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...father," explained the defiant little girl, "said it is a sin to salute the flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). When he refused to let his daughter obey the Atlanta Board of Education's flag salute requirement, Dorothy was dismissed from school...
...kept on smiling, put his daughter in a private school, was supported by Jehovah's Witnesses who sent him to the courts to seek "justice." Coercion, he pleaded from court to higher court, makes the flag salute an empty form, violates constitutional guarantees of religious liberty. Last week, still smiling but less jaunty, George Leoles said: "Some day God will show them their mistake." In Washington the U. S. Supreme Court had dismissed George Leoles' appeal "for the want of a substantial Federal question...
...involving the flag salute to reach the Supreme Court. Fortnight before, Federal Judge Albert B. Maris in Philadelphia had held a compulsory salute rule unconstitutional. Whether the highest court's ruling in the Leoles case was a final determination of the matter and doomed other pending appeals by Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training, in itself an act of allegiance...
That occasionally tedious oldster, Jehovah of the Old Testament, appears nowhere to greater advantage than in the Book of Job. Eloquent, thunderous, awesome, He speaks to Job from a whirlwind, reproves the moody, theatrical Jew in some of the most majestic questions ever posed. Out of many a U. S. radio two Sundays ago issued sounds of a wind machine and the voice of an actor impersonating God: Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? . . . Wilt thou disannul my judgment, Job? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? . . . Hast thou an arm like God, Job? Canst...
...attainment of their immediate ends that they are prepared to establish a system of government in which all liberty and all democracy in America would be staked on the outcome of one election. If liberal Democrats are willing to do that, what in the name of the Great Jehovah will the enemies of liberty and democracy do when they win an election...