Consolation, July 20, 1944
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Contents
Is Seattle Losing Her Freedoms? Whom Was Hughes Protecting?
Misnomers
Positive Action in Freedom’s Behalf The Hierarchy Hates Freedom Hierarchy Engenders Religious Hate Hughes’ “Investigation” a Farce Who Engenders Racial Hate? Objector to the War Effort ‘Behold, a Beam in Thine Own Eye!’ Be on Guard, Americans!
The Spinners of Insect Traps
Twelve Seconds in the Air
No Appeal to American Vanity “Thy Word Is Truth”
This Creature Called “Man” ‘Wresting the Scriptures’—2 Peter 3:16 American Standard vs. Psalter of Mary Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo Monasticism in Britain
Brought to Light in New York
Jehovah’s witnesses—Overcoming Obstacles 22
Presenting “This Gospel of the Kingdom”
Growth of the Canon of the Hebrew and
Greek Scriptures (Part Two)
Adding the Apocryphal Books
Bede, Gregory, and Jerome
Paul of Samos ata
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Desmond or Peter, Which?
♦ Which will you believe, “Reverend Father” Francis X. Desmond, C.M., Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y., or the apostle Peter ?
The dead are dead, according to Peter, and stay dead until they are awakened. This was true even of Jesus. Peter said of Him (1 Peter 1: 21) that God “raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory*’. (Douay Version) Moreover, the dead, according to Peter, are in the Bible hell (not the theological one). He quotes David and says that David was speaking for Christ when he said, prophetically in Psalm 15:10, “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell” ( Acts 2: 27; Douay). Peter goes further. Speaking at the entrance to the temple a few days afterwards, he said to his fellow Jews, “But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.”—Acts 3:15, Douay.
Desmond disagrees with all this. In an appeal for money (of which Peter said he had none [Acts 3:6, Douay], and in which he seemed to have no interest) the Niagara Falls priest says, “In torment they wait and hope.” The Niagara mist, or something else, has made “Reverend” Desmond all wet. Peter says that when the cities of the Sodomites and the Gomorrheans were reduced to ashes they thus became “an example to those that should after act wickedly” (2 Peter 2:6, Douay), and instead of landing in a place of bright flamed the thing that they actually get is “the mist of darkness” for ever. —2 Peter 2:17, Douay Version.
I Either Desmond and Peter should get together and agree or else one of them should quit. Desmond says of what he calls the “suffering souls” that “we alone, through the mercy of God, possess the power to help them”. But, being all wet, he can’t do a thing.
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“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XXV Brooklyn, N. ¥., Wednesday, July 19, 1944 Number 643
Is Seattle Losing Her Freedoms?
IF Christ Jesus were to come again to the earth as a man, what would be His reception by this twentieth century world? Multitudes would hear Him gladly. Many cities in the United States would open their auditoriums to the Son of God, despite hot opposition from certain quarters. Other cities would capitulate to pressure and close their auditorium doors to Him. Seattle would. Indignant citizens of that city may demand, Who- would stop Him from using our Civic Auditorium? The answer: Charles C. Hughes, superintendent of buildings.
But why? Because that great "faithful and true Witness” would say to modern religionists what He said to their prototypes 1900 years ago. Of them He might say: “All their works they do for to be seen-of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments.” Then, changing to direct address, ‘Woe unto you, hypocrites I for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uneleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? I send pnto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel.’—Matthew 23:5, 14, 15, 27, 28, 33-35.
Jesus Would Offend Shaughnessy
Those words, with modern application, would engender religious antagonism; so Hughes' would rule. The Messiah might even go so far as to declare, “Call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9, Catholic Douay Version Bible) “Father” Gerald Shaughnessy, bishop of the Seattle diocese, could not tolerate that; it would be holding him up to contempt and ridicule. And Hughes could not stand that. Again, Jesus might repeat the words He said to religionists long ago: “Ye are of your father the ' devil, and the lusts of your father ye ’ will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” (John 8:44,45) That does it! Surely Jesus would have to by-pass Seattle’s Civic Auditorium. Charles C. Hughes would so rule. And the city council, by a vote of 7 to 2, would sustain him 1
Far-fetched speculation, you say? Not
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at all. A text declaring a principle that bridges the nineteen centuries separating modern Seattle from Jehus’ earthly sojourn makes it, in effect, an actuality. It reads: “The King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it Unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Also, “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.” (Matthew 25:32-46) Christ Jesus found Jerusalem a city filled with religious hate. Walking in His footsteps, declaring the same message, Christ’s followers find Seattle to be a city of religious hate. Three times Seattle has proved it. Its hatred quickly rises to the surface for the same reason that Jerusalem’s did, namely (as quoted above), “because I tell you the truth.” One does not engender religious hatred in Seattle. It is already there, unrationed. Just speak the Bible truth and it will come out in all its Middle Ages ugliness. Nothing else will so quickly fan it into flaming fury.
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Bible and Tract Society, Inc., publishers and legal corporation acting for Jehovah’s witnesses, selected Seattle as one of the cities in which to hold its annual convention, in 1944. Watchtower representatives called on Mayor Devin. A statement by him, which appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 5, 1944, made clear his democratic stand:
“It is my present intention to instruct the building superintendent to issue the lease, if application, is made,” the mayor said. “To refuse them use of the auditorium for a reli-' ■ .■ ■» •
gious meeting would violate the letter and spirit of our constitutional guarantees of speech and religion. These people, I feel, are entitled to the consideration that we would give groups representing any other religious group.”
Next Councilwoman Mrs. F. F. Powell was visited, who was very favorable. Application for the Civic Auditorium was made on May 5. The auditorium manager
referred it to Chas. C. Hughes, who promptly turned thumbs down. As grounds he cited an ordinance passed in 1938, which prohibits use of the auditorium “for any purpose by speech or otherwise which will tend to engender religious or racial antagonism”. (Mayor Devin stated to the Watchtower representative that he was very much opposed to that ordinance, and that if he had been mayor in 1938 he would have Vetoed it.) Appeal from Hughes’ decision was taken to the city council. Two members of the city council appreciated the freedom issues involved; they voted to overrule Hughes’ prejudiced ruling. Seven councilmen failed dismally in their duty as public servants in a democracy; they supported the building superintendent, proving themselves as arbitrary and capricious as he is. No, said they, Seattle citizens and others could not use the Civic Auditorium if they insisted on obeying Jesus’ command to preach God’s Word exposing religion.
Seattle is losing her freedoms.
Whom .Was Hughes Protecting?
However, the council meeting was extremely enlightening. It showed whom Hughes was protecting, namely, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Though posing as knight-errant for all religions in preventing any engendering of hate, his action was solely on behalf of the hate-breeding Catholic cult. That is the organization whose catechisms and other declarations condemn democratic principles as heresy, so they would have no scruples about urging political dupes to crush such freedoms. But there are other religious groups that, while disagreeing sharply with the Witnesses’ beliefs, are unwilling to sacrifice civil liberties to silence Jehovah’s people. All this the council meeting disclosed.
Of this meeting the Watchtower representative writes:
This was an open hearing. There were some 75 to 80 persons present. Several members of the Council of Churches, and some ministers, made some splendid talks in our behalf . Also, some unauthorized individuals did likewise.
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Other private individuals, representatives of the Knights of Columbus, American Legion and auxiliary organizations made some very nasty talks against the Witnesses. Mrs. Powell made a wonderful plea. When it was put to a vote, however, it was turned down "in a hurry by a vote of 7 to 2.
Here is how the forces for and against freedom lined up: The freedom-haters under Bishop Shaughnessy, head of the Seattle diocese, were represented by F. J. Schaaf, grand knight of the Seattle Knights of Columbus. Dutifully at the heels of this foreign religious organization was the so-called “American” Legion. Tyre Hollander and George Flood, a national officer of the Legion, were its lead-off men. “Grand knight’ Schaaf is also a legionnaire. In recent years these two organizations have been inseparable in their fight against free worship, speech, and assembly. They make splendid twins. Both are devoted to Fascist methods. A former national commander of the Legion correctly said, “Do not forget that the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States.” By speech and acts the Legion has advocated anarchy and mob violence to wipe out Jehovah’s witnesses, the ones they and their Hierarchy allies persecute. From behind the flag’s folds the state-worshiping legionnaires stab out at the freedom principles for which it stands. Like their religious cronies, their outward appearances and pretenses are good, and deceive many; hut inwardly they are devoted to the dark ideologies of totalitarianism. Americans? Not unless the term has degenerated from its high plane to a name for those enamored with totalitarian tactics and storm-trooper methods. / ■
Misnomers
The so-called “American” Legion’s vile record of the past few years calls for this caustic vein of comment. They have invariably stood shoulder to shoulder with the Hierarchy in fighting against freedoms characteristic of America. Have these high standards become too old-fashioned for a modern world wherein many nations streamline their rule by adopting a centralized, quickacting total state setup? Axis agents have boasted that even if defeated militarily their totalitarian ideologies will be absorbed by their opponents, and that hence their system will triumph in the end. The “American” Legion has about reached the saturation point. If any organization is more misnamed it is not known, unless it is the calling of the Vatican City crowd “Christian”; or possibly the calling of Seattle’s auditorium “civic”. It would be more in line with the facts to call it Hughes’ Auditorium, by the grace of a seven-man majority of the city council.
Americans! keep an eye on the un-American Legion and Catholic Action! You may cheer when those with whom you disagree lose their liberty today. Will you cheer when you lose yours tomorrow ? If you unwisely permit or encourage them in their sabotage of American principles, do not be surprised when you become their next victim. If they can do it to one, they can do it to others.
There were some individuals at the open hearing who thought the boys overseas would not like to read in their home-town papers that Civic Auditorium was being used by this Christian group, Jehovah’s witnesses. How will they like to read that some of the four freedoms for which they fight are only theoretical in Seattle? How will they enjoy hearing that the national family at home is divided, that some misguided, shortsighted ones stand for minority-oppressing measures on the home front?
Ranged against these chronic opposers of freedom, the Hierarchy and the Legion, was a goodly representation of-freedom-lovers. First, there were the representative of the Society and others of Jehovah’s witnesses present. The
many decisions of the courts, from the lower courts on up to the United States Supreme Court, testifying to the loyalty of the Witnesses and their rights of worship and assembly were cited. The fact that the FBI had declared them nonsubversive, law-abiding citizens was mentioned. to counter the hysterical tirades of legionnaires and other Hierarchy tools, all of which unpatriotic, rabble-rousing rantings are perpetrated in the name of patriotism.
Exemplary Americans
But here is the praiseworthy thing, the thing that indicates love of real Americanism still burns intensely in the bosoms of some. Let it be made known in th'e words of the report in the PostIntelligencer, of May 16,1944:
Church Group Aids Witnesses
Coming to the defense of Jehovah’s witnesses, the executive committee of the Seattle Council of Churches yesterday took a stand in favor of permitting the sect to use the Civic Auditorium for its five-day convention, August 9 to 13, inclusive. This was announced at the City Hall by Councilwoman Mrs. F. F. Powell, who said she was notified during yesterday’s city council session that the action had been taken at the church committee’s noonday meeting. The Rev. Harold V. Jensen is president of the group.
“I am entirely in accord with the executive committee’s action,” the Rev. Dr. Jensen said last night. “I believe we should exert ourselves to obtain for everyone the freedom of expression which we ourselves desire. Denial of the use of Civic Auditorium to Jehovah’s witnesses would be discriminating against them. The precedent could be used later against any group with whom we disagreed. It would contribute a real threat to democracy.”
The Council of Churches committee, Mrs. Powell was informed, had voted unanimously to support the sect’s petition “in the interests of freedom of speech, worship and assemblage” and to urge that they be given the same consideration as “any other religious group”.
The Council of Churches represents 189 churches of 17 Protestant denominations in Seattle. The action of the executive committee of 25 pastors and laymen was unanimous; in other words, they are at unity in standing for freedom. Jehovah’s, witnesses do not agree with “organized religion”, but they have ever held that all religious groups, Hierarchy included, should have full right to preach and teach their beliefs. That is the American way, the freedom way. Undoubtedly the Council of Churches takes strong exception to the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses. But they do not permit this to distort their upright senses of freedom and Americanism into the twisted and deformed version held by some self-proclaimed super-patriotic groups, and the intolerant attitude adopted by the Hierarchy. When one favors freedom for those who disagree with him, then that one understands and practices the traditional American freedoms. It is extremely gratifying to see this display of fairness and justice on the part of the Council of Churches in Seattle. It is a demonstration of sterling Americanism that should shame the intolerant Hierarchy and cause the noisy Legion to blush. But they don’t know how.—Jeremiah 6:15;8:12.
Positive Action in Freedom’s Behalf
Nor did the Protestant organizations content themselves with just a statement. They came to the open hearing and fought for freedom. On the council meeting the Post-Intelligencer reported:
Vigorously defending the Witnesses’ petition were Atty. Arthur G. Barnett, representing the Seattle Council of Churches; the Rev. Mary McKee, pastor of the Fauntleroy Congregational Church; and the Rev. R. W. Pruitt, pastor of the Beacon Hill Congregational Church.
In a written summary of his remarks before the city council R. W. Pruitt said:
I have experienced the sting of tlieir [Jehovah’s witnesses] thrusts personally, to
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my discomfort and annoyance. If anyone has a right to be antagonistic to them, T feel that the right and occasion is mine as truly as it may be of anyone else. Yet, I have found in more recent and intimate knowledge of their purposes, that they seek to oppose autocratic aspects which we all ought to recognize as being abuses of the democratic principle, and all too common within our systems of religion. While I may not be in sympathy with some Of their methods or policies, or many of their doctrines, yet I do believe that consistency and fairness is at stake in this matter, and that we ought not to make a restriction which might even stand a chance of being branded as interfering with the freedom of worship; and I do believe that American principle is here on trial.
In a similar written statement Arthur G. Barnett testified:
My remarks were substantially as follows: That the Executive Committee of the Seattle Council of Churches was representative of many Protestant denominations whose history indicated a great struggle to obtain their respective religious freedom; that many Protestant denominations were critical of the Watch Tower Society and, at times, felt that they (Protestant denominations) were being the object of criticism by the Watch Tower Society, but despite this fact we felt that the essence of religious freedom, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly was to grant such freedom to those with whom we disagreed; that Fritz Thyssen stated in a book written by him and which is on file in the Seattle Public Library, that as a German Catholic he was convinced that the failure of the religious leaders of Germany to protest early against the persecution of the Jews was the beginning of the decline of civic righteousness which led to the persecution of all religion and the destruction of civil rights in Germany; that the courts of this land were unanimous in finding that the representatives of the Watch Tower Society were law-abiding, frugal and hard-working citizens with good reputations and that their religious beliefs had been upheld by the highest courts in the land; that regardless of whether or not the use of the auditorium was granted the Seattle Council of Churches felt compelled to make its testimony before the city council.
Refuting the false stare-statement of Hughes that a breach of the peace might occur if the Witnesses were permitted to use the Civic Auditorium, Attorney Arthur G. Barnett said he was confident it would “not be a lawless gathering unless those groups opposed to them go down there [to the auditorium] to commit violence”. Mr. Hughes was worried that the Hierarchy’s peace might be breached. The Protestant groups were opposed to his action; the Hierarchy element backed him up. These developments at the meeting of the city council prove it was Gerald Shaughnessy and his cohorts that Charles C. Hughes was shielding, rather than religion generally.
The Hierarchy Hates Freedom
Protestants founded this nation to escape, the oppression of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. They gave the nation a good start in freedom. Seattle’s Protestant organizations apparently ap- < preciate this precious heritage. They are grounded in democracy. The Catholic Church is rooted in Papal Rome, a foreign power steeped in totalitarianism. Recently the Hierarchy demanded that Protestant missionaries stay out of South America. She declared Protestants to be a minority there, that the population was largely Roman Catholic, and must not be exposed to the teachings of Protestantism. She would not like that principle applied to her in this country, where she is a minority and depends upon and claims the constitutional liberties provided for minorities. Yet she wants another minority group, the Witnesses, suppressed. As “Father” Harney, Catholic priest, said not many years ago, the Catholic Church would prevent, by death if necessary, the spread of heresy (Protestantism) wherever she was strong enough to do so. She tempers her conduct according to her strength.
Hierarchy Engenders Religious Hate
This Hierarchy proclamation concerning Sputh America, not unlike a greedy gangster warning others to stay out of his territory, is likely to engender religious antagonism. Charles C. Hughes doubtless approves, in this case. But it betrays the Hierarchy’s hatred of free worship, where she does not have to depend on that principle and is strong enough to quash it. It is in harmony with the pope’s speech of June 2, 1944, wherein he decried the “vast division and dispersal of religious confessions, that in the course of time have detached themselves from ‘Mother Church’”. He is now trying to prevent any “dispersal” of Protestantism to South America, and as his church becomes strong enough she hopes to gobble up all other “religious confessions”. Is it not possible that the Protestant organizations are awaking to these Hierarchy aims, that they are beginning to see the claws beneath her pious exterior?
Many individuals not affiliated with any organization were at the open hearing and spoke in favor of civil liberties. One private citizen expressed himself to the Post-Intelligencer, as follows:
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Hats off to Mayor Devin and -Councilwoman Powell for speaking up for American democracy. There .are other kinds of “democracy” these days, where those who say “me too” can have all the freedom they want, but where those who are dissenters fare rather badly. The mayor and Mrs. Powell say with Jefferson, let these people, in this case Jehovah’s witnesses, have their say. But David Levine says, “No; these religious fanatics must not have the Civic Auditorium; we don’t want the disorders of 1938.” As a matter of fact there were no disorders when the city canceled [in 1943], without notice, the right of the Witnesses to continue their meeting. They left the auditorium in a quiet and dignified way. The only “disorder” was that caused by wordy politicians.
But the majority of Seattle’s city council east its vote to appease the Hierarchy and the notorious Legion, at the expense of cherished freedoms. They are councilmen J. Scavotto, D. Levine, J. Carroll, R. Jones, F. Laube, M. Mitchell, and W. Norton. They may take their bows before Charles Hughes and these two groups, and reap the votes with which the Hierarchy’s political machine chooses to reimburse them. Standing solidly behind the nation in its war aim of “four freedoms” are Councilwoman Mrs. F. F. Powell and Councilman Frank McCaffrey. These two, along with Mayor Devin and the Protestant organizations, will be gratefully remembered by Seattle freedom-lovers.
Birth of the Hate Ordinance
From the foregoing it is clear that Seattle is not one hundred percent a city of religious hate, far from it; but an evil element has given the city its unsavory reputation. To peer behind the scene in Seattle and see who is working the strings that move the responsible political puppets it is necessary to note the origin of the infamous hate ordinance of 1938. It sprouted after a convention of Jehovah’s witnesses held in the Civic Auditorium, in June, 1938. Judge Rutherford, a former Watchtower president, spoke on “Violence”. Mobsters, goaded on by Catholic priests on the scene, violently opposed that assembly and assaulted some of the conventioners. They invaded the building and tried to disrupt the meetings by forcing Catholic literature upon those assembled. Harking back to this occasion Shaughnessy’s paper, The Catholic Northwest Progress, May 19, 1944, displayed typical Hierarchy gall by saying the “disorders were caused by the Witnesses”. Only morons will believe people try to break up their own meetings.
Priest-incited hoodlums will invade
Fred W. Shorter, Seattle. the meetings of Jehovah’s witnesses.
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Jehovah’s servants never invade and disturb Catholic assemblies. Yet in those meetings plenty is said to engender hatred against the Witnesses, and that “plenty” is lies. Unable to refute the Bible message the Witnesses declare, religion vents its spleen by stirring base persons to commit acts of violence against them, as was done in the apostles’ day, and in Seattle in June of 1938. —Acts 17: 5.
Many of Seattle’s citizens are Catholic^, (not in favor of such tactics, however) and the scheming priesthood uses their votes to control the city’s politics. Hence, following Judge Rutherford’s expose of the totalitarian political ambitions of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to dominate the world by cruel dictators her loyal political tools ‘framed mischief by law’ (Psalm 94:20), the hate law concerning ‘engendering religious antagonism’. The Hierarchy refuses to meet the charges of Jehovah’s witnesses by refuting them. She takes the “out” that it is beneath her dignity to answer. But it is not beneath her dignity to stir her dupes to mob action, or to underhandedly strike through corrupt politicians. Nor is it beneath her dignity or Jesuitic “moral” code to coerce and boycott. Gerald Shaughnessy boasted that he wrote 1,000 letters to clergymen and others, seeking their aid to keep Judge Rutherford from being heard in Seattle. The conspiracy failed. But his boycott against radio station KOL for broadcasting Judge Rutherford’s speech succeeded, and KOL was obliged to make a public apology for allowing free speech over its facilities. So, in 1944, in the approved Hierarchy style, Charles C. Hughes used the hate ordinance of 1938 to strike down free speech, worship, and assembly. ■
Hughes’ “Investigation” a Farce
At the time the application for use of the auditorium went to Mr. Hughes the Seattle Times, May 5, 1944, reported :
Building superintendent Charles C. Hughes today promised “a fair, thorough and unbiased” investigation of a request by Jehovah’s. witnesses for use of the Civic Auditorium for a convention in mid-August.
His “investigation” was not fair, not thorough, and not unbiased. In his letter instructing the auditorium manager to reject the application he quoted from some of the Society’s publications. The statements were conclusions that had been reached only after long, careful Scriptural arguments. Torn from their context and from the Scripturally correct setting, they might appear unfounded standing alone. For example, he quoted from the book Enemies: “From the evidence the conclusion is irresistible that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization serves the Devil and is therefore the enemy of God, the enemy of man, and the very personification of unrighteousness.” That appears harsh indeed. But no more so than Jesus’ words at John 8: 44, where He told the religionists that they were of their father the Devil because they did his works. Many of the Hierarchy’s devilish works, from the Inquisition up to modern times, had been cited by the book Enemies. Notice the quotation starts out, “From the evidence the conclusion is,” etc. This is typical of Hughes’ isolating conclusions and ignoring the factual evidence inspiring them. His “investigation” was not fair.
Charles C. Hughes’ “investigation” did not consider any publication issued by the Society since 1938. Five new books and many booklets have been released since then. Apparently these were not examined. His “investigation” was certainly not thorough. This failure to consider late publications, the ones conscientious examiners would go to first, betrays something else: he was proceeding on the same old prejudiced opinion formed several years previous; perhaps not by him, but by the Hier-
archy and their dupes, which is worse. His “investigation” was not a new, unbiased one.
Who Engenders Racial Hate?
Since the engendering of religious and racial hate is the issue Hughes raises, a few observations and questions on the subject are in order. First, to dispense with the matter of race hatred: Acts 17: 26 states that God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth”. The same principle appears where it is written, “There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek.” (Romans 10:12; Galatians 3: 28) Revelation 7: 9 shows members of all nations assembling unto the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus. Jehovah’s witnesses have never attacked any race.
But the Hierarchy! Papal bulls have repeatedly lashed out at the Jews, find engendered hatred toward them. The Devil-sponsored Inquisition singled out them, along with honest Catholic and Protestant Bible scholars who translated the Scriptures into the people’s language, as its chief target. She has not changed. When her concordat, partner, Catholic Hitler (never excommunicated despite many pleas), was overrunning countries his first act was to proscribe the work of Jehovah’s witnesses and revive the Papal anti-Semitic laws. “Father” Coughlin spearheaded the campaign in this country. It did not succeed; so the Hierarchy slid out from under his odious race-hatred movement by saying it was Coughlin’s baby, that she could not stop him. The totalitarian Hierarchy has absolute control over her priests, and could have made him bow to the Papal will as quickly as she recently did “Father” Orlemanski, the priest who went to Russia to confer with Stalin. Actually, Coughlin was acting under instructions from Papal Rome, serving as a “feeler”. The past and present record of the Roman Church convicts her of engendering racial antagonism.
How Would You Answer?
As to the issue of religious hatred, these questions are raised: Should truths that affect the eternal welfare of mankind be hid if they expose falsifiers? Should such religious falsifiers be protected by stamping out free speech concerning the Bible message, if that inspired message makes religion’s works contemptuous and hateful in the eyes of honest folk? Should the words of desecraters go unrefuted and uncountered to maintain a “peace at any price” ? Should they be permitted to continue ^unanswered their blasphemies of God’s name so that their hypocritical “good name” may stand highly esteemed? (Luke 16:15) Extending the principle of the unconstitutional hate ordinance, Did Jesus deserve the death religionists inflicted upon Him because He exposed their hateful and contemptuous practices, practices that were leading themselves and unwary followers into destruction? To all the foregoing queries a “fair and unbiased” mind would indignantly answer No! Hughes and seven Seattle councilmen would say Yes.
With them political advantages come first. Charles “Censor” Hughes has “thrown his hat in the ring” for a county office. He is not a servant of the public. The Civic Auditorium is not paying its way; he will not allow it to earn legitimate revenue. He is the Hierarchy’s servant. (Romans 6:16) In 1943 he broke the Witnesses’ contract with the city for use of the auditorium after the first day, in obedience to the Hierarchy will. If a contract had been concluded this time, this old hand at contractbreaking would doubtless have returned to the scene of his “crime” and repeated it, for the Hierarchy. He gains his reward. As a candidate for county commissioner he will in all probability receive the support of Shaughnessy’s political clique.
Now, pause and reflect: The pope blessed Mussolini in Abyssinia, Hitler in Austria and Czechoslovakia (where a
priest, Tiso, was put in as ruler), and the Hitler-and-Mussolini-backed Franco in Spain. Archbishop Spellman recently added another coat of religious whitewash to the bloody butcher of Spanish democracy. The Vatican lauds Hitler’s puppet Petain as the “good marshal”, under whose reign Papal anti-Semitic laws were revived in France. The Vatican has diplomatic relations with the totalitarian powers, and has recognized the Japanese-sponsored government of the Philippines. His claimed neutrality is a joke. But Charles C. Hughes would say, “Don’t remember these things, Seattle citizens. Stick your heads in the sand and be a city of ostriches. If there’s any need for a fair, thorough and unbiased investigation I’ll make it. And I’ll not stir up any religious antagonism, except against unpopular minorities like Jehovah’s witnesses.” And seven of that city’s, councilmen, led around by the nose by the blatant “American” Legion and Knights of Columbus, would echo his words. '
It is not engendering religious hate to remember these facts. It is treasonable to democratic principles to ignore them. Facing facts is realistic. Consider this one: Hughes branded Jehovah’s witnesses as “people who lend nothing to the war effort except objections”. That is a base lie. It was deliberately made and calculated to engender hatred of this minority. Not one word of objection has been voiced in any Watchtower publication as to the war, its conduct, or any phase of military or home-front activity vital to the war. They preach the gospel of God’s kingdom, and, leave world affairs to those versed in them. (James 4:4) They have rendered aid. The Watchtower has done more to warn the people of the insidious work of the totalitarian dictators and their backers than has any other group, and this for years prior to the outbreak of global wTar. They have given valuable service in the fight for liberty on the home front by securing many court deci
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sions that safeguard the democratic liberties under assault at home as well as abroad. Hughes’ slanderous words violate his own pet ordinance.
Objector to the Bar Effort
But what about the “Church” Mr. Hughes is so zealous to protect? Frequently and repeatedly, since the turn of the war in favor of the Allies, the pope has pleaded for a generous peace, yes, even a negotiated peace. This is contrary to Allied aims. The pope’s latest effort to salvage something from Catholic Hitler’s aggressions by a negotiated peace came on June 2, 1944, as the conquering Allied armies ■were closing in on Rome. Never protesting the long occupation of the “Eternal City” by the Nazis, he became suddenly nervous about the defilement of Rome as the United Nations forces approached. He decried the resolve of full victory, and accused those advocating it as responsible for a prolonged war. He strenuously objects to the “unconditional surrender” aim of the Allied war effort. Hence the most recent facts point to the pope and his Hierarchy as the ones ‘lending objections’ to the war effort, and not Jehovah’s witnesses. .
The New York World-Telegram (June .3, 1944), speaking editorially, had this to say regarding this papal speech: '
We think most Americans will be grieved by his effort to stop the war short of that full victory to which the Allied governments and peoples are committed, as the price of peace and freedom. . . . It is true that the Allies are continuing this war because only full military victory can achieve a just peace. The alternative is a negotiated peace, which Hitler has been fighting for since he lost the chance of military victory. , . . The pope in his appeal for the safety of Rome says, “We do not hesitate to repeat once more with equal impartiality and dutiful firmness that whoever would dare lift a hand against Rome would be guilty of matricide before the present
world and. in front of the eternal judgment of God.” It is a strange “impartiality” that fails to differentiate between the Axis defiler of religion, using Rome as a military base, and the Allied armies of liberation.
Mr. Hughes, is not such truthful comment as that likely to engender religious hate, on the part both of the Hierarchy against the above truth-teller, and of those fighting for democracy; are not the latter likely to be roused to antagonism against the pope and others urging appeasement and a negotiated peace? Yet the comment is' proper.
The New York Herald Tribune, June 3, 1944, in its editorial columns, said:
Pope Pius XII ... has always expressed himself with a circumspection through which it is not easy to grasp the exact bearing of what he says [Papal “double talk”, to be interpreted to suit the need in each country]. . . . But if he was also speaking for a negotiated peace with the Nazi evil, and it is inevitable that his carefully guarded words, produced at just this critical juncture in the development of the battle, should be so interpreted by many, then the address could only be regarded as an un-neutral intervention in favor of the Hitler conspiracy in the moment of its greatest peril. . . . The Allies have ’ insisted upon “unconditional surrender”. When the pope appears to attack that policy he unavoidably appears to be undermining as well the whole basis of the gigantic sacrifices which the Allied peoples are making in behalf of a better world.
Here, again, are words that might engender religious hate. But a fair and unbiased mind will not question the propriety of saying them. Since this Papal bid for junking the “unconditional surrender” principle, and negotiating with the demon-crazed Catholic dictator of Germany, the Allies launched the long-anticipated second-front invasion from the west. At that momentous time General Eisenhower (incidentally, his mother is one of Jehovah’s witnesses)
declared it must end in full victory. That opposes the pope. Might not the general’s words engender the religious hate of the Hierarchy, Mr. Hughes? He could not talk for “unconditional surrender” in your auditorium now, not after what the pope said, could he? Yes, perhaps he could; you do not apply your impossible ordinance without discrimination. You know its precarious, unconstitutional terms could not stand against any except an unpopular minority.
'Behold, a Beam in Thine Own Eye!*
In conclusion, be it noted that the Witnesses have used many civic and municipal auditoriums in other cities in times past, without incident. Seattle is not so holy that it could not stand a visit from the humble witnesses of Jehovah God. She is not so sinless that she could not profit by a few Bible assemblies. She is a city notorious for her vice, gambling, prostitution, etc. Only last year conditions became so flagrant that the federal government conducted investigations and army authorities threatened to place parts of the city under military supervision if the city did not take effective action to eliminate brothels. If the city council majority that blocked constitutional rights for Jehovah’s witnesses were as zealous in fighting against vice as they are in catering to “Bishop” Shaughnessy and the Legion and trampling underfoot the “four freedoms”, Seattle would be more American and less Hierarchical in its make-up. It would be more conducive to the welfare of troops stationed in its vicinity. It would be more patriotic. The FBI investigated Jehovah’s witnesses and found them to be loyal citizens. The federal government investigated Seattle and found her wanting. Yet she throws stones at Jehovah’s witnesses !
On June 5, 1944, Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, said:
“What good does it to send armies to Rome, Berlin and Tokyo to liberate’, as we say,
the inhabitants of those countries, while denying people of those same extractions the liberation they have sought in this country?” he demanded. “How can we ever make the people of those lands, or of our own, believe in our sincerity if they behold Americans here refusing to other Americans the equality of treatment which is a fundamental right under the laws of God and the statutes of our forefathers? I say that we cannot.” [New York ' Times, June 6, 1944]
Be on Guard, Americans!
On that same dinner occasion another speaker, Dr. Aydelotte, asserted that “the final test of any civilization is the treatment of minorities”. Three times in recent years (1938, 1943, and now in 1944) Seattle has failed this test of civilization. The responsible ones, the ones instrumental in her losing freedoms, have been identified. The fault does not I
lie with the people generally, though they should soon open their eyes and take steps to remove the smirch on the city.
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It is certainly not the fault of some, such as the mayor, Mrs. F. F. Powell, Mr. Frank McCaffrey, those of the many Protestant organizations, and certainly not Jehovah’s witnesses. All these and others too are fighting for liberty on the Seattle home front. The fight will be hard; the come-back trail is not easy. Can she, will she, do it? The fly in the freedom ointment is the Hierarchy and its Legion toadies, along with aspiring politicians, such as the ex-superintendent of buildings (Chas. C. Hughes has been replaced by a new appointee of Mayor Devin) and a majority of the city’s councilmen. They cause a spoil-some stench over the entire city. (Ecclesiastes 10:1; 1 Corinthians 5:6) It is up to the citizens of Seattle whether the stench remains. Remember the words
of Wendell Phillips, American freedomlover: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Seattle citizens, and all Americans, the warning is again sounded: Watch the so-called “American” Legion and Catholic Action!
The Spinners of Insect Traps
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HE spinners of insect traps; that’s the spiders; that’s what the word ‘ means. A spider is a spinder, spinner, spinster, or spinning one, and on a dewy ' morning in the early autumn, when the j sun is just right, you will find millions [ of them, spread all over the whole land-i scape; that is, you will find their shimmering webs in every tree and bush, I beneath stones, logs and rubbish, in [ hollow trees, postholes, and everywhere i else. They are to be found in Greenland !• and they swarm in the tropics.
; Silk from spider webs is worth 10c per | foot, and is used in many precision in-I struments, such as camera view-finders, theodolites, surveyors’ instruments, and for military purposes. After one of these i commercially useful citizens has parted 1 JULY 19, 1944
with 100 feet of silk, which it may do in the space of an hour, it is very hungry and must be fed. The best silk comes from the weavers of the flat webs of wheel-like design. It would take 10,000 of the threads, laid side by side, to make an inch. Great care is necessary to prevent the threads from overlapping. Gloves and stockings have been made of spider silk. Such silk is stronger than steel wire of the same size.
A writer accuses the spiders of having practically no intelligence, in spite of their ingenuity shown in the construction of the various forms of webs in which they specialize. One variety accepted a pith ball instead of her egg cocoon; another industriously enwrapped a piece of paper agitated with a needle
point. And yet this same writer stated that, because of their work in ridding the earth of destructive insects,
It is doubtful if civilized man could successfully cultivate or even inhabit the earth, if it were not for these despised benefactors, unless nature were to provide some other agency to hold even the balance of helpful and harmful life.
There is a great variety of spiders. One kind carries its young around until they are able to fend for themselves. She may have as many as a hundred on her back at one time. Another kind lives in the water. It builds a little silken diving bell under the water, and fills it with air carried down as bubbles between the abdomen and back legs, Its food consists of aquatic insects. It even mates and produces its young in its nest under the water.
It is a risky business for any young man to make love to a young woman, but it is especially so in the case of a spider. In certain varieties the male is so much smaller than the female that unless he has the proper advance (and maybe even then) his juieeless skeleton will be hung near the female’s hangout, along with those that preceded or followed him, like so many scalps on a savage’s wigwam. Feminine sympathy, feminine compassion! Humph! In one variety, the male approaches his mate with a fly wrapped in silk, which she seizes and retains during mating. Seems like a reflection on ’em both.
The spider has two jaws attached to his face, each having a hollow poison fang folded up within a groove when at rest, like a pocket-knife’s blade within its handle, and it seems there is truth in the claim that the bite of some species is specially poisonous to man. Sliders have eight legs, each of which is seven-jointed and ends in a foot having two or three claws, constructed for grasping and handling delicate threads.
Wildwood, in the Vancouver Daily Province, writing on “Flying Spiders”, says: p-
The haze in the bright sky of autumn is not all smoke; it has the lustre of pale reflective silver. Myriad shreds of fine-spun silk are floating through the air, waving strands of minute spider webbing, so light that they rise on the faintest breeze, and so strong that they trail the tiny passengers that spun them. • Winds lift them and carry them over mountains. Aviators have caught them thousands of feet high in the air. The flight is one of the greatest ventures in nature. The ground is always too crowded for them. While still little more than a pin-head size, they run to climb the nearest things that point upward, grass, flower stems, twigs, posts or walls. When the utmost height is reached, the infant * spinner pays out a line of silk, inch after inch ‘of gossamer until the pull of its “kite” is strong enough to lift the creature into the air; then away it rides, perhaps to the next tree, it may be to a piratic beak, or out over miles of land or water, to desert or sea, to be brought down finally perhaps on a drop of rain. Thus are peaks and treetops reached, for everywhere are spiders.
For the autumn days are full of spiders. Black “wolf-spiders” race over every inch of grass and garden constantly. Garden spiders busily tie up every stem and branch; every gate and fence. Indoor spiders knit every cranny and shelf, weave little dust-gathering curtains behind every book; barns and sheds are veiled from roof to floor, fields are webbed with threaded jewel-dust in the dew of every morning. Not hundreds, but millions, forage in every field. The earth is not wide enough, they take to the water, one kind waits on the incoming tide, and as the foremost wavelet retreats, runs down to meet the next, gathers a globule of air under its legs, lets the water run over it, then snatches food from the crest of the wave as it is thrown farther up the sand! It has been estimated, and with great care, that spiders destroy many more insects than do birds, but birds are loved, spiders are not.
Twelve Seconds in the Air
Orville Wright, still living, 73 years , of age, navigated a box kite through the air at Kitty Hawk, N. C., when he was 33 years of age, and modern aviation began right there. Today, so the military men say, working plans are in process of completion that will .enable bombers to fly three thousand miles, drop a load of bombs that will have, virtually, the effect of an earthquake on the locality where they fall, and then they will be able to return to their bases. No city is safe, anywhere.
A few months before his death in an airplane accident in the southwestern Pacific, that able and kindly columnist Raymond Clapper said:
Air war is terrifying and brutal. That is one of the best things about it. At last we have the means of making cities uninhabitable, spreading a blight over ports, industrial areas, airfields, and—yes, why not be frank about it?—population areas. I have seen many blocks rendered uninhabitable around port areas in Africa and Sicily. At last war is being made so horrible for the civilian population that perhaps its ultimate stupidity will become clear.
What a strange thing it seems that today much of the fighting is being done at five to seven miles above the earth, and sometimes where the earth itself cannot even be seen by those who are in mortal combat with their' fellows. Under such circumstances even the engines must have help in Order to be able to breathe properly. This is really true. Two different methods of condensing the air are employed: in the one case the condensers are worked by the plane’s own engines; in the other, by special engines; and in extreme cases, by both.
Automobile Builders on the Job
It is no reflection on the rest of the world that the development of the automobile whipped up the development of the plane, and that it was in American factories that the engines of both were made by the million. When automobile manufacture ceased and airplane manufacture took its place Mussolini’s name became Mud, Hitler’s name became Hinky-Dink, and Hito’s name became Hit-and-Miss.
Major Al Williams, Scripps-Howard aviation writer, tries to tell the truth about this, without giving offense, when he puts it this way in the World-Telegram:
It is well for Americans to recognize that without the almost miraculous production accomplished by the American aircraft and other industries none of our allies still would be operating against the Axis. Of course, the Russians have put up a great fight. All credit is due them, as due the English, but neither nation could equal the airpower production of the Nazis. I make this statement not to stir up rivalry among those nations who share the common objective of beating Hitler but because the American people should understand that it is with Ameriean-built equipment and planes that the Russians and the British are fighting the war. When England was within a few hours of being swamped by Nazi airpower it was our American guns, ammunition, planes and ships that enabled her to brace and catch her breath for a new start.
There’s no question that the Russians were in the same fix when the Germans had destroyed Soviet munition factories and mine production prior to the Stalingrad episode. At that time it was American guns, planer and ammunition that gave the Russian soldier and airman the means to turn back the invader. Today American warplanes of all types, in great numbers on all the war fronts, are in the hands of American, British, French and Russian pilots. There is no aircraft-production machine in the world that can perform within wishing distance of our records. America is the airpower nation of the world today, and any system that makes such a position possible must be pretty sound.
No Appeal to American Vanity
The foregoing is not intended as an appeal to American vanity. The whole world is in on this thing. It is only a little while since a British airjnan, Captain Richard Allen, clipped 21 minutes off the best time of. the 3,100 miles from Montreal to Britain. He made it in 11 hours 35 minutes in “a B 24 Liberator on the R.A.F. Transport Command North Atlantic shuttle ferry for British Overseas Airways Corporation”. This is a bit from the London News Chronicle and refers to an American-built lend-lease plane in the hands of an expert British aviator. Its speed was 275 miles an hour.
The point is that the planes are going places in these days; and that isn’t guesswork. It is a fact. The war department has announced that the 11,748 miles from New York to Karachi, India, is a flight of thirty-seven hours thirty-five minutes. The trip has been made often enough that a time-distance schedule has been made. To be sure, it takes time to load and unload a plane, and the usual running time for the round trip mounts to twelve days, but think what it means to cart freight from Patterson Field, Ohio, to Karachi, India, and to be back in Ohio ready for another trip in two days less than two weeks. It seems almost impossible, but it isn’t; it’s the truth.
Other time-distance schedules have been advertised or otherwise mentioned, such as Chicago to Singapore in fortyseven hours; Washington to Yakutsk, Siberia, in twenty-eight hours; Kansas City to Chungking, China, in thirtyseven hours; New York to Calcutta, India, in forty-one hours; Chicago to Fairbanks, Alaska, in thirteen hours; Boston to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in twenty-three hours; Denver to Fiji in thirty-four hours; and San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia, in thirty-five hours.
Turn Your Eyes Away
Turn your eyes away from the war for a few minutes and think of what these changes in transportation mean to humanity as in terms of peace. The Los Angeles Examiner states that tens of millions of pounds of dehydrated foods are now being sent all over, everywhere. Why, in terms of peace, in a warless world, that would mean the absolute end of any such thing as starvation. The Examiner says that among the special foods that are going to Russia in this form are Russian borscht (beet juice) made the way the Russians like it, and Russian tachonka (pork) made according to the Russian recipes.
As for Italy, while volcanic dust is really good for vegetation, and quickly turns into green grass, yet it isn’t so good to breathe, either for humans or for airplane motors; and so Uncle Sam’s boys are now sowing grass seed (fifty tons of it) over southern Italy. And, though that is a small item, doesn’t it suggest some of the wonderful things that may yet be done by these vehicles that in some places crowd the skies?
The planes are bringing the ends of the earth together, and doing it with a jerk; and the aviators have to use their heads at both ends of the lifie as well as in between. Thus, to avoid carrying disease germs from one end of the planet to the other, it is necessary that fumigation or other sanitary measures be taken for the passengers and freight at every terminal. If there are tropical and communicable diseases in places on the other side of' the globe, who wants them brought to America merely because an aviator can get here in less than two days ?
Some aviators think that the invention of the Britisher, Captain Frank Whittle (age 36 at present, but working on this one invention since he was 22), may show as startling results as that of Orville Wright’s twelve seconds in the air. Mr. Whittle’s invention seems to have solved jet propulsion. It uses kerosene as fuel and does away with propellers. Hundreds of test flights seem to suggest that this is the next thing ahead.
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This Creature Called “Man”
VERY sane man knows, from knowledge of himself and from observation, that he and all other men are imperfect. Not only that, but every one must know that he is sinful. The righteously disposed man asks: How can I be relieved of these imperfections? Comes the answer from God: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord [Jehovah]: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”—Isaiah 1:18.
The fact that God has asked man to reason with Him shows that God will not arbitrarily deliver man and give to him blessings without man’s consent. If the destiny of each man were fixed, without regard to whether he accepted or rejected the provision made for humankind, then there would be no occasion for men to reason with the Lord. This for ever puts to silence the theory of religionists that every human creature is predestinated at or before birth.
Furthermore, the fact that God invites man to reason upon the question of salvation is conclusive proof that God’s provision for human salvation is reasonable, not a foolish one, as some would make it appear. God’s adversary has deceived many religionists into saying: ‘No matter what a man believes, just so long as he is honest in his belief, that is sufficient. The belief of one is as good as that of another.’ One religionist Says: ‘My parents were good Catholics, and their religion is good enough for me.’ Another says: ‘My mother was a Methodist, and her religion is good enough
"T’ for me.’ The parents of both the Catho-lie and the Methodist may have been alike honest; but it is absolutely certain that not both could have been right,
because their theories of salvation are' very different. How, then, should we determine what to do? Jehovah answers: ‘Come, reason with me in the light of my Word the Bible, and I will show you the way to life? Jehovah’s Son, Jesus, says: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,. and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” —John 17: 3. .
To reason means to arrive at a just conclusion, by starting at a premise or fixed basis and then step by step applying the known facts according to fixed principles or rules of action.
The question here is the salvation of man. The premise is: Man is imperfect, in a dying condition, suffering in his present condition and desiring deliverance. The conclusion that is right is: God alone can bring deliverance, and He must provide complete relief, by arranging for the rescue of believing and obedient men from all these disabilities and for the giving to them eternal life and happiness. The facts upon which this conclusion is reached are set forth in the Bible, which is true because it is the Word of the infinite and eternal One, Jehovah God.
The primary attributes that are inherent in Jehovah are wisdom, justice, love, and power, working always harmoniously. Man was created in the likeness of God in that God endowed perfect man Adam with these attributes in proper measure of wisdom, justice, love and power. While it is true that Adam failed and his offspring have greatly degenerated, yet every sane, intelligent man in some degree retains something of those attributes of justice, wisdom, love and power. These attributes should be exercised harmoniously. Man cannot now exercise them perfectly, but he can exercise them to some extent nevertheless.
That which goes to make up every man is mind, will, heart, and organism. The mind is that faculty of the person by which man searches out facts, weighs and considers them and reaches a conclusion.
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