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Commercialised Contraception Imperils National Life dozen. The retailer, if he takes advantage of the special quantity rates, buys them at the following rates: Package A, 48/8 per dozen; Package B, 42/9 per dozen. These he retails at A, 8/3 each, and B, 7/3 each. This means a profit of over two hun-
Grotesque Profits of Sordid Trade Johnson dred per cent
Australia faces ruin! How often has this solemn warning been given from our Catholic pulpits, and how often as a result, have we been sneered at as scare mongers and described as pessimists, ignorant of the true situation? At last the Government has been jolted out of its smug CanAnd what a jolt it must have received! berrish complacency. At last they have wakened up to the fact that if the population continues to decline the way it has done over the last few years, it will only be a matter of time, and not long at that, when Australia as a nation will cease to exist. Things must have moved, and moved fast, when the Commonwealth Statistician gently broke the news to them that Australia was a dying nation, for the next thing we hear was that Immigration Minister Calwell had packed his bags and was off on a door -knocking tour of the Embassies of Europe in the hope of obtaining fresh blood for the country which the Government in its supine policy had allowed to be drained dry. Well! even if we get these immigrants ,and that worthy gentleman is finding things a bit tougher than he expected, we will have only touched the surface of of a problem that lies much There are deeper than the Government has ever dreamed of. many problems that must be solved if Australia is to survive, but one of the most urgent is that of commercialised birth control.
Whilst this foul but lucrative racket is allowed to continue with the paternal blessing of the Government, we will continue to lose more citizens than Mr. Calwell with all his propaganda and promises can ever hope to obtain. Of its innate foulness there can be no question. It is a diabolical practice contrary to the ethics of Christian morality, and diametrically opposed to the law of Nature and of God. The moral issue at stake will probably fall on deaf ears of the representatives of a country which is fast becoming pagan, but even if they are not interested in the moral side of it, they should at least be interested in the National aspect of the
cer or butcher and demand the rigours of the law for a trifling overcharge of a penny or so on his goods, when they quietly sit back and allow these large rackets to continue and prosper. The sale of other forms or contraceptives is booming. At present in Perth you can take
sales tax, and sell them at one shilling each, This represents a clear profit of nearly two hundred per cent. This profit margin is lowered if the customer buys in bulk, but common experience amongst chemists is that the customer buys singly, rather than in quantity.
I Johnson at it again
It would indeed be very interesting to see why the Prices Branch allows this infamous sacket to continue, and although we are not lawyers, we would Fite to know how they manage to get away with their catalogues and price lists detailing these articles. The Contraceptive Bill of 1939 prohibits the insertion in any newspaper, magazine, periodical, handbill, circular, programme, or other document of any statement intended or apparently intended to promote the sale or disposal of any contraceptive as such. These last two words (as such) left a loophole open for their description as articles of hygiene, etc., but the letterpress in the price list describing ortho-gynol specifically states that it is a "dependable form of contraceptive prescribed by physicians." Perhaps the Minister for Health or the Police Department will be able to enlighten us.
Archdiocese, that humanity is on the verge of the greatest era of peace the world has ever known. This will come about through a public miracle greater than any seen by men since the time Christ walked on earth, according to the whole problem. Blessed Virgin's promise. "We will Is it a profitable concern? Dr. into the world) ,was launching see a wonder over Russia even greater than the wonder of Halliday Sutherland, in his book, an intensive campaign to flood Fatima," said Mr. Haffert. "The Control of Life," speaks the market with this (as they for America. themselves described it) "de- Contraception represents an abuse of Science which threatens He quoted prophetic words spoken 10 years ago by the late "Profits in the contraceptive pendable form of contraceptive." our national life. trade have been investigated by Immediately this exposure was Pope Pius XI., who said: It must be a very profitable ;,our pick of about twenty differ- "The world is seen on the the 'Journal of the American made public, this firm withdrew Medical Association,' and to this the lucrative bonus offer, but form of business when they can ent lines of these hellish pro- verge of a frightful abyss and These are not only men must prepare themselves Dr, A. T. Clark, Professor in the this seems a rather two-faced afford to allow the retailer to ducts. University of Edinburgh, refer- move, as their latest price list make this great margin. Then being sold through chemists by sacrifice for such sufferings red to in a note on patent medi- still offers a very good bonus. there is the profit made by the shops but can now be obtained in as mankind has never seen." cines: A recent analysis made We checked with a few chemists agent handing them, finally the ordinary stores Mr. Haffert went on to say that in America estimates that an- during the week, and were told profit on the manufacture. It Here again a wonderful return "the world has become a darlf nual value of the sales of con- that this bonus is still operative. seems very strange that the is offered you. You can buy valley and it's pretty mach the traceptives to be 250 million dol- This bonus offer (which they agents of the Prices Branch will the ordinary rubber condom at Communists' valley, but into this lars (over £50,000,000 sterling). add is subject to revision or re- swoop on to some poor little gro- 39/- per gross, plus 25 per cent. dark valley in an unprecedented "The trade in condoms which moval on notice) offers tife and miraculous way God is amounted to 38 million dollars, chemist who stocks his shelves bringing His Mother." He narcalls for no special comment, ex- wth this product the following rated in detail the six apparicept that the difference between advantages: tions of the Blessed Virgin at the cost of manufacture (11 Fatima in 1917. At that time If he two dozen assorted cents) and the retail price (161 (i.e., thebuys Our Lady made five predictions, actual preparation and cents) is rather high when we the necessary applicator) he CATHOLIC JOURNALIST INTERVIEWS SISTER LUCY DAS each of which is coming "rue: consider that since a recent ex- gets thirteen tubes to the dozen. DORES, TO WHOM OUR LADY APPEARED AT FATIMA IN Five Predictions. 1917, AND AGAIN IN AUGUST, 1946. amination in America showed he buys three dozen he gets (1) Another more terrible that only 40 per cent. were flaw- If fourteen tubes to the dozen. A An extraordinary prediction happen is that the Holy Father war will engulf and the world. (World less." six -dozen order brings the bonus that there will be no World War and all the Bishops of the world War II.) "Thus," he added, "in America up to fifteen to the dozen, while III. was made by Sister Lucy das consecrate Russia to the Im(2) Whole nations will oe wipthere is over 1,000 per cent. pro- if he lets his head go in a big Dores, to whom the Blessed Vir- will ed out. fit made of cost of manufacture." way and orders twelve dozen he gin Mary appeared at Fatima in maculate Heart of Mary." "Sister," Mr. Haffert continufrom atheist RusWhat are we to say of Aus- gets sixteen tubes to the dozen. 1917, according to a remarkable ed, "do you mean to say that in sia(3)willErrors spread throughout the tralia? We were unable to pro- This, of course, means that he statement by Mr. John MI Haff- spite of all that is happening in world. cure figures showing the actual gets four dozen free. ert, editor of the U.S. "Scapular the world to -day there will be no (4) The good will be Persecutvalue of sales of these articles There must indeed by a very Magazine," who recently return- World War?" ed. in Australia owing to the fact wide margin of profit to enable ed from Portugal, where he visSister Lucy, who has been The Holy Father will sufthat they are handled by sev- them to offer this very hand- ited the scene of the miracles at told the future by the Blessed fer(5)much. eral agencies. some bonus, Not only can they Fatima, and interviewed Sister Virgin, answered simply, "Yes, Mr. Haffert told of religious What we did find, however, do this, but they also allow a Lucy, the only living witness of that is what I mean." in Europe and le was the immense profit made on generous profit on the ordinary Our Lady's apparitions there. Part of the Blessed Virgin's persecution scribed visit with Pope Pius. these lines by unscrupulous man- retail price. Mr. Haffert's statement was message to Sister Lucy has never He said his he had never seen such ufacturers. As we have already remark- made during a series of lectures been disclosed. It has been Readers of "The Record" will ed, this product comes in two delivered in the Archdiocese of written down by her and will not suffering as was marked on the Holy Father's face. remember how in our issue of forms. The first, which they Los Angeles and reported in the be opened by the Church till February 12 we exposed the call Package A, contains the pro- "Tidings," the diocesan news- 1960. Conditions. This is in accordance Johnson and Johnson ortho- duct and the special applicator. paper, on May 30. with instructions given Sister Besides these predictions, the gynol product. We were able to Package B contains the tube of Mr. Haffert who, as editor of Lucy by Our Lady in an appari- Blessed Mother promised that produce evidence that this well- the preparation, without the ap- the "Scapular," was privileged tion last August. she would send peace to the known firm, which is supposed plicator. to interview Sister Lucy das Verge of Great Peace, world if people fulfilled three reto cater for everything for the The prices, wholesale and re- Dores, asked her, "Will there be Mr Haffert said in his lectures, quests. They must: baby (perhaps they should add, tail, are as follows: The agent a third World War?" which were given three and four (1) Make the sacrifice of avoidfor those babies which, despite obtains them at Package A, Sister Lucy replied: "I think times daily to large audiences ing sin. their efforts, manage to come 41/01 per dozen; Package B, 31/6 that the next thing that will throughout the Los Angeles (Continued on Page 13,)