Awake!, August 22, 1949
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News sources that ant able to keep you awake io the vital Iteuea of our times must b* unfettered by censorship and selfish interests. “Awake!” has no fetters. It recognizes facts, faces facts, is free to publish facts. It Is not bound by political ambitions or obbgationi; it is unhampered by advertisers whose iocs must not be tread upon; it is unprejudiced by traditional creeds. This journal keeps itself free that it may speak freely to you.. But It does not abuse Ite freedom. It maintains integrity to truth.
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CONTENTS
Gangsters in Government
Gang Rule in New York and Boston 4
Chicago, Still a Criminal’s Paradise
Gangsters in High Places
Who Arc the "Higher Powers’7
Dangerous DDT
Your Mind—the BulFe-Eys of
Propaganda’s Target
Manta] Laziness or Nonsense
Defease of Mind
"The Lion Will Eat Straw Lika ths OxM 13
Zoo Carnivores Turn Vegetarian
Poland’s U.N, Representative on
the Mindszcnly Case
Finding the Lost "Fountain of Youth**
Ever Searching, Never Learning
Seek Life from the Fountain of life 20
This Business of Baby-stttfcg
Babv-Sitters with "Union*’ Cards
Do You Have a Sittirg Diploma? 22 "Thy Word Is Truth"
In the Awakening from Death’s Sleep
The Religious Goods Business
Watching the World
racketeering practices of in1 midation against members and non-members. When the mob was broken up three men committed suicide and more than 200 faced federal and state indictments. At that time state, county and city employees were “kicking back” 5 percent of their salaries, amounting to $1,000,000 a year, into the gang’s treasury.
One of the most brazen money-grabbing Southern gangsters, "that man” Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, of Mississippi, was at one time a licensed Baptist preacher. His career as a bribe-taking politician dated back to 1910, when as a state senator he was asked to resign, being unfit “to sit with honest, upright men . Later, as lieutenant-governor and then as governor of the state, Bilbo’s shady, under-the-table deals with contractors for paving jobs almost bankrupted the state, For 12 years Bilbo was a United States senator, and as such he feathered his nest with all kinds of bribes. From war contracts he received “gifts” consisting of a new Cadillac, expensive household furniture and a private lake for his estate. Also a $75,000 “dream house”, a luxurious swimming pool and a private community church were given to him, and the labor and material costs were charged to the construction of an army air field,
Enoch L, Johnson in southern New Jersey got rich oft a vicious rule of corruption. For 20 years Johnson ostensibly held a $6,000-a-year job as county treasurer, but in reality he illegally scooped in something like a quarter of a million dollars a year. Every political job in his domain, including those of the cops, judges, sheriff and jury panels, were bought from Johnson. All the resort hotels, the gambling dens, the “red light” brothels, and business establishments in general, had to pay for "protection”.
*7 Am the Law” Hague
Then there was boss Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City, N.J,, for 30 years.
During his reign crime and corruption, bribery and intimidation flourished. Brutal racketeers like Joe Fay, narcotic and dope peddlers of the underworld, and hoodlums like Anthony Zavalick, were well protected. The stench of “Jersey Justice” under Hague’s hand-picked judge and jury “system" could be smelled far and wide. High-handed Hague, a tyrant of no small conceit, attempted to suppress free speech and with the arrogance of a Hitler he puffed himself up and proclaimed, “I am the law in Jersey City I”
When it came to money Hague was really a hog for graft; for, how else could he amass a reputed fortune of $40,000,000 while holding down a $9,000-a-year job? At the time he took office in 1917 taxes were $17 on each $1,000, but when he retired taxes were up to $72.75 per $1,000.
Coming from this same unclean New Jersey nest of politics, J. Parnell Thomas for many years sat as an honored member of Congress. His fanatical zeal for “witch-hunting” after "Reds”, and his display of pious “patriotism”, won for him the chairmanship of the “UnAmerican Committee” of the House. But last November Thomas’ ultra-Americanism vanished as a huge gas bag does when it explodes. The deflection came when it was revealed that for a number of years Thomas had padded his office’s expense account with fictitious, nonexisting secretaries, and had then appropriated their pay envelopes, thus robbing the federal government. Charged with committing 34 overt acts a maximum sentence of 32 years and a $40,000 fine could be given this hypocrite who boasted (with lips only) of such loyal love of country.
Gang Rule in New York and Boston
Boss rule in New York city reaches back in to the last century when “phenomenally dishoneat” William M. Tweed, and his Tammany Hall gang, pidaged the city of between 50 and 100 milSoh dollars. During the first part of this century Richard Croker of the Gas House Gang held the power, and after him Charles F. Murphy was so “successful” as the boss he left a $2,000,000 estate. Though the claws of the Tammany tiger are not as long as in the past, yet the stripes of the beast have not changed. In 1940 James J. Hines, a powerful Tammany district leader, was “sent up the river” to Sing Sing prison for his dealings with an underworld gangster named “Dutch Schults”.
One of the ring leaders of Tammany today is Edward J. Flynn, one-time Democratic national chairman. This is the Flynn that made a deal with a mortgage company which resulted in a loss of more than a million dollars of public funds; the Flynn who at one time appointed gangster “Dutch Schultz” as a deputy sheriff; the Flynn that Truman tried to send to Australia as an ambassador. Public opinion blocked this, when it was learned that Flynn had stolen paving blocks from New York city for his private estate.
Sometimes the gangsters, clothed with judiciary robes of authority, sit behind the bar of justice in the courts of law. One of these, Thomas A. Aurelio, a New York City magistrate, coveted an appointment as a Supreme Court justice. His nomination was arranged by his pal Frank Costello, the same Costello whose criminal record showed he was an exconvict, racketeer, gambler and associate of the country's worst gunmen and cutthroats. Among criminals of the bar, however, the name of Martin T. Manton will probably outlive that of Aurelio. Notwithstanding the fact that he was a United States Circuit Court justice, the tenth-highest ranking jurist in the country, and a highly honored Catholic Knight of St. Gregory, Manton had a greedy appetite for graft When caught he was shipped to Sing Sing on a 2-year sentence and a $10,000. fine for selling justice.
Boston’s most celebrated political gangster is none other than the mayor, James Michael Curley. Following his conviction in Washington, D.C., on a $60,000 mail-fraud deal in war contracts, Curley returned to Boston, where a National Guard band and a large mob, Catholic priests included, were at the station to welcome the “hero”. After using every dodge and trick, including the “failing health” hoax to escape punishment, and after two appeals to the Supreme Court failed, crook Curley paid a $1,000 fine and entered a Federal prison June 26, 1947, on a 6 to 18 months' sentence.
Convict Curley served only five months when Truman commuted his sentence and restored his civil rights, thus permitting him to skip out on any parole regulations, and sent him back to his $20,000-a-year job as the city mayor and boss of Boston's political machine.
Chicago, Still a Criminal’s Paradise
No city in the world is more notorious for gangsters than Chicago, Ill. Back in prohibition days Al Capone’s gang of gunmen and cutthroats committed every crime on the calendar: bank robbery, kidnaping, murders, racketeering, bootlegging, dope-peddling, income tax evasion, and operation of bawdy houses ami gambling dens. Today that city of sin is run by a new generation of gangsters, political and otherwise, that do an illegal business with gross receipts estimated at $700,000,000 a year.
Chicago is still one of the erookedest cities in the world. . . . [The same old rackets] still persist and along with them the unholy alliance between criminal, cop and politician. . . . The mobsters still have their friends in high places—in politics and the police department. . . . There is one infallible axiom about rackets—wherever they exist the politicians and the police are in on them, for gangs and graft go hand in hand.—Life, Nov. 29, 1948.
One of Capone’s close friends, a fellow named Roland Libonati, was also associated with a convict named Murray Humphreys. Today this same Libonati fe reportedly a state senator. Another state senate? is Lawrence Dowd, a name worshipfully spoken by the racketeers, This is because politician Dowd finds the time, also finds it convenient, to defend as their lawyer the underworld gangsters in Chicago's racket court. During 1947 he defended in the courts some 500 of these bloodsuckers of human society.
Gangsters in High Places
"To the practical political eye/' says Newsweek, "there was never anything to equal the old Pendergast Democratic machine in Kansas City, Mo., a decade or more ago?’ Gambling places, lewd shows, honky-tonks and peep joints were more plentiful than in Paris. As a newspaperman once observed: “With the possible exception of such renowned centers as Singapore and Port Said, Kansas City probably has the greatest sin industry in the world.” Elections were a myth. Thousands of voters had vacant lots and cemeteries for addresses, and at one time more than 60,000 of these "ghost" votes were found. All of this was the doing of the gangster machine run by Thomas J. Pendergast.
The country's president, Harry 8. Truman, is a product and a dues-paying member of the notorious Pendergast machine, and he was faithful to the boss until the day of his death. Truman even flew to Pendergast’s funeral in an army plane at government expense. More details are given by the columnist Westbrook Pegler:
Kansas City is Truman's old home town. He served as a county commissioner there in the era of some of the most spectacular thievery and vice in the criminal history of the United States. . . . After he had become president and a lot of the vermin 6f the Pendergast underworld had served their prison terms, TTiiTnan gave them presidential pardons. They were his old political comrades.
They had served the same old crooked master side by side with Harry.
Since Truman became president he has taken over some of Pendergast’s bossing duties, as shown when he ordered the defeat of a man named Slaughter in the Kansas elections. Now it is the Truman-Pendergast machine, but not everyone relishes a president that wears the breeches of a gang boss. For example, one newspaper says:
Thanks in no small measure to The Tribune, the people of this nation know Mr. Truman for the’nincompoop he is and for the vote-stealing, graft-protecting, gangsterparoling Pendergast man that he is. . . . Mr. Truman's devotion to gangsters was not confined to the Missouri brand. Pretty soon his parole board had released four of the leaders of the Capone mob.
Thus, with corruption in political integrity reaching up to the highest level, and the creed of gangsterism believed in and practiced by the most noble leaders, it is not surprising that many “smaller fry" engage in crooked dealings.
Swindlers in the government got rich quick passing out war contracts. Maj. Gen. Bennett D. Myers and Lieut. Gen. Ira Eaker became mixed up in a $22,000,000 airplane contract with Howard Hughes, and before Meyers knew it he had made $90,000 in crooked bond dealings. During these investigations of fraud it leaked out that Senator Owen Brewster had used his office and position for his personal advantage ana the interests of his own airline. Another "superman" of gangland was Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the powerful House Military Affairs Committee, and at one time a Baptist Sunday ^school superintendent and Bibleclass teacher. This pious crook connived with a munition combine, accepted a $53,000 bribe, committed 35 overt acts, was convicted and sentenced to prison.
Let none think these few examples are the only gangsters in government. The political parties themselves are nothing more than glorified gan^B controlled by leaders. A national election is to be held. City, county, state and national bosses call a convention. Dummy speakers are set up, huddles are held, caucuses are called, deals are made. Finally, the gang’s strong man stumps the country in a multimillion-dollar mudslinging campaign. The people vote and the winner, called the "people’s choice”, passes out juicy political jobs to the cronies of his gang.
Who Are the "Higher Powers”?
Religion it is true, takes a very active part in politics. At the party conventions last year leading clergymen opened each day’s session of ungodly noise and confusion with prayer. Cardinal Dougherty prayed over the first Democratic session. Clergymen across the country took part in the campaign. "Chicago clergymen have joined in a 'get out the vote5 campaign for November 2 during which all the city’s church bells will be rung at intervals.” (New York Times) Nuns and priests were urged to go to the polls. The pope cabled Truman upon his election: ffWe convey our cordial congratulations to yourself and your family,” A special, mass "to ask divine help at the beginning of a new session of Congress” is held each year, and Congress hires a clergymen to pray for it daily.
Religion likewise participates in the politics of other nations. Throughout Europe the clergy are noted for their political intrigue. In Mexico the faecistic Sinarquistas organization is backed up by the clergy in an attempt to overthrow the government. Last year in' Italy the pope told Catholics it was "a grave sin, a mortal L fault” to refuse to vote. Cardinal Griffin, of London, declared: "To refrain from joining a party on ground that politics are a sordid affair is no excuse.”
Most ridiculous! The clergy admit that politics is filthy and rotten, "a sordid affair,” yet they support, bless and worship it. Blasphemously and presumptuously they even command God to ordain these politicians the world over as His representatives no matter to which gang they belong. “Stalin Selected by God, Moscow Patriarch Says.” (Headline in New York Times, Mar. 12, 1948) Another headline: "God on Spain’s Side, Franco Tells Youth.55,(New York Times, March 30, 1948) Or, as Spellman’s administrator of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Msgr. Flannelly, asserted, Americanism is "the preservation of God’s order in government”.—New York Times, July 5, 1948.
The very fact that the Vatican, as a friend of this world, maintains diplomatic relations with over forty countries, and the fact that hundreds of politicians, like the former secretary of state Marshall and Vice-President Barkley, beat a path to the Vatican’s door is the strongest proof that God has not ordained either the politicians, or the religionists. There is no question on this point, for God by the mouth of the apostle declares: "Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.” (James 4:4, Douay) This is because "the god of this world” is Satan the Devil. (2 Corinthians 4: 4; John 12: 31; Ephesians 6:12) Consequently, the fraud, skullduggery and criminal corruption that honeycombs every human government is of the Devil, and, be assured, Almighty God does not ordain such misrule.
The real "Higher Powers”, the high authorities yhom the apostle Paul says Christians should worship and honor are none other than the Universal Sovereign Jehovah God and His anointed and ordained Theocratic King Christ Jesus. While rendering unto "Caesar” what is Caesar’s true Christians never forget that they must be obedient servants of the true Higher Powersl for only by such Supreme Powers will a righteous rule come.
Dangerous DDT
IN THE last several years farmers. gardners, livestock raisers, dairymen, even whole municipalities, have enthusiastically covered home, hamlet and countryside with heavy insecticide fogs containing DDT. Now public health officials, medical men, bird lovers and naturalists, and the general public, are waking up to the fact that this ^miracle” killer of insects is also a menacing danger to the life and safety of man and beast. When used indiscriminately and uncontrolled this synthetic blessing becomes a chemical curse.
For your own and the public's safety, know when and where to use this high-powered fly and mosquito killer. A mixture containing 1 teaspoonful of^DDT in 100 tons of water is strong enough to kill cold-blooded fish. Minute amounts destroy bees and other insects that are beneficial to man. Only about 500 of the 25,000 different kinds of flies are injurious or annoying to man; the rest are either harmless or are very useful in pollen ating flowers.
If used in wholesale quantities, DDT also kills bird life. A heavy slaughter of quail takes place if 4.5 pounds of DDT per acre is applied to their nesting grounds. Bird life in general is reduced from 50 to 65 percent in areas dusted with DDT. This in turn leaves man without his best ally in the battle against the bugs. A potato bug, for example, has only about 50 young ones at a time, but there^re some 13 generations of them in a single season. Uncontrolled, and without the help of birds, man would be faced with 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 "’tater hugs” born to the thirteenth generation! Actually birds consume harmful insects by the ton. A nighthawk devours 500 mosquitoes in a single meal. A flicker is known to have carried as many as a thousand chinch bugs in its crop at one time. The wren makes as many as 1,200 trips feeding its young in a dawn-to-dusk airlift operation. Every precaution, therefore, should be taken to guard birds against the dangers of DDT sprays and dusts.
The immediate danger that alarms officials more than the destruction of wild life is the fear that man himself will become poisoned indirectly through indiscriminate use of DDT. It has been suggested by some that the mysterious ‘Mius X” is nothing more than DDT poisoning, but according to Science News Letterf the U. S. Food and Drug Administration does not think so although the two have similar symptoms. To avoid DDT poisoning never use this spray on fruits and vegetables that are to be eaten, for when dry it does not wash off even with soap and water. Do not use it on string beans, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, or beets and turnips if the tops are to be eaten, or on such fruits as apricots, plums, cherries, avocados, olives or strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries or currants.
’£? It is OK to use DDT sprays on apples and pears provided they are peeled for canning purposes. Also on grapes that are used for wines or jellies; on peas that are shelled; on tomatoes that are skinned or squeezed. There is no harm if used on hard-shelled crops like squash, melons and pumpkins or on vegetables that are developed below the ground, such as potatoes, carrots, parsnips and radishes.
It is now definitely known that DDT sprayed on animals is rapidly absorbed by the fat, and in the case of dairy cow this means that it will show up in the milk and butter fat, and in turn will reach the large metropolitan areas not only in the milk but in ice cream and other food products. While the authorities are quick to quiet any fear that this has happened so far, they are also quick to warn of the danger, and therefore advise against the usage of DDT as a spray in or about a dairy barn, or the cows themselves, or on their hay, forage or field corn that is used for silage or any other material that contacts the cows. Like so many other things, DDT has its place, and, if need intelligently and in the proper places, it is veiy effective against flies and mosquitoes. Around the house it is all right, provided food and pets, such as eats, dogs, goldfish and canaries, are removed from the room until the vapors settle. Remember, if your spray gun is loaded with deadly, DDT beware at what you aim it, otherwise its lethal contents may backfire on you later.
HEAVY artillery has humanity under bombardment, and your mind is the bull's-eye its salvos seek. Thq cold war of words is a heated battle for your mind. The ‘Voices” of nations invade foreign lands, only to be jammed and countered by retaliatory wind-jamming. Like a flame-thro wing tank the printing press spues out columns of inflammatory invective, only to ignite backfires from the singed opponents. And from pulpits religious firebugs squirt streams of oily words calculated not to calm troubled waters but to intensify flaming hatreds. The result of such reckless international use of radio, press and pulpit is to make the earth a maelstrom of charges and countercharges, a foaming, boiling whirlpool of propaganda wherein weighty truth and logic are sucked under and frothy Smear and name-calling churn to the surface to capture eye and ear.
This wordy war on the international front is fought in miniature on battlefields of national and community and individual scope. The methods used by the propagandist are the same, whether he is a diplomat in United Nations or a boy in the street. Accusations and denials, hot charges and hotter countercharges, smears and slurs, personal digs and name-calling, telling of half-truths and suppressing of whole truths—all such tactics are marshaled to assail your mind and take it by storm. Evidence and reasoning and logic! The. propagandist's deadliest foes! Rout reason and stimulate passion. As emotion rises judgment is smothered, and under the lash of
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k stinging words and reckless 3k rhetoric the mind is driven along propaganda's path.
Assailed from All Side*
y Modern methods of communication have laid bare * the target, the mind of the masses, to the pictorial and verbal barrages, Wherever one goes, whichever way he turns, he is met by frontal attack or flank assault, by ambush or bombing from the air. Propaganda is shot from the press, blared from radio, flashed from movie or television screen, projected from advertising blurbs, slung from pulpit and political platform, and even disjied out through the comics. In w&ve. after wave of round-the-clock bombing with words the propagandist pours his guided missiles into the public’s eye and drums them into its ears till the mass mind is groggy and numbed, till reason and logic have been drowned in the rising floods of emotion and passion. Truly the pen is mightier than the-sword. Not the pen that signs peace treaties and then is put in a musty museum to be for-gotten, but the propagandist's pen is the one mightier than the militarist’s sword. His printing press sways more than the atom bomb blasts, his radio and television and movies pack more wallop than the superfortress.
With his arsenal the propagandist can change the public's mind more easily than he can his shirt,.and just as often. Public opinion is the puppet, he the puppeteer. For example, a radical change in a nation's foreign policy is simple. An irresponsible source hints at the change, responsible sources deny it. But the ru-
9 mor crops up again. Again domett nut less vigorously. As the change is yodeled louder and the denials weaker, the public that was first aroused becomes used to the idea and subsides, and soon responsible and irresponsible sources see eye to eye and the change is effected.
Or take the theory of evolution. It cannot be proved; so learned authorities make assertions, and only ignoramuses dare dispute them. And if any timidly, suggest evolution conflicts with the Bible, the worldly wiseacres indulgently smile at the simple souls and smear God's Word as an ancient myth. They prove neither their assertions nor their smears, but by the tyranny of authority seek to enforce their opinions and override objections. Name-calling was exemplified in the recent case of Cardinal Mindszenty- Ignoring the evidence, manufacturing a fable of drugging, the exposed religionists threw up a gigantic smokescreen of’name-calling to divert attention from the facts. It worked. Why^ Because the masses of people no longer do their own thinking. They think by proxy. They let political and religious propagandists do it, then they are content to lap up this secondhand thinking.
Dr. Edward U. Condon, chief of the United States Bureau of Standards, lamented the senseless hysteria into which Americans have beefi? thrown by propaganda, saying: “I know that these are difficult times, but it is ironic and disheartening to see this, the most powerful and wealthiest of nations, in the grip of hysteria and fear—for no sound reasons—and unable to consider the e-”riems of the world in a sane and ced fashion.”
Mental Laxineee or Nonsense
The fact is that many have lapsed into mental laziness. Instead of reading they prefer picture papers and magazines. And when they read, they insist upon short squibs and shy from any article of sufficient tengtn to paint the inn picture. They can take length in entertaining fiction, but not in articles calling for concentration. News of consequence is pushed aside untasted while they gorge on sensationalism, crime, froth and nonsense. Propagandists commend this mental deterioration. Last October publicity was given to the write-up of an associate editor of one of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, entitled “Bring On Some More Nonsense j” He said, in part:
I am delighted to learn from the front page of The News that the onee-popular sport of flagpole-sitting has been revived and that Ozzie Hamilton Osborne, after 53 days atop a tower at a Long Beach, Calif., amusement park, has broken the 49-day record set by Shipwreck Kelly in the 1930s. rd like to see a lot of other nonsense restored. ... As for myself, I never went in for guzzling guppies or swallowing goldfish, and my sympathies were all on the side of the pleasant little creatures that maybe would not rather be gulped. Yet that pastime, confined mainly to the so-called institutions of higher learning, was at least indicative of a carefree spirit that is needed today, . . . We need folly.
On November 13, 1948, the New York Daily Mirror carried an editorial in similar vein, which said: ‘Perhaps even at this late hour we may save our national sanity. The City Desk has a bulletin that a girl student in Pennsylvania ate 71 grasshoppers and pronounced them 'good, but kind of tickly'.”
Even among those who do zealously use their brains, who have not allowed them to become weak-willed or lazy, a difficulty exists. The field of human knowledge has become so broad that one cannot encompass it. They try to either be informed on many things or specialize and become just another well-oiled cog in a gigantic machine. Either they scratch the surface of knowledge in many fields but never penetrate to subsoil to anchor knowledge with tap roots, or they sink themselves deep into one field and have no more panoramic view of the world than a worm. They know either very little about very much, or very much about very little-
Profitable and Refreshing Study
“Take warning; of the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh!" If that was true in Solomon's day, certainly its truthfulness has been multiplied many times over since the invention of the printing press. This invention has loaded library shelves with millions of books and daily fills the mails and burdens the newstands with hundreds of millions of magazines and newspapers. What a weariness to read only a fraction of them! In a bedlam of competition for your mind they clamor for your attention. They would monopolize your mind, fill it with their words, weary it with their propaganda till no mental energy be left for independent thinking.
In this hurried day some elimination of reading must be done. What is expendable? Oddly enough, some think it is the best seller of all time, the Bible. So they streamline it, cut out the slow portions, compress and squeeze it into fewer pages; and by so doing put themselves into the tight spot of 'taking away from the words of God's book'. (Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:19) The Bible was the one book excepted by Solomon when he warned against the endless stream of books and the wearisome study of them. Such "pleasing words" and "true things” he commended: "The words of the wise are like goads; and collections which are given by one teacher are like nails driven with a sledge?'—Ecclesiastes 12:10-12, An Amer. Trans.
The wise words of the Bible, collected together in one volume, inspired by the one great Teacher, are like goads that keep our imperfect flesh moving in the right path, and are like nails pounded in with a sledge, and to which we can hang, confident that they will not pull out and fall with us. Those refreshed and strengthened by such unwearisome study of God's Word will have an anchor sure and steadfast, will not be slapped and tossed and battered about like a wave in the restless seas of humanity over which the changing winds of propaganda blow* Such “wisdom is a defence” and “pre-serveth the life of him that hath —Hebrews 6:19; James 1:5-8; Ecclesiastes 7:12, Amer. Stan. Ver.
Defense of Mind
Propagandists make men their tools, but they are blind to the fact that they themselves are only dupes of the Devil. Satan has spawned modern propaganda to blind men's minds to the truth of the Bible and the establishment of Christ's kingdom in these tumultuous "last days". He and his demons through visible dupes in all nations have a line to feed and a bait to hook nearly all types of minds, (2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 16; 13-16) His latest device to conquer minds was speculated upon by Dr. John Ely Burchard when before a convocation of scientists he ventured that “ability to control man's thoughts with precision is by no means out of the question”, Satan can now do it with the propagandists even more easily than they can with the public, and neither victimized group is aware of it. Soon men can war for a fifth freedom—freedom of thought.
But against all the assaults of Satan and his lesser propagandists there is sure defense. "Wisdom is a defence,” Because true Christians "are not ignorant of his devices" Satan cannot take advantage of them. (2 Corinthians 2:11) Knowledge of the devices of propagandists will be defense for your mind. Eat not at their tables filled with filthy smears, slurs, lies, name-callings, inflammatory invective and distortions, nor glut your mind with crime and sensationalism* Feed your mind on God's Word, and Satan's propaganda will miss its target.—Philippians 4:8; Proverbs 14:15; 23:7; Ephesians 6:10-17,
"THE Lion Will Eat Straw Like the Ox
CARNIVORE is a term that broadly refers to those animals that prey upon other animals. More narrowly defined, carnivore refers to the order of mammals that are more or less adapted for predatory life. At any rate, they are capable of living upon prey. Hence most animals popularly called “beasts of prey” are carnivores. Originally they were vegetarians. Eventually they must undergo a reconversion program in eating habits.
According to the scientists the role of the carnivore is to keep check on too rapid multiplication of the herb-eating creatures and rodents. If these were not kept in cheek, it is argued, their numbers would become exceedingly injurious to civilization. Tp illustrate the point: the United States government in the latter part of 1947 launched a nation-wide food saving program designed to save 100,000,000 bushels of wheat for European relief. It was a high-flown, expensive drive, involving meatless Tuesdays and p^ultryless Thursdays. In the midst of the program announcement was made that rats were destroying 100,000,000 bushels of wheat annually—the same amount the Citizens Food Committee was trying to save. Thereupon Mr. Truman Pierson, president of National Cat Week, took to the air to urge people to wake up to the importance of cats, which could, if given the chance, keep down the rats and thereby save as much wheat as the whole streamlined food saving program was trying to save. It made a beautiful plug for the cats, anyway.
Carnivores are not only decimators of other creatures, but in less civilized areas the big flesh-eaters hold their own even against man. In some tropical sections of the earth the tigers, lions, and leopards kill hundreds of humans yearly. The Bible records many instances in which, in ancient times, the beasts of prey were a foe to be reckoned with.
While the Israelites were en route to the Promised Land Jehovah forewarned them that He would not drive out the occupants of the lafid from before them all at once, but little by little, “lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.” (Deuteronomy 7:22) Showing that He himself would employ the predatory nature of the wild beasts against them if His name people walked contrary to His laws, He warned: “1 will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few ih number; and ypur high ways shall be desolate?’ On the other hand, if they faithfully obeyed Him, one of the blessings Jehovah would shower upon Israel was this: “I will rid evil beasts out of the land.” (Leviticus 26:22,6) At Armageddon the predatory creatures, both fowl and beast, shall feast upon the slain multitudes of humanity from end to end of the earth until they are filled and sated.—Ezekiel 39:17-20.
In their relationship with men, some striking things are to be noted about carnivores, Man ruthlessly exploits all creatures, some of which have little or no means of defense. It is the carnivores principally that have some means of defense, and, having the courage to strike back, they have been branded by man as an enemy, Man wars upon carnivores for their furs, for their flesh, for protection both for himself and domesticated animals, and for “sport* Carnivores are considered on the whole untamable and naturally ferocious. Yet it is out of their numbers that man has cultivated his two most affectionate pets, the dog and the cat. The theory that some creatures can never be tamed under any conditions has yet to be proved, while the facts show that it is the human treatment that counts. The most docile creatures, like the ox and the chicken, grow wild when not domesticated; while at the same time the cheeta, the ferret and mongoose have been domesticated from the most ancient times of Nimrod.
Diet of the Meat-Eaters
Another point of controversy involving the carnivores is diet. It is the prevailing theory that carnivores could not thrive, nor in many cases even live, without meat It is observed that the variation in diet and mode of life exhibited by flesh-eaters is accompanied by a corresponding variation in the limbs and other external organs, and by the teeth and skeleton. That is, the more structurally equipped to prey, the more predatory are the carnivores and other flesheating creatures. Highly organized species, apparently adapted with strong, sharp claws for seizing prey and with powerful, long, piercing canine teeth for tearing flesh, live
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The carnivore, when “on his own", kills and rends his prey, sucking the blood and consuming the vital organs and its undigested food, and in that way attains a nutrition far different from the dog that is fed pure lean meat. From the undigested food in the rabbit or quail, the dog acquires the food values of natural grain, vegetables, and fruits. Therefore the dog or the lion or any other predator cannot be strictly a carnivore. It is not flesh alone that furnishes the eater all the food values he must have.
That is why, to duplicate a well-rounded diet for carnivores, the feeder must remember that when he is feeding meat alone, he is not supplying a well-rounded diet. To the meat diet must be added grain, vegetable and fruit foods if the carnivore is to receive the same kind of diet he would get if he lived on quarry. From a nutritive standpoint, the carnivore does not have to eat meat at- ail. Then what stands in the way of the carnivore's living on a non-meat diet?
Apparently there is no other real obstacle than habit. The habit, of course, may be enforced by the intense struggle for existence. Naturalists say that ages ago the dog was inclined to gnaw on raw vegetables with relish and with healthful results.
1// 1ft Hut after centu-ries of living on a meat diet, he suf-f e r b indigestion from raw foods other than meat. Like his human benefactor, the dog must have his vegetables cooked if he is to eat them. Dogs are physically e-quipped, never-iaBHESBErasSHQl theless, to handle
the leafy vegetables such as spinach, lettuce, celery tops, beet tops, water cresses, and the like. Orange juice is good for dogs. The most important vegetable on the dog's diet is the tomato (which may be more properly termed a fruit). Physically, then, the dog is capable of living as a vegetarian.
Zoo Carnivores Turn Vegetarians
A notable carnivore is the mink, Commercial mink-raisers feed a basic diet of about 80 percent meat or fish. But experimentation with meatless diets has exploded the theory that mink must have meat—or else. Two mink-raisers reported in The American Fur Breeder that they were feeding their mink a basic grain diet of dog meal to which they added some extra vitamines, phosphorus, and protein. Into this basic grain diet they mixed carrots, lettuce, tomato juice, raw milk, sugar, salt, cod liver oil, and egg. The mink fed on this meatless diet developed silky guard hair and underfur of a beautiful hue with very good density; the animals continued to show this beautiful prize condition long after the usual prime condition period.
The most spectacular triumph in feeding carnivores on a meatless diet was carried out during the war. Faced by a meat shortage, British zoo-keepers discovered that wild animals, the most avowed beasts of prey, could, if necessary, change their diet. The fruit-eating monkey learned to get along on vegetables. But so did the lion make file change from meat to celery. The tiger learned to chew cabbage, and the wolf gnaWed turnips. “The man-eating tiger of Bengal/' according to Magazine Digest, “now reaches for a stalk of celery instead of a pork chop/'
Germany, after the war, had to transSort hundreds of zoo animals to the Lon-on zoo, and the newcomers likewise had to face up to the nan-meat diet. The London Times and the Swiss press, as well as other sources, reported that, except
for some exotic equatorial species which preferred death to being vegetarians, all the animals adapted themselves to the British diet. In fact, they have put on weight, and their skins and furs are more beautiful than before. The only meat fed to the carnivores is? the remains of one horse between them daily, but all the 9,000 animals in the London zoo are fed a basic vegetable di£t with occasional fish scraps thrown in.
“The Lion Will Eat Straw Like the Oxtr
In light of such interesting, and perhaps startling evidence, one is reminded of the Scriptural description of the future Paradise earth wherein the lion will no longer prey upon warm-blooded flesh but “will eat straw like the ox”. The scientific theory that predators are necessary to keep in balance the other forms of life cannot be accepted without more convincing experiments than man is so far able to cite. The prolific “Happy Hunting Ground” of the American red man, for instance, thrived with a great abundance of wildlife, both vegetarian and carnivorous, but it would be hard to prove that without the flesh-eaters the herb-eaters, would have grown out of hand. The .flesh-eating habits of some animals might better he attributed to the struggle for existence in an imperfect earth, an impulse that has been by no means soothed or curbed by man's ruthless cruelty and exploitation.
In the divine record of creation Jehovah's mandate to perfect man was to cultivate the earth into an Edenie. Paradise, wherein the lower forms of life would serve peacefully in their proper spheres, contributing their share toward making the globe a glorious place to live. No account is given of where the Creator allotted some creatures the mission of curbing the increase of other creatures by devouring them, any more than of making a provision to check the numbers of the meabeaters. It seems only reasonable that if the Creator's wisdom
AWAKE ! and power is sufficient to bring forth the many forms of life on earth, that wisdom and power are also sufficient to regulate a balanced population without one order having to prey upon the other. In the Paradise of Eden flesh was not prescribed for food, either for man or for beast. The Record reads:
See, I give you all the seed-bearing plants that are found all over the earth, and all the trees which have seed-bearing fruit; it shall be yours to eat. To all the wild beasts of the earth, to all the birds of the air, and to all the land reptiles, in which there is a living spirit, I give all the green plants for food.—Genesis 1:29,30, An American Translation.
Only after man’s fall by disobedience did Jehovah sanction the eating of flesh, a provision that will obtain until God's
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time to bring about the long-purposed Paradise on earth under the righteous heavenly reign of Christ Jesus. It is of that time that the famous prophecy of Isaiah 11:6-9 applies literally, to wit (An Amer. Trans.):
Then the wolf will lodge with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion will grass together, and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will be friends, their young ones will lie down together; and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The suckling child will play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. They wiU do no harm or destruction on all my holy mountain; for the land will have become full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.—Contributed.
'Poland's U.N. Representative on the Mintls^enty Case
<L On April 12 Jan Drohojowski, of Poland, said to the United Nations General Assembly concerning the trials of religious leaders in Hungary and Bulgaria: “Let me now tell you very frankly how a ease acquires notoriety and importance. First, there is a spark somewhere which is fanned. If necessary, petrol is put on to kindle the fire. This occasions a conflagration. The conflagration puts the instigators of that Are in the spotlight of public opinion. They enjoy that. They come to the world forum, which is this General Assembly. The press, the wireless, and possibly television, give them some much wanted publicity. . , , And here, of course, in the blaze of that fire, the proponents' of the motion bask in their glory and acquire popularity at the expense of good relations between nations and the United Nations. Beware of the day when the fire engines of the United Nations are not prompt or efficient enough to prevent the spreading of the conflagration. Then, the little boys who started the fire may have the seats of their trousers burned.”
He next asked who it was running to the rescue of human rights in Hungary, and scored Australia for her treatment of the aborigines in that land. And on Bolivia he quoted the criminal code: “All who conspire directly to establish another religion in Bolivia, or to cause the Republic to cease professing the Roman Catholic apostolic religion, are traitors and will suffer the penalty of death?’ He then said: “If the General Assembly is eager to review criminal cases, then it would be'well advised to look into two causes cetebres which are known to have ended in miscarriages of justice. I have in mind the Sacco-Vanzetti ease and the Scottsboro case. I wish to appeal to the United States, delegation to stop talking about exporting democracy. I say to them: 'You haven’t got enough for home consumption.’ ” He concluded with a summation of the evidence against Cardinal Mindszenty, including the following: “Subversive plans, based on the assumption of an early third World War, have been made in the most immediate neighborhood of St. Patrick’s Cathedral under the protection of the purple of His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman.” [The New York Times, April 13, 1049]
fountain of youth
YOUTH is the elusive treasure of dying mankind. Youth, with its strength and vitality, its boundless energy and carefree happiness! Thirst for it has spurred men and women to fight off the advances of old age, to pursue to the disappointing end the myriads of schemes to capture youth. But still the multitudes are snatched from the land of the living by the cruel hand of death even as they pursue the mythical “fountain of youth". ,
Down through the ages, from the earliest times, mankind has diligently, yet fruitlessly, searched for the mystic “elixir of life”. Ancient writers and philosophers, including Aristotle and Pliny, fired the imaginations of men with claims that they knew someone who had found the secret formula for a special life-giving fluid. In Aristotle’s Book, of Secrets, and other works, reference is made to various concoctions, unguents, oils and liquids, presumably good for pickling one’s youth and preserving it against the disintegration of old age.
One of these recipes tells how to make a life-giving witch’s brew out of the following ingredients: gold, pearls, "an-thos” flowers, ill-smelling ambergris, fresh aloe wood from India, a bone from a stag’s heart, a couple of snakes and a quantity of blood. Another formula says that if dragons are first tamed, then ridden, and then eaten, it is a sure cure preventive against old age. And how! for the tamer, rider and eater would die young.
The first to claim they had special powers to unravel the mystery of life and rebraid it into a longer strand were the priests and wizards and the jugglers of demonic religious magic. After them
came the alchemists of the Dark Ages who diligently searched for an imagi
. nary “philosophers’ stone”, the elixir vita, believing it was able to prolong life and restore youth. As a means of warding off death, others conceived of the idea of striking a bargain and making a compact with the Devil. Still others with the spirit of adventure set out for the edges of the world, where they hoped to find life-giving waters in. golden pots at the end of the rainbow. Ponce de Leon was one of these, who in .1513 went searching for the Fons Juventutis, the fountain of youth, in Florida, and found death instead.
Modern Science Takes Up the Chase
Taking up where the alchemists left off, scientists of this twentieth century have, with renewed effort, attempted to solve the age-old mystery of life and death, and find the key that will open before man a life of perpetual youth. Using modern tools like electron microscopes, atom smashers and radioactive isotopes, these learned men of science, through advanced research, have probed deep into the problem.
Asking, ever asking a thousand questions; searching, ever searching for a thousand answers as to why mankind grows old—such is the science called gerontology. Why do men get sick and die? To what extent does infection, poison and decay bring on old age! What about the circulatory and respiratory systems? What relation is there between longevity and microbes, enzymes, hormones and vitamins? What about heredity! To what degree does diet, overweight, fast living and mental worry
usher in old age? What about metabolism? How much truth is there in the endless number of theories about the cause and cure of old age? In short, how can the undertaker be put out of business and life eternal be obtained?
Thirty years ago microbes were accused of causing old age. If only infants from their birth could live in freedom from infection and disease they could live forever, so the theory went. Tests were made. Eighty-seven successive generations of fruit flies were bred and raised under totally antiseptic conditions, Results: in due time the flies all died and with them the theory too. Enzymes, those strange substances of organic chemjstry, were next chased down by research with the hope that possibly they held the key to the mystery of life. Again the theorists were wrong.
Probing around, scientists found that a number of glands, particularly the thyroid, adrenals and pituitary glands, played a strange part in man's behavior. Aha, they thought, here in the thyroid we shall ffl MF find life's secret! But further investigation only proved how misplaced their hope. It was observed that when men reached their “change in life”, and their procreative powers became fagged out, their glands no longer functioned. The idea of grafting in potent monkey glands was conceived, experiments were started, and Prof. Serge Voronoff, of France, announced after World War I:
The conclusiveness of certain experiments I have made convinces me that it is now possible to renew youth and vigor in aged men in the last stages-of senile decrepitude. . . . It now remains for us to try grafting glands from a monkey to an aged man in Order to assume the correctness of my theory that the spring of eternal youth has been discovered.
Newspaper headlines around the world carried the story. X Excrement of the dying race * ran high. Maybe here at last science had found the answer. Time, however, has proved that monkey-gland grafting is only a joke.
Another line of research led to the isolation of the sex hormones, which, in && k turn, were injected into the blood stream of worn-out men in the hope of increasing their ISf-T J longevity. To this day there is no proof that hormones are anti-aging agents, and some authorities have warned that such practice may even shorten one’s natural life. Says Dr. George Lawton, Ph.D.:
The man who doses himself with testosterone (sex hormone] in the hope it will revive the appetites and ardors he enjoyed at 25 is doomed to bitter disappointment. Replacing a single worn-out cog won’t renew the whole machine; and no amount of restored sexual vigor can make a grown man see the world through a boy’s eyes.
Dr. V. Korenchevsky, of Oxford University, says that sex hormones fail to restore youth because they fail to remove the causes for the breakdown of the glands. He also warns that a degenerated “old organ or tissue cannot stand vigorous stimu^tion, but may collapse from paralysis, just as a tired horse, when whipped to do extra work, cannot withstand the strain and suddenly collapses from heart failure”.
To get around the obvious stupidity of trying to replace a single cog or tooth on a woTn-out gear certain technicians have gone a step farther and have tried to replace whole gears in the human machine. Toying with this idea the Russians announce success in transplanting hearts in frogs. Candidly, replacing an entire organ with a new one will never rejuvenate a-man when the rest of his engine and chassis is broken down and rusted out.
Then, what about vitamins? A new vitamin is discovered which they think will increase the body’s resistance to infection. Another is found to boost the life-span of rats 10 or 15 percent. The vitamin craze is increased and the fad spreads; sales are boosted and consumption doubled, and still old age and death collect their annual toll As Tniman’s personal physician warns, indiscriminate use of vitamins is dangerous and may yven cause death.—New York Times t December 17,1946.
Ever Searching, Never Learning
Like flighty butterflies, men's theories lead scientists over many hills and dales in their pursuit of the fountain waters of youth. Theories on heredity, diet, environment and mental attitude as longevity factors have been chased down, Mrs. Shindler of New York state recently celebrated her 100th birthday Her grandmother lived to be 107. Is it true, lien, that long-living parents have long-living children and grandchildren! Do hereditary genes tick off the seconds like a "time clock”! Or do the genes contain the total life-force, and does it trickle out as the sand in an hourglass until death is reached! Science seeks to know.
Some say that the mental attitude is an important factor in growing old. <fDeath is a matter of psychology and mentality. Death is simply a fear carried into effect. We are told that we will probably die. ... As we think, so we are. To live forever we must conquer the tendencies that destroy life.” So wagged the pen of a so-called biologist. “Refrain from worrying” and "be moderate in all things" is the sure cure for old age, as prescribed by another antiaging medicine man. But honestly, old age is not altogether in the mind. As one has said: "The trouble-with age is that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
Biologically, individuals do 90 percent of their growing before birth, 9 percent between birth and their 20th birthday, and only 1 percent all the rest of their lives. Theorists have suggested that the life span can be lengthened by delaying maturity, that is, by spreading some of the 9 percent growing out over the latter part of one's life. Others have suggested that since growth stops altogether at death, then, if growth can be speeded up when it begins to slow down, youth might be maintained.
It is no secret, eating is closely allied with living. Yet, what happens after the food is eaten is not always understood. Some investigators think that if metabolism:—the process whereby cells use fuel for body growth, development, repair and release of energy—were fully understood the life span could be extended beyond its present limits. Under a newspaper headline: "Finding of Key to Life's Origin Predicted Soon," Dr. E. N. Harvey, of Princeton University, is quoted as saying: "The protein problem is absolutely at the basis of life. If we knew how proteins are synthesized we would know how life began.” Others, prying into the secrets of life, imagine that there is a “primordial clay” called "proteinogen” which evolves into proteins to form the building blocks of the body.
Old Age Viewed as a Disease
Working at the other end of the lifecycle are those geriatricians who say that old age is nothing more than a disease, which, in due time, will be cured. These argue that since it is possible to live much longer by avoiding degenerative diseases like diabetes, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, etc., and since anemia and diabetes are due to deficiency of certain chemicals, it is reasonable to think that old age also can be cured if the right chemical is found.
This, of course, is only another theory that does little more than excite the imagination. While it is true that penicillin and similar substances have set good records in the treatment of certain ailments, it is also true that they have added little to man's age limit. They are no more "miracle" drugs in perpetuating youth than insulin, which was praised to the highest heaven twenty-five years ago. Headlining this treatment for diabetes at that time, the Philadelphia Bulletin declared: “1,000-Year Life Span May Be Mart's Lot." Beneath this headline the story read: “Science of the future will transform ordinary mortals into a race of super-men whose life will span ten centuries, according to Dr. Fritz Haber, eminent German chemist."
There are others who claim that old age is a brain-disease. Others .think the reason why we grow old is that the brain cells cease to divide. Still others have the brainy idea that feeble-mindedness is caused by hardening of the arteries in the brain.
Invisible radiation! This electrifying idea suggested to some that maybe here was the “spark of life” with which the human battery could be recharged, presuming it was a run-down wet-cell. First, radium was investigated. Surely it was powerful enough to burn out the spores of old age before they took root. Nowadays gamma-rays, beta-rays, qnd both slow- and fast-moving neutrons are being studied. Even “onion rays”, those strange radiations emitted by growing onion roots, are not overlooked in the search.
Back in 1922, when the activity of white corpuscles was being investigated the headline read: “Longevity Secret Found by Science in Cells bf Blood.” Wrong again. Today the key to sickness and disease is sought in what is termed “sludged blood”. Another circulated theory is that the average heart beats 2,500,000,000 times in a lifetime, and so if one prevents the heart from racing when young he may live to be a hundred years old. Or, if you do not care to count and ration out your heartbeats, another theory dealing with the respiratory system may interest you. This one declares that improper oxygen supply leads to alteration in the molecular structure of the body, commonly called aging.
Theories Come and Theories Go
Since none of these theories have proved true, the search continues. If only a few drops of some super, allpowerful, life-giving fluid could be found! In May of this year it was announced that an extract having great healing power had been isolated from aloe leaves. Last year it was learned that queen bees feed on “royal jelly” rich in pantothenic acid and live twenty times as long as worker bees. Think of it, if man could eat a “royal jelly” he could multiply his present average and live to the queenly age of 1,320 years!
Then, there was that Russian named Bogolomets, who made great claims for a longevity serum back in 1938. When his findings were translated into English in 1946 this wrinkled, thin and stooped prophet of longevity declared: “Normally a man should live to the age of 150 years, that is, if he starts to use my serum when his connective tissues begin to deteriorate.” Alas! two months later poor Bogolomets died, a mere adolescent of 65! Since then 5,000 Californians have been regularly injected-with this serum, known as ACS, to see if any of them will pass over 65 and reach the theoretical 150 mark.
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