, preventing disclosures of Horst Wessel's origin which comes cropping up at trials of his degenerate intimates. It is fitting irony that the Nazis' patriotic hymn should be dedicated to this disreputable pimp.
The funnier the joke, the more serious the crime:
If humor is to be found at all in so great a human tragedy as the Nazi regime, it is in its humorlessness. There is a joke court, which punishes defendants for every jest against the state. Prosecutor and judge solemnly weigh the effectiveness of the joke, and the punishment is severer if it is funny, and therefore likely to be repeated. Every harmless bit of nonsense becomes a serious matter of state.
One presiding judge did not hesitate to impart to his friends the choicest of the offenses of his grueling day, and one can imagine his embarrassment when a defendant actually traced his illegal humor to an intimate of the judge and thus to the judge himself.
The Devil's pupils are on the rampage (John 8:44):
That the corruption of the judicial system and its moral basis carries within itself the potentialities of self-destruction cannot be doubted. Immediately prior to the war there was an unprecedented murder epidemic. The police were helpless. Less than 5 percent of the crimes were solved. The murderers were chiefly young boys, and they killed without purpose. Neither money, property, revenge nor other customary motives existed.
The will to destroy was without direction. Destruction by the state had bred destructiveness in turn. Having been trained for six years to worship power, force and ruthlessness, the youth of Germany reacted by demonstrations of their fitness.
Those who were apprehended revealed the same strange psychological motivations. Whether callous or naive, it was absolute nihilism which made murder attractive. Their victims were unknown to them. Their crimes were deliberate and calculated. They sought to satisfy their own lust for power by killing. The murderers came chiefly from economically substantial families of good education. They had, however, received the training that power is arbitrary and unrestricted by moral considerations. A best friend may be murdered and a worst enemy may be made a friend. Yesterday Russia was our comrade. Today she is to be slaughtered. Yesterday a treaty was made. Today it is to be disregarded. The boys of Germany attempt to anticipate their adult status by arrogating to themselves the powers they admire.
The war released these cold-blooded energies—the thrill of power by killing. Undoubtedly this accounts for the unanimous reports of the war correspondents that the German soldiers are very young boys who fight with the greatest audacity and disregard of everything, including their own lives. There is something unnatural and inhuman about such bravery.
The "New Order" is controlled by the demons:
The book has the fascination of an unbelievable tragedy which unfolds relentlessly. It reveals with camera precision how the pillars of justice have been chopped away and a great structure for the individual's protection has tumbled in ruins. It is a bitter echo to the words "New Order," for it reveals the orderlessness which is the symbol of tyranny. Law ceases to be the accumulated wisdom of the centuries and becomes the caprice of a tyrant and his thousands of petty executioners. The sword and scale are exercised to oppress rather than to alleviate and correct.
The authors have with shrewd insight gone beyond the pragmatic recitation of fact. They have indicated the psychoses which drive the Nazi into blunder and stupid contradiction, but which give consistency nevertheless to their conduct. The world is in the presence of a national dementia praecox catatonia. The surest symptom of the incurable violence of the disease is the deliberate annihilation of the judicial processes. It demonstrates cunning. But it also indicates the tendency to self-destruction so characteristic of the mania.
These glimpses of Nazi demonization are daily augmented by reports of Nazi reprisals condemning hundreds of innocent hostages, to retaliate for the death of a single German. The reader is also reminded that this is the "government" of which the Roman Catholic bishops of Fulda waxed so eloquent in praise. That the Germans are in complete accord with the priesthood is indicated by the fact that Dr. Josef Tiso, Roman Catholic priest, and president of Nazi Slovakia, was recently received by Reichsfuehrer Hitler for "political and military conversations". Just what these "conversations" concerned was disclosed by a dispatch in the same issue of the New York Times (October 22, 1941):
1,000 ITALIANS SLAIN, SAYS YUGOSLAV AIDE
London, Oct. 21 (U.P.)— . . . Thousands of guerrillas were reported banding for night raids on Italian and German garrisons. It was reported also that 30,000 guerrillas were operating in Greece, mostly in the mountains.
The Serbs have one more week to reap their corn and cut down the stalk, under penalty of death or long imprisonment. The Germans complained that guerrillas hid in the cornfields.
The spokesman [for the Yugoslav Government in Exile in London] said the Germans were trying to organize "hate campaigns" against the Serbs.
"The Italians are using Catholic priests for the purpose, thus creating a wider gulf between the Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and Herzegovinans," he added.
Italian planes have bombed the coastal areas, killing many [innocent] persons and destroying whole villages, in reprisal for assassinations, the spokesman said.
The Catholic vultures are always to be found as the camp followers of Hitler's crusades. The New York Journal-American (August 12, 1941) says that in Nazi-occupied Smolensk mass has been celebrated for the first time since the Soviet came to power. This was described as "the first public mass in 21 years". No doubt there were plenty of dead to "pray out of 'purgatory' ". All in all, the vultures and the wolves get most of the breaks in this Russian war. And the hooded "blackbirds" are the most despicable of all.
This survey cannot be nor was it intended to be complete. But it is respectfully submitted as a few scattered examples, both past and present, of the results of Papal rule. It is hoped that it will convince some of the folly of accepting Papal promises, and turn their eyes toward THE THEOCRACY, which is man's only hope.—Elton Groves.
Draftees Retained Indefinitely
◆ The Canadian government announced that the first 5,500 men who were to have been graduated as four-month draftees would not be released at the end of their four-month term, but would be retained indefinitely. The explanation offered is that there was a lag in the flow of volunteers. During the American Civil War many troops enlisted for a certain number of months, but the forms which they signed contained the words "or for the duration of the war"; and so they were in the army until peace was signed.
Nazism Flourishes in Moose Jaw
◆ The Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Evening Times shows that the spirit of Nazism is flourishing where it ought not. The Civic Relief Board "decided to order the removal from the relief rolls of the city of all families where the children have been suspended from attendance at the public schools following their refusal to take part in patriotic exercises including the singing of the National Anthem and saluting the flag." This is an act worthy of Hitler and the Gestapo and emulates their spirit perfectly.
"Never have so many owed so much to so few."—Churchill.
"Never have so few taken so much from so many."—Hitler.
"Never have so few pursued so many so far."—Metaxas.
"Never have so many run so fast from so few."—Mussolini.
The Little Pope's Shop in Canada
CANADA'S war effort is paralyzed. The truth about it is simple and obvious. Cardinal Villeneuve, of Quebec, operates a side-show of the big Roman circus. The cardinal is the little pope in Canada. Quebec province is his principality and, in respect of Quebec province, he exercises both spiritual and temporal power. And Quebec holds, in the nation's government, in effect, a power to veto Dominion legislation, as though Quebec's bishops were a Canadian House of Lords.
The little pope presently exercises his power in harmony with instructions from Rome and in direct opposition to Canada's war effort.
Quebec is, next to Rome, the strongest Catholic fortress in the world. Quebec is within the British Empire but it is not of the Empire. The ruling factors of Quebec are of the Hierarchy of Rome. They develop progressively from year to year in Quebec the long-cherished scheme of the Roman Hierarchy to attain world domination; and through Quebec influence they seek to acquire Canada for the Roman Hierarchy.
Few English-speaking people understand the inside organization of Quebec province. The religious government is dominant. Civil government is a puppet government. The provincial civil debt is $200,000,000. The provincial ecclesiastical debt is over $600,000,000. The religious government holds property vastly in excess of the civil government. The religious government has, through its powerful influence, full control of all political appointments and elections, all labor unions and social organizations, and all financial corporations must pay it taxes and acknowledge its influence directly or indirectly.
How does it all work?
English-speaking people enjoy the liberty of doing what they want to, forming or joining what organizations they want to, and generally pleasing and governing themselves. In Quebec, the will of the priest is supreme from the cradle to the grave. The priest selects the name of a saint for the baby. The priest christens the baby, requires it to attend a school taught by nuns, hears its confessions weekly, forgives its misdemeanors at regular intervals, receives its tithes regularly, prescribes its contributions to the various works of the church, and hinges its every activity on the church. The child's literature is selected for it and is largely written by priests, and through its propaganda his activities are restrained by superstitions and religious fears. The child may not join the Boy Scouts, the Cubs or any children's organizations without the approval of the priest. The priest never approves any organization he does not create. The persons interested in creating such organizations must go to the priest and ask him to form the organization so that the children may join it. The priest thereafter prescribes rules, fees and religious ceremonies for the organization, as well as the religious name it shall be given. Its property must be susceptible to his control, and, of course, the church never contributes a cent, and avoids auditors. Rather, it is made the occasion to pass the hat to Catholics and "heretics" alike.
In collecting for St. Patrick's College, Ottawa, the priestly committee listed the name, position and salary of every Catholic in the city, then sent a high-pressure collector to tell each person what percentage of his salary was expected of him, and each person made his "voluntary" contribution under such high pressure; which left a stench in the nostrils of Catholics and Protestants and a monument of gossip to memorialize St. Patrick's College for years to come.
With this in mind it becomes obvious that the Catholic population, through its various organizations, from the cradle to the grave, is so completely in the hands of the priests that the church can hardly disassociate itself from the acts of any organization of its people.
In light of the foregoing, consider the sit-down strike of 300 workers in the aluminum plant at Arvida, Quebec, on July 24. Not many years ago, the Hierarchy warned Catholic workers against joining any labor unions because, they said, the union, being outside the church, could not have the church's blessing and would lead its members into godlessness. The church thereafter created for Catholic workers in Quebec the National Catholic Syndicate of Aluminum Workers. This union was formed by the church, was guided by the church, and its members enjoy good standing in the church and receive its instructions continually. Note the following news item:
300 WORKERS SEIZE ALUMINUM PLANT IN QUEBEC, SUSPECT SABOTAGE—HOWE; FACTORY HELD 3 DAYS; PRODUCTION LOST
Troops Take Over, Arrests Imminent, Howe Announces
Most Serious Interruption Since War Began, Says Minister; Law Is Changed Because of Delays Encountered in Taking Action
Hope to Avoid Metal Shortage
Ottawa, July 29.—Munitions Minister Howe told a press conference tonight that 300 men suddenly seized control of the gigantic Arvida, Que., plant of the Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited, last Thursday and held control until they voluntarily left the property at 3 p.m. Sunday.
(Nine thousand workmen were idle for five days, it was indicated in Arvida, as the first shift of workers went back to work late today. Of the 9,000 idle, 5,000 were employees in the plant and 4,000 laborers constructing an extension.)
Mr. Howe said the shutdown was "a suspected case of enemy sabotage" and that arrests "definitely will be made, if none has been made already."
The giant plant—"the biggest war industry we have in the country"—resumed operation today.
Mr. Howe said Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating for the Dominion, and the Province of Quebec has borrowed the services of Colonel Therriault, head of the Quebec Arsenal, to make a similar investigation.
"This was not a labor dispute," Mr. Howe said. "The officers of the labor union" (the National Catholic Syndicate of Aluminum Workers, which the Minister said had a membership of about 1,000 of the plant's 5,000 employees) "knew nothing about it."
"There had been no demands for higher wages or any changes in the working conditions."
And, Mr. Howe said, when work resumed "no concessions were granted."
"The problem was whether it would be advisable to use the troops on hand to evict the 300 men entrenched in a $150,000,000 plant.
"We decided that force would cause more damage than delay, unless we had an overwhelming number of troops," Mr. Howe said. "We didn't have, so the men were left in control.
"It was a very serious situation because there were many million dollars' worth of equipment which the men inside could have seriously damaged."
Throughout Canada there have been a few strikes. In the English-speaking provinces direct pressure has been brought upon the strikers to settle their difficulties, but Canada's minister of munitions, C. D. Howe, finds his hands tied when it comes to dealing with a strike instigated by a religious union. Even the prime minister cannot send in troops, and the nation's war effort is sabotaged for a month because these 300 key men permitted the liquid aluminum to cool in the melting pots, thereby throwing out 9,000 workers until it could be dug out again. A later news item on this strike reads:
In Arvida, Quebec, last week, 300 of 5,000 workmen in the Aluminum Company of Canada plant sat down. As their aluminum pots grew cold the other 4,700 went home. A handful of plant guards went home, too.
The 300 pot room workers stayed on for three days. Some of the biggest shots in Canadian business, government, army and police tried to keep the lid on the biggest story of Canada’s war effort.
On Saturday the 5,000 idle workers had grown to 9,000. Construction workers on a plant addition laid down their tools in sympathy.
Sunday 400 troops arrived from Valcartier in Bren gun carriers. A messenger went into the plant. When he came out a priest went in and after special mass the 300 strikers moved out.
Late Tuesday of this week the story broke. In Ottawa, Minister of Munitions and Supply, Howe, gave a statement to the press. Arvida’s trouble was not labor trouble; it was sabotage. There would be arrests.
In Arvida, Gerard Picard, Quebec organizer of the National Federation of Catholic Workers, also made a statement. The sit-down was not sabotage, he said. It was an attempt to get consideration for demands the workers had made to the Aluminum company two months ago. The company would now confer, and Mr. Picard would represent them.
Wednesday’s papers announced a new Order-in-Council passed by the King Government. To be used in emergencies like Arvida “to avoid a recurrence of delays” caused by conflict of Federal, provincial and municipal authorities, it empowers the government to call out the active army to “prevent or suppress . . . actions likely to impede or obstruct the production or delivery of munitions of war”.
It is to be noted that the Canadian Government cannot use troops to quell this organized sabotage which could never have been put over if it offended the Catholic church; but, when the Government invokes the mystic powers of a priest, who goes into the factory and holds mass, the trick is worked.
The scheme is an old one.
Two hundred years ago, when Britain took over Canada, the English governors of Quebec had to meet it continually. Did the Government desire to introduce certain legislation? Probably the bishops didn’t like the legislation! For some mysterious reason the Indians rebelled in some remote corner of the province and killed some English traders. Then the English governor saw the light and withdrew the legislation.
The technique is the old technique of the Jesuits. The Jesuits want Germany to win. The former secretary of Italy’s Fascist Party, Roberto Farinacci, anent William Cardinal O’Connell, of Boston, writes:
Today the great majority of Catholics constitute a bloc in the Axis spiritual forces. . . . In America it is not true that the Clergy is on Roosevelt’s side: Cardinal O’Connell attacked President Roosevelt’s policy. . . . adding that, All know what form of government there is in the U. S., where only deaf-mutes have freedom of speech . . . O’Connell is a holy man.
They want Italy to win. If, during the lifetime of Hitler, they appear to suffer some reverses they believe that it will be a simple matter to, sooner or later, substitute for the present totalitarian rulers of Europe rulers bearing direct allegiance to the Hierarchy and in this way they will acquire world domination in ten or twenty years’ time, if not sooner.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King is paralyzed by the Hierarchy, and so is his entire government. English Canada wonders what it is all about. Col. C. E. Reynolds, president of the Canadian Corps Association, throws some light on the subject. He is reported to have spoken as follows:
“On a visit to England I called on a high British army officer,” related Col. Reynolds. “The first thing he said to me was: ‘Why doesn’t your Prime Minister mean to send us an expeditionary force?’ I told him I didn’t think that was the case. ‘Come back tomorrow and I’ll show you the proof,’ he said. The next day I went back and the officer showed me a copy of a wire from Mr. King to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.”
“I’m going to disclose its contents tonight for the first time. From memory, the wire read as follows: "In view of the nature of this war and the fact that Canada will be the arsenal of the Empire, we feel it desirable that Mr. Chamberlain (Prime Minister of Great Britain at that time) state on the floor of the House of Commons that he did not ask, need or expect an expeditionary force from Canada in this war."
"And challenge Mr. King to deny it," shouted the speaker, as thunderous applause rang in his ears. "It was positive proof of the attitude of the Prime Minister."
In short, Mackenzie King endeavors under pressure from the Hierarchy to bargain Canada out of as much of the war effort as possible, because Rome disapproves of a British victory. The prime minister has so far refused to bring in conscription because Cardinal Villeneuve opposes it. Probably—most probably—the Arvida strike is an act of sabotage inspired by the Hierarchy to convince the prime minister that if he presses conscription, or a National Government in Canada, or an Imperial War Cabinet, he may expect further sabotage as per sample delivered at Arvida by the Hierarchy.
The entire nation is paralyzed. Certainly the intelligentsia amongst journalists and newspaper editors understand the situation, but a single article approaching the truth would result in advertising boycott by Catholics generally and the minister of justice, Ernest Lapointe, might be expected to invoke the Defense of Canada Regulations against anyone daring to write such an article, on the grounds that it was contributing to national disunity.
Catholicism is a religion of superstition and fear. In Quebec province an editor knows that his house might be burned down or his car wrecked if his paper told the truth. You doubt this? Accidents of this sort become realities in Quebec.
At the time of writing, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt have had their famous conference [aboard warship at sea]. Mackenzie King has conferred with Prime Minister Churchill; professedly, to tell him that Canada is one hundred percent behind Britain's war effort—actually to try to bargain Canada out of doing anything more than she is already doing,—to tell him that the Hierarchy rules in Canada, that Cardinal Villeneuve is the little pope of Quebec who rules in Ottawa through Ernest Lapointe [till his death November 26]; that, in plain language, the Hierarchy is sabotaging Canada's war effort because it wants the Axis powers to win; that Mackenzie King takes more instructions from Rome than from London; and for that reason he respectfully refuses to make Canada a party to an Imperial War Cabinet; or to add one jot or tittle to lighten Mr. Churchill's immense task.
Prime Minister Churchill, on June 25, told the British House of Commons:
"We very much desire to hold a conference (of Empire Prime Ministers for the purpose of an Empire War Cabinet) and had hoped the end of July or the beginning of August might be a suitable occasion."
In Consolation's last article on Canada, it was suggested that Mackenzie King would refuse such an Imperial War Cabinet because Quebec bishops were directing the Canada war effort from Rome, not London. Mr. King, after the Churchill-Roosevelt conference, visited England and, true to form, dashed Mr. Churchill's hopes of an Imperial War Cabinet to pieces.
What do Canadian soldiers overseas think about it all?
Prime Minister Mackenzie King (in England) spoke from the centre of a sports field where 10,000 Canadian troops—one of the largest gatherings of the Dominion's soldiers ever assembled in Britain—heard him. As Gen. McNaughton concluded his introduction with the words, "I take pleasure in introducing to you the Prime Minister of Canada," according to press dispatch, booing from the rear of the grandstand drowned out the handclapping and cheers from the front rows.
—Contributed.
RIGHTEOUS RULER
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
From a Lawyer to a Lawyer
October 21, 1941
Mr. Dick Harbin,
Attorney at Law,
Dublin, Texas.
Dear Mr. Harbin:
During last week-end some very dear friends of mine visited me from Dublin and during their visit they related to me an episode almost too fantastic to be real. Yet these persons, Dr. Clifford Wyche and daughter, Miss Janetta Wyche, are known to me to be persons of excellent character and a high degree of integrity, imbued with an unusual conception of good citizenship and Christian spirit and, of course, I know that what they told me was true.
The story they related to me was substantially as follows:
Several days ago a young lady, Mrs. Lila Snyder, while exercising her rights as an American citizen and as a good Christian woman, desiring to pursue her God-given right to worship God according to the dictates of her own conscience, and in a peaceful manner, was arrested by some local official for the alleged violation of a city ordinance, the import of which did not and could not apply to the work being done by Mrs. Snyder. In due course the young lady was brought to trial in the Mayor's Court of Dublin and you, as city prosecutor, proceeded to prosecute this young lady and brought about her conviction under the aforesaid ordinance and she was assessed an exorbitant fine and exorbitant costs, forcing her to appeal her case to the County Court of Erath County.
During the so-called trial at which the mayor presided and at which you had such a marvelous opportunity to advocate the principles of Americanism as set forth in the United States Constitution and as have been so often expressed by real Americans in times past, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and other illustrious American statesmen, you would not permit Miss Janetta Wyche, the chosen spokesman of Mrs. Snyder, to aid the defendant in presenting her case properly to the court, but, instead, insisted upon urging what you called "facts" tending to bring the acts of the defendant, according to your interpretation, within the ordinance under which she was charged.
Now it goes without saying, and it is established practice, that any person brought before any such tribunal as the Corporation Court or a Justice Court, in Texas, might have the privilege and be accorded the opportunity of defending themselves and, if desirable, request some other person to do so even though that person is not duly licensed to practice law. This, of course, applies only to such tribunals as a Corporation Court or a Justice Court. I am quite sure that you will agree with me on this point. However, in the face of this you refused, according to my relators, to permit Miss Wyche or Mrs. Snyder to make statements in Mrs. Snyder's behalf, but insisted, in the presence of the jury, that any matters sought to be introduced by the defendant were immaterial. To say the least, the jury was evidently prejudiced by such procedure.
Each attempt on the part of the defendant to introduce evidence tending to prove her innocence of the charge was promptly challenged by you and such evidence was accordingly suppressed and only the prosecution's "case" was admitted. The proceedings were duly recorded by Miss Wyche.
For quite a long time I have observed the work of Jehovah's witnesses and I have had ample opportunity to look into and check many cases in which Jehovah's witnesses have been involved throughout the United States and I find that in far the majority of cases, perhaps more than 99 percent thereof, decisions of the higher courts have been in their favor. I have in mind not only cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States has handed down decisions, which are very numerous, but I also have in mind numerous decisions of United States district judges throughout the nation and any number of courts of last resort in the several states as well as lower courts therein.
Theocracy publishers at Abeokuta, Nigeria, after a campaign (before the ban)
Knowing you to be duly licensed to practice law in the State of Texas and, being a practitioner myself, with the knowledge that every licensed attorney in the state must take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the State of Texas at all times, I am at a loss to understand why it could be possible for one with the knowledge you possess of our great Constitution and the rights afforded each and every American citizen under the Bill of Rights to possibly do other than defend, rather than prosecute, individuals whose rights are being curtailed or completely taken away by such proceedings as occurred at Dublin during the trial of Mrs. Lila Snyder, who was engaged in a Christian work of publishing the Gospel, or Good News, which is or should be known to every professed Christian in America and elsewhere.
The role of prosecutor, whether city, county or state, is also the role of public defender, and the rights of individuals should be as zealously defended when such individuals are charged with violation of some law which does not apply to them or their activities, since the defense of such rights, no matter how remote the case may appear to be, will eventuate in the defense of the entire citizenship of the United States against the injecting into our judicial system the tyrannical ideologies of totalitarianism now rampant in Europe and elsewhere and which is the recognized enemy of democracy and all that it stands for.
I desire to call your attention to the enclosed copy of a recent opinion rendered by U. S. District Judge James V. Allred, whom you know quite well, and I earnestly request that you read this opinion carefully along with several other cases which I have marked on the enclosed pamphlet and entitled "Kingdom News" dated August, 1941. I especially call your attention to the case of Lovell vs. Griffin (Georgia), 303 U. S. 444, which is a U. S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Jehovah's witnesses.
I am also personally acquainted with the fact that Jehovah's witnesses have been carefully and thoroughly investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice and that Jehovah's witnesses are clearly within their rights in the publication of Scriptural teachings by the printed word, that they are not subversive, not seditious, and do not advocate the overthrow of the government by force.
As a duly licensed practitioner of the law you are neglecting a most valuable privilege of advocating and supporting the constitutional guarantees of freedom of conscience and thought, freedom of speech and freedom of the press unless you place yourself on the side of such minorities as Jehovah's witnesses, aiding them in the fight against totalitarianism and such un-American activities as are engaged in by ignorant persons seeking to deprive these minorities of their rights specifically guaranteed to them by the Constitutions of both the United States and the State of Texas and which rights have been consistently upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States and of the several states thereof.
Of the 25 buses that brought 2,200 Theocracy publishers to the assembly at Wimbledon Theatre, London, May 11, 1941, ten were double-deckers.
Out every morning, afternoon and night, these pioneers in Kingdom House, Gateshead, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, had the best record for back-calls per publisher in Britain in April, 1941; this out of 23 Pioneer homes in the British Isles.
You are the only licensed attorney in Dublin, Texas. What a marvelous privilege and opportunity it is for you to help teach the people of Dublin that they are a part of the United States of America and that they are privileged to receive the protection of the great Constitution of the United States and of the State of Texas, and being so situated, the citizens of Dublin should appreciate the extreme urgency of protecting those rights against the insurgent floods of totalitarianism now sweeping the earth. Be true to your heritage as an American lawyer, and fight those destructive principles which undermine true democracy and Americanism, by rendering aid to those whose rights are impaired by ignorance and prejudice.
Theocratic magazine publisher, New York City
No doubt you profess to be a Christian and as such you are familiar with the Holy Scriptures. You will recall, therefore, from your study of the New Testament and the experiences of Jesus and the apostles with the ignorant and selfish religionists of their day that they suffered much at the hands of selfish religionists and politicians. These innocent followers of Almighty God were persecuted, stoned, murdered and tortured because they were a minority and were true servants of the Almighty. You will also recall that the Bible admonishes all that "in the last days" all true Christians will receive the same kind of treatment as did the apostles of Christ Jesus and as did all of God's prophets from Abel until John the Baptist. (11th Chapter of Hebrews)
You are also no doubt familiar with the fact that Paul, himself a very much persecuted Christian, was also a lawyer, even as you and I, and often pleaded his own cases before the tribunals before which he was brought by those seeking to do away with him and stop the Christian work in which he was engaged. I am quite sure that you would not knowingly participate in any persecution or injustice sought to be perpetrated against true Christians and that, as a lawyer, you desire to see right and justice prevail. I therefore submit to you that you should investigate Jehovah's witnesses and all that they stand for and extend them a helping hand, affording them succor and relief from their adversaries rather than pursuing the opposite course, and in so doing you will aid yourself and all of your fellow citizens beyond measure. Any other course on the part of American citizens could lead only to untold grief and despair.
The foregoing is written in the sincerest of motives, and it is hoped it will be received in the spirit in which it is intended. Your honesty in the pursuit of the course which you have taken heretofore is not questioned in the least, and I have sought only to present to you facts which are in my own personal knowledge calculated to enable you to see the matter in a different light in the future and thus guide you into a course which has been definitely and indisputably established by the highest courts of the land as affecting Jehovah's witnesses and all other minority groups. Your earnest consideration of the foregoing is very sincerely solicited.
Most sincerely yours,
CECIL L. WOOD.
CLW : BJT
Enc.
cc:- Hayden C. Covington
General Counsel
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society
Brooklyn, New York
John H. Bickett, Jr.
Chairman - Bill of Rights Committee
Texas State Bar Association
c/o Southwestern Bell Tel. Co.
Dallas, Texas.
Bernard G. Walpin
American Civil Liberties Union
170 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Miss Janetta Wyche
Dublin, Texas.
Pioneer and house-car, Anchorage, Alaska (Anchorage has 25,000 people, with one business street seven blocks long. Everybody, including police, patronize the magazine publishers, but some make foolish threats.)
The French Consolation
◆ The July, 1941, cover of Consolation (French, printed in Berne, Switzerland) is especially beautiful. It represents the earth wrapped in the mantle of The Theocracy. Oceans are in blue, continents and islands in silver gray. Examining the pages one sees a splendid picture of the 1,700 who attended the Theocratic convention held at Berne April 11-14, 1941. The Alhambra, a very fine auditorium with 1,300 seats, was overfilled. Advertisements of the convention were published on bulletin boards throughout Berne. There were several pictures of workers engaged in various convention activities.
In the latter part of the magazine are published pictures of two diplomas issued in October, 1939, to the WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY by the Swiss Federal Exhibition of Zurich. The first of these expresses appreciation of the activities of the WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY’S efforts to spread abroad education throughout Switzerland, while the second is dedicated to the WATCH TOWER printing plant.
The article entitled "Martyrs for Theocracy", by Judge Rutherford, which appeared in Consolation No. 558, appeared also in this No. 93 of the ninth year of the publication.
A Three-Year-Old's Idea
◆ A mother from Houston, Texas, writes that on the way home they encountered a road hog. As usual under such circumstances, there was a brief indignation conference regarding the offender, when her three-year-old son spoke up and said, "Well, we’ll just have to put him in a Catholic Church." Now, how do you suppose that youngster got that idea?
(To be continued)
The Prime Cause of Infidelity
◆ My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolt those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there. These, therefore, they brand with such nicknames as their enmity chooses gratuitously to impute. I have left the world in silence, to judge of causes from their effects; and I am consoled in this course, when I perceive the candor with which I am judged by your justice and discernment; and that, notwithstanding the slanders of the saints, my fellow citizens have thought me worthy of trusts.—Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, in a letter to Mrs. M. Harrison Smith, August 6, 1816.
COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford
Holy Spirit
OVER the universe the Creator, Jehovah God, exercises His unlimited power. His power is exercised entirely for good and is therefore holy. His spirit is that holy power by which He carries out His purposes. That holy spirit is invisible to human eyes, but God causes it to move His creatures on earth into action to serve His purpose. He gives a commission of authority to certain ones to do and to perform the things designated by that commission, and this He does by putting His spirit upon such creatures.
The religious clergy teach that the so-called "holy ghost" is the third person of what they call "the triune god". The creed of the Church of England puts it in these words: "There is but one living and true God, . . . and in unity of this God-Head there be three persons of one substance, power and eternity; the Father, The Word, and the Holy Ghost." The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7, under "Holy Ghost", puts it this way: "(1) The Holy Ghost is a Person really distinct as such from the Father and the Son; (2) He is God and consubstantial with the Father and the Son. . . . a Divine Person, Who is neither the Father nor the Son, Who is named together with the Father, or the Son, or with Both, without the context allowing them to be identified."
The generally accepted thought is that a ghost is a spirit being. In the Scriptures the word ghost is mistranslated from the original text of the Bible. It is from the root word that is properly translated wind, breath, or breeze, and from the same root the English word spirit is properly translated. Its true meaning is invisible power. The spirit of the Lord God is invisible to man and is powerful. It is properly called "the holy spirit" because all power of God is holy. The holy spirit (mistranslated holy ghost) is not a person or being, and no scripture authorizes such a conclusion. When God puts His spirit upon a creature that creature is clothed with power and authority to act as the representative or agent of Jehovah God. God put His spirit upon King David as one of Jehovah's witnesses, and David said: "The spirit of Jehovah spake by me, and his word was upon my tongue." (2 Samuel 23:2, American Revised Version) Likewise the Lord God Jehovah put His spirit of wisdom upon men associated with Moses the prophet and who were directed to build certain things in connection with the tabernacle to be constructed for the worship of Jehovah God. (See Exodus 35:31-35.) These men were clothed with authority and power to represent the Lord God.
The "holy spirit", then, means the power of God, and is holy because it is complete and is exercised by the Holy One, Jehovah. It is invisible to man, yet the result of its operation is observed by man. God can exercise His invisible power upon the mind of any creature whom he may desire to use. In times of old He put His holy spirit upon men who were called "prophets", or "seers"; and these men spoke the words which God willed them to speak. The prophets were wholly devoted to God; and they spoke as they were moved upon by the spirit of Jehovah. (So the apostle puts it, at 2 Peter 1:21.) Therefore the statements made concerning the coming Theocratic Government, and made by the holy prophets, are the statements from Jehovah himself. Among these holy prophets was Daniel. By the mouth of Daniel God caused to be given a brief history of the Devil's complete organization and its destruction in the days of the totalitarian dictator kings, and then Jehovah caused Daniel to say: "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” (Daniel 2:44) When the Scriptures refer to the kingdom which God will establish, they mean that righteous government which is His Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus.
Jehovah God sent forth Jesus to accomplish His purpose, and to that end He clothed Jesus with power and authority to act on earth in His name. He put His spirit upon Jesus to carry into operation His purposes. He disclosed to Jesus His purposes, and Jesus was the instrument or agency God used to carry out the same. The spirit of God came upon Jesus at His baptism in Jordan river, and the dove that appeared over Him was used as a symbol of the spirit that the Baptizer John might be witness to the fact. (See Matthew 3:16, 17.) The spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness, and after Jesus’ temptation God made a covenant with Him to give Him the Kingdom, and Jesus was then anointed with the spirit of God. (Luke 4:18) It was more than three years thereafter, and when Jesus was about to go away, that He told His disciples that He would pray His Father in heaven and His Father would send them another helper or comforter, and it was then that Jesus disclosed to His disciples that the comforter or helper that would be sent would be the holy spirit: “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he may be with you to the age, the spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it beholds it not, nor knows it; but you know it; because it abides with you, and will be in you.”—John 14:16, 17, Emphatic Diaglott.
The Greek word translated “helper” or “comforter” is parakletos, and the fact that a name was thus given explains why the pronoun “he” is used at John 16:13-15 to describe the holy spirit. The name parakletos is descriptive of the operation of the holy spirit; therefore the suggestion here that the parakletos is not ALL of the spirit or power of Jehovah God, but that it is the power and authority of God which is used by the Lord God as an agency for His purposes and used, in this instance, to help those of the true church during the absence of Christ Jesus.
An agency used by the Lord to help His people need not be a living creature, but God could well employ some other agency through which to accomplish His will. God has put many forces into action or operation that are invisible to man, and which are powerful, such as electricity, or electrons, or vibrations, and these are used for man and for man’s benefit. This in a measure may be used as an illustration of the holy spirit. By way of illustration: God might send forth a covering cloud charged with power to carry out His purposes, and His purposes would be accomplished. The holy spirit is therefore that power of God employed by Him to give revelation of an understanding of Jehovah God and His purposes unto those whom He brings forth as His sons. The holy spirit is also the means employed by Him for communication with His faithful creatures begotten of His spirit and to give them aid, comfort and help. That power thus employed as a means of communication, revelation and help for His begotten ones being blameless and perfect and complete, this agency used is holy and hence is properly called “the holy spirit”.
All-Night Schools
◆ New York city is now operating all-night schools. The classes begin at 10:30 p.m. and continue until 5:00 a.m. They are for the thousands who want training at once in auto repair and maintenance, aviation trades, electrical trades, foundry work, machine shop practice, maritime occupations, wood pattern making, radio communication and service, sheet metal work, welding and mechanical drawing.
Invention
To Prevent Unconsciousness
◆ To prevent unconsciousness, dizziness or blindness of aviators when coming out of a nose dive (which is caused by the flow of blood away from the head) a Minnesota aviator has designed a double-walled shell or suit filled with water. When the aviator pulls out of a dive the water of the suit rushes into the leg portions, squeezes the legs and forces the blood back up into the head. It seems like taking awful liberties with the human body. But to win a war men will do anything.
Plowing a City with Bombs
◆ A new bomb release, the invention of an American, enables a fleet of bombers to plow a furrow through a city with the holes just so far apart. The operation of the release depends upon the speed of the plane. The faster the speed of the plane, the faster the release, but, in any event, the bombs are just so far apart. The next plane drops its bombs in between the previous bomb-holes. What fun the big and little devils must be having over the whole bloody business!
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