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"Befo re I found your rad io Broad­cast, evolution was my specialty, and

I could soap box for hour s-an -end abouthow noble it was for man to have

fough t his way up from the slime ofsome swamp eons ago, into the ga rbage

dump cities of today. (I was extremelycynical, but still believed deeply in evo­

lution .) Mr. Ga rner T ed Armstrong'srad io lectu res on evolut ion have been a

revelation and actua lly make me squi rmin embarrassment to hear him slash the

whole illogical mess to ribbons ."

Gary E., Shawano ,W isconsin

Barbara E., Reynella,South Austra lia

" Last night I read your article inThe PLAIN TRUTH entit led 'When Fish

Fish - There' s Something Fishy AboutEvolution .' It is one of the best arti cles

I have read in The PLAI N T RUTH. I'mtaking Biology II next year with a

teacher who convinced 90 percent ofthe Biology I class that evolution is the

answer to life. I'll admit before I heardyour broadcast, I was really mixed upabout it. I have found that if you takeGenesis as it is, it' s impossible to believein bot h evolution and God's W ord.Since it is God 's Word, I plan to makesure that this teacher has a smaller per­centage of bel ievers th is year."

Paul J.,Michigan

• Y on tronld probably bare a biggeraudience if open/)' adt'oealing somethingm ore poplllar, like anti-tea r dem on stra­

lions, or race hatred , Bill ellcO"rttgil1g

people 10 onestion erolntion m astboolZ?

way one boy disagreed wi th me and told

me that it was all wrong . Next day hebrought a P LAIN T RUTH along to school.

It conta ined an art icle on evolution. Iwas int rigued and I was wondering if

you could send me any previous copieswh ich have articles in them about evo­lution ."

H ippies

"Since I am a teen -agee, may I sayyour magazines have helped very much.I would have liked to have been ahipp ie un til a few weeks back, when Ireceived your book on Hippies,Hyp0Cl'il )', "lid Happiness, N ow that 1really understand about the h ippies'proble ms, and how they really are, I amvcry g ratefu l."

" I would like to tell )'ou aft er readingthe book Hippies, HJ'P0(ril )', and Hap­piness my eyes have been opened. Ithoug ht hippy life was fun, gay, and justa hig joke. 1 once thought of being ahippy and living that life. Af ter readingthis book 1 have completely changedmy mind. Your book has shown methe other side of hippy life . I'm nine­teen and now have found the way togo. I now wan t to be a usefu l const ruc­tive citizen . I have shown th is book tomany of my friends, and now we seewhat a terrib le thing could have hap­pened to us."

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Evo lution

"Recently in school I was teachingmy class the theory of evolutio n. I ex­plained to them that this was only atheory and was not ent irely pr oved . Any-

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Education

"A friend of mine brought to ourschool The PLAIN T RUTH containing'America's Schools - Vacuum in Val­ues.' My comment after read ing it was,'Amen.' My brother-in-law whom Ivisited recently had your July issue andI read 'America's Schools - Real Pro­gress ?' Again , I echo the question mark .In my 30 years of teaching, my gre atestconcern is today's lack of a sense ofvalues based on the Ten Commandme ntsand the golden rule."

October. 1968

W HY DO MORE THAN FOURMILLION read this magazi ne?How did it come into being ?

Did it have a purpose - fill a need ?WHO was back of it ? WHAT makes it" tick" ?

Some 150,000 new readers have beenadded these past three months. Andmany of our new readers would likeanswers. So in this month's Personal

column I'll try to oblige. And at thesame time, I should like to ask a fewquestions of YOU.

I'll ask my questions first. I havestated many times how newspapers,other magazines and newscasts repo rthappenings - describe problems ­paint the picture of what's wrong inthe world . But they seldom have theanswers. Few seem to know the solu­tions. That is the knowledge gap ThePLAIN TRUTH has come forward to fill.So I would like to hear from our readerswhat you need most to know. Whatproblems would you like better toUNDERSTAND? Wh at will most helpYou ?

I have before me a statement listingsubjects often asked about by magazinereaders in general. ] was a little sur­prised as I glanced over this list. Th eVietnam war wasn't even listed. Healthis listed as the subject of first interest.People wanted to know more about foodand diet, poison in our foods, and howreliable are these new teachings innutrition? N ext came family relations ­including marita l problems, sex, parent­child relations, rearing of teen­agers, dating. They wanted to knowmore about mental-emotional prob lems,making ends meet in finances, crime andjuvenile delinquency. Some wanted toknow more about evolution, and manywant to know where these fast-changingworld conditions are taking us.

But" what do YOU want most toknow ? W hat's YOUR greatest area ofinterest ? What do you want most to

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understand ? Your letters will be wel­come.

I have before me a letter from theEncyclopaedia Britannica peop le. Theytell about a bewildering "informationexplosion." The letter states that man'ssum total of scientific knowledgedoubled dur ing the period from 1948to 1960. Other sources tell us knowledgedoubled in the ten years 1958 to 1968.But also the world 's TROUBLES doubledin that same decade. And that's a mostalarmi ng fact ! It reveals a frighteningknowledge gap !

What's wrong ?

Apparently the new knowledge wasnot the kind of knowledge peopleneeded most to know. We need mostto know what will solve our problem s- what will end our troubles - whatwill bring world peace and individualhapp iness - what will contribute to thefulfillment of PURPOSE in life. Andthat's the ' kind of information we giveyou in The PLAIN TRUTH. Not onlyknowledge to satisfy curiosity - butknowledge of HOW TO LIVE !

And I think that may be, also, theanswer to my first question : "W HY domore than four million people read thismagazine ?"

But HOW did it get started - WHOwas back of it ? - these are questionsI personally can answer better than any­one.

I had put myself - as a young man- in the school of practical training inthe magazine and newspaper field. Ad­vertising was my profession. For sevenyears I was a publisher's representative,having the advert ising representation ofa nwnber of magazines, with an officein Chicago's loop. I not only sold ad­vertising space, I wrote advertising copy.I made numerous surveys to learn publicopinion, and customers' reactions andattitudes toward certain prod ucts andservices. I advised corporations about

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In This Issue:

What our ReadersSa y Inside Front Cover

Personal from the Ed itor . . . . .

Century 21 - Wh at Will itBe li ke? 2

Exclusive Interview with WestGer many's Finance MinisterFranz Josef Strauss . . . . . . . 5

Wh y the Crisis in Citie sThreatens Rural Areas 7

... But Do EducatorsHave the Answer? . . . . . . .. 9

Coming - the So lution toSk yrocketing Crime 14

Rad io log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Short Qu estionsFrom Ou r Readers . . . . . . . . 20

TV log 20

Soviet Sea Power in theMediterrane an . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Bible Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 33

Proph ec y Comes Alivein Toda y's World Ne ws . _., 48

OUR COVERFran z J osef Stra uss, We st Germany'sFinance Min ister, leader of theChristian Social Union in Bavaria,was born in 19 15. He received adegree in history and classical lan­guages at the Univ ersity of Munich.St rau ss expounded hi s views onworld affairs in his book, The GrandDesign. In it he ad..'cca tes a UnitedStates of Europe. led by Europe 'sbig powers, Bri tain, France andGermany. This third power bloc,accordi ng to Strau ss, though stillallied with the U.S. mus t be freeto deal face-to-face with the USSRin order to re lease the captive nat ionsof Eastern Europe. Strauss' accomp­lishm ents ha....e gained for him anumber of honorary doctorate de­gr ees, includi ng one conferred byDe Paul University in Chicago,

CENTURY 21What Will it be Like?

W ill the next decade or two bring human EXTINCTION - orwill Century 21 da wn on a NEW WORLD OF PEACE, with in ­

credible scientific ach ievements?

by Herb ert W. Armstrong

SUDDEN LY this world has becomedifferent! It was never like thisbefore! LOOK at the change in

70 years - then LOOK at the change inthe last TEN ! What will another tenyears be like -and W HAT by Century21?

When I was a boy our family trans­portation was a horse and buggy. Horse­drawn street cars had just been replacedwith the little trolley-car "dinkeys."Telephones were rare, hanging on walls.Only a few downt own streets in citieswere paved. Automobiles were a curioosity - we called them "horseless car­riages." T hey were steered with a stickinstead of a steering wheel.

Gaslights dimly illumin ated citystreets. A man, riding horseback, rodepast with a lighting stick to turn themon at dusk, and again to turn them offat dawn. O Uf home was dimly lightedby kerosene lamps. N o man had everflown. Orvill e Wright's first 12-second,120-foot flight did not occur until af terI was 4Y2 month s into my 12th year.Radio and television were unheard-of.And milk in cities cost 5 cents per quart.

What About the LastTEN Yea rs ?

Now look at the startling "advance"of just the last decade!

They said MOR E KN OW LEDGE wouldsolve -all the world 's ills. So, in the lastten years the world's sum of KNOWL­

EDGE bas doubled - mostly in fields oftechnology, electronics, medicine, andvarious branches of science. But theworld 's problems and troubles HAVE

DOUBLED ALSO! In that same ten years!

But look how ten short years havechanged YOUR LIFE! It was not likethis a single decade ago !

As I described in big-space advertise­ments in mass-circulation magazinesworldwide currently:

T ODAY - it is unsafe to walk onstreets - in city or in town ! Your houseor flat may be broken into if you'reaway! Crime now is rampant, even inresidence areas!

Studen t revolt in twenty countries­violence erupts on campuses. Disheveledhippies lolling aimlessly about.

Unhappy marriages - increasingdivorce - juvenile delinquency. Familyand home life, the FOUNDATION of anyflourishing civilization, falling apart.Police report more homicides in homes,due to family quarrels, than any othersource. WHY this sudden breakdown offamily life ?

Then there's mounting racial strife,mass demonstrations, riots, looting,Widespread mass VIOLENCE! And threatof all-out world-girdling NUCLEAR WAR !

Agaill I ask : W HAT will this world belike in another ten years ? and what byCentury 21?

W hat Scienti sts Prophesy

Scientists picture two opposite ex­tremes ahead.

1) Science, technology and modernindustry are teaming together to producea magic push-button Disneyland dream­world for our near fut ure. Th ey planto bring happiness to humanity by re­ducing work hours to an unheard-ofminimum. No w they are talking about a6-hour day; a three-day work week;

four-day weekends off work; three- tofour-mont h vacations; net incomes, aftertaxes, up to $50,000 (£21,000) peryear, and retirement at age 49 !

They plan to make us all happy byproducing a dazzling array of gad­gets, labor-saving devices, amusementand entertainment mechanisms such asour wildest anticipations have not en­visioned. And medical science plans toreplace breaking down human organs tolengthen lives!

2) Conversely, other world-famousscientists see a far sterner picture of thefutu re - one that reverts to the oppos iteextreme. They see - today - the starv­ing masses of illiterates in India, China,Africa - more than half the world'spopulation in the depths of ignorance,poverty, squalor and degradation; thepop ulation explosion and the comingfood war ; the breakdown of family life,the very BASIS of a progressive andthrivin g society; the spiraling increase incrime; the fast-spreading breakdown oflaw and order, and increasing wide­spread violence; the proliferation andstockpiling of nuclear weapons that canblast all life from off this earth fiftytimes over; and then the mountingcrescendo of strife and hostility betweennuclear-power nations!

All this they see, and view a futureof gloom and doom and absolute hope­lessness. They tell us humanity's onegreat problem, now, is the QUESTION OF

SURVIVAL !

Other scientists, educators and writersenvision the next few years in thismanner: the present trend will continue- only it will accelerate. The world

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will be as it is now. only more JO! Thatis. more dazzling inventions for the fewwho can afford them; increasing millionsof poverty-stricken, starving illiterates inbackward areas; accelerating increase inthe population explosion; increasing im­morality, breakdo wn of marriages andfami ly relationships; mo re crime ; morerace riots; increasing violence; more

sickness and disease; more menta l break­downs; more unrest, d istrust and tensionbetween nuclear nations un til it reachesthe breaking poin t. They see theseworsening conditions speed ing up .

Ask these sober scientists HOW LONGwe may cont inue in this present trend .Some will guess , perhaps ten more years- others think less than ten - somegive us, perh aps. a little more , But that's

only relative ! I t's still a question ofSURVIVAL!

N either of T hese Makes Sense!

But humanity WILL SURVIVE! There

is GOOD NEWS for the future. It is

reported by a major news source most

people - and most scient ists - haveutterly overlooked !

There is a Master Plan already being

worked out. And before Century 21, it

will bring to th is earth PEACE! There isa Master Plan to solve the vast problems

of illite racy, starvation. poverty and

squalor. It entails vast agrarian reforms,

economic reforms, reforms in govern ­

ments, and practical plans to bring aboutdisarmament and world peace.

Many scient ists and world leadersknow, in general, what it will take tobring this solut ion. Tod ay, many far­seeing leaders put their fingers on theone great change that can now savehumanity alive ! What they don't knowis how to implement it !

Wi th one voice. these men say the

solution now demands a WORLDGOVERNMENT!

Sir Winston Churchill said : " A worldsuper-government is the only solution toman' s ills,"

Said D r. Charles E. Osgood , "W hatwe need - and that most urgently - isworld government:' Others, as if withone voice, say the same!

There is just one thing wrong withthis solution - and it's the ONLY one

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advanced. That world super-governmentwould have to be given the power of a.

worl d po lice force to enforce its laws;and it would have to maintain the ONLYmil itary force in the world - all natio nswould have to surrender their armies,navies, and air forces to this one SU PER­STATE !

In a word , every nation would have

to surrender its national sovereigntyabsolutely! And WHAT MAN could be

accepted by all as WOR LD RULER ? Itwould . mind you, be a world POLICE

STATE! Would the Un ited States and

Britain accept De Gaulle as world

Dictator ? No, I'm afraid not in a thou­

sand years ! W ould the Soviet Union

give up their strugg le to harne ss thewho le world with communism, and

accept an American as their world

ruler ?

W ould the U. S. accept a Russian

from the Kre mlin ? Or perhaps a N orthVietnamese Or a North Korean ? N EVER!

ONLY Solution-But W on 'tWORK!

There is only one way the nations

could get together on a world Super ­Government.

Within nations, each ind ividua l hasto be willing to give up his personalsovereignty. He must submit to the lawsof his government, or suffer the con­sequences . O f course individ uals in allcountries are given certa in personalliberties, not prohibited by law.

So it must be with NATIONS- ifthere is to be a world super-government- if humanity is to survive! IF thereis to be the world super-governmentWinston Churchill envisioned, all indi­vidual nations must first give up theirpr ivate selfish goals, their dreams ofworld conquest - of spreading th eirparti cular kind of government aroundthe world.

One important news magazine saidthis can happen only if there is "astrong hand from somewhere" that

would intervene.So there is the world 's dilemma.

All leaders are agreed the worl d'sonly hope is a world super-government.At the same time, all leaders confessfrankly that world super-government is

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absolutely unfeasible and ut terly IM­POSSIBLE!

And where does that leave you ? Doesthat leave you with noth ing but gloomand doom for the future ?

On this world leaders are agreed :The ONLY SOLUTION is IMPOSSIBLE!

Yet There IS Good N ews

Isn't it just about time wc heardsome GOOD news for a change ? Yes.there is, after all, a GREAT NEWS SOURCEthe world leade rs and scientists have leftout of the picture 1 There is a majorworld news source most have over­looked. It repor ts tomorrow's news to­day! It reports world news before ithappens ! It' s news of a gigan tic MASTERPLA N for a world super-government!T here is tha t needed "strong hand fromsomewhere !' .

Two A lternatives and ONLYTwo!

You have to face it - eith er there isnow NO HOPE- either all humanity

soon will be erased from this earth ( to

use an expression spoken by former

U. S, President Eisenhower ) or there

does exist that "strong hand from some­

where" with superna tural pow er to IN­TERVENE in world affairs - to literallytake control from the human GreatPowers of this world and to SAVEhumanity from itself !

Every reader needs to U'ake liP! ­and to realize this means YOUR LIFE

within the next decade or so - and thelives of your children, your family­your friends and neig hbors ! The oneGREAT problem facing every one of usis HUMAN SURVIVAL! And the onlyalte rnative to extinction - SOON - isworld government - so say the leaders !

I sat in the Press gallery in theOpera House at the San Francisco Con­ference in 1945. when world leaderswere drawing up the charter for theUnited Nations, There I heard the lead­ing statesmen of the world warningthat this Unit ed Nations they wereforming was "THE WORLD'S LASTHOPE!" One hour, in plenary sessions,they were uttering this solemn warning- the next hour in group conferenceswith leaders from other nat ions they

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Exclusive Interview with -

West Germany's Finance Minister

Herr Strauss acknowledged greetingsand introductions all around , and re­called having met me earlier in Bavaria.He carried a thick dossier of typewrittenmaterial - obviously briefs for theanswers to the previously submittedquestions he intended to utilize in hiscomments.

Herr Strauss spoke with a thickBavarian accent, though in good andclear English of polish and culture.

As we were rigging the microphone sand preparing for our first eleven- totwelve-minute film cartridge, I askedthe Finance Minister whether I couldalter some of the previously submittedquestions in the light of the recent oc­cupation of Czechoslovakia (sin ce thequestions submitted had been handed tohis secretary some weeks prior to Russia'ssurp rise invasion) to which he repliedin the affirmative. Here is the interviewjust the way it happened :

Question: " A I a resul: of the ssd­den invasion of Czecboslooeeia by IVar­Jaw Pact countries, is a new cold war

In Herr Strauss' Office in Bonn

with Herr Strauss, I was to discover an

intensified desire on the part of Euro­peans for a more unified and moderniz eddefense posture in the event of anythreat f rom the Soviet bloc of nationsto West Germany or other parts ofFree Europe.

About thirty minutes before ourscheduled time of 5:00 P. M. for ourfilmed and taped inter view with thispowerf ul W est German leader. I wasseated at a lounging table in his spaciousoffices in the Finance Ministry. Longbefore. Mr. Norman Smith and membersof our American and German office staffshad been checking and rechecking thelight and camera angles, voice levels andall the technical prepa rations for theinterview.

As it developed , Herr Strauss was inother governmental meetings, and ar­rived in his offices for the interviewapproximately one hour late. Stridingbriskly into his office with his secretary.

by Garner Ted Armst rong

The London Times said: "Aninteresting by-product of theSoviet occupation of Czecho­slovakia has been the politicalreemergence in West Ger­many of Herr Franz JosefStrauss. The powerful FinanceMinister and Bavarian leader,after months of relative si­lence, has spoken out twicein the past week." Actually,Herr Strauss spoke out THREETIMES . Once, before the tele­vision and radio crews of TheWORLD TOMORROW pro­gram . Here we bring you inthis article an on-the-spotreport and analysis of anexclusive interview with HerrFranz Josef Strauss in his own

offices in Bonn.

I T was my second trip to Germanywithin very few weeks. Earlier,members of our radio and television

staff and I had been in Mu nich, Bavariafo r a possible interview with HerrStrauss during the Chr istian SocialistUnion convention. Readers of TheP L AIN TRUTH read of this conventionin our report from Germany in the lastnumber of The P L AIN T RUTH magazi ne.

As I repor ted then, the questions Ihad submitted in writ ing to the personalsecretary of the Finan ce Minister hadproved to be too far-reaching for thismember of the W est Ge rman Cabinet toanswer in an official manner withoutfirst being briefed by other cabinetmembers.

This was prior to the sudden andbrutal occupation of Czechoslovakia byWarsaw Pact allies.

Since that occupation of Czechoslo­vakia, Western Europe has once againbecome an important focal point ofworld attent ion. Arriving in Germanyonce again for our scheduled interview

FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS

beginning all over again? And what, inYOllr view, will ocm r inside U'/ el l Europerelevant to the creation of a UnitedStates of Europe?"

Answer: "I would like to saythat we should not go back to theso-called cold war and its condi­tions, but all of us - Americans,and Europeans, wok a lesson ­a lesson which I hope haseliminated some illusi ons. Theconclusions I draw are not torefresh and relaunch an atmo­sphere aga inst the East, but tocontinue our policy of bridge­building between the \'X'est andour Eastern neighbor nati ons ­I underline 1141;0115 .

"The future of Europe is notbased on the renewal of antago­nism. I think now it is a fight fo rdemocracy where our Easternneighbors, reg ardless of whatsystems they have, ap pea r to befighting fat freedom and democ­racy."

Here Herr Strauss, in commentingabout eliminating some "illusions," wasreferring obviously to the voices among

liberals both in Germany and theUni ted States who continually talk of"de tente" and the lessening of cold wartensions, and held out hopes that theCommunist party line was indeedchanging.

When Herr Strauss said he "under­lined nations" he was referring tostepped-up trade and poli tical negotia­tions with several of the Eastern Euro­pean neighbors, includ ing Romania andBulgaria.

Question: "T he Soviet Union basaccused that German arms, Germancameral were used in helping precipitatethe invasion of yoltr eastern neighbor.W har is the official position of theIf?est German government to thoseaccusations ?"

Answer: "T hat is a comp letelie - a com plete lie. I can tellyour audience some things whichhave not been discl osed up tillnow. These thi ngs are very in­teresting , because a Czech po licesta tio n was telephoned by an un-

Garner Te d Arm st ro ng (ri ght)ta lks with Franz Josef Strauss,West Germa ny' s Finance Minister.

Ambouodor Colleg" Pho :"

kn own man th at weapons wou ldbe under a bridge. The policecenter im medi atel y called thepolice sta tion in the neighbor­hood. Ten minutes later, poli ceshowed up and they foun dnothing.

"Some hours later they cameback and they found the weapons.The tim ing was not arranged verywell.

" A second thing. The weaponswere American fr om W orld W arII. Everybody can get them.Anyone can get them anywhere.But the weap ons were preservedwith an oil which chemis ts dis ­covered was oil from the GermanSoviet zone [ East Germany]. Theweapons were in sacks and bagswhich were Russian. T hey evenhad a Russian inscription . \V heninspected by Xvra ys, it was dis ­cove red they had tried to elimi­nate th e Russian inscription andhad subs tituted an inscription'0. S. Army.' I think I have noth­ing ro add,"

Later, off-camera, Herr Strauss ex­plained to me that it was usually thehabit of this particular police stationto drive the distance to a smaller neigh­boring town to investigate any suchclaim or disturbance - and that theirdeparture from their usual procedureby telephoning a neighborhood policestation had resulted in the discovery ofthe plot.

Obv iously;' then, while Herr Strausswas not at liberty to divulge his sourceof inform ation, he feIt W est Germa nintelligence had uncovered a plot by theSoviets to fake complicity between theUnited States and W est Germany inhelping instigate an anti-Communistrevolution in Czechoslovakia.

Question: " Wi th the jillal disap­pearance of the tariff barriers betweenthe inner six of the Comm on Market,what is the next step for W eJternEllrope - toward complete political

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integretion? If JO. bon- call this bel lrome abont ?"

Answer: "T he customs havebeen eliminated since the first ofJuly this year, but this does notmean full economic integrat ion.A group of serious problems areahead of us. You asked about thenext steps - they comprise awide program; for instance, har­moni zati on of taxes. There is nofull-scale economic union wi th­out harmonization of taxes . Weneed a coordination, and, lat eron, an alignment of social poliocies. Then we must elabor ate aprocedure on how to accept newmembers. There are some diffi­culties. But we Germans alwayshave favored an open door policy.We want the entrance of GreatBrita in. Of course, some termsand conditions must be fulfi lled .

"One of our major conditionsis th at the desire for admission tothe Common M ark et is not basedupo n the motivation to impedepolitical integration . We wantmore members in the Commo nMarket, but members who areread y and prepared to join us onthe way tow ard a poli tical inte­gration with the long-run goa lof the United States of Europe.T hat would be our answer to

wha t has happened in recent daysin Eastern Europe."

Characteristically, Herr Strauss once:again insists Great Britain is a neededmember nation of any United Statesof Europe. However, knowing the stiffBritish resistance to complete absolutionof their indiv idual sovereignty, andgiving up of all national autonomy inthe favor of complete absorption intoa United States of Europe, one wouldwonder whether or not the continualurging of some leading Germans thatBritain join the Common Market ismore "good politics," than it is eitherpractical or possible.

Privately, in the offices of the privatesecretary to Germany's Chancellor, KurtGeorg Kiesinger, I asked the secretarywhether it was not now too late forthe admission of Britain into theCommon Marke t when considering thesevere economic crises that have plaguedBritain in recent years, (and the resul­tant economic shocks which would befelt throughout other Common Marketcountries in trying to absorb Britain's

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industrial complex, riddl ed with feather­bedding, and myriads of other prob ­lems,) and found the personal secretaryof Germany's Chancellor to be in agree­ment that it was, indeed, too late forBritain. Thus. while stating "we wantmore members in the Common Mar­ket," Herr Strauss was quick to addhe wanted members who are " readyand prepared to join us on the waytoward a political integration with along-run goal of a United States ofEurope!"

Strauss' "answer" to what hashappened in recent days in EasternEurope implies a veiled warning to theSoviet Un ion that aggressive moves bythe Russians will be met with a stiffen­ing of resolve by W est Europe, andonly hasten political integration and thecreation of a strong united Europeanarmy.

Question : " IF ill the creation oftensio ns brotlxht about bJ the occnpa­non of Czecboslovaeie beoe a counter­reaction ill IFestern Europe in produc­ing a" even more IJrgent desire fOI'political IJnit)' fo r common protection ?"

Answer: "O ne of the strong­est for ces in the fifties for theunification of Europe was thepolicy exercised by Stalin. Inthe meantime some people hadstarted to forget th at. Now weare seriously and severely re­minded of the facts with whichwe are living. And I think th atthe idealistic dream th at we Euro­peans could live in a corner ofwo rld polirics - I rhink thisidealistic dream has been de­st royed. What I say is directedaga inst nobody. but, when I wasin the United Sta tes a few weeksago. I met one American concernwhich affected me, and that wasthe American fear of becomingovercommitted everywhere in theworld.

" If we investigate in commonwhere Americans and Europe anscou ld share the [defensive} bur­den in a better way, I have neverbeen a fr iend of the slogan'Ami, go home.' Quite to thecontrary! But I believe the Euro­peans should take more responsi­bility for their defense.

" In a reorganized and modern­ized NATO, I think the Euro­peans have the basic resources foruniting to take a greater shareof this bur den. This will help

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you, it will help us. This willnorm alize the distribution oftasks inside NATO; this willstrengthen our resolve to be abso­lutely secure in the face of anyfut ure surprises."

In mentioning the "strong force ofthe fifties" for the unification of Eu­rope, and the policy exercised by Stalin ,Herr Strauss was referring to the wide­spread fear of Russia in all of Europe,and shared by the United States duringthose years which brought about thecreation of N ATO, and a great dealof the fervor for unity in the mindsof Europeans.

The "idealistic dream" to which HerrStrauss refers again shows his im­patience with the standard Americanpolicy of attempting to impose strictarms limitations on West Germany ( in­cludin g the Lockheed Starfighlm, ofwhich nearly 100 have crashed insideGermany in recent years - and whichGerman defense leaders maintain hasbeen foisted upon Germany as an ex­pedient by the American economy tohelp balance its import-export quotas)and to insist that West Germany andall of Western Europe, with the ex­ception of France, dwell under a bigpower "nuclear umbrella" but be deniednuclear weapons of their own.

Strauss has continually pointed outthe fact that while West Germany istruly a giant of world economy andindust ry. she has remained a politicaldwarf.

His mentioning of the American con­cern which affected him - that of theAmerican "fear of becoming over­committed" again echoes the fears ofmany Germans that the United Stateswould NOT launch itself into any seri­ous "conventional" war in Europe topreserve Western European integrity .With domestic turmoil in the UnitedStates over the Vietnam War, and themultiple thousands of American troopsneeded to garrison such far-flung placesas Korea and Vietnam, West Germanofficialdom sees little hope of any seri­ous United States intervention in theevent of an unexpected Soviet armoredthrus t into Europe.

Question: " Looking at the inoolie­ment of the United States in V ietnam,

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by Ambassador Co llege Resea rch Depo rtment

another attempts to get at the root ofurban ills,

A Call for Im mediate Actio n

G . Wa terhouse _ .... mbauodor Coli. ,.

Habitat 67 - crchltect's idea of the Cityof Tomorrow - port of Expo 67 's theme atMontreal, Ca nada's wor ld fa ir. Man andhis world is creating gion t megalopolises- threaten ing our en tire pla net.

On e such conference convened re­

cently in Paris. More than 250 scien­tists and delegates from 62 countriesand 38 international organizations

gathered for the United Nations­sponsored conference on "The Rational

Use of the Biosphere."

These experts - in their conclud ingsummary. September 13 - called for aworld drive to meet the " terriblethreat" modern urban civilization posesto its own surv ival.

Conferen ce vice president ProfessorCarlos Chagas of Brazil surprised news­men at the end of the nin e-day con­ference. He qu oted a statement byProfessor Rene Dub os of the Rocke­feller Center that some cities are be­coming so poll uted tha t "human lifemay become impossible in a decade orso."

Dubas has also warned that actionmust be taken soon or "we may findthat half the populations in these cities

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scientists and engineers attempt ing tocombat it. New pollutan ts are addedto the envir onment faster than the oldones can be dealt with .

As one sociologist observed : "Thegrowth of cities is perhaps the biggestsingle problem facing man in the secondhalf of the Twentieth Century."

On e international conference after

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Threatens Rural AreasCongestion, pollution, decay, crime and violence. These havebecome the common lot of big cities around the world. Noweven remote rural areas can no longer escape the costly impactof urban problems. Is there a solution to the mounting crisis?

ALl OF A SUDDEN - what's hap.1"1.. pened ? It was never like this

before!It's unsafe to walk on the streets ­

in city or in town ! Your house may bebroken into if you' re away ! Crime isrampant, even in high -class resident ialareas :

Pollut ion of air and water bewild ers

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will be sick and the other half will beengaged in giving them medical treat­ment;"

These are men who know! Theyfear the direction in which large urbancomp lexes are headed . They are de­manding a dramatic reversa l of events.

Soon - \X'orld 75% Urban !

Other international conferences arecrit ically exam ining the full scope ofthe urban crisis.

At the 196 8 Del os Symposium inGr eece, a group of internationally re­nowned city planners, scientists andscholars met for one week . In a dec lara­tion issued at the end of their con­ference, these experts concluded :

"Witb)» 30 years, the population ofthe earth will have more than doubledto reach 7 billion . Hal f of these peoplewill be under 25. If present trendsconti nue , the present half of the world'spoplliatioll who 1UJW live in the citieswill have risen to three- quarters."

Th e impac t of this coming crush ofhuman ity, most of it focused on exist­ing and develop ing cities, is alreadybeginning to have devastating effects.As the Delos declaration stressed:

"Unless fa r-reaching and immedi atesteps are taken, the cities of the world- large and small , ancient and modern- will be grievously unprepared toreceive them," it said .

"We will have to build approxi­mately twice as many new habitationsas man has bu ilt f rom the begin ningof history. Even if immediate andsuccessful action is taken to halt thepopulat ion explosion and to moderatemigrat ion into the cities, the tasks weface are enorm ous."

R ural Areas A ffe cted

For the United States, the populationexplosion into the cities is alreadyfollowing the same relentless course.By the turn of the next century, saythe experts, 4 out of every 5 Americanswill becrammed into met ropo litan areas.

Existing cities are foreseen by cityplanners as fusing toget her into giantmegalopoli ses with the countryside inbetween being absorbed . The exodusfrom the small towns to big cities con­tinues unabated, contributing to thecities' woes. And it aggravates theproblems of ru ral America.

The PLAIN TRUTH

W ith in each urban complex, the"seco ndary mig ration" of middle classresidents to the suburbs will certain lynot abate in the near future. Not withheigh tened racial tensions within the" Inner City,"

W orst of all, the entire panoramaof dilemmas with in our cit ies today ­much of it caused by present alreadyovercrowded cond itions - can onlyintensify!

T he crisis in the cities is not limitedto urban society. Increasingly, ruralAmer ica, rural Britain, rural Canada,Australia. South Af rica and rural othercountries, feel the impact of the woesof the big city.

The tax burden to support big cityneeds is destined to increase fo r allcitizens - urban, suburban , and rural- as federa l gove rnment progra ms aredeveloped to attempt cures for urban ills.

Some planners have estimated tha t itwould take the expe nditu re of perhapsTWO TR ILLION DO LLARS in order torehabilitate America's cities and to planahead for future urban growth, and thepligh t of British and European citiesis almost as bad . It is a worldwideprob lem.

COII11t1eJI billions have already beenspent. With seemingly little to showfor it, except for clogged expresswaysand crowded high. rise buildings. Th equality of life in the big cities iserod ing faster than ever.

But more money will be spentnevertheless. And it will come from thepocket of the farmer, the suburbaniteand the factory worker.

Other budding crises are destinedto leave their mark on the "man onthe farm ." Big city social sicknesses arespilling over rapidly into rural dist ricts.On e example : Crime.

Crime is now a serious threat evefy­

u-bere in the United States. The latestFBI crime report reveals a startl ing21% increase in nationw ide crime thefirst half of this }'ear over the sameperiod in 1967.

Broken dow n, the rate zoomed up24% in cities with more than 250 ,000population. Big city suburbs registereda 21% upswi ng. But notice the leapin crime in smaller cities and rur al dis­tricts ! The crime rate in cities and townsless than 10,000 popu lation shot up

October, 1968

17%. Rural areas registered a 14% rise,Worldwide, all the ills of the city

are gradually infused throughout theenti re countryside, The city is thenucleus of any society, When the citydegenerates , the whole society is certainto follow!

Britain 's Cro wd ed Cities

Many recent newspaper and newsmagazine articles have highlighted theworsenin g state of America's cit ies.Little attenti on has been devoted toBritain's part in the deepening world­wide urban crisis outside of her ownpress media.

Britain was the leader of theIndustrial Revolution. As indu strializa­tion progressed rapid ly, most English,Welsh and Scotti sh towns were simplyunprepared to cope with its resultantby-produ cts - overcrowd ing, poor hous­ing, traffic congestion, air and waterpo llution .

W hat has already happened to indus­trial Brita in has gradually occurred tonearly all the Western world. N ow thesame ills th reaten to be the fate ofmany overcrowd ed underdeveloped na­tio ns as they rush heedlessly into avirtua lly unplanned industrial society!Th e lessons of what has befallenBritain and the Un ited States are goi ngunlearned .

"The g rowth of cities is perhaps thebiggest single problem facing man inthe second half of the twentiethcentury," says Dr. J. K. Brierley in thebook, Biology and the Social Crisis.

In Britain this is a problem of con­

siderable magnitude.Town planners are troubled at the

state of British cities. " In littl e morethan a centu ry; the quality of our urbanlife has tragically deteriorated. Thedeterioration is now gat hering mo­mentum, and will, we bel ieve, disinte­graIl' our cities unless immediate action

is taken ." Thi s is the startling conclu­sion of the first report of SPUR, theSociety for Plann ing and Ur ban Re­newal. SPUR is a body of architects,plann ers and sociologists formed towake up and inform the pub lic of theurgency of the problems of urbanrenewal.

Urban ization presents special, crucia lpenblems in Brit ain. N INE OUT OF

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• • .BUT DO EDUCATORSHAVE THEANSWER?

Educators are increas ingly convinced they have found the wayto world peace and unity .. . "education in the SPIRITof SCIENCE." " Science is neutral - non-political - non­religious," they say. " Its products are universally desired ."But what is the spirit of science? Can it bring peace and unity

where all else has failed?

T RY TO PICT URE Alexander theG reat as he might have com­miserated with Julius Caesar

over their mutual failures. Alexand er is

speaking :

"Julius, old friend," he says, " I wassure I had the soluti on - conquer •emand then marry 'em. That way youkeep it all in the fam ily. But you know,somehow it didn't wor k. W/c finallydeveloped a monumenta l case of in­compatibility !"

Then Julius Caesar, rolling his eyesin despair, replies sympathetically,"Alex, you had a great idea there, butfolks are mighty fickle. You just can'tdepend on 'em. Spook 'em into line ­that' s my motto ! Tell 'em you' re god!- that shakes 'em up. But you know,I never could convince some of my bestfriends !"

Pretty far fetched? Yes, and yetin whatever age - wherever in theworld. the elusive dream of a ON E­

\\'O RLD SUPERCUL TU RE has fired theimagination of illus trious leaders fromancient times till now! None succeeded.

W hy ?

A Chronicle of Failure

Man's history is an un interruptedchronicle of powerful leaders - soldiersstatesmen - theologians - dreamers,who have tried literally everyth ing ­from force of arms, to miscegenation ,moral suasion, even religion in effortto establish a one-world "superculture."

Tragically, however, history is alsoan uninterrupted chron icle of man'sabyssmal inability to weld together the

by V ern L. Farrow

nations of the earth in peace andmutualism.

World languages have been proposed.International legal bodies have beencontrived without success. N ations haveexperimented with po litical, mil itary,religious, and economic alliances to noavail. Utter failure has frustrated everyscheme. N evertheless, the dream stillbeckons.

The unceasing search cont inues forsome unifying set of values acceptableto all - some belief or operat ive creeddesirable enough and universal enoughto bring all nat ions into common under­standing and cooperation. Today thenew hope is SCIENC E.

W'orldwide CommunityThrou gh Science?

Now, just as man's ecumenical re­sources seemed nearly exhausted, anexciting grou nd swell is sweeping theworld.

Everywhe re, science and technologyare transforming the minds and livesof who le nations.

Among peop les of the most diverse

and backward cultures there is a restlessawakening - an insistent hunger for

more knowledge, better health, an

abundan ce of material pro ducts, new

ways of pro longing and enr iching the

enjoyment of life.

In developin g countries, opposition to

change is breaking down . Tradition is

gradually losing its power to perpetuate

diversity. Make no mistake, there isa worldwide scie11lific-techn%gira/ rev-

olntion under way. And everywhere itis producing startling results.

\Vh atever their race, whatever theirideologies, whatever their historical back­grounds, whatever their social traditions- differing cultures are beginning toevidence a uniqu e new common identity .

All nations are becoming concernedwith the common aspirat ions, commonmaterial good s, common values, andcommon problems associated with sci­ence and technology. As a result, in thedri ve to enter the scientific age, culturespeculiar to emerging nations are beingmodified. Peoples everywhere arc be­gin ning increasingly to act, thi nk, yes,even d ress alike!

Honda - Coca Cola - Volkswagen- Telefunken - Sony - Boeing 707- desalin izat ion - bikini - nylon -nuclear reactor - "the pill" - IUD- Red Mexican W heat - pestic ides- chemical fertilizer - IR-8 SuperRice - transistor - and automation,for example, are fast becoming house­hold words among an ever-wideningcircle of earth's popu lation .

"The most obvious result of thespread of science and technology to thedeveloping countries, has been the de­velopment of similar institu tions andappearances all over the world." Soreports the Educationa l Policies Com­mission of the National Education As­sociation. "The same products, the samemeans of producing them, the sameways of organizing life so that they canbe produced and used, and the sameimpacts on the appearance and structures

of society tend to spread around the

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CAN COCA-COLA SUCCEED WHERE UNITED NATIONS FAILED?­Aro und the world, " co ke" is a household word - he lping to ma ke theworld drink ali ke eve n when it doesn' t th ink a like! Left, Cocc-Cclc andPepsi - two Ame rican soft d rinks, being advertised in Ma nila , Philippine s.Above , la ud a to ry motto carved in sto ne opposite United Na tions build ing .The U. N., despite its efforts at broadening scientific educa tion, ha s fa iledto make nations tha t dri nk al ike think a like.

Certa inty an Illu sion

Now, let's consider the next point.The natural human mind can compre­hend only those things which the fiveexternal senses can perceive - theworld of physical things - the world

M ore simply, the spirit of science isa boundless, optimistic faith in thepotential of bnman r e(I10 1J ami ingenu­ity to overcome every obstacle and toachieve man's wildest utopian dreams.

"That sounds great I" you may bethinking. But wait a minute - let's besure we understand what is involved.Remember, educators are urging thatthe "spirit of science" become the com­mon basis of curriculum everywhere.You need to know just what it is theyarc proposing to teach children andyouth around the world .

Let's take a look at the three pivotalvalues or beliefs which undergird theso-called spirit of science.

Human Reason Is SupremeAuthority

Understand fi rst that the spirit ofscience is, above all else, a spirit ofabsolute confidence ill MAN . It is anattitude of mind which views man as

the supreme culmination in the "cvolu ­

tionary" scheme of nature - thesnpreme intelligence.

It is a mentality which ascribes un­limited power to man when he is freeto pursue the processes of rationalinquiry and experimentation.

At its heart is the absolute convic­tion that there is 110 rtNthority greaterthan the individual hum an mind ! The"thinker," say proponents of the spiritof science, feels compelled to insistthat his curiosity and activities cannotaccept limits imposed by all)' externalauthority!

Briefly, then, the key characteristicof the spirit of science is an absolutebelief in the supreme flmhority ofhuman reason , Man's mind becomes themeasure of the universe !

"But where does that leave God?"you are probably asking. The simple(and convenient) answer is - DEAD!

And that's the answer, direct or im­plied, that is being given to youngpeople wherever the spirit of sciencedominates the school curriculum.

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appear to hold great promise of cuttingacross national and cultural boundaries.A promise of finally binding togetherthe peoples of the world in a long­sought oneness of thought, purpose,and aspiration - a worldwide "super.culture."

Exciting ? A real breakthrough? Arescience and technology finally the answerto all our longings ? Is the world reallyon the brink of utopia and un ity at last ?Or is this merely another mirage onman's bleak horizon ? What is this so­called "spirit of science" anyway?

Just What Do You Mean ­The Spirit of Science?

The "spirit" of anything is its essence,its motivating force, its heart and core.Just so, the "spirit of science" is theessence - the fundam ental guidingprinciples upon which modern scienceand technology rest.

Look at this definition of the "spiritof science." According to the Educa­

tional Policies Commission, "The spiritof rational inquiry, driven by a belief inits efficacy and by restless curiosity, is. .. commonly called the spirit ofscience:"

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world .. ." (Edllcation and the Spiritof Science, [966, p. 5) .

Kenneth E. Boulding, professor ofEconomics at the University of Michiganalso observed this growing commonalityin experience and environment resultingfrom the introduction of science andtechnology. He wrote, "The supercultureis the developing society . . . [for ex­ample], all superhighways are the samesuperhighway: all chemistry departmentsan: the same chemistry departme nt . . .and in a very real sense, all universitiesare the same university." Expanding onthis striking uniformity he remarkedthat, " Any university person can gointo a university anywhere in the worldand be immediately at home, especiallyin his own department. A chemist cango into a chemistry department inTokyo, Peking, Moscow, Madr id, nomatter where it is, no matter what theideology is, and it is still chemistry.There is no JIIch thing as Communistchemistry or Cbristien chemi1try; thereis jm t chemistry. Every discipline hasa worldwide community." (Cm rentIssues in Higher Education, 1966, pp .14, 15.)

The spirit of science does indeed

Chr idopher$on _ Amba uodor College

KODAK INSTAMATIC INVADES NI~ERIA - Note signs "Ko da k" and" Agfa " in upper left of photo. Agfa is a G e rma n prod uce r of photog raphicfilm; Kodak is an American firm producing the sa me type of pro duct s.Photography is the sa me the wo rld over.

that is known through taste, touch,sight, smell, and hearing.

For the scientist who views his in­tellect as supreme, this log ically meansthat the material universe is the limitof all possible knowledge and thus thelimit of all " legitimate" scientific en­deavor. TIle idea of supernaturalknowledge is totally rejected.

He is then nagged by the questionof how accurately he is able to com­prehend the materia l world. From ex­pericncc he is suspicious of the limita­tions and imperfections of his physicalsenses. He doubts thei r reliability.Therefore, he is forced to conclude thatthere can be "no perfect knowledge andno perfcct knower !"

At length, the scientist is left withno alternative but to reason that cer­

taint)' is unat tainable and so the ideaof certainty is replaced with the II1Ker·tain idea of probability!

It has been said that "i ncompletenessrules science." The "scientist" Can never

rest assured that he has reached the firmbedrock of truth. For him to do sowould be to fly in the face of his human

reason ! It would be utterly "unscien­tific."

So a second characteristic of the spiritof science is a belief in the ;mpoJiibilit)'of certainty, At best, physical knowledgemust be accepted as "h ypothetical" andtruth viewed :1S "relative." Certaintyis an illmion I

\XThat incredible nonsense! It is thisvery teaching - th is popu lar agnosti­

cism that is responsible for so muchof the frustration and despair among theworld 's youth today. Ask yourself, "Canstability and unity come from confusion

and doubt?"N EVER!

The Law of th e Possible

In science, human reason is elevatedto supreme authority, Certainty is re­placed by prohability. The "tools ofscience" are admittedly incompetent todeal with supernatural knowledge. Sothe spirit of science is necessarily dis­qualified from making moral judgm ents.

Th e rational scientist d isavows suchconsiderations in his work. IVhat is andwhat is possible are the limits within

which he operates. The spirit of sciencewalls itself off irrevocably from concernwith tohat oug ht to be,

Prominent author and social criticArchibald Macl.eish recently wrote,"After Hiroshima it was obvious thatthe loyalty of science was not tohumanity but to truth - its ov....n truth- and that the law of science [spiritof science] was not the law of the good- what humanity thinks of as good ,meaning moral, decent, humane - bntthe lau- of the possible:"

MacLeish concluded that the pre­vailing att itude is that, "\X'hat it ispossible for science to know, sciencemnst know. \XThat is possible for tech­nology to do, technology will have done... regard less of anything! " (SatllrdayReoieu-, July 13, 1968, p. 14.)

Yes, the law of the possible guidesscientific endeavor. This is the thirdpivotal characteristic of the spirit ofscience. It simply boils down to completefreedom of action ioitbos t moral re­

spollJibilit)'!\XTilbur H. Ferry, vice president of

the Fund for the Republic, summed upthe law of the possible in very pithyterms when he bitterly referred to"" . , . the high priests and acolytes oftechnology's temples ... enraptured by

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appear if we could get them togetherfarming algae and reconstitutin g sewagefor food ?

Arc tensions decreasing in the worldas one after another nation begins toshare the scientific and technologicalknow-how to produce nuclear energy?N o! Just the opposite is true !

W ould the race problems around theworld be settled if every native hutwere equipped with color TV, stereoH i Fi, an electron ic oven, and insideplumbing ? Don 't you believe it !

When will we learn that unity amongmen is a matter of heart and 110t hard­

ware? And when will we learn that thespirit of science can only deal withhardware and not the heart ?

No! Education 10 the spirit ofscience is not the long-awaited Messiah.The only things it can deliver arcflashy, chrome-plated, computerized,transistorized idols dedicated to man'slusts and prog rammed for frustrationand destruction!

Scientific process is being confusedwith burnan pu rpose. Man's highestcalling seems to have become an une nd­ing, enervating round of production andconsumption - an irrational obsessionwith the manufacture of things to besquandered on Jelf .'

English philosopher Aldous H uxleyidentified our dilemma with great per­cepti on when he said, "Technologicalp rogress has merely provided us withmore effic ient means of going back­ward! "

YCS, what is desperately needed isa new spirit guiding the minds andlives of men - a spi rit of humility,compassion, service, and outgoing con­cern .

Unfortu nately, there is no sciencelaboratory, no tec hnological process, andno science education prog ram with thepower to implant that spirit in thehearts of men.

But the GOOD NE\'(rs is that there isindeed a M ESSIAH - the Jesus Christof your Bible - the very source andfountainhead of the S PJRIT OF LIFE

AN D LOVE. He has promised to bringUNI TY and UTOPIA and TRUE SCIEN CE

to th is earth SOON ! And He will!

Wi ll you believe it ?

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N eeded - a New Spirir

Are we really so gu llible and materi­alistic as to believe that a helicopter inevery front yard, a synthetic suit ofclothes on every back, a transistorradio plugge d into every ear, a trans­planted heart beating in every bosom,a frozen TV dinner in every belly, anelectric toothbrush jammed into everymouth would bring world unity? Pre­posterous!

And so what if science is now inalmost full possession of the means tomodify the hereditary nature of everyanimal, p lant, and microbe on earth in­clud ing man . What unity docs thatguarantee except perhaps height, weight,and color of hair and eyes ?

Would the Jew-Arab conflict dis-

Does the impact of that remark shockyou ? What mot ivates such a conclu­sian ? THE SPIRIT OF SCIEN CE !

Look around you. Look at the abso­lute perfect ion and balance in natureand the universe. T hen compare itwith the insoluble wretchedness, pol­lution, destruction, and chaos whichman has produced. Can you honestlybelieve that bnman reason is the masterof all thiogs ? What absurdity ! Andyet th is is the spirit, the att itude, theframe of mind which educators hailas the basis for international unity.T his is the mentality they arc urgingshould be fostered in schools aroundthe world !

MAKING ANTIBIOTICS IS THE SAME THE WORLD OVER - An ultra ­mod e rn che mical labo ratory in Roma nia . It could be a nywhe re . The inte r­na tiona l cha racte r of che mistry contributes to the hope for world unity. Butit isn' t so lving nat iona l animosities.

Up with Science ­Down with God!

Robert Sinsheiner, pro fessor of bio­physics at California Institute of Tech­nology stripped away any sentimentalillusions when he boldly declared, "T hescientist has now in effect becomeN ature with a capital N and God witha capital G !" ( Sat/l rda)' Review, Janu­ary 20, 1968, p. 43. ) Th ink aboutthat ! T he scientist now openly claimingto be GOD!

the pursuit of what they most often calltruth, but what in fact is obscene

CIIl'iosity .. ." (Satllrdtzy Review, March2, 1968, p. 50) .

It was that "obscene curiosity" whichgave mankin d the "Bomb" along with

at least a half dozen other exotic meansof annihilating all life from the planet.It also fathered the "Thalidomide gen­eration." And it is that same obscenecuriosity which is presently obsessed withthe manipu lation of human genet ic struc­

ture, intra-uterine surgery on the de­vcJop ing human foetus, and control ofhuman behavior through implantationof electrodes in the brain!

So there you have it. Th e spirit ofscience is a spirit of deep skepticism,doubt, and cynicism - dehum anized,clinical, and coldly materialistic.

It is essent ially a self-seeking att itude,unconcerned with moral or social con­sequences - A LAW UNT O ITSELF!

Coming the SOLUTIONto Skyrocketing Crime

Why are hundreds being gunned down in the U. S. today?Why has there been no SOLUTION to the worldwide rise incrime? Read why leading authorities ADMIT failure - and

HOW the problem of crime WILL BE SOLVEDI

by Richa rd H. Sedliacik

ELEVEN · YEAR-O LD Cindy heard twodull thuds as she watched televi­sion one afternoon. She believed

the muffled sounds came frnm the TV.

Later, Cindy began wondering whyher mommy and daddy hadn 't joinedher yet. Curious, she went to the bed­room to investigate. T here she faced agrisly scene. Both parents were lyingon the floor - DEAD !

Cindy'S stepfa ther had SHOT hermother - and then himself !

But WH Y ?

Id eas - But N o Solutions!

Legislators claim TOUGH ER gun-con­trot laws will curb mounting crimes ofviolence. But this is blaming the gunfor the crime and overlooking thecriminal !

Just hours af ter Senator Robert F.Kennedy died from gunshot wounds,June 6, the U. S. Congress passed anomnibus ant icrime bill.

President Johnson called the bill a"watered-down" and "half -way mea­sure," In a radio and television addressto the nation, the President said hewanted even tongber curbs on gunsales. Mr. Johnson pleaded : " I callupon Congress in the name of sanity,in the name of safety - and in thename of an aroused nation - to g ivethe nation the gun-control law it needs."

The President has a reason to bealarmed.

According to the U. S. Department ofHealth, Education and W elfare, 750,000Americans have been killed by privatelyowned guns since the turn of the cen­tury. T hat's more deaths than in all the

wars the U. S. has been involved insince the Civil W ar.

Each year, in the United States alone,gu ns are used in more than 6,500 mur­ders.

Guns are also involved in 10,000U. S. suicides. In 2,600 accidentaldeaths. In 44,000 serious assaults. In50,000 robber ies and in 100,000 non­fatal injuries each year. Every day, anaverage of 50 Americans die by fi re­

arms misuse - more than one deathevery 30 minutes .'

T he U. S. - an Armed Camp !

The U. S. has been involved in adomestic arms race - spu rred largelyby racial tension,

Beyond a few basic facts, informa­tion about the gun count is anybody'sg uess.

But supposed ly know ledgeable esti­mates range all the way from 50million to 200 million privately ownedguns of all types in the U. S. - or onelor each citizen.'

Th e U. S. has become a virtualARMED CAM p! One N egro leader said :"T here are more guns in Los Angelesthan in Saigon" - at least 3 million.'Last year in Massachusetts, 1,100 gu ndea lers sold enough guns to equip anarmy of 56,000. In W ashington D.C.,alone, handgun sales have risen by morethan a thi rd in the past year.

"People are overly alarmed," worriesFrank Flanagan, command er of homi­cide for Chicago's police depa rtment ."White and black people arc overreact­ing , and it' s just snowballing."

Nothing seems to convert a fleeting

murderous human impulse into actionmore effectively or finally than a gun!But remember, gu ns don 't commitcrimes - people do I Those people whoallow the spirit of hate and murder tocontrol their thinking and their emo­tions,

As Detro it police commissioner RayGi rardin puts it : "When people haveguns, they use them. A wife gets madat her husband , and instead of throwinga dish, she grabs the gun and killshim."

T he Commissioner contin ued : "Twofriends have an argument. On e pulls agu n and shoots the other, apparentlyjust because he' s got the gun." (Statis­tics show that two thirds of criminalassaults in the U. S. and three fourthsof all U. S. homicides result from quar­rels amol1g family Of friel1ds.')

Of course only a small percentage

of people who have the means tomurder - or even the impulse ­actually go so far as to take anotherperson's life. Most people maintainsome control over their emotions. Butfar too many people have not beenproperly trained to exercise self-disci­pline and to cont rol their emotions. In

the U. S. this problem especially affectscertain ethnic g roups. In Switzerland,where almost all homes have firearms,few murders occur because people arctaught to control their emotions,

N eeded: "A W ay to

CO N T RO L Aggression "

Th ere is a CAUSE for every effect !And for the past 6,000 years, men havebeen trying to treat the ,.es/~/tJ of th is

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world 's problems, instead of gett ing atthe ROOT CAUSE !

Th e real cause of crime, and of allthe world's ills is simply U N REST RAIN ED

H UM AN N AT U RE . Th e real solu tion canbe simply stated in just three words :CHA NGE H UM AN NATURE !!

World leaders and phi losophersrecogni ze man 's natu re must be changedif today's problems are to be solved.But they have to admit man is ,,/lu i )'incapable of effecting this change!

Time magazine phrased it this way:

"To cope with what Sir James Frazerdescribes as th is 'standing menace tocivilization,' many authorities suggestthat a WAY must be found to CON­T ROL AGGRESSION ..." ( Tim e,June 21, 1968, p. 18, emphasis ours).

Human nature - with its pride,vanity, lust and greed - is the prob­lem. But the way to solve the problemhas eluded philosophers and statesmenthrough the centuries.

What the g reat ph ilosophers and

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statesmen haven't realized is that theway to solve the prob lem has beenavailable all these years! Th ey justhave refused to believe it ! T here is abook that tells all about human nature- what it is, and how to change it !

Th at book is your Bible !It reveals the solutions to the BIG

problems confronting the world - thepro blems of crime, of war, of sicknessand poverty. It reveals that th is presentgeneratio11 is destined to see the END

OF W A R AND CRIM E!

Sound impossible ?It would be - if it were left up

to MEN. But man is about to berescued from his own folly. God haspromised it .

T here is coming a time - soon ­when all instruments of destruction willbe converted into usefu l, peaceful p rod­ucts. Take a glimpse of what theworld tomorrow will be like : "Theyshall beat their swords into plowshares.and their spears into prsningbooes:

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nation shall not lift up a sword againstnation, N EIT HER SH ALL T HEY LEARN

WA R AN Y MORr" ( Micah 4 :3) .

Aoything wrong with that ? Peopletaught to live at peace with each other!No more shootings, muggings, robberiesor suicides ! And the detection ofpoten tial crime will be so fantasticallyswift and sure, that would-be criminalswill be discovered at the very momentthey beg in to M ER ELY T HINK of com­mitt ing some criminal act !

But exactly how will all this beachieved ? Human beings cannot solvethe crime problem by gun laws.

On ly a H IGH ER and infinitely wiserPower than man can effectively put anend to all crime, and bring sufferinghumaoity world peace ! On ly the Spiritof God within man can do it. Only thepower and authority of the very govern·m eri t of God can do it !

Th e very One who created man withhuman nature will show how humannature can be CH ANGED - and why

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we have had human natur e In the first

place J

What Will It Be Like ?

The pages of your Bible arc fu ll ofthe good netos of that wonderful\X'O RLD TO MORROW . The}' tell you allabout the coming time of world peaceand prospe rity, and what it will reallybe like!

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T he first lesson of th is fu lly illustratedcourse asks - and answers straight fromthe Bible - the question : " \X/hy JII/dythe Bible in the SPAC E AGE ?" It beginswith the meaning of the chaotic timesin which we are living, and shows youHOW to nnd erstand th e Bible !

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H ere are a few excerpts f rom thethou sands of letters our students havew ritten . W e beg in with one from

Milwaukee.Since I had the advantage of a good

deal o f thi s wor ld's educa tion, I feelqualified 10 make th is next statement.Although the Co rrespon dence Co urseis writt en so that anyone who canread the Bible can easi ly do the wo rk;in quality and thorou ghn ess of instruc­tion, it is eas ily the equ ivalent ofcour ses given for college credi t by thebette r colleges and unive rsi ties. It isrea lly superio r. . ..

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have a hi gh ed uca tion to take theAmbassador Coll ege Bible Correspon­dence Co urse. I didn' t finish highschoo l and tha t kep t me from writingfor it a long time. Now there isn' tenough money to buy the lessons fromme that I have received.

Studen t, Tavares, Flori da

From the M idw est comes this letter :\-'\lh at amazes me is that you ask the

quest ions and tell us which scripturesto read and then the Bib le itself ex­plain s it, I' ve heard you say many timeson your radio hroadcasrs, " Let theRib le interpret itself ." It rea lly can anddoes, if peop le would only give it achance. Th ank you so much for Jett ingme he a pa rt of thi s won derful course.

Mrs. P. L., Yo ungstow n, Ohi o

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lessons o f the Bible Cor responde nceCourse . Suddenlv I realized the amaz­ing change in my un ders tand ing of theBible as l recall ed the da ys before Iever req uested the cou rse. It has hel pedmove me nut o f complete misunder­standing. myth. guesswor k and be­wilderment, and into a d ear and ever­revea ling knowledge of the Bible. Th ecomments in l 'be PLAIN TR UTHmaga zine about the wonderful course,I used to regard sub tly. But now I alsoshare those o ther people's great enthu ­siasm.

Edward M.• Hanford, Californi a

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Yo ur Bible Course really shows onehow to study the Bible and wha t theBibl e rea lly S;l~-S . Most people don ' treal ize that the Bible is a book for ourdar and age. Th ey have never provedthat it is tr ue or that there is a God _Yo u give the proof. I now believe thatthere reall y is a God, and that theBihle is Hi s Word. The Bible hasbecome a new book to me. I neverrealized wha t the Bible said until now.

D. M., Apache Junction, Arizona

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th is cour se. It makes the Bible so pl ainand und erstand able . For peop le who donot willfull y close thei r eyes, it makesthe pr ophe cies COOle al ive by showingus how today's world-shattering news

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is simply prop hecy being fulfi lled .It L., Dall as, Texas

Perhaps yO ll are a housewife ? Bored

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was, un til -I am a hou sewife and for a time I

became bored do ing the same thin gover and over aga in every day, withnoth ing exciting to do . Th en I beganreadi ng Tb e PLAIr": TR UTH and be­came enrolled in the Correspon denceCou rse. And now , I have never in allmy life had anythi ng like it. I t reall y isp lain . simple, and easy to understand.And mo st inspiring. I enjoy it (0 thefull est. And since I've been studyingthe Bible, there is lo ve, happiness, andconte ntment in our home. Th ank voufor help ing me to find the rruth in £histime of trouble.

Mrs. ~1. S" Ridgeway, Virginia

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"T he WORLD TOMORROW"MAJOR STATiONS

Eost

WOR - New York - 710 kc. , 11:30p.m . Sun .

W HN - New Yo rk - 1050 kc., 11:30p.m. Sun .

\X' H AM - Rochester - I 1S0 kc., 10:30a.m. Sun .

WWVA - W heeli ng, W . Va. - 1170kc., 98 .7 FM, 5 a.m. and 8:30 p .ru.Mon-Fri ., 10:30 a.rn., 8:30 p.m. Sun.

\V RK O - Boston - 6S0 kc., 985 FM,6:30 a.m. Sun.

W BAL - Baltimore - 1090 kc., S:30a.m. Sun .

WRVA - Richmond - 1140 kc., 10p.m. Mon-Sar., 10:30 p.m. Sun.

\VPTF - Raleigh, N. C. - sso kc.,94.7 FM, 1:30 & 10:30 p.m. Mon..Fri ., 10:30 p.m. Sat ., 9 :30 a.m. &10 p.m. Sun.

WBT - Charlotte, N . C. - 1110 kc.,8 p.m. Mon- Fri., 11:05 p.m. Sun.

Centro' States

\'VLAC - Nash ville - 1510 kc., 5 a.m.Mon-Sat., 7 p.m. dail y, 6 :30 a.m.Su n.

WSM - N ashville - 650 kc., 9 p .m.Su n.

\'VCKY - Cincin nati - 1530 kc., 5 a.m.Mon-Fri., 5:30 a.m. Sar., 12 midnigh tT uea-Sun ., 7, 9: 30 p.m. Sun.

\X'L\Y/ - Ci nd nnati - 700 kc., 7 a.m.and 11:05 p.m. Sun .

W JJD-Chicago-l160 kc., 11 a.m. Sun .W ISN - M ilwa ukee, Wis. - 1130 kc.,

10:30 p.rn. dail y, 9 a .m . Sun.KSTP - Minneapol is-St. Paul - 1500

kc., 5 a.m. Mon-Sar., 8 a.m. Sun .KXEL - W aterl oo - 1540 kc., 9:30

p.m. Mon-Sar., H p.m. Sun.KX EN - St. Louis - 1010 kc., 7:15

a.m. & 12 noon Mon-Sar., 10:30 a.m.& 4 p.m . Su n.

Sout h

KRLD -Dallas- 1080 kc., 8:10 p.m .(o r before or a fte r ball game) dai ly.

W FAA - Dal las -820 kc., 10:45 p.m.Men-Sat.

KTRH - Houston - 740 kc., 7:30 p.m.Sun-Fri .

\VO AI - San Antoni o, Tex . - 1200kc., 10:15 p -m - Mon-Sar., 10:05 p.m.Sun .

KW KH - Sh reyeport - 1130 kc., 94 .5FM , I p.m. & 9:3 0 p.m. (o r befor eor af ter ball gam e) Mon.-Fri ., 11:30a.m. & 11:30 p.m. Sat., 10:30 a.m. &9:30 p.m. Sun.

WNOE - New Orleans - 1060 kc.,9:30 a.m. Sun.

KAAY - Little Rock - 1090 kc., 5: 15a.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 9:30 a.m.,7:30 p.m. Su n.

W G UN - Atlanta - 1010 kc. , 11 a.m.Mon.-Sat., 4 p.m. Sun .

WAPI - Birmingham - 1070 kc., 10a.m. Sun.

W M O O - Mobi le - 1550 kc., 7 a.m.Mon.·Sa t., 10:30 a.m . Sun.

W INQ - Tampa - 10 10 kc., 12 noonMon .-Fri., 12:10 p.m. Sat ., Sun.

KRM G - T ulsa - 740 kc., 10 a.m. Sun.

*Asterisk indicate s new sta tion or timechange.

XEG - 10 50 kc., 9:3 0 p.m . daily.(CSl)

Mountoln StgtesKOA-Den ver- S50 kc., 9 :30 a.m . Sun.KS\VS - Roswell , N . Mex. - 1020 kc.,

6:30 a.m. daily.XELO - 800 kc., 8 p.m. dai ly. (MSl)

W est Co a stKI RO - Seattle - 710 kc., 10:30 p.m.

Mon-Sar., 5:30 a.m. Tees-Sat.KRAK - Sacramento - 1140 kc., 9 p.m.

dail y.KFAX - San Francisco - 1100 kc.,

12:30 & 4: 15 p.m. M on-Fr i., 8:30a.m . & 4 :15 p.m. Snt., 10 a.m. Sun.

KGB S - Los Angel es - 1020 kc., 6:30a.m. Mon-Sar., 10 a.m. Su n.

X ERB - Lower Cali f. - 1090 kc., 7p.m. daily.LEADING LOCAL~AR EA STATIONS

EastWBMD - Baltimore - 750 kc., 12:30

p .m. dai ly.\X'PEN - Philad elph ia - 9 50 kc., 5:30

a.m. & 6:30 p.m. M en-Sat .• 7 a.m .Sun.

\VPI T - Pi ttsburgh - 730 kc., 101.5F.M, 12 noon Mon-Fri., 1:30 p.m.Sat., II a.m. Sun.

\VMCK - Pittsburgh - 1360 kc., 12:30p.m. dail y.

W H P - Harrisbur g, Pa . - 580 kc., 7:30p.rn. daily.

WJAC - Johnstown, Pa. - 850 kc.,7:30 p.m. dai ly.

\X'SAN - Allentown. Pa., - 1470 kc.,6:05 p.m. Mon-Pri., 7:05 p.m. Sat.,8:30 p.m. Sun.

\VSCR - Scranton, Pa. - 1320 kc.,12:30 p.m., 7 p.m. dai ly.

W BR E-\V ilkes-Barrc, Pa. -1 340 kc.,98 .5 FM, IJ :30 a.m. Mon-Frl., 1 p.m.Sar., 10:30 a.m. Sun .

\X'CH S - Cha rle ston , \V. Va. - 580 kc.,7:30 p.m. dail y.

\VCIR - Beckley, W . Va. - lOGO kc.,5 p.m . Sar., 12:30 p.m. Sun-Fri .

W TVR - Richmond, Va . - 1380 kc.,7 p.m . dail y.

W CYB -BrislOl, Va . - 690 kc., 12:30p.m. dail y.

W LOS -Ashevill e, N . C.- 1380 kc.,99.9 FM, 6:30 p.m. Mon-Sat., 12:30p.m . Sun.

W PAQ - Mount Air}', N . C. - 740 kc.,I :05 p.m. Mon-Sat., 9:3 0 a.m. Sun.

\V FNC - Fayetteville, N. C. - 940kc., 98. 1 FM, 1 p.m . daily.

W AAT - T renton , N . J. - 1300 kc.,12 noon Mon-Sat., 9:30 a.m. Sun.

\X' EVD - N ew York - 1330 kc., 97.9FM, 10 p.m. dail }'.

\VV O X - N ew Rochell e, N. Y. ­1460 kc., 93.5 FM, 6:30 a.m. Mon.­Sat., 8 a.m. Sun.

WGLI - Bab}'Jon . L. L - 1290 kc., 6:30p.m. Mon.-Sat ., 7 p.m. Sun .. '.

'X' BNX -New York -1380 kc., 9: 15a.m. Sun . (in Span ish).

W O KO - Albany, N . Y. - 1460 kc.,8 p.m. da ily, 10:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat.,10 p.m. Sun.

'X'\X'OL - Buffalo, N . Y. - 1120 kc.,4 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Sun.

WHLD - Niagara Falls, N .Y. - 1270kc., 12:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri ., 1:30 p.m.Sun.

\V\VN H - Rochester, N . H . - 930 kc.•7:05 p.m. Mon-Sar., 9:05 a.m. Sun .

WDEV- W aler bur y, Vt.-550 kc., 6 :30p.m. Mon-Sar., 8 p.m. Sun .

WPOR - Portland , Me . - 1490 kc., 9a.m. Sun .

WCOU - Lewiston, Me . - J240 kc.,9:30 p.m. Sun.

\VR YT-Boston- 950 kc., 6 a.m. MOll.­Fri ., 12:30 p.m. Mon-Sar., 12 noo nSun.

\'(' BET - Brockton, Mass. - 1460 kc.,7:0 5 p.m . da ily.

\\::' 1\lAS - Sp ringfield, Mass. - 1450kc., 94.7 FM, 8:30 p.m . Sun.

\VA CE - Chi copee, Mass. - 730 kc.,7 a.m. M on-Sa t., 12:30 p.m. Sun .

\VE IM - Fi tchburg, Mass. - 1280 kc.,8:30 p.m. Sun .

WII~lP - Northa mpton, Ma ss. - 1400kc., 8:30 p .m. Sun.

\VI ARE - \'(lare, Mass. - 12;0 kc., 8:30p.m. Sun.

\X'JAR - Pro vidence, R. I. - 920 kc.,8:30 p.m. Mon- Pri., 6:30 p.m. Sat. &Sun.

\'(lN LC - New Londo n, Conn. - 1510kc., 8:30 p.m. Sun.

Centra l

WSPO - Toledo, Ohio - I.no kc.,9:05 p.m. Mon-Sat ., 9 p.m. Sun.

\X'SLR - Ak ron , Ohio - 1350 kc., 8p.m. daily.

\V FM) - You ngstown, Ohio - 1390kc., 10:30 p.m. dai ly.

W BN S - Col um bus, Oh io - 1460 kc.,8:30 p.m. dai ly.

'X'BRJ - Marietta , Ohio - 9 10 kc.,12:30 p.m. dai ly.

W CLU - Cin cinnati - 1320 kc., 12noon daily.

\VjBK - Detroit - 1500 kc., 5:30 a.m.Mon .-Sat .

\VBCK - Battl e Creek, Mi ch. - 930kc., 7 p.m. Mon-Fri., 12:30 p.m .Sat., Sun .

WKMF - Flint, Mich. - 1470 kc.,6:30 p.m. da ily.

W IDG - St . Ignace, Mich. - 940 kc.•12:10 p .ru. da ily.

\X') PO - Ishpem ing, M ich. - 1240 kc.,6:30 p.m. daily.

K\V KY - Des Moines, Iowa - 1150kc., 12:30 p .m., 9 :30 p.m. dai ly.

KO m - O mah a, Nebr. -660 kc., 6: 10a.m. Mon-Sar ., 12 noon Sat.

KHVN - Lexin gton, Nebr. - 1010 kc.,3 p.m . Mon-Sar. , 10 :30 a.m. Sun.

KMMJ - G rand Island, Nebr. - 750kc., 4: p.m. dai ly.

\X'N AX - Yank ton, S. Dak. - 570 kc.,7:30 p.m. dail y.

KFYR - Bismarck, N. Dak. - 550 kc.,7 p.m. daily.

KFGO - Fargo, N . Oak. - 790 kc., 7p.m. Mon.-Fri ., 7: 10 p.m. Sat . & Sun .

\V EAW - Chi cago - 1330 kc., 8 a.m.& 12:15 p.m. Mon .-Fri ., 7:30 a.m. &12 noon Sat ., 9:30 a.m. Sun. (105 .1FM, 7 a.m. Mo n.-Sat., 8 p.m. Sun .) .

WJOL - Joli et, Ill. - 1340 kc., 9 ' 30p.m. dail y.

\VXCL - Peoria - 1350 kc., 6:30 p.m.da ily.

( ContinI/cd on ,lext pllge ) us

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\V ITY - Danville, III. - 980 kc., ;p.m. daily.

WWCA - Gary, I nd. - 1270 kc.• 6:30p .m. Mon-Sar., 4 p.m. Sun .

WSBT - South Bend - 960 kc., 9 :05p.m . Mon-Sat. , 9 p.m. Sun .

'~\VJOB - Hammond, Ind. - 1230 kc.,7 p.m. Men-Sac, 6 :30 p.m. Sun .

WISe - In di anapoli s - 1070 kc., 10:30p.m. Sun .

KLlK - Jefferson Ci ty, Mo. - 950 kc.,1 p.m. daily.

KFVS - Cape Girardeau , Mo . - 960kc., 7 a .m . Men-Sac, 9: 15 a.m. &7:30 p.m. Sun .

KWTO - Springfield, Mo. - 560 kc.,6:30 p .m. daily.

KFEQ - St. Joseph, Mo. - 680 kc., 7p.m. daily.

KUDL - Kansas Cit},• Mo. - 1380 kc.,5:40 a.m. .Mon-Sat., 8: 30 a.m. & IIp.m. Sun .

KFSB - Joplin, Mo. - 1310 kc., 12:30p.m. daily.

W IBW - Topeka, Ka ns. - 580 kc.,9:30 p .m. Mon-Sat. , 9 a.m. Sun.

KFDI- W khita, Kans . - 1070 kc., 10p.m. M oo.-Sar ., 12:30 p .m. Sun.

KFH-Wichita, Kans.-1330 kc., 100.3FM, 6: 30 p.m. Mon-Sat., 9:30 a.m.Sun .

K BEA - M ission, Kan s. - 1480 kc., 7p.m. daily.

KGGF - Coffeyville, Kans . - 690 kc.,6 p .m. dail y.

KUPK - Garden City, Kan s. - 1050kc., 97 .3 FM, 12:30 p .m. Mon-Sat.,12:15 p.m. Sun.

KXXX - Colby, Kans. - 790 kc.,8 :30 a.m . Mon-Sat., 11:30 a.m . Sun.

WMT - Ceda r Rapids - 600 kc., 11:30a .m. Sun .

KMA - Shenandoah , l a. - 960 kc., 8::\ 0p.m. daily.

WOC - D avenport, Ia. - 1420 kc., 10p.m. Moo.-Sar ., 9 p.m . Sun .

KGLO - Mason City, l a. - 1300 kc.,6:3 0 p.m. Mon-Sar., 7:30 p .m. Sun .

KQRS - Minneapolis - 1440 kc., 92.5FM , 6:30 a.m. Mon-Sar., 10 a.m.Sun.

KRSI - Minneapolis - 9 50 kc., 6:30p.m. daily.

W EBC - Dulu th, M inn . - 560 kc., 6 :30p .m. dai ly.

\X'NFL - Green Br y - 1440 kc., 6: 30p.m. Mon-Sar., 5 p.m. Sun .

WSA U - W ausau, Wis. - 550 kc., 7:05p.m . Mon-Sat., 7 p.m. Sun .

WCOW-Sparta. \'Q'is.-1290 kc., 6 :30a.m. Mcn-Sat., 10 a.m. Sun .

So u th

KEES - G lad ewater, Tex. - 1430 kc.,12 noon dail y.

KTBB - Tyler, Te x. - 600 kc., 12 noo nda ily.

KLVI - Beaumont, Tex. - 560 kc.,6:30 p .m. daily.

KTBC - Austi n - 590 kc., 5:30 a .m .Mon-Sat., 9:30 a.m. Sun .

KM:AC - San Antonio - 630 kc., 7:15a.m. Moo.-Sar., 9 a.m. Sun .

KCTA - Co rpus Ch risti , Tex. - 1030kc. , 12:30 p .m. Mon .-Fr i., 4:30 p .m.Sat., 2 p.m. Sun .

KTLU - Rusk, Tex. - 1580 kc., I p.m.Sun.

"The WORLD TOMORROW"XEWG - £1 Paso - 1240 kc., 9 a.m.

Sun . (in Spanish).KN IT - Abilene, Tex. - 1280 kc., 8:50

p.m.•Mon-Sar., 8 a.m. Sun .KGNC-Amarillo-710 kc.,9 p.m.daily.KCTX - Childress, Tex. - 1500 kc.,

11:30 a.m. Mon-Fri., 12:15 p.m. Sat.,2 p .m. Sun .

KWFT - W ichita Falls - 620 kc., 8:30a.m. Mon .-Sat., 4: 30 p.rn. Sun.

KF.Mj - Tulsa - 1050 kc., 12:30 p.m.dai ly.

KBYE - Ok lah oma Cit)' - 890 kc.,12:30 p.m. M oo .-Sar ., 10:30 a.m. Sun .

KXLR - Little Rock - 1150 kc., 12:30p-ro- dai ly.

KBHS - Hot Springs, Ark. - 590 kc.,12:30 p .m. dai ly.

K\'Q'AM - Memph is - 990 kc., 1J a.m.Mon-Sat., 10 a.m. Sun .

WMQM - Memphis - 1480 kc., 12:30p.m. Mon-Sat., I p .m . Sun .

WH BQ - Memphis - 560 kc., 9 a.m.Sun.

WFWL - Camden, Tenn. - 1220 kc.,2 p.m. Sun .

\VDEF - Chattanooga - 1370 kc., 92 .3FM , 7:30 p.m. dail y.

\'Q'KXV - Knoxville - 900 kc., J2noon & 7:30 p.m. daily.

WBRe - Bi rmingham - 960 kc., 106.9FM. ll:30 p.m. dail y.

WYDE - Birmin gham - 850 kc., 7:30p.m. Mon-Sar., 9:30 a.m. Sun .

WAAX-Gadsden, Ala.-570 kc., 12:30p.m. Mon-Sat., 12 noon Sun .

WCOV - Montgomery - 1170 kc., 6:30p.m. daily.

W MEN -Talla hassee - 1330 kc., 8:30a.m. M on-Sar., 10:30 a.m. Sun.

\VFLA - Tampa - 970 kc., 7:05 p.m.daily.

\'Q'INZ - M iami - 940 kc., 7 p.m. dail y.\'Q'GBS -Miami - 71O kc.• 9 a.m. Sun .WFAB -Miami -990 kc., 9 a.m. Sun .

(in Spanish) .WFIV - Ki ssim mee, Fla. - 1080 kc.,

7:30 a.m. Mon-Sar., 12:30 p .m. Sun .W8IX - Jack so nville, Fla . - 1010 kc.,

12:30 p.m. dail y.WEAS -Savannah , Ga. - 900 kc., J2

noon daily.WKYX - Paducah, Ky. - 570 kc. ,

12:30 p.m . daily.

Mo untain S'ate s

KPHO -Phoenix - 91O kc., 6:35 p .m.dai ly.

KASA - Phoen ix - 1540 kc., 12:30 p.m.dail y.

KCUB - Tucson - 1290 kc., 6 a.m.Mon-Fri., 7 a. m. Sat ., 9:30 a.m. Sun .

KTUC - Tucson - 1400 kc., 8 p.m.dail y.

KY UM - Y uma, Ariz. - %0 kc., 6:30a. m. Mon-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun .

KCLS--Fl agstaff, Ati z.-Goo kc., 12:30p.m. daily.

KGGM - Albuquerque - 6 10 kc., 6:30n.m . daily.

KLZ - D enver - 560 kc., 106.7 FM,7:15 p.m. dail y.

KMOR-5alt Lake Ci ty-1230 kc., 6:35a.m. Mon .-Fri.• 6 :30 a.m. Sat .>9 a.m.Sun .

KBET - Reno - 1340 kc., 6:30 p.m.1\lon.-Sat. , 7 p.m. Sun .

KIDO - Boise, Idaho - 630 kc.• 7:05p.m. daily.

KBDI - Boise - 670 kc., 6:30 p.m .dail y.

KTFI - Twin Falls, Idaho - 1270 kc.,7:05 p.m. daily.

KSEf - Poca tell o, Idaho - 930 kc.• Iip.m. dail y.

KMO N - Grea t Falls, Mom. - 560 kc.,6: 30 p.m. Moo-Sar., 8 p.m. Sun.

West Co a s t

KHQ - Spokane - 590 kc., 8:05 p.m.daily.

KEPR - Pasco, \'Q'ash . - 6 10 kc., 7p.m. dai ly.

KV I - Seat tle - 570 kc., 8 a.m. Sun .KBLE-SeattIe-l050 kc., 12 noon da ily.K1W -Seattle - 1250 kc., 7:15 a.m.

Moo.-Sar ., 10 a.m. Sun.KMO - Tacom a, W ash. - 1360 kc., 8:30

p.m. dail y.KA Rl - Bellingham - 550 kc., 6 :30

p.m . dail y.KWjJ - Portlan d - 1080 kc., 9 p.m.

Mon-Sar., 10 p.m . Sun .KLIQ - Portland - 1290 kc., 92.3 FM,

7:30 a.m. Mon-Sat., 12 noo n Sun.KEX - Portland - 1190 kc. , 9 a.m. Sun.KG AY - Salem - 1430 kc., 6:30 a.m.

Mon.-Sat ., 9 a.m. Sun.KUGN-Eugene-590 kc., 7 p.m . dail y.KUMA - Pendleton, Ore. - 1290 kc.,

6:30 p.m. da ily.KYlC - M edford , Ore. - 1230 kc.• 6:30

p.m. dail y.K\X'I N - Ashland, Ore. - 580 kc.,

7:30 p.m. daily.KAGO - Klam ath Falls, Ore. - 1150

kc., 6: 30 p.m . daily.KSAY-San Fran cisco-lO IO kc., 12:35

p.m. M on-Sat., 8: 30 a .m. Sun.KFRC - San Francisco- 6 10 kc., 106.1

FM, 7 a.m. Sun .KFIV - Mod esto - 1360 kc., 6 a.m.

Mon-Sat. , 9 a. m. Sun.*KT O M - Salinas - 1380 kc., 7 p.m .

daily.KBIF - Fresno - 900 kc., 7:30 a.m.

Mon-Fri., I I a .m . Sar. , 10 a .m. Sun .Kl\·G S - H anford, Cal if. - 620 kc., 6

p .m. Mon-Sat., 10 a.m. Sun.KCHj-DeJano, Ca lif.-IO IO kc., 7:30

a.m . Mon-Sar., 8 a.m. Sun .KGEE - Bak ersfield - 1230 kc., 5 p.m.

daily .KDB -Santa Barbara -1490 kc., 93 .7

FM , 7 p .m. da ily.KRKD - Los Angeles - 1150 kc., 96 .3

FM, 7 p.m. Mon-Sat., 9:30 a .m., 6:30p.m. Sun .

KTYM - Inglewood - 1460 kc., 12noon Mon.-Fri.

KFOX - Lon g Bea ch - 1280 kc., 100.3FM, 9 p.m. Mon-Sat., 9 :30 p.m. Sun .

KBI G - Los Angeles - 740 kc., 10:30a .m. Sun .

KA CE - San Bernardino-Riverside ­1570 kc., 7:05 a.m. Mon-Sat., 9 :30a.m. Sun .

KCKC - San Bernardino - 1350 kc., 9p.m. dail y.

KM EN - San Bernardino - 1290 kc.,6 a.m. Sun .

KCHV-Pa lm Springs - 970 ke, 6:30a.m. Mon.-Sat ., 12:30 p.m. Sun .

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KOGO - San Die go - 600 kc.• 8:30p-m- Sun.

X EMO - T ijuana - 860 kc., 6 p .m.daily.

KALI - Los Angeles - 1430 kc., 4:45p.m. Sun . (in Spanish).

Alask a & HawaII

KFQD - Anchorage, Alaska - 750 kc.•7:30 p.m. da ily.

KNDI - Honolulu, Hawaii - 1270 kc.,6 a.m., 6 p.m. dai ly.

KTRG - Honolu lu, Hawaii - 990 kc.,5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat.• 12 noon Sun.

*KPO I - Honolulu. Hawai i - 97.5 FM,8 a .m. Sun.

CANADA

VOCM - St. J ohn 's, NfId. - 590 kc.,6:30 p .m. daily .

CJC H - Halifax. N . S. - 920 kc.,10:30 p.m. Mon-Sat., 10 p.m. Sun.

CFBC - St. John. N .B. - 930 kc. , 7p.m. daily.

CKCW - Mon cton , N . B. - 1220 kc..6 a. m. Men-Sat .

CJE M - Edmu ndsto n, N . B. - 570 kc.,7:30 p.m. daily.

CFMB - Mont rea l, Que. - 1410 kc.,6:30 a.m. Mon-Sar., 1:30 p.m. Sun .

CKOY -c- O trawa, Om. - 1310 kc., 5:30a.m. Men-Sat.

CJ ET - Smiths Falls , Onto- 630 kc.•7:30 p.m. Mon-Sat., 10:30 a.m. Sun.

CK\'V'S - Kings ton. Onto - 960 kc.,8 :30 p.m. Mon-Fri., 10 p.m. Sat .

CHEX - Peterborough, Onto- 570 kc.,8:3 0 p.m. Mon .-Fri., 10:30 p.m. Sat.

CKFH - Toronto. O nto - 1430 kc., 6a.m. Mcn-Sar., 10 a.m. Sun .

CHIN - To ro nto. Onto - 1540 kc., 4 :15p.m. Mon .-Sar., 12 noon Sun.

CKLB - Oshawa, Onto- 1350 kc., 9:05p.m . Mon .-Sat ., 10:30 p.m. Sun.

CHLO - St. T homas, Onto - 680 kc.,6 a.m. Mon-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun.

CHYR - Leam ington, Onto - 5:30 a.m.daily at 730 kc., 6:30 p.m. dail y at710 kc.

CFCH - N orth Bay, Our . - 600 kc.,8:30 p.m. Mon-Fri., 7 a.m. Sun.

CKSO-Sudbury. Ont.- 790 kc., 6 a.m.Mon-Sar., 5:30 p.m. Sun.

CKGB- T immins, Onto- 680 kc., 8:30p.m. Mon.-Fri ., 7 a.m. Sun.

CJKL - Kirkland Lake, Om. - 560 kc.,8:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri ., 7 a.m. Sun.

CKCY - Sault Ste. Marie. On to- 920kc., 6:30 p.m. da ily.

CJNR - Ell io t Lake, Om. - 730 kc.,6:30 p.m. dail y.

CJNR - Blind Rive r, Om, - 730 kc.,6:30 p.m. dai ly,

CJ LX - Fort W illi am, Om. - 800kc., 7:30 p.m. Mon-Sar.• 6:25 p.m.Sun.

CKY - W inn ipeg, Man. - 580 kc.,5:30 a.m. Mon-Sar., 7 a.m. Sun.

CKDM - Dau phin, Man. - 730 kc.•6:30 p.m. dai ly.

CKR M - Regi na, Sask. - 980 kc., 8:30p.m. dail y.

CJGX - York ton, Sask. - 940 kc., 6:30p.m. dail y.

"The W ORLD TOMORROW"CFQC - Saskatoon, Sask. - 600 kc.•

8: 30 p.m. daily.C]NB - N orth Battleford, Sask. - 1050

kc., 2:30 p.m . & 7:30 p.m . dai ly.CKBf - Prince Albert, Sask . - 900 kc.,

7:30 p.m. Mon-Fri., 8 p.m. Sar., 2p.m. Sun.

CKSA - Lloydminster, Sask.-Alta. ­1080 kc.• 7 p .m. da ily.

CH ED - Edmont on , Alt a. - 630 kc.,5:30 a.m . Mon-Sat. , 9:30 a.m. Sun.

(FeW - Camrose, Alta . - 790 kc.,8:30 p.m. Mon-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun.

CJDV - D ru mheller, Alta. - 9 10 kc.,G a. m. Mon..Sa t., 10: 30 a.m. Sun.

CHEC - Lethb ridge, Alta . - 1090 kc.,AM, 100.9 FM. 9 p.m . da ily.

CJYR - Edson, Alta . - 970 kc., 6:30a.m. dai ly.

CKYL - Peace River. Alla . -61O kc.,G a .m . Mon-Sat., '; p.m. Sun.

CJV I - Vic tori a. B. C. - 900 kc., 10:30p.m. Sun-Fri.

CKLG - Vancouver, B. C. - 730 kc.,99.3 FM, 6 a.m. Mon-Sar., 7:30 a.m.Sun. AM, 6:30 a.m. Mon .-Fd. FM.

111 FretlCh -C FMB - Montreal - 1410 kc., 5 p.m.

Sat .• Sun.CKJ L - St. Jerome, Qu e. - 900 kc.,

10:30 a.m . Sun.CKBL - Ma rane, Que . - 12';0 kc.,

10:45 a.m. Sar., Sun.1" German-CFMB - Montreal 1410 kc., 3=15

p.m. Sun.In Italian s-«

CFMB - Mo ntreal 1410 kc.• 7:45p.m. Sat.

EUROPE,,, Bnglisb>-:MANX RADIO - 188 m. (1 594 kc.)

medium wave, 10:30 n.rn., 7:30 p.m.Mon-Sar., 2:45, 7:45 p.m. Sun.; 89me. VHF 7:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 7:45p.m . Sun.

In Frenc!J-RADIO LUXEMBOURG - 1293 m.,

5:30 a.m. Mon., 5:15 a.m. Tues., Fri .,5:10 a.m. Thurs.

EUROPE N o. ON E - Felsberg enSarre, Germany - 182 kc. (1647 m.) ,5:37 a.m. Wed., Sar., I a.m., 5:52a.m. Sun.

In Germall -RADIO LUXEMBOURG - 49 m, (6090

kc.) shortwave, 208 m. ( 1439 kc.)medi um wave, 5:00 a.m. Mon ., Tues.,Fri., 6:05 a.m. Sun.

MIDDLE EAST

In English -HASI-IEMITE Broadcasting Serv ice.

Amman. Jordan - 42 m. (7 160 kc.)short wave, 2 p.m., 31.48 m. (9530kc.) , 351 m. (855 kc.) medium wave ,S p.m. daily.

ASIA

Gu am

RADI O GUAM- KU AM -61O kc., 6p.m. Sun.

O k l'nawa

RADIO OKINAWA - KSBK - 880kc., 12:06 p.m. Sun.

Bangk ok

lI SAAA - Bangkok. Th ail and - 600kc., 10:05 p.m. Mon-Sat ., 9 :30 a.m.Sun.

IndIa an d Ceylon

MALDIVE ISLANDS - 90 m. (3 329kc.) , also 61 m. band . 9:30 p.m.Mon-Sat., 10 p.m. Sun .

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

111 English-

2BM 1 - Hamilton, Bermuda - 1235kc., 8 p.m. Sun.

2BM 2 - Hamilton. Bermuda - 1340kc., 2:30 p.m. Mon-Sar.

ZFB I - RADIO BERMUDA - % 0kc., I :30 p.m . daily.

': 'JA~I AICA BROAD CASTl N G ­Kingston - 560 kc., 4:45 a.m. daily .Mandeville -620 kc., 4:45 a.m. daily.Montego Bay - 700 kc., 4:45 a.m.da ily.Por t Maria (Port Ga lina) - 750 kc.,4:45 a.m. dai ly.

RAD IO ANTILLES - Monts er rat, W .I. - 930 kc., 6:30 p.m. daily.

RADIO BARBADOS - Pine H ill,Barb ados - 780 kc., 9:30 a.m. Mon.­Fri., 11 a.m. Sat., 10:30 a.m. Sun.

RADfO RED IFFUSION - Bridgetown,Barbados - 10:20 a.m. Mon.-Fri.•9:30 a.m. Sat. & Sun.

RADI O GU ARDIAN, Trinida d - 10p.m. Men-Sat.• 6: 15 p.m. Sun.

RADIO SURINAM - Paramaribo ­620 kc., between 7 and 8:30 p.m.o r Noon and 1:00 p.m. daily.

HOC21 - Panama City - 1115 kc.;HP5A - Pana ma City - 1170 kc.;HOK - Colon, Pan ama - 640 kc.:HP 5K - Colon, Pa nama - 6005 kc. ­

7 p.m. Sun.RADIO BELIZ E ( Brit ish Honduras)

- 834 kc., 3:30 p.m. Mon .-Fri.In Frel1clJ-4VBM - Port au Prince, Haiti - 1430

kc.• 7:45 p.m. \"qed.4VG M - Port au Prince, Haiti - 6 165

kc., 7:45 p.m. W ed.RADIO CARAIBES - St. Lucia, W. I.

- 840 kc., 6:30 a.m. Mon-Fri .In Sponi sb >«XESM - M exi co 12, D.F. - 1470 kc.,

9 a.m. Sun.W IAC - San Juan, Puerto Rico - 740

kc., 102,5 FM, 9:30 a.m. Sun.RADIO AN TILLES - Mont ser rat, W . I.

- 930 kc., 9 p.m. W ed.RADI O LA CHONICA - Lima, Peru

- 1320 kc.• 7 p.m. Sun.RAD IO COMUNEROS - Asuncion,

Paraguay - 970 kc., 8:30 p.m. Th urs.RADIO F.SPECTADOR CX-14- Mo n­

tevideo, Uruguay - 810 kc., 2 p.m.W ed.

RADI O CARVE-CXI6, 850 kc., CXA­13,6156 kc. - Montevideo, Uruguay- 3:30 p.m. Sat .

For Rad io Log of Australi a, Philippines,Taiwan . and Africa, wri te the Editor. us

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Since th e Northe rn nations at th at

time bega n their day in the eveni ng,

the eve lead ing up to November 1stwas the begi nning of the festi val.According to th e Roman calenda r it wasthe evening October 3 1 - hence, Hal­lowe'en - the evening of All Hallows.

Hallow'en, or All SOl/is Ere, was

kep t throughout the ancient paganworld . The observance was widesp read.

"The re was a prevailing belief amongall nations that at death the souls ofgood men were taken possession of bygoo d spir its an d car ried to parad ise; hutthe sou ls of wicked men were left towand er in the space between the earthand moon , or consigned to the unseenworld. T hese wanderings spi rits were in

the habit of hallllting the lit'iug .. .Bnt there were mean! by which tbeseghosts might be exorcised" (F olklore,James Napier, p. I I ) .

T o exorcise these ghosts, tha t is, tofree yourself from their supposed evilsway, you would have to set out foodand provide shelter for them du ring thenigh t. If they were satisfied with yourofferings, it was believed they would

leave you in peace. If not, they werebelieved to cast an evil spe ll on you.

" In Wales it was firmly believed thaton All Hallows Eve the sp irit of adeparted person was to be seen at mid ­nig ht on evcry crossroad and e,'ery

stile" (folklore and f olk-Stories ofWale s. Marie Trevelyan, p. 254).

In Cambodia people used to chant:"0 all you our ancestors, who are de­parted, deign to come and eat wh at we

have prepared for rou, and to blessyour posterity and to make it happy"(Notice snr Ie Cambodoe. Paris 1875,E. Aymoni er, p. 59).

T his sort of Hallowe'en fest ival wasstrenuously observed through out the

no n-C hris tian world. Pagans would prayto their false gods to prevent "demons"and "witc hes" f rom molesting them.

Notice! "The Miztecs of Mexico be­lieved tha t the souls of the dead cameback in the twelfth month of the year,u·hich corresponded to 0 /( 1' N ovember.On this J ay of All Souls the houses we redecked out to welcome the spi rits. Jarsof food and drink were set on a tablein the pr incipa l room, and the familywent out with the torches to meet th e

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THE BIBLE ANSWERS

H ERE are the Bible answers toquestions which can be answered bri efly in a shor t space. Semi ill YOllrquestions. While we cannot promise that all questions will find spacefor answer in this department, we shall try to answer all that are vitaland in the general interest of our readers.

• \X' hat is the origin of today 's the re tu he enterta ined with food . IfH all owe'en customs ? food and shelter were not provided,

- G. 0 ., Mi lwaukee 'I ' I Idthese spi rits, it was oe level . wouHallowe'en long antedates Chris- cast spe lls and cause havoc towards

tianity! It was only later introduced into those failing to fu lfill their reques ts.the profe ssing Chr istian world - " It was the nigh t for the un iversal

centuries afler the death of the apostles. walking about of all sorts of spirits,If/ hy, then, do so many today keep fairies, and gh osts, all of whom had

Hallowe'en ? What useful purpose does liberty on that night" ( Highland SII/J er-such a celebration fulfill in this "en- stitions, Alexand er Macgregor, p. 44 ) .lightened" scientific twentieth century? Literal sacrifices we re offered on thisWhat purpose did it ever serve? Is it night to the spi rits of the dead, wh en,

merely a harmless celebration to amuse so the bel ief went, they visited theirour chi ld ren? eart hly haunts and their friends .

You may no t have rea lized it, but the There was a reason why Novemberancient pre-Ch rist ian Druids in Britain, was chosen for tha t particular event.

the pagan Rom ans and Greeks, and even The Celts and other Northern peoplethe Babylon ians, among others, kep t a cons idered the beg inn ing of NovemberHallowe'en festival. as the ir New Year. T his was the time

Notice! "The earl iest Hallowe'en cele- when the leaves were falling and a gen-bration s [in Britain] were held by the eraI seasonal decay was taking placeD ruids in honour of Samhain, Lord of everywhere. Thus it was a fitt ing time,

the Dead, wh ose festival fell on N ovem- so they reason ed, fo r the rommemo ra-ber 1" (see Halloween Through T UN!}}/ )' tion of the dead.Centuries, by Ralph Lioton, p. 4 ). .---------- - -----,

"I t is d early a relic of pagan times"!( The Book of Dap , Chambers, v. 2,

p. 519.)

Further , " It was a D ruid ical bel iefthat on the eve of th is festival Saman,

lord of death, called together the wickedspi rits that within the past 12 mo nths

had been condemned to inh abit thebodies of anima ls" (EncJclopaedidBritannica, 11th ed., v. 12, pp. 857-8).

Read wha t this November celebrationwas like ! It was a paga n belief that onone night of the year the souls of thedead return to their o rig inal homes,

October, 1968

ghosts and invite them to enter. Th en,returning to the house they knelt aroundthe table, and with their eyes bent onthe ground, prayed the souls to acceptthe offerings" ( Adonis, Frazer, p. 244) .

Thi s, then, is the way the heathenworld celebrated their Hallowe'en, their/ 1/1 SOl/is Day. Although some aspects ofthe Hallowe'en festival varied with eachcountry, the overall pattern and pur­pose remained the same.

When the German Frankish kingCharlemagne invaded and conqueredparts of Eastern Germany. he compelledthe conquered German king, Wittekind ,to be baptized and to accept Christianity.Having no choice and seeing his life wasat stake, th is heathen ruler who knewlittle or noth ing about Christ - wasforced into this "conversion: ' And withhim his entire people.

Th is pol icy brought complex prob­lems. Th ese pagans, who were usuallybapt ized en masse, were still pagans atheart . Even though they became nom­inal Ch ristians, they still yearned formany of their heathen practices, whichthey were expected to discard.

Wi th \X'ittekind 's baptism, for exam­ple, a vast number of barbarians weresuddenly added to the roll of the church.

W ittekind's Germans, now professingChr istians, and other conquered pagans,had a profound infl uence on the ecclesi­astical affairs of the church in the early800's A . D, These barbaric and uncul­tured people brough t with them manyoutright pagan practices and celebra­tions, Hallowe'en merely being one ofmany. They were fervent in clinging totheir past ceremonies and observed themopenly - yet supposedly converted toChristianity.

What was the church to do ? Excom­municate them and thus reduce hermembership ? Thi s she would not do.Was she to force them into discardingtheir heathen practices and adopt Ital­ian or Roman ones? Th is, as she hadlearned in past times, was not possible,

There remained only one other way.

Let the recently converted pagans keepcertain of their heathen festivals, suchas Hallowe'en or All Souls Day - butlabel it "Christian." Of course the Ger.mans were asked not to pray to theirancient pagan gods on this day. Th ey

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must now use this day to commemoratethe death of the saints.

If a pagan practice or festival couldnot be forbidden, it was reasoned, "letit be tamed," Thus many were per­suaded to transier devotion from theirfo rmer gods to the Chr istian God. So itwas with the Festival of All Souls Eoe,Not ice this admission:

"Thus, at the first promulgation ofChristianity to the Gentil e nat ions . . .they could 110t be persnaded to relin­qllish many of their superstitions, which,rather than forego altogether. theychose to blend and incorp orate with thenew faith" (P opular Antiqllities ofGreat Britain , John Brand, p. xi),

Now come down to the twentiethcentury. You'll be surprised to whatextent we have inherited pagan ritesand ceremonies from our forefathers, soobvious in the celebration of Hallow­e'en.

N ote this classic example. "In manyCatholic countries the belief that thedead retnrn on this day is so strong,that food is left on the tables and peo­ple still decorate the graves of the dead[ on this day]" (Dirtiollary of Folkl ore,Funk and Wagnalls, v. I, P: 38),

In Protestant countries many pagansuperstitious beliefs and practices havebecome an integral part of each year'scelebration.

In many parts of Britain, bonfiresarc set alight on the eve of Hallowe'en.Of course fire has noth ing to do withpraying for dead saints, The originalreason for the fire. however, was tofrighten away witches and evil spiritson this night. Fire has always been anessential part of Hallowe'en in Britain .

What about you and your children?Wh at comes to your mind when think ­iog about Hallowe'en? The truth of theBible? Not at all! Instead, weird andfrigh tening masks - persons portrayedas untcbes and demons, Pumpkin s andturn ips hollowed out in the shape ofeerie-looking faces! Lighted candles areplaced inside to help bring out the morefrightful side of these carviogs. Doughis baked into small figurines resem blingu-itcbes, and spider's web cakes arebaked by the dozen for this occasion.Children, d ressed up in the most revolt­ing garments, are let loose on the neigh-

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bors, trying to scare the daylights out ofthem.

Let's be honest. The Good House­keepil1g Book of Entertainment, on page168, has a section on what to do onHallowe'en, No tice the astonishing ad­vice given!

" Halloween decorations are quite asimportant as the food. When planningthem, remember that if the room is tobe dimly lit ( preferably by candle andfirelight ) the decorations must be boldto be effective. Orange. black and red,the det -'il' s colours, are the colours asso­ciated with Halloween and tbis scheme

should be carried out as far as possible. . . Have paper streamers and lan­terns hanging from the ceiling, or. ifyOll would like to have something lessusual. you could make a giant -spider'sweb with black and orange strings, orin narrow strips of crepe paper comingfrom the four corners of the room, com­plete with a large spider - one of thedeoil's [auonrite ! OIlOlUfJ."

Notice where the stress lies!Read fur ther of the black magic asso­

ciated with this festival. "To decoratethe walls, make large silhouettes ofcats. bats, owls and witches 011 broom­

sticles ... For the supper table smallwitches with broom sticks can be madeby using lollipops on 4-inch sticks."

W eird lanterns, witch-balls, andwitches' cauldrons are some other ob­jects, the book suggests, which mustfit into the evening somehow.

How pagan can you get ?N OW H ERE does the Bible command

us to observe Hallowe'en.Ha llowe'en and other common fest i­

vals which people observe in the Chris­tiao-professing world have 110 Biblicalbasis. Th ey originated in paganism.

The testimony of history stamps Ha l­lowe'en as a heathen festival. It's builton a pagan f oundation . Your Biblewarns: " For other foundation can noman lay than that is laid, which is JesusChrist" (I Cor. 3-11) .

Wh ich is the BASIS of Y01lr practiceand belief?

Turn to Deuteronomy 12: 29-31 andread God's condemnation of Hall ow­e'en! And write for our free articleon Hallowe'en which covers many otherstartling facts not included here !

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CRISIS IN CITIES

EVERY TEN person s in Britain livein towns. And HALF of all Britons livein the seven great conurbations of Lon­don, Manchester , Birmingham, G las­gow, Leeds, Liver pool and Newcastle.(Central Office of Inf ormati on book­let - Toum and COlO1t,)' Planning inBritain, p. 25. )

London is the major area of popu ­lation concentration. In a tiny areacomprising only a sixtieth of the landmass live a sixteenth of the Bri tishpeople. (T he Future of London,Edward Carter, p. 90 .) Britain has50% more people per square milethan teeming, popu lous , but rural,India. (Figur es from Pears Cyclopae­dia.) How did the country reach this

condition?The last century has wi tnessed an

amazing surge of peo ple from the landto the cities. In the early 1800 's theBritish population was largely ruraI­65 to 70 percent. (Life Threatened,by A. T . W estlake, p. 4.) Fifty yearsafter the first census in 180 I, the popu·lation had doubled to twenty mill ionpeople. Half were now living in towns.(The W astes of Civilization by]. C.Wy lie, p. 37. ) T his u'as a conditi onthat had never bef ore occurred i ll allY

( 01l11tf)' in the history of the world,says John C. Wylie in his book , Th eW asles of Civilization. Today only 2%of the British labour force is employedin Agriculture. (A IIII1/al A bstract ofStatistics, 1967.)

How did it all come about ? Whatwas the magneti c force of the towns ?

By the earl y nineteenth centuryBritain was already firmly launched onthe Industrial Revolution. New ma­chines put Britain in the forefront ofthe textile trade. And with hernatural supplies of coal Britain rapidlyachieved a powerful iron and steel in­dustr y. These spaw ned a mass move­ment luring people away from thecountry to work in the factories andoffices. Cities sprang up seemingly over­night. W orkers were forced to Jivehuddled up and crowded together In

row upon row, street upon street ofmonotonous, squalid terrace houses.

Others were not as fo rtunate. Thecrudest and worst jerry building couldnot produ ce housing fast enough. Thelabour dem ands of industry wereinsatiabl e. People were crowded in un­venti lated cella rs and draughty attics.Ten families plus lodgers of ten livedin a ten-roomed house.

Men, women and children workedinto the night. W omen pull ed trucksin the min es through knee-deep mud.Childr en slaved ten-hour days in fac­tories. ( Th e W' astes of Civilization,

by J. C. Wylie, p . 37. )

The nat ion moved into a new age ­an indu stria l society. Britain had almostentirely given up her predomi nantlyagricultura l economy.

A Worldwide Crisis

The move to the cities is not only inEngland. It is apparent throughout theworld . Compare these figur es!

A hundred years ago, Europe wasmainly rnral, Then only 26% of Frenchpeopl e were city dwel lers, 21% of Den­mark, 15% of Norway, 10% of Swe­den , and 36% of Germany . T oday thesenations are all predominantly urban,

France 53%, Denmark 67% , N orway50%, Sweden 56%, and Germany

74%. ( Fraser Brockington, If/aridHealth, p. 129.)

T he Industrial Revolution has be­queat hed Britain - and the world ­ugly, blackened, shabby cities withspr ead ing, grasping suburbs. This is theprice paid for indu strial greed. "TheIndustrial Revoluti on," says ProfessorFraser Brockington, "has left the worldwith a legacy of outworn towns, sprawl­ing suburbs and disfigured countryside."( Fraser Brockington , 1l70d d Health,p. 129.)

British cities tod ay arc crying out forrenewal. In a government W hite Paperit was revealed that one house out offour teen in 1967 was condemned as aslum. (SlIftley Magazine, 10 May 1968,p. 494 .) Of those remaining, nearly30% lack such amenities as an indoor

lavatory, a fixed bath, a wash basin anda hot and cold water system. (O p cit.

p. 493 .) All thi s despite the boom in

new housing!

In one district of 2V2 million popu la­tion, comprising the greater part ofLondon county, between 30 and 80%of fami lies live in shared dwellings!( Herbert Commi ssion, 1960 quoted 10

T he FIIIII,.e of London p. 116.) It isestimated that 43% of the houses inLiverp ool are un fit (s lums) and 33%of Manchester . (SIIII/Is of Social 111­

secsrity, p. 116.)Vast sections of Britain's cities are

old and insani tary . Yet in these citiesthe bulk of British people live. Re­memb er 90 % of Britons are town andcity dwellers! T here are 55 millioncrowd ed on a small island only three­fift hs the size of Califo rnia !

How much furth er can Britai n gowith her congested. slum -ridden cities?Wi ll we soon reach the maximum theseislands can accommodate ?

Frightening Menace of Traffic

British cities arc also being stifledby congestion from anot her source ­TRAF FIC. In 1961, traffic congest ionalone probab ly cost the country £250million. (Traffic in Towns, Penguinedition of government Buchanan Re­port, p . 22.) On one weekend recently,there was a traffic jam f or 17 miles.

(27th July, BBC News.)

The rapid increase in the numberof vehicles on the road aggravates theproblem. In ten years the numberincreased by 150 % . (Town antiCountry Planning in Britain, by CentralOffice of Information, p. 25.) Todaythere are about thirteen million vehiclesin Brit ain . ( Daily T elegraph, August23, 1967.) By 1980, it is estimated,there will be three times as many carson the road as there are today. (Trafficin Toums, p. 11. )

British cities and roads were notdesigned to cope with such an

onsl aught.Accident s occur at an alarming rate .

An average of one driv er in three willhave a crash on Britain 's roads th isyear. The odds of being killed or in­jured in a lifetime of motor ing area terr ifying one in two. (Traffic in

T owns, p. 11.)Total road casualties in Britain run

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THE PRICE PAID FOR INDUS­TRIALI ZATION - Co ng estedan d dila pida te d build ings in southlondon, England .

wit h alarming consis tency at about 400 ,·000 per year with about 8,000 deaths.( Annlial Abstract of Statistics, 1967.)Alm ost 75 % of these occur in urbanareas. Why ?

Drive, the Automobile Associationmagazine, says : "British accidents are­costly because we drive too fast onroads which arc too crowded and moreantiquated than those in almost any

W estern country." (Traffic in Toums,p. 11.) Britain now has the highesttraffic density in the world (27.4vehicles per road mile compared with20 in U.S.A. and 17.3 in West Ger­many.) ( T he Future of London, p.153.) The problems of our roads areapproaching insolubility.

A government publication called thegrow th of motor traffic the mos t di s­mptioe force that erer assailed BritishIOUJ11J in peacetime. ( T OU/11 and C o/l11­

try Planning .)

Sir Geoffrey Crowther, in the prefaceof the Penguin edition of the govern­mental Buchanan Report "T raffic inT owns," says : "I call it a national emer­geuc)' . . . Few of us in Britain realize

in what an early stage of the MotorAge we still are, or with what speed the

full emerge ncy is advancing on us . . .

It is impossible to study the traffic prob­lem without being at once appalled bythe magnitude of the emergency thatis coming upon us. .....

In British cities, however, trafficmoves at an average speed of only 11

m.p.h. ( Tra ffic in T OWIIJ, p. 22.)

Ou r Fouled, Poisono us Atmosphere !

The air we breathe in the cities is aslow poison, Cars in Britain are a major

source o f air pollution. In running anaverage car ove r seven years the exhaustpours out enough carbon dioxide to fillSt. Paul's dome twice over ; enoug h car­

bon monoxide to fill nine three-bed­roomed bunga lows ; enough oxides ofnitrogen to fill three double-deckerbuses; and enough lead to make a ches tweight for a deep sea diver. ( D riveMagazine, Spring 1967.) As well asthis it emits pounds of sulphur dioxid e,

aldehydes and complex organic com­pounds. ( Life T breatened , by AubreyWestlake, p. 56.)

Sixteen million tons of carbon mon ­

oxide are added to the British atmo­sphere every year. (Evening Echo,[ Heme! Hempstead) , 18 July 1968.) Itis suspected of being a hidden factor inunexplained road accidents. ( DriveMagazine, Spring 1967.) It dulls thementality and slows dow n reactions.( Daily T elegraph, 23 August 1967.)"In any street, especially on a still sum­mer day, most people in cars are in a

partially poisoned state," says D r. G. M.Mackay of Birmingham University's

transportation study group . The symp­toms are exactly the same as those causedby alcohol. (D rive Magazine, Spring1967.) A London driver takes in enoughblack smoke to turn his lungs per­manently black. ( Evening Standard,[ London) , April 10, 1967.)

How much damage do pollutants do ?N o scientist really knows. But consider­

able sums of money are being spent tofin d out because the two indicators of

respiratory damage - bronchitis andlung cancer - are rising in Britain.(Evenillg Stendard, [ London) , April 10,1967.)

511Jphltr di oxide is an irritant and apoison. It is probably a major contribu­tor to the chronic bronchitis incidencein England. (Life T breatened, p. 55­56.) The mortality rate from broncbitis- "The Eng lish disease" - is muchhigh er than any other cotlntry. It is asmuch as forty or fif ly times greater tbanin Scandinavia or the United States.(E venillg Standard, [ London) , Apr il 10,1967; Control o] Air Pollution , by AlanGilpin, p. 9.) Between 35-40 millionwo rking days are lost because o f it.( Evenillg Standard, [ London], Apri l 10,1967.) ( Approximately ten percent ofall periods of absence are due to bron­

chitis) . (Control of Air Pollution, byAlan Gilpin, p. 9.)

Lung cancer death rate in Britain has

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CITIES IN CRISISAbove, gla ring billboards provide only color for rows of d ingybuildings . Bottom cen te r, street scene in tough Block Hill area of G las ­gow. Top, left, new homes and a partments replac e Gla sgow' s slumareas. One problem eliminated but hig h rise a partments an d endlesssameness are introd uced. left, cen ter, Sheff ield, Eng la nd - nearcity center. Noxious fumes pervade the a ir. Bottom, left, Glasgowapartment " complex. "

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shot up in the last half cen tury. In 1906there were 200 deat hs from lung can­cer. In 1966, there were 27,000 - muchof it attributable to polluti on of air bysmoking .

T wenty-four mill ion tons of filth arepoured into the atmosphere every r ear.A governmen tal commit tee est imatedconservatively th at air pollu tion costs£250 mill ion - that's $60 0 mill ion ­a year (£150 million in direct costspaid out and £100 million in loss ofefficiency and produ ction ) .

Thi s is equ ivalent to £10 ($24) forevery man, woman and chi ld in blackareas and £5 ($ 12) elsewhe re. (Op rit .

p. 14-15.) Th ese figures do not includethe ext ra work housewives need todo to keep the home bright and th eirfamilies in clean clothes - nor in factfor the cost of ill health. A recent

estimate has doubled these figures.Half of the natural ligh t may be stolenby smoke haze over cities. ( Op cit .

1'. 15.)In heavily industrialized areas of

Britain, over I000 tons of grit anddust fall on each sCJ uare mile each yeari.e. about 2 pounds on each sCJua rcyard. A mill ion tons of grit and du st,2 mi llion tons of smoke and over 5milli on tons of sulphur dioxide areproduced each yea r. ( Pesticides and

Pollmion, by Ken neth Mcllancy , p. 74.)

And N ow - N OISE!

Anot her poll ution of the air isNO ISE. In a noisy office the efficiencyof a typist is redu ced by aile fitth.

At the same time the bra in work ofher boss is redu ced by one third.

Spread over th e country this represents£1000 million ( $2 .4 billi on ) in lostproduction.

Excess noise harms the ear. Deaf­ness can be produced by a loud noise

- an exp losion of 130-160 decibelsin a short time. Or it may occur throughcontinued exposure to a noise level of85 decibels, as is obtai ned in manyfactor ies. This type of deafness occursin Due person ill len of those exposed.( Li fe Tbreatened, p. 65-66.)

Rivers T urned to O pe n Sewers

Th e wastes of today's cities findtheir natural outlet into the atmosphereOJ' the rivers. The director of the

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Anglers' Cooperative [ Clean W ater]Association acknowledged privately toour editors that probably 95 ~f, ofBritain 's rivers are seriously pollu ted.

( Exclusive inte rview, 26t h Jul y, 1968.)It is estimated that the populationproduces 4500 million ga llons ofsewage per day. More tha n THREE·

QU/ lli T ERS of this together with asim ilar proportion of industrial wastesarc discharged into inla nd waters.

( Biology of Polluted 117"ler.r, by H .ll. N . Hynes, p. 7. )

Britain uses Y4 million tons ofdetergent - nearl y twice as much perperson as Am erica. Foaming presentsproblems on many rivers. ( IF?ater andLife, by Lorus an d Margery Mil ne ,p. 65.) At a weir in one town largevolumes of foam are produced. If thereis a wind in a certain direction , largeamounts of foam are blown over theroo fs of hou ses into the main street.

The Tees River is believed by some

to be beyond redemption. ( Exclusiveinterview, 26th July, 1968.) Th eTame has been called " the waste pipe

of th e Mid lands." In a tr ibutarystream an official rec ently burnt the

skin of his hand when he took asample. ( Times, 16 May, 1966.)

Scientists told T rent officials it was

possible for a glass of water to bedru nk eight or ten times before enter­ing the sea. · ( T imes, 16 May, 1966.)It is thought that Thames water isdrunk seven times over on its way tothe sea. (Exclusive interview, 26th

July, 1968.) The water supply thatreaches London has been affected bythe effluent discharge from places likeReading, Oxford and Luton . TheDeputy D irector of the W ater Pollu­tion Research Laboratory at Stevcnagcreported to our editors, "Some reuseof effluent wheth er accidental orde liberate is almost inevitable in thiscountry .. . A large proportio n of flowin one or two rivers is composed oftreated effluents. So that reuse of waterIS . .• an essentia l part of the watereconomy of the country ." ( Interview,

24 July, 1968.)

While many of the rivers arc beingpolluted, natura! resources of water ared isapp eari ng. Demand for water mightwell be 2yj times the present rate by

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th e end of the century in London andthe south east. ( Daily T elegraph, 6

September, 1966.) Yet in Londonand the Colne Valley natur al under­ground supplies are steadily shrinking.( Gllardian, 17 February, 1967.)

Much of water shortage can beblamed on increased urbanization.Large areas have been covered withimpermeable tarmac, concrete andbuild ings, Th e result is that Englandhas been compared to a vast roof, offwh ich rain water pours dangerouslyfast with out being absorbed in the soil.This causes flood ing and at the sametime a growing shortage of under­ground water. ( Edi torial, Dail)' Tele­g,aph, 12 July, 1968 .)

Diseases of the City

Urbanizatio n brings with it a host of

problems affecting pub lic health andmorals. Th e list of social diseases link edwith city living is alarming.

N euroses arc especially prominent inthe highly industria lized world . T hesuicide rate, divorce, and ch ild delin­

guency, are all affected by city li fe.(lForid lleallh , p. 34. ) "Towns have

tended to relax restrain ts.. . T hey have

fostered prostitu tion, spreading gonor·rhoea... . " ( IVorid Health, PI' . 123­124) . "This year over 160,000 peo­

ple [ in Britain ] will visit V .D . clinics- one out of every 300 people in the

country. The num ber of gonorrhoeacases has doubled in a decade; those ofinfectious syphilis trebled in the seven

years to 1965.. . Experts - even pro·fessional ly optimistic adm inistrators ­

see no hope in beating th e disease.Factors blamed for th e upsurge [ are] . . .increased ext ra-marital sex, greatermobility of peopl e, and growing re­sistance of gonorrhoea ge rms to anti­

biotics." (Obsen·er, 18 February 1968,Brit. N .R. 22 March 1968.)

" Poo r housing correlates to a highdegree with rates of illness and death,with rates of mental illness, with ju­

venile and adult delinque ncy, and withoth er social problems such as chro nicdrinking and illegitimacy." ( Slums and

Sorial l nsecnrit y, p . 143.)Robbery - with violence - is per­

haps the grea test menace which has to

be faced in London today. ( Report of

RIVER OF DEATHTwo views of water pollution. Sceneis the Calder River, a tributary of theOuse River in England.

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the Commissioner of Police of th e

MelropoliJ [0,. the ;e",. 19(,(" P: ".)G lasgow with a fift h of Scotland's pop ­ulati on has mere murders and attemptedmurders than the rest of Scotland put

together. (SNlld,l)' T imes, 3 1 D ecember1967, and N. R. 23 Febru ary 1968.)About th irty percent of cr imes ofviolence in Bri tain arc committed byteen-age rs ! Thi rty percen t of house­breaking and burglary is committedby 14- or t s -ycar-olds : ( British News

Release 23 February 1968.)

N ow Look at Scottis h Slums

One in three persons in Scotla ndlives in ei ther a substanda rd hou se orone unfit for human habi tation . If Scot­bod is generally had, Gl asgow 's slumsare the wo rst in Europ e. For its onemillion populat ion there arc 10,000un fit houses, 75,000 so substandardthey canno t be reason ably improved,and 49,000 substanda rd houses whichcould be repaired . About 40',kJ ofGlasgow hou ses lack a fixed bath orshower. (Ill, London Neu's, 9 Decem ­ber 1967. )

At the cur rent rate it would take95 years to improve all inadeq uate

houses in Scotland or 45 years to me relyknock them down! (And thi s igno res

the pro blem of continued deteriora­tion' ) (The Times, 3 February 1968.)

On e economist calculates it wou ld

cost £18,000 millinn - that's $43 bi l­lion - to reconstruct Briti sh cities fortraffic. Even with a proposed increase inannual expenditu re on roads it would

take 130 Jears to achie ve thi s "mod­erate" scheme.

,A Lond on County Council plan fora moto rway ring anti links around Lon­

don costing £450 million would takesereral hundred JearJ to bui ld even atan increased budget.

Wh), T oday's Sick Ci ties?

Engu lf ed in the g litter and g leam,the ga ud and the gadg etry of shallow

and superficial cities, people today nolonger stop to just plain T-H -I-N- K !

Assault ed by a relentless ba rrag e ofdouble-talk, d istortions, ha lf-tru ths andunadu lterated LIE S from too many ad­

vcrt iscrs, poli ticians and cler ics, it is

simply too JIIltch ll'ol'k for most ind io

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vid ual s to sift through this confusi ng

maze of propaganda. T he qu est of theT RUT H about why they are here, whatlife is all about and where our civil iza­

tion is headed, is forgotten .

But it' s high tim e YOU were difJer ­

1/11t. It' s h igh time you began to T HIN K

- deep ly and objeeli/'e1; , responsiblyand redlisticall y! It' s high time youdared to look at the situa tion of our

cit ies as it REALLY IS and to realize thatit' s not just a matter of an isolated" problem" her e and there . Rather it' s a

matter of an ENT IRE SOCIETY - urbanand rur al - coming apnn (1/ th e seams!

You live in a society: where fam ily

life is rapidly di sintegrating. W hereone out of four ma rriages ends in di­vorce . \,{,here more murders take placebe tween hu sbands and wives than in

any ot he r category. W here urban andrural child ren are too oft en conside reda bur den best left to shift for them­selves. W here adu ltery, forn icat ion ,homosex uality and wi fe-trad ing vie withtelevision as po pula r forms of entertain­

ment.You live ill an urba n society: whe re

respect for all constituted law and au­thor ity is GONE ! W here po lice, tooof ten in the U. S., are not allo wedto en force the law, and serve as ta rgetsfor public abuse and the savage attacksof teen-age hood lums. Where racia lviolence and strife is assum ing ever­larger p roportions . Where crimes ofevery descript ion - rap e, murder, as­sault, theft and dope addiction , to namebut a few - are running so rampant in

urban and rural areas that it is futile toqu ote statistics because they are outda ted

by the time the>' come off the press.

\Xfhere cities are asphalt jungles in ­fested with human "ratpacks," makingit un safe for either men or women inmany areas, even in bro ad daylight.

Where teaching is a dangerous profes­sion and poli ce arc stationed in the hallsof schoo ls because students carry switch­blade kni ves. Where the synd icate runsthe Amer ican city so completely thateven the Federa l Government is helplessto in tervene. W here court rooms are

overcrowded w ith lawyers and crimina lssearc h ing not for justice but for some

loophole in the law. \'<'here to be a

cold-blooded kill er is to be "tempora rily

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insane" or "socially malad justed."\'<fhere to be "civilized" is to en joy

watching a helpless o ld man get stabbedto dea th by a thug on a busy stree tcorner - and then calmly go home towa tch severa l hour s more of killing on

T V. \X'here to gi ve bi rth to illegi timatech ild ren is an acceptable means of earn­ing a living , with a g raduated income

plan fo r each chi ld rhus born.

Is that the kind of world you want?

Where it' s acceptable to steal youremployer bankrupt. Where the goalof many manufacturers is to see how

cheaply and poorly a product can bemade. \X'here in a time of unequaled

prosperity the average fami ly is lessthan three mon ths from ban krup tcy.

Where go ing deepe r into debt is thepanacea fo r all persona l, bus iness andgo vernment economic ills. \'«here foodgrowe rs feel no respo nsibility wh atso­ever toward their fellow man and will

usc any kind of poison sp ray imagin­able in quest of the "a lmighty do llar."Where new land is plowed up andchemical fertilizers arc dumped onoverworked land in a greedy effort forgui ck ga in. Where new drugs are pro­du ced by the hundreds, but st ill can ' t

keep up with the new d iseases . Wherepeop le desperately try to buy heal th inpills and peac,' of mi nd in tranquil­

izers. W here fu lly half of all hospitalbeds are filled with mental patients.

Is this kind of wo rld God 's world?

You Iivc in a society: whe re min­isters condone sin instead of preaching

against it. W here insipid , watered­down rel igion admits it doesn't havethe answe rs. \X7here the ministers viewit h college students fo r the suiciderecord.

T his list doesn't even begin to

scratch the s" r/ace of the plague upon

plague, curse upon curse, woe upon

woe, SIN UPON SiN to be foun d in

tod ay's cities - and in all the wo rld!

God's Stern W arning

As God Almighty has said ; ..Ah ,

sinful nation , a people laden with in ­

iqu ity, a seed of eoildoevs, child ren

that arc corrspters: they have forsaken

the Lord , th ey have p rovoked the H oly

O ne of Israel int o anger, they are gon e

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away backward. Why should ye bestricken any more ? Yc will revolt moreand more : the whole bead is SICK, andthe whole heart FAINT . From the saleof the foot even nn to the bead thereis 1/0 sosndness in it; bnt n-onnds, andbrnises, (mel plltrifying sores: they havenot been closed, neither bound up ,ne ither mo llified with oin tment" ( Isaiah

1:4·6 ).W hat a vivid description of our ur­

ban ized society today !

And yet, in spite of th is bleak andpessimistic outlook for the immediatefuture - the painful lessons th at mustyet be learned by a rebellious and sin­

ning mankind - there is COOD NEWSAHEAD! Beyond the catastroph ic eventsdest ined to take place within the nextfew years (a ll fu lly explained in ourfr ee book T he United States and BritishCommon n-ealtb in Prophecy ) , there is

the bright prospect, the hap py out lookof T he W ORLD T OM ORROW - G od's

Great Society - H is kind of city.

Just as man has reached the end of

his rope and is about to blast himselfinto nothingness, God will inter veneand STOP man' s hel lish inhum ani ty toman. H e will send Jesus Ch rist hack toth is earth to CRUSH man 's rebell ion andto establish Go d 's Government on th is

earth once and for all - to FORCEmankind to be happy, heal thy and pros­perous.

What Tomorrow's \VorldWill Be Lik e

God has not left you in the darkabout the details and plans for H is kind

of city, Hi s kind of Society. Beli eve ito r not - chapters - po rtions of en tir eboo ks - of the Bible are devoted to adescription of th at won derful world .

In G od 's Society, H E will be the

Sup reme Ru ler, aided and assisted bythose wh o qualify in th is lifetime fora position of ru lcrsh ip with H im. Youcan be on e of those who qu alify fo rsuch a position if you meet the condi­tions God has set fort h .

T he T EN COhlMANDMENTS will formthe basis of all law in God 's city andnational Government, and all mank ind

wiII obey that law. Punishmen t will bemeted out swift ly and severely on trans­gresso rs, fo r only as these laws are

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obeyed can there be perfect peace andhapp iness. A ll the suffering and miseryin today 's world can be traced directlyor ind irect ly to breaking the po ints ofth is law.

At that time there will be tru ejustice. And G od 's H eadquarters in the

city of Jeru salem will be called the" habitat ion of justice, and the mou ntain[a symbol of go vernment] of holiness"(J er . 3 1: 23) - the "city of TRUTH"

(Zech. 8:3 ) .

" And many nati on s sha ll come andsay, Come, and let us go up to themountain [ government] of the Lord,and to the house of the God of Jacub ;and He will teach us of H is ways, andwe will wal k in H is paths: fur THELA\X' shall go forth out of Zion, and

the word of the Lord from Jeru ­salem. And He shall judge many peo­ple, and rebuke strong nations afar off;and they shall beat their swords in toplowsha res, and their spea rs intoprun inghook s: nation shall not lift upa sword agains t nation , neither shallthey learn war any more" (M icah4 :2-3 ) .

And what will the effect of thissystem be ?

" And the work of righteou sness shalIbe PEACE ; and the effect of righteous­ness, quietness and assurance for ever.

And my peo ple shall dwell in a peace­able habitat ion and in sure dwelli ngs,and in qu iet resting pla ces" ( Isaiah32 : 17- 18).

No more will there be fears, worries,tensions, frust rations and INSECURITY!No mo re will there be a dog-cat-dogsociety of such fierce. cut-t hroat com ­pet ition that people: will want to escapefrom ref/IiI)'. Instead there will besec",·it)'. peace - HAPPINESS! HowWON DERFUL it will be !

The Cities U nder God'sG overnment

W hat wi ll happen to our cities whenGod intervenes to save hum anity out

of hydrogen bomb war ? The few whoescape will ret urn to their fo rme r landand bu ild the cities anew! The rightway!

" And they shall build the old u-astes,they shall raise up the former desola­tions, and they sha ll repair the toaste

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CITIES" ( Isa. 6 t :4). " And the CITIES

shall be inh abited, and th e wastes shall

be builded .. . and I [ God] will sett leyou after )'ollr old estat es [ in yourformer location s] , and will do bette runt o you than at your beginni ngs"

( Ezek. 36 : I I ) .Yes, you can be sure that when GOD

directs the rebuil d ing of our cities itwill be done RICin. It will be do neaccord ing to design and plan , withbeauty as well as utility in mind ­not in the chao tic, hit-and-miss fashionof marry bu ildings in today's cities.

G od says, " W OE unto them tha tjo in house to house, that lay field tofield , ti ll there he no place" {Isa. 5 :8 ) .In Go d 's cities peop le will have roomto live. Jamming togethe r as manyuni nspi ring, cheaply-cons tru cted dwell­ings as possible WILL NOT BE PE R­

J\UTTEO !

In God's cities people will no longerhan : to be AFRAID of their neighbors.They won 't have to worry about livingnext door to someone who is mental ly

"off," a pervert, or a killer. O ld peoplewon 't have to fear being senselessly

attacked and bru tally bea ten by somehoodlum out looking for " fun." In­

stead, "T her e shall yet old men andold women dwell in the streets of

Jeru salem ... and the st reets of the cityshall be fu ll of boys and gi rls play ingin the streets the reof" (Zech. 8:4-5) .

Ju ven ile " hoods" will no longerroam the stree ts and organi zed crimewill no longer run the city wh ile the

city officials hel plessly look on.

" Again there sha ll be heard in this

place . . . even in the cities of Juda h,and in the streets of Jeru salem, thatare desola te, without man and witho utinh abitan t, and without beast [becauseof the capti vity and bombing ] , thevoice of joy and the voice of gladness,the voice of the brideg room, and thevoice of the bride, the voice of themthat shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts:

for the Lord is go od; and H is mercyendureth for ever" (J er. 33 :10- 11).

This is only a brief look int o thehappy cities of the WORLD TOMORRO\X·.W hat a wonderful world that wi ll be.

And to think you can be there and

have a part in rebuild ing tomor row' sworld and its cit ies!

The Growing Spectre of

SOVIET SEA POWERIN THE MEDITERRANEAN

The phenomenal worldwide growth of Soviet sea power isarousing concern. Nowhere ;s this build-up more alarmingthan in the tense Mediterranean area. Here is a firsthandreport from Algeria of what is developing there and what

it portends.

Algiers

I N EARLY 1967 scarcely a dozenRussian warships were ploughingthroug h Medit erranean waters. To­

day more than fil l), Soviet un its ­including the most advanced missilecruisers and submarines - are plyingthe waves from Gibraltar to the Bos­phoru s.

The USSR has onadrnpled her pavalforces in the Mediterranean in littlemore than one year - and no end to

the build-up is in sight !

Why Europe Is Afr aid

Europe is concerned - frightened ­by what she sees - and is frankly sayingso. Sooth ing U. S. assurances that thereis nothing to worry about - that theU. S. Sixth Fleet is still vastly superiorto prescnt Russian strengt h - have ahollow ring.

Sagging European confidence isn'tbolstered by the well -known fact thatthe Russians pursue the Sixth Fleetat will and upset its maneuvers, inter­cept its messages and follo w its navaldrills at little more than one hund redyards !

Neither does Europe find the presenceof some 120 Soviet merchant vesselswhich daily call at Mediterranean portscomforting.

"The Russians are everywhere !" isthe worrisome statement heard againand again. Europe knows only too wellthat Soviet forces aren't in the Med iter-

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ranean, as one source put it, " just toget a suntan" !

Red N aval Str ategy

For years the Soviet Union has beenvigorously build ing up its strength insea power and missiles. Th ese two areasarc currently receiving both fund s andpriorities equal/ing and slII'paJJing thoseof its enter space program .' It is esti­mated that Russia is spending some537.5 billion on its naval and missileprograms this year - far more than itever has spent on its army budget.

Why ?Because a modern, high ly mobile,

missile-equipped navy roaming aboutin the seventy percent of the earth'ssurface that is water is one of the mosteffective ways to gain control of thethirty percent that is land.

A modern navy has many advantages.Its mobil ity enables it to move to troublespots qu ickly. It is able to venturefar from home - and dose to enemyshores. It can refuel on the high seas,making overseas shore bases, which aredependent on the political vicissitudes ofothers, unnecessary (t hough they arestill most helpful ) . And what betterway is there to neutralize the effects ofan enemy vessel than to place one ofyour own beside it ?

As Adm iral Go rshkov, Vice Min isterof Defense of the USSR, summed it upfor Pravda last February : "Today ourwartime navy plays a universal role. Itis able to fight under water, above thewater, and in the air."

T he Soviets realize that in many areasthe stra tegic balance of power is todayshifting to the sea - and they intend tomake the most of this situation.

N o.2 "T ries Harder"

T he USSR is "N o. 2" in sea powerwhen compared to U. S. strength, buther "W e try harder" approach isthreatening to change all that - andsoon. Russia has recently made themomentous decision to start bu ildingwhat Khrushchev once called " thefloating coffins of capitalism" - aircraftcarriers. She is making her debut inthis field with huge 30,000· to 40 ,000·ton ships which will surpass in size.similar U. S. vessels.

And already the Soviet submarinefleet outnumbers that of the U. S.!

"Th e Red navy now possesses a sub­marine fleet which can bring Europeand the United States under fire with130 to 200 nuclear warheaded ballisticmissiles. An increase ... to 300 by 1972is planned. Th ey are no less dangerousto the ocean-bordered Unite d States thanAmerica's app roximately 450 Polarisand Poseidon missiles are to the USSR"( AI/a;, July 1968) .

Th e fact is, in this situation , the SovietUnion has a defensive geographicaladvantage because the industrial centersof the U. S. and Europe can be reachedmuch more qu ickly by missiles from theopen sea than can those of the SovietUn ion.

Now look at the Baltic for a moment.Th ere : "The Soviet Un ion maintains

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140,000 naval per sonnel aboard about5 cruise rs, 24 destroyers, 20 frigates,100 subma rine chasers , 130 mine­sweepers, 70 submarines and 180 tor­pedo boats .. . In addition there is anaval air force with 250 planes andanother t ,000 aircraft divided into threeair forces stat ioned near the coast, and100 amphi bious vehicles for a first land­ing wave of four to five Soviet divi­sions. (I bid.)

This is roughly /0"" limes thepoten tial \\lest German-Da nish strengthin this area!

In the Far East, traditional Russiannaval training area, the situati on issimilar. Japan is becoming concernedover the gre atly expanding qllalllitJ andthe vastly improved qlld/itJ of the newSoviet cruisers, destroyers and sub­marines which keep popping up in Asianwaters. As British forces withdraw inSouth east Asia and the Persian Gulf,the Russians are on ly too eage r to move10 .

Soviet sea power is also obvious inother maritime areas. For example, theRussians are furiously researchin g thesecrets of the ocean with over 100specialized oceanog raphic vessels- morethan arc possessed by all other nationscombined. And the Red fishing fleet ­the world 's largest - doub les as aworldwide electronic listening post.

The Soviet merchan t mar ine is Iike­wise an ad junct to the Red navy. It hasdoub led in the last four years - andis planned to double again before 1975 !T his is happeni ng while the merchantfl eet of No.1 - the U . S. - is ignomin­iously dwindling to less than third-ratestatus.

" In the peri od 1950·1966, the Sovietfleet grew from 432 ships, of 1.8 milliondeadweig ht tons to 1,422 ships of 10.4milli on tons - a net ga in of nearly1,000 ships and 8.6 million tons. Duringthe same peri od the U. S. active fleet

contracted from 1,90 0 ships, totalling

22 million tons, to less than 1, 100 ships

of 14 .8 million tons - a net loss of

more than 800 ships and 7 million

tons" (from a report by the Shipbuilders

Council of America).

As these facts show , anywhere you

want to look the USSR is aggre ssively

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developing her global naval strength.T he Mediterranean is no excepti on.

N aval Bases on N AT O's Doorstep

A brief gl impse at Russia's navalactivities in the Mediterranean willquickly sho vv why Europe worries. Russiais busily estab lishing a firm footholdall along NA TO's southern flank. H ereis what she has going for her :

Turkey, a NATO membe r who isnot at all sure that she should be, allowsthe Soviet Union free passage into theMed iterranean th rough the Bosphorusand Dardanelles. All Turkey requires isadvance notice .

Egypt and Syria have opened forSoviet use their vital naval ports atAlexand ria and Latakia, respectively. Inreturn, the USSR has placed in the hand sof these unstable count ries some 70naval unit s consisting of torpedo boats,missile-launch gu nboats, min esweepers,subma rines, destroyers, etc.

Here in Algeria, the Soviets arcmaking a bid for full use of the strategicNATO-built base at Mcrs-el-Kebir. Anarticle in the Italian newspaper Epoca(translated by Atlas , July 1968) said :"\XThcn the Algerian President Bourne­d ienn e assures the Italian Minister ofForeign Affairs that the Mers-el-Kebirbase, abandoned six years soone r thanexpected by Fran ce, 'will not be sur­rendered to the Soviets,' it is as thoughhe were giving a preview of what willhappen in the coming year." Inciden­tally, Alger ia has already been the re­cip ient of six Soviet missile-carryinggunboats and eight P-6 torpedo boats .

Over on Malta, the Russians areoffering to fill the economic vacuum lefton thi s island by the withdrawal ofBrit ish forces. T his would be an impor­tant base because it is between Italy onthe north and pro-Western Libya andT unisia on the south. It would enablethe Soviets to interfere with the passageof oil to Europe from these oil-richregions.

Th e Soviets arc also now negotiatingfor a base at Aden which wou ld givethem control of the Suez Canal route.

T he value of such shore bases can­not be overestimated . While modernnavies can "get by" with being suppliedon the high seas, the availability of near-

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by shore bases adds an immeasurablepsychological and strategic advantage.

But while Russia is gaini ng Medi ter­ranean bases, Britain and the U . S. arebeing th reatened with fu rther losses.Spain is continuing to put mountingpressure on Britain to give up Gibraltar.And now the pact granting the U. S.use of the vital Med iterranean Polarisnuclear submarine base at Rota ( ncarCadiz) , Spain, has just expired. Spainis asking a high pr ice to renew theagreement because she knows the baseis vita l to the U. S. in the face ofgrow ing Russian naval strength. Butwhat if the U. S. cannot or will notmeet Spain 's price ? W ould the U . S.then lose thi s crucial base ?

As anyone can see, the picture for theU. S. is not very encouraging, not verybrig ht. T hat is why the Italians, W estGermans and other Central Europeansarc concerned .

H ow Europe Feels

An excellent summary of what EuropeIS th inking about the Red navy in theMediterranean was publ ished by Epocaof Mil an in an article " \V hy EuropeFears the Russian Na vy." An excerptfrom this article says:

"Experts assure us that if war brok eout tomorrow, the Ameri can Sixth Fleetwould prevail over the Soviet fleet in theMed iterranean . Bra tbis certainly, f or

llaly. is not at all consoling. In the firstplace, remember, our safe ty is not inour own hands. Second ly, the SixthFleet is not at our disposal. If theUnited States, whose prevalent interestsare in the Pacific, should decide to use itsSixth fleet in that pa rt of the worldor elsewh ere, the Soviets would becomethe masters of the Medi terranean. Andapart from that possibi lity, nothing isstopping the USSR from furtherstrengt hening her naval forces on achessboa rd which is of vital importanceto us."

The art icle goes on to say that Italyis three-quarters sur rounded by waterand that every year 200 million tons ofmerchandise (including 75 pe rcent ofher raw materials) are received at herports. Thus, freedom of the seas is vitalto Italy...Italy must be concerned withthe strategi c balance of power in the

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Officia l U. S . Na vy Photo

O ve r the Med iterranean Se a a Soviet bo mber is fo llowed b y an F·8 Crusade r fig hte r bomber from theattock aircraft ca rrier USS Shangr; La.

Mediter ranean , a condition which deter­mines its futu re as a fr ee nation . TheSOllie! uuua] presence is no u: (Jllering thisbalance" (emphasis ours) .

Europe is concerned. She fears whatthe USSR might do and what the U. S.might not do !

The BIG Q U ESTION nu w is, what wil l

Europe do about it?

The Future of Europe

To safeg uard herself , Europea nleaders an: giving serious thought to athird power bloc. Cont inental Euro­peans sec Britain headed dow nward .T hey see U . S. inte rnal decay. andwaning internationa l prest ige and in ­

flucnce.

Th e bui ld-up of Soviet sea power is,however, only one factor which is set­ting the stage for a revival of Europeanuni ty. Th e sudden crisis over Czecho­slovak nationalism is forc ing Europeansto become more and more involved withtheir own defenses, hasteni ng the longdreamed-of day of complete politicaluruon .

Europeans arc saying: "T he new situa­tion in the Mediterranean calls for adynamic political strategy, f rom whichwe cannot withd raw ourselves." Me reand more yOll can expec t Europeansto take matters into their own hands.

But what about the U. S. and its SixthFleet ? What role will it play?

Will the Fleet Leave ?

This past summ er the Sixth Fleet cele­bra ted its 20th anniversary as a peace­keeping force in the Mediterranean. OurGerman P l. AIN TRUTH correspondentwas on hand fo r the full day ofspeeches, tours and dr amatic naval ex­ercises ( all shadowed by the USSR, ofcourse) . He was deeply imp ressed bythe power he saw displayed .

But will this powerful fleet remain inthe Mediterranean ? And will it remainin A merican hands ?

You may have been surprised by thefirst of these questions, and proba blysboreed by the second one ! Yet either ofthese actions is a distinct possibility.

T he USSR is determined , one wayor another, to dr ive the Sixth Fleet fromthe Mediterranean so that they canmove in to fill the gap. On April 24,1967 Brezhnev publicly predicted "thecomplete withdrawal of the U. S. SixthFleet from the Mediterranean.'

T he U. S. has four major fl eets. T woprotect its Atl antic and Pacific coasts,one is in the Pacific and one is in theMedit erranean . Russia is hoping for , andno doubt trying to arrange, a situationthat wou ld requi re the U. S. to with-

draw the fleet from Mediterraneanwaters to fight elsewhere. And make nomistake about it, such an eventualitycould develop .

But conside r also thi s possibil ity :Continu ing pressure on the do lla r couldforce the U. S. to look for ways to cutback abroad without, it hopes, endanger­ing its secur ity. It costs a g reat deal ofmoney to maintai n the approximately50 ships, 25,000 men and 200 aircraftof the Sixth Fleet.

Europe would like noth ing betterthan to have the Fleet at their disposalso that their safety is in their ownhand s. Europea ns would proba bly bequ ite willing to supply both men andmoney to keep the Fleet in the Med iter­ranean - if that would g ive them con­trol in event of a milit ary crisis. T heU. S., torn apart with internal crisis,and with its back to the wall elsewhere,might see such a "so lution" as the onlyalternative to bringing the Fleet home.After all, hasn't Western Europe beena most " trustworthy" ally?

Many d ramat ic events are goi ng tobe unfoldi ng in the next few months

and years. Keep watching world news.

And keep reading The P LAI N T RUTH

magazine wh ich will tell you themeaning of these events as they un fold .

~ltc /6iIJ'c Storyby Basil W olverton

C HAPTER O N E H U N DRED T W EN TY

SYRIA CHALLENGES GOD

INA CAVE in Mr. Sinai, Elijah was told by a voice that he should come out of the

cave to meet God, who would soon be passing by. ( I Kings 19:9-11.) Later, there

was a very strong wind, followed by a powerful earthquake. Afterward, the prop het

decided that God was not in either unusual display of nature .

Then the mountains erupted into volcanic activity and were stabbed by blazing

bolts of lightning. Everything vibrated with the tremendous roar of steady thunder.

Elijah crouched in fear , wondering if th is could be God's manifestat ion of Hims elf ,

but he was af raid to stay outside the cave and watch what was taking place.

T hat Was Only Small Power

The lightning storm ended as abruptly as it had begun . The prophet walked

slowly to the mouth of the cave, not knowing for certain what he would see. It was

then that he thought he heard a voice coming from a great d istance. Startled and

uneasy, he pull ed his coat up over his head, hesitant to see whatever or whomever

should be waiting for him outside the cave.

After he had gro ped his way to the ledge, the voice came to him again . It was

a clear, quiet voice of small volume. Seemingly, now, it came to him from all

di rections. ( I Kings 19:11-13.)

The prophet let the coat drop off his head. He stared all around, but there was

nobody in sight. The only visible moving thing was a column of smoke rising from

the tip of a nearby crag that had been struck by lightning.

" I am your God ," came the words. "W ithin the hour 1 passed by the cave you

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Elijah looked out of his cave on Mt. Sinai to try tofind the source of the voice that ha d come to him.The only moving thing that he could see was smokerising from a peak where lightning had struck.

quire of him, but he was so

overcome in the presence of

the Creator, even though he

couldn't see H im, that he feared

to speak.

"Don't be concerned about

j ezebel's men ," God continued.

"Go back to Israel , but don't

return by the way you came

here . Take a route to the east , as though going to Damascus. In the west side of the

Jordan valley, a few miles east of ]ezreel, you' ll find a man named Elisha. H e sha ll

take your place, in due time, as the lead ing prophet of Israel in these years.

" Later, you will ano int a man named Hazael as king of Syria. You will also

anoint a certain Jehu as king to replace Ahab. These two sha ll be used to punish the

disobedient and rebellious rulers of my people . All Israel doesn 't deserve punishment,

because there are many thousands who have continued to observe my laws and have

refu sed to worship idols." ( [ Kings 19:13-18; Romans 11:1-4.)

Days later , when Elijah arri ved in the area where he had been instructed to go,

he inquired about until he found where a man lived by the name of Elisha - an

are Il1 more than once, but I

was not in the wind, earth­

quake or lightning. Now I have

come to tell you that you have

done well as my servant ,

though lately you let fear of the

woman Jezebel get the best of

you. I have more work for you,

but you can be of the great­

est value only if you rely fully

on me and dedicate yourself

fully to what you must do."

Elijah was both humbled

and encouraged by what God

said. He wanted to declare that

he wou ld be very enthusiastic

abou t whatever God wnuld re-

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industrious young man of a well-to-do family. Elisha happened to be plowing with a

pai r of work bulls when the prophet found him. Eleven of Elisha' s men were also

plowing in the field . Elijah recogn ized the man he was seeking. He walked into the

field and tossed his cape over Elisha's shoulders as the younger man drove his team

by. The surp rised plowman pulled his animals to a halt and stared at the stranger .

Careless Prosperity

" I have been told that only prophets of God wea r capes like this one," Elisha

said, "and that when a prophet tosses his cape over another man, it means that the

man has been chosen to become another prophet. Am I to assume that this special

honor has come to me?"

"You are right ," Elijah answered. " I am a prophet of God , sent to let you know

that you have been chosen for a purpose."

Elijah felt that mare explanation wasn' t necessary at the moment. He knew that

Elisha wou ld ask ques tions SOon enough, so he walked away, intending to return later.

He heard quick footste ps behind him, and turned to see Elisha running excited ly

toward him.

" If God can use me, I'm willing to go with you this very hour," Elisha told

Elijah . " But first Jet me say good bye to my parents."

"You shouldn 't leave without seeing them," Elijah agreed. " \X'hen I placed my

cape on you, I didn't mean tha t you have to go with me now. Stay for a little time

with your family. I shall return for you."

Elisha was very eager about his call from God. To him this was the greatest day

of his life . He wanted the last night with his relatives and friends and servants to be

a happy one. He was not in love with wealth. According ly, he had his men kill and

dress two of his work animals to be boiled for a festive dinner that evening. To show

he was permanently giving up his previous job to devote himself wholly to God 's

service, Elisha used his own plow and yoke for fue l.

Next day Elisha saw Elijah crossing the plowed field. The younger man told his

family goodbye and joined the proph et. H is parents watched the two disappear over

a rise, unaware that their son would one day be a prophet who would become very

important in the affairs of the nation. (I Kings 19: 19-21.)

About five years passed , during which northern Israel recovered from the three­

year drought and became prosperous. For a time matters went rather well for Ahab in

spite of his continuing in idolatry. All Israel became lax. Then one morning he was

awakened with the jolting repor t that a large army had surro unded his capital city of

Samaria . The flags of Syria and thirty-two adjoining states could be plainly seen.

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Messengers appeared at the gates to demand an audience with Ahab, who promptly

met them .

" \'1/e br ing to you the words of our king, Ben-hadad of Syria," the spokesman

messenger said to Ahab. " He wants you to know that he will call off the siege of your

One morn ing Ahab wa s a wa kened by the startling new s tha tSamaria wa s surrounded by an arm y of Syria n soldiers.

city if you will send out to him tomorrow your go ld, silver and the choicest of your

wives and children. H e expects you to decide immediately and give your decision to

us to take back to him ." ( I Kings 20: 1·3.) Israel's prosperity was just too much for

these g reedy men to resist.

Ahab was stun ned . He knew that he could be fac ing disaster if he appeared

anything but agreeab le. He reasoned that the on ly thing to do was at least seem to

go along with the demands, and later try to find a way out of the sudden trouble.

U nex pected Courage

"Tell your king, whom I consider my master, that I am at his service and that

all I have is his," Ahab shakily told the messengers, hoping that h is submissive answer

wou ld satisfy Ben-hadad for the time being.

When the king of Syria heard fro m his messengers what Ah ab had to say. he

decided that the king of Israel was so fr ightened that he would submit to any terms.

H e immediately sent his messengers back to make further demands of Ahab.

"Our king want s you to know that he has changed his mind, " they reported. " He

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has decided not to requ ire that you send him the things he previously asked for."

Ahab was greatly relieved, but his relief didn't last long.

"Our king has decided to trust his gods and instead of your go ing to the trouble

of taking to him the things he asked for , tomorrow he will send men into your city

to search for and take everything that looks good. He expects you to cooperate fu lly.

Only then will he remove his army from around Samari a."

Ahab was more troubled than ever. He immediately summoned the leading men

of the city to expla in the situation to them and ask what they thought should be done.

"Don't give in to him," they fervid ly entreated the king. " If you let his men

inside the walls, the city could be taken over that much sooner. Besides, if we give

him wha t he demands, we can't rely on his taking his army away. On ce he gets

what is valuable, he might destroy Samaria and the people who are lef t."

Ahab was fearfu l of going contrary to Ben-hadad's demand s, but he knew

that the Israelite elders were right. H is courage bolstered somewhat, he surprised

the impatient Syrian messengers with what he had to say.

"Tell your king that although I regard him highly and at first consented to

what he asked for in the beginning, I can't allow his men to come into my city and

take whatever they want."

When Ben-hadad was told what Ahab had said, his fond hope of taking Sa­

maria without a battle was swept away. In its place came a vengeful desire to do

away with the city and every person in it.

"May the gods take my life," he muttered angrily, "if I don' t set so many men

against Samaria that there won't be room enough in the dust of the city for them

to stand on! Tell that to the king of Israel !" ( I Kings 20:4-10.)

When Ahab heard Ben-hadad 's declaration that he would destroy Samaria , he

wasn't as frightened as he had been when he first heard from Ben-hadad. He had

just enoug h courage to cause him to send back a caustic answer to the other king.

"Te ll your master that his threat to wipe out my city fails to impress me," Ahab

instructed the messengers. "Remind him for me that a soldier who is just about

to go into battle shouldn't boast about his victor ies, He should wait unti l he is re­

turning from bat tle." (I Kings 20 :11.)

Th e exchange of communications between the two kings had been going on most

of the morning. It was about noon when Ben-hadad received Ahab's latest and last

message. He was in a spacious dining tent, eating and drinking with the lesser rulers

of the provinces close to Syria, whose troops comprised a part of the besieging army.

"Prepare to at tack the enemy's city!" Ben-hadad shouted, staggering to his feet,

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" I would have spared the wretched Israelites until tomorrow, but now Ahab will pay

for his insolent remarks by seeing his palace sacked this very day!" ( I Kings 20 :12.)

\X'hile the worri ed Ahab and his chiefs and royal gua rdsmen excited ly dis­

cussed what should be done, the king was told that a stranger with a vital message

had come to speak to him. Th e stranger ident ified himself as a prophet and informed

the king tha t God that same day would give Ahab a victory over the huge Syrian

army, to remind him again that the God of Israel was the only real deity.

Impossibl e Odds

"\X'hy would God tell me tha t I can be victorious over my enemy?" Ahab

asked impatiently, staring doubtfully at the stranger. " I don 't even have an army!"

"God wants you to make an army out of the men in the city of Samaria," the

prophet answered. " For your leading soldiers, use your royal guards and the ex­

perienced retainers who are sons of your clan chiefs. Arm the rest of the men in

the city as fast as you can. Prepare them for action right away. If you do these things,

God will help you ,"

"But who will be the head of this mot ley crowd ?" Ahab asked.

"God expects you to be," the prophet replied. " If you aren't willing to do that

much, you won't get any help from Him." ( I Kings 20:13-14.)

Ahab had two hundred and thirty-two skilled soldiers who were his retain­

ers and royal guards. A hasty count of able-bodied men in the city of Samaria added

up to seven thousand. Many of them had no train ing as soldiers . Fast and frantic

efforts were made to form what would at least look like an army out of seven thou­

sand, two hundred and thirty-two men. (I Kings 20:15.)

They marched out at noon to face Ben-hadad's army. By this time Ben-hadad

and the thirty-two kings with him were drun k.

"Two or three hundred Israelite soldiers have come out of Samaria and are

running this way!" someone shouted into Ben-hada d's dining tent.

"Good !" the Syrian king muttered , sinking back on his pillows. "Take them

alive for questioning, whether they have come to attack or whether they have come to

bargain ! I'll teach them what my gods can do !" ( I Kings 20 :16-18.)

The Victory is God 's

Scores of Syrian warriors were dispatched to meet the small body of Israelites.

Confident ly they surrounded them, intending to close in and herd them to the Syrian

camp. The Israelites rushed at their would-be captors, bringing them to the grou nd with

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fast movements capable on ly of the best-trained soldiers of nort hern Israel, the king's

royal guard,

More Syrian troops ran from their camp to take the places of their fallen fellow­

soldiers, At the same time the seven thousand men of Samaria began to pour out

of the city,

The sigh t of them unnerved the Syrians, who assumed that the men crowd ing

out of the gates were as skilled in fighting as the first ones who had come out,

Panic-stricken, they turned and raced back, trampling the tents and colliding with

other Syrian soldiers preparing to attack, Pandemonium spread like fire among

the thousands of soldiers and their officers,

This was the beginning of a surprising and sudden defeat of the Syrians, Th e

lesser kings in Ben-hadad 's din ing tent decided without delay that they wanted no

part of what already looked like a losing war. They fled to their horses and returned

northeastward with some of their troops , Ben-hadad wasn't too confused , in his

condition, to decide that he should leave, too, He was helped on a horse and raced

away with most of the cavalry he had brought to Samaria,

Th e Syrian foot soldiers, superior in numb ers, might have regrouped and crushed

the Israelites, but they lost the will to fight when their leaders ran out, Many of them

escaped , Others became the victims of the Israelites, who pursued them for a short

distance from Samaria ,

As for the large number of chariots, the drivers had little inclination to fight a

battle by themselves by chasing their enemies over rough ground, Most of them died

trying to escape, The area around Samaria became littered with dead and injured

horses and bro ken vehicles, ( [ Kings 20: 18-21.)

Ahab, who had gone with his men to direct them in the defeat of the Syrians,

realized tha t the victory had been a miracle that could come only from the one true

God , \'V'hen news of the event reached the rest of the nation , many in Israel became

more conscious of God and His power. ]ezebel, of course, scoffe d at the belief that

God was as g reat as Baal , Astar te, and even lesser paga n gods and goddesses,

Not long after the short siege of Samaria, the prophet who had told Ahab that

God would help him came again to the king to make another prediction and give

some advice from God,

Defying God

"Next spring, af ter the rains are over, Ben-hadad will return with another

large army," the prophet said , "Because of his stinging defeat, he will be more de­

termined than ever to be the victor. Prepare for his invasion by mustering and tra in-

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The pla in nea r Samaria wa s strewn with broken Syria n chariotsand de ad or injured horses .

mg as large an army as you are able to get together." (I Kings 20:22.)

At the same time, up at the Syrian capital of Damascus, advisors to the king were

trying to convince him that he should challenge the God of Israel again and invade

Israel after the spring rains were over and the grou nd was firm enough for chariots.

"W e lost the battle because the Israelite gods dwell mostly in the hilly regions,"

they profoundly exp lained to Ben-hadad. "By casting some kind of spell on your men,

those gods prevented your riders and foot soldiers from success. If you would build

anoth er army as great as the one that surrounded Samaria , and if you would meet

Ahab 's forces on some wide pla in, where the hill gods of Israel have no power,

you would surely enjoy a great victory."

"To muster all army as large as the one I had before," Ben-hadad told his

advisors , " I would have to use the troops of the province leaders who deserted me.

I wouldn't want to take them with me again."

"Use their soldiers, but don't let the leaders go," the advisors suggested. "Tell

them that experienced officers will represent them to insure their safety."

Ben-hadad was far from sold on the idea, but after days of thinking it over,

he grew increasingly ambitious. ( I Kings 20:23-25.)

"Make plan s to rebuild my army," he finally announced to his aides. " I am go ing

to challenge the God of Israel and invade the land again !"

(To be continued next issue}

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Strauss Interview{Continued f rom page 6)

and tbe recent u-itbd reu-el of moreAmerican troops f rom lV/elI Germany,u.os ld )' 011 U'cl11J to com ment 0 11 tb epos.ribility of a United Es vopenn forceJharing iss peacekeepillf!. load in thewestern part of tbe u-orld, and wouldit be conceivable tbat .w ch a peace­keeping [orce conld be railed IIp on 10

help ill areas otb er th an flllJ'Op eproper?"

Answer: " I wou ld cons ider itunwise to continue withdrawingAmerican troops now or in th enear fut ure fro m the Continentof Europe. W e need the ph ysicalAmerican mi litary presence inconsiderable strength.

" A part of American troopscould be repl aced in the foresee ­able futu re by an integrated Euro­pean outfit . I wou ld not like togo further and run into fant asticdimensions . The problem I wasinvestigating is how could wehelp our American friends to getrid of a part of their commitment- and the only place in theworld where I see it to be pos~

sible would be in a stronge rEurope. In Korea or in Vietnamthere is no replacement for theAmer icans, now nor in the fo re­seeable future. But in Europe. apartia l replacement is possi ble.W' e shall help th e Americans tohave more troops at dispos al forexercising their world functions.T he probl em of which you arespeaking \..: iIl become actua l. inmy view, at a later phase. whenEurope is consolidated and whenEurope has taken a greater sharein European defe nse. \X' e havelost a lot of t ime and I wouldnot like to go int o a problemwhich is not in a realistic neigh­borhood now."

Question: " Y Oil htllre stated per­sonally YOllr fee/inK n-itb regard tothe nnclear non-proliieration I real y ­

notd d )'011 care 10 comment briefly onu -betber or 110t JIIch a United Enrnpeanf orce could exist u-itbont its ownnuclear toeapons?'!

Answer: "First I would liketo emphasize th at all of us, ene­mies and opponents of the non­prolifera tion tr eaty, have onething in common . That is thatwe welcome the overall aims of

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the treaty. \Ve all wish to pre­vent a nucl ear chaos in the worl d,to redu ce the risk of a nu clearholocaust, to avo id the dev ilishautomatism of escalation in to anall-our nuclear war. But weser iously dou bt whe ther or notth is treaty will lead to worldwi dedisarmament which had to in­clude not only nuclear weapons.but which should also includeconvention al weapons, because asuperior potent ial aggressor whodisposes of stro ng conve ntio na lelements can abuse the nuclearumbrella - can abuse the fearof a nucl ear coalition. and canmake milita ry invasions with con­ventional weapons, both sideskeepin g back th eir nuclear wea­pons.

" I have been pleading for aNATO str ategy during my sixyears as Defense Minister - fora N ATO mil itary doctrine­which maintains an incalculab lerisk for a potent ial aggressor.This is the foundation of ourmilitary security here in Europe.

" In addit ion, I don't think verymuch of the sign ature of one ofthe two super powe rs. I don' tthink very much of the signatureof the super powe r. the nucl earpower. and the conventionalpower wh ich brutally invadedan allied count ry, and whic his heatin g up th e propagandaagai nst us to nearly an intolera ­hie limit. W hat is the purpose ofthis. we must ask.

"So long as the Russi ans insistin their so-called rights as a vic­tori ous country versus a defeatedcountry (Artide 53 and Article107 of the United Ch arter) whereformer victors can still maintaina right of using milit ary forceagainst the defeated - the Rus­sia ns repeatedly said they main­ta ined those rights and said theyare not ready to aband on thoserights.

"Secondly, I menti oned theweapons stockpiled in Czechoslo­vakia - a foolish lie. \"'ho wi' lprevent the Russ ians from attack ­ing us as having secretly brokenthe commitments of any {non ­proliferation] treaty. by a seriesof lies? W' e have renou nced de­velopment and production of nu­clear weapons up to now, and wemaintain that renunciation.

" Up to now. th e Russians havebeen outside of the fen ce. Butwhen the trea ty becomes valid,they will be inside of the fence.They wi ll then he one uf the

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controlling powers and there isstill a severe number of imp liedproblems which must be seriouslyconsidered.

" \X'e have satisfactory Amer icaninterpretations [ of the nucle arnon-proliferation treaty]. \Vehave absolute ly non-satisfactoryinterpretations from the Russianside , or silence. And after wehave committed ourselves, th euthe Russians will come out withthe ir interpretation. \X'e wouldlike to remi nd our friends thatth ey should not forget th at theFede ral Republic of Germany wasthe first countrv in the world toren ounce openI}', solemnly, fi rm­ly, and repeatedly, th e develop ­ment and production of ABC[ At omic, Biological and Cbemi­cal] weapons.

" But we do not wish to getint o a hopeless positi on with theRuss ians."

Question: IINoli1 tbat Rnssia h (IJ

demonstrated thaI sbe is, ,·egardleJJ ofthe presssre of 'world pllblic opinion,·willing 10 send laukJ and armed [orcesere n into em allied Com nm nist (mmlr)'

- u'hal bas tbis done 10 tbe questionof a dirided German)'? HaJ tbe RIIJJianaction delayed the euentnal l"etl11i{tcalirm

of German)'?

Answer: "We should not fo r­get such a division of Germanyis a fact ion of the division ofEurope, and th at both problems- the reconciliation of Euro peand the reunification of Ge rmany- can not be separa ted from eachother.

"Until the Russians and theirsatellites invaded CzcchoslovakiaI had to listen to th e sloga n th atth e Russi ans never would inter­vene with military force inCzechoslovakia because time hadpassed, progress had bcenachieved, the 'process of liberal­ization' is und er way in Russiaand so on. N ow those prophetshave elaborated a new formu la.The new formula is that the Rus­sians are only exercising a rigiddiscipline among the Russi anareas of infJuence. But th ey willnever exceed the demarcationline.

"But I think phrase numberone has proved to be as unreli­able as the assumption numbertwo.

" \X'ithout showing any hostilityagainst our Eastern neighbors,we should be prepared for all

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cont inge ncies. As to German re­unification , we sho uld not forgetth at the Soviet occupati on zoneof the so-called German Demo­crati c Republic, is one of themost important power-pillars ofthe Ru ssian system. T here foreUlbrecht hol ds a very importantfunction for them, and is mak inguse of that fun ction .

A few years ago , and re­peatedly in th e past mon ths, Ihave made a fantast ic st atement_ an hypothesis, which I wouldlike to repeat now. Assum e thatth e Federal Repu bli c of Ger­many would make a prop osaltoward the Ru ssians . This pro­posal would hor rify our allies­would shoc k them. It's purely anhypothesis, but let us go th ro ughit in our thoughts .

The Federa l Re public of Ger­man y would aba ndo n all Euro­pean ties; th e Commo n Ma rke r,the Coa l and Steel Pool, Eur atom;would leave NATO; wo uld dis­ma nt le the Bund eswehr {GermanArmy] down to a police force ofa hun dred thousand men withpolice \\'eapons; would commitherself to undergo full-s caleneu tralization and disarmamentfor a hund red years; would for­get about th e German problem,and wou ld te ll the Russians: 'W eshall not come back to th at prob­lem bef ore the year 2000 hascome.'

In add itio n to that, in order tomake reparatio ns for what wasdone by Germans in Russia wepay a sum of one hundred billiondo llars ( th at is four huo dr ed bil­lion Deutschm arks) in a peri od oftwent y years and we have onlyone condi tio n. T ha t is, to g rant toth e so-called Ge rman DemocraticRepublic ( th e Soviet Occupat ionZo ne ), th e presen t status of Aus­tria. T hat is; neutrali zation as asecond German sta te, wi th inter­na l autonomy, free elections , andlimited sove reignty as a smallneutralized German stat e.

" \X'hat would the Russian an­swer be ?

"The Ru ssians would answer,'Those are very good ideas youhave pro posed. N ew ideas ­helpf ul ideas. You should do allthat you have pro posed . Aodwhen you have done that - dis­rupted your Euro pean ties, leftN ATO, aod so-on, we shall bein a bett er atmosphere to negoti­a te wit h you about your point.'

"T he Russians would not, un-

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der foreseeable condit ions, permitreun ificat ion of a real Ge rmanD emocrat ic sta te - th e balanceinside the Russian power systemhas become less stable, and eventsin Czechos lovakia have proved it.

"Under give n circumstances theRussians wou ld not even desirea unified Germany under a Com­munis t regim e. Because a unifiedGermany wit h seventy-five mil­lion inhabitant s, with the integra­tion of two strong economies,wou ld disturb the balan ce insidethe Communist system.

"T herefor e 1 see as the onlycha nce, in a long-run historicalprocess, th at of building up aEuro pe - integrating the FederalRepublic of Germany into th atEurope and buildiog bri dgesfrom an att rac tive, economicallypowerful , polit ical and influen­ti al Europe which can defendherself - includ ing a nucl earpotent ial - to add to the powerof th e Europeans.

"T o build bridges toward oureastern neighbors is a hist oricalprocess which takes much time .What we have experienced inEur ope and what maybe someAmericans are not fully awareof (I don't mean it in an un­frieodly way ) is th at the Euro­pean history fro m 1940 to 1945,du e to German failures, mistakesand crimes, is a process of de­generat ion of th e most importantconti nent of the world - whichwas Europe in 1914 - down tozero; down to scratch in 1945.

"The reversal of that cannotbe done und er the aspect of re­establ ishing European nationalstates as they were before, in the19th century, and up to W orld\Var I.

" \Ve need a new architectureof Euro pe in order to overcomethe peri od of a catastro phic de­gener ation of Euro pe. That re­quires tha t we are ready to aban­don German sovereign ty in favorof a European central govern ·ment in which the Germans willrepresent a certa in element butwill not dominate Europe."

Question: " A re there any suchbridges in existence right now; economicOl1es - social exchanges?"

Answer: "W e have offeredeverything. W e wen t much far­ther th an any cabinet before ­th e cabinet of Kiesinger did . Wetried to establish contacts, eco-

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nomic agreements, nonaggressionpacts and so on. I would liketo say, and it should be takenvery seriously, th at th e agi tat ionagainst Bonn has increased andhas been h eat ed u p in t heexact same measure as have ourat tem p ts at co m p ro m ise. Thismea ns Ru ssia wants for a puppeta mili tarist ic, aggressive, reven­gistic Ge rmany in orde r to keeptogether her forced allies. T hemore we are ready to open ourdoors; the more we are ready tod ismantle obstacles; to removethe m, the more hateful and exa­cerbated their prop aganda isaga inst us.

" I beli eve that is a lesson - alesson which should not lead usto chaog e policy rad ically, butwhich should make us continueth at po licy (of "bridge building"toward th e East ) but on the basisof having as a stand- by a unifiedEurope and a reestablished andreorganized NATO allia nce."

And so terminated the interview.Privately, I asked Herr Strauss what hefelt about the chances of his beingelected Chancellor of Ge rmany io the

,coming elections in 1969. He smiled,declined to speculate about such anoffice at the moment, and remarkedabout the fioe job he felt Kurt GeorgK iesinger was doing as Chancellor.

Strauss' story about the reaction ofthe Russians to any such fantastic pro­posals as he outl ined shows how com­pletely he disagrees with the Americaopolicies over the past years toward theSoviet Union.

Where many Western seers have con­tinually hailed minor signs of lesseningof tensions as evidences of a softeningof the old Stalioist hard -line Communistdoctrines, Strauss has been under noillusions about such soften ing. His com­ments border riosely on the "I told youso" app roach.

One important point to notice - atno time does Strauss sound like a"finance minister." His views haveappeared io the press all over the worldrecently; running the gamut of everymajor international political issue withwhich Germa ny is concerned.

For years, observers in Germany haveviewed Strauss as a potentia l rallyingfigure for all those who desire a "strongmao" to solve the problems that plague

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Germans, Most have called him "dan­gerous," "a bully," " irresponsible" and"unpredictable."

Whatever he may be - Strauss issincere. He says what he believes, andbelieves what he says. He may becomeGerman y's next Chancellor. Rest assuredof one th ing . He will continue to bea powerful figure in Germany, andeventually in all Europe.

And, without h is knowing it, he mayfinally fulfill some frightening prophe­cies about modern Europe - fright eningto any who truly understand their sig­nificance.

Str auss is not a weak, comp rom isingpolitician, The "Spiegel affair" shouldhave convinced anyone of that. He isnot naive concerning Russia, or, for thatmatte r, concerni ng any of the maze ofdifficulties faced by Germany. But HerrStrauss talks as if he feels he has theanswers. He speak s wi th a posit iveassurance - an emphatic persistence ­and sometimes with a very loud voice.

Somed ay soon - more than just hisloyal fo llowers in Bavaria may be hear­ing that voice.

They may be shocked by what it says,

CENTURY 21(Continued from page 3)

were fighting savagely for their ownspecial advantage.

The United Nations has pro ved futil e- except , perhaps, as a propagandasounding board fo r the Soviet Union.Th ere have been more than 40 warsscattered over the world, which theUnited Nation s was impotent to stop,since 194 5! The United Nations is NOTa super world gove rnment.

T his is REAL - ItIn vol ves YO U !

Hiding your eyes from the exrsnngfacts won' t save your world for you­and YO U alive in it! This directly con­cern s the life of every reader of ThePLAIN T RUTH - and the countless othermill ions who ought to be reading it ,

This is REAL! It' s HERE! There isn 'tmuch more time! It's now far later thanyou think! And - yes, I realize it - thisis the ONLY VorCE IN THE WILDERNESS

The PLAIN TRUTH

of today's desp erate situati on that daresto SPEAK OUT!

T HIS you must face! There are nowtwo alternatives - and ONLY two !

1) Either the Creator GOD, who hasbeen utterly ign ored by this world 'seducation - who has been TOTALLYFORSAK EN by th is world' s rulers andits governments - who has been dis­credi ted in the thinking of vanity.filledworld leaders and educators - eitherthat very Eternal Almighty GOD exists,and will very S OO I1/ now, step in andINTERVENE in this world 's affairs, andSAVE ERRING HUMANITY FROM ITSELF-or:

2) Any one of six exist ing causes willERASE HUMANKIND FROM THE EARTHwithi n the very next few years - andm ost certainly prior / 0 CENTURY 2l!

The person who is unwilling toconsider that the Creator GOD is a

real, living, all-wise, all-knowi ng, all­powerful personal BEING, has only theCERTAINTY of existing world conditionsfast closing in upon him!

But for the reader who is willingto listen, I give you not only your ONLY

HOPE of survival, I give you your oneSURE HOPE !

W orld 's Most AccurateN ewscaster

First, notice the published report ofthe world 's number one Newscaster.This newscast was a FOREcast. And it' sCERTAIN, I know, very few ever realizedthat Jesus Chris t came as a NEWSman ­reporting NEWS for the future. He spokeof 20th century world conditions­and WORLD GOVERNMENT to come ! T heworld has misunderstood, pe rverted,maligned , His Message. The word "gos­pel " m eans GOOD NEWS! And H is wasnews for the FUTURE. H e describedtoday 's violent chaotic worl d. In thepivotal proph ecy of the New T estamentof the world 's best selling Book H egraphically described the internat ionalchaos int o which the world is rapidlyplunging right now. He said the vio­lence would explode into a world­troub le so great, that unless God inter­vened no human would remain alive!Yet, He promised, the All- powe rf ulGod would intervene supe rnaturally tocut short this world chaos (Matt.24 :21-22) ,

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NEWS - Past , Present, Future!

No book has so great a sale as theH oly Bible ! N o book ever was so mis­und erstood, mal igned, distorted, mis­represented. Those who profess to use itas the sou rce of their religion promul­gat e doctrines diametrically oppos itefrom its teachings. They quote (or mis­quote) only a fraction of its verses.

Few know that a who le thi rd , approxi­mately, of tha t Book is devoted toFUTURE NEWS of world happenin gs !News about various governm ent s! N ewsabout the great MAST ER PLAN for solv­ing all thi s world's troubles ! Newsof the now soon-coming peacefu l andhappy WORLD TOMORROW - on throughCENTURY 21 ! It's the BEST NEWS youever read !

We look, now, at one pivota l NEWSDISPATCH within th is volume, whichcovers dramatically a panorama of thedom inating governments, past, imme ­diat e present, and future - on intoCENTURY 21!

Adv ance News Report

You never thought of this panoramiclook ahead as a NEWS REPORT? It'stime we recognized it for precisely whatit is! And IT ' S EXCITING!

Incredible though it seems - andwould -be discreditors to the contrary

notwithstanding , the evidence has dem­

onstrated conclusively that this world­

news report was written between 500

and 600 years before Christ .

It concerns the king of the {irst world­empire. H is name was Nebuchadnezzar.

H is capital was the ancient glamor-city

and world-capita l, Babylon , One nightthis king dreamed a remarkable and

f right ening dream as reported in Da niel2. It was one of those rare dreams that

remain indelibly impressed on the mind

aft er awaking. He thoug ht it must have

meaning.

So Nebuchadnezzar called in all hi s

astro logers, his religious leaders, magi ­

cians, his chie f advisers, his wisest men.But he determin ed to test their clair­

voyant powe rs."It was a terrifying dream, yet it's

gone from me," he told them. " I wan t

you to tell me what I dreamed, If you

fail, I' ll know you are · fakes and

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phonies, and I' ll have you all put todeath."

But even wit h their lives at stake, hiswisest men could not tell Nebuchadnez ­zar wha t he had dr eamed .

Now among other nations that hadbeen conquered by this great Chaldeanking was the Kingdom of Judah whosecapita l city was Jerusalem. T hese Jewshad been taken as captives, and trans­port ed from their homes in their cities,towns and countryside to the land ofthe Chaldeans where they were madeslaves. But four outstandingly brilliantJewish lads had been inducted into im­portant government positions in Baby­lon . Among them was Daniel.

These fou r Jewish lads were beingseized, to be put to death along withthe sorcerers, magicians and Chal dean"wise men: ' Daniel asked for time,p romising that he would be able to tellthe king his d ream and its meaning.

Th e four Jewish lads prayed to thei rGod for the answer. That nigh t it wasrevealed to D aniel in a vision.

Repor t on " \X1 hat Is to Be."

"Are you able to make known to methe dream ... and its interpretation ?"asked the king when Daniel was usheredinto his presence. "No wise men .. . canshow to the king the mystery," rep liedDaniel, " . . . but there is a God inheaven who reveals myster ies, and Hehas made known to you what is to be.

"You saw, 0 king, and behold, agreat image. This image, mighty andof exceeding brig htness, stood beforeyou, and its appearance was frightening.The head of this image was of finegold, its breast and arms of silver, itsbelly and th igh s of bro nze, its legs ofiron, its feet partir of iron and par tlyof clay. As you looked, a stone was cutout by no hum an hand, and it smotethe image on its feet of iron and day,and broke them in pieces; then the iron,the day, the bronze, the silver and thegold all together were broken in pieces,and became like the chaff of the summerthreshing floors; and the wind carriedthem away . .. But the stone tha t st ruckthe image became a great mountain andfilled the whole earth: '

But what did it MEAN? Its MEAN·ING was a NEWS forecast leading to thepresent world turmoil, and its imminent

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and SURE outcome ! It is NEWS thatvitally affects the life of every readerof The PLAIN T RUTH I

"T his," continued. Daniel, "was thedream; now we will tell the king itsinterp retation . You, 0 king, the king ofkings, to whom the God of heaven hasgiven the kingd om, the power , and themig ht , and the glory . . . you are thehead of gold . After you shall ariseanother kingdom inferior to you, andyet a third kingdom of bronze, whichshall rule over all the earth."

Here was NE\X'S of the future. Itwas news reported in advance. And ithappened ! Aft er the Chaldean Empire,the Persian Empi re arose. It was inferioras a world empire intellectua lly, morally,and in honor and splendo r and glory- even as silver is LESS VA LUABLE thangold . But, as silver is harder than gol d,so was the Persian Empire stronge rin military might.

Humanity was dete riorating . The Per­sian Empire fell before the swift con­quering flight nf young Alexander theGreat, with h is G reek and Macedonianarmy. Alexander expanded his empirefarth er east and west and south ­greater in military strength, more inqua nt ity - g reater in area and popu ­lation ruled - but infer ior in quality,even as bronze is of less value thansilver, yet a harder meta l.

Alexander wep t because he had nomore worlds to conquer. He died youngin a drunken debauch. His empi re wasdivided into four div isions, each ruledby one of his four top -ranking generals.

N ow continue th is most unu sual formof NEWS REPORT.

The Roman Empire Came

"And:' cont inued Daniel, " thereshall be a fourth kingdom, strong asiron . . .." This was the Roman Empi re,wh ich swallowed up all four survivingd ivisions of Alexander's Graeco-Mace­danian Empire, and spread out fartherbeside. It was the strongest militarypower in world history up to that time.And the two legs symbolized the t toodivisions of the mighty Roman Emp ire- with the eastern capita l at Con­stantinople (today called Istanbul ,T urkey), and the western capital atRome.

But Dan iel continued : "And as the

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toes of the feet were partly iron andpartly clay, so the kingd om shall bepartly strong and par tly brit tle . .. butthey will not hold together, just as irondoes not mix with d ay."

There are three other specific proph­ecies - FUTURE NEWS REPORTS- onein the 7th chapter of Dan iel, one in thet yth and one in the 17th of Revela­tion, which also depict the futu re NEWSof this same succession of worldempi res. Putting all four prop hecies to­geth er, it becomes p lain that the toesof this image represent a last final res­urrection - or rebirth of the RomanEmpire in our time !

Soo n Co rning U. S. of Europe !

There is not space for deta ils in th is

article. But the two proph ecies in thebook of Revelation report clearly - longi ll advance - the fall of the originalRoman Empire in 476 A.D ., its restora­tion by Justinian in 554, and its historyas " the Holy Roman Empire," up to thefall of N apoleon in 1814.

T hen Revelation 17:8 shows thepartial revival of th is empire underMussolini - after he took Ethiopia,adding it to Italian Somaliland, Eritrea,Libya and Italy - officially naming it"Th e Roman Empi re:'

T hese p rophecies depict detail ed AD­V.A NCE NEWS of one more last revivalof this Empire, ret to occur, by a unionof ten nations in Europe.

This coming "United States ofEurope" is the dream of many leaders- not only within Europe, but in Brit­ain and America. The Common Marketis its beginning.

The Russian invasion of Czechoslo­vakia could well add impetus to themovement . It is now only a matter oftwo to four years until this ADVANCENEWS will be current news. And it willcompletely STUN THE WORL D l YetThe PLAIN TRUTH has repo rted thisnews in advance for the past 34 years!

More Powerful Than U. S.or USSR

Once political-military union isachieved out of the Common Marketin Europe - combining TEN nations ­or g roups of nation s - not merely thep resent six - it will present befo re theworld a THIRD WORLD POWER probably

October, 1968

even stronger th an either the U. S. or

the USSR!

Can you envisi on what that will meanin the world's balance of power?

But these nations will not cling longor loyally tog ether. The ten toes ofNebuchadnezzar 's image pictured mil­lenn iums in adva nce thi s United Europe!They will not cleave. togethe r for long,even as iron and miry clay will not !

Then wha t shall happen ?

This proph ecy - and others - g ive

you th e NEWS long in advance!

T hen Finally - WOR LDGovernment

Continue Daniel' s expla nat ion to

King Nebuchadn ezzar !

"And in the days of tho se kin gs" ­th ese ten soon to uni te in Europe ! ­" the G od of heaven will set up aKingdom wh ich sh all never be de­stroyed , nor sha ll its sovereignty be leftto anot her people . . . and it sha ll standforever . . . th e Great God has madeknown to the king wh at shall be her e­af ter . The dr eam is certain, and itsin terpretation sure:' ( Quoted f rom thesecon d chapter of Dan iel - RevisedStandard translation.)

This is just one of several ADVANCENEWS REPORTS th at explicitly affirmthere WilL BE a world government thatshall bring thi s war-weary earth PEACEAT LAST.

N ot by the help of men, or of theirhuman go vern ments - bu t in spite ofthem ! O ther prophecies report, centuriesand mill enniums in adv ance, almostevery detail of tod ay's rapid ly worseningcondi tion s!

Humani ty WILL SURVIVE! There willbe a happy W ORLD T OMORROW!Mortal humans do have a stern lessonto learn first . H uman bung ling wi llbring accelera ted wo rld trou ble beforeGcd -ignoring humanity will be will ingto learn . But WE SHALL LEARN !

Few realize that 90 % of Bibl icalprophecy pertains to OUR TIM E, and thevery few years imm ed iately ahead. Andapprox imately a th ird of the Bible isprophecy ! It has been neg lected utterl y.It has been terr ibly misunderstood,misrepresented, It IS tremendo uslyimportant ! Especially now!

Earlie r in th is article I said Jesus

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of Nazareth was the world's gr eatestNEWSCASTER. Marry, deceiving andbeing deceived , have represent ed Histeaching as a sentimenta l religiousteach ing having no relation whatever tothi s life, this world , its nation s, itsgovernments, its society. TH AT CONCEPTIS FA LSE !

Jesus "G ospel"- ( and remember"Gospel" means "Good News") - wasactually H is ADVANCE NE\XIS REPORT ofthe K IN GDOM - the G OVERNMENT ­of GOD, soon now to bring us wo rldPEACE! T he KINGDOM of GOD is,

simp ly, the world-rul ing GOVERNM ENTof Go d. It is absolutely 110/ a senti­mental, et hereal, imaginary something"set up in the hearts of men ." It issomethin g RE AL! It is SOON COMING!

And Jesus Christ was born to bethe KI NG of that WORLD GOVERN­MENT ( Luke 1:30-33; John 18:36-37;Rev. 19 :Il-16; 11:1 5) . As G enera lMacArthur promised the Filipinos he

wou ld return, so Jesus p rom ised Hi sdisciples H e would return . And, now,SOON ! To RULE THE WHOLE EARTH!

If the reader would like an excit­ing, g raph ic description of the com­ing WORLD TOMORROW - a worldgoverned by the Eterna l Creator God ­a world under perfect divine rule .organization and direction, you mayhave, at no charge, for th e asking,a fu ll-color illustr ated booklet of 100pages, The W Ollderfll1 W orld T om or­row.

It gives you many details. It givesyou the system of organization - evenTHE NAMES of world-famous men whowill occupy tremendous offices of power- the very names of men who willhave executive rule over Britain , overthe Uni ted States, over Russia, Germanyand others. It will describe the newworld 's system of education. It willnam e probable nam es of highly ex­perienced men who will head theworld 's new mon etary system, thebu ild ing of gigantic new public works,the new ag rarian ref orm. It will showhow the race qu est ion will be set tledIN PEACE, with all races happy - andprosperous.

You' ve never read anything like it.It IS absolutely amazing - and itpictures humanity's one gr eat and surehope.

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their mer chandising and marketing

problems. But also I had been in the

editor ial end of magazine production,wr iting articles.

In 192 7 the urge pressed heavi ly onmy mind to pr odu ce and publish a newkind of magazine. My dream was toproduce a "maga zine of UNDERSTAND­ING." As a child , even under five, myfath er said I would be a "Phi ladelphialawyer" when I grew up , because I wasalways asking so many qu estions . Iwanted to know " why" and " how." Iwanted to UNDERSTAND. As a teen- agerI was en tranced with Benj amin Frank­lin's Autobi ography . 1 was enthralledwith his faculty for UNDERSTA NDING, Ihad always wanted to understand LIFE- and WHY its problems - and HOW tosolve them .

Something else had happened just

bef ore this. In the autumn of 192 6 a

certain incident ange red and challenged

me into my first serious study of the

theory of evoluti on , and also of that

volume Bruce Barton said nobody

understands . Al though had been

reared by conscientious paren ts in one

of the respected Protestan t denomin a­

tions. I neve r knew much about the

chu rch 's religious Or doct rinal teachings

- and I had drif ted comp letely away

fr om religious in terest at age 18.

But in this very intensive e-month s'

study and research, I made some

startli ng discoveries. D id the evolut ion­

ary theo ry disprove the existence of

God ? This I had to know . Suffice it

here to say that I found the existence

of Go d the Creator scienti fically proved.

But I learn ed , too, why Bruce Barton

was right about "the Book th atNOBODY knows."

I had always said, " I just can' t under­

stand the Bible," But now my thirst fo rUNDERSTANDI NG in general was focusedon th is xns understood volume in par­ticular. And I was shocked to findther e THE ANSW ERS - pr actical, sound,

workable answers - to the en igma and

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the problems of life. I found that theorganized religions had app arentl y over­looked MOST of the vital kn owledgeabou t life and world conditions thisneglected Source reveals ! \X'hy, this wasnot sentimental "religion " or med ievalsupersti tion !

Actually , I found thi s world's bestselling book - and perhaps also itsmost neglected - to be an astonishingand tremendous N EW S SO URC E. Actual­ly, the so-called Prophets were merelywriting N EWS REPORTS far in advanceof occurrence ! I found here startlingadvance news reports of th is world 'scondit ions 4S they are today! I foundwhat it seems most all religious peopl ehave overlooked - the exp lanat ion ofthe MEA N ING and PUR POSE of life !

Winston Churchill spoke before theUnited States Congress about a P UR ­

POSE being work ed out here below. Inthis most misunderstood of books Ifound human natu re laid bare. I foundrevealed the TRUE VALUES cont rastedfrom the false. I found here theANSWERS fo r which the world gropesin frustrat ion !

Here, made PLAIN, was the explana­tion of the way to PEACE, if the worldonly would apply it -the way to per­sona l indi vidu al success, hap piness,abundant well-being!

This, it seemed to me, was not" relig ion" as I had heard it - as mostpeople regard it.

Th is MADE SENSE! You could proveit to be TRUE! It was not a mere senti­mental, sanctimonious EMOTION . Oh

yes, of course I found th is Booksearches clear th rough the very heart of

man, lays bare h is very inn er being asit actually is! It paints human nature

in its true colors - and it' s not so

pretty as many would, in thei r van ity,like to think of it.

But IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY

SOURCE THAT GIVES THE ANSWERS!And they are the RIGHT answers - the

ONLY answers ! What conspiracy could

have blinded humanity to this Source

of UNDE RSTA NDING !

I had always craved und erstanding .And now I had discovered its Source!

It was, I suppose, natura l that Ishould want to bring forth a magazine

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that would transmit UNDERSTANDING.In my enthusiasm, I sought out the bestprofessional lettering-artist in Portland,Oregon, where I lived in 1927. Withhis profess ional hand I produ ced a"dummy" of the kind of magazine Ienvisioned. I called it The PLAINTRUTH. I wanted it to give true under­standing, which , af ter all, is TRUTH­and I wan ted it to be a magazine tha twould SPEAK OUT wi thout fear orfavor , making PLAIN the truth aboutlife - about our society - abou thumanity's problems.

N o such magazine existed . It wasa ser ious need !

I even wrote two or th ree articles tobe publ ished in Volume I, Number 1.

But then the whole venture hit a stonewall barrier.

How would I launch such a maga­zine ? I had no cap ital to finance it.And how would I ga in a subscript ionlist ? At the time I was operating anadvertising service for a number ofclient s. This dream of Th e PLAINTRUTH had to be a spare time ente r­pri se. Two years wen t by. Then camethe economic crash of 1929 . The UnitedStates plummeted into its deepest de­pression . The dream of this differemmagazine seemed farther off than ever.

The advertising service went withthe depression .

A former newspaper associate wasattemp ting to launch a new morningnewspaper, with virtually no capital, inthe mid st of the depression . He appeal edto me for help . I dropped everything,went to his city to try to bail him out.I kep t that newsp aper afloat unt il thespring of 1933 by the unheard -ofmethod of selling advertising space toretail merchants on a pe rcentag e-of-sa lesbasis. Even then we had to take muchof the payment in merchandi se insteadof cash.

In late i933 invitation came to do a

radio broadcast daily for a week. It

brought an unexpected response. Thefirst week in January, 1934, The W ORLDTOMORROW radio p rogram made itstiny start on a single t eo-watt radiostat ion in Eugene, Or egon.

Now, at last, The PLAIN TRUTHsimply had to be born - seven yearsaft er its first sing le-copy "d ummy."

October, 1968

But there was no money. 1933 was theyear we hit th e very bottom of thedep ression - the year President Frank ­lin D. Roosevelt closed Ameri ca's banks .

But sometimes necessity is the"mother of invention ." I felt it was apositive MUST that I now have thelong-dreamed-of PLAIN TRUTH to offerradio listeners. Lacking capital or in­come to print it, I produced VOLUME I,Number L, the February, i934 num ­ber as a "home made" mimeographed"magazine." And I must put the word"magazine" in quotes.

During the month of January, theweekly half-hour broadcasts offered ThePLAIN TRUTH on an "already-pa id sub­

scrip tion" basis. There was no subscrip­

tion p rice. There was no advertising.

For that first issue I borrowed the use

of a typewriter to cut the stenci ls, and

borrowed the use of a mime ograph. Ith ink the total circulation was abou t

250 copies. Total cost of magazine pro­duction : the cost of mimeograph sten­

cils, the few sheets of paper, and a

small amount for the ink , plus postagefor mailing.

But the mi meographed contents in­

terested readers. And there were some

30 co-workers - low-income people ­with me.

In all these years f rom that un ­

believably infinites imal start, there has

been no visible human benefacto r orsponsoring organization (save for theone gradually built from that tiny co­worker group) back of The PLAINT RUTH. Or, for that matter, TheW ORLD TOMORROW broad cast. And wehave never solicited either co-workersto join, or contributions from the pu blic.

But BOTH radio prog ram and mag a­zine had a mission - a definite PUR­POSE - and there was a definite andserious NEED.

Through the years both broadcastand magazin e developed and g rew, itseemed so very slowly for the firstsevera l years. Actually it was gro wingat the rate of 30% each year. But 30%over a 2SD-copy circulation - and overa i Oo-watt radio power per week ­seemed painfully slow, Yet that mean tit dou bled in size and scope aboutevery 2 years, 7Yz months.

October, 1968

Actually the growth has been rather

AM AZING!

It is like taking a penny and doublingit every day for one 3D-day mon th. Aska person which he would rather have- (i n Unit ed States mo ney) - apenn y tod ay, doubled every day for 30days - or one million doll ars today.If you haven't figu red it out, I supposemost would take the million doll arsqu ickly. But stop and cou nt it. At theend of one week, the penny doublingdally would amount to less than a dollar- only 64 cents. The second week thegrowth seems still small - less than

100 - or, $81.92. At the end ofthree weeks it is beginning to countup - but still it is only a fr action ofthat $ 1 mi llion - $10,485.76. I think

perhaps the average person would beginto wish he had taken the one millionon the first day, after this three weeks.

But from th at point, it begins to sky­rocket ! By the end of the fourth week- just 28 days - it has zoomedsuddenly to $1 ,342,1 77.28 ! Mo re th ana mill ion and a third, and two moredays to go! Af ter 30 days, it mounts upto $5,368,709. 12 !

Of course, with a work doublingonly every two and three-fourth years,approximately, growth did seem muchslower th an th e penny doubling daily.

Nevertheless, the principle is the same.After all these nearly 35 years ThePLAI N TRUTH finds itself a handsome,top -quality, professionall y edited full­

color magazine approaching 1Y2millioncopies circul ation - with a readershipof more than 4 million!

And The W ORLD TOMORROW pro­

gram, with my son Garner TedArmstrong as the speaker today, beingheard on all continents, is the largestpurchaser of radio program time onearth, using 50 million watts of radiopower weekly! And we put a price onNOTHING - never invite new co­workers - though the number volun­tarily added has kept increasing 30%

a year - never ask the public forcontributions.

Incidentally, we hear much today

about the population explosion. Theworld's population has now hit thatsame point, where suddenly it begins

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to skyrocket at alarming pace. Itreminds me of something you mighthave happ ened to read in the Bible.In the sixth chapter of Genesis it speaksof the time "when men began to multi­ply on the face of the earth ." I supposemost people - if they ever do read theBible - would read right over that, notrealizing what it really says. It was thetime when human population wasdoubling itself every few years. In thosedays population could have multiplied4 times every 40 years. By N oah's timethere could easily have been anywherefrom two to ten billion ( ten thousandmillion) inhabitants on earth. They hada POPULATION explosion, just as weface one today. I can remember, in myown lifetime, when there were about2 billion people on earth. N ow thereare about 3Y2 billi on . In approximately50 years it will double. And that meansfood wars ahead !

\'Q'hen any growing factor doubles insize within a certain period of time, itfinally comes to a place where the in­crease seems to explode! It has beenthat way with The PLAIN TRUTH andThe WORLD TOMORROW program . TheWORLD TOMORRO'«' is now launchingits color-television edition in the UnitedStates. That, too, will expand rapidl y.

Perhaps I migh t be permitted to saythat this amazing growth, as I now lookback on it from the beginning, is verygratifying indeed to me personally.From the beginning my wife shared theresponsibilities, the concerns, the prob­lems, and the triumphs with me untilher dea th in April, 1967 - just 3Y2months before our golden weddinganniversary.

In 1947 Amb assador College wasfounded in Pasadena, California. Theentire operation of the broadcasting andpublishing enterprises has been carriedon as a worldwide educational activityof Ambassador College - now withthree campuses with a total of approxi­mately 1,200 students in residence. Wepublish a Correspondence Course, withmore than 100,000 students, worldwide.

The PLAIN TRUTH is published nowin five languages - Engli sh, German,French, Spanish and Dutch. It is pro·duced in our own printing plants atPasadena, Califo rn ia; W atford, Engl and ;

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N orth Sydney, Australia ; and Big Sandy,Texas. Our printing plants also producetextbooks, othe r books, book lets, pam ­phlets and the Correspondence Course.

The radio and television programs areproduced in our own studios at Pasa­dena. Our new T V studio is one ofthe finest-equipped, most modern any·where. The radio program goes on theair live in Los Angeles from our ownstudio in Pasadena - or, live on a radiostation in east Texas from our studioson our Texas campus - and as they goon the air "live," they are also recordedon a master tape. From this master tapea few hundred other tapes are "dubbed"and sent to radio stations around theworl d by air.

Meanwhi le, through the years, anefficient and competent organization,now worldwide, has been developedalong with the growth of our Work.

That started from most modest be­ginnings, too. For a year or so, therewas only Mrs. Armstrong and myself.Then we were able to employ a part­time offi ce helper - a g irl learning tobecome a secretary at business college- for 5 5 per week. Later we had asecretary at SI D per week. Gradually asmall office staff developed . In 1947we moved our operation to Pasadena,Cal ifornia, at the founding of thecollege. From there it has expanded atthat steady rate of 30% a rear. Todaythe sun never sets on Our offices aroundthe world. Today researchers, editors,writers, photographers are stationed inthese offices - and fly to any and allparts of the world to cover importantworld-news events.

As I write, Ambassador College islaying plans to inaugurate certain im­portant research projects in various partsof the world, and we hope to makeimportant contributions to the world'sknowledge - the kind of knowledgethat will SOLVE problems and EN D

troubles - not add to them! Our facili­ties and resources have multiplied alongwith every other phase of our opera­tions.

Now, once again, HOW can ThePLAI N TRUTH best serve YOU bypublishing what you need most toknow ? Why don't you sit down, writeme a letter, and tell me ? .

PROPHE CYIN TODAV'S

W O R fEW S

\l.MIRVII Passes Test

Now it is virtuaIIy certain they willnever sign the U. S.- and Russian­sponsored pact.

Iy targetable Re-entry Vehicle) . Thebomb clusters represent a major develop­ment in the arms race. T hey are de­signed to give the United States theability to overwhelm Soviet defenses by1972.

Th e new warheads will not bemerely sprayed over a target like shot­gun pellets. Each system will haveits own "b rain" and control systemto send bombs diving at specificpreprogrammed targets.

" Boring" Knowledge

But talk about the arms race hasbecome "old hat" to too many peo­ple.

General E. L. M. Burns of Canadatold the United Nations in New Yorkrecently: "No one can deny that if thethousands of weapons in the stockpiles[of the nuclear powers] are loosed theywill cause horribl e, almost inconceivabledeath and destruction.

"But the impact of this knowledge, ..said General Burns, "has been softenedby much repetition. It is a truth whichhas regrettably become a plat itude, andperhaps a bore. The world would like

to ignore it, to forget about it."

The whole world has also ignoredthe somber warning of Jesus Christ that"except those days [our era today]should be shortened, there should noflesh be saved" (Matt. 24 :22) . JesusChrist - returning to earth in powerth is time - will put an end to theinsane arms race. But not before wholecities will be laid waste unde r the furyof nuclear devastation! ( Lev. 26: 31,33; Ezek. 6 :6. )

up to ten separate,ind ividually con­trolled hydrogenbombs on targetshundreds of milesapart . Such pay­loads are calledM I R V ( Multi­ple Independen t-

Keys tone Photo

Meanwhile, the missile race betweenthe U. S. and the Soviet Union is step­

ping up.Th e U. S. suc­

cessfully fired twonew long-rangemissiles in an un­precedented dem­onstra tion of thenuclear firepowerplanned for the1970·s.

Th e Air Force'sM in uteman - I IIand the Navy'sPoseidon, design­ed 10 boost U. S.nuclear strikingpower five- to ten­fold in the nextdec ade, sco redflawless successeson maiden flightsin mid-August .

Both rockets arescheduled to carrymulti-bomb war­heads able to rain

This unce nso red picture sho ws the uniqu e yet formidob lefirepower of a U. S. Na vy Pola ris submarine . The vesse lha s 16 la rge ha tches throu gh wh ich can be la unchedPola ris missiles capab le of producing unbelie va ble a to micdevastation. The ba llistic rocke ts ca n be fired fro m be­neath the water, making the poi nt of lau nchin g ex tremelydifficult to detect. Polari s sub ma rines constitute Ame rica ' stop deter rent fo rce.

TH E Czech crisis has dealt thenuclear non-proliferation treaty asevere, if not fata l, blow.

Even before the Soviet invasion, itwas extremely doubtful that key nationssuch as France, West Germany, Indiaand Japan would ever ratify the treaty.

Pope Paul VI has joined the chorus of official yo ices ca lling for Weste rnEuropean no t io ns to unit e now to w it hsta nd the growing Communist thre a t.

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Invasion Spurs Unity Drive

\X'estern Eu rope has been rudelyawakened from its Rip Van \X' ink leapproach to the Soviet threat from

the East !

W est Germans espec ially find them ­

selves looking do wn the mu zzle of theSoviet tank can non poised menacing lyacross the Bavarian bo rde r in W esternBohemia. Instead of 20 Russian div i­

sions facing them along the 840-mileEast- West German border, the W est

Ge rmans are now confronted by a pos­sible 31 division s along a IOSO-mil e

frontier.

The Czech crisis has produc ed a

remarkable flurry of appeals by statesmenand pol iticians in W estern Europe for a

stepped-up effort to achieve Eur opeanun ity.

W est Ge rma n Ch ancello r Kur t Geo rg

Kiesingcr on August 25 called for a

summi t confe rence of the govern mentheads of N ATO countries to wake "pthe W estern nation s and prompt themto " wa tch over liberty and securi ty."

The Chancello r said the Soviet coupin Czechoslovakia makes it imperative

for \X'est Ge rma ns " to heigh ten ourwatchf ulness and to make the necessary

sacrifices for our defense." H e calledthe coup all th e more reason to un ite

IFestern Euro pe, saying "the gr eat hour

of the Eur op eans has ro me aga in: '

Strauss Calls for" Europea n Federa l Statell

The most eloquent reaction to the

Czech invasion came f rom WestGermany's powerfu l Finance Mi nister

Franz Josef Strauss.In a recent in terview in a W est

Germa n weekly newspaper, Stra usscontended that a fu rther Soviet militarythreat to western Europe or Berli n can­

not he ruled out.

Herr Strauss emphasized his view thatthe "only effective step" to coun ter the

Soviet th reat is the ul timate creation ofa European federal state in wh ich the

central go vernment has all mi litary

powe r.Strauss, leader of the independent

Bavar ian wing of the Chr ist ian Demo­crats, has also expressed gra ve dou btswhether the United States wou ld release

its nucl ear weapon s stockpi led inEuro pe in the event of a conventionalComm unist attack there.

Strauss sees the invasion of Czecho­

slovakia as lending support to his pleafor W estern Europe to achieve gr eatermi litary and pol itical sel f-reliance. Says

Strauss in his new book, Challenge andResponse: A Program for Europe.

" At all events, they [the Russians)

have thereby thrown their military

shado w so th reaten ingly over Eu rop ethat they will be able to a growingextent to influence the further course

of ... Europe's futur e in a continent

weakened by un ilateral d isarmamentmeasures and no longer defended by the

United States with [s ll ellgagem~nl,

including the nuclear risk."

T he W est G erman Finance Mi nister

is fully awa re of the fact th at the

U. S. Army in Europe - p rimarily dueto Vie tnam - is short of troops, weap­ons, and equipment; that the Air Force

is short of bot h aircraft and crews tooperate them; and that the Navy in boththe Atlantic and the Mediterr anean is

operating under streng th.

Hence Strauss' s call for a Europeandefense commu nity to have its O U'11

nuclear deterren t force. Be sure to read

the exclusive in terview with FranzJosef Strauss in thi s issue of T he P L A IN

T RUTH !

Po pe Paul Calls for Unity

Almost overlooked by the press was

the most significant plea of all for

European Unity. It was del ivered by

Pope Paul VI.

Speak ing before an audie nce to an

inter-European con fe rence in Rome on

September 2, the Pope den ounced the

Russian occupat ion of Czechoslovakia

and called on W estern Euro pe to un ite

in face of the mou nting Red th reat.

O btaining and securing peace for

Europe was ' of paramou nt impor tance.

Said the Pope : "T he Imifi catiml ofEsrope is Imd ollbledly aile of th e

snrest ioays;"

For years, the pages of Tbe PLAIN

TRUTH have informed its readers tha t

the coming United States of Europe ­

or whatever it may be officially labelled

- wi ll have significant relig i?us over­

tones!

The force of religion comb ined wi th

the externa l Communi st threat will be

the t u-o key factors enabl ing the nations

of W estern Europe to finally surmount

their devisive nation alistic feel ings, and

to combine into the world 's third

superpower bloc:

IN THIS ISSUE:

* CENTURY 2J - WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?Will the next decade or two br ing human EXTINCTION- or will Century 21 dawn on a NEW WORLD OFPEACE, wit h incredible scientific achievements? See page 2.

* EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH WEST GERMANY'SFINANCEMINISTER FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS

The London Times said : "An interesting by-product of theSoviet occupation of Czechos lovakia has been the politicalreemergence in West Germany of Herr Franz Josef Strauss.The powerful Finance Minis ter and Bavarian leader, aftermonths of relative silence, has spoken out twice in the pastweek." Actually, Herr Strauss spoke out three times. Once,before the television and radio crews of The WORLDTOMORROW program. Here we bring you an on-the-spotreport and analysis of an exclus ive interview with HerrFranz Josef Strauss in his own offices in Bonn. See page 4.

* WHY THECRISIS IN CITIES THREATENSRURAL AREAS

Congestion, pollution, decay, crime and violence. Thesehave become the common lot of big cities around theworld. Now even remote rural areas can no longer escapethe costly impact of urban problems. Is there a solution tothe mounting crisis? See page 7.

* ...BUT DO EDUCATORS HAVETHE ANSWER?Educators are increasingly convinced they have fo und theway to world peace and unity . .. "education in the SPIRITof SCIENCE." "Science . is neutral - non-pol itical _ non­rel igious," they say. "Its products are universally desired."But what is the spirit of science? Can it bring peace andunity where all else has failed ? See page 9.

* COMING- THE SOLUTION TO SKYROCKETINGCRIME

W hy are hundreds being gunned down in the U. S. today?Why has there been no SOLUTION to the worldwide risein crime? Read why leading authorities ADMIT failure­and HOW the problem of crime WILL BE SOLVED!See page 14.

* SOVIET SEA POWER IN THEMEDITERRANEANThe phenomenal worldwide growth of Soviet sea power isarousing concern . Nowhere is this build-up more alarmingthan in the tense Mediterranean area. Here is a firsthandreport from Alg eria of what is developing there and whatit portends. See page 30.

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