1948 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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YEARBOOK
OF
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
1948 YEARBOOK of Jehovah’s witnesses containing report lor the service year of 1947 Also daily texts and comments
Corporate Publishers
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc. International Bible Students Association
124 Columbia Heights Brooklyn 2, N.Y., U.S.A.
Branch offices appear on last page
Copyright, 1947, by Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
Made In the United States of America
WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
F. W. FRANZ Vice-President
GRANT SUITER Secretary and Treasurer
WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY, INC.
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
H. C. COVINGTON Vice-President
GRANT SUITER Secretary and Treasurer
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
A. PRYCE HUGHES Vice-President
E. C. CHITTY Secretary
GRANT SUITER Ass’t Secretary and Treasurer
INDEX OF COUNTRIES
Alaska
Albania
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Brazil
British Guiana
British Honduras
British Isles
British West Indies
Burma
Canada
Ceylon
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Eire
El Salvador
FIJI
Finland
France
French Guiana
Germany
Gold Coast
Greece
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland .....................................
India
Italy
INDEX OF COUNTRIES
Jamaica
Japan
Lebanon and Syria
Liberia
Luxembourg
Malta
Mexico
Netherlands
Netherlands East Indies
Netherlands West Indies
Newfoundland
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Northern Rhodesia
Norway
Nyasaland
Palestine
Panama
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Philippine Islands
Poland
Portugal
Portuguese East Africa
Puerto Rico
Rumania .................
Russia
St. Helena
Slam
Sierra Leone
Singapore and Malaya
South Africa
Southern Rhodesia
Spain
Surinam
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanganyika
Turkey
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
Virgin Islands
West Africa [Nigeria]
Yugoslavia
1948 YEARBOOK
of Jehovah’s witnesses
JEHOVAH God is the great Life-giver. Even the short span of life that we enjoy now is a gift from Jehovah God. It is only by his grace that we exist and are able to move about in the earth and make expression of our thoughts to others and to do the work that we do. Man should appreciate what God has done for him, but, unfortunately, the majority of men do not know God and little do they try to find out anything about him. Man is self-satisfied.
Those who are now acting as Jehovah’s witnesses have an appreciation of Almighty God, the Creator of heaven and earth. They know he created man from the ground and placed him upon the earth and that man was instructed to subdue it and bring it to a perfect, beautiful state as well as to multiply and fill it with his kind. (Gen. 1:28) The servant of Jehovah God knows that he gave man life and that in his due time men of good-will are to receive power and authority to do this grand work of beautifying the earth and populating it under the Kingdom. Jehovah’s witnesses further recognize that to maintain this gift of life and the privileges that go with it they must always honor their Creator and bring praise to him. However, men of this wicked world choose to be fools (Ps. 14:1) and they ignore God, his wisdom, his works, and his almighty power.
The apostle Paul had mankind pretty well sized up in his day, and since Paul’s day man has not improved in knowledge of the Supreme One down to the present time, but he continues on in his selfish
way and continues to try to suppress the truth. Paul set forth in his epistle to the Romans (1:18-23) the following:
“For God’s anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth. For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine [person]—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse, for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles.”—An Amer. Trans.
Today men generally are of the same mind as the people that lived under the Roman rule in Paul’s day. The rulers have not changed, neither have the people, in this respect. The rulers of the Roman Empire pushed God out of the picture for their concept of “one world” and forgot that God created the earth; they forgot that even the little life they had, the short existence being enjoyed by men then, was only by God’s grace. Then the big idea was the Roman Empire under Caesar. Today it is the “one world” under the United Nations; but today as then the selfishness, greed, and idol-worship remain the same, if not worsened. In the days of the Lord Jesus Christ it was an all-out support for the sprawling Roman Government that was demanded. Jesus was willing to render to Caesar of Rome the tilings that were Caesar’s, but that could go to only a certain extent. There was something else in the Scriptures upon this issue for the people to consider, namely: “And [render] unto God the things that are God’s.” (Matt. 22:21) Rendering to Caesar the things that were his was all right as far as it went; but the doing of this could not rightly interfere with the proper worship, the true worship of Jehovah God the Life-giver. They killed Jesus because he did not go all-out for the Roman government and because he held to preaching the kingdom of God as the only hope for humankind and because he held to giving praise to God, which praise rightly belonged to his Father in heaven. So they killed Jesus because he was different from this world.
What, now, will you do, Mr. Reader? Will you be like the men Paul described and “indulge in futile speculation” such as the delegates to the United Nations do, putting your trust in men, politics, militarism, religion and images? or will you be different and follow Jesus’ counsel and keep God in mind and serve him? Will you also render to God that which is God’s? Jehovah’s witnesses choose to be different; nay, more, they are under obligation to God to be different. They recognize Jehovah as the only true Sovereign worthy of praise and render to him all that is due to him as their Father in heaven. They fully appreciate that Satan the Devil is the “god of this world” and that he is determined to try holding on to his power which gave him the opportunity, for a time, to be the mighty invisible ruler of this world. (2 Cor. 4:4; John 14:30) It was back in the garden of Eden that Satan turned man against God through deceptive promises that he made to man, saying that man would be like God, knowing good and evil. Adam was selfish, and he rebelled against God. He disobeyed God’s plain statements that would have led to life, and became the worshiper of a demon, as the Scriptures say the Devil is. “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.” (1 Sam. 15:23) Adam no longer looked to his Father in heaven as the great Life-giver to whom he owed everything. Because he was still alive after sinning against God, he may have thought he would be able to maintain his life. He idolized himself or worshiped himself, for this is indicated by the stubborn course of action he took in disobeying God. The Lord’s Word sets forth the principle, “Stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”
From that time on stubborn man has substituted images in the form of mortal men, birds, animals and reptiles, to which to give his worship. Man thinks a lot of himself, and he thinks he is able to do something that God alone says He will do. Men think they can set up a human organization, the United Nations, as the only hope for world peace and prosperity, and by so doing they ignore God’s kingdom, for which Christians have been taught to pray, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is done in heaven.” Man, under the rule of Satan the Devil, “the god of this world,” has indeed become a stubborn creature, so that now the heads of the governments of this world, of all the nations and their peoples, come to worship a United Nations, a form of world government. They want all the commercial organizations, all the political organizations, all the religious organizations, everything in society, labor, culture, science, yes, all of them, to support and become part of this international creation of theirs, a United Nations organization. So man goes on indulging in futile speculation, until his stupid mind has become grossly dark. “They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools.” The wise men of this world do not see the need of God: “the fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” (Ps. 14:1) Such wise men no longer recognize him as the great Life-giver.
THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
But there is a people that are different, Jehovah’s witnesses. This small group of people are looked at by the governments of the earth as an obstinate people, a people that just will not fall in line and that will not accept this man-made thing as their savior. The world, through its judges and its rulers, demands that Jehovah’s witnesses render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and more too, for they forget the rest of the command: ‘Render to God the things that are God’s.’ These witnesses, no matter under what nationality or form of government they happen to be born, always comply with the rules and regulations of that nation. They pay their taxes; they speak the language of the nation; they accept the education of the nation through its schools. They support all the laws of the land that are in full accord with God’s principles of truth and righteousness. They follow most of the customs and habits of the people. But one thing Jehovah’s witnesses cannot do, and that is, violate their conscience; and their conscience has been trained according to God’s Word, which says: “Give God what belongs to God.”—Moffatt.
Because they do not violate their consciences or disobey God’s law, the governments of the earth have cast them off as a peculiar people, not orthodox, hard to deal with. Yet, all in all, they observe that they are an honest, upright people, persons of good habits and easy for their neighbors to get along with. However, being honest, upright, and loving their neighbors does not suit the rabble-rousers of the world. Preaching peace and prosperity under the kingdom of God is not supporting or being part of a political or religious organization. ‘If these people are left alone,’ they say, ‘the whole world will be following after them.’ The rulers of the nations then say respecting them: “Stop their talk!”
In 1933, when Hitler came into power in Germany, Jehovah’s witnesses were doing much preaching in all parts of that land, advertising the Kingdom as the only hope of the world. They had to be stopped! So propaganda was sent forth through the government agencies that ‘Jehovah’s witnesses were Communists; they were Jews; they had to be silenced!’ They would not “heil” Hitler; they would not support the new “master race” ideas. They clung to their simple beliefs and the truths they had gained from God’s Word, the Bible. As time went on, Hitler with his supporters and idolizers moved forward to rule the world. Then the following notice was issued to all the superior officers throughout Germany: “The teaching of the Bible Researchers [Jehovah’s witnesses] represents a disguised form of Communism. The destruction of the nations of the world in the battle of Armageddon, the lifting of all national distinctions, the inauguration of Jewish legislation and Jewish dictatorship, the lifting of all racial distinctions: these are the objectives of Jewish world Bolshevism, and have absolutely nothing to do with religion! Setting up the Jewish world rule under the cloak of religious activity, that is the way the goal of the International Bible Students may best be described.”
Hitler and his government could find no cause against Jehovah’s witnesses; so they made mischief by framing laws. (Ps. 94:20) By this means thousands were put in concentration camps. More than a thousand died in these camps, and hundreds of others were tortured and killed, because they were serving God rather than man.
In the democratic countries, while the second world war was on, Jehovah’s witnesses were accused of being Nazis. In still other countries, as in Germany, they were accused of being Communists. The religionists joined in in the loud cry against Jehovah’s witnesses, and an expression typical of them is found in the religious magazine Catholic Mind, namely: “Whatever may be the professions of Jehovah’s witnesses, there is no room for doubt that the practical effect of the Watch Tower activities is to stimulate Communism, not to say anarchy, and to undermine all feeling of reverence for authority.” From other countries, like Greece, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt, the cry comes forth that the work of Jehovah’s witnesses is a promulgation > of Jewish propaganda, and so the Greek Orthodox religious organization has recently distributed pamphlets stating that Jehovah’s witnesses are financed by Jews. On the other hand, the Jewish organization in Greece protested to the head of the Greek Catholic religious system, saying that their statement is false and that the Jews have nothing to do with Jehovah’s witnesses, nor Jehovah’s witnesses with the Jews.
While there are several thousand of Jehovah’s witnesses in Russia, hundreds of them have been sent to Siberia and put in work camps because they prefer to serve God rather than man and to proclaim a kingdom of righteousness, a new world that will be governed by a righteous overlord, Christ Jesus, and not by Communist rulers. Why should Russia treat Jehovah’s witnesses that way if they are “Communists”? It is thus seen that Jehovah’s witnesses are juggled around in every nation to suit their oppressors. The point in common is: Annihilate Jehovah’s witnesses; get rid of them.
Let us then, briefly, look at Jehovah’s witnesses of the present day and see how they view conditions in the world, and let us get their viewpoint. Who are they ? Where did they get their instructions? and why do they appear to be a different and unwanted people?
A CLOSE-UP SCRUTINY
These servants, who worship the Supreme One of all the universe, believe that Jehovah God alone is the Sovereign Ruler and that all worship, honor and glory are due to him. They believe he is the great Source of life and is able to save all who come to him with humble hearts. Those who have come to the Lord God and accepted his Word and abide by it are blessed of God, and they become his witnesses. And to these the Lord says, in Isaiah 43:10,11 (Am. Stan. Ver.) : “Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no savior.”
Men and women from all parts of the world, from all nations, kindreds and tongues, have come to the Lord because of a study of his Word, and they have accepted his Word as truthful and right, and are abiding by it. They appreciate that in Isaiah 61:1-3 a commission is set out for those who consecrate themselves to serve God as followers of his Son. They know that this message which they are commissioned to preach offers comfort and hope to all nations of the earth. They know, too, that Jehovah’s chief witness, Christ Jesus, who was born a Jew and under the Mosaic law, did not compromise with the nations of the world, but stood firm for the preaching of Jehovah’s Word and of his government of righteousness that he promised to set up in the earth. At the time Jesus was on earth a call went forth for many of the Jews to enter into a new covenant with God; but when that Jewish nation did not respond, the call was extended to go on out to the ends of the earth, to the Gentiles, and God selected a people who would have the law of God written in their hearts, and whom nothing could turn away from the service of the Most High.
It is therefore stated, at 1 Peter 2:9,10: “But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”—Am. Stan. Ver.
These people of God’s mercy have become different and peculiar in the eyes of the world because they are determined, by his grace, to serve the only living and true God. They have become his chosen people. They have heralded forth his message of righteousness; and thousands upon thousands of others have heard in these last days of the Devil’s organization and have sought refuge within God’s organization. These have taken up the same call and are saying to all nations, kindreds and tongues: ‘Come, and drink of the water of life freely.’ So today, from one end of the earth to the other, there are thousands of persons that say: “I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.” (Ps. 57:9, Am. Stan. Ver.) They cannot sing the praises of the worldly nations, single or as United Nations, nor of any sect or religion, because all of these are exposed by God’s Word as being idolatrous. They have the Lord’s Word and in it they find God’s instruction to praise him and thus gain life everlasting. By preaching they save themselves as well as others who hear them. (1 Tim. 4:16) They receive from God his holy spirit or active force, and they go forth speaking the truth, a “pure language”, as it were.—Zeph. 3: 9.
The witnesses of Jehovah, who have been called from all nations, kindreds and tongues, being all of one mind, have cut through all boundaries. Language has been no barrier to their unity. Religions, politics, the ideas that men have tried to instill in the hearts of individuals, have all been cast to the winds. There is no divisive force that can stand in the way of Jehovah’s witnesses’ having one mind, which mind is the mind of Christ. Regardless of the country in which any witness of Jehovah lives, he is all-out for supporting God’s kingdom and preaching it. He is an ambassador for Christ in this respect. Being an ambassador in this old world, at the same time being no part of it, he certainly is not opposed to the present governments of the earth; nor will Jehovah’s witnesses ever try to fight against them. Nor should they fight against such governments. They have no reason to do so, for Jehovah God allows the governments to remain until he shows forth his power, and this he will do at the battle of Armageddon.
Yearbook
NONPOLITICAL
When Jesus Christ was upon the earth, he was not opposed to the Roman rule which existed over Palestine. He lived under it in that land. He complied with the regulations that existed, and he paid his taxes, too. But he was not devoted to the Roman government, nor would he defend it. He was a minister of the kingdom of God. His saying is well known, namely, ‘If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight; but my kingdom is no part of this world.’ (John 18: 36) The same evil, selfish organization, only operating through different governmental authorities as far as human creatures are concerned, still exists today. It is under the same management that the Roman Empire was under, namely, Satan the Devil, this world’s god. So the invisible ruler has not changed.—1 John 5:19, Am. Stan. Ver.
Now, then, Jehovah’s witnesses not being for this old wicked rule that exists in all the nations of the earth, but being for the kingdom of God which will rule in righteousness, it can easily be seen why they are not divided as are the Roman Catholics, the Protestant organizations, the Jewish organizations, and all other religious bodies throughout the world. The people of all the different religions in the various lands, being of different nationalities and political connections, are divided against one another. This state will not be found among those consecrated to Jehovah as God. They are one organization, no matter where they reside. Difference of speech does not hold them apart. Customs do not divide them. Even the governments over them do not matter. It makes no difference what form of government may rule over them, democratic, Nazi, Communistic, Jewish, totalitarian, or autocratic, such governments are not allowed to stand as a barrier to Jehovah’s witnesses in their united service for the Almighty. They are not of this old world, but are for the kingdom of God by
his Christ. In this way they are different, not conformed to this world.—Romans 12: 2.
In the days of the early church the apostles and their fellow Christians of that time followed the command of Christ Jesus: “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.” (Matt. 28:19, Am. Stan. Ver.) So they went into Greece, Italy, Egypt, Babylon, and Asia Minor, even though there were people in those places with different habits, customs, and forms of governments, most of them under Roman imperialism. But people who loved righteousness there learned the truth and became Christians. They left all their former religious idol-worship and their political organizations, and followed the teachings of Christ. A complete change took place in their lives. It did not take them long to see that it was better to obey God rather than men; for the only way to receive life would be by being faithful to the great Life-giver in heaven. As God said, he himself is the Savior, and it is he alone that can give everlasting life and blessings in the new world.
The political systems and nations of the world have, for centuries, yes, for thousands of years, tried to give the people better government; but will anyone today say that conditions are better in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and in America, than they were twenty years ago? a hundred years ago? or a thousand years ago? One will argue that living conditions are better; but who say so, and where ? Only in a few countries. The point is, Is man more unselfish? Does he love his neighbor more? or is he the same stubborn idol-worshiper that he was in all times past?
It is true that among the ranks of the witnesses of the Lord God you will find persons from every walk of life, from every nation, from every kindred, and from every language, but, different from this world, they have all the same spirit of love and peace toward their neighbor, and a desire to praise the one God, Jehovah, and to sing his praises unto all the nations.
Their indefeatable zeal is a thing that, even though the worldly governmental authorities try to do so, they are unsuccessful in breaking.
MINISTERS OVER OBJECTIONS
In many parts of the world that have come under the power of great religious influence the authorities in power do not like to recognize Jehovah’s witnesses as ordained ministers, although they are commissioned of God as such. The authorities object because these ministers are different. They do not realize that one man cannot make another man a minister of God. Being a minister of God is by reason of his pouring upon his servant the holy spirit or active force from on high; and this outpouring the Most High God says he will perform upon those who love him in truth. God has poured out his spirit “upon all flesh”: men and women, young and old, bond and free. He did this to the faithful remnant at the time of Pentecost A.D. 33, and he is doing it to a like remnant at the present time. (Joel 2:28,29; Acts 2:17,18) His spirit motivates those who have made a consecration to serve him to preach the gospel, and it makes no difference whether those individuals be young or old. If the heart of each one is right and is seeking righteousness and is fully devoted to the Lord God, he will be favored of Jehovah God with his spirit through Christ.
The objection is made by many rulers and judges that young people are not qualified to preach the gospel. They think that a person has to become old and hoary of head before being able to have wisdom and understanding. They forget to take into account the activities of the person in making their decision as to whether that person is an ordained minister or not. Christ Jesus was busy about his Father’s courts when at the age of twelve. (Luke 2:42-49, The Emphatic Diaglott; An Amer. Trans.) The apostle Paul’s companion, Timothy, was a young man when he was called and anointed of the Lord to preach the gospel, and the churches as well as Timothy himself were advised not to despise his youth. (1 Tim. 4:12) The Bible presents, in fact, a long record of young persons that have stood for the Lord God and fought valiantly in their youth as well as in their older age for the preaching of the message of God’s Word. Jeremiah, Samuel, and others, were recorded as excellent examples of youths taking up the ministry of God as preachers.
Coming down to later, secular history, let us take John Calvin, the sixteenth century reformer and student of the Bible and minister of religion. Was he not recognized as a chaplain at the age of twelve years? Yes; and if this John Calvin could be recognized and put in office as a minister of religion, certainly young men and women of today who are as devoted to God as John Calvin ever was can also be acknowledged by Worldly authorities as ministers of God. Not only was John Calvin a preacher in the Roman Catholic religious organization at the age of twelve, but his revenue from preaching was sufficient to assist him in going through school in his later years. It is recorded in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 4, edition of 1892, that John Calvin, who was born in 1509, was made a chaplain as described: “In his thirteenth year his father, whose circumstances were not affluent, procured for him from the bishop the office of chaplain in the Chapelle de Notre Dame de la Gesine. A few days after his appointment he received the tonsure and on the 29th of May 1521, he was installed in his office.” Centuries earlier, Benedict IX was installed as pope at the age of 12 and continued in office from 1033 to 1056.
Certainly, if John Calvin qualified as a minister or chaplain in the Roman Catholic religious system, and if Benedict IX qualified as pope of Rome, both at the age of twelve years, then hundreds of Jehovah’s witnesses, who have made a careful study of the Bible along unseetarian lines, can qualify for ministerial status, while yet in their teens, before governing bodies in the world today. There are hundreds of young men and women from sixteen to twenty-two years of age that have gone out into the missionary field work, many to foreign lands, learning tongues not their own, in order that they may there preach the gospel. Youth is no barrier to one’s becoming a minister. One who does become a minister for the Lord will daily preach the good news. It has always been recognized that ministers would take a neutral position as to world affairs and that they are indifferent to the controversies of the world, because they are not of this world nor a part of it, although they are in it. (1 John 2:15-17) In the same way Christ Jesus was not of this world. He was in it, but this was for the sole purpose of preaching the gospel and vindicating his Father’s name.
Christ Jesus, in a prayer to his Father in heaven, requested him that the same spirit that was poured upon him be poured upon all his followers, and he asked his Father not to take them out of the world but to leave them there that they might preach the good news of the Kingdom and so some could be saved. (John 17:14,15; 14:16,17) This makes it plain that age is not the determining factor with God’s ministers, neither is sex; but the thing that qualifies one as a minister is his knowledge of the Lord’s Word and his zeal and devotion to the Most High Sovereign, Jehovah, and, most importantly, the spirit of the Lord God upon him.
NONNATIONALISTIC ORGANIZATION WORLD-WIDE
From time to time government officials in various parts of the earth make claims that Jehovah’s witnesses are controlled by an American organization and that Jehovah’s witnesses are spreading American propaganda. However, it will readily be understood by all persons reading any of the publications of Jehovah’s witnesses that are printed and distributed through the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, a Pennsylvania corporation in America, that none of their teachings are nationalistic. They set forth the belief in the kingdom of God as the only hope of the world of mankind. That kingdom is what the witnesses serve, and they look to Christ Jesus as their Commander and Leader, who is above all nations and political parties. Just that the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society happens to be formed in the United States and is used by Jehovah’s witnesses of that country and of many other countries to carry on their ministerial activity is no reason for persons to say that the organization of Jehovah’s witnesses all over the earth is an American organization.
In different countries of Latin America and throughout Europe and on the other continents of the earth Jehovah’s witnesses have formed local organizations, or societies within the country in which they reside, so as to further the interests of their ministerial activity there. Such societies are just as necessary locally as the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in America. And just because a society is formed in one particular country, it would be no reason to say that Jehovah’s witnesses of that respective country are French or German or Brazilian. Jehovah’s witnesses world-wide have one aim in life, and that is to magnify the name of their heavenly Father, Jehovah, and to share with Christ Jesus in the vindication of his name and Word. They realize that he has gathered together the persons of good-will who love him into one organization, and that is, a Theocratic organization. Theocratic, yes, but not nationalistic are these witnesses of Jehovah. Because governments of men have set up boundaries and have adopted certain languages for certain territories, and because some of God’s consecrated people live in those particular lands, these are no reasons for believing that they are separate and distinct from all the other witnesses of the Most High God throughout the earth. They are not. They are one body in the Lord, one organization, with one God Jehovah and one Lord Jesus Christ and one law. That is the law God has given them, namely, to minister to him and to preach the gospel of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness to all nations.
NONPARTISANSHIP
There you have the reason why Jehovah’s witnesses, scattered in scores of lands, will not engage in carnal warfare one against another, because they will not violently fight their brethren. At the same time the Lord’s faithful servants will not interfere in a violent combat between nations. They are neutral as to the political affairs and military operations of nations, and they look to Jehovah God as the one that gives life and has the right to take it away, and the One who can also preserve them into the new world of uprightness where they will enjoy peace, prosperity and everlasting life. They fully appreciate that God’s Word says that his servants will come from every nation, tribe and tongue but that, because of having his spirit, they will be one people to him, a chosen generation, devoted to peace. Knowing that they are his chosen people under the one Theocratic law, they serve him with undivided attention. They have the proper fear of God, for they hate the evil, the arrogance, the pride and Godlessness of this world. There is no room for partisanship among them. All are for the one ideal, the new-world government by Christ Jesus.
Logically, in obedience to the divine commands for this day, such persons as these are putting forth every effort to push forward the principles of truth and righteousness and to turn the minds of the people toward the one true Deity and his gracious Word, the Bible. This they will continue to do right on down to the final war, the long-predicted Armageddon. Come opposition, trials, persecution and other troubles from the governmental agents or the governments themselves, they will move ahead fearlessly and courageously, standing for Jehovah’s “King of kings and Lord of lords”, Christ Jesus. This has been wonderfully demonstrated, during the year of 1947 just gone. An unbiased person has just to read the Yearbook covering this past year’s activities throughout the world by Jehovah’s witnesses to grasp with ease that these are one people, one organization, a Theocratic organization; and that they look to Jehovah God and his Son, Jesus Christ, as “The Higher Powers” who are guiding and directing their activities. The reader of such Yearbook, after considering the reports from 88 nations or individually governed territory should be helped to realize that the witnesses are not serving any man or any worldly organization, and that the organization which the witnesses have is not American, German, French, Communistic, or Jewish, but is a God-directed organization, or Theocratic, and that the members thereof are interested solely in the lasting peace and good-will of the peoples everywhere.
What time do they have for dabbling in political campaigns and battles, or in trying to influence the secular governments as to what course of action they should take in the present-day struggle for world domination? Their commission to preach takes the best of their time, and their devotion to the principles of truth and integrity and uncorruptness grips them all their time. They fully know and are persuaded that the only way for peace and perfect happiness to be brought to the human family is by man’s accepting Jehovah God as the Supreme One of the universe and also accepting his Son, his chief witness, as the Ransomer of mankind and as the rightful King of the new world. This One, before his own death on the tree of torture, said in prayer to his heavenly Father: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (John 17: 3) Ah, yes, Jehovah God has made the provisions for man to get life through his Son. Jehovah is the real Life-giver, and all human creatures that hope to have life in the beautified, peaceful world without end will have to abide by his provisions and accept him as God and his Son as the Redeemer and King. Jehovah’s witnesses are different from this old world because they conform to these divine requirements for life. Thousands upon thousands of persons of goodwill who love truth and who have turned a hearing ear to their message have sought the Lord God and have associated themselves with the Theocratic organization of Jehovah’s witnesses and have joyfully joined them in proclaiming the message of the Kingdom.
THEIR PROOF OF MINISTRY
Speaking one language, the truth, from one end of the earth to the other, Jehovah’s witnesses in the service year 1947 have piled up a mighty ‘heap of witness’ to the honor and glory of Jehovah’s name. Again they have proved themselves to be a society of ordained ministers. They have faithfully preached the good news of God’s kingdom to millions of persons and have shown what the ‘joy of all the people’ really is. Throughout the year 181,071 of Jehovah’s witnesses have regularly preached the gospel, in 86 different lands—the principal nations, the isles of the sea, and the colonies of the great powers. They are found working in the states and provinces of all countries, the cities, the towns, and the rural countryside. The world is their field, and they are trying to reach the people in it.
During the service year of 1947 these hard-working servants of the Most High devoted 43,842,305 hours to preaching. Their devotion to the truth and ministerial work resulted in many associating with Jehovah’s witnesses, and these persons faithfully followed Christ Jesus and became publishers of the Kingdom, too. A new all-time record was reached, namely, 207,552 ministers participating in the field-service work during the year 1947. It is sincerely hoped that all these persons will be regular publishers in 1948, so that the command of Jesus, “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations,” may be accomplished on an even greater scale in the years ahead before the final battle of Armageddon.
These new publishers of the Kingdom, along with those who have been in the way for many years, realize that it pays to be different from this old world. The broad way leads to destruction; the new way, God’s way, leads to eternal life. This narrow way will bring reproach, suffering and persecution to the servants of God, but they appreciate that their faithful continuance and endurance will bring life and contentment. They have come to know the only God, Jehovah, and his Son Christ Jesus. They have learned of God’s kingdom and the blessings it holds, and it is their keen desire to share in these blessings and bring praise unto the Lord forever. It is now said by them: “I will sing praises unto thee among the nations” (Ps. 57:9, A.S.V.), which is Jehovah’s witnesses’ yeartext for 1948.
It is of real interest to consider the work done by Jehovah’s witnesses during the past twelve months. They distributed 20,472,739 books and booklets, in scores of languages, in 86 countries, provinces and isles of the sea. In addition to this they placed 12,049,344 individual copies of the magazines The Watchtower and Awake! and these in many languages. Not only that, but they interested the readers of these magazines to subscribe for a full year, and the number of new subscriptions obtained by the publishers was 563,101. In a four-month campaign for Watchtower and Awake! subscriptions they obtained 313,786 such subscriptions. Jehovah’s witnesses are grateful to God for the opportunity of placing with the people something that they could read and study in their own homes, especially the Bible and books to help one understand the Bible. Since 1920 they have placed 513,186,451 books, Bibles and booklets with the people; but they know this is not all that is necessary. If people are to come to a knowledge of the truth, they need personal help, and to this end Jehovah’s witnesses make millions of calls upon them. Invited into their homes, they sit down with the people and answer their questions and look up scriptures in the Bible to prove their teachings; and thus they truly bring comfort to those who mourn in all the earth.
Not only do Jehovah’s witnesses preach the gospel from house to house and publicly, but they spend much time in giving private instruction, as a minister of God should. World-wide, Jehovah’s witnesses made 11,710,832 visits to the homes of persons interested. In fact, every week there are conducted throughout the world 113,035 book studies. In these little private home meetings there are usually from two to eight persons who study regularly every week some publication of the Society, along with the Bible, under the private instruction of a minister, one of Jehovah’s witnesses.
While much attention is given to the private study with individuals, Jehovah’s witnesses make public proclamation, too. Thousands of auditoriums, public parks and other open-air meeting-places have been used by Jehovah’s ordained ministers for public meetings. In all nations and languages these meetings have been carried on during the past year, to the extent of 101,632 different meetings. The attendance at these meetings runs into the millions. On one Sunday alone, when a check was made of attendance, 252,582 persons in all parts of the world listened to the good news.
Jehovah’s witnesses today are like the apostle Paul in that they do not need a letter written in ink by someone to prove they are ministers of the gospel. Paul said: “For I am no peddler of God’s message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message ... Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you? You are my recommendations, written on my heart, for everybody to read and understand. You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.” (2 Cor. 2:17; 3:1-3, An Amer. Trans.) The 158,034 of Jehovah’s witnesses in the field during 1946 have a letter of commendation that is a real recommendation of their faithful ministry, for in 1947 there were associated regularly with them 181,071 publishers of the Kingdom, or an increase of 23,037. And there are many more now that are showing zeal for the only righteous cause, which will succeed.
Do Jehovah’s witnesses need letters written by men? or do the facts prove that they have recommendations written in the hearts of those who love the Kingdom? All the world knows that Jehovah’s witnesses have proof of their ministry, but it is not orthodox; however, they do their work like the Master, Jesus. They are not ‘peddlers of God’s message, like most men’. Jehovah’s witnesses are devoting their time, their money, their strength, their all, in the service of God. During the past service year the Society sent from the Brooklyn office alone to Branches and missionary homes $256,661.77 in cash to help the expansion work, this in addition to supplying the Branches with literature valued at $388,606.44.
Neither do Jehovah’s witnesses neglect the association of themselves together; for throughout the world there were 10,782 companies organized. At these meetings Jehovah’s witnesses come together to further fit themselves for the ministry. At the company meetings every week they study the Watchtower magazine, which contains spiritual food. They have their service meetings, where they learn ways and means of better presenting the gospel to the people; they have a course in Theocratic ministry, which equips them all to make better expression of the Lord’s word to others. Truly they are ministers of God, equipping themselves for every good work. To all these study meetings people of good-will are invited.
Jehovah’s witnesses have an unusual privilege and responsibility. They accept it and are glad that they are the servants of the Most High God. They are diligently putting forth every effort to turn the minds of all men and women, no matter of what nation, kindred or tongue, to Jehovah God in true worship. It is their desire to see all people singing Jehovah’s praises, so that they may gain life eternal and live in the New World of righteousness where peace and prosperity will be the heritage of the nations. Yes, they are determined by God’s grace to give proof of their ministry to many thousands more who join with them in the grand song of praise to Jehovah among the nations.
So that the readers of this Yearbook may have some idea of what is being accomplished in the many nations and lands of the earth a table is set out giving some of the details. (See pages 28 to 31.) The reports from all these nations prove beyond question that Jehovah’s witnesses are taking an uncompromising stand for God’s kingdom, and that all of them everywhere are singing praises unto Jehovah among the nations. (Ps. 57: 9, A.S.V.) What a joy is theirs!
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Jehovah’s witnesses in the United States of America have enjoyed Jehovah’s rich blessing. His ministers in this country have done excellent work in preaching the glorious gospel of the Kingdom and, by the Lord’s grace, they have used every instrument provided for the advancement of the Kingdom interests.
It was back in 1884 that a group of Christian men and women gathered together and formed the Watch Tower Bl-ble & Tract Society, a Pennsylvania corporation. In these modern days Jehovah’s witnesses use this corporation, the first association of men and women dedicated to the purpose of promulgating the message concerning God’s kingdom established for the blessing of all people, to further their activity. The work of this Society now reaches out into many nations of the earth, where Branches have been established and missionary homes set up, all of which come under the direction of this Pennsylvania corporation.
In the year 1909 it seemed advisable to open offices in New York to more efficiently direct the work in the United States, and so what is now known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., was formed. This New York Society, also used by Jehovah’s witnesses, operates a printing plant and maintains a large Bethel home to house the volunteer workers engaged in service at the plant. It also owns and operates a radio station, WBBR, faithfully serving New York city and its adjoining communities with God’s Word of truth. In these various institutions, as well as at the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, South Lansing, New York, the Society trains ministers for missionary service.
As Jehovah’s witnesses grew in other countries additional societies were formed, all of which work in conjunction with the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, for their aims and purposes are the same. The Christian people who were meeting together in London, England, formed a society in 1914 known as the International Bible Students Association. This Association owns certain properties, housing a Branch office of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, printing plant and shipping department. In other nations of the earth it has been advisable to establish corporations to facilitate the work of Jehovah’s witnesses; and the charters of these corporations have provisions similar to that of the Pennsylvania corporation, the principal one being that which provides for the preaching of the gospel in all the world for a witness. Jehovah’s witnesses world-wide, who are of all nations, kindreds and tongues, stand shoulder to shoulder in their one activity; and, while they may use different instruments to promulgate their work, their purposes are all the same.
BETHEL HOME
In the United States all activity of Jehovah’s witnesses centers around the Bethel home, situated at 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 2, New York. This home houses the principal offices of the various societies, and it is from this place that the work throughout the world is directed. Approximately 280 men and women, all ordained ministers, live in (Continued on page 32)
No.
Tot. Av.
Pubs.
Total Literature
Total Hours
New Subs.
Individual
Magazines
Back-
Calls
Book
Studies
Peak Pubs.
Companies
U. S. of America
67,680
10,166,529
17,386,001
308,618
7,092,651
4,622,064
49,608
73,512
2,879
Alaska
4,840
12,075
5,529
4,054
Bahamas
5,245
6,910
2,710
Bermuda
2,600
1,285
Cyprus
12,650
13,296
3,562
2,241
Ecuador
4,110
7,439
1,831
2,397
Guadeloupe
6,246
Iceland
5,978
2,455
Liberia
Malta
Netherlands W.
Indies 28
13,373
9,207
5,579
3,140
Palestine
4,734
3,952
Peru
10,625
13,951
1,019
5,232
Syria - Lebanon
10,448
22,409
9,459
3.803
Virgin Islands
8,672
4,531
1,043
2,683
Argentina
125,719
184,925
1,841
36,618
54,238
Australia
3,284
312,292
746,501
10,987
358,263
188,337
1,762
3,516
Fiji
6,665
2,039
Java [N.E.I.]
Siam
17,441
11,003
1,876
1,771
Singapore
2,299
1,988
Austria
173,301
162,388
5,373
38,762
69,407
Belgium
189,013
238,506
1,198
49,072
44,005
1,038
Luxembourg
3,911
14,430
9,609
4,023
Bolivia
7,571
14,078
1,422
4,877
Brazil
440,865
313,820
6,144
43,690
62,661
British Guiana
40,013
67,059
15,715
18,040
British Honduras
5,222
17,566
2,786
5,767
British Isles
12.149
2,237,380
3,489,000
77,232
77,067
1,099,510
7,015
13,670
Eire
14,328
28,706
8,237
British West Indies
89,070
223,423
1,864
94,241
58,666
Canada
11,224
728,517
2,129,473
38,392
817,542
445,891
4,611
12,093
Chile
43,152
55,201
1,039
10,212
15.238
China
7,034
6,592
Colombia
23,903
26,033
4,363
8,647
Costa Rica
31,333
116,263
20,027
2'7,405
Cuba
3,199
214,691
774,875
4,040
81,341
164,944
2,276
3,682
Czechoslovakia
1,257
296,451
228.172
2,205
62,433
69,040
1,412
Denmark
2,724
313,427
389,657
6,328
253,789
112,144
2,977
Dominican Republic
23,951
41,851
6,487
17,303
Egypt
8,040
16,449
1,453
3,345
El Salvador
18,207
35,796
7,135
12,861
Finland
2,281
525,325
507,983
12,444
270,862
97,166
2,696
France
2,184
187,102
361,866
3,298
51,748
109,778
1,028
2,380
Germany
15,856
42,553
3,589.030
1,957,525
7,394
20,811
1,441
No.
Tot. Av.
Total
Total
New
Individual
Back-
Book
Peak
Com-
Pubs. Literature
Hours
Subs.
Magazines
Calls
Studies
Pubs.
panles
Greece
1,891
77,799
225,783
6,028
168,146
56,968
2,367
Turkey
Guatemala
24,809
48,108
13,034
16,076
Haiti
11,900
13,834
3,622
4,537
Hawaii
56,657
49,750
3,430
13,117
13,428
Honduras
10,097
24,707
3,291
7,352
Hungary
126,059
184,089
11,868
88,806
1,253
India
36,039
75,380
2,413
12,300
13,938
Burma
7,608
7,085
2,036
Ceylon
3,505
5,048
1,579
1,321
Persia
Italy
57,943
22,275
5,204
Jamaica
1,185
98,915
306,173
54,693
68,193
1,182
1,411
Mexico
4,125
405,091
910,134
4,513
119,761
145,433
2,228
4,867
Netherlands
3,764
349,798
951,844
4,115
234,694
169,191
1,204
4,247
Newfoundland
16,695
21,183
1,091
6,063
6,965
New Zealand
131,246
171,642
6,012
96,327
41,138
Nicaragua
9,748
18,598
4,500
6,767
Norway
317,996
175,697
4,972
131,535
41,501
Panama
45,995
67,591
1,249
34,225
26,334
Paraguay
8,820
17,774
5,151
5,731
Philippine Islands
2,471
419,890
621,659
107,723
60,249
2,902
Poland
6,334
291,081
941,743
9,148
233,547
349,593
3,642
7,703
Russia
3,498
17,780
152,069
2,452
24,067
41,458
1,220
3,917
Puerto Rico
40,235
43,951
1,420
11,039
15,216
Rumania
1,990
450,940
303,668
87,170
55,140
2,419
2,685
South Africa
3,843
369,935
1,235,017
8,428
211,858
251,091
2,995
4,163
Northern Rhodesia
6,114
1,134
1,982,983
199,847
3,869
8,007
Nyasaland
3,542
1,303
1,077,894
289,810
4,740
4,154
Portuguese East Africa
66,197
18,688
St. Helena
Southern Rhodesia
2,572
33,843
750,568
2,513
122,205
1,630
3,044
Tanganyika
41,781
7,145
Surinam
15,452
22,202
4,179
6,869
French Guiana
Sweden
2,894
323,284
551,932
9,274
537,598
122,890
3,092
Switzerland
1,512
189,735
238,686
3,137
445,902
53,355
1,645
Uruguay
38,904
80,358
16,858
27,613
Venezuela
13,065
23,684
4,576
5,646
West Africa [Nigeria]
3,710
78,533
1,039,520
4,637
43,641
4,111
Gold Coast
8,519
70,077
3,813
Sierra Leone
2,376
4,268
Yugoslavia
1,827
7,847
1,095
TOTAL
181.071
20.472,739
43.842.305
563,101
12.049.344
11.710.832
113,035
207,552
10,782
1947 Service Year
(Continued from page 27) the Bethel home, and their lives are consecrated to the doing of the Lord’s will. These individuals reside at Bethel voluntarily. All receive the same allowance each month, namely, $10.00, which covers incidental expenses. Adequate provisions are made for their care, so as to keep them in good health and able to perform their respective duties in and about the home, radio station, factory and offices.
The broadcasting station, WBBR, had its studios at 124 Columbia Heights up until recently, when the city of New York began the construction of a super-highway in the Borough of Brooklyn. The city needed some of the property on which the Bethel home was situated and therefore instituted condemnation proceedings in the courts to obtain this property. Such action made necessary considerable changes in the Bethel home, and also compelled the Society to make preparations for the construction of a large addition to the present home. The studios of WBBR have been transferred temporarily to the transmitter site at Staten Island. At the same time the Society made application to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to increase the power of the station. This has since been granted, and preparations are under way now at Staten Island for the erection of three large antennse towers and Installation of sufficient new equipment to bring the power of WBBR up to five thousand watts. The station lays down a good signal over all of New York city and vicinity, and this gives opportunity to millions of persons to hear clearly explained the good news of God’s kingdom. With the new equipment and resultant increase in power a much greater area will be reached, thus expanding the radio service in this territory.
Because of the city’s taking away the greater portion of the old part of the Bethel home, the family has been broken up. That is to say, many of the brethren working full time in Bethel service are now living In other quarters. The Society has obtained properties adjoining the present Bethel home for the construction of a new building; however, full possession of the property cannot be gotten until the tenants renting apartments in these homes move out It is believed that all these apartments will be vacant by the early part of February, and then demolition proceedings can begin and construction start on the new and enlarged Bethel.
It is planned to include In this new building improved, modern studios for WBBR, as well as a large assembly room accommodating at least four hundred persons. This latter room will be used for the Bethel family’s Watchtower study, service meeting and other general assemblies. A new kitchen and dining room will also be part of the new structure, because these facilities were lost in the demolition of the older part of the home. Provision is being made for a larger laundry, as well as for many other conveniences that will aid the members of the family in their service for the King and the Kingdom.
ORDAINED MINISTERS
Regular study and instruction are given to all persons living in the Bethel home. They are ordained ministers and have proved themselves as such by their good works, but they never cease to study the Lord’s Word, which is “meat in due season”. Practically all these ministers are assigned special duties in the preaching of the gospel. Many of them serve congregations in New York city; others are sent out regularly to near-by company organizations and serve on week-ends. In addition to those who live in the Bethel home there are hundreds of other ministers that the Society directs and sends from place to place. Those ordained ministers who come under the direct supervision of the Society are listed below. However, it should be kept in mind that the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society Is a society of ministers ; and Jehovah’s witnesses world-wide have all prepared themselves for ministerial duty. “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations,” said Jesus. This Jehovah’s witnesses are doing in all nations. They are desirous of guiding the people into the way of life, and they accept as their commission Isaiah 61:1-3 and Matthew 24:14, along with the many other commands of God to preach this gospel.
ORDAINED MINISTERS APPOINTED TO SPECIAL SERVICE
Abbuhl, David Abt, Harald Adams, Don Alden Adams, Elmer Polk Adams, Joel Cameron Adams, John Edward Adamson, Eduardo Diego Adler, Friedrich Airas, Arvo Akpabio, Asuquo Obot Albu, Pamfll N.
Allan, Joseph Allen, Malcolm Stanley Allen, Paul Arthur Alpiche, Lorenzo Dau long Alspach, Russell William Amaya, Crispin Amores, Victor Casas Anderson, Donald Everett Anderson, Fred August Anderson, John Henry Anderson, Marvin Ferrol Anderson, Raymond Lee Andersson, Henry Andersson, Ivai Andersson, Onni
Andrews, Albert Frederick Andros, Thomas Arend. Benjamin Argentos, John S. Arnold, Edward Atkinson, George Attwood, Anthony Cecil Aura, Mikael Avey, Arthur William Babcock, Earle Babinski, Joseph E. Badgett, Chester Baeuerlein, John Adam Bagley, Clifford Daniel Bahner, Jose Baker, Glenn Seymour Baker, Paul Southgate Bangle, Aleck Banks, Thomas Edgar Barber, Carey Walter Barford, Wallace Leon Barman, Mikael Barnes, Augustus F. J. Barnes, George Quincy Barnett, Arthur Eugene Barney, Paul Joseph
Barr, John Edwin Barrett, George C. Barry, William Lloyd Bartha, Andras Bartlett, Milton Everett (Jr.) Bartrip, Trevor Gordon Bartzach, Otto Baswel, Macario B.
Bauer, Herschel Weert Baur, Otto Bautista, Jose G. Baxter, Donald Edward Baxter, Wallace Hendrie Beck, Paul Boone Becker, Edward William Becker, Wilhelm Beedle, Charles Joseph Behunick. Stephen Beier, Hans Belinger, Hans Belokon, Nicholas Belscher, Delbert Clayton Benesch, Howard Joseph Benson, Joe Ricketts Bernard, Dalways Bernard, John Russell Betley, Samuel Bevington, George William Bible, Reginald Allen Bible,. Richmond Loyd Bible, Roland Wallin Bijl, Gisbertus N. van der Billeter, Max Bjorklund, Josef Black, Harry Blackburn, Woodrow W, Blair, Mortel Isidor Blaney, John Beech Blumel, Richard Bobb, Edwin Elmer Bogard, John Booth, John Charles Borys, Emil Fredy Bosshardt, Walter Botterill, Frank Boyd, Donald Archie Bradburne, Thomas Randall Bradbury, David Martin Bradbury, Rupert Martin Bramc, Earle Roy Brannick, Joseph Benjamin Brehmer, Otto Theodor Britten, Eric Broad, Albert William Broad, Edward Stanford Broadwater, Lloyd Brodie, Ralph Brooker, Gerald Bennett Brown, David Wallace Brown, Monte Cristo Brown, Peter Brown, Robert Mantel! Brown, William Roland Bruderer, Oskar Bruton, John Gist
Brzozka, Franciszek Buenger, Philip Buffa, Paul Bullock, Wilmer Charles Bumphrey, Floyd Ossian Bunt, Wallace Edwin Burczyk, Benno Oskar Burkhardt, Donald Wilson Burt, Donald Herbert Burtch, Lloyd Byron Bussanyi, Laszlo Butts, Paul Allen Byriel, Andrew Call, William Eugene Cantwell, Henry Albert Carnie, William Carpenter, Charles Ernest Carron, Steven Louis Casola, Peter A. Castineira, Guillermo Catanzaro, Angelo A. Cater, Harold George Chapman, Percy Chappuis, George Charles, Cyril William Charlwood, Edmund Chimal, Miguel Chimiklis, John Peter Chinula, Joseph A. Chipeta, Pharaoh M. Chitty, Ewart Charles Choma, Hieronim Chongo, Yolam Chornenky, Theodore Chyke, Calvin Michael Clay, Edgar Allan Clayton, Charles Milburn Clemons, Charles Stephen Collier, Roland Edward Collins, Wallace Allen Colunga, Benjamin Comidoy, Leovihildo S. Commey, James B. Comstock, Eli Hall Conrad, John Jacob Coon, Rex Raymond Cooper, Carleton Davis Cornelius, Russell Stewart Cornwell, Royce Allen Cotterill, Richard Sheldon Couch, George M. Couch, William D. Coultrup, Charles Russell Coup, Carmon LeRoy Coville, Allan Stanley Covington, Hayden Cooper Craddock, John Alexander Crapp, Eric George Martin Crockett, Neil John Cross, Arthur Bright Crowley, James Edmond Cumming, Albert Edward Cummings, Marshall Henry Cummings, Morris Zebron Cutforth, John Ashlin
Dague, Harry
Daniels, Edwin Grant Danley, Albert Franklin Dassler, Fritz
Davis, James Edward Davis, Robert Leonard Dawkins, George Carter DeBoer, Adrian DeCecca, Giovanni Decroly, Firmin DeFehr, John Frank DeJager, Petrus Johannes Delonnoy, Emile Demorest, David Deninger, Orville Edwin Derderian. Dickran Philibbas Dey, William Didur, Alex Mitchell Diehl, Willi Dilling, Robert J.
Dillon, Lee Edward Dingman, William Robert Dionisio, Adolfo F.
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