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1944
Consolation
Magazine
Contents
Gestapo Americanus-Domestic Species of
Totalitarians Run Rampant at Shreve-
port, Loaisiana, and Columbia, South
Carolina
City Officials "Stab Freedom in the Back"
Shreveport Gestapo Swings into Action
,Who Is Like unto This Beast?
.t
Who Will Tie the Big Cats?
Franco-German "Underground"
The Hitler Fellowship "
Fingers All Smeared with Tar
Some of Uncle's Dirty Linen
Whither, Freedom?
"Pope to Make Retreat"
"Thy Word Is Truth"
The True and the False Body
Our Daily Bread
The Bakers' College
In the Reign of Henry III
Xavier Never Reached China
As to Vows and Oaths
The Belgian Congo
Polish Refugees in Iran
Presenting "This Gospel of the Kingdom"
Manuscripts and Versions of the Hebrew
Scriptures (Part 3)
Editing President Grant's Speech
A Chinese Publisher of the Kingdom
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Notanda
When October
G~ves
its
Party
• Trees and shrubs have their growth
for the season and so make no, further
demands for chlorophyll, the essential
plant-food producer which combines the
carbon dioxide of the air with water
taken in at the root's. Since chlorophyll,
is the green of the leaves, this cessation
ingrowing works a profound color
change.
Any chlorophyll remaining in the
leaves in October wastes away; mean-
time, the sun brings out colors
present
in lesser quantities. Yellow and gold pre-
dominate because they rank next. Other
hues are struck off as by-products of
chemical reactions which take place as
the plant-food factories shut down.
It
is, simply put, a matter of alkalis,
sugars and minerals within the leaves.
And so, in one way or another, arrives
the red
of
the maple, the orang-e of
sassafras and hickory, the beech's purple,
the elm's bronze.----!St. Louis
Post Dis-
patch.
Published every other Wednesday by
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CONSOLATION
CONSOLATION,
"And in H!s name shall the nations hope."-Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume
xxv
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 5, 1944
Number 634
Gestapo Americanus
DOMESTIC
SPECIES
OF
TOTALITARIANS 'RUN
RAMPANT
AT
SHREVEPORT,
LOUISIANA,
AND
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
H E chief of the dreaded Axis Gestapo
police, Heinrich Himmler, would
probably be delighted to hear that cer-
tain American officials fancied his meth-
ods of "handling the public", and were
aping his system of forcibly gagging all
those who dared have an opinion or idea
not bearing the official seal of approval.
Herr Himmler undoubtedly would beam
with approval upon the action taken
recently by certain officials in Shreve-
port, La., and Columbia, S. C. Cancella-
tion of contracts, mass arrests of citi-
zens without cause, confiscation of Bible
literature, and' official approbation of
mob rule, as engineered by officials in
these cities, though probably somewhat
clumsy and bungled when compared with
the professional standard of the experi-
enced Axis Gestapo, nevertheless were
clearly bottomed on the true theory of
totalitarianism, and that would tremen-
dously please. the dictators.
At the same time, such a situation
would arouse no pleasure among honest
Americans who desire to see the freedom
of the people survive. Let such Ameri-
cans now consider the recent disgraceful
conduct of certain officials in Shreveport
and Columbia and then decide for them-
selves as to the gravity of the offenses
these men have committed against
democracy.
. The Unhappy Mayor
T
Mayor Sam Caldwell of Shreveport,
JANUARY 5,1944
La., is an unhappy man lately. But your
countenance would be just as glum as his
if you had happen to you what "His
Honor" has had happen to him during
the past few weeks.
Caldwell, you will recall, was the enter-
prising chieftain and official mouthpiece
of a certain rabble element in Shreveport
that last August hit upon the unfortunate
idea of sabotaging the Constitution as a
magnificent patriotic gesture.
Oonsola-
tion
No. 628, issue of October 13, 1943,
carried the account of this prearranged
sneak attack made by the mayor and his
pack of thugs and footpads upon
J
eho-
vah's witnesses at Shreveport who were
trying to hold a peaceful Christian
assembly for the worship of Almighty
God. For this act of home-front treachery
Caldwell probably figured he would get
a Presidential Citation of
~Honor,and
achieve a place in the gallery of the
country's great. But, happily for the
citizens of Shreveport, and unhappily
for Caldwell, his intrigue against liberty
went awry, and now he is only hoping
that his efforts won't achieve for him a
place on the list of the country's home-
grown enemies of the Constitution and
Bill of Rights.
.
Since
Consolation
No. 628 reported the
outrage that took place in Shreveport on
August 20,1943, as a result of the efforts
of MayorCaldwell and the gang of mob-
sters which operated with official sanc-
tion, there will be no need here to recount
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the events of .that national disgrace. In during which time citizens in 100 cities
spite of the fact that the mayor's plot . over the nation thoroughly enjoyed the
met with apparent success and the Chris- lecture delivered over the special land
tian assembly was broken up amidst his wires from the key city Minneapolis,
thugs' violent rioting interspersed with Minnesota. Thus when the mailman
their shooting, the whole evil plan soon walked into Mayor Sam Caldwell's office
exploded and the chagrined
mobocrats
on
S~ptember
6 with the belated reply
are still stepping lively to get out of the to hIS telegram to the F.C.C., "His
, way of falling pieces.
Honor" was already in an unhappy
frame of mind. Reading the letter signed
Mayor
"Misses
the Train"
by James L. Fly, chairman of the com-
The very first chunk of the exploded mission, didn't help:
plot descended square into the mayor's
Further reference is made to your telegram
lap on September 6, 1943, when the post-
of August 18 protesting the use of a coast-to-
man delivered a letter to "His Honor"
coast telephone network which was engaged
from the chairman of the Federal Com-
by the Jehovah's witnesses for the purpose of
munications Commission in Washing-
broadcasting a speech on August 21, 1943.
ton, D. C. If. Sam Caldwell ever fancied
As stated in the commission's telegram to you
himself a communications expert, that
of August 20, the commission has no jurisdic-
letter should have completely punctured
tion with respect to the matter in which you
his fancies. Just previous. to the time
complain.
advertised for the beginning of the "Free
Under the communications act of 1934, as
Nation's" Theocratic Assembly of Jeho-
vah's witnesses in Shreveport last
amended there is no basis upon which the
August, the mayor, with a flare for the
commission could deny the facilities of the
dramatic, had dashed off an urgent
telephone companies' to this organization or
letter-length telegram over the much
any person or group. Members of the public
overcrowded telegraph lines, to the Com-
desiring the use of telephone company facili-
munications Commission, howling that
ties are not required to apply to this com-
Jehovah's witnesses were planning on
mission for authority to use them. Com-
using the "telephone system" to broad-
mon carriers subject to the communications
cast "an unpatriotic speech" in
"my"
act, on the other hand, are required to serve
city. Waxing eloquent over the horrible
the public upon reasonable request and are
consequences that might be expected if
prohibited from making unjust or unreason-
the commission didn't do something
able discrimination against particular persons
about this impending communications
or classes of persons.
With regard to your claim that the use of
'disaster', Caldwell neglected to mention
that he was entirely ignorant of (1) what
telephone facilities for broadcast purposes by
type of wire facilities were to be used
the Jehovah's witnesses is non-essential and
and (2) what was to be said in the "un-
precludes the use of telephone facilities by
patriotic speech" entitled "Freedom in
the public for essential long distance telephone
. the New World". The mayor's telegram
communications, it should bJ) noted that' the
did show, however, that he was an expert
program transmission lines used in connection
lampoonist when it came to· Jehovah's
with radio broadcast are not adapted for ordi-
witnesses, even if he was a wee bit rusty
nary telephone conversation.
It
would appear,
on the technicalities of the science of
therefore, that the use of such facilities would
not conflict with the use of telephone lines
communications.
Indicative of the impression the
serving the general public and such use is
. mayor's telegram had upon the Wash-
not inconsistent with the request of the tele-
ington officials, it lay acknowledged but
phone companies that the public use telephone
unanswered for more than two weeks,
service only when necessary.
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tributors.. All that afternoon the police
dragged into their headquarters a con-
stant. procession of individuals caught
in Washington have, as usual, missed
h~ndmg
out the magazines. These indi-
viduals would first be forcibly relieved
the train."
of their magazines and then warned not
City Officials "Stab Freedom in the Back"
to distribute any more, whereupon thev
would be released. without any charges
A few weeks later, when things had bemg .
pl~ced
agamst them. Promptly
just begun to settle down around the the distributors would obtain another
mayor's office, the quiet was split by the supply of magazines and continue where
fearful news that Jehovah's witnesses they left off. In this manner some dis-
were distributing free to the people of tributors were arrested three or four
Shreveport truckloads of
Consolation
times in that one afternoon, but, despite
magazines carrying a report of the atro- the best efforts. of the crack Shreveport
eious riot against Christianity in that "Gestapo" squads, the distribution went
CIty on August 20. A few minutes later ahead apace. Late in the afternoon an
a breathless messenger arrived with a especially alert "Gestapo" squad located
copy of the magazine. What the officials a truckload of the magazines. They
saw made their eyes blink. Pasted on the promptly "arrested" the driver and hi-
?over. of the magazine, a sticker printed jacked the magazines (12,500 in all). But
m bright green ink announced: "READ still the distribution went on.
ALL ABOUT YOUR LOCAL CITY OFFICIALS'
At their wit's end, the besieged offi-
OPPOSITION TO FREEDOM ON THE HOME
FRONT. SEE PAGE 11." Still gasping, cialsfinally caught the person whom they
page 11 was found and their part in the considered responsible for the distribu-
feature article in
Consolation
No. 628 tion and jailed him on a charge of
"vagrancy" (in spite of the fact that they
was hastily read.
knew he was probably the most active
While the officials were gasping over individual in Shreveport that day). But
the magazine the greatest distribution of a bond was promptly posted,the prisoner
Consolation
that Shreveport has ever was released, and the magazine distribu-
seen was already under way. Armed with tion .went merrily on, un.til all magazines
a supply of twenty thousand magazines outside the police station were in the
each one bearing the special sticker: hands of the people.
scores of men, women and children
A few days later', the officials were
anxious to make the truth known
w.er~
forced to crawfish, dismiss the vagrancy
busily engaged in handing the
mag~zines
out free of charge to Shreveporters who charges, and release the supply of maga-
eagerly accepted the publication. All up zines they had illegally and unlawfully
and down the streets and in hundreds of stolen. The distribution promptly began
homes, the people of Shreveport began anew,. not to be .stopped until every resi-
to learn for the first time how their dent
in
the entire town had been given
the opportunity to have a copy.
officials had disgraced the city.
Needless to say, all of this contributed
Shreveport Gestapo Swings into Action
in no small way to the discomfort of the
With visions of what might happen to mob-pack and their official sponsors.
them
if
something weren't done the
officials declared the situation to be an
Good Cause for Reflection
emergency. Orders were given and
Soon after the mob attack upon the
"Gestapo" squads were hastily dis- "Free Nation's" Theocratic Assembly in
patched to "round up" the magazine dis- August, a full report of the disturbance
JANUARY 5, 1944
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The
"patriotic"mayor'~
only comment
on this official rebuke as reported by the
Shreveport
Times
was:
"The bureaucrats

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