Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian father and a Hungarian mother, a girl baby was born 46 years ago in Bridgeport, Conn. As she learned to talk and experiment with things, little Bessie Pastor showed herself to be a bright child. In high school she diligently studied chemistry, later went to a technical school. To her girl friends she passed out soaps and lotions, the products of her own test tubes...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
Bessie married a chemist named Michael Berliney, but in professional connections preferred to be known as "Mrs. Pastor." The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., where "Mike" had a laboratory. With skilled, indefatigable hands Mrs. Pastor kept house for her husband, spent her spare time in his workshop, composing synthetic waxes, lotions and soaps. Today she has taken out 18 patents, has sold some of them to cosmetic and soap makers. Not to be outdone, Mike has taken out 174 patents...
Nobody in the congregation, least of all members of the Secret Police, failed to catch Pastor Niemoller's high-powered implication that the Nazis are proud, race-conscious exponents of pure blood and in these respects resemble Jews. No more provocative suggestions could have been made in Germany, but Pastor Niemoller continued his sermon by shouting: "Positive Christianity, which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with Negative Christianity as Jesus himself represented it! . . . Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called Negative Christianity which, when all is said and done, clings...
Such sermons as this Pastor Niemoller preached Sunday after Sunday to Berlin's most fashionable congregation, and the fact that they stood and still stand by him is proof of how little liking German aristocrats have for the whole Nazi claptrap of neopaganism and "pure race." The issue of the Jews is a separate issue, and neither the Dahlem aristocrats nor their pastor have shown themselves pro-Semitic, if anything the reverse. In the fiery prisoner-pastor's words: "Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the Cross...