1938

Consolation

Magazine

Contents

Vaccination and Vivisection .

“Death in the Pot”

The Serumization of Humanity

Points for Thinking People .

The- Doctor’s Daughter

Oslo and Baltic States '

“Nature’s Own Food Metal” (?)

The New Government

A “Strange Work”

Aviation                            -

Labor

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford '

Pure Worship

Protestantism

Under the Totalitarian Flag

From Forgotten Women

Catholic Press Betrays Its Terror

California                  '         -

New York

Apple Pie—Cover Design

By Trail and Stream and Garden

Path—More Butterfly Friends

British Comment

Author of the League

Index to Volume XIX of Consolation 30

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Appetizers

A Fish Story [Sad British Joke]

■ A man went fishing, and in-bis catch^there was one outstanding fish. It was such a fine specimen that the fisherman kept it for a pet. The man and the fish became very fond of each other, and the fish used to follow the man around just like a dog. Wherever the man went the fish was sure to go, bounding along the dusty roads or skipping down the main street of the town.

Years went by, and then one day the two companions were strolling¹ across the fields. They came to a creek which was bridged by a log/The man stepped across the log and the fish followed. But the fish was overcome by a sudden fit 'of dizziness and disgust at the sight of water. He fell off the log into the creek, and in spite of all the man could do, the poor fish was drowned.—Tit-Bits.

A Dirty Story [British Joke]

■ This story is about a little girl who was invited to a party of another little girl. So her mother washed her and scrubbed her. Then she dressed her in her newly laundered white dress and, while tying on the pink sash, the. mother, wbo was very strict in raising /her children right, smacked . the little girl for being fidgety and then cautioned her. “If you dirty this nice, clean dress,” she said, “I’ll kill you.” So the little girl went to the party and had icecream and cake and jello and played games, find when she got home she was all dirty. And her mother killed her.

Imported British Joke                 -

■ The Rev. Mathews had been a guest with his family at Eph Jackson’s farm and liked the place except for the fact that the maid was untidy and the pigsty was too close to the dining-room, so that he could not enjoy the unadulterated flavor of the. fresh farm food. Upon receipt of Eph’s letter asking whether the rooms of last year be reserved, the reverend gentleman frankly gave Eph the reason for his reluctance to spend his vacation on that otherwise .excellent farm. By return mail the Rev. Mathews received Eph’s reassuring reply. “Dear Doctor,” he wrote, ^IfMary has went and we ain’t had no hogs on the farm since you was here last summer.”

. CONSOLATION

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

Volume XIX               Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 21, 1933                  Number 496

Vaccination and Vivisection

IHAVE thought many times, Of all the in-aafie things that we have advocated in . medicine, that is one of the most insane—to insist on the vaccination of children Or anybody else, for the prevention of smallpox, when, as a matter of fact, we are never able to prove that vaccination saved one man. from smallpox. Naturally not. When you have protected anybody, as we denote protection in

your evidence. If that man doesn’t take the disease against which he is supposed to be protected, how can you ever, know he would have taken it if he hadn’t been protected? We have destroyed the evidence.

As a matter of fact, perhaps it is safe to say that not more than 10 percent of the people ever would take smallpox if sleeping in the same bed with an infected smallpox victim. We know there is a large immunity to smallpox. Very few people are subject to it, and these usually in the filthiest surroundings. Now if we carry that natural immunity to smallpox as we do to other diseases, and we have been protected by -vaccination and then we are exposed to smallpox and don’t take it, don’t you see there is no proof there? We may be carrying a natural immunity. If one case that has been successfully vaccinated afterwards develops smallpox, that is proof ' that it isn’t protection; now, isn’t it?

How to Get Smallpox

I know of one epidemic of smallpox, com-

most of them recently. I have had in my own experience one very small epidemic comprising 33 cases of which 29 had ’ vaccination histories arid a good scar, and some of them vaccinated within the last year. There was no protection there.              .      ,

SEPTEMBER 21, 1938            ‘

Among these was one girl who was not vaccinated, never had been, who had five cases of smallpox in the family, nursed those cases that were ill, a baby among the others, the worst case of smallpox among them, refused vaccination and was never infected at all—a natural immunity.

What is true of smallpox is true of every other disease. We are not all equally subject without thinking. An epidemic of influenza sweeps over the country. Why doesn’t everyone have it? The germ, if it is a germ, and we don’t know that it is, is ubiquitous. They are everywhere. You can’t hide from them. And yet perhaps but 10 percent of the population of any region will be infected. What protects the 90 percent? Natural immunity. , We may have natural immunity this year and we may not have it next year, but we can’t create it artificially by using»a so-called “immune serum”. As I say, when we do use an immune serum we have destroyed every possibility of using that ease as evidence, because we have no way of knowing whether it would ever have been infected.

Not Many Can Get Diphtheria          ,

We have always recognized, the fl fact that but 15 percent of chil-H dren are subject to diphtheria, no matter how. thoroughly they are ex-

*■" ’ posed. Statistics: of every epidemic of diphtheria in every section of the country, if averaged, will show that average, with 85

diphtheria antitoxin, we have used toxin-antitoxin and toxoid, and if-we found a susceptibility or reaction to this, we have immunized that case against diphtheria by a series, of ¹ three injections of anti-diphtheritic serum. Wfe have to admit 15 percent of the children afe '                    ' .                   ' 3..

still unprotected, because they take diphtheria. Isn’t that, the same 15 percent! We have no way of proving it isn’t. ■               .

. A number-of years ago when we wefe just beginning to study diphtheria antitoxin minutely < Cook County, Illinois, hospital decided to immunize one-half of the nursing staff and not the other;hajf. Diphtheria broke out soon afterwards ajnong the immunized cases, not the others.. It invaded both halves, both the immunized and the unimmunized, and the total of cases was much higher among the supposedly immunized cases than among those not immunized. We didn’t do much for those nurses. ■        :

When we took- over the management of the Philippines and all of its destinies, we announced to-the bloomin’ cockeyed world we were going to clean up smallpox in the Philippines. Well, we waited a few years, but we did make a serious effort. In fact, in a population ■ of 10,000,000 people we consummated 30,000,000 vaccinations within a period of six years. The province of Rizal, of which Manila was .the center, was the most accessible, of pourse..; the little rascals couldn’t get away 'there, we.could catch them, and did, and some • of them were vaccinated three and four and five and six times in the six years'. We were going to make it thorough. In Mindanao and some .of the -other more outlying provinces, more mountainous, we couldn’t catch the little pascals, so there . was a smaller percentage of vaccinations in the outlying districts. Rizal had to.take it. ....                ₍

Resultsin the Philippines

F ’ flB Within six years of that time the Philippines; suffered the worst attack, of smallpox,-the worst epi-juFtaa demic three times: over, that had i ever occurred in the history of the Islands,’ and it was almost three times as fatal. The death rate ran as high as 60 percent in .certain afieas where formerly it had been 10 percent^; ahd 15 percent, and the. thing that climaxed the whole point was this : In Rizal we had. the highest incidence and the highest ■mortality of any part of the Archipelago. The Xavy reported that vaccination of the sailors ^:wep,t on as regularly.asidrill: every so often they, were vaecinatedi but ibey had their usual percentage of smallpox■ and yet they.were .protected! : - < . •: r ■             .

p: Now we are asking in t^any states to have 4                                             > .the privilege.of deciding whether we will be vaccinated or not. No one wishes to deny his brother the privilege of being vaccinated if he has any 'faith in it, but here is the ridicu- -■ lous thing about it: The ones who are objecting to abolishing the law and whoare insisting on vaccination are the ones who are afraid that they, will take smallpox if their brothers -are not vaccinated. Now if you are vaccinated, you are protected, aren’t-you! What are you afraid of! Suppose, your next-door neighbor does get smallpox because he was. not vaccinated ; that is his business; he has a right to , have smallpox if he wants to; he - can’t give ' it to you. if you have been vaccinated, so what are you worrying about! Let him do as he pleases. That is all we are asking; we are not ' asking that they forbid vaccination, Let everyone have what he wants, but let us not compel those to have vaccination who know there is nothing in it, who know it is not a protection.

How to Get and 'Stag Sick .

It is now thirty years since I have’been confining myself to the treatment of chronic diseases. During those thirty years I have ran against so many histories of little children who hadmever seen a sick day until they were vae-einated and who in the several years thht have followed .have never seen a well day since. J couldn’t put my finger on the disease they have. They just weren’t strong. -Their resistance was gone, They were perfectly well before they were vaccinated. They have, never been, well .since. Now you can’t record those asfdeaths from vaccination, because, they are . still alive;; but in. England,. where statisties ' are a little more frank than they are with us, where they are kept a little, more accurately, a little more aboveboard than in this country, the ,actual official .records show three times, as many deaths directly from vaccinations as / frqm smallpox for the last twenty-one.-years. . If they record three times as many deaths, . ,1 wilt guarantee you that there are three times-that many t|mt were not recorded that.are directly traceable to vaccination. That doesn’t take into account the many, many cases of encephalitis or sleeping sickness, of this or that form of degeneration, that occur as$di-rect result of vaccination. That case is s|i.Il alive. It hasn’t entered here the tnortaJrty records yet, but it is .suffering and has suffered evpr since vaccination.. : . ■ ;       <

_; And if you had. been dealings as I have, . with the derelicts from all over the: wntld .                            consolation for thirty years, you would findan almost fatal relationship between this history of vac-cinaiion and some failing that follows this for many years that has kept a person from being as well as he should, have been.

It is nonsense to. think that you can inject pus—and it is usually from the pustule of the dead smallpox victim; that is the basis of it; we used to think it was from cowpox, but the manufacturers deny that and say the most reliable fonn originates in the pustule of someone who has died from smallpox—it is unthinkable that you can inject that into a little child and in any way improve its health.

There'Is No immunization

RVMRI What is true of vaccination is exactly as true of all forms of “serum-t—/J immunization”, so called. There is no such thing as immunization, but we sell it under that name—immunization. We jab a needle full of pus germ, we will say the streptococcus, for instance, in attenuated form so it won’t pollute too badly, and we increase the dose or potency of that little by little until we build up what we call "a resistance to it”. You can do the same thing with the rattlesnake’ venom. You can be bitten just a. little by a rattlesnake and not die, and if you are bitten often enough, you can be bitten in a vital part and not die; you have built up a resistance to the venom -of the rattlesnake, but have you improved your physique by doing so" If we could by any means build up a natural resistance to disease through these artificial means, I would applaud it to the echo; but we can’t do it. The body. has its own methods of defense. ^y "These depend on the vitality of the body at.

the time. If it is vital enough it will resist all infections; if it isn’t vital enough, it Won’t; and you can’t change the vitality of the body for the better by introducing poison of any kind into it.                            :       ; ■ ■ • _

> I don’t like to discuss the cruelties of viviSection. I think you can all visualize' those. Don’t let any laboratory mislead you by saying these experiments are done under an an-‘ esthetic. Their own recital of their experiments proves that an anesthetic could nothSve been used in most of the cases, because they’are of such a nature that the animal has to be under observation in a mutilated condition sometimes.for weeks, until it dies. It ean’t'Tive under the anesthetic. That is a matter- for a very few minutes.                       ¹

Insanities of Vivisection -

Aside from the horrible cruelties that the thing entails, I have not been able to diseoveritin thirty years painful and careful search one ,<athing of practical utility that has been adduced in all this time from vivisection. To be sure, we have learned much of the processes of the animal, but after we have learned the utmost of the animal’s processes we Still have only the processes of the animal. We are not sure they are very closely related to those of the human. But if they paralleled the human reactions exactly, what has this led to in the way of curative treatment! ^3ur results are exactly zero, and always will be.

I can hear somebody objecting to insulin. They say, “Hasn’t insulin benefited diabetes!” Why, of course; of course it has, but has it prolonged the life of the diabetic! As Al Smith says, let us look at the record. Diabetes has been on a percentage increase ever since we knew what diabetes is. That rate of increase has been maintained in exactly the same ratio since we introduced insulin as before. We have not prolonged the life of the diabetic. We have .allowed him to carry on in a little better flesh, a little better strength, blit acidosis or starvation gets him in the end just as surely; and at about the time he would have died otherwise. This must necessarily be true or We would show a decline in mortality in diabetes; and we do not. There is a percentage increase every year.                 .

Of course, we have those occasional cases that die from insulin shock or hyperglycemia. We have over-insulinized the patient and he goes out through quick collapse. If we get busy, open a vein and introduce glucose or pour some orange juice into him quickly, sometimes we can get him out of tflat shock, and sometimes we can’t..So we have those occasional accidents that have swelled our„ total mortality statistics by a little. -, I cannot think of one thing of practical utility that has evolved from all of our years of crucifixion of 500,000 dogs a year. If it is a cruel practice; and if there is nothing but inutility behind it, if it can’t show anything of real importance looking toward 'the improvement in health or-the lengthening of life, then in heaven’s name why do we maintain it! I suppose it is safe to say that Pot 'one percent of the vivisection that is done today would be classed as useful research. It is admitted that 90 percent of it is for demonstration only — demonstration to medical students. It is impressive, but not very instructive. When going through lectures many, many years ago, we paid very little attention to the work of the physiological laboratory; it was of academic interest but we didn’t attend it very regularly. We saw the dogs crucified without anesthetics. It wasn’t pleasant, and the result was nothing that left a good impression behind or any useful information whatever.

The Work of Fiend?

I just want to tell you of one experiment that seems to me one Vj ®BB^ of the most cruel things I ever heard of. A dog’s side was opened and the heart was pulled out into the wound where it could be manipulated. A clamp was put on the coronary artery so that when they pulled a wire, they shut off the circulation in the artery. The dog couldn’t tell there was pain there, but he cried. That is evidence that he was in great pain. Every time they would pull .the string and shut off the blood, the dog would cry. What did that prove? It proved just what we have always known, that there is a type of angina that is caused by interference with the coronary circulation. We knew it before. What did that teach? Post-mortem showed us in death from angina we usually found an embolized artery —the artery was plugged with a clot. It dilated rapidly and usually ruptured—angina.

Now from all this experimenting, from this intimate study of the mechanism of angina, what has developed? Can we do anything for angina today that they couldn’t do when Noah was a small boy? If there is anything done for it, I uon’t know it. We use, the nitrates to give relief from the pain; we dilate the arteries and it eases up the tension and there is a little less pain for an hour or two; and then-we do it over again. .That doesn’t cure anything. In the back of our heads all the time is that death certificate. We know here is a.case of angina; we don’t know why he had it; we may know it is an embolism, but we don’t know why the embolism occurred. We don’t know what to do to prevent another embolism, and we can’t do anything to clear up this one; sO we wait with very dismal forebodings for the next attack.

That, is not very constructive treatment, and since we mutilated these dogs we haven’t been able to do any more to relieve angina than before. That is merely an illustration of what research leads us to through vivisection. That is only one illustration. Vivisection has been entirely impractical as far as any benefit to the human race is Concerned.

There is a great hue and cry every time a bill is presented mak- i_ng tor the abolishment or even a _ marked restriction of the cruelties ” ™ "m _of vivisection. The vivisectors want a free hand; they want to be able to decide what manlier of experiment they perform and be their own judges as to whether an anesthetic shall be used or not, and they want the snooping public completely excluded from their laboratories. They have that. They have the permission to do certain experiments. They presume to do many others for which they were not granted permission, and they are rather naive, I’ think, when they recite at great length many other experiments that they were not supposed to have performed; but there is their record in black and white. The result of that is that when a bill is introduced asking for the abolishment of vivisection, the most eminent men in medicine are rounded up and hurled into that committee meeting to recite the wonderful achievements of research. I wish I knew what they were. I have never seen them, and I believe I have been a rather close student of research.

Cowards Always Fear Truth

A few years ago, when a bill was offered to Congress—I don’t remember its number or its name, but it was for the abolishment of vivisection of dogs in the District — it had great difficulty getting" through the House Committee. The friends became rather impatient and they presented an identical bill before the Senate. This was heard in full committee. I had appeared at the re-hearing before. the Congressional committee, but there., was nobody there to give me any argument. This was a hearing of the proponents. The opponents were heard later. I felt that I was wasting time. When they asked me to go down for the hearing before the Senate Committee I telegraphed back: ‘T have hitherto wasted time. Have the heads of the three laboratories of Washington present or I won’t go down.”

Well, they were present and their personnel with them. They packed the committee room. There I had them on the other side of

the table. Senator Capper was presiding. I asked permission to allow these men to stop me and heckle me and demand proof of everything that I said, and I promised that the proof would be forthcoming. I told the truth without gloves and there wasn’t one of these men that peeped. If I had said anything that he could have challenged, wouldn’t he have been on his feet instantly?

Unfortunately, the Senate rose before that bill was reported. It didn’t even reach consideration in the committee; the house bill was reported out favorably, but it never will be heard on the floor; it never will be discussed. It is always blocked whenever anyone proposes to bring it up, and it always will be. There is a powerful medical lobby that looks after that. They don’t want the facts of vivisection to get before the public. They will not discuss them in public.

I have appeared several times ,before in public addresses on this subject, and at each one of these it was advertised as a debate between some member of the county society or the academy of medicine of the city and myself. I always knew it would not be a debate, and it never was. Always, every man invited to present the other side had a perfectly good alibi. He never came. They don’t dare debate the subject before the public.—William Howard Hay, M.D., in an address at Washington, D. C.

Tortures in Urbana, Illinois

♦ Drs. P. S. Shurrager and E. A. Culler, of the University of Illinois, Urbana, reported that they split a living dog into three parts by severing the dog’s spinal cord in two places; tl en they tortured the separated parts by electrical shocks. The great discovery that they made was that when they shocked the dog’s tail it caused the dog’s paw to move, because the two were connected by nerves through a section of the severed spine. The dog was kept alive artificially so that he could enjoy the tortures, or at least so the doctors could,

Vivisection in Britain

♦ In the year 1936 considerably over eight hundred thousand experiments were performed on living animals in this country. (The animals used in such experiments are dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and others.)

Of the abovb-mentioned experiments only thirty-six thousand are stated to have been performed with anesthetics, and in over two-thirds of these latter the animal, after a severe cutting operation, was allowed to recover consciousness.

With regard to the enormous number of experiments without any anesthetics, the vivi-sectors’ own descriptions show that many of these involve great pain. The Government Inspector before a Royal Commission admitted in so many words that this is so.

The public has little conception of the dreadful procedures coldly recorded from time to timb in the scientific journals. Here, to give just one example (from the Lancet, September 19, 1931), is a case of monkeys being driven mad, so that they “bit themselves severely, two chewing off the end of a finger and one the whole skin of the forearm,” Many of the most severe experiments are done on dogs and cats.—National Anti-Vivieection Society of London.

“Death in the Pot”

HA determined and capable scientist san pack a lot of information in a 48-page book, as is shown in, beath in the Pot, by Harold. W. Keens (C. W. Daniel Co., Limited, London, 2/6 net). As a young man Mr. Keens developed tuberculosis; this made him a scientist and for the past ten years he has,spent his time and fortune on cancer research, carrying out his tests on his own body. In this book, which contains his latest findings, he establishes a connection between cancer and allied diseases and inorganic chemical substances, aluminum in particular, and tracks down these diseases to the very food we*eat and the water we drink; much of our vegetable produce is rendered poisonous through treatment by sprays, artificial manures and soil dressings with a high content of aluminum and other chemical substances; the water draining through the land is similarly affected. Examination of diseased plants reveals growths corresponding to cancer in the human body. (See also Consolation No. 485.)

The Serumization of Humanity

Points for Thinking People

1 n 1904, Professor F. Bloehmann, ^f "Wf 4 ^{11 n}°t^e(^ zo⁽⁾l⁽)gist of Tubingen, pub-a work raising the question &:.        whether vaccination was surround-

_atj_e(}lIfl[_(; safeguards. Bloch-mann (although himself not primarily engaged with medicine) was sufficiently broadminded

to appreciate, when his own son had lost an eye as the result of accidental vaccination, that the problem involved did not relate to the wisdom of vaccinating, but rather to the question of sufficient care in vaccinating. In his research, covering the period from 1880 to 1903, he found that in 140 cases of vaccinal infection, infec-ticus material was conveyed by recently vaccinated children. In sixty-one cases the eyes were seriously involved, with severe disturbance or actual loss of vision in nine. In sixty-iivc cases, mothers were affected, and unvaccinatcd children in twenty. In nineteen eases of this group of children in which eczema was present, vaccinia became widespread and death resulted in five. Tn one ease ulcerative keratitis occurred, ending fatally.—New York State Journal of Medicine.

Ten Deaths from Lockjaw

♦ One doctor in Orlando, Florida, had ten deaths among his patients in four days after giving them shots of a cancer serum manufactured by the Biochemical Bese; reh Foundation of Philadelphia. Lockjaw constitutes one of the most teirible of deaths. This doe not tend to make serums attractive.

“The Most Predisposing Cause”

♦ The most predisposing cause of cancer is infused into the blood by vaccination and revaccination. — Dr. Turnbull, cancer special 1st, London, England.

William Dosh

♦ William Dosh is a JUSTICE of the PEACE. ITe has imposed 66 jail sentences on John Marsh because the latter does not believe in

vaccination. See Consolation No. 491.

She was a doctor’s child, and he Embraced the opportunity

From all disease to make her tree With absolute immunity.

“And first,’ said tie, “as I <*"-dorse

Prevention .of diphtheria, This anti-toxin- from a horse

Should kill some bad bacteria.

‘⁽This vaccine virus from a cow ' (And I endorse it fully) Lbuuld help along, and anyhow ■ ’Twill make the child feel ‘ bully ’.

The Doctor’s Daughter

“Of snake-bite serum just a touch.;

We get it from a rabbit

Which we have bitten up so much It really likes the habit. .

“Some meningitis toxin, too, Would better be injected;

A guinea pig we strain it through To get it disinfected.

“Some various serums of my own I’m rather sure will answer;

I make them for all troubles known, From freckles up to cancer.”

Alas! Alas! for all his pains

The end was scarce desirous;

She soon had nothing in her veins But various lflnds*of virus.

Part horse, part cow, part slie’ep, part goat;

Tier laugh w-as half a whinny;

“Dear me,” Said he, “she’s half a shoa.t ■

And badly mixed with guinea.

“A girl who bleats and chews a cud Will never make a woman;

I’d better get some good .clean blood

And make her partly human!”

CONSOLATION

Oslo and Baltic States

Estonia's New Constitution'

♦ The new Constitution went into effect in January, 1938, with a brief time for full adjustment. Among its provisions are the following: All citizens are free before the law; there are no classes or class titles; the home is inviolable; freedom of conscience and of religious faith is guaranteed; the expression of thought by word of mouth, print, script, image and sculpture is free; there is no censorship with regard to printing; the family, being the basis of the existence and growth of the people as well as of national life, is under the protection of the State; educational instruction is compulsory for children of school age; work is the honor and duty of every ablebodied citizen; it is the right and duty of every citizen to find work for himself, and the State assists him in finding work ; assisting a person in need is primarily the duty of the members of his family; the law organizes assistance for citizens in the case of old age, incapacity to work, or poverty, by social insurance or welfare work; persons refusing to work, those 'who neglect the duties of assisting members of their families, and vicious claimants for public assistance, may be taken under compulsory guardianship.—New York Times.

“Inclined to Tell Lies”

♦ For writing a psychological study of Hitler, in which he stated, as any other student of the mind must have done, that Hitler is inclined to tell lies, the Hollandish government fined Maur its Dekker £11. It feared his truthful statement might*be offensive to the Terror that is spreading consternation in every land that borders upon the Reich.

Power of the Insane

♦ What a single demonized man can do to upset the equilibrium of a normally well-balanced people can be seen in Denmark’s decision to expend $11,000,000 for war supplies, to offset the threat to peace caused by Hitler.

Few Catholics in Norway .

♦ In Norway, oul of a population of 2,881,605 (as of the year 1930) there are less than 3,000 Roman Catholies, or about one-tenth of one percent.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1BS8

All About Hell            _;

♦ It seems that Hell has a population of 1,465, no crime, no jail, no fire department, no wealthy men, no prize fights. It does have two big danees every week, it is peaceful in summer, cold in winter and easy to reach for $1.10 a round trip from Trondheim, Norway. So says its mayor, Lorentz Stenzie, visiting New York. In Norwegian the word “hell” means “slope”, related to the English “hell” meaning a hole, that is, the grave.

A Means of Fighting Gas Attacks

• ♦ A practical means of fighting gas attacks was developed in Belgium, where the upward current of air formed by burning piles of logs lifted fogs and their poisonous gases 500 feet off the earth.

Reykjavik to Be Heated by Ho* Water

• ♦ The entire city of Reykjavik, Iceland, will be heated by hot water from the volcanic hot springs of Reykir, near the city. A British firm will lay the pipes that will carry the hot water through every house.

At the North Cape

• ♦ At North cape, Norway, the sun rises on May 12 and remains in sight until August 1. At Tromso, Norway, it rises on May 18 and shines until July 25.

A mountain pass in Norway. See the white house just above the word “Ovre” at base.

“Nature’s Own Food Metal” (?)

a THERE is no question that there are infinitesimal quantities of aluminum in practically everything that grows. An excessive amount is found in rayless goldenrod or snakeroot. It has been found that when animals eat either of these two herbs they soon contract a disease known as “trembles”. If milk contains much of this poison it results in milk sickness. When food animals, like rabbits, are eaten, persons also become affected with trembles, a paralytic condition. The animals themselves become diseased with the eating of the herbs, contracting trembles. The symptom—they are unable to use their hind legs.

We now have a new disease known as radium poisoning. It was discovered that radium could be used on watch and clock dials to make them luminous in the dark. The workers were affected with a disease that caused them to lose their power of locomotion,, sort of a jsemi-paralytic condition. In short time they were unable to move hand or foot. They had to be cared for as infants. Twenty of those working for the U. S. Radium Corporation of New Jersey have already died, and the others are simply hopeless.

Now a new case has occurred at the Ottawa, Ill., factory. Eight of these have died, and the ,others are condemned to a living death of paralysis known as radium poisoning.

There are many persons who have been given another luminous metal, called mercury, for the treatment of various diseases. When taken as a cathartic with something sour it eats out and destroys the peridental membrane (tissue surrounding the teeth), the patient having what is termed “salivation”, terminating in pyorrhea, focal infection—death. When taken internally for the treatment of syphilis the meta! destroys the periosteum surrounding the joints. When this dissolves, locomotor ataxia is the name given to the disease.

Now we find aluminum belongs to this luminous class of metals. It has twice the potency of silver nitrate, and, therefore, has been chosen above that metal to be used upon the new million-dollar eye of the Mount Palomar Observatory. It sifts out many of the atmospheric rays which silver does not affect. It is also extensively used for boudoirs and other mirror purposes.

We find that aluminum has the distinction of also belonging to the heavy metal series which is soft and poisonous. Among these, we find it is similar to lead, bismuth, arsenic, zinc, tin, copper, etc. The quantities necessary for a lethal dose of lead poisoning is often so small it is unmeasurable. It is hard to believe that anyone would suggest that arsenic is not poisonous. We certainly know that verdigris will form on copper when in contact with acetic acid, sufficient to cause death within 24 hours. Zinc poison is said tq be so harmful that government warnings have been issued that galvanized pails should not be used in connection with milk on the farms.

Aluminum belongs to the series, also dissolves when in contact with all foods, as they contain both the acids and alkalis; both dissolve aluminum. When these particles enter the alimentary canal they come in contact with acids and peptic ferments of the body,-consequently, we find, when they are in contact with these juices, various poisons are produced, such as aluminum acetate, aluminum muriate, aluminum sulphate, aluminum chlorate. These are the principal chemicals used by morticians for embalming the dead.

Aluminum, having a high potency, is known as a catalytic agent, being used by sugar refineries to produce the crystals known as white granulated sugar. When it comes in contact with the juices in the gall bladder or kidneys the little crystals formed produce what is known as bodies, gallstones, kidney stones, etc. Many go to the physician regularly to have their gal) bladder drained, something unknown twenty-five years ago.

The general health of the nation is such that the gov irnment itself has become alarmed. The department of health claims that our illness bill per annum now reaches ten billion dollars; that approximately 3 percent of our population is totally incapacitated; that 90 pereeiit of adults need medical care; 80 percent of our' school children are undernourished and need medical and dental care; that we are now operating five billion dollars’ worth of Hospitals at a cost of three million dollars per-day; that an average of one out of each twelve persons spends an average of ten days per annum in some hospital. Such a condition was unknown before aluminum cooking utensils were placed in our homes.

Large federations of women’s clubs are now for the first time becoming wide awake as to the danger pf aluminum. Why should this metal be accepted as non-poisonous when all others are in the oxide form when ingested? This should not be just because someone makes money from its sale.—Dr. C. T. Bette, Ohio.

Husbands, Foxes and Mothers

♦ My husband has had pains in his side and stomach for several years, could not put on any weight, his complexion was yellow and he was always complaining of pains here and there. We discarded aluminum, after much thought and consideration, and to our surprise he added 15 pounds weight, which he so much needed, and his face is as pink as you could ask ^for.

We fed our foxes in pretty, shiny aluminum dishes. Their eyes became all pasted up. They seemed to be heading for death. We called several veterinarians, paying $15 to the last one; he could not say why the foxes were ill. Moon blindness, distemper and wrong diet were offered as explanations, but nothing was said about aluminum. I even had the foxes inoculated, at a cost of $10, all to no purpose. When I got your magazine I discarded all those pretty aluminum dishes. The eyes of the foxes became normal and their health perfect.

My husband’s mother is very ill with stomach ulcers. These have eaten through the walls of her stomach, but she still insists on using the aluminum utensils which she has used for twenty years. I have warned her, but she persists ; and what can one do if another persists in a course that is bringing them to the grave? I wish your magazine could be read by everybody.—Rose M. Grybosh, Massachusetts.

Doctor Betts Confirms This

♦ In the making of dental plates some of the rubbers forming the bases of vulcanite dentures are impregnated with aluminum metal flakes to .upposedly enhance the appearance of the finished case and to make it stronger, as a gold-colored metallic-like finish is produced. My experience with this material has been that it very strongly tends to produce marked irritations of the mucous membrane upon which it rests and should never be used as a denture base; nor should any aluminum alloy denture, for that matter, and there are several such.—Irving L. Conover, New York.

Mnimosinon a la Cemetery

♦ Mnimosinon a la Cemetery is a dish of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. It consists of boiled wheat, chopped nuts, raisins, pastrami, sesame seeds and fine colored sugar. The mixture is all right of itself, but becomes "a la cemetery” by being prepared in an aluminum pot and left to stand therein. At least that is what was discovered at Fitchburg. Out of about 200 portions served to the congregation 157 were made seriously ill with what readers of Consolation merely call “alummum poisoning”, that being the correct name for it. In some instances there were eight to twelve cases for the doctors in a single family. Business was good, and the doctors cannot be blamed (perhaps) for failing to consider the aluminum angle. The more food that is cooked and stored in aluminum, the better the doctor business. However, there are honest physicians, and they tell their patients to dodge the cemetery goods. It is too bad the news did not get to Fitchburg yet.                  ,

Aluminum Dental Plate Did It

♦ Thirteep years ago my father, a well, healthy man, had his teeth removed and the dentist put in aluminum plates. Shortly afterwards a cancer appeared on his face; we removed it with radium; then he went stone blind. A year ago we thought ht had prostate trouble. An operation was performed and his body was found full of cancer. Of course, nothing could be done; it was too late.—T. C. Broshears, Oreg.

Have Your Lungs Removed?

♦ The Toronto Star was told by J. J. Denny, a New York geologist, that one of the ways to prevent silicosis is to put aluminum dust in the lungs. Quite an idea. Still better way would be to remove every child’s lungs the moment it is born and put a solid aluminum respirator in their place; also the child’s blood might be drained off and serums or hot molasses or something put in its place.

Why the Silence?

♦ If the public press is the friend of the people, why <fs it that it remains silent as the grave over the hundreds of eases of aluminum poisoning? It takes some years and some patience to grasp the fact that the bigger the racket the better care it gets.

A “Strange Work”

♦ It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses refuse to salute or serve flags and other images, tip hats to their women or buildings, because. of the 1st and 2nd Commandments of God.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses are proclaiming God’s name, Jehovah, in al] the earth, that His name may be vindicated to all creation, proving Satan is a liar. '

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses are giving more glory to Jehovah God, the Creator, than to Christ Jesus, the Creature. They have no God but Jehovah,

. It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses are proclaiming that Jesus Christ has come again and is setting up His kingdom in the earth in the midst of His enemies and breaking in pieces all the nations of this world.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses have separated themselves from all the religious denominations of the world.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses take a bold stand against religion and expose all religious doctrines as false and of the tradition and precepts of man, not of the Bible, but fathered by Satan.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses are hated by all the religious element, just as Jesus and the apostles were hated by the religious leaders and followers of the Jewish religion, yet the religionists profess to be of the same God.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses make this bold statement to all nations and peoples: That all present governments and religions of this world will perish for ever because of ■ Jehovah’s wrath, for they have broken the everlasting covenant, changed the ordinance and not kept the laws of God.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses gladly proclaim that the kingdom of Jehovah God under Christ Jesus is the only hope of this old sick, dying world and that the people of good will toward God may find comfort and safety and learn the purpose of Jehovah toward His people.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses go from door to door and house to house and use other means such as radio and phonograph with the Kingdom message and warning of Jehovah’s vengeance, without a permit from man, and gladly face death, persecution, threats, and serve time in jail, that their fellow man may receive the truth and take his stand on Jehovah’s side and live, or on the Devil’s side and die.

It is strange, Jehovah’s witnesses give all credit to Jehovah, that He, through Christ Jesus, is directing all their movements in their service of the Kingdom and that it is not the work of any man, but the fulfillment of the following prophecy: ‘For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His aet, His strange act.’ (Isaiah 28:21) ‘Therefore wait ye upon me, jaith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, and assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.’ (Zephaniah 3:8)— J. Winger, in the Jersey Observer.

Connecticut Returning to the Union

♦ Through action of municipal officials egged on by religionists the state of Connecticut has been well on the way towards a complete divorce from the principles of religious freedom and freedom of speech and press. There were 134 convictions of Jehovah’s witness^ entered in police courts in. a number of communities in a short space of time. Priests, Knights of Columbus, Irish cops, and prominent ‘principals of the flocks’, all joined in the effort to suppress and censor the book Enemies and the booklet Cure.

Appeals were taken from all of the 134 convictions. Of these appeals, 128 were in Hartford County, which is blessed with a state’s attorney, Hugh M. Alcorn by name, who has a reputation fox honesty, integrity and fearlessness second to none. Alcorn didn’t approve the prosecutions, and entered a nolle prosequi as to each of the 128 eases. This included the case of Louis Garloni, divisional servant, who received a $25 fine for sending a letter of information to officials in the state.

Although in the past few months 212 of Jehovah’s witnesses were placed under arrest in the state, to this date not one of them has paid a fine or spent a night in jail.

CONSOLATION

Monessen Takes It with a Smile

0 Monessen, where "146 of Jehovah’s witnesses were packed in cells like cattle, welcomes civil liberty with acclaim and gladness. The Monessen Daily Indc-pf.'iida^t says:

The sweeping civil liberties decision of the United States Supreme Court in t.hc Jehovah’s witnesses suit should be sufficient to satisfy those who have taken special interest in the persecution of'' members of Ibis religious sect.

-. Monessen had a sad experience—it was costly, non-profitable, anil held the city up to ridicule while it was going on. The United States Supreme Court ruled that to interfere with this sect in the distribution of literature in municipalities where ordinances were used to stop them, would be to strike a blow at the freedom of the press and free speech. The Court in its decision said that legislation of this type would restore the system of license and censtjrshij) in its baldest form. The Court added that press freedom was not confined to newspapers and periodicals, but other sources had thcsanie rights under the law as newspapers.

The freedom of religion and the rights of all citizens under the American Constitution to worship as they see fit is a right that the courts have not yet abridged, and while occasionally it is necessary to put up a. fight to sustain this Constitutional right, yet these opportunities come and it must be gratifying' that the high courts continue to curb, official acts of those who would place in the way an obstruction to free speech, free press, or free-' dom of religious convictions.

And thus the fresh air of freedom sends its soft and gentle breezes over the land. Tn the darkened Fascist areas of New’ Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other places, Jehovah’s witnesses now carry the Kingdom message to the people without much opposition by the' strong-arm squads. Does this mean that the religionists have given up and are going to be good ? It is doubtful. z\s soon as they can recover from the shock they will undoubtedly again ineubate new charges in their vain attempts to stifle and- smother the truth. They-do not want liberty, except the liberty to prey upon the people, and must therefore receive proper education when the Ford Jehovah cleans up the mess in Armageddon. ^:

Petition Massachusetts for Liberty

. Parents of five children (Jehovah’s witnesses) living in the state of Massachusetts petitioned the school * committee of Sudbury Center, De* w- eember 27, 1937, to reinstate the pupils in the public schools and thus restore freedom to worship Almighty God in Massachusetts. This necessity is enough to make the Pilgrim Fathers turn over in their graves. Warning the committee of its responsibility if it continues to deprive the children of God-fearing and patriotic parents of the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution, it said in part:

You will (thus) continue to besmirch and degrade the emblem of the Republic which,you insist children shall revere. You will also continue to contradict the fundamental law of the Republic, as well as of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Instead you will uphold and strengthen the hands of those who are trying to enforce in this country pernicious and alien doctrines which now serve to grind in the dust millions of defenseless mortals in those modern Communistic and Fascistie states overseas.

Are You Listening?

♦ Not only has radio become a thing of great public interest, but it is definitely a household convenience and necessity. From early morning to late at night the radio is to the average home a center of contact with all phases of life. During the course of the day one hears much that is not worth hearing, but also sopie things that are of practical value. The most important thing anyone can hear anywhere at anytime is the good news that soon Jehovah’s kingdom will for ever end the Devil’s present evil world and bring the heart’s desire of all honest people, to the vindication of His own great name. Many of the Lord’s “other sheep” are hearing this message from the Watchtower station WBBR, in Brooklyn. The noble purpose of this sta-■ tion stands as a fiery condemnation of all commercial radio that has no time for the Kingdom message.. Are you listening?

In Terror of Death

a In terror of death (which in his case, the Scriptures indicate, will most certainly and justly be eternal for what he has done to Jehovah’s witnesses), Hitler took along his own cook on his trip to Italy, so that nobody would poison him.

A Vicious Woman’s Malice Upset

♦ Nothing else on earth is so mean, so small, so vicious as a mean, small, vicious woman. In Texas a woman left her husband and child because both are Jehovah’s witnesses. The woman married again, which was a godsend to her ex-husband, but she maneuvered a court decision that her charming and intelligent 12-year-old child should be taken away from her father and put in an institution. A higher court reversed the decision and gave the child back to her father. The woman in the case had sought to make capital out of the fact that the child put God above -the flag. The judge of the higher court said:

. . . Does the admitted refusal of the father and daughter to salute the flag of the United States because they think such act manifests a reverence that would violate the religious creed upon their fidelity to which, they believe, depends their future salvation, furnish convincing proof? History is replete with the bigotry, intolerance and dogmatism of religious sects and the pages thereof are strewn with martyrs who died for their faith , , .

President Roosevelt’s Prayer

A In a letter read for him at a sol-emu high mass in the St. Patrick’s cathedral, New York city, Presi-

HBSHI dent Roosevelt said:

There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education. My prayer shall be that this nation, under God, may vindicate through all coming time the sanctity of the right of all within our borders to the free exercise of religion according to the dictate of conscience. .

How any man could write a thing like that and refuse to answer Judge Rutherford’s letter calling attention to over 1,000 cases of persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses by the very organization that owns the cathedral in which his letter was read is something that only a politician could understand. While politicians continue to mouth glittering platitudes, their henchmen, the clergy, are absolutely intolerant.

Should Have, Been Ashamed

♦ After the deal he gave Jehovah’s witnesses on their petitions, President Roosevelt should have been ashamed to write to the “Most Reverend” Francis J. L. Beckman, archbishop of Dubuque, that the insuring of freedom of worship constitutes one of the first obligations of a democratic government.

(Ta be continued)

Aviation

Three and a Third Times as Fast

American railways now operate at the most rapid speed in their history ; and they must, in order to stand up under the fierce competition of the airplanes. The United

States postal department prints a list of 168 important places, all over the United States. The average time between Brooklyn and a representative point is 37 hours by rail and 11.1 hours by airplane, or 3.3 times as fast by plane as by rail. Samples: Brooklyn to San Diego by rail, 79 hours; by plane, 20 hours; Brooklyn to Seattle by rail, 78 hours; by plane, 22 hours. It is 2,843 miles from New York to San Diego and 2,875 miles from New York to Seattle. Average speed by rail, 36 miles per hour; by airplane, 120 miles per hour, but with greater speeds bound to come soon.             ,

Record Diesel Flight

♦ Captain Hans von Engel made a record Diesel flight from the deck of a German steamship in the English Channel 'to Caravellas, Brazil. Many believe that the airplane fuel of the future will be crude oil and that Diesel engines will be so perfected that any other ’ form of fuel would be sheer folly.

No More Flying Coffins

♦ After expending $50,000,000 on the Macon, Akron and Shenandoah, and getting, to show for it, nothing but rows of tombstones, the government decided not to invest in any more flying coffins; so the zeppelins, which at one time seemed to have considerable possibilities, now give way altogether to airplanes.

Free Travel for Wives

♦ Some of the air lines, to popularize air travel, have been giving free rides to wives when accompanying their husbands; and this noticeably added to the number of Americans enjoying the greatest trip of life.

Few Accidents on China Clippers

♦ It is quite remarkable that the China Clippers (weighing 82,500 pounds) had flown upward of 7,000,000 passenger miles without an accident before their loss of a plane near the Philippines.

SEPTEMBER 21, 193B

A Thrilling Six Hours

♦ A thrilling six hours in the night was that of an airplane which left Newark, New Jersey, airport at 8: 32 p.m., expecting to reach Washington, D. C., in about two hours. A very high wind came up and blew the plane around like a toy. After a six hours’ fight to land at Camden, and later at Newark, the plane finally landed at Hartford, Connecticut, some 340 miles from its intended destination, and in the opposite direction. It was a wild night for the passengers, but nobody was hurt, except in their nerves.

Delayed Drop of Five Miles

♦ The French airman, James Williams, leaped from a plane at 27,550 feet, considerably over five miles, and dropped a little over five miles before he opened his parachute, at 1,046 feet above the ground. The drop occupied 2 minutes 20 seconds, and was made at the average speed of 134 miles per hour, He was able to breathe normally, move his arms and legs without difficulty, and by using his hands as fins was able to alter the course of his fall. It was merely a stunt, serving no good purpose.

Accidents to Airplane Buoys

♦ On their air lines to South Africa and India the British use buoys consisting of huge red rubber balls anchored to the bottom by steel chains. On Lake Victoria, in Africa, the natives used one of these for target practice and it was fished up full of spears and looking like a huge pincushion. In India the crocodiles ate holes in them at five of the stops.

The Douglas DC-4

The Douglas DC-4, the largest pas-VJUSH senger land plane yet built, measures 139 feet from wing tip to wing _ tip, stands 24 feet high, and is 90 ^—feet from nose to tail. The plane weighs 65,000 pounds and cost more than $1,500,000 to build.

24,000 Miles in Eleven Days

♦ Flying officer Clouston and Victor Ricketts made the 24,000 miles from Croydon airport, London, to New Zealand and return in three hours less than eleven days — a noteworthy record.

Labor

Strong-Arm Squad as Strikebreakers

♦ In the United States policemen carry guns. And twenty-four strikers have been killed this year by police—more than the whole police force of England, Scotland and Wales killed in the preservation of law and order in fifty years. English policemen do not carry guns. Yet English crowds are the most orderly in the world. In England there have been strikes for seventy-five years without a single death from violence.

Our industrial moguls, when faced by a strike, let out a yelp for police aid and, all too often, get it. This is sometimes re-enforced by the state guards of an obliging governor. (The taxpayers of'Ohio must dig up $60,000 to pay state guard expenses in helping Tom Girdler break the strike in Little Steel.) Before the World War European countries did not consider strikebreaking a part of police duty. In the half century before the World War not as many strikers were killed by the police forces of Belgium, Denmark, France, Gennady, Holland, Italy, Norway and Sweden as were killed in the Memorial Day massacre by a small part of Chicago’s police force. Workingmen in this country are paying a high price for the extracurricular activity of police forces.

What are the answers? That's for you to figure out.-—The Railway Clerk.

Who Can Deny It?

♦ Westbrook Pegler, pointing out that one union demands $1,000 down for a job, $60 annual dues, a flat income tax of 3 percent on gross earnings, and a varying amount in special assessments, makes the following commonsense proposition, and who can deny that it is the truth?—:

Intimidation, extortion, irresponsibility, graft and dictatorship, must be eliminated if labor is to be any better off under the rule of the unioneer than under, the oppression of bad employers.

Cuddly or Soft-Body Dolls

♦ Cuddly or soft-body dolls do not look so cute when you learn that some of the contractors for this line of Christmas goods pay their workers only 35c a gross for sewing them upland on a home machine (and much of this work is done iu homes] Ole worker can make only about one gross in an entire day.

Andrew Furuseth, Able Seaman

♦ Andrew Furuseth, able seaman, is dead at 84. He spent his entire life in ameliorating the condition of seamen, and knew more about the subject, and accomplished more, than any other authority. He had no family, traveled in the steerage, and when president of the International Seamen’s Union he refused to accept more than seaman’s wages. When a judge in San Francisco threatened to send him to prison he replied in open court:

You cannot make me more lonely than 1 have always been. You cannot give me food worse than I have always bad. My sleeping quarters will be no more cramped than they have been at any time.

For nineteen years this man lobbied in Congress for seamen’s laws that are now on the statute books. lie was an acknowledged" authority on maritime law, was tall, gaunt and full of fire to make his life count for others.’

Robot Bank Tellers Now

♦ Robot bank tellers are coming into use in New York and.Philadelphia', so that those who have only checks to deposit need no longer stand in line to reach a teller’s window. The depositor drops his deposit slip and his checks one at a time into the machine, which automatically takes photographs of every slip and cheek. At the close of the day the cheeks are taken out of the machine and entered to the depositor’s credit. ■

Mighty Good News if True -

♦ If it is true that the C.I.O. settlement with the Steel Trust was brought about because John L. Lewis, president of the C.I.O., and Thomas Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. (a subsidiary of the Steel Trust), were boyhood friends and worked together as miners when they were young men, then it is mighty good' news. Seems like the America that used to be.

The Man with a Heart

♦ It is narrated that when the letters from the unemployed began to come in, letters which accompanied the reports of unemployment asked for by the government, one of the. men was so disturbed at the horrors laid before him that the first day he tried to read and answer some of these pathetic Communications he went home violently ill. > ■ ...

Pure Worship

IN ORDER to appreciate what constitutes pure worship, as defined in the Scriptures, the clear distinction between religion and Christianity must be made. Those who practice religion indulge in a form of worship whereby they appear to be pious, and which appearance is made manifest to be seen of men. One’s appearance before men does not reach as high as God and receive His approval. The 'cribes and Pharisees were religionists and indulged in a form of worship, and concerning them Jesus said: “But all their works they do for to be seen of men; they make broad their phylacteries, ana enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.” —Matthew 23:5-7.

Paul was a religionist before he became a Christian, and he says of those who practiced religion that they ‘have a form of worship but deny the power of God'. (2 Timothy 3: 5) By the practice of religious forms the Word of God is set aside and made void, and for that reason Jesus told the Pharisees that they were hypocrites and that their form of worship was in vain, hence disapproved by Jehovah God.—Matthew 15:1-9.

Pure worship means to strictly obey God’s commandments by doing what He has commanded shall be done, even as Jesus likewise does. The followers of Christ Jesus were and are called “Christians” because they do the same things that He did. They do not need to wear a peculiar kind of hat or a long robe or lace pants and go through certain contortions, to indulge in a pure worship. Such is done at the instruction of man, and it is foolishness in the sight of God. True worshipers do not need to make a show of themselves before men. They seek only the Lord’s approval. In harmony with what is here said it is recorded, according to the Syriac Version, at James 1:27 the following: “For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Jehovah God is the fountain of life. (Psalm 36:9) God has appointed Christ Jesus to administer life to those who obey Him, and therefore it is written that 'the gift of God is life everlasting through Christ Jesus our Lord’. (Romaim 6:23) For this reason Jesus is called “the Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6), who administers life to those who obey God’s commandments. The “fatherless” are those who have no knowledge of and have not learned the way to life, even though they greatly desire to know what is that way. Concerning this Jesus says: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17: 3) If they hear the message concerning Jehovah and His King and kingdom pointing the way' to life, that is a comfort to them.

As recorded in the Scriptures, Jehovah God is the Husband of Zion, sometimes called Jerusalem, which is symbolized by a woman and means God’s organization. (Isaiah 541-9) When one is in distress and affliction and hears the message of truth, it is a '’(insolation to him..

A widow is one who has no husband. All the nations that practice what is called “the Christian religion” call themselves collectively “Christendom”. Instead of indulging in pure worship of God they substitute therefor religious practices. Their organization, such particularly as the Roman Catholic organization through its Hierarchy, claims to have God as its Husband and Head, but the Scriptures plainly state that God has rejected and turned away from Him all such religionists and, further, that He receives and approves only those who “worship him in spirit and in truth”. (John 4:24) All the religious organizations of “Christendom”, therefore, are widows within the meaning of the Scriptures, Within their ranks or organization, however, there are sincere persons who have been brought into such organizations, and to whom also the word “widow” applies, because they rely upon the organization to lead them. They have not been taught the truth of God’s Word, and because they have to feed upon the traditions or teachings of men they mourn and are in great affliction, and of them God’s prophet'says:‘They

sigh and ery because of the abominations that be done in the midst of her,’ that is, within the religious organization.—Ezekiel 9:4.

God commands Christians, that is, those who worship Him in spirit and in truth, who reiy upon and obey His commandments, that these must go to such persons as desire to be comforted, and give them the message of truth set forth in God's Word, dh'at they may receive consolation. (Isaiah 61:1,2) When one who is consecrated to the Lord obeys this commandment of Jehovah, such constitutes pure and holy worship of God. To those who are true followers of Christ Jesus the Lord God now specifically says: ‘Go through the midst of “Christendom” (that is, her organizations) and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst of her,’ (Ezekiel 9:4) To set a mark on their foreheads means to give such persons an opportunity to learn what is taught in the Word of God, the Bible. These honest and sincere persons who sigh and cry because they see the religious systems indulging in polities and all unrighteous things kno.w that such practices of the, religious institutions are wrong, and they sigh because thereof and they desire that which is righteous. They are called “people of good will”, yet they do not know God’s manner of salvation and they too are suffering affliction even as the “fatherless”. The true worshipers are commanded to go to such and comfort them by presenting to them the truth.

Therefore it is written, in James 1: 27, that pure worship is to visit those persons thus described as widows and fatherless and to comfort them. Jehovah’s witnesses, in obedience to God’s command, do go from house to house throughout the land called “Christendom” and call attention of the people to the good news of the Kingdom and inform them of these truths, that they may learn the way to life. This they do by presenting to them the message by phonograph and the message contained in books, and encourage them to hear and to read, that, they may understand the truth. Such witnesses, therefore, are indulging in pure and holy worship in obedience to God’s commandment. They do not need to indulge in any forms of ceremony, and therefore they go about in their usual garments. They are not parading themselves to be seen of men: but their sole purpose, in obedience to God’s commandment, is to comfort those who desire to know the truth.

Religion originated with Satan and is put forth by him for the very purpose of keeping the people in ignorance of God’s means of salvation and blessing. Satan endeavors to destroy the human race, and religion is one of his subtle means to accomplish that wicked purpose. ‘Pure and holy worship’ is exactly opposite to religion, because those who thus worship in obedience to God’s commandments do so by carrying ;he truth to others. The truth of God’s Word enables a person to get free from the blindness induced by Satan’s frauds. Thus released and coming into freedom, the people receive comfort and joy. To be joyful such people must be obedient to the Lord. They must abandon religion and must indulge in the true worship of Almighty God and Christ Jesus, looking to the kingdom which is now at hand for the blessing;.: of everlasting life. At James 1: 27 also appear the words concerning pure worship that one must, “keep himself unspotted from the world”. The explanation of this part of the text will appear in the next issue of this magazine.

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Spring Fishing Season in Canada

When the spring fishing season in BHrnOfll Canada was on, early in May, 1938, the suckers were biting splendidly. BmH Thirty-four so-ealled “pastors” and leaders of Protestant denominations met at thqi Trappist monastery at St. Norbert for meditation. The monks attended all meetings while the ministers discussed their problems, and the ministers attended all the monastery “services”. An ordinary living room 16 by 14 feet, in any private home, would

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have provided ample space to seat this vast assembly of 34 men, but the suckers wanted to go to a monastery, and go they did.

Good Ideas Stated Backwards

♦ Roger Babson, noted statistician, often collects valuable information, but quite as often states it back end foremost. He knows something is wrong. lie thinks the “churches” can straighten it out; they never can. He says:

The real hope of America lies with the churches and educational institutions. We will have better

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government only as we have better people. But what do we see today? Many church denominations have become largely businesses operated by paid officials, secretaries and other salaried people. They seem primarily interested in raising money to insure their own jobs rather than in spreading the teachings of'Jesus.

“Bodily Exercise Profiteth Little” (?)

♦ Wonder what text the- congregation of Poole High - street Methodist ehureh, Dorchester, England, had in mind on Sunday, April 3, 1938, when they stood up m their pews and imitated the physical exercises done for them, in front of the pulpit, by a young man dressed only in white trunks and gymnasium shoes. Maybe they were thinking of the apostle’s advice to Timothy (1 Timothy 4:8), and thought that inasmuch as they were getting nothing profitable out of the other performances they might as well get a little for their muscles anyway.

Prayer Books and Dancing Slippers

♦ The Reverend H. G. Wilks, Holy Trinity church, Keighley parish, Yorkshire, England, hit on Quite an original idea. He advertised that those who would come to the Sunday evening performance could bring their dancing slippers, and after they had God satisfied with the usual hymns and talks and collections, they would spend the rest of the evening dancing. The church seats only 450, and every seat was filled. The dance was over at ten o’clock. It was a big success. Now card tables, whisky and—?

Presbyterians Still Wrestling with War ♦ In the year 1938 the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America will finally ^s decide what it. intends to do "about war. The

United States itself, by its Kellogg-Briand treaty, decided nine years ago that war as an instrument of policy is all wrong; this year it is spending nearly $1,000,000,000 for armament. This armament will be just to look at, not to use.

Twenty-five Trios

♦ During 1937 there were twenty-five trios of Catholic priests, Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis traveling and lecturing throughout the United States, ostensibly to prove that they are all in substantial accord. Their aceord, however, is in the hope of salvaging religion and preventing the spread of true Christianity—the truth. It is the only thing they have in common.

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Methodism Losing Out '

♦ Methodism, onee described by General Grant as the principal political party in the United States, fell' into second place with the advent of the reign of James Aloysius Farley. In Congress there are now 110 Roman Catholics, 104 Methodists, 64 Baptists, 60 Presbyterians, 55 Episcopalians, and 134 others, of whom 10 are Jews. This is the first Congress in which Roman Catholics have been in leading position as to numbers. Farley should have credit for this.

Methodist Sunday Schools Slipping

♦ Methodists claim that in thirteen years last past they have averaged to lose eleven Sunday school scholars every day and three Sunday schools have closed every five days for the entire period. Reasons advanced for the decline are late Saturday night hours and Sunday driving.

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From Forgotten Women

Romanism, like its counterpart, Hindooism, is a religion of sex worship. Hindooism is based on sex gratification; Romanism on sex repression. Under the misleading name of “Virginity”, the Church of Rome has capitalized the false notion that the instinct of procreation is, in itself, the greatest foe to spiritual advancement, and should be crushed out of existence. The whole theory of virginity rests on a solid foundation of ignorance of man’s physical nature, and has given rise to some sad results, The very fact that something is prohibited adds immeasurably to its attractiveness. [P. 55]

A girl in a convent is not free to even communicate with her own parents. Her mail, like that of prisoners in any other penitentiary, is censored, and, if necessary, mutilated before she gets it, if she gets it at all. The girl in the convent is in a pitiful quandary, for to even own up that she had all she wanted of Christ’s spouse is to put herself on the spot. She automatically becomes her own accuser. She says to the petrified superior that she is no longer in love with Jesus Christ, not at least to the extent of wanting to marry Him. She is guilty of spiritual breach of promise. A monster of iniquity, a child of the Devil, yellow to the core. She can leave, of course; no one is wanted in the convent but those who love Jesus. If she wants to turn Him down, she can. It is nobody’s business but her own. If she wants to return to her people branded a yellow renegade, she can. They will give her back her clothes and open the gate. She was only a fraud anyway. Good riddance to bad rubbish. She is in the pillory. How many girls want freedom enough to ask it at such a price? The girl who leaves the convent is in the position of a soldier who has been drummed out of the army, [P. 59]                                              ■

Adam Landed in Hen ven AH O.K.

♦ ' In answer to a question about Adam and Eve the Brooklyn Tablet explains that “because of their repentance and long life of ex-giation they were delivered from Limbo by ur Lord and taken by Him to Heaven”. The way the thing figures out, Adam made a good thing out of it, after all. The Lord told bim if, he sinned he would lose his life and his home in Eden, but according to this philosophy he got his'life" back and a better estate at the end than he had at the beginning.

Catholic Press Betrays Its Terror

♦ Some idea cf the fright that has overcome the Hierarchy and its male chambermaid may bh gathered from the first paragraph of the following article, which has been carried by Catholic papers to all parts of the world.

Rutherford Makes Former Anti-Cathoijc Groups “Look Like Pikers’

Chicago.— (Special) —Charles P. Windle, non-Catholic editor of The Iconoclast, Chicago, asserts that “Judge” Rutherford, through his seet known as “Jehovah’s witnesses,” is distributing more than 10,000,000 books, magazines, and pamphlets every month. His 35,000 “Witnesses” make house-to-house canvasses, play Rutherford records on portable phonographs, operate sound trucks, and conduct study clubs and meetings.

“Windle says that Rutherford is “arousing anti-Catholic prejudice on a scale that makes former anti-Catholic movements look like pikers. Ninety per cent of his material is viciously anti-Catholic.”

, Father J. S. Feldmeier of Braddpck, Pa., in a statement sent to Windle, tells how the Witnesses went to Aliquippa a few years ago with a loudspeaker and set it up on a hillside, whence they played records damning the Church and priesthood. Afterwards, they combed the town distributing pamphlets and seeking donations: He says that there are many fallen - away Catholics among their workers. One man was a trustee and wonderful worker in Father Feldmeier’s church in Sagamore. He quit the Church and began to ridicule it, as a result of the Witnesses’ work. He forbade his children; daily communicants, to go to church. The mother had one new baby baptized secretly, but in order to keep peace in the family followed her husband before the next was born. A girl of the family died and had the ministrations of, the priest. Her father threatened to kill the priest if she were taken to the church at the funeral and two policemen ■were necessary to handle him in a car in front of the church.

“In Aliquippa they have gotten about 20 families, children and all in about a half year’s time. In Sagamore they took away about 15 families in a short time.” Father Feldmeier says that he knows of 100 apostasies they have caused. “It is high time that we Catholics wake up and do something about it.”—Catholic Telegraph-Register.

The very terror of the Hierarchy, their inability to debate their doctrines, and their never-ending flood of abuse, is proof of the error in which they are wallowing and of their coming destruction.

American Neutrality in Spain

♦ American neutrality in Spain works only one way, that is, in behalf of the army of ba by-killers and not in behalf of the Spanish Government. In a very righteous order it is decreed that no arms may be shipped to Spain because this country is neutral, but in March 20,000 airplane bombs were loaded on a German freighter in the Delaware River, and, by this time, no doubt many of them have killed more babies and women in the Hierarchy’s war to make Spain safe for Fascism. The Spanish embargo was rushed through Congress while Secretary of State Hull and his present undersecretary, Sumner Welles, were absent from the United States. Secretary Hull considers the embargo the greatest foreign policy blunder of the Administration.

Helping to Destroy Spain

♦ It is a fact that the embargo policy was slipped through while both Hull and Undersecretary of State Welles were out of the country; it is also a fact that the policy is in outrageous violation of both our immediate national interests and our traditional attitude and treaty commitments; it is further true that the policy of embargo on the export of munitions to Spain is a Congressional policy.

The “non-intervention” policy in Spain was a British policy, and Roosevelt went along with it. This policy had the added element of being popular with an influential Catholic group in this country and of chiming with the general public ..impulse to keep out of European entanglements. Moreover, there is little reason to feel that it stood in the way of a profitable war trade with the Spanish rebels.

Some time ago i met in Washington one of Franco’s purchasing agents. ITe told me that our embassy at Paris had been most obliging and helpful as soon as they realized that he carried credentials from General Franco to the Du Ponts. He said, with a smile, that he was buying “dye-stuffs” from the Du Ponts, so I asked him how he spelled “die-stuffs”.

In the meantime the Spanish republic is being effectively murdered, and I gue.sg that Secretary⁷ Hull’s anger at those columnists who criticized the inconsistency.of his policy flows from the realization that our Government has let itself be out-maneuvered into a position where we are forced to stand by and wrteh the destruction of European democracy. — Jay

Franklin, in Philadelphia Record.

International Murderers Comforted

♦ When International Murderers learned that 2,500 tons of aerial bombs had been shipped to Germany from Wilmington. Delaware, on May 11, 1938, they were delighted. They hoped that the bombs would be used to murder more babies in Spain and slaughter the mothers, standing in line at relief stations in the same unhappy country to get food for their families. Some agent of the head murderer should certainly have “blessed” those bombs before they were sent on the errand of murder which be so much approves, and which, in the case of Spain, would lag without his words of comfort, encouragement and inspiration.

Duhig Hit It Right

Archbishop Duhig, in an address at Coolangatta, Australia, said that it was hard to distinguish the sex by the dress of young people, and then, in the same paper, namely, the Brisbane Courier Mail, there was a picture of him in a lace dress and 13 other girls, two of them in black, with white bibs, and eleven all in white, which showed that he knew what he was talking about. Duhig is wrong, however, if he thinks he is any longer young. The bishop is of the shape of a rain barrel. He is identified by the hat of Dagon, the fish god. There was a young fellow in'the picture who might have been quite good-looking if he had taken off his lace dress and put on pants. It is hard for anybody who is pear-shaped to try to put his hand over his heart in a holy manner and get away with it, especially if he has a mug that would stop a town clock.

Keeping the Flies Off the Pdpe

♦ Maybe you have wondered about the pope’s flabella, not to be confused with the place where he stows away his fish on Friday. The pope’s flabella ar? the two big fans made of peacock feathers. Back in the fourth century, when bathing was not as common as it is now, and the automobiles were four-footed ones, flies were very plentiful, and it was considered quite a pious thing to send somebody along with the pope to keep the flies off him. Some of this work is now being done by Consolation, so the pope’s flabella ere now not as strictly necessary as once; still, if he wants a couple of flabella, why not let him have them?

Some Good from the Cox Swindles

♦ Some good has come from the “Reverend Father” Cox lottery swindles at Pittsburgh. The bishop of the district, the “Most Reverend Father” Hugh C. Boyle, felt that he must do something to restore the odor of sanctity after Cox’s arrest, and so he ordered all the priests in his diocese to shut down on the bingo games which are a feature of the church business all over the country.

More than All the Rest Together

♦ President Roosevelt has done more “to give outward form and substance to the pope’s social blueprint than all the Catholics in America put together”, says “Reverend Father” David C. Cronin, Jesuit, Fordham University, New York.

Ring-Kissing Overdone

♦ The magazine Life has been having a happy time popularizing those two European babies, Hitler and the pope: they are both so dear, and mean so much to the happiness of the American people. However, in its official half-yearly index the magazine sagaciously omitted all subjects dealing with the Catholic Church. It carries so many pictures of ringkissing and lace skirt exhibitions that it apparently got the hunch that it was best not to index them, lest their very number would give them away. Not so bad, Life, not so bad. Just a little way beyond that is the horse sense your ancestors once had, but which they seem to have failed to pass on to their co liege-bred descendants.                          .

Nomination of Montana

♦ Doubtless you have full report of ‘Tieverend Father” Maguire, priest at Shelby, Montana, beating up and mud-smearing witness Ingraham and causing his and his good wife’s arrest at Sunburst, threatening mob, tar and feathers, trailer-wrecking and generally carrying on as befits a trusted dog-collared son of the Devil. May I nominate Montana as a worthy candidate for the Hall of Shame, to take its place alongside New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Illinois?—Dale Norris, Montana.

Fascism (Catholic Action) in New Jersey t Frank Hague, prominent lay Catholic, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and manifestly well-paid mayor of

—Jersey City, in an address before the Jersey City chamber of commerce, January 12, 1938, said:

“We hear about Constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, ‘That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.’ You never heard a real American talk in that way.”

Pope Appeals to Jesuits

♦ On April 28 the pope (who confesses to a Jesuit) called upon the Jesuits to aid him in his battle against “those who dare to proclaim war against God”, by which he means himself. It is a safe bet that the fight from now on will be a hot one for all who dare oppose the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in its devilish work of dishonoring God’s name and destroying human liberty throughout the earth.

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National Lawyers Guild on Mooney

♦ On February 21, 1938, the National Lawyers Guild, meeting in convention at Washington, D. C., unanimously concurred in sending to the governor of California a request for the immediate, full and unconditional pardon of Thomas J. Mooney (still in prison and still innocent) ;

Whereas upon the basis of the report of the Special Mediation Commission appointed by President Woodrow Wilson, the Report of J. B. Densmore of the United States Department of Labor and the Report of the Wickersham Committee on Lawless Enforcement of the uaw appointed by President Hoover and other documentary evidence, we believe that Thomas J. Mooney of California was convicted of murder in 1917 as the result of an abuse of judicial process, and whereas it thus appears that Mooney has been deprived of his liberty by the State of California for twenty-two years without there ever having existed against him a vestige of credible evidence, and whereas the conviction and imprisonment of Mooney has created a distrust o'f the ordinary processes of law and his release will not only be in furtherance of justice but will help to re-establish in the minds of the great inass of people faith in the ultimate triumph oi justice, now, therefore, be it resolved that the National Lawyers Guild in cony ention assembled call upon the Governor of the State of California to exercise his constitutional power and authority to grant Thomas J Mooney a full pardon. It is of interest that this resolution was drawn by Judge John P Devaney, former chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Big Business is adamant that Mooney must die in prison, regardless of whether he is innocent or guilty,

Reasohs for Los Angeles Flood

♦ Reasons for the Los Angeles flood, that came and went like an avalanche, and washed away some $30,000,000, are seen in the fact that the plain upon which the city is located is surrounded by mountains 7,500 feet high, and when there is a heavy rain for a few days there is nothing to hold the water back. It falls 2,000 feet in a mile.

Philosophy of Smudge Pots

♦ The three million barrels of oil that are burned in California orchards every winter not only send out considerable heat to warm the chill/ air, but the thick cloud of smoke dispels the frost in the air.

SEPTEMBER 21.1930

Excitement in San Francisco

Exciting times in San Francisco. Humanity had hardly gotten over the thrill of hearing about the Gold-•’ en Gate bridge swaying twelve feet xrx. j_{n a} gaii,, but without damage inasmuch as it had been designed to sway eighteen feet, when along comes another story of a sixty-foot whale that found its way into the bay and could not get out. At last reports it was still cruising around, coming up every nine minutes for air, and searing the wits out of owners of small sailing vessels.

Armless Mary Simon

♦ Once in a while some human is born without arms. Little Mary Simon, two-year-old resident of Kettleman City, California, is as beautiful a child as one could wish to see, but has not the slightest semblance of an arm on either shoulder. She feeds herself with a fork or spoon, using her toes. She can pick up building blocks and stack them, or turn the pages of a magazine one at a time, or handle a pencil, with apparent ease.

Those Who Desire to Believe It

♦ Those who desire to believe it will believe that more than 100 convicts at San Quentin prison, California, have requested to be sterilized so that their criminal tendencies may not be passed on to their children. The operation is legal in California only when “requested”.

New Geyser in California

♦ A new geyser suddenly popped into existence in California, only 350 feet from the main highway between Los Angeles and Reno, Nevada. The new plume is 81} feet high, and has been a steady spouter ever since it erupted, December 17, 1937.

Use for Redwood BarK

♦ Bark of the giant redwood of the Pacific coast is so tough that no saw cuts it. Hitherto useless, it is now shredded, willowed and condensed and used for insulating material and fillers in a great variety of industries.

Honey Thieves of California

♦ Bears are the honey thieves of California, and it is almost impossible to raise honey where they are around. Hives are now being surrounded with sturdy fences the wires of which are charged with electricity.

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New York

Compulsory Patriotism

~ JL Tappan Post of the American Legion has adopted a resolution 0- which would attempt to make it obligatory for all children in the *jE?x*r Island’s schools to salute the American flag.                              '

We yield to no one in our patriotism, but we see little logic in compulsory patriotism. It doesn’t mean a thing. Of the millions of Germans who greet the milkman in the morning with a “Heil Hitler” and end a long day of heiling with another “Heil Hitler” as they put out the cat for ihe night, how many really like to do it^? What does it mean?

So is it for compulsory flag salutes in schools. The lifting of the hand and muttered words do not comprise the real salute to the flag. The real salute takes place in the heart. Forcing children to go through a mechanical procedure of salute against their will will not inculcate patriotism.

Let the children be taught American ideals and American traditions. Let them be told the story of our Constitution. Let them com-_r pare our freedom and our liberty and our high standard of living with the situation in other countries.of the world. Let the bravery and the loyalty and the strength of our national heroes be ever kept before them.

Let these things be done and we of the present generation will have little reason to worry about the patriotism of the growing generation. It will salute the flag in the only real salute, the salute that comes from the heart.—The Staten Island Transcript.

Minerals in New York City

♦ Would it surprise you to know that in New York city’s subsoil there are about 170 varieties of minerals, and that a garnet six inches in diameter and weighing pounds was dug up in Thirty-fifth street, between Broadway and Seventh avenue, in August, 1885, in digging a sewer? The mineralogists know all about the various beds of dolomite, serpentine, anthophyllite, xenotime, monazite, dumortierite, zeolite, tourmalines, albite, orthoclase, epidote and rustile, some of which were once worked commercially, but are now overlaid with mil lion-dollar skyscrapers and apartment houses. What a treasure house the world is!

Where a Cop May Go

♦ Acts 2:31 states'plainly that Jesus went to the Bible hell, thus confirming the statement nf Ecclesiastes 9:10 that all go there at death. All this by way of introduction to the story that in Brooklyn an attractive 26-year-old girl informed a cop he could go there, when, according to American cop usage (but not according to British cop usage), he bawled her out for persisting in blowing her automobile horn at a crowded street intersection. The cop was offended when a nice-looking young girl informed him of what might be his destination; so he had her arrested for disorderly conduct. The magistrate on the bench had a sense of humor; so he ruled that the young lady’s remark was neither a command nor a wish, but a statement of fact. But the cop had the best of the situation in the end; for he had the young lady arrested some more, this time for alleged traffic violation. Not sure if he had her arrested afterwards for being an American, or not being a man, or for having a different religion than he, or what. Anyway, he knows where he can go.

New York City Pronunciation

♦ New York city pronunciation is very bad . and growing worse; so says the board of examiners of prospective teachers. Suppose a New Yorker felt suddenly called upon to use the following sentence:

If the Government should ask four-fifths of the boys to join up before the masts of the few sailing vessels now afloat, and the question of their exhaustion should arise, probably in time they would all want eandy.

According to the board of examiners many of the candidates for jobs as teachers would say something that would sound like this:

If the gov’men should ask four fifs of the boys to jern up before the mass of the few sailing vessels now afloat, and the kweshun of their exhaushen should arise, probably in toime they would all want cendy.                              ^Sf=

1,765,000 Jews in New York

♦ There are 1,765,000 Jews in New York, or more than in any other Country of the world except Poland, with 3,600,000, Russia, with 2,870,000, and the United States itself, with 4,228,000. Great Britain has only 340,000 Jews, while Chicago alone has 325,000.

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“We Americans” Harvey

George U. Harvey, borough president of Queens, who distinguished $         himself by the declaration that

pplice should not bother to make arrests of persons with whose political philosophy they disagree, but should beat them black-and-blue, or words to that effect, later attempted to put bis ideas info effect by having himself and fellow anarchists incorporated under the name “We Americans, Inc.”, and Supreme Court Justice Thomas C.' Kadien, Jr., to his lasting credit, denied the application. He thinks there are a few other Americans in the United States besides the variety that want to beat up their fellow citizens because those citizens disagree with their views. Good for him.

“1 Do Not Know the Answer”

♦ One sometimes wonders whether the world has not lost its mind and that not having missed it is only an added proof that it really has lost it. I do not know the answer.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York.

Freedom for All

♦ I believe in the guaranties of the Constitution providing political independence, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of the press—but I believe in it for the other fellow just as much as for myself. There is no worse intolerance than the intolerance of the coward. I don’t believe that we can expect and reserve to ourselves the guaranties of the Constitution unless we are willing to afford them to others who disagree with us.—Mayor La Guardia, of New York. .

Decreased Interest in Foreign Tongues

♦ New York high schools show a marked decrease in interest in foreign languages. In 1917 approximately 90 percent of high-school students studied some foreign language, with German at the top of the list. In 1938 only approximately 60 percent of the students were studying foreign languages, with French ’way in the lead, Spanish a poor second, and then Latin, German, Italian, Hebrew, and Greek. In Greek there were but 86 students out of a total of 257,508.

Apple Pie — Cover Design for This Number

WHILE the boy thinks about apple pie —and mother, mother thinks about the boy—and the apple pie. There is no sign of pie as yet, but it is in prospect. In fact, there may be several pies, from the looks of things.

Speaking of pies, they must be a very ancient institution—or is a pie an institution? Anyway, Mother Goose tells about the boy who met a pie-man and made some kind of overtures to the said gentleman but without satisfactory results. Then, too, she chronicles that outstanding historical event of .the king who on his twenty-fourth birthday got a pie which was unique in several respects. (It is assumed that it was his twenty-fourth birthday or aniversary or something, because there were twenty-four blackbirds in the pie.) The unique part of this pie story is that the birds felt the heat, but didn’t start singing until the pie was opened, which was unusual, it must be admitted. There is some doubt about the authenticity of this account.

The. fact that Mother Goose mentions pies is interesting; for Mother Goose wrote a very long time ago. It isn’t known how long ago SEPTEMBER 21, 1938                 ‘ it was, because the encyclopedia doesn’t give that information. But it does say that Mother Goose was really a French woman and that in 1628 Charles Perrault of Paris collected and published the “Cortes de Ma Mere 1’Oye”, which seems to be another and very much harder way of saying ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’. So you see, that is over three hundred years ago. Anyway, Mother Goose mentions pies, but they were probably meat pies.

Fruit pies seem to be a more recent culinary product; and while they are considered to be hard to digest, nobody seems to care much. At least, the boy in the picture doesn’t seem to be troubled about such matters. Apple pies, and especially apple pies the way mother bakes them, are too good to be refused for any dietetic considerations. And perhaps, if one doesn’t eat them too often or too fast, they do not do a great deal of harm. One hopes not, anyw^Tay. It would be too bad to spoil a good picture like this with such lugubrious reflections.’ Let mother enjoy preparing the pies, and let the boy enjoy the prospect of eating them.

British Comment (CojT.fiiTi'Ueti from paffG F<9) quack medicine people spend £1,000,000 in making them disease conscious, an amount that was almost sufficient to maintain all the voluntary and municipal hospitals in the country.” He added, “A famous group of patentmedicine vendors catering chiefly for nervous and digestive disorders had just budgeted for nearly £1,000,000 for press notices. The advertisements had’ become a graver danger than the medicines; fear was the chief emotion they relied upon so that much of the trade was, in fact, a huge form of blackmail.” He advocated that Britain should follow the example of the United States in forbidding this exploitation, and in following that of some of the dominions where heavy penalties were laid for making false and fraudulent claims for the medicines.

On the Cadge

• • One who styles himself Reverend Edwin J. Russell advises by leaflet that he is an Irish priest located in Devon, England. His present “House of God” is an old schoolhouse 200 years old, past repair, and has a leaking roof. He has a scheme for getting some money by a “free cash draw*. As his scheme is illegal in England he has a church address in Dublin, and from there has issued bunches of tickets for his draw. He offers money prizes to the amount of £97. The tickets are marked, “Donation only 2d each,” but in a covering leaflet he frankly asks the reader, 'whom he addresses as “My dear friend”, to purchase or sell the tickets. The dear friend is to get four free chances at the prizes, and to each seller of a bunch of 40 tickets he will send a “Blessed Rosary”. Sweepstakes are legal in the Irish Free State, but the intention seems to be to get the money out of England; for the printing is done in English, and the batch of tickets we have seen was posted to an English address. To cover the cost of the stated prize money about 12,000 tickets must be sold or paid for, to which must be added the cost of printing and postage, and rake-off amounts. The poor priest wants £4,000; so, if he depends upon his draw for the amount, he must profitably dispose of half a million “donation” tickets. Probably he expects nothing so favorable ; and the chances are that the scheme is akin to that related in Consolation No. 492. When Jehovah’s houses were built to His praise, whether the tabernacle in the wilderness, the temple built by Solomon, or that

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under the direction of Zerubbabel and his brethren, the cost was willingly borne by those who loved the name and honor of their God. The great political-religious organization, the Roman Catholic church, the richest corporation on earth, excels anything else on earth in practiced begging as it does in mendacity, and thereby exhibits itself as a false church. The disciples of Jesus never did, nor ever will beg for the support of the work of God.

Japan’s Trade Competition

• • Recently we noted a complaint, made by the Lancashire cotton goods manufacturers, of the importation of Japanese cotton goods at prices which enables shirts to be sold in Lancashire at so low a rate as one shilling (24c) each. Now the silk manufacturers in this country are complaining about the importation of Japanese silk at correspondingly low rates. It is said that over 13$ million square yards of Japanese silk are directly imported from Japan, while a further 10$ million yards arc imported via other countries, annually. Most of this silk is of an inferior quality, and is used, as figures show, very extensively for -coats, curtains, hats, umbrellas, neckties, swimming costumes, etc. The price on exportation from Japan ranges from one shilling per yard to about 2$d for the most popular qualities. Trade commission and import duties bring the price up to 6d or 8d; then the cloth is dyed and oiled in this country, but, again, it is said about 99.6 percent of the linseed oil used is imported from foreign countries. The manufacturers say that “every oiled silk coat means 3$ yards lost production to the British weaver; every oiled silk umbrella, 2 yards loss”. They call for an import duty that will give them some chance of competition, or, otherwise, they want to persuade the people to refuse to buy foreign textiles which, they say, are, after all, not so good as those of British make. The question of protection always arises with international trade. That question L' not discussed here: the point is made that the Japanese workers are surely very hardly dealt with when woven silk can be exported from Japan at prices so low as Id (2c) to 2$d (5c) per yard. Finance, like religion, holds the people in distress, and nothing but the overturning of the present dominating factors and the full establishment of the kingdom of Christ with its righteous rule can avail the people to give them their “rights”.

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By Trail and Stream and Garden PathMore Butterfly Friends

“JANE, what kind of butterfly Jk Mrf, is this?” asked Buddy, holding out (3 ^/X?his hand.

‘‘That’s a clouded sulphur, Buddy.”

“It’s so little,” murmured Bunny.

“Yes,” replied Jane, “not more than two inches across. Isn’t it a beautiful yellow color, with the touches of black 1”

“It’s just a cabbage butterfly," said Sally. “I’ve heard my father talk about them.”

“Oh, but it isn’t a cabbage butterfly,” answered Jane. “Cabbage butterflies are white instead of yellow. And they are destructive. The clouded sulphur does no real damage, and brightens up so many country strolls.”

“I’ve seen other little yellow butterflies not ' just like this one,” Sally said.

“Quite likely, for there are many of the sulphurs. A friend once sent me a sulphur butterfly from the West. It was a yellow or orange sulphur. Occasionally we find one of them here, though not often. The forewings are black, marked with yellow, and the shape of the markings give to this butterfly the name of ‘dog-face’. But I am sorry to say that’ this particular sulphur butterfly does considerable damage to alfalfa crops.”

“But ours are nice, aren’t they?” asked Bunny, softly.

“Yes, dear, they are friendly and not really harmful.”

“Jane,” interrupted Sally, “you said you had something to show me.”

“So I have. Buddy, bring me the insect box.”

Buddy hurried off and soon returned, holding the box high and shouting, “It’s a butterfly, see?”

“I’ve seen them often,” said Sally. “They are black and reddish brown. What are they called?”

“This is a monarch; or perhaps you have heard it called a milkweed butterfly.”

“Yes, I’ve heard of it.”

“Soon I will have two of them, for one is asleep in that pretty green flantern’ with the sparkling golden jewels on it. That is another example of a chrysalis.”

“How did it get there?”

“It was built only two weeks ago by a little

SEPTEMBER 21. 1938 yellow and white and black caterpillar—an ugly little fellow with a pair of horns at either end.” .

“He was careful how he built his house,” said Buddy.

“First of all,” went on Jane, “he hanged himself upside down from that twig, making a knot of silk into which his last pair of clasping organs were entangled. Then he shed his skin, and. as he did so he was covered up in the little green case which is now his house.”

“But how did the green case get there?” Sally asked.

“The caterpillar’s body gave out a sort of juice which hardened to form the chrysalis.”

“What’s going to happen now?” inquired Buddy.                                 •

“In a day or two the green color of the chrysalis will turn to a brown, and then shortly afterward a door will fly open in the house and out will come a milkweed butterfly, leaving the chrysalis empty and colorless.”

“Oh, look!” cried Bunny.. A moment later Buddy gave chase across the yard and came back holding a butterfly. “I caught a milkweed butterfly,” he announced, “and I didn’t hurt it one bit.”

“No, Buddy, that’s not a monarch, though it’s no small wonder you should think so. This fellow is a viceroy, and you will find across his hind wing a dark band not found on the monarch.”

“They look almost alike,” declared Buddy.

“That is how the viceroy protects himself; for though he would taste good to a hungry bird, the monarch, which he looks so much like, has a very bad taste. So, our viceroy escapes many an enemy.”

“What do caterpillars eat?” asked Bunny.

“Mrs. Monarch’s children, when they hatch out into tiny dark caterpillars, will eat nothing but the leaves of the milkweed plant, so it is upon the leaves of such a plant that the monarch butterfly insists upon laying her eggs. Mrs. Viceroy’s babies must have willow or poplar leaves, so her eggs will be laid where such food can be found.”

“How do they know where to lay the eggs?” “That, Buddy, is part of the provision of

the Creator.”—'Contributed.

British Comment

By J. H emery (London)

Author of the League

• In connection with the recent religious demonstrations connected with what is called the fourth centenary of the English Bible one of the speakers who is certainly well known in his denomination, Rev. F. C. Spurr, told his audience that “Woodrow Wilson was not the author of the League of Nations. Isaiah was tJne author of it”. From the brief press-report it appears that the preacher’s intention was to show that all modern, problems'had happened before; “You will find every social and political problem of today in the Bible,? he said. These men do not accept the Scriptures as the word of God laying up a record by the events of the days of the prophets and by His words given them by inspiration portraying thereby the events of the day of Jehovah, and giving His witnesses instruction thereby for His witness in that day. To the clergy of all sects the prophets were men of thought who gave their views to the people, some of which were written and gathered together in the book we call the Bible, and make some of the finest literature the world has. But when Mr. Spurr says Isaiah was the author of the ^League of Nations, not only does he show how a good intellect gets astray when it turns from the truth, but he gives an example of the perversion of his class. Isaiah did write of these times, and the League of Nations, and also the other leagues and pacts of these days, are foretold. But he wrote of them to condemn them, and to warn against them,- for those who made the leagues and pacts were the enemies of Israel and of Jehovah. (See Isaiah 8:12.) Isaiah had another word to say to the clergy class of his day. He charged them with falsity: “This people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me.” They put their own wisdom in place of the word of God, and Isaiah said, “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay.” (Isaiah 29:13-16) This same preacher has publicly declared that he has

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had communication with one of the dead members of his family, and in doing so he denied the Scriptures, which state that the dead are dead, and have no knowledge (Ecclesiastes 9:10), and transgressed the divine law.—Deuteronomy 18:11.

“Patriotism”                           ^z

• Tb^ Select Committee on Estimates has issutd a report on the prices charged to the Government by firms supplying fire-fighting equipment in connection with the Air Raid Protection. It accuses certain firms of profit-' eering. The report says, “The suppliers of hose,” an essential part of A.R.P. equipment, appear io have reached an arrangement of the nature of a ring or cartel; and those firms ' quote uniform prices and pool the orders received.” It is stated that some firms, constituting one industry of importance, have refused facilities for checking their prices. The Office of Works “were able to negotiate a reduction on the prices quoted in the first instance, and are how stipulating for an examination of the contractor’s books in order to ascertain actual costs before further orders are placed”.

The newspapers report the arrival in Southampton harbor of a very costly yacht, built ¹ in Holland for one of Britain’s motor magnates. It is pointed out that the yacht might well have been built in one of the British shipbuilding yards where work is badly needed. The cost would have been greater, but perhaps not. heavily so. The item of news is more . noticeable than it. would ordinarily have been because this same gentleman was one of the motor manufacturers who recently loudly complained of the loss of home work and money, and incidentally to themselves by reason, of the importation¹ of German cars, sold at . a price with which they cannot compete. Patriotism mostly consists of lojjd speaking urging the other man to make sacrifices for the good of his country. The armament makers show extra-good dividends, and on the plea that business must be treated as sueh all are on the make while the chance offers.

Political Notes                          .

• Herr Hitler now and again sends a repro-eentative to Britain, in an unofficial capacity,. Conversations with members of the Government are held apart from official records. Oh two occasions-one has come apparently to dis- ’

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cover what is Britain’s real attitude towards his well-known designs on Czechoslovakia. Some of his advisers think Britain is bluffing in the matter of its help to that country in case of Germany’s attacking it. The diplo-• matic correspondent of the Manchester Guard

ian says that if Hitler comes to the conclusion that Britain is bluffing and will not actually interfere with his aggressive action on Czechoslovakia he will at once send an armed force • to occupy that country. If, however, he comes to the conclusion that Britain really means what its premier recently said, namely, that Britain would never allow any aggressive action against the.Czechs without Britain’s taking part with France in the defense of that people, he will not undertake warlike action. However, there is little question that sooner or later Czechoslovakia will become part of greater Germany.

Air Raid Precaution

• Despite the much advertising of the necessity or importance of each person’s being supplied with a gas mask, and the many urgent calls for volunteers for the needed help-■ers should occasion arise, there is a general apathy: less than half of the number of volunteers are registered, and the people do not register the fear of a gas attack as they were expected to do. There are many in position to judge who say that the whole business is futile. A Labor leader says, “No responsible person today puts faith in a gas mask. For . ordinary civilians like you and me the ‘respirator’ to be supplied costs wholesale two shillings and two pence. Those supplied to air wardens and officials cost 10/9 each ; those supplied for people engaged on active service cost £2.7.10(1. It is admitted that cigarette smoke will pass through the ordinary type of mask. Various scents can be perfectly well smelt when the mask is on and is fitted perfectly. You will choke dead if you go into a room filled with ordinary coal gas, even if you have on a brand-new mask . . . they do not protect against carbon oxide, exhaust gases from motor cars, sewer gas, petrol vapor or similar vapors. In any event they will not render the wearer safe in situations where the danger arises from a deficiency of oxygen.” In a conference of architects called in connection with A.R.P. and at which the Home Secretary, the responsible minister, was present, one speaker bluntly told the conference that these measures were “perfectly use'ess”, SEPTEMBERS'!, 1938 and said, “Let us be honest md sincere and say that we will have nothing to do with all this nonsense . . . the precautions would be of no more use in an air raid than an umbrella.”

War Preparations

• Besides the great quantities of wheat and other foodstuff, and of oils from which edible fats can be taken, the Government has made provision for medical and surgical aid in case of war. Already there are more thair 40,000 doctors and surgeons in Britain listed, and ready to respond for service on call. This does not mean that there is fear of an immediate outbreak of war, but it does mean that there are very active preparations made, in case that terrible calamity should happen. There are great store places for the needs of the army: not only for food, but for equipment. A newspaperman reports that he had been allowed to visit one of the great store places, tunneled into hills, and camouflaged. He says it is entirely bomb proof, and has accommodation also for 1,500 employees to live in if necessary. Everything necessary for the maintenance of motor transport on a large scale is there, with separate garages for tanks, lorries, trucks, heavy gun tractors, wireless carriers and pontoon-carrying lorries. Two hundred drivers are employed in the task of collection and delivery alone. At present this depot is staffed entirely by men, but the War Office plans to have a female staff fully trained in the event of war. These picked girls are now being trained in batches of 100, and, by the end of the year, will constitute an auxiliary force capable of going into action.

Sales of Quack Medicines

• Lord Horder, physician to the king, called attention in the House of Lords to the enormous growth in the quack medicine trade, and the incongruity of exercising no control over the deleterious effects of such trade upon the health of the people at a time when serious effort is being made to improve national fitness. Disclaiming any thought of self-interest oi for his profession he said that the quaek medicine trade bled the publie to the tune of £30,000,000 a year. Speaking of the advantages gained by the public health services he said, “For every £100 the Government spends in making the people health conscious tho (Continued on page t6)

Index to Volume XIX of Consolation

No. 471 - October 8, 1937

The Golden Ace’s New Name— Consolation .. ~.............

What Is Breaking Up the British Commonwealth of Nations?

By Trail anti Stream and Garden Path ............  —

Experiences with Animals

Vivisection and Vaccine Peddlers 15

Poltergeist in Jamaica -------«

Consolation Interview* Judge Rutherford .......—

Around the World

•

No. 472 • October 20. 1937

Scant Notice of the Beat Convention Ever Held .........—

Worshiping God -------------

Enemies................

International Association for

Incitement to Crime ........—

Railrn.ida 22

I n ven t ion __________________

Medieval East Newark...

Lark of Work ..........—......«■—

Animal Husbandry ............«•

Autumn Foliage ...........................— 29

No. 473 - November 3. 1937

Judge Rutherford’s Latest Book—Enemies

Counsel to Publishers .............«

This Land of Liberty? ......«,

Your Questions Answered By Judge Rutherford

Rogues’ Gallery Exhibits----—.... 18

Points on the Papacy

Indulgences for Rosnrlana

Fascism (By Hon. Wm. E. Borah) 23

United States News

The Walnut Tree

No. 477 . December 29. 1937

Rea) Patriot* In Philadelphia and Jacksonville___________

It’s Happening Here Every Day

Judge Maris Upholds Kight to

Refuse Flag Salute

^MA Modem Voltaire” In Mobile .... 14 Flirting with Fascism ki Florida ..15 Your Questions Answered

Communication from Rumania

Why the Bishops Back Franco .... 23

Canadian Press Putrescence ...

‘The Mighty Nimrod’

No. 478 - January 12, 1938

Jehovah's witnesses at the

Paris Convention .......—.««.«... 3

Kingdom Publishers In Borneo «.... 12 Plckpocketrv. and Picketeer*

Your Questions Answered ...

An Of»en letter to Hoffman

United States News 20 26

In Batavia. Illinois.....

Those Fine Cltisens” of Wheaton 28 I a arrange Is learning. Slowly

' The Glory of God”

Winter Sunset—Cover Design

No. 479 . January 26, 1938

Secret Instructions of the Jesuits .... 3

Celery Juice for Epilepsy ....___

Correct Eating ................................ 0

Germs

Hydrophobia

Facts Concerning Aircraft ............ 14

Your Questions Answered ________«... 17

In the Creator’s House

Sound Car in Quebec

An Open letter to Mr. Felix .««... 28

Feeding the Birds _____________

Winter Sport—Cover Design

No. 483 - March 23, 1938

Memory ............................  —

Around the World........

Your Questions Answered

Abattoir Department

“The Free and the Brave”

Sundry and Divers Gold Mine* ....21

Vatican* ....------«

New England and New York

Letter from a Commercial Traveler

Signs of Spring

British Comment ...........-...............

Maple Sap—Cover Design

No. 484 . April 6. 1938

An Australian on Health ...

Reflections on Mr. Roosevelt

Kingdom Tidings by Boat .....

Excommunication of

Victor Emmanuel ..........—

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

What's Back of Hague?-----

Tree Planting

A Visitor ..............«

Kingdom Hall. London —..«««.«.. 46

British Comment-------.........———

Chinese Junk—Cover Design .««... J1

NO. 485 - April 20, 1938

The Supreme Court Speaks

Glands and Their Functions

Cleaning the Teeth

Aluminum Homicide........................

Invention, Aviation ..................11.

Commerce. Education ...........

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Tertlum Quid .....-----------■.

Around the World--------------

At the Pond       ...........r—xx ,2

Britain and British Comment .. 26 30

Boating Scene—Cover Design

No. 475 - December 1. 1937 Suppression, Distortion, and

Reremal of News

Australian Convention of J w's

The AMA War on Druidess Healing 13

Cottonseed Oil for Dinner? «.

Voluntary Slavery ...

Y’our Questions Answered End of the World 17

Fascism In America. Italy, etc. 20 25

Pinning On the Medals

Snowflakes

For Safer Highway Navigation .... 31

No. 476 • December 15, 1937

Hitlcrlzlng Ronkonkoma ............«... 3

Superintendent Is Delinquent

Salutes and More Salutes .......«... 7

New Jersey Doctors Despise U. S. — 8

Religion Opposite of Christianity .. 12

Llliels Safe for Hierarchy ___________

A Mathematical Discovery

Your Questions Answered

Christmas.......«

United States News ..............—

Hookers, Stool-Pigeons. Finks

Liberty In Southern Rhodesia

Spain

Terror In the ‘Third Reich”

Hibernation----------

No. 481 * February 23, 1938

Lives of the Pope* ......—..............««.

Pioneering in Northern Alberta .«... 6

Defeat the High Cost of Living

Who Are the Quacks?.......

Good Monev for Counterfeit Goods 13

Four Physical Culture Exercises « 14

The Trial of Jesus

Your Questions Answered----

Hierarchy's Racket in Jamaica

Around the World---

A New Pet

Winter Crystal—Cover Design «.... 31

No. 482 * March 9, 1938

Amos Pinchot’s Letter to the President

How Patriotic Are the Priests? .... 11 "Freedom of Speech as an Axiom" 12 "Adults Please Sign” .............«.....«

A Forgotten Roosevelt

A Simple Way to Get Well

Your Questions Answered .««...««.. 17

No Apologies, Mr. O’Neal

Smiling on Murder ...........«.«.

Around the World-------..20-25

Jerseyville

Winter and Spring

British Comment______

March Snow—Cover Design

No. 487 - May 18. 1938

Toward the Top of the World

In the Land of the Caribou

Connecticut Safe for Religion

The Tragedy of Germany (Part 2) 10 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Australia ———

Subscribers Should Visit Seattle .... 19

Italy ______

Why All the Spaghetti Pressure? .21 At the Lake

Britain and British Comment .. 28-30 Palisades—Cover Design ------------.... 31

No. 488 ■ June 1, 1938 With a Sound Car in India

“Behold the Elephant"

“Parochial Stupidity" in Australia 15 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

"A Man Supremely Honest" 18 Bible Truths Not Seditious ....._... 18

Educating an Illinois Sheriff ......... 19 Give the Public Their Liberties .... 21 The Pertussis Vaccine Fake .......... 21 Safe in the Ark 22

A “Shadow"

Mussolini's Bloodthirstiness

Fascism ..............._.....

Britain ....

British Comment 28

No. 489 - June 15, 1938

Jehovah's Victory in Australia

Steamship Companies Aid Fascists 12

New Astounding Revelation

Ratti Rules the Waves

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford “Fascism"

“Judge. May I Have My Title?" .... 18

Vaticana

Tobacco More Deadly to Females .. 22

Wings of June

United States and Britain

Popularity—Cover Design

No. 490 - June 29. 1938 Afghanistan—Land Route to India 3 Hierarchy Admits Jehovah Is God 11 War Whoops Up Business..............13

Poison Gas

Sauerkraut Rises from Lowly Place 15 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Conspiracy ........................... .....

They’re Feeling the Heat

‘The Noble Red Man"

Moth Babies

Britain and British Comment .. 26-30 Good Provider—Cover Design

No. 491 - July 13, 1938 Infantile Paralysis Fund........._.

United States News

Swallowtails ..................*

President’s Advisory Committee .... 12 Three Great Decisions

Northwest Convention of Jehovah’s

witnesses (See Supplement) .. 16 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Tribute to Caesar

Around the World ...........

British Comment

Mexican Indian—Cover Design 31

Supplement to No. 491

Report of the Convention of Jehovah’s witnesses for the Northwest, June 2-5, 1938 ........ 1

Chairman’s Opening Address

Newspaper Treason to America

Warning! ............................... .....

Judge Rutherford’s Letter

An Outstanding Event.................... 13

Violence ........................,

Hierarchy’s Power in Northwest ..22

Conventions in Both Hemispheres .. 25 “Truth Conquers All Things"

No. 492 . July 27, 1938 Windle. Male Chambermaid.

to Lose $25,000

Roman Racket in South Africa

The “Blessing" of Franco

Kid Did Not Show Up

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Flag Saluting .....................-

Romanism Betrays Its Adherents

Putting Hypocrites in a Hole

Just a Dog

British Comment.......................

Spain—Cover Design

No. 493 - August 10, 1938

President Roosevelt Comforts J w’s 3

Healing Power of Wheat .................. 7

Under the Vatican Flag

Esterwegen Concentration Camp .. 12

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford “Catholic Action" ........................

Leper Asylum of Pirapitingui

Cartoonist’s Reply to Observer

The Roman Notation .................

The Hawk Moth

British Comment

Poplars in Moonlight—Cover ........ 31

No. 494 - August 24, 1938

Factor of Safety in Human Body .... 3

Consolation for the Sick..........

Bali, the Happy Land ...............-~....

World wide Convention

Where Is the Garden of Eden? ...... 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

“Tower of Religion".............

Royal Financiers.........................—

“Forgotten Women" (Review)

Garden Visit at Dusk

British Comment.........................—

Twilight—Cover Design .................. 31

No. 495 • September 7, 1938

Degradation of Name of Bushnell .. 3

The New Government

Clergy Rule Niagara Falls 12

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Religion .....................

Under the Totalitarian Flag

Vatican Embassy at Washington 20

Five Cents a Day for Food

Yoghurt; by an Enthusiast

Little Houses

British Comment

The Alhambra—Cover Design

No. 498 - September 21, 1938

Vaccination and Vivisection ............ 3

“Death in the Pot"

The Serumization of Humanity

“Nature’s Own Food Metal" (?) .... 10

A “Strange Work"

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Pure Worship ..............................

Protestantism

Catholic Press Betrays Its Terror 20

Apple Pie—Cover Design

More Butterfly Friends .........—

British Comment....

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