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POISONS FORMED BY ALUMINUM COOKING UTENSILS

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OUTWITTING THE HIERARCHY IN "THE SPECK”

DESTROYING AMERICAN LIBERTY

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Vol. XVIII-No. 469

September 8,1937

CONTENTS

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Fatigue and Accidents

Moving an Eleven-Story Building

“Guaranteed” Incomes of 30%

Less Demand for Human Labor 791

No Possible Jobs for 6,500,000

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

By Trail and Stream

and Garden Path

Funeral by Transcription Held

for Canon WPA Worker

Funerals in Istanbul

Exposed (M)

Unsavory Odors from Chicago

Acknowledging and Rejecting Truth 790

Aboriginal Names of Places

Outwitting the Hierarchy

in “The Speck’’

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Head Murderers to Be Spared

New Hosiery Mills in the South

World Production of Rayon

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Cardenas Working with

the “Church”

Let Mexico Alone

45% of Ejidos Re-established

Fascism in the Western World

The Socialists at Brussels

In the Island of Cos

The Madmen of the World

Kelly Thinks Franco Will Win

New Zealand’s New Deal

Britain’s Base at Singapore

Destroying American Liberty

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Propellers for Orchards

Starving Cows in Australia

Flame Throwers for Killing Weeds 791

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Height of Tidal Waves

Longest Eclipse in 1200 Years

The Kaietur Waterfall

HOME AND HEALTH

Poisons Formed by Aluminum

Cooking Utensils

Aluminum Poison and “Egypt”

Aluminum Not Fit for My Dog

Doctor Clendening,

Widely Advertised

Somebody Will Try to Kill Betts Yet 779

They Feel Fine Now!

Aluminum (Findings of

of Dr. McGuigan)

Rockefeller and Chiropractic 782

Beware of Benzedrine Pep Pills 782

One Prescription Lasted Three Years 790

Three Eminent Physicians

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Mormon Doctrine and Covenants 784

From a Perplexed Radio Fan in Lithuania

The Crowds that Heard the Bishop 793

Chamundeswari Had the Best Room 794

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Volume XVIII                     Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, September 8, 1937                       Number 469

Poisons Formed by Aluminum Cooking Utensils

By H. J. Force, Ph.G¹ (Scranton, Pa.)

ALUMINUM is an element, just the same as iron, lead or gold. In other words, it is not composed of any other elements or substances. Most of the aluminum cooking utensils are nearly pure aluminum. The question is, How does it affect our health when used for general cooking purposes? Health is your most important consideration.

From a chemical standpoint, aluminum and lead are similar in many respects. Rub your fingers over aluminum and they become blackened. Lead produces the same result. Some of the Materia Medicas state that the action of aluminum and lead are similar on living organisms.

People often say that they have used aluminum for years and it has not poisoned them. Many people have taken large doses of various poisons, trying to commit suicide, but in some cases the poisons did not produce death. Nevertheless, they were poisonous compounds just the same.

Various books on medicine and the U. S. Dispensatory state that arsenic, mercury, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, aluminum, lead, strychnine, etc., are poisonous. None of these recommendations as to their poisonous properties would be questioned in a court at law, although many will admit they have serious stomach trouble, often ulcers of the stomach, cancers, liver troubles, skin affections, etc. Most of these conditions improve when aluminum ware is discontinued.

A friend of mine, after having 17 carbuncles, threw out his fancy aluminum ware. The carbuncles disappeared. Another fed his dog from an aluminum dish; the dog died from a cancer of the face. Two others each gave a dozen young ducks water in aluminum pans and all the ducks died in less than two weeks.

There have been so many cases where people have been so much improved when they have discarded their aluminum ware that the question as to its use should be given most serious consideration. I do not claim that everyone who uses aluminum utensils will be poisoned. Neither is everyone poisoned by poison oak or poison ivy, yet it would be foolish for anyone to state that they are not poisonous because some are not affected by these poisons.

But aluminum is different. It acts more in the nature of a cumulative poison. In a number of cases where people have died under hospital care and where aluminum was used almost exclusively, autopsies have shown that aluminum was present in the brain, kidneys and liver in

sufficient quantity, in my judgment, to cause death.

Ideal Embalming Fluid

The combination of aluminum chloride with aluminum acetate would make an ideal disinfectant and embalming fluid. This combination could easily be brought about by adding salt to pickles when they are prepared in aluminum. Aluminum chloride compounds will be formed when vegetables are cooked in aluminum to which a small quantity of salt (chemically called sodium chloride) has been added. Many natural waters contain quite a little salt. It is evident that when such waters are used when cooking in aluminum, aluminum chloride will be formed.

It has been shown that aluminum compounds precipitate or destroy pepsin, which is the principal ingredient in digestion. Alum is a compound of aluminum, potash, sulphur and oxygen, together with a small portion of water, and has the chemical formula Al K (SO«)₂-12H₂O. When vegetables are cooked in aluminum vessels, they often contain such compounds as sulphur, potash or soda, which could easily combine with the aluminum, forming small quantities of alum, also aluminum sulphate.

Many drinking waters through the United States are very hard, containing a large portion of sulphur compounds, also potash and soda. In fact, some waters which I have analyzed became alkaline on boiling. As potash and soda very readily dissolve aluminum, forming a compound similar to alum in its composition, it follows that this compound will be formed if aluminum utensils are used for any length of time to cook food products.

Sauerkraut, when cooked in aluminum, will produce aluminum chloride, especially if allowed to stand for some time. Many cases of poisoning have resulted from eating sauerkraut cooked in aluminum, and some deaths.

Alum and the various compounds contain a large percent of aluminum, in most cases in soluble form which can readily be absorbed in the stomach or the intestines, and may seriously affect the kidneys and liver.

When aluminum cooking utensils are used, there is always some aluminum dissolved. The amount will depend upon the kind of water used. At picnics, church suppers and other places where large numbers are served, the foods are often allowed to stand for some time in aluminum. As a result we often read in the newspapers of numbers of people being stricken ill very soon after eating, probably poisoned from the aluminum compounds formed, and death often following.

People often say they like aluminum, as foods do not burn when cooked in such utensils. The reason is that some aluminum is always dissolving, forming hydrogen gas, and so pushing the foods away from the aluminum. The same thing applies to an aluminum griddle. Salt and soda are generally used in the batter, and these increase the solubility of the aluminum.

Large doses of aluminum compounds are often fatal. Small quantities may be taken daily with little or no effect. But sooner or later, indigestion, constipation, Bright’s disease, or diabetes may develop as a result of the continued use of aluminum ware, due to its solubility.

To show the solubility of aluminum, make the following simple test for yourself: Place in a well cleaned and scoured aluminum utensil one quart of water, one teaspoon of salt and one of baking soda, and let boil for one hour, adding water to make up the loss. Then remove from the fire and let stand for two or three hours; then pour into a glass jar, and notice the milky condition caused by aluminum hydroxide. This will settle out in a day or so, but its presence is proof that aluminum is soluble.

What Textbooks Say

Let us see what textbooks, such as are used in our medical colleges, say about aluminum. Take the Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacology, for example, by Alexander L. Blackwood, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.P., professor of clinical medicine and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. On page 111 of this volume, we find under “Alum” the following statement:

Physiological Action. This agent is actively astringent, coagulating the albumen of the tissues and of the blood, and produces a local constriction of the capillaries. It is mildly escharotic and produces a hardening of the skin and tissues in general. It excites and later diminishes the salivary secretions as well as those of the mucous surfaces; it diminishes the gastric fluid and precipitates pepsin. As a result of its action on the intestinal sections, constipation is produced. Through its irritating properties, which may be in excess of its astringent properties, gastroenteritis may result.

On page 112 in the same book, under “Aluminum Hydroxide” the following statement is made:

Physiological Action. This agent produces profound prostration with irritation of the mucous membranes with diminished secretions, and as a result there is constipation and inactivity of the bowels. The nervous system is affected as is indicated by the extreme prostration with numbness of the parts and paralysis of the involuntary muscles.

To make the above clearer, we give the definitions of a few of the words mentioned:

Astringent. A medicine which causes contraction of the tissues and arrests the flow of secretions.

Coagulation. Changing to a curd-like mass; becoming clotted.

Escharotic. A substance which burns and destroys the life of the parts to which it is applied.

The coagulating of the albumen of the tissues and the blood is characteristic of most poisons, and would result in death. Such a condition could cause paralysis, insanity, cancer, rheumatism, neuritis, indigestion, ulcers of the stomach and intestines, some forms of skin diseases, etc.

In God’s holy Word, the Bible, it states (Deuteronomy 12:23): “Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.”

If your blood, which is your life, is being poisoned the above condition is easily accounted for, and you are in danger of not only infection, but various diseases. The Bible is our only Authority as to life, and can be depended upon to state the facts.

The Nation Is Being Poisoned

From the Dispensatory and various Materia Medicas, it is apparent that the nation is being poisoned. There never was so much sickness and complaining, never so much stomach disorder, etc. Cancer has jumped from the tenth place to the second place as the cause of death in the last ten years. Yet at the same time we have more knowledge, more doctors, hospitals, radio lectures on health and newspaper articles on how to keep well, etc., yet sickness is still on the increase. There must be a reason.

A number of men working on the Australian Railways complained that many of them were having sore hands. This matter was called to the attention of the officials of the railroad, and was thought to be due to the white metal handles on the shovels. The handles of these shovels were analyzed by a chemist in Brisbane, Australia, and showed 92.16 percent of aluminum.

This analysis was sent to me for an opinion. I advised them that the trouble was due to the aluminum on the shovel handles, and recommended that their use be discontinued, and that the men were being poisoned by the aluminum coming in contact with their hands.

The Australian Railway Commission, after full investigation, recommended that all shovels of this type be discontinued. (This from an article in the Courier Mail, August 8, 1935, Brisbane, Australia, under the heading of “Dangerous Tools”.)

Is it not evident that if men with hard, cal-lused hands should be so affected as to make their hands sore, and probably poisoned in other ways, eating foods cooked in aluminum, which may contain quite a percentage of poisonous aluminum salts, would very quickly affect the delicate mucous membrane of the stomach, resulting in ulcers or other serious conditions?

I might say that the above affected about 30,000 miles of railway.

Testimony of Informed Doctors

Dr. Leo Spira, M.D., of Vienna, Austria, has written a booklet entitled “The Clinical Aspect of Chronic Poisoning by Aluminum and its Alloys”, published by John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd., London, England, giving the results of his observations over a period of ten years, showing many cases of chronic poisoning due to the use of aluminum cooking utensils. He has actually proved this by the success of the treatment based on his findings, in cases in which all other methods of treatment failed. Aluminum utensils were eliminated and quick recovery in most cases resulted. Return to the use of aluminum resulted in a relapse.

According to German literature, diseases are making their appearance which have hitherto been unknown on the Continent. Gonnermann attributes this to the increased use of aluminum cooking utensils. Von Halla records 25 cases of constipation and skin diseases which did not yield to the orthodox treatment, but were cured by the removal of all aluminum cooking utensils. Cancer has increased in Austria in proportion to the increased use of aluminum ware.

Dr. R. M. Le Hunte Cooper, M.D., B.S., etc., of London, England, has written a booklet of 32 pages entitled “The Danger of Food Contamination by Aluminum”, published by John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd., of London, England, in which he states he has so many cases of aluminum poisoning that he hardly knows which to discuss. Many are given in his booklet, showing where all orthodox treatment has failed, but when all aluminum utensils were removed, most of the patients quickly recovered. He refers to headache, pyorrhea, sore mouth, sore throat, rheumatism, neuritis, bowel conditions, indigestion, ulcers, skin affections, etc., all of which have been greatly relieved by eliminating the use of aluminum wares.

“. . . Alum baking powders, which are used very extensively in the U.S.A., are forbidden in England, France, Germany, and many other countries . . .”

Hemorrhage of the Brain

A hemorrhage of the brain is almost always caused by a poison. Strychnine poisoning invariably produces hemorrhage of the brain. Research has shown that the brain absorbs more aluminum than any other organ under certain conditions, and if death does not result, then the patient will probably become insane where large quantities of aluminum have been absorbed.

The information here given justifies us in never allowing any aluminum under any circumstances to enter our bodies from artificial sources. Why, even the suspicion that it might be poisonous ought alone to be sufficient. We cannot have too much evidence on the effects of aluminum.

Many people have the impression that poisons should have a bitter or very unpleasant taste. This is true in some cases, such as strychnine, but with aluminum compounds there is little or no taste. That is one reason why some believe aluminum is not poisonous.

In our daily papers it is very common to see some doctor writing on health topics and recommending the use of aluminum cooking utensils. Letters written to these same papers, explaining the poisonous properties of aluminum, are in nearly every case refused publication. Some of our so-called “scientific” magazines have published considerable on the aluminum question, trying to show that this metal is safe for cooking utensils. Of course, it must be remembered that the daily press and magazines carry large ads on aluminum ware.

Many of the so-called demonstrating cooking schools seem to be for the purpose of advertising the use of aluminum ware, as such utensils are almost invariably used exclusively. Whenever the question of the poisonous character of aluminum ware is raised, the one in charge usually becomes very austere, and indignantly denounces any such claims. This is usually followed by citing in parrot-like fashion the approval of the metal by a well-known professional association whose journal has carried numerous full-page ads that advocate the use of aluminum.

From our investigation, we recommend iron, steel and stainless steel utensils; also agate, enamel and earthen ware. You will notice that foods have a different taste when they are not cooked in aluminum. We are in no way interested in any kind of cooking utensils, as to their manufacture or sale.

Remember, the continued use of aluminum wares will finally produce results which will be similar to leaving the foods standing in them for some time. It is the small quantities, as the Dispensatory points out, which are absorbed from the foods, which may produce indigestion, nervousness, constipation, cancer, etc.

Bacteria Thrive in Aluminum Vessels

Did you ever find maggots in your aluminum pans ? Do you know that such pans may be full of the most deadly bacteria known to science?

Almost daily you read in the press of hundreds’ being poisoned by eating food cooked in aluminum. Do you know how such poisonings occur? If you do not, this will tell you.

Aluminum is a soft metal and is easily corroded and pitted under certain conditions. For example, when sauerkraut or vegetables are cooked in aluminum and allowed to stand for some time, the utensil often becomes badly pitted. It. has frequently happened that sauerkraut has eaten holes completely through the aluminum kettles in which it was prepared. Vegetables that are cooked with soda and salt will produce similar results. Corned beef corrodes most aluminum utensils. Rolled, pressed or cast aluminum all corrode.

Various kinds of food that may lodge in such cavities cannot be thoroughly washed out. The food particles then decay or become rotten. If flies lay eggs in such spots, maggots will result, of course small in size.

Bacteria of many kinds, which may cause various diseases, are found in such recesses. Aluminum cooking utensils are often used to hold potatoes, beets, and other vegetables that come from the ground, bringing with them all kinds of bacteria. After a mere rinsing these utensils are used to hold milk, cream, chicken salads, etc., with the result that a heavy bacterial growth may soon result, which may cause serious illness. In fact, death has resulted in a number of cases, as will be shown later.

Bacteria are only about 1/25000 inch in diameter.

Many bacteria double in number every half hour. Now, suppose that there are only a thousand bacteria in one of the cavities; double 1,000 ten successive times, and you will have some idea of the increase of bacteria possible in the space of five hours.

Bacteria grow rapidly, and some of them die. Their dead bodies, together with the decomposed food they feed on, form other compounds known as toxins and ptomaines, which are among the most deadly poisons known to science.

Minutely Scrutinize Your Cockroach Castles

Take a look at your aluminum ware through a small magnifying glass and you will see craters. It is impossible to wash or scour out all the various foods which lodge in these cavities. Many of these decaying cesspools hold food for the bacteria. Cockroaches would find food in these utensils, and they also carry disease germs.

“Yes,” you say, “there are many such spots in my kettles, but boiling water will destroy all of these germs.” You are wrong. It will require more than boiling temperature to destroy the spores. When the food runs out and the temperature is too low, many forms of bacteria, especially the poisonous kinds or those that produce disease, change their form to what are known as spores. They lie dormant for years, or until conditions are favorable for their growth, or we may say that they “hibernate”.

In various works on bacteriology, lengthy discussions on different forms of bacteria together with their mode of growth and their effect as to the cause of disease, etc., are given in detail, and it might be well for the reader to examine some of these works if he desires further information. The Principles of Bacteriology, by A. C. Abbott, M.D., professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania, states that the food supply for the majority of bacteria is dead vegetable and animal matter. In his book, Dr. Abbott states:

. . . Under natural conditions it frequently occurs that the development of one species or group of species of bacteria is directly dependent upon the functional activities of another totally distinct species, the growth of one group resulting in conditions that are of vital importance to the existence of the other.

Dr. Abbott also states that spores of certain bacteria are not destroyed after exposure of from five to six hours to the temperature of boiling water. He further says that nearly all bacteria can be destroyed by subjecting them to a boiling temperature for fifteen minutes, then allowing them to stand at room temperature for twenty-four hours, then repeating this process for two more days. By this method spores develop into growing bacteria and are then destroyed by boiling.

The cavities in aluminum ware must necessarily contain both animal and vegetable matter which will decompose or decay and furnish food for various kinds of bacteria. Bacteriological tests have shown this to be the case.

It is not assumed that every cooking utensil is infested with poisonous bacteria. Many of them may be harmless gas-producing bacteria, and this only in cases where there is pitting of the wares. However, wares that are free from pits now may be badly pitted in a few weeks, and so find homes for bacteria.

Frequent Cases of Food Poisoning

It is well known that many cases of food poisoning can be traced to various kinds of food prepared in aluminum. Some of them appear in the daily press, if they escape the censor. Let us take a few cases of food poisoning as reported by the United States Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.

Three men from the Navy poisoned by eating fried oysters. One dies. Investigation showed bacteria of extremely toxic nature. The oysters may have been kept in aluminum.

Nine officers of the Navy poisoned by chicken salad. Samples of the salad showed large numbers of poisonous bacteria.

Fourteen poisoned in the Navy from boiled smoked tongue. Tests showed large number of poisonous bacteria.

Cheese poisoning. United States Ship Reuben James. Forty poisoned. No poisonous germs in the cheese, of course. Bacteria may have been in some of the other foods, as it is claimed the Army and Navy use aluminum utensils.

Fifty-eight poisoned by corned beef. None of the beef left for examination. Could have found plenty of bugs in aluminum kettles. All of these cases are in the Navy. We 'wonder how many there are that are not reported. Only wholesale cases reported.

The U. S. Public Health Service asks the question, “What would happen in case of war?” as the U. S. S. Reuben James was put out of action by the poisoning of the crew. In time of war, foods may stand in the cooking utensils for hours. Our battleships would be easy prey in case of a general food poisoning, for sick men could not navigate them, nor could they fire the guns. They would just be heading for the last round-up. Suppose an aviator with a lot of passengers aboard were suddenly taken sick from such poisoning. The same could be said of engineers. Many accidents happen, the causes of which are never explained.

In some cases of food poisoning people quickly become unconscious, death soon following.

Others become dizzy, suffer from stomach trouble, intestinal affections, headache, great weakness, and partial paralysis, etc.

In the last war, a number of chemists who were in the chemical division told me that about half of the men were sick all the time with stomach trouble. Everything was cooked and kept in aluminum. I have been told that the government is throwing all aluminum utensils out of the Navy. Let us hope that this is true. The same should be done for the Army.

Don’t Blame the Water Only

Water companies tell me that people sometimes complain that all in the family are sick with stomach trouble, etc., and it must be the water. Those who complain could probably find the cause in their aluminum utensils.

Others blame the milk, the butcher, and the baker; and should sickness be due to their products, we should probably find that the foods had been placed in aluminum vessels. The farmer certainly gets plenty of inspection, but nothing is said about his placing food products in badly infected vessels made of aluminum.

The “Great Plague of London”, the “Black Death”, the bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, etc., have killed millions throughout the world. But when the infected places were cleaned up and sanitary conditions were improved, the diseases nearly disappeared. The same can be said for the Panama Canal. All of these disease conditions were caused by various forms of bacteria. Bedbugs are carriers of the smallpox germ. Clean out the bedbugs, keep clean, and smallpox will disappear. And that goes for most other diseases.

Some doctors think infantile paralysis may start from a throat condition; others, that it starts in the intestinal tract. How could you expect a child to keep well if fed daily from aluminum pans that may be full of various kinds of disease germs and poisonous ptomaines?

Wholesale Poisonings

But let us turn to some further cases of wholesale poisoning:

In a large general hospital, 325 employees were made ill..No report on the patients.

A large university hospital reported 15 doctors, 10 dietitians and 125 nurses poisoned by chicken salad kept in aluminum for a few hours.

New Jersey hospital, 50 guests poisoned.

New York state hospital, 65 poisoned.

New York state hospital, 60 poisoned.

New York city, 900 poisoned at a banquet. Ohio Y.W.C.A., 70 young women poisoned. Oklahoma State Home, 90 girls poisoned. Oregon College, 75 poisoned.

Pennsylvania church supper, 200 poisoned.

South Dakota Home, 250 poisoned.

These are only a few of the many cases we could report. Thousands of individual cases could he given, with many deaths. In nearly all cases, aluminum utensils were used and foods were allowed to stand in them for some hours, which gave the bacteria a chance to develop, and in some cases to form poisonous ptomaines.

Some people may say, “Why does the government allow such utensils to be sold?” None of the government departments or the public health departments know that this condition exists. Doctors do not know about this danger, as several have been poisoned. Some have died soon after eating food from aluminum utensils.

Here is a case that just occurred here in Scranton. Creamed chicken was served. A portion was then put in an aluminum pan in the refrigerator. The next day it was found that the chicken was bubbling up with gas. As it seemed to be fermenting, it was thrown out. This was due to the cavities in the aluminum pan being full of bacteria. Creamed chicken makes a good culture, or food, for bacteria. As bacteria have little mode of motion, the gas they form moves up through the food, carrying the bacteria along. The result is that all the food is soon contaminated with the bacteria, and so quickly becomes poisonous.

Doctors Urged to Help

Hospitals are kept scrupulously clean. The utmost care is taken in the operating rooms to have everything thoroughly sterilized. Yet patients, though dangerously ill, many suffering from internal complications with infection, are given food that may contain large quantities of poisonous bacteria if prepared in aluminum wares that are pitted. The cases of doctors, nurses, etc., being poisoned by the hundreds need no further proof. They certainly would not knowingly cook spoiled or decayed food. We believe they use much care to be sure that food products are of the best quality. We think the same can be said for our Navy and War Departments, as well as for all other organizations. Yet in most of the poisoning cases, investigation has shown poisonous bacteria to be present.

I call upon the doctors of all schools to help inform the public of this grave danger, so as to protect the sick in our hospitals and homes. The first duty of every statesman should be the health of the nation, and I trust all will try to bring this question to the attention of all public officials. Laws should be passed prohibiting the manufacture of aluminum ware for use in preparing any kind of food products and medical preparations. Sick people are a liability to the nation.

A doctor wrote me that he had a cancer on his face. He stopped using aluminum, and in a few months the cancer nearly disappeared. Then he ate squash, cooked in aluminum. In 48 hours it was like a raging volcano.

Two well-known cancer surgeons died last year from cancer. They said they used aluminum.

A man in New York city stated that his mother died from aluminum poisoning, together with complications of cancer, according to the physician.

Cancer patients should avoid all kinds of aluminum wares, also all food products that may be prepared in aluminum.

A doctor here in Scranton told me he had aluminum poisoning. He died three weeks later. Many more could be given.

Partial List of Safe Hospitals

A few of the modern hospitals using stainless steel equipment:

Allegheny General Hospital....................... Pittsburgh, Pa.

Children’s Hospital.............................................St. Louis, Mo.

Children’s Hospital...................................... Pittsburgh, Pa.

Eye and Ear Hospital................................ Pittsburgh, Pa.

Huron Road Hospital ...............   Cleveland, Ohio

Iowa State Hospital......................................Iowa City, Iowa

Johns Hopkins Hospital ............................. Baltimore, Md.

Jersey City Hospital..................................Jersey City, N. J.

Johnson’s Emergency Hospital ............Milwaukee, Wis.

Lennox Hills Hospital............................... New York, N. Y.

Lincoln Hospital .................................................... Newark, N. J.

Madison General Hospital .................   Madison, Wis.

Norwegian American Hospital —...........Chicago, Ill.

Presbyterian Hospital..............................Philadelphia, Pa.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital..................... Boston, Mass.

Rhode Island Hospital ............................Providence, R. 1.

San Antonio State Hospital___________San Antonio, Texas

Swedish Hospital ............................... Minneapolis, Minn.

Stevenson Memorial Hospital__Allison, Ont., Canada

St. Mary’s Hospital Detroit, Mieh.

St. Vincent’s Hospital St. Louis, Mo. Tuberculosis Hospital _____________________ Houston, Texas

U. S. Veterans’ Hospital Portland, Oreg.

U. S. Veterans’ Hospital________________________________Lincoln, Nebr.

Yale New Haven Hospital...............New Haven, Conn.

West Penn Hospital.........................................Pittsburgh, Pa.

Avoid Restaurants Using Aluminum

I would caution against eating in hotels and restaurants where aluminum utensils are used. Such establishments should put on their menus, “Nothing prepared in aluminum,” when that is the case.

“The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette states that the new Thompson restaurant is equipped with stainless steel, which contains no copper, zinc, tin, or aluminum to react with food acids or taint foods with a metallic flavor. Stainless steel is not plated, and is unrusting and untarnishing, and is considered the very best.” When you are in Pittsburgh, there is one place that should be free from poisonous food.

I have personally given several pieces of stainless steel a most severe test over a period of time and can find no pitting in these utensils and have found them satisfactory in my home. I also use agate, enamel and earthen wares, and know that iron utensils are entirely safe. Monel metal is widely used for utensils and is very satisfactory.

I am interested only in the health of the public, and I believe the above suggestions will be of benefit to all to avoid heading for the last round-up. Will .you do your part? Give this information to your friends. We need your help. Tell the truth about this condition, here and in foreign lands.

Aluminum Poison and “Egypt” By I. D. Witter (Canada)

IN THE course of making an examination of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in reference to Egypt, “The Black Land,” the astonishing coincidence of diseases similar to those caused by aluminum poisoning referred to in No. 342 of The Golden Age and the conditions of the drinking water in the affected area at and near the outlet or mouth of the Nile was noted.

In the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. VII, page 700, “Diseases of Egypt”:

Notwithstanding the fineness of the climate, the stranger who visits Egypt is struck by the signs which he sees everywhere of the prevalence of many serious diseases, and in the first half of this century he might have witnessed the effects of a great epidemic of the plague or the cholera. . . . Ophthalmia followed by blindness . . . dysentery is very often fatal. . . . The plague has been the greatest scourge of Egypt . . . there have been no severe epidemics of plague elsewhere in the same period . . . The plague starts at Alexandria [at the mouth of the river] quickly travelling as far up the river as Cairo . . . (Evidently the river above Cairo does not become as greatly polluted.) . . . Dysentery is common, causing a very large mortality . . . 200,000 perished from cholera in Egypt during the plague in 1848 . . . Among the diseases most dreaded by European residents is liver complaint . . . Hemorrhoids and herniae are among the commonest maladies . . . Skin diseases have been at all times prevalent in Egypt . . . Madness is common, generally in the form of idiocy . . , idiots are regarded with much respect as saints.

A paragraph in The Golden Age No. 342, page 37:

Such a condition could cause paralysis, insanity, cancer, rheumatism, neuritis, indigestion, ulcers of the stomach and intestines, some forms of skin disease, etc.

Rheumatism also is common in Egypt. Cholera is an abdominal and intestinal poisoning.

Now for the cause??? The waters of the Nile are turbid at all times except a short period in midsummer. On page 705 of same volume (VII, Ency. Brit.):

Turbid appearance due to large quantities of earthy matter which are annually deposited . . . Analysis of deposit: Water 11, Carbon .09, Oxide of iron .06, Silica .04, Carbonate of magnesia .04, Carbonate of lime .18, Alumen .48. Alum is from Alumen (see Vol. I, page 644, sixth paragraph, subject “Aluminum”). The water is extremely sweet, particularly in its turbid state. [Quoting from page 706:] A careful filtration destroys its peculiar flavor, and the best method is to allow it to settle in the porous jars manufactured in the country. [These jars are probably made out of the same earthy substance.] It is very wholesome.

The fact that this water is sweet seems to show that it must reek with alum. The fact that it is recommended as being wholesome is another proof that there is something wrong with it. The fact that these diseases coincide with those resulting from aluminum poisoning also proves that something is wrong.

The cause is unknown ? ? ? What do you make of it?

Aluminum Not Fit for My Dog

By H. P. Haley (Xew Hampshire)

WE HAVE a little dog and it is the last thing I would ever think of to even give her a drink of water from an aluminum container; we think too much of her. As for ourselves, you can no doubt guess the answer. No aluminum cooking dishes in our house!

I am 6 feet 1 inch, weigh around 270, am 55 years old and healthy as a bear, but fully convinced that such would not be the case had I not become wise to the danger of aluminum both through articles in Golden Age and in my own experience.

A few years ago, working in a railroad tower, I purchased an aluminum saucepan, and used same to get my suppers, boiling tea in it or making chowders, etc., from August until along in January, when I had a nice two weeks’ session from my job, with a doctor working over me the first week trying to get the machinery around my gall bladder to function, with everything at a standstill, and pain unmentionable, and the other week to get back on my feet at home where the Mrs. never would use aluminum, and then back to the job, continuing to use my aluminum dish and gradually getting back into the condition I was in before having the doctor; but, luckily, I got through on this job and discarded the pan, getting the home free from possibility of further poisoning, and came back on my feet in no time. Previous to this I had never given aluminum a thought, and went back for a second dose of it. But never again. We learn slowly, but surely.

Doctor Clendening, Widely Advertised

Doctor Clendening, widely advertised, and widely uninformed, tremendously so, in one of his syndicated articles made this statement: That aluminum is perfectly harmless is indicated by the fact that aluminum is more and more supplanting other metals in dental work as a substitute due to the present scarcity of gold. It hardly is possible that dentists would agree to put into the mouth a substance which they thought would cause cancer.

When this was brought to the attention of Dr. C. T. Betts he showed that Doctor Clendening did not know the first thing about what he was talking about, by making the following observations :

Aluminum has been practically discarded in all dental appliances and denture work. This is due to the fact that practically all those who wear either the swedged or cast aluminum plate bases soon find constant irritation of the mouth results.

Aluminum is poisonous, like other metals. We are all familiar with mercurial poisoning or that made by copper vessels called verdigris. The workers at the radium paint factory in New Jersey were affected with what is termed radium poisoning, 22 of whom have already died and the others are suffering, and no antidote is known. Arsenic is a rank poison; so is lead; in fact, any metal that is so soft it becomes a part of the food and finely divided so that it is digestible; poisoning results from its ingestion.

Somebody Will Try to Kill Betts Yet

OMEBODY will try to kill Dr. Betts yet, if he doesn’t stop telling the truth about aluminum cooking utensils. Here is what he wrote to the warden of the Michigan state prison when they had a huge poisoning bee there lately. He also sent a similar letter to Dr. H. C. Wells, Franklin County Home, Columbus, Ohio, when they had a similar bee there.

June 10, 1937 Warden Joel Moore Michigan State Prison Jackson, Midi.

Dear Mr. Moore:

I was up to visit your institution some time ago and had the unusual experience of going thru your department of kitchens. I observed the extensive kitchen equipment, especially the large round-bottomed kettles in which was boiling water ready to be filled with beans and other edibles. I noticed the millions of aluminum hydroxide specks moving around in the water and on the surface, due to the heat. I mentioned to my friend that it would not be long until there would be an extensive poisoning of the inmates of Jackson Prison as we find occurring in practically all large institutions where this cooking ware is used.

We find that many foods are cooked in aluminum where salt and vinegar are used. You get an aluminum acetate if you use vinegar, and aluminum chloride if you use salt. Both of these are good for embalming fluids used by morticians. This is a very vital and important fact which should be taken into consideration when persons are under the public’s care in an institution like yours.

We can’t see how anybody, whether interested in Mellon or any organization making aluminum ware, can help seeing the above point. Surely if we are interested in keeping people healthy it is about time that we called a halt upon the sale of aluminum kitchenware.

We hope something will be done to prevent these extensive group poisonings from mineral acid as formed by aluminum utensils in your institution.

They Feel Fine Now!

AYS John J. Oskay of New Jersey:

I have just finished reading my copy of The Golden

Age magazine No. 444, which contains an article on “Aluminum Poisoning”. I wi$h to say that this is nothing but the truth about aluminum poisoning, as I have found out for myself.

My mother, who is 57 years of age, has for several years now been very sickly; in fact, she was getting so sick I thought she would not live long. She has been troubled with her stomach, having severe cases of vomiting after almost every meal in the morning, and sometimes it made her sick for the whole day, and so weak she was unable to work around the house or even cook.

Last year I read in the Golden Age magazine about aluminum poisoning. I told my mother she should try a different pot to cook in, so she bought herself an enamel pot; and did she note the difference! She feels fine now, and able to work and cook and is not troubled with vomiting and weakness any more. From the very day she changed her pot to cook in she became well. She is very grateful and tells everyone she knows how she gained back her health.

I myself am 23 years old and have for many years been troubled with severe head colds and hay fever. We quit using aluminum last August, and this year I got head colds less and now have had none for over four months. And here I am, in hay-fever time with goldenrod all around me, and ragweed with which you could make a haystack, and have not had an attack of hay fever yet. I sleep better than ever before, and can do a good day’s work every day.

Aluminum

(Report of Findings of Dr. H. A. McGuigan for the Federal Trade Commissiop in Docket Case No. 540.

Washington, D.C.)

THAT:

Boiling water in aluminum produces hydrooxide poison.

Cooking an egg in aluminum, phosphate.

Boiling meat in aluminum, chloride.

Frying bacon in aluminum, a powerful narcotic acid, which produces coma, and in excessive doses, death.

Boiling soda water in aluminum produces hydro-oxide of sodium.

All vegetables cooked in aluminum are made poisonous by the production of hydro-oxide acid. Hydro-oxide acid, a drug produced by boiling water in aluminum, neutralizes the digestive juices of the stomach, robbing them of their value to digest food and producing stomach and gastro-intestinal disorders, such as ulcers of the stomach and colitis.

This poison will produce acidosis of the blood, which destroys the red blood cells, which produces a condition similar to anemia.

The sale of aluminum ware for cooking pur

poses is prohibited in Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary, and Brazil.—Chanwos Chais, in Army and Navy Magazine. ____________

In What Were They Cooked?

A T Wautauga, South Dakota, September 16, four persons died from eating home-preserved beans. The physician, Dr. C. Olson, tried to save them by having a serum rushed from Kansas City. In what were the beans cooked, Dr. Olson ? And in ■what were they stored subsequently? Aluminum?

Small Chance for the Dogs "IXTEMPHIS, Tennessee, has a so-called IV-L “Haven for Homeless Dogs”, built at a cost of $25,000. While in the Haven the dog is fed from aluminum dishes. A woman in New Jersey had a dog she prized highly. She fed him exclusively from an aluminum utensil and he died of cancer of the rectum.

Cancer Mortality Continues to Increase

CANCER mortality continues to increase, along with the sale of aluminum cooking utensils. In the United States, in 1935, the deaths from cancer mounted to 153,000, and were second only to heart disease. One out of every eight women reaching the age of 40 now dies of cancer. __________________

Poisonous Fumes from Aluminum Plant

A T Burntisland, Scotland, the location of •^■plants of the British Aluminum Company, property in the neighborhood of the aluminum works is unsalable on account of poisonous fumes. Plants, shrubs, fruit trees and gardens all die, and the health of the community is ruined.

Persons Using Aluminum Bottle Caps

A LUMINUM bottle caps for milk are now to ■^-be had. Persons buying their milk covered with such caps may render a service. Let one of the caps stand full of milk for a day or so and then examine the cap and the milk and report what you find.

Want to Lie Up for a Week?

Mrs. Maud Looper, of Texas, asks:

Want to lie up for a week? Cook potatoes, put cream on them, and let them stand in aluminum until supper, and then eat a lot. I did three years ago. I did not know what caused my vacation in bed, at the time, but I know now, since reading The Golden Age.

Manufacturing

World Production of Rayon

tion industries has been going up at the rate of $600,000 an hour ever since the British government decided to put all its financial resources into the rearmament campaign, comforts the big murderers of the industry by suggesting that while nobody will really be safe in the next war, yet some kind of gentleman’s agreement may be worked out by which the generals and their headquarters will be spared, and the slaughter will be merely that of common people and their wives and children, as in the case of the Hierarchy’s war upon Madrid.

Fatigue and Accidents

TT IS a sad commentary on the heartlessness -*■ of this generation to learn that the number of accidents in industry rises steadily between seven and twelve o’clock, recedes after the lunch hour, begins to increase around 2 p.m., and reaches a peak at five o’clock in the afternoon. Tired eyes, tired muscles, long hours, poor light, poor ventilation, dusty occupations, humidity, heat, cold—all lead to fatigue, and fatigue leads to accidents.

International Murderers All Busy

TT ISN’T only the International Murderers of J- Europe that are busy. There is big money today in the manufacture of shells, torpedoes and other military and naval supplies, and all the plants in the United States that have facilities for making such accoutrements of the Devil’s civilization are working night and day, in three shifts.

Propellers for Orchards

AN AIRPLANE propeller mounted on a 45-foot tower produces a rolling movement of the air for 750 feet in all directions; thus one is sufficient for a good-sized orchard. It is found that this method of preventing orchard frosts is very much cheaper than the smudge-pot method, and is said to be as effective.

The Newest Rayon

THE newest rayon, one-third thinner than finest silk, unwinds at 2,500 miles to the pound, and a woman’s vest made of this fiber alone could be concealed in the palm of one hand. pounds, in 1935. One-fourth of this is produced in the United States. There is four times as much rayon used in the United States as of real silk.

New Hosiery Mills in the South

THE governor of Mississippi is quoted as authority for the statement that Federal funds are being used to build four hosiery mills in that state, which when completed will be turned over in fee simple to hosiery manufacturers of Massachusetts as an inducement for them to move their plants to the sunny South.

Moving an Eleven-Story Building

IN Indianapolis an eleven-story building was moved to an adjoining lot and was turned to face another street. During the two months required to move the building it was in constant use, flexible connections being used for light, power, heat and sewage facilities. The moving job cost $300,000.

Nitroglycerin Used in Making Lace

TT WILL be news to some that nitroglycerin

is used in making lace, and some lace is so sensitive that it ignites with a detonation if exposed to the sun. In North Bergen, New Jersey, a lace factory blew up recently, resulting in four deaths.

Home and Health

Rockefeller and Chiropractic

TT IS well known that the late John D. Rocke-■1- feller contributed millions of dollars to assist the medical profession to gain the stranglehold they now have on national, state, county and municipal boards of health, and on the public press. It is not so generally well known that for the past six years of his life he was himself a chiropractic patient, and that William Jensen, D.C., of Daytona Beach, Florida, treated him several times during the last four days of his life. The medical doctors, the Rockefeller family and the newspaper profession aimed to keep these facts from becoming known, but through a slip in the office of the New York WorldTelegram the news leaked out that when the old gentleman felt himself slipping he called for his chiropractor. Somebody in the World-Telegram office surely got a good call-down for that bull. The Chiropractic Joxirnal, exulting in the World-Telegram’s break, made another when it gleefully announced that, though Mr. Rockefeller died on May 23, he received chiropractic adjustments on May 27 and May 29. Even Chiropractic’s best friends would hardly claim that for them! The Journal meant to say May 20 and 22. It made a slip on the calendar.

Beware of Benzedrine Pep Pills

EWARE of Benzedrine pep pills; they do indeed keep one awake, but at the universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago and Toronto students have collapsed, developed insomnia and showed a low pulse rate when they took too many, and it is a fair bet that some of them have been injured for life.

Dry Ice Destroys Tissue

RY ice is a wonderful discovery and a great blessing to humanity, but it is dangerous, too. Placing it in the mouth results in ulcers and other injuries. In New York a child swallowed a piece the size of a grape and had to be treated for two weeks in a hospital.

60 Going Blind from Drugs

IXTY women of Los Angeles are blind or going blind from the use of drugs taken to help them reduce weight. What an awful price to pay for absolute idiocy. Women were intended to be plump so that in the great emergencies of their lives they would have vitality upon which to draw.

Three Eminent Physicians

rpHREE eminent physicians have expressed J- opinions on drugs that are well worth considering. These men stand among the highest in the profession. Captain Hughes Merns, Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, D.C., said:

No reputable physician nowadays gives medicine indiscriminately to every patient who applies. The modem doctor has lost his old-time faith in drugs, for the simple reason that they do not always do what is claimed for them. Frequently, we have found that they do more harm than good. A drug, for instance, may “cure” a pain in the head, but do permanent damage somewhere else. Hundreds of drugs have been dropped from American authorized lists, and it is generally believed that more will follow.

Daniel H. Kress, M.D., wrote:

Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature’s protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient be left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time.

Dr. William Osler, one of America’s most eminent physicians, said:

The patient who takes medicine must recover twice: once from the disease and once from the medicine. The only drugs that are worth an oyster-shucker’s oath are those that smell good, taste good and are harmless.

Putting Narcotic Problem Up to Japan

IN A speech before the League of Nations

Opium Advisory Committee, T. W. Russell Pasha, of Egypt, made the charge that 90 percent of all the world’s illicit white narcotics were of Japanese origin, made in a Japanese concession in or around Tientsin, China, and always under Japanese supervision; he estimated that half a ton of heroin was shipped weekly from these 200 Japanese factories, 90 percent of which goes to the United States, and the rest to Egypt and other countries.

King Carol’s Grocery Store

ing Carol, of Rumania, raises so much wine, cheese, butter and fruit on the royal farms that he opened a grocery store in the rear of

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path By Grace A. Estep (Pennsylvania)

JANE walked slowly along the dusty road.

It was a perfect September afternoon. The sky was close and blue and smiling. The wayside was gay with brilliant autumn blooms.

A black and yellow and white caterpillar hurried along the road hunting for a place to make her bed. An orange and brown butterfly danced among the flowers, while a dark-blue one settled on a goldenrod.

Pretty wild grasses waved their graceful heads and sowed their tiny seeds. Red apples shone on laden trees; and red seedpods dangled from vines and bushes.

A few soft bird-songs broke the lazy stillness. Jane stopped to listen. All at once a sound behind her caused her to turn, just in time to see a boy raising a rifle to his shoulder.

“John! Stop that!” she screamed, but too late. A shot rang out, and the very song to which she had been listening was broken.

“John! Why did you do that?”

The boy looked up, a little surprised. “I wanted to see if I could hit it.”

“All right. You did hit it. Now what? There it lies, a lifeless bunch of feathers and flesh and bone, its little throat still swelled with the last song it will ever sing—the very song I was listening to—the song it will never finish. Can you give it back its song? Can you make its heart beat again?”

John stared strangely at the tiny bird at his feet.

“John, do you know who gave us our birds? The great Creator, of course. And why did He give them to us?”

The boy shook his head, and, hanging it lower, said nothing.

“This little fellow that you have just killed spent his life in serving you and me. Harmful insects and weed seeds were the main part of his diet. Oh, yes, he took an occasional cherry, pecked at a few apples—but the damage he did is so small it can’t even be counted at all when compared to the great good he did. God has arranged things so wonderfully.

“Do you know, John, that if it weren’t for the birds we could not live? The harmful insects would have no enemies to destroy them. They would eat up all our crops, our trees, our flowers. Before long we should be living in a desolate, dry earth with no food, and shortly we’d all die.”

John seemed puzzled. He dug his toe into the dust, and thought it over.

“Even if birds had no such value, we love their song; we enjoy their beautiful colors and the graceful way they fly; we find their nests and feeding habits interesting; we marvel at the long flights they make over land and sea.”

John looked up suddenly. “The police in our town shoot the birds.”

“More shame to them. I know they shoot the starlings because they are noisy. Some meddlesome old women and stupid old men who never do much of anything—especially anything good •—spend their time thinking up things to fuss hbout. One of their pet complaints is that the birds in the trees make too much noise. Then the gallant police trot out and shoot them. But the starlings are very helpful birds and should be cared for and protected.”

“But crows are no good, are they?”

“Oh, yes, Johnny. The farmers make raids on the crows, determined to lull all they can; but they’ll be surprised to find some day, when it’s too late that the crows helped their crops, including corn, a lot more than they damaged them.”

John dropped his gun and looked again at the little dead bird.

“People are pretty silly, aren’t they?”

“Indeed they are, John.”

“Is it wrong to kill anything?”

“Some things that are harmful or are needed for food have to be killed. But they should be killed in a way that will not make them suffer. It is wrong to be cruel to anything.”

“God doesn’t like cruel people—

“No, He certainly doesn’t.”

Guaranteed” Incomes of 30% for Life

TWO men in New York made a careful list of persons over 78 years of age who had money, and induced 150 of them to part with $250,000 under a “guaranty” of 30 percent income annually on their investment. They actually did

Mormon Doctrine and Covenants

CJ. McFadden, Utah pioneer, one of Jeho-• vah’s witnesses, had occasion to examine the Mormon “Doctrine and Covenants”, and noticed the following inconsistencies:

Section 107, verse 54, says God blessed Adam and called him Michael; section 128, verse 21, speaks of Michael or Adam; section 78, verse 16, speaks of Michael your prince, establishing his feet, setting him upon high and giving unto him the keys of salvation, under the counsel and direction of the Holy One, who is without beginning of days or end of life; section 88, verse 113, tells that the Devil shall gather together his armies, even the hosts of hell, and shall come up to battle against Michael and his armies; section 88, verse 115, says that Michael shall fight their battles and shall overcome him who seeketh the throne of Him who sitteth upon the throne, even the Lamb.

The foregoing passages of “Doctrine and Covenants” teach that Michael is Adam and that this said Michael or Adam is going to fight Christ’s battles in the last days. There is no place in the Bible where Adam is called Michael. There is no place where it is shown that Adam, after he turned away from God and was driven out of Eden, ever repented of his sin or returned to God.

The Bible teaches plainly that the dead do not know anything, and that a day is coming when they will be awakened. It nowhere teaches as does “Doctrine and Covenants” that Adam is now alive. This work states in one place that Adam will not appear as a man, and in another that he will appear as a man. Believe whichever you choose.

Section 93: 29 states that man was in the beginning with God. But the Bible, Genesis 2: 5, says that there was not a man upon the earth ■ and Genesis 2: 7, that God made man. If so, how was he in the beginning with God?

Section 134:1 states that all governments were instituted by God for the benefit of man; and 134:5, that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside. Then how about Daniel 2:44, that God will set up a kingdom that shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and stand for ever in their room and stead?

Other errors are in section 19:18, that God trembles because of pain; 20: 28, that Father, Son and “Holy Ghost” are one God; 29: 22, 23, that heaven and earth shall pass away after the thousand-year reign; 29:47, that Satan cannot tempt little children; 38:1, that Christ is the great I AM; 93: 33, that man is a spirit; 107:43, that Seth was a perfect man; and 128:15, that we cannot be made perfect without our dead.

Funeral by Transcription Held for Canon WPA Worker

CANON CITY, April 21.—A funeral service by electrical transcription was used Monday as final rites were held for Tony Urani, Brookside WPA worker who was killed Friday in a slide of dolomite at the C. F. & I. quarry around Soda Point.

Members of the Urani family belong to the church of Jehovah’s witnesses. Unable to secure a minister of that church for the service, records of church music and a 15-minute sermon by Judge Rutherford . . . w^rere played on a phonograph in a back hallway of the Canon mortuary, and then transmitted by wire to a loudspeaker in the service room, where the funeral was held.

The loud-speaker was concealed behind banks of flowers.

The service opened with a transcribed hymn by the Watch Tower quartet, a musical organization of Jehovah’s witnesses. Then Judge Rutherford’s sermon was presented—by transcription—and the service concluded with another hymn by the Watch Tower quartet.

It was the first time that such a service has ever been held in Fremont county. John F. Suckle, of Pueblo, wired the service room for the funeral and operated the phonograph.

The Canon mortuary was packed for the last rites. WPA workers attended in a body. Pallbearers were Carlo Aprato, Barney Z. Duca, Joe Zullo, Louis Parino, Louis Gallio, and Joe Macari. Burial was in Lakeside cemetery.— Pueblo Star Journal.

Funerals in Istanbul

UNERALS in Istanbul are undertaken by the municipality, $150 for going out in the best style, $80 for second class, $50 for third class, $25 for fourth class, and $12 for fifth class. If you are of the very elect and have the price, for your $150 you get an A-l casket (usually priced in America at about seven times what they cost to make), a wreath, a hearse, 20 automobiles for the parade (which is long or short in proportion to one’s prosperity), and glory in two newspapers. At the other end, if you have only $12 you get a rough box, with bearers to carry you to the burial place.

IN THE Roman Catholic church organization images and paintings are used. Such is a religious practice, and all religion emanates from the Devil, as Jesus stated. (Matthew 15:1-9; John 8:44) Concerning images The Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. XII) says: “Religion: In every form of religion is implied the conviction that the mysterious, supernatural Being (or beings) has control over the lives and destinies of men. . . . Thus, in its strictest sense, religion on its subjective side is the disposition to acknowledge our dependence on God, and on the objective side it is the voluntary acknowledgment of that dependence through acts of homage. . . . The Christian religion has allowed the use of statues and paintings to represent the incarnate Son of God, the saints, and angels, and these images are a legitimate aid to devotion, since the honour that is given them is but relative, being directed through them to the beings they represent. It is like the relative honour given to the flag of the nation.”

Such practice is in direct violation of God’s law, and therefore shows that the same originated with the Devil to deceive the people.

Jehovah gives the unchangeable command to all who will please Him, to wit: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”— Exodus 20:3-5.

Jehovah God promulgated this law to safeguard his people from Devil worship. The purpose of the Devil is to turn mankind’away from God, and anything that has a tendency to divert the mind from Jehovah and Christ Jesus is clearly the Devil’s scheme. The Catholic doctrine concerning images used in worship is wholly unsupported by the Scriptures. On the contrary, every text relating to images shows that such are an abomination in the sight of God. (Exodus 32: 7-11; Habakkuk 2:18) “Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.” —Jeremiah 10:14,15.

Why should anyone pray to or before an image of Christ Jesus, who is alive and to whom and through whom prayer is properly addressed to Jehovah? Jesus gave a model prayer to His followers, as set forth in Matthew 6:9-15. It is the privilege of each Christian without the aid of priests or any other person or of any image, to address his prayer to Jehovah God in the name of Christ Jesus. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” (John 14:13) “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”—John 15:16.

The Catholic Encyclopedia above cited likens such use of images to giving honor to the flag of a nation. This shows that flag saluting is a religious ceremony, because such saluting attributes salvation to what the flag represents. Salvation can come only through Jehovah God by Christ Jesus. (Acts 4:12) An effort is now being made, at the instance of the Catholic Hierarchy, to compel school children, contrary to the Bible, to salute the flag; and the purpose is to compel them to engage in a form of religion, which is in direct violation of God’s law. This of itself shows that it is a subtle scheme of the wily Devil to turn creatures away from Jehovah and to thereby carry out the Devil’s challenge, boastfully made to God, that he could turn them away.

The apostles of Jesus never used images, because such are a violation of God’s law. Says McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia, Volume IV: “Images were unknown in the worship of the primitive Christians.” The use of images in worship originated with Satan, and has ever since been taught by tradition of men, and is therefore an abomination in the sight of God. The true followers of Christ Jesus do not require some inanimate object to aid them in con-

centrating the mind upon the promises of the him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” Lord. To His followers Jesus gave this instruc- —John 4: 24.

tion: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship                 (To be continued)

Unsavory Odors from Chicago

CHICAGO newspapers are always ready to speak evil of Jehovah’s witnesses. On September 28 and 29, 1936, they did nobly at it. Headlines as follows greeted the public: “Refuses to Salute Flag; Goes to Jail.” “Flag Defier Given Bail; Jehovah’s witness Freed on Bond in Flag Case.” “Cultist Snubs Flag in Court; Gets Six Months.” They were unanimous in this, from the Hearst cesspools of journalism to that whited sepulchre of propaganda called the Chicago Tribune.

The occasion of this outburst was the case of Mary Schlorachetka. Mary is one of Jehovah’s witnesses, and while peacefully presenting the truth to the people was arrested and charged with “passing out Communist literature and causing a breach of the peace by knocking at doors of private dwellings”. She was brought before Judge Joseph B. Hermes, who immediately saw and grasped an opportunity to get his name and his picture in the papers. So, in the presence of photographers and reporters this judicial misfit thundered, “I command you to salute that flag.” Mary Schlorachetka calmly declined to do so, as she had right. Thereupon it was ordered, adjudged and decreed by this priest of patriotism that the superintendent of the House of Correction

“take the body of the defendant and confine her at labor until the whole of said fine and costs ($210.00) shall have been worked out by the defendant at the rate of $2.00 per day”.

But Judge Hermes went too fast and too far. He had no authority to demand a salute. He was without right to impose a fine or prison sentence in the case. He violated the law, committed judicial malfeasance, and was guilty of disorderly conduct. And thereupon the City of Chicago became embarrassed, for Mary Schlo-rachetka’s case was promptly appealed to the Appellate Court of Illinois. The corporation counsel of the city found themselves unable to defend the conduct of this disorderly beak and promptly filed a motion to “enter a confession of error” on the part of the city. And, Annabolona, when the high-priced corporation counsel of a large city are unable to find law to justify the acts of a high city official you can make up your mind that the effluvia is very bad.

What did the news purveyors (?) of Chicago then do ? Did they also “confess error” ? Did they admit they had given one of Jehovah’s witnesses a raw deal ? They had painted a Christian, lawabiding woman of the city as criminal, but when it came to correcting the error they were as silent as the Statue of Liberty. The code of ethics of Chicago newspapers does not permit them to correct their misrepresentations. And, my dearly beloved Sassafras, neither does that bear the aroma of hyacinth or heliotrope.

Will some kind-hearted friend send the man in Luna a gas mask?

Even in Chicago there are some lawyers who have manhood and courage sufficient to protest over the wrongful acts of disorderly magistrates. Landon L. Chapman, attorney, member of the Chicago Cohimittee of the Civil Liberties Union, disapproved of the exhalations from Judge Hermes’ court (so called) and filed a complaint with the Judiciary Committee, Committee of Inquiry, and Committee for the Defense of Prisoners, of the Chicago Bar Association. This complaint, with its sixteen pages of allegations and exhibits, described Judge Hermes as a blemish to the judicial system; stated that he was unfit to hold public office, and that his misconduct brought discredit to the bench and bar of Chicago. Hearings have been held, and the matter is still pending before the committees.' A decision and report on these hearings based on justice and righteousness will be a real aid to honest people in that city.

However, the chances are that such a report will not receive extensive publicity. When it comes to telling the people something that is likely to be of benefit to them and that will expose the Devil’s tracks, there is loud silence.

Mexico—West Indies—Brazil

Cardenas Working with the “Church”

Cardenas’ working with the “Church” in Mexico has permitted many of the “churches” to be taken over and used as previously, without protest or interference. Though contrary to law, the authorities conveniently do not see, do not know and do not hear what everybody else sees, knows and hears. A dispatch from Orizaba explains who are affected by the new arrangement. It says: “A steady stream of devotees—most of them women, but some barefooted men—flowed into the churches here.” If this is a victory, it is a curious kind of victory.

Let Mexico Alone

THE Houston (Texas) Press points out that there has been no revolution in Mexico in fifteen years, the country has prospered, schools have been multiplied, roads have been built, the people are getting better wages and they have displayed a capacity to govern themselves, and it wants to know why there are any so-called “Americans” that cannot let these people alone, to govern themselves in the way they think to their best interests. And the Houston Press is right.

45 Percent of Ejidos Re-established

BEFORE Cortez landed in Mexico, 400 years ago, butchered the rulers, reduced the people to slavery, seized their lands and turned them over to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the common people worked their lands in common and nobody ever starved. Trying to get back to the old Ejido basis, the Mexican government in recent years distributed land free to 1,700,000 Mexican families, and it is claimed that 45 percent of Mexico’s people are living communally on their own lands as they did centuries ago.

The Great Pyramid of Chichen Itza

IN THE great pyramid of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, in two concealed rooms of a temple underneath the apex of the building, were found certain features akin to the great pyramid in Egypt, showing a common authorship, the Devil. In the Yucatan pyramid a stone coffer was found, and in it a carved jaguar, with inlaid eyes of apple-green jade. A flaming red jade-encrusted throne was also found. Resting upon it was a shell necklace and a jade pendant carved to represent a human face.

Freak Weather in Brazil

IN A section of Brazil convenient to the cities

of Fortaleza and Itapipoca is an area of some 7,000 square miles in which no rain has fallen for 18 months. All animals have died and all humans have had to leave. At last reports water was being sold at a cent for ten quarts, with no family permitted to receive more than 3| quarts per day. Wages, when jobs are available, are down to 18c per day. This sum will buy a quart of black beans and a pound of flour, with 3 J quarts of water.

Fascism in the Western World

COMMENTING on the spread of Fascism in the Western world the Manchester Guardian says:

The Cuban president, the first constitutionally elected Cuban president for several years, is now being impeached because he will not accept the dictation of the army. If Cuba goes Fascist she will join a large group of American nations which are Fascist both in spirit and in sympathies. In Brazil and Chile Fascist parties are being instructed by Germans and Italians, and there are Nazi intrigues throughout the continent.

This Bermuda Owl Not So Wise

OWLS are supposed to be wise, because, like some other folks, they look intelligent and never say anything. In Bermuda one of them disgraced the clan. Setting aside all textbook information on the subject of electricity he grabbed a rat that was running along an electric wire. He was immediately cooked, along with the rat, and five of the nine parishes of the island were plunged in darkness by the shortcircuiting of the power line.

Concentration Camps in Cuba

CUBA is reported building concentration camps to hold 50,000 persons. The ostensible object is to make Haitian and Jamaican workers feel at home until they can be deported; but, as Cuba is now under a military dictator, one suspects that the concentration camps may have other uses.

Europe

From a Perplexed Radio Fan in Lithuania

LISTENING to the broadcast “service” from

England recently, I heard the minister asking his listeners to join in prayer for the following (in six or seven different prayers):

Farmers and farm laborers;

Business men and women;

Manufacturers;

Transport workers, railway men and public servants;

The very old and the very young;

Several other sorts and conditions, including prisoners and

All birds and animals, “especially our colaborer on farm and in transport, the horse.”

Perhaps you could kindly explain just how, under present conditions, farm laborers are to be blessed if their bosses are to have a rake-off, too; and if “all business men and women” are in for a bit of luck, how the transport workers, railway men and others are to have a bit, too.

But what is puzzling me most of all is just how the birds and animals (all, you notice) are to get a blessing. If the hawk that steals my chickens is going to get blessed, are my chickens going to be in luck? And will the old tom-cat that keeps me awake at night get a blessing, too? And if this sort of thing goes on, just where is it going to stop? For tom-cats are not the only living things that disturb peaceful slumber, and perhaps next week the “reverend” will realize that he’s forgotten a blessing for all insects.

And is a horse a clergyman’s colaborer? Or is the animal an ass?

The tone of the voices of these “dames” is, by the way, just the same in whatever language they may be speaking. Over here we get a good variety of different countries on the radio, and it is never a difficulty to know when one of the “girls” is on the air.

News from Yugoslavia

THE principal news from Yugoslavia is that a concordat is being formed with the Vatican and that Montenegrins are being tortured in Yugoslavian prisons.

Schuschnigg May Enter a Monastery

Kurt Schuschnigg, chancellor of Austria, reared a Jesuit, is reported contemplating retiring to a monastery.

The Socialists at Brussels

THE Labor and Socialist International at its convention in Brussels urged the closing of the Suez Canal to Italian war traffic and opposed absolutely all partition of Ethiopia into zones of influence, or the establishment of a protectorate over it. It also denounced the scandal of the free supply of arms and ammunition of all kinds to the aggressor and the simultaneous refusal of the most elementary means of defense to the other state. Two of the stirring statements in the manifesto follow: “Germany’s rearmament is disturbing the peace of Europe, Japan continues her impudent predatory campaign in China, and Fascist Italy, having reduced her own people to a state of slavery, is taking the field on the pretext of abolishing slavery in Ethiopia, and trampling half a dozen solemnly concluded treaties under foot, threatens to begin a cynical war of conquest. If war breaks out, the Labor and Socialist International expresses the hope, on behalf of the workers of all countries, that the workers of Italy will succeed in taking advantage of the confusion caused by the war, to defeat the real enemies of the Italian people, who are not at Addis Ababa, but in Rome.” (Wonder if they meant Rome only or also meant to include Vatican City? The plural “enemies” suggests that some one or more were meant in addition to Mussolini, who is the whole show in Rome and who is so friendly with the little “state” surrounded by Rome.)

Fascism (Catholic Action) in Greece

FASCISM (Catholic Action) proceeds rapidly in Greece, under the direct tutelage of the Germans. Orders have been promulgated (or are about to be promulgated) organizing all classes of workers, including businessmen and professionals; and one more accursed “corporative state” will take the place of a government by and for the people.

Netherlanders Want Their Liberties

THE Netherlands may be one of the last places to lose all liberty, if worse comes to worst. A committee of several hundred of the most intelligent men of the nation has united to try to see to it that Nazism does not overrun the country, with consequent destruction of all real freedom.

No Salt in the Zuider Zee

THE Zuider Zee, which it is expected by 1960 will have been replaced by 867 square miles of land, capable of supporting 3,000,000 people, is already free from salt. An odd consequence is that herring no longer live in it, many fishermen are out of work, and millions of gnats have made their appearance.

Juliana Beats the Dutch

uliana, Holland’s prospective future queen, literally beats the Dutch. She likes up-to-date clothes and plenty of them, smokes, dances, drinks cocktails, and put in a new line of modern furniture in her palace, including an electric kitchen and gymnasium. She uses a lipstick and has had her eyebrows plucked. Also, she is building a tennis court and swimming pool, and the Dutch like her. Wilhelmina, her mother, was Victorian and too straight-laced, the Dutch think.

In the Island of Cos

IN THE island of Cos, one of the Dodecanese islands, inhabited by Greeks, but temporarily under the control of Italy, the Italian “government” recently decided to implant 50 Italian families. They selected the most fertile valley in the island, and the best part of that valley, for the Italian immigrants, and forced the Greek owners to sell out for one-tenth the assessed valuation. When the Greeks complained, they were warned that they were lucky to get that much.

Africa

All Missionaries to Ethiopia Must Be Italians

ACTING as mouthpiece for the pope, and oh, how glad he is to be the mouthpiece! Mussolini has announced that all missionaries to Ethiopia must be Italians, i.e., Roman Catholics. The same dispatch that announces this also states that the pope, in appointing the “Visitor Apostolic to the Ethiopian Empire”, was the first of all earth’s monarchs to use the term “Ethiopian Empire”—greatly to Mussolini’s pleasure. Austria and Hungary, both Catholic, followed suit the next day.

Prosperity in Johannesburg

THE world’s fair being held at Johannesburg, South Africa, has given Britishers a view of what is at present the most prosperous city in the world. Incidentally, one has to be well heeled to take in the exposition; for hotel rates, even in the smallest hotels, are said to be 55s. ($13.75) a day, with hotels built in the Exhibition grounds running up to £60 ($300) per week.

Negro Boys Who Played with Baboons

THE Cape Argus contains a picture of a Negro boy, 12 years of age, who, supposedly from playing with baboons, lost the ability to stand or walk upright. Another similar case was discovered some years ago at Bathurst, Cape province. In the latter case it was a year before the lad could walk upright, and at first he could utter nothing but barks and grunts.

The Madmen of the World

THE madmen of the world, i.e., the rulers of the world’s seven great dangers, are in such a mad rush for scrap iron, to work up into munitions of one sort or another, that early in March there were 4,000 carloads of cast iron awaiting shipment to Japan, Great Britain and other countries, and such huge quantities of scrap iron that railroads were refusing further shipments until the congestion had been eased. Murder is still the world’s banner business.

Mishyeni Must Stay at Home

Mishyeni Dinizulu, whose grandfather Cete-wayo was king of Zululand, wanted to come to England to see the king, as his grandfather saw Queen Victoria, but he has received polite but firm refusal to his request. It is supposed that the reason for the refusal is a desire on the part of the British government to convince the one-time native rulers that they are, after all, mere chieftains of no particular consequence.

European Racketeers in Johannesburg

EUROPEAN racketeers in Johannesburg, South Africa, were reported as selling “passes to heaven” to poor natives for $3.75 each. In working this imitation of the “purgatory” racket the natives were informed that when they died, if the passes were pinned on their chests the keeper of the gate of heaven would let them through. The “church” of the racketeers is not known, but guessed.

Australasia

Acknowledging and Rejecting the Truth TN Jesus’ day the scribes and Pharisees were A adepts at acknowledging and at the same time rejecting the truth as it fell from the lips of the Son of God. It is interesting to see the same spirit manifested today. The following from the Freeman’s Journal of Sydney, Australia, is an example. After admitting the truth as to what Armageddon will accomplish in the earth it makes haste to assert that nobody will ever know anything worth while about it, least of all Jehovah’s own witnesses in “the evil day” (parenthetical remarks are by the editor):

Armageddon is the symbol of the final struggle of good and evil, when evil forces will combine against the influence of Christ. The issue will be the final triumph of good over evil. When this final phase of the age-long struggle between good and evil will oecur is not known. Christ himself said it is not given to man to know the day and the hour. The predictions of people like the Russellites [How the preachers do love to call names!] or Witnesses of Jehovah, and their absurd literalism in their interpretation of the most mystical of all books, Revelation [a charge perfectly absurd to anybody who has read Light], cannot but be rejected by all sensible men. [“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?’’—John 7:48.]

One Prescription Lasted Three Years

A Nowell, pioneer, Australia, writes that in

Ballarat he put out in one month 258 copies of “Philistia [Catholic Action]a Murderess for 1500 Years” issue of The Golden Age. He also mentions that in the same city a Mrs. Black had suffered for three years, underwent four operations and spent £200, in a vain effort to recover from violent vomiting and utter prostration. She finally called a Dr. Wilson, who advised her to throw away all her aluminum-ware. She did it, and got well. That was three years ago, and she has not needed a doctor since; and that suggests why some doctors ‘think aluminum is all right to cook in’.

Wanted Their Child Born Naturally

WANTING their child born naturally, a

Sydney (New South Wales) man and his wife are suing a hospital for £3,000 on the ground that premature delivering of the child by an operation was a shock to both mother and child. The fact that the baby twitches in its sleep is taken as evidence that its nervous system was impaired by the operation.

Aboriginal Names of Places

SOME years ago the Post Office Department was taken with a fit of shortening the names of post offices; but it did not shorten the names of such places as Albuquerque, Canandaigua, Canajoharie, Chattahoochee, Cheektowaga, Conshohocken, Daguscahonda, Schaghticoke, Shipshewana, Skaneateles, Sinnamahoning, Tallahassee, Wapwallopen, Wequetonsing and Willacoochee, for the reason that the people of those towns would not stand for it. They liked the old Indian names the best. Now Australia is going through the same experience and the postal authorities are finding that Australians are perfectly willing to write Bobinawarrah, Boomahnoomoonah, Dunbulbalane, Korweingu-boora, Naringaningalook, Tangambalanga, Tab-berabbera, Tarrayoukyan, Upotipotpon, and Yackandandah, and they don’t want them shortened any, either.

Kelly Thinks Franco the Butcher Will Win

KELLY, archbishop of the Roman Hierarchy at Sydney, Australia, thinks Franco the Butcher will win in Spain. Franco has repeatedly expressed his intention to put to death all the intelligentsia, if he wins, and it is plain that this is what Kelly hopes for. He says:

Spain today has to fight perverted policies of Government and anti-Christian enactments. Thank God she proves herself faithful to the graces of past centuries. She will conquer error and vice in God’s time, according to the prayers of the Church. Spain will be renewed in the chivalrous devotion of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, the zeal of Columbus and Isabella, and the reverence of Theresa of Avila and of Isidore of Seville. Australia in her Catholic population must prudently consider the times as pregnant with danger to revealed religion, and to the eternal salvation of mankind. Christ the king will in his own time make His footstool of the enemies of the Catholic church.

Asbestos Tower for Rosicrucians

ROSICRUCIANISM is one of the countless forms of demonism now having a wide spread over the earth. In Australia the order will erect an asbestos tower on a brick building, and in this tower they will intercede with what they call the “higher power” that Australia may be spared in the forthcoming attack. The identity of the “higher power” that thinks an asbestos covering will shield his followers in the coming storm is readily guessed.

Every Moment Less Demand for Human Labor

EVERY moment there is less demand for human labor; for there is no end to human ingenuity to devise mechanical methods of doing things. In Australia, in an onion-pickling plant, a gas-fired onion peeler does the work of 45 girls and does it better. There are 300 pounds per ton more onions, very much less refuse, less salt is used, and less acid for bleaching purposes.

Australia’s Flying Doctors

THE great problem of providing medical aid for settlers back in the Australian bush is being solved very well. Aid is summoned by wireless, operated by a mechanism driven by bicycle pedals. Advice is returned by wireless, and, in the event of necessary operations, airplanes are used. One flight was 1,250 miles in each direction. Many lives have been saved.

Australia Adopts Antarctica

AUSTRALIA has formally annexed 3,000,000 square miles of the Antarctic continent. The coast line is roughly 2,000 miles in length. The interior contains valuable coal fields. It is believed that fishing, fox farming and the collecting of penguin eggs can be carried on profitably. The annexed lands will shortly be explored.

Train Robbers in Australia

TRAIN robberies are common in Australia, where freight trains are boarded as they pull up steep grades, and packages of freight of all kinds are thrown off by gangs of jobless men. In bygone years things of this kind have often been done in the United States, and some of it may be done even yet.

Prickly Pear Menaces Australia No More

A USTRALIA is happy, and deservedly so, over the complete elimination of the prickly pear menace. A boring caterpillar, introduced from South America, leaves valuable crops alone but has attacked and completely destroyed one of the country’s greatest pests.

Making It Easy for the Australian Pigs

FARMERS in Australia have discovered that in hot weather pigs fatten better if kept cool. Accordingly, at one place in the Emu plains there are sties where the pigs are provided with cold shower baths.

Starving Cows in Australia

STARVING cows near Grafton, Australia, chased a truckload of hay so fiercely, and one lunged at the door of the car so savagely, that the driver was seriously hurt. Weeds growing in creek-beds are being fed to the starving animals.

Melbourne’s New Traffic Code

MELBOURNE’S new traffic code provides for remarkably heavy penalties. Pedestrians are liable to a fine of £20 for crossing against the light, £5 for jaywalking, £5 for standing in the street waiting for a bus. Fines are heavier still for violations of motor traffic.

Life Span for Men in New Zealand

THE life span for men in New Zealand is 70 years; in the United States, 60 years. The difference is that New Zealand communities take more public interest in the welfare of the people in the lower walks of life; at least that seems to be the gist of an opinion by Dr. Albert J. Lotka, assistant statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who makes it his business to make a study of such matters.

Flame Throwers for Killing Weeds

IN New Zealand flame throwers are being used for killing blackberry and gorse plants which tend to steal valuable land and are difficult to eradicate otherwise. The flame throwers, manufactured in Birmingham, England, burn crude oil and throw out a scorching flame for several yards ahead which is very effective in disposing of these growths.

New Zealand’s New Deal

fPHE Labor government in New Zealand put through in a rush a great number of bills following in a general way the Roosevelt pattern. Banking, mortgages, transportation, broadcasting stations, guaranteed prices of dairy products, all indicate a determination to try to obtain by government what labor has not hitherto been able to obtain by other methods.

New Zealand Steps Ahead

NEW ZEALAND, in a year, increased exports, imports, railway traffic, savings bank deposits and building activity 25 percent, established a 40-hour week, and granted £1 noncontributory cash pension per week to all chronic invalids, regardless of race.

Outwitting the Hierarchy in “The Speck   By Bert Shearmur, Tasmanian Pioneer

ASMANIA is an island off the southeast coast of Australia. Australia is also an island, but so large that it is classed as a continent, and would about fill the Atlantic ocean between Ireland and New York.

In comparison with the mainland, Tasmania (26,215 square miles in area) is so small that it is facetiously called “The Speck”. Yet for all its minuteness the enemies of the truth are as strongly entrenched there as elsewhere, and this little island may yet see one of the bitterest struggles associated with Jehovah’s “strange work”. Whether by chance or design, certain laws have been passed that might appear to make the sound work impossible:

“The owner or driver of a vehicle . . . upon any public street shall not ring any bell, blow any horn, or use any noisy instrument."

“No owner or occupant of any land or premises within the city of Hobart shall, upon such land or premises, within hearing of any person being upon any street, footway, or public place, or in any premises abutting or adjacent thereto, cause, permit, or suffer any sound or noise to be emitted from any wireless set, phonograph, or player-piano, so as to cause annoyance or obstruction to any such person as aforesaid.”

Intolerable Misuse of Tolerance

In Tasmania, like most British dominions, the question of compulsory flag-saluting and other forms of coercive regimentation has not become so acute as in other countries, not only because the British governing power has a genius for compromise, but also because the British throne, being nominally “Protestant”, claims to stand for tolerance.

This tolerance, however, as other countries have found to their cost, has been the back door to intolerance; and the Roman Hierarchy, knowing the British repugnance for violent forms of propaganda, has resorted to more subtle methods in its bid for world power.

It is considered that the British Foreign Office is under Jesuit influence; and the British dominions, with their freedom from effete and cramping tradition, have become a happy hunting ground for this ‘leopard that never changes its spots”. Temporary success seems to have crowned their efforts, as the conditions in Tasmania indicate.

The coercion or deluding of non-Catholics appears to be complete. Else how could it be that in a country where Roman Catholics form only 15 percent of the population, the premier, most of the State cabinet, and most of the heads of government departments and essential services, are members of that religious organization? And in the ramifications of the State services the agents of the Hierarchy are to be found in all the key positions?

Is it any wonder, then, that there is a network extending throughout the State that keeps its victims well instructed and under direct control? This is proved by the fact that the Catholics isolated in the bush have the same attitude and use exactly the same words as those in the towns. It is obvious that the Tasmanian state system is but an extension of a world-wide organization that is under the control of a central authority that insists that its orders be passed on and enforced. In the world there is no other organization so complete and ruthless.

So it is not surprising that when the witnesses in Tasmania got really busy with their sound equipment, their phonographs became known as “Little Protestants” and their sound car as the “Hierarchy’s Horror” because of the consternation caused in the enemy’s camp whenever their voice is heard.

Biblical Instruction in Schools

There was a time when Scriptural instruction was given in the Tasmanian schools. This was free from sectarian influence and consisted mainly of Bible readings; and while it did not directly teach the children anything of Jehovah’s purpose, it did good in that it made them acquainted with the text of the Bible and the Bible characters.

But subtle influence caused this Scriptural instruction to be eliminated and sectarian teaching substituted. This meant that the various clergymen gave religious instruction to such children as desired it or could not dodge it.

The Hierarchy could now raise the cry that their children were not being properly instructed, and hence they must start their own schools. So whichever instruction the children received, it gave them a bad start before being launched out under a system that condones lying, duplicity and chicanery.

With so much official opposition to the truth it might seem a hopeless task to get the Kingdom message into the schools. But by taking the schools in our stride we witnesses find the Lord blesses our efforts. The schoolteacher is witnessed to first, and invited to hear a lecture on the phonograph.

Even when this is given outside, the children inside can invariably hear. But when consent for a lecture is given w^ye immediately suggest that it would be good for the children to hear such important Scriptural instruction. In this way well over a thousand children have heard Judge Rutherford’s lectures in their school.

On one occasion while witnessing round a block we came on a Church of England school. Noticing its elevated position we asked permission to run the sound car into their grounds so as to broadcast over the surrounding district. This consent was given, and when we started our program we noticed that the school children were lined up near the sound car, following everything with interest.

When later we called at the school to offer our thanks we found that a group of school teachers had also followed the program with interest and pleasure. A clergyman living on this same block was very much opposed to our work, and it was quite a while before he realized what had taken place within his own organization.

Like Jesus on the Sea of Galilee

We visited the wharf one day; but the harbor master, who is a Roman Catholic, flatly refused to let us use the sound car on the street. So we went across to a man who was selling fish from a boat, and explained the position.

With that we took the sound equipment off the car and fixed it upon the boat. The music and lecture sounded perfect over the water, and over 300 men on the surrounding wharves listened attentively to the program.

Police and harbor officials came along and watched us with a puzzled look. But what could they do? There is nothing wrong with Bible lectures, is there? And a sheet of water is not a street, is it ? And a fisherman can do as he likes with his own boat, can’t he?

Hearing Ears Among the Prisoners

One Saturday afternoon we visited the jail. We drove the sound car in and had to pass three sets of gates, each of which was carefully locked before we were allowed to pass the next. We drove up in front of the men’s yards with the cells of the more desperate men in a gallery at the back.

Turning the horn towards the men, and with guards around us, we commenced our program. The men became silent, and many clustered along the bars, all listening attentively and many reverently.

When we had finished, the head warder called me over to the bars; and one of the prisoners stepped forward and said, “On behalf of the men here, I wish to thank you for what you have done for us this afternoon. You could have spent your time in some other way, and it was good of you to come here. We appreciate what you have done, and we want you to come again. And whatever else you forget, don’t forget that last statement.”

When it is remembered that the British prison population is 87 percent Roman Catholic and that the governor of this particular jail is a Roman Catholic, to get in and out in such an easy and effective way is a tribute to the power of Jehovah.

The effective use of the sound equipment often requires ingenuity and perseverance. But the Lord has given His people a mouth that none of His adversaries can gainsay or resist. The Hierarchy is outwitted every time.

The Crowds that Heard the Bishop

THE Trinity Church Herald, East Melbourne, Australia, says:

The Bishop of Goulburn (Dr. Burgmann) is probably the foremost scholar, the most fearless thinker and one of the most incisive speakers on the Bench of Bishops in Australia. He is so much sought after as a speaker on modern problems that the city of Adelaide asked him to give the Bevan lectures in the principal Congregational Church of that city. He delivered the same four lectures in St. Peter’s Church, Melbourne. The notice of the lectures was probably read in every parish church in the metropolis. An opportunity was afforded Church people such as will perhaps never occur again. And what was the net result ? About 150 people attended out of a Church of England population of 340,000. Of these 150, less than 20 were men.

Question: If less than one-twentieth of one percent come out to hear the foremost thinker and speaker in the church, how long after the earth is robed in the moral achievements of Episcopalians will it be before some ring-tailed ornithorhynchus will be occupying a pulpit in every cathedral in Australia?

Britain's Base at Singapore

"OBITAIN’S base at Singapore is virtually completed. But do not expect to see a picture of it. Supposed to have cost $75,000,000, there is a possible fine of $6,000 and 14 years’ imprisonment for photographs, codes, countersigns, passwords, surveys, soundings, sketches or surveys of any of the defense works, barracks, camps, factories, dockyards, mines, ships, telegraphs, telephones, wireless stations, oil basins, railways, tramways, roads, beaches, searchlights, Government offices, fire stations, aerodromes, gasworks, waterworks, electric power stations or petrol stores that go to make up the base.

Demons Perform Fire and Hunger Stunts

"T1EM0NS in India love to perform fire and U hunger stunts. Dwarka Das, in the Punjab, has given demonstrations of surrounding himself by fires which threw sparks and cinders all-over him, but he was not burned. He was bricked up in a small room for forty days, with no food and only two small air-holes in the roof. The demons kept him intact and he came out apparently well and calm.

10,000 Hindu Untouchables Break Away

TEN THOUSAND untouchables have broken away from the devilish Hindu “faith”, and are to be congratulated. This first step in the breaking up of the caste system will be hailed by all lovers of mankind everywhere. Nothing on earth except the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is more tyrannical than the Hindu caste system. This affects 60,000,000 Hindus.

Supervision of Education in the Philippines

UNDER the new constitution of the Philippines all educational institutions are under the supervision of and subject to regulation by the State. This is the end of freedom of religion and freedom of speech in the Philippines, if the State determines to exercise its powers.

The Diving Snakes of Borneo

H^IIE famous explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, after a year in the jungles of Borneo, reported photographing flying snakes, which flatten out their bodies and dive from trees, curling up their necks so that they skid to a stop at the right place.

Chamundeswari Had the Best Room

THE maharajah of Mysore, India, with an an-ual revenue of £2,500,000, was recently in London on business and pleasure. As part of his baggage he brought along the family goddess, a golden image called Chamundeswari. To properly entertain this little old lady, the best room in a London hotel was stripped bare and, for a time, became a heathen temple. But the maharajah had the price, and nothing was too good for his gold doll. Come to think of it, other men have found dolls expensive, too.

No Possible Jobs for 6,500,000

IN THE boom period of 1929 there were 2,000,000 out of work. Since that time 4,500,000 potential workers have come into the labor market, for whom there have never been any jobs. As a consequence, even if the boom levels of 1929 could be reached, there would still be 6,500,000 Americans who wish to work and will be unable to find anything to do. Additionally, the matter is complicated by the fact that, as compared with 1929, the same volume of work can now be turned out with 12 percent fewer workers and 20 percent less wages.

Protection from Airplane Attacks

PROTECTION from airplane attacks is attained, in very considerable degree, by sending up kite balloons and suspending from them great numbers of cables. An expert on the subject said:

The known presence of these barrage cables, stretched across the sky at no great distance apart, twisting and turning in the air, will deter the raiders. One touch of a cable on a wing or propeller will bring the airplane crashing to the ground, and no air force, however brave and disciplined, can be expected to face such a threat.

Wild Dogs in Oklahoma and Massachusetts

FOR some unknown reason domestic dogs near Medford, Oklahoma, suddenly went wild and slaughtered 36 sheep. Near Rehoboth, Massachusetts, three wild dogs attacked a hunter. He killed one; the other two escaped.

Mothers May Vote in Bulgaria

BY A new law in Bulgaria all women over 21 years of age may vote, provided they have borne children in lawful wedlock.

Destroying American Liberty

THE Hierarchy crowd have not a particle of respect for American institutions. Public office, in their eyes, is merely a chance for graft, Hierarchy style.

Massachusetts’ Boman Catholic governor broke all records for silly expenditures in 1936. A few of the items the taxpayers had to make good were $3,330 for flowers, $2,059 for flags and pennants, $2,546 for press clippings, and $3,974 for loose-leaf binders in which to keep the clippings. To keep the governor’s official car in trim cost $4,724, or about $13 a day. Don’t laugh. That is the way Massachusetts likes it. As a sovereign state, Massachusetts is entitled to do as she will in the selection of governors.

The Bargain

with Rome

The War Department has made a bargain with Rome. Artillerists will be trained at St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic college at Allegany, New York, and Uncle Sam will furnish the uniforms without cost. How lovely ! Also arms and equipment. Also military textbooks and military professors.

An extract from a recent letter, regarding a priest in a midwestern city, makes the following statement:

One of Jehovah’s witnesses last Sunday called at the home of a Polish man here in ------ [Illinois]

who told her he was making guns for his priest, “Father”------, of------■ church here in the city.

He exhibited one of the guns, a single-barreled rifle. He said this priest has his basement stocked. The Polish man stated, “He all’a time want more guns. Now what he want with so many guns? If he Christian, he no need guns.”

Every year the list of Holy Name societies gets longer and the widely touted masses and breakfasts get more publicity. Besides the previous ones, the year 1937 had glories of this nature for the American Railway Express Catholic employees and the Port of New York Authority Catholic employees. The idea is to impress the public with the thought that the Catholics are running everything.

St. Andrews Roman Catholic church, Duane street and Cardinal place, New York city, is the church around which all the new municipal administration buildings were built, and which thus is made to seem a part of New York city’s government. To aid this dastardly attack upon democracy the ninth annual “red mass” was celebrated October 13, 1936, under the auspices of the Guild of Catholic Lawyers, with a former mayor of New York as its president This “red mass”, so called because the priests on this occasion dress in red, is supposed to mark the beginning of a new judicial year. Red is generally considered the color of anarchy.

Foreign Control of

Press and Films

The Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s control of

the American press is so complete that this wealthiest of all the countries of the world contributed only $250,000 toward feeding the sufferers of the Spanish War, while little Sweden, not under Hierarchy control, contributed $960,-000. France contributed $736,000, and Britain $343,000.

Will Hays, back from conferences with the pope and Mussolini regarding American films, expressed his amazement of the pope’s wide knowledge of the American film industry. Make no mistake, the pope’s system of gathering detailed information about anything and everything that he desires to control is unequaled by any other government on earth. What other government has spies in every office, and in perhaps a majority of homes, reporting every move?

Control of Radio

At a dinner in New York, November 9, in observance of the tenth anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company, President Roosevelt wrote the guests:

Radio broadcasting is an essential service to the American home in the moulding of public opinion. It must be maintained for the American people, free of bias, or prejudice, or sinister control.

President Roosevelt well knows that the National Broadcasting Company will not permit Jehovah’s witnesses to broadcast their allimportant message over its network, even for hire, but they can and do permit the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to broadcast regularly, without money and without price.

He also knows that millions of American people desire to hear Judge Rutherford’s lectures, and have repeatedly petitioned Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to that effect, but persons not “free of bias”, and not free from “prejudice”, and not free from the “sinister control” of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, have conspired and do conspire to ignore such petitions.

And the president of the United States has, in effect, advised that the reasonable and proper desires of these American people (the total of signatures running somewhere around 7,000,000) be ignored, and “bias”, and “prejudice” and “sinister control” from Rome continue in the future as in the past.

President Roosevelt well knows of the successful effort of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to deprive Judge Rutherford and his friends of the use of radio station WIP at Philadelphia, and he well knows of the suits, amounting to $200,000, brought by Judge Rutherford and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society against the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, for depriving them of these rights, but his own “bias”, and “prejudice” and “sinister control” prevent him from telling the plain truth as a president (one would think) ought surely to do, on such an important subject.

Freedom of Opinion O.K.

The racketeers in the Roman Catholic organization are strong for freedom of “opinion”. You can think as you like and what you like, provided—. Also, they believe in freedom of the radio—for themselves and their tools. It would move a crocodile to tears, but fool nobody, to see and hear and read their struggles and arguments for liberty—under their benign supervision.

Yes, the Hierarchy, for it is of them, dear reader, that this is written, are benignant— as a viper. They are so solicitous for your welfare—hereafter. They would save your soul from “future pains”, though, unfortunately, they find it necessary to inflict themselves and their oppressive scheme on others to save you from that “purgatory” which they have themselves, with Satan’s aid, invented.

But what about Archbishop John T. McNicho-las? Oh, he was the proponent of freedom a short time ago when he made it a point to emphasize the fact that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, for and with whom he works, should have freedom to get its hands into the public treasury for its “schools”, for it is “unjust for the state to tax Catholics for the support of 'unreligious’ or public schools”. So-o-o? It is doubtless considered unjust also to tax parents whose children have grown up, and to tax those who have no children, of whom there are many.

But the archbishop is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of his hearers. He should admit that many wise Catholic parents haven’t the least inclination to send their children to parochial schools. (If a law is ever enacted to give State support to Catholic schools, then the same law should stipulate that Catholic children shall be prohibited from attending any public school.)

Freedom for the Catholic Hierarchy crowd demands that the subject of the Hierarchy shall be “educated” in schools of its own conception. Otherwise the freedom of the Hierarchy might be somewhat restricted when it comes to keeping its subjects in line.

Let the Hierarchy build all the schools it wants, and pay for them as other sects and denominations do. And let all the Catholics who so desire send their children to such schools to have their intellects educated as the Chinese girls used to have their feet educated in the past. But let not the liberty-loving Catholics be coerced by underhanded methods to send their children to schools which are not, and never will be, the. equal of the American public school.

Let no one be fooled by the archbishop’s panegyric of freedom. His advocacy of freedom is properly suspect. He had an ax to grind; and don’t think he did not. He mentions, among other things, freedom of the radio. The hypocrite! The kind of freedom of radio he believes in is exemplified in the course he pursued in seeing that Judge Rutherford was prevented from speaking over a local radio station.

In no field is hypocrisy in one’s attitude toward freedom of speech more evident than in radio. No one is obliged to listen to a speaker he does not like to hear. Hence, those who are subject to the archbishop’s control could very easily be instructed to refrain from listening to Judge Rutherford. It is not exactly the American idea of freedom, but if these folks want to be that way, that is their business.

However, that was not the archbishop’s only objective. He wanted to be sure that no other radio listener should hear Judge Rutherford, including all who wanted to hear him. Behold the Hierarchy’s love for free speech, gentle reader, and weep softly at the hardness of your own heart in your lack of appreciation of their lofty principles.

If you have difficulty in stirring up your dormant appreciation you might call to mind the many evidences history affords of the Hierarchy’s love of freedom of opinion. The men tortured on the rack, the women whose breasts were torn off, the virgins who were violated by inquisitors, the children who were burnt at the stake, the youths who were put to death by slow torture—all these had entire “freedom of opinion”. Let no one tell you anything different.

All they had to do to escape some of the tortures and be killed more quickly was to profess what they did not believe, and to confess “crimes” they had not committed. This is what the Hierarchy did to encourage freedom of opinion in the past, and what it would still do today if it could, and does as much as possible, when it has the chance. It is part of the system.

Hoic About This in America?

The Ethiopians must be Roman Catholics or nothing. They must abandon their Coptic religion, which is to be entirely suppressed. In chasing out all kinds of Protestant missionaries, even the educational and medical missionaries were given the gate, and that after they had done excellent educational work for fifty years and had a large investment of good will in the country. Mussolini is taking his orders from the pope, and doing just as he is told. And he knows why. There is plain evidence of collusion, for years, on the part of both the pope and Mussolini to destroy Ethiopia and put Roman Cathob icism in as its only religion.

The official Italian statement of why British and American missionaries were unceremoniously run out of Ethiopia was that the expulsions were ordered

to cleanse Ethiopia of the missionaries who had been proved to be either secret agents or exponents of dangerous fanaticism and religious disintegration so characteristic of Protestantism.

In other words, the mouthpiece of the pope told the Protestants that they were run out because they were Protestants, and if they don’t like it they can go and jump into the Red sea. The “conversion” of Ethiopia from the Coptic “religion” (which does not recognize the pope) to the Roman Catholic “religion” will make it necessary to murder some few tens of thousands, and it would be better all round if no Protestants should see it and write embarrassing reports back to Britain and America.

Wrong There, Right Here

The news from Europe was hardly cold, that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy had refused to have anything to do with the Peace Congress at Brussels, and had forbidden any Catholic to attend it, when the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace was called for Buenos Aires and Cardinal Copello, of Buenos Aires, was delivered of the following:

The church, which has been called by divine right to be the mother of all men, cannot do less than cooperate with this conference that it may be completely successful in establishing international peace on an unshakable foundation. This good will not be exclusively ours. It will be for all the world.

The incredible meanness of Fascism (Catholic Action) is well illustrated in Brazil, where Louis Carlos Prestes, Communist, was sentenced to death without trial, and his fellow prisoner, Arthur Ewart, is confined in a windowless cell of small size, completely shut off from all communication with the outside world.

The wives of these two men were sent back to the horrible land of Germany and confined in concentration camps. What became of the Prestes’ infant child is known only to the Rio police. Imprisonment of the mother in Germany occurred when the child was less than two months old. It is typical of Catholic Action.

In the London Times, November 9,1874, Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg), one of the greatest scholars the Roman Catholic church has ever retained, made the admission, “The Corpus Juris makes the murder of Protestants lawful.” Stating the blunt fact, just as it is, here in the United States are 20,000,000 people, one-sixth of the population, that are constantly being taught that they have the right to put the other 108,000,000 people out of existence. If that isn’t a serious situation, name one. Lord Acton, by the way, was one of the opposers of the dogma of infallibility at the Ecumenical Council in Rome in 1870.

On March 3,1937, the jury in Coblenz, found Gundram, a monk of the Franciscan order, guilty of deliberate manslaughter for causing the death of Albert Stoll, one of his miserable wards, an entirely helpless young man of 18 years, a very sick patient who could neither walk nor talk and who, together with twenty other patients, was entrusted to the care of this fiend in the hospital ward of the convent Wald-breitenbach.

The shocking post-mortem examination showed that the friar had beaten this helpless victim to death in a most brutal and inhuman manner. One of the witnesses, the Capuchin pater Columban, testified that the monastery consisted only, of “brutes, drunkards and pederasts (Sodomites)”. The court sentenced the fiend to only four years in the penitentiary.

The theory that priests are holy had a rather hard time also at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, recently. A woman was found slain in a cabin. Letters in the cabin showed she was in love with a priest. Officers waited and at length a priest, away from his charge on a vacation, showed up. According to the priest’s story he had merely hired the lady, whom he had met in a beer saloon, to do clerical work for him. That’s good. In ancient times priests were called “clerics”, and, sure enough, anybody working for one of them would be doing “clerical” work all right.

The Family Fight

Jehovah’s true people, having no use whatever either for the Roman Hierarchy, the mother of all tyranny, or for her degenerate son, Adolf Hitler, can only view with amused interest the family fight between the two, and feel like giving three cheers every time a dinner plate or soup tureen caroms off the dome of one of the combatants or cuts a biscuit out of his jowls. With these cheerful thoughts in mind one reads with abandon Cardinal Mundelein’s “sermon” at Chicago in which he is alleged to have said:

How is it that a nation of 60,000,000 people—intelligent people—will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a darn poor one, I am told, and a few associates like Goebbels and Goering, who dictate every move of the people’s lives and who can say to an entire nation, ‘Wages cannot be raised’?

Perhaps, because it is a country where every second person is a government spy; where armed forces come in and seize private papers and books without court procedure; where the father can no longer discipline his boy for fear the latter will inform on him and land him in prison; where the young, tenderly nurtured girl is torn from the mother’s side and sent to labor camps to live with the slatterns of the streets in the dangerous years of changing youth.

Moral conditions in the sacred cloisters of German monks are such that his nibs Hitler is having some difficulty in excusing there what he “purged” in his own ranks a few years ago. However, the prosecution of these monks is no indication that there is any real rift between Hitler and the pope. On the pope’s coronation anniversary, February 12 of this year, Hitler sent him a solicitous message with which the pope was highly pleased. When the Hindenburg crashed the pope sent Hitler a message of condolence. The course of papal love does not run altogether smoothly, but doubtless things will be straightened out satisfactorily and it will be proved, in some way, that conditions among German monks were “greatly exaggerated”.

The Catholics in Berlin are getting along fine. According to statistics recently released, there are 591,148 Catholics in the German capital, and they maintain 305 churches, a population of 1,940 per church. This would be about 350 families, and would be considered a ‘great big flock’, not a “little flock” (Luke 12:32).

In the monastery of the so-called “servants of Mary”, in Rome, there are no windows looking on the street. The food for the inmates is lowered down a chute. Only one person in the monastery contacts the outside world to transact essential business. Can anybody show one word in the Bible or give one sensible reason why any person on earth should live under such conditions ?

Natural Phenomena

Height of Tidal Waves

TIDAL waves (caused by undersea earthquakes) have several times risen to the height of 100 feet; one of them, which broke over cape Copatka in 1737 had a height of 210 feet. The waters first recede from the shore, sometimes to the distance of a mile. In 1868 the United States warship Wateree was carried two miles into Peru and deposited in a forest at the foot of a steep mountain. The tidal wave following the Lisbon earthquake, in 1755, drowned 50,000 people.

Longest Eclipse in 1,200 Years

CD HE longest eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years -*• was observed for 7 minutes 6 seconds at Canton island, in the mid-Pacific, under the most perfect conditions for observation ever experienced. As the light began to fade eleven tons of intricate instruments began making the technical records that will be studied by experts for several years. During the period of totality streamers of blue light shot outward, twice as long as the diameter of the sun. The sky was in perfect condition for the purposes of observation by the fifteen American scientists that made up the expedition. The island is too small to be found on any ordinary maps. It has no population but birds, and no plant life except nine palm trees. It is 5,000 miles off the American mainland.

Saturn’s Rings Vanish Every 15 Years

SATURN’S rings vanish and return every fifteen years. What happens, and is happening now, is that the rings once in that cycle present only their thin edges to earth’s spectators. Seven years later their nearly flat sides may be seen. It is supposed that these concentric rings are somewhat similar to those that once encircled the earth, the last of which, one of water only, fell in Noah’s day, in what is popularly called “the Flood”.

The Kaietur Waterfall

rp HE Kaietur waterfall, British Guiana, on the Potaro, a tributary of the Essequebo river, is 370 feet wide on the hard rock where it starts and makes a sheer descent of 741 feet There is a great cavern in the softer underlying layers, and against the dark background thus formed the white spray of the falls produces some of the most beautiful effects known to nature.

His “Work” and His “Act” a new serial article

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Is there to be found a place of SAFETY?

The man who by reason of world-wide travel, research, and knowledge of God’s sure Word of Prophecy is qualified to answer authoritatively is

JUDGE RUTHERFORD

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Eureka      KIEM	1450	Asbury Park	WCAP	1280
Hollywood    KMTR	570
Los Angeles KGFJ	1200	NEW	MEXICO	1180
Merced       KYOS	1040	Albuquerque	KOB
Modesto      KTRB	740	NEW	YORK
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San Luis Obispo KVEC	1200		WMCA	570
Visalia       KTKC	1190	New York	WQXR	1550
COLORADO		White Plains	WFAS	1210
Grand Junction KFXJ	1200	OHIO
Greeley      KFKA	880	/Vkron	WJW	1210
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Washington    WOE	1230	Tulsa	KVOO	1140
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ILLINOIS		Jackson	WTJS	1310
Rock Island WHBF	1210	Knoxville	WNOX	1010
Tuscola        WDZ	1020	TEXAS
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Professor Force, one of America’s most highly skilled chemists, is an authority on antiseptics, and may he consulted by mail free.