CURIIG THE CAICER OF CRIME

On Leaping to Conclusions
LATIN AMERICA'S
AGGRESSIVE NEW' NATIONALISM
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ready 'i n ' such a tim e, and it is wor-
sening fast! WI> are already IN' the
" end tim e" ,'- ,at the end of this
, present wor ld. It will get far worse . It
is gelli n,g worse at accelerat ing mo-
mentum. ..--
"c' . ' .JesusChrist said it will come to a
. poi nt where, unless there is div ine:'
supernatural i nte rve nti on t o CU,T
' SHORT the time, no fl esh would be
saved aliv e on eart h! (Mall. 24;21 - .
22.)
The prophesied " Day of the Lord"
is j ust that - the time when the
supernatural ' Creator God will i nter-
vene and take over in wor ld" affai rs. '
We have been .in the day of man for
six thousand years. Next , God:s day!
It will be at the tim e wh en human-
ity' s wr ong way s shall have brought
us to the point of cosmoci de - an-
nihilation of all life on eart h. It wi ll
be a tim e of supreme world TROUBLE
and WAR.
In a prophecy in the book of Joel
- a time when " the day of the
LORD is near " , - you will read;
" Proclaim ye this among the Gen-
tiles ; . Prepare WAR, wake up the
' mighty men ; let all -t he men of war
draw near; let them come up; Beat
your plowshares into swords, .and
your pruninghooks into spears [war
munitions]; let the' weak [nations]
say; 1am strong" (Joel 3;9-10).
The time has come. The nations
- wea k nations - are ARMING !
They are saying that they are strong.
(Continued on page col . 4)
not advancing the chances of PEACE!
,What is its real significance? ,
This is the',fulfillment of a ,very
significant and momentous proph- :
ecy. The TIME of the prophecy is
now! And i t is occurring now!
In some thirty prophecies in both
the Old and New Testaments of the
Bibl e, a certai n time and event ,is
for etold : It is a tim e, spoken of bibli-.
cally as " t he Day of the Lord," Ii is a ;
super tr emendous event to occur in
a time of the great est wor ld trouble.
I hav e sai d to my aud iences here,
" Whether you real ize itor' not .wou
ar e belling you r li ves right now, For
unless there is an almighty, super-
natural power above, a supreme
poyver of love for humanity, who
will , soon, int ervene and save hu-
manity from itself , not one of you
her e wi ll be ali ve twenty-five years
from now! "
Condit ions in the world are wor-
sening at such a fast pace that un-
less "supernat urall y checked" all
human life will be erased from thi s
earth . The weapons now exist that
can do that fifty times over - and
ONCE 'wi ll leave no life on this planet!
You are belling your lives that such
a great God of both love and power
does exist and WILLACT! '
Propheci es reveal that that power
does exist and will act . .
Propheci es also reveai that man 's '
WAYS will lead, in our time , to world
troubl e such as the world has never
seen or ever will again . We are al-
Bombay, India
I
am in Bomba y on a mission of arms -'- to use them again sc us.'
peace . The newspapers here This will set hack all eff orts toward
call me an Ambas sador f or peace and normal relations between
Wcirl d Peace. " , In, the past . India and Pakistan for a long t ime.
three days I have addressed a ban- In my view, it could induce India to
quet att ended by Junior Chamber of produce nuc lear weapo ns. We al-
Commerce me mbers and wives, ready have nucl ear power, and we
wi th about 600 present, ' a " Giant have devel oped it only for nonmili -
Club " group of 450, a Rotary Club tary uses, but we could be provoked
lu ncheon, and a " Li ons Inter- i nto developing it further for . military
nation al " group of 300 --' close to defense." A big, four- column front-
1, 500 l eadi ng citizens of .t h i s page headline this morning says;
metropolis altogether . " Indo-U.S. Ties Nose-div e." The
I was here about a mon th ago new U.S. Ambassador to India , Wil
" when I addressed a si mi lar number liam Saxbe, is ' waiting in Bangkok
of groups composed of l eading citi- till India cool s ., .
zens in political , i ndust rial , judi cial , Th ese ' private groups before
professional and commercial fields. whom I have appeared know well
I am tell i ng them that world peace and understand that I am not in pol i-
is coming! tics and have had nothing to do with
But , paradoxically, I have to tell the U.S. government decision ,to
them that we are heading in the dia- supply aims to Pakistan . But a mass
metrical opposite direction right public gathering could, and very
now. likely would, attract a few anti-Arner-
Thi s morn ing's newspapers car- ican militants to cause serious mob
ried .two disturbing front-paqe' sto- disturbance.
ries . ; Jus t this . afternoon, the visit to
One is anoth er of the stories that Wash ington of External Affairs Min
have been runni ng now for the past ister Chavan has been ' cancelled i n
, f ew days on the United Stat es with- ' protest.
d rawal of its arms embargo to neigh.' The second news item that ought
bori ng , Pakistan . All India is upset to be disturbing to everybody is the
and deepl y .disturbed because of summary of a special report .in a
that . . ", weekly U,nited States news maqa -
This I I S .sen t O'-Jt on AP wires in ad- .
the United St ates, Europe, South vance of the magazine 's arri val here,'
America or Africa might seem non- which was' carr ied unde r the large
consequenti al si nc e t he United headl ine: "Anns - World's Fastest
States ai m is merely to mai ntain' a Growing 8u siness .. .
balance of power in this subcon- A special report shows an aston-
tinent area of the world. ishi ng incr ease in arms production
A month ago I had scheduled a i n the world. The i nternati onal trade
massive, one-nig ht pub lic appear- i n nonnuclear arms has shot upward
ance in a ,sport stadium her e, to be f rom $30 0 million in 1952to
atten ded by' 25 ,000 peopl e. ,Some $ 18 ,000 mill ion annually, That's
in the U.S. migh t have difficul ty un- multiplying production sixty times i n
. derstandi ng why a. " lillie thing " li ke two decades! The i ncrease since
that could be a reason for post- 1964, is 550%. Produ ct ion in sale
poning a mass meeting public ap- of arms has become the world's fast-
pearance. But anyone here would est growing busin ess,
unde rstand. This U.S . deci sion. has And this repr esents only a fraction
roused ill feel ing agai nst the United of the vast production of armaments
Stat es to a high pi t ch.vNewspepers for WAR: This represents only the
are full of it. It is a topi c of constant cost of arms sold by . produci ng na-
conversation among people here, tions to other nations. It does not
and I come from the-Unit ed States. include the colossal production by
As one young busin ess execut ive, the, United States, Russia, Britain:
promi nent in the Junior Chamber of , France and such nations for them-
Commerce, said to me, " The Paki - selves.
stanis have only one use for these This arms race most cert ai nly is
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Echeverria) - and oil -rich Venezuela.
Negot iat ing teams f rom Me xico City
and Caracas have also t raveled f re-
quently to Havana. Cuba 's Castro , ac-
cording to one sour ce, " f ull y supports "
such a new economic system " wit hout
t he participation of outsiders," meani ng
of course, the U.S., since it would offer a
way fo r Cuba to ident ify itself with th e rest
of the l at i n world without compromisin g
it s adopted Ma rxist ideals. It would also
provide Havana with anot her mea ns to
skin the 14-year-old, U.S.-imposed eco-
nomic blockade. .
Details 01 the embryonic SELAM are
few and far between, but some experts
believe it has the promi se of develop ing
. into an organization similar to t he Euro-
pean Comm on Market .
latin Am erica may seem to be an unin-
ter esti ng side theater of th e wo rld t o most
norteamericanos. But drast ic change is
cert ai n to 'come to pass in an area lon g
cons idered to be safel y tucked awa y in
Arn eri ca'shi p pocket .
What wil l Washington's react ion be-
when it finally wakes up to show it s
predi ctably belated concern? No one can
say for sur e now. But thina is certa in .
With ssyst em of all ianceson
shaky groun d around the world the
Unit ed Stat escan hardly afford to see " its
world " south 01 t he border crumble
away . 0
Havana In . Washi ngton Ou t
In context of t he new reassert iveness,
radically different int er-Ameri can organi-
zat ions and i nsti t ut i ons - wi thout
United States participation - are being
discussed beh i nd th e scenes. Old er
hemispheric inst itutions, such as th e
U.S.-domi nated Organization of Am eri-
can States (OAS), lace a stiff challenge.
The idea for a new Lat i n American
economic syste m called Sistema Eco-
nomico Latino-americano (SELAM) is
gaining support. The scheme is being
actively pushed by Mexico - (it is t he
brainchild of Me xican president
.. Sh aking Off .. Colo .... ialism..,
The major grievance from whi ch all
ot hers f low has been a deep-set resent-
ment of colonial -sty le depend ency on J "
the giant nei ghbor to the north.
The new shape of lat in America. ac-
cor ding to the present generation of
Latin leaders. ' must be fo rged . not i n
Washing t on. but in Caracas, Mexico ,
Cit y and oth er Latln-American- cepit al sc> .. - _._ --_."
" N obody . is handinq out . proxies any
more lor the U.S. to conduct their lor-
eign aff ai rs, " says a Brazilian leader
echoing the new mood,
Big l oreign (pan icul arl y American)
subs idi aries have al ready experienced
the spi n-offs of resurgent nat ionalism. A
rash of recent expropriationsi-c- in cop-
per and iron ore mines and oi l f acilit ies
have occurred.
. The most serious breach in hemisph e- "
ric t ies, however, er upted early th is year
with th e enactment of a new U.S. trade
bill. One clause declares that members
01 OPEC. as well as countries that " ai -
feet Un it ed States inte rests " will be ex-
cl u ded from pre f er ent i a l tra de
treatment . This means, i n effect, that
the United St at es market is .c losed to
t he export of manuf act ured goods from
Venezuela and 'Ecuador - OPEC mem-
bers - and m ight be barred to an y
. other country t hat might in fut ur e em-
bark on a nationali st economic po licy.
The bi ll and the vi olent react ion to it
t hroughout Lat in Am erica was respo n-
sibl e more t han any ot her reason for
f or cing Unit ed St at es Secretary of St ate
Henry Kissi nger to cancel his planned
to ur of several lat in _nations one mo nth
lat er.
The success 01 t he OPEC cartel has
had el ectrifying effe ct on most Lat i n
count ries. significant . suppliers of
aro und 20 important raw mate rials fo r
the United States and ot her industrial
nations. " Aft er t he Ara bs, we will be
.f lexi ng OUt muscles, " says an Ar gent ine
di plomat . _
. Already. Latin producers of bauxite, "
coffee, copper .rsuqar and even bananas
are at t empti ng to form 'cart els wit h sim-
il ar producers in other parts of t he
world.
Throughout a vast area once t hought
t o be .virt ually t he priva te domain of
U.S. bus iness inte rests . natio n after na-
t ion is attempting to shed big-power de-
pendency and . to exercise mo re Control
over it s own economic and political tu -
ture.
Ecuador' s ' ; t una. war" wi t h fi shing
. fleet s, the cancellation of a t rip to South
America by. Henry Kissinger in Febr u-
ary . Panama 's demands f or soverei gnt y
over the U. S.-cont roll ed Canal Zone.
a nd growing Latin pr essure for ' im-
pro ved relations' wit h Communist Cuba
are but a few sym ptoms of the restless
new mood prevalent th routjbout the
Western Hemisphere.
lATIN-AMIRlers .
'AGGRISSIVINIW NATIONAliSM
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cures.
Someone ' said we pr int 98 % favorabl e
letters fr om t he Bible .Belt , Not lately!
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG 12
SPEAKS OUT!
'" know you believe you understood '
wh at you t hi nk I said, but perhaps .wha t
you heard was not- what I said ! "
FOOTHOLD IN THE MINISTRY
The pulpit seems to be the last crum-
bli ng bast ion of ' mal e dominance, but
what does the Bible say about female
preachers?
15
DOMINO.THEORY
REVISITED
Stanl ey R. Ra'der, Genera l -Counsel to
th e Editor-in-Ch ief, takes t he " Domino
Theory" to task .
PANAMA CANAL ISSUE
FLARES ANEW
Will t he United States cede control over
the world's most strategic piece of real
estate? Controversy is b'rewi ng.
ART BUCHWALD
Pol itica l humorist takes a look at some '
st range "disappearing ,acts" i n Wash-
ington.
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13
CURING THE CANCER
OF CRIME
Crime-skyrpcket ed>16%,i n '
OUR DEGRADING DOLE 6
visited our local welfare office,
there were no " Welfare Cadillacs" parked
outs ide - just poor people parked
-l nside.. .
2 WEEK ENDI NG ,APRIL 5. 1975

PANAMACANAL ISSUE FLARES ANEW
Test of,U.S. Resolve Say Opponents ofNewli'eaty
WILL ITBE
20%INFLATION?
OR20%INTEREST RATES?
on the final dissolution of the state
of Israel and the death of her citi-
zens.
Des pite the Tel Aviv atrocity, the
Israeli government has announced
its, determinat ion to carry on with
the next round .of Henry Kiss-
inger's shuttle diplomacy. On the
surface , therefore, it seems the ter-
rorists failed in thei r mission.
Chances for a second -stage agree-
ment with Egypt, the key Arab
state, remain good accordi ng to
most of the official opinio ns ex-
pressed here. -.
But in any meatier discussions
about an overall settlement, the Sa-
voy atrocity will serve as an excla-
mation mark to the already well-
known Israeli position vis-a-vis the
PLO. Arafat's latest episode will
only harden the attitudes of those
Israelis who may have begun to
consider including the PLO in fu-
ture negotiations.
The most fundamental issue in
the endless .round of Middle East
negotiations, from Israel's point of
view, is not territory or the forma-
(Continued on page 4. col. 3) -
more insane. Political analyst
George F. Will, after toting up the
figures for new spending, borrow-
ing by off-budget agencies (such as
the Postal Service) and from trust
funds (like Social Security), a
larger tax cut, and defa ults on gov-
ernment loans, projects a deficit of
. - hold your breath - $138 billion!
In light of the fact that $70 bil-
lion was the total amo unt of money
raised by all borrowers last year
- not j ust the government - the
statistics reach a level of absurd-
ity.
The money will have to come
from only one of two places. The
government must either borrow it
or pri nt it. If the government bor-
rows, competi tion for dwi ndling
suppli es of money will push up in-
te rest rates to all -t ime .'hi ghs.
Shou ld this indeed occur, Norman
Ture , a Washington economist,
looks for a prime rate of 20 percent
by year's end . Such a credit
squeeze would push the economy
into sure dep ression. .
If, on the other hand , the govern-
ment prints eno ugh money to cover
even half of the more pessimistic
deficit projections, the money sup-
ply could swell by at least twenty
percent (some economists say thirty
percent), fueling a roughly twenty
percent inflation rate, if not more .
-( -During the -Thirties, - sophis-
ticated economists dreamed up the
phrase "we owe it to ourselves" in
order to justify a spending spree.
Iron ically, the American 'people
may indeed find that they owe it to
themselves - but what their Con-
gress will have bought with a mam-
moth increase in federal debt will
not be extra goodies but economic
collapse . 0
JERUSALEM: " Kissinger's ef-
fort will fail." This motto was de-
fiantly blazoned in Arabic across
the side of one of the two di nghies
used by Palestinian terrorists in
thei r March 5 assault from the sea
which resulted in the death of nine-
teen persons, includi ng 7 of the 8
terrorists , and the destruction of
Te l Aviv's Savoy Hotel.
The terrorist group, AI Fatah,
claimed responsibili ty for the op-
eration. Fatah is led by Yassir Ani.-
fat and is the " largest and most
powerful component of the Pales-
tinian Liberation Organization.
Observers in Beirut say that Arafat
personally gave approval for the
mission and that it was planned by
his second-In-command, Salah
Khalaf, also known as Abu Iyad.
With the Savoy raid Arafat
strengthened his position among
the members of the PlO who
thought Be had "gone soft" with
the rise of his political stat ure
around the world.
Israelis see this most recent act as
furthe r confirmation that the PlO
is just a gang of murderers intent
GRIMISRAEL PUSHES FOR
SETTLEMENT DESPITE MASSACRE
Like the unemployment figures,
the U.S. federal budget deficit
keeps getting revised upward.
: Initially, the Administration
foresaw S52 billion in red ink. for
the next fiscal year of Ju ly I, 1975
through June 30, 1976. Political
realists noted that because Con-
gress would likely rej ect the. Presi-
dent's proposed spending cuts, the
total would be more like $70 bil-
lion. Now Art hur Bums , the august
Federal Reserve Board Cha irma n. .
ups the ante still furt her, fore-
casting a deficit of $100 billion.
But the figure becomes even:
the hearts of American' liberals
who advocate its surrender in order
to atone for the sin of being the
world's most powerful nation. To
them the lush American Zone, with
its famous well-manicured lawns
and white-washed, red-tile-roofed
buildings - in sharp contrast to the
drab squalor found in much of
neighboring Pa na ma itsel f -
smacks too much of "colonialism."
Countering this viewpoint, oppo -
nents of the new treaty say it is
(Continuedon page 4, coL 3)
BritaintoStay in ECC?
VOTERSWILLDECIDE
The formula for Britain's contin- United Kingdom shoul d stay in the
ued membership in the European European Community?" 45 percent
Bcono mic Community was finally of those asked answered in the af -
hammered out at . the European firmative . Some 33 percent were
summit confe rence i n Dublin agains t continued membership, 14
Castle on March 10 and II. It is percent were undecided and 8 percent
generally believed that the heads of said it depended on the terms of
state of the other eight Common membership. It is now up to Mr.
Market nations - eager to avoid Wilson and his cabinet to strengthen
the d is r u p t i o n of a . Bri t i s h the pro-market percentage between
withdrawar :.::went asC far Cu could ...... now and June. But if the voters reject
reasonably be expected in meeting the new terms - which the Conti-
British renegotiation demands. nentals consider generous - and
"I think the terms are a great Britain then departs from Europe,
improvement over what we have thereisnotgoingtobemuchsyrnpa
got,.. Britain's Prime Minister Har- .thy in Brussels when the labour
old Wilson told a press conference government or some other future
following the conclusion of the administration comes back to seek
summit If the concessions given special trade concessions . Once out
Britain are approved by Wilson's this time, Britain will have to stay
Labour cabi net - which is virtually out. 0
certain - the Prime Minister plans
to actively campaign for their ac-
ceptance by the British peop le and
a vote for conti nued British mem-
bership in the EEC in the planned
national ref erendum in June .
The negotiations which resulted
in the improved membership terms
for Britain were far from smooth.
Numerous formulas to solve the
qu esti on of Britai n's budgeta ry
contri butions were put forward and
debat ed before a final budget ad:
justment plan involving a yearly
$300 million refund to Britai n was
accepted. london has con-
tended that it was carrying an un-
fair share of the financia l burden of
the EEC bud get.
The real irony of this summit is
that even now, after the con-
cessions the ' other eight made to
Britai n, continued British member-
ship is still uncertain. Not until af-
ter the result of the natio nwide
referendum in Jun e will we know
whether Prime Minister 'Wilson
gained enough ammunition' in
Dublin to finally win the British
people over to the European ideal.
The June referendum could be
the most important single election
in all Britain' s long history .
According to a recent newspaper
poll, more Britons claim they wish
their nation to remain in the Com-
mon Market than leave. In answer
to the question " Do you think the
Asha med of Power
The negotia tions over the canal's
future status are especially inter-
esting in light of the overaJI decline
of American power.
The canal issue dredges up all
the usual feelings of self-guilt
direct and indirect, Panamanians
enjoy the highest per capita income
in latin America. The canal ac-
counts for a full third of the tiny
nation's gross national product,
. and forty percent of its foreign ex-
change . It is felt by many impartial
observers that Panama's total ca-
nal-derived income would go down
rather than up should U.S. man-
agement of the waterway cease.
For the United States, the canal
still performs a valuable service for
Commerce and industry . Even in
the age of the supertankers, which
cannot negot iate the canal's restric-
tive lock sys tems , 15,000 shi ps
course through the 50 mile ocean.
link every 'year. Seventy percent of
these vessels sail from or are des-
tined for AmeriCan ports.
Everyone Has Benefitted
What is certain is that -the canal
has been good to Panama, through
which it slices, as well as to the
United States - not tfJ say the en-
tire free-world economy .
As a result of canal operations,
If the United States Senate gives
the green light, a State Department
engineered treaty will give the Pan-
amanian government effective con-
t rol ove r t he st ra tegic Panama
Canal.
Under the propo sed treat y. as ex-
plained to the Senate Foreign Re-
lations subcommittee on February
28 by a high State Department offi-
cial. Panam a would "accept" a
continued United . States military
presence in the Canal Zone for an
unspecified length of time in return ,
for "prompt" termination of Amer-
ican sovereignty over the 500-:
square-mile zone. ' Actual manage-
ment of the waterway itself would
remain with the United States, but
the re would be an increasing Pan-
amanian presence in the manage-
ment .
. Proponents of the treaty claim Expensive Purchase
the time is ripe for the United The United States purchased
States to "modernize" its relat ion- sovereign rights in the zone "in
ship with Panama. Opponents - perpetuity" from the new Republic
includin g, it is believed. presemly . . of Panama for SIO-million in 1903.
enough members of the Senate to The sum sounds small by today' s
block a new pact - claim any sub- standards but it was more than was
stant ial change in relationship be- paid for either Alaska or Florida.
tween the two countri es is totally Total American investment in
unn ecessary and that any attempt the Canal Zone, including its de-
to operate and defend the canal fense, comes close to S6 billion .
without the suretyo f absolute sov- the.Semile
ereignty ngntrcan only meet with wide strip
disaster, the historic instabil- it is as much a part of the U.S. as
ity of Panamanian politics. The y any of the fifty states. As one
concede there is-room for further American living in the zone put it,
adj ustment of the original. 1903 "Giving the Canal Zone to the
treaty - already done twice before Panamanians will be like giving
in 1936 and again in 1955- but the Florida back to tbe Spanish ."
key issue of sovereignty must never Strategically, the Panama Canal
be compromised. forms pan of the coastline of the
" In my judgment," says U.S. United States . Calling the canal the
Senator Strom Thurmond, " it is a "j ugular vein of the Americas ,"
semantic trick: to maintain that the Democratic congressman Daniel
U.S. can keep control of the Canal Flood , ' the cana l's most eloque nt
and the capabili ty to defend it if defender, compares its value to that
ever we give UpJ our sovereign of the Chesapeake Bay or .the Mis-
rights. . .." sissippi River .
WEEK ENDING APRIL 5, 1975
>.

Going...Going...Gone?
I guess it must be that time of year again. Regular as clock-
work, out of the depths of the Stat e Department catacombs come
the annual pleas to Congress tha t the United States must 'relinquis h
its cont rol over the Canal Zone to the Panamanians.
Th e argument this time, as elucida ted by Assistan t Secretary
of Stat e William D. Rogers, is tha t failure of the United States to
recognize Panama's full sovereigniy over " all its terri tory" could
"lead to a confrontation with Panama . . . and a real possibility that
the canal would be closed in th e process."
Two points sta nd out in this fallacious assertion. First of all,
the five hundred-s qua re-mile Canal Zone is not, and never has
been, the prop erty of the Repu blic of Pana ma . The Zone belongs
to the government of the Uni ted Stat es and none else. Under the
terms of tbe 1903 Hay Bunau-Va rilla Treat y, regardl ess of how one
likes or dislikes that pact, admittedl y favorable to Washington, the
United Sta les was gran ted perpetual rights over the narrow stri p of
land in order to build, operate, maintain and defend a transoceanic
canal.' .
Subsequent to thi s grant by the then new Republ ic of Panama ,
the United Stat es government proceeded to purchase all private ,
property within the new ronal boundaries. To this day, American
as _well as Panamanian residents living in the Zone cannot buy
property; they can only rent their homes from the government. The
Zone is. in effect , similar to a lar ge company town. . '
To assert that the Zone is "P anamani an ,property". is thus a
gross misstat ement - and the boys at Foggy Bottom know better.
The -Republic 'of Panama'canonty-asseree
"t itular" sovereignty - the right to owne rship in case the United
States should choose to leave. Some constitutional lawyers assert
that Columbia, previous sovereign over the Panamaisthmus, has
as much claim to "resi dual right s" as does Panama.
Secondl y, that the United States should be "placed in con-
fronta tion" with Panama unl ess it agrees to tum over sovereignty
of the Zone to the revoluti onary government of Ge neral Omar
Torrijos and "sha re" in the operati on and defense of the canal with
the Panamani ans is utt erly ridi cul ous!
Is the United Stat es.world's pr emier military power, afra id of
one and a hal f million Panamani ans - who don't even have an
army, but only a 6.000-man Nationa l Gua rd? Has the United
States trul y lost the "pride of its power" (Lev. 26: 19) - when
confronted by a " mouse that roars"? '.
Are the men from State rea lly serious when they propose that
Panama - again with its 6,llOO-man National Guard - should
share .in the DEFENSE of one of the world's most stra tegic wate r-
ways?
The trut h is, if the United State s wan ts to avoid trouble over
the canal and continue to enjoy its ben efits, it had bett er hang ont o
it. To think that U.S. au thori ties can conti nue to operate and share
in the defense of the canal afte r relinquishing its legal, sovereign
right s in the Zone is playing with the fire of anti-American emo-
tionali sm.The only conceivable outcome is for To rrijos or some yet
future Panamanian leader to do 10 the Panama Ca na l what Egypt's
Nass er did to Suez in 1956_
Oh , perh aps there are enough Senators in the U.S. Cong ress to
block the giveaway thi s year (one third negati ve vote can void the
transfer), but I fully expect the canal to go soone r or later.
The cana l was a birth right to the peopl e of the United States -
.a key "seagate" held within the midst of na tional enemies (Gen.
22: 17). For sixty years the waterway has served' as a tremendous
benefit to our nati onal economy -i n _time of peace and to our
national defen se in time of war. But the vast maj ority of Americans
simply don't appreciate it any longer , any more than they are
cognizant of theirother manifold blessingsfrom OnHigh.
Mark my word : the cana l will go - if not soon, eventually.
And when that happens, rare will be the American flag that flies
amast a ship sailing thr ough the Big Ditch! For "the Lord giveth,
and the Lord taketh away."
GRIM ISRAEL
(Continued f rom page 3)
tion of a Palest inian state. It is the
attit ude of those with whom Israel
has to deal and to who m she feels
she can safely-, tum over terri tory
capt ured in previous wars .
The Israelis have ju dged the
Egyptian attitude is imp roving and
leaning toward Th erefore
they are willing to ret urn the Sinai
to Sadat . Jord an' s King Hussein,
however, is seen as being too weak
to be given authority again ove r his
former areas on the West Bank.
The attitudes of the Syri ans and the
terro rist organizations are viewed
as irreco ncilable. Israeli officials
have not yet agreed on what to do
with those Pal estini ans who do
want to live peacefull y with her,
and time is running out.
- Chris Patton
Will the U.S. Wi lt?
Panam a is clearl y a test of Amer-
ican resol ve. For to give in will as-
suredly no t win th e love and
respect of the Panamanians. . nor
even of the other Lat in Americ an
peoples - even though the other
hemi spheri c states officiall y en-
dorse Panama 's claim to sover-
eignty. Says one expert on U.S.
Latin affairs, himself a Lati n:
"Americans should not accep t
the superficial view about the ulti -
mate reacti on in Latin Americ a to
the giveaway of the canal. Th e Lat-
ins respect power . What they dis-
trust and deride is weakn ess ,
appeasement and surren der. I can
.assure you that they will look upon
American withdrawal from Pan-
ama. with . j ncr edu li ty . and- con':
tempt. ,
" Besides, -their own security is
clearly involve d. It' s a slur on their
common sense to assume that Lat in
Ameri cans could reall y welcome
control of this all-important com-
mercial and naval passageway be-
tween the Atla nti c an d Pacific by a
sma ll, weak and chroni cally jm -
stable country."
Will the United States stand up
to the chall enge - or has it totall y
lost the pride of its power (Levi-
ticus 26: 19)? Will it bow - at the
"sou nd of a sha ken leaf' (v. 36) -
before the oft-repeated ..threats" of
Panama' s dictator General Omar
Torrijos to storm the cana l with his
6,OOO-man Panamanian nat ional
guard?
The whol e world will be watch-
ing what the Unit ed States chooses
to do. 0
The " Poland" of Sout h
Asia?
Both the Shah and Mr . Bhutto
beli eve the Soviets are ultima tely
behind an effort to carve out an
independent state composed of the
North-West Fron tier and Baluchis-
tan provinces . Rum ors have sur-
faced of a Moscow-Kabul-New
Delhi "grand design" to divide up
Pakistan into two portions - a pro.
Russian vassal state made up of the
provincial interior minister. In an
obvious reference to Afghani stan , a
Paki st ani co mmu ni q ue sai d a
" neighbo ring foreign power" was
acti vely engaged in disrupting nor-
ma l life in the province.
two western provinces and an In':
dian- occup ied territory east of the
Indu s. In effect, Paki stan would be- .
come the "Poland" of South Asia,
split among its enemies just as the
Polish repuhlic was in 1939 be-
tween Gennany and the Soviet
Union .
As the Shah sees it, India would
take adva ntage of a full-scale re-
bellion in the western provinces as
an excuse to "int ervene" in support
or-the establishme nt of an indepen-
den t state there. Th is would resul t
in the occupation of the eastern
areas by Ind ian forces and the
. complete di ssolution of Pakistan as
a nat ion.
Th e Shah has indicated that his
armed forces will step in rathe r
than perm it Pakistan to be furth er
dismembered as it was in 1971
. when East Pakistan split away with
Ind ia's support to become_the inde -
pend ent nation of Bangladesh.
An independent pro-Soviet stat e
in the area west of the Indus would
extend Soviet influence south to the
Gulf of Oman and the major oil
supply lines from the Persian Gulf.
It is bel ieved that U.S. determina-
tion to protect these lines was a
maj or facto r in its . decision to lift
the arms emba rgo on Pakistan. A
st r ong Paki st an is a p pa r en t ly
viewed as in the U.S. interest and is
consistent wit h Ameri ca's massive
ar ms sales to neighbori ng Iran and
current moves to bolster the U.S.
na va l pr esen ce i n t h e Indi an
Ocean.
Whatever the motives and de-
signs of the vari ous nations in-
volved , it is clear that the strategic
South Asia region will increasingly
become the focus of worldwide at-
tention and concern in the month s
ahead. 0 . -
Fears of a Breakup
Pakistani officials in Washi ngton
for esee event ual assistance in the
form of loans from Ara b nat ions to
help finance purchases of Ameri-
can weapons. Arab countries have
alr eady .helped Pakistan, also a
Moslem nation, with loans to fi-
nance oil imports. :
Pakistan's non-Ar ab but fello w-
Moslem neighb or, Iran, is already
stepping up its aid programs to
Pak istan . The Shah of Iran, Paki-
stan 's best frie nd in the region. has
long been an advoca te of lifting the
U. S. arms embargo.
Perh aps the reaso n for this com-
munity of inte rest is that the Shah
and Mr. Bhutt o are known to share
fears over the territ ori al designs of
India, Afgha nistan, and the Soviet
Union againstPakis tan.
Pakis tan is composed of four
provinces, two on each side of the
Indus Ri ver. The two provinces on
the eastern side - Sind and Punj ab
- are in the finn control of
Mr . Bhut to's Paki stan People's
Part y. Pakistan ' s capi tal, Islama -
bad , is in Punjab province, and the
nation 's largest city and port, Kara-
chi, is in Sind.
The two provin ces west of the
Ind us - Baluchistan and No rth-
West Frontier - are in a stat e. of
unr est, beli eved to be fomen ted by
Afghan istan with Soviet and Indian
encouragement. In a recent devel-
opment, Pakistan placed its North-
West Frontier pr ovince under di -
reet Feder al rule for. thre e months
following the bombing death of the
Ten sions are on the rise through-
out the stra tegic Ind ian Ocean ba-
sin. The stimula nt this time is the
recent decis ion by the U.S. Stat e
Depar tment to lift its IO-year em-
bargo onarms sales to Pakistan. ,
The United Stat es- embargoed
arms expo rts to bot h India and
Paki stan in 1965, when the two na-
tions were at war.
Pakistan was dealt a harder blow
by the emb argo than was India.
which has its own homegrown de-
fense industry and has been getting
a steady suppl y of arms fro m the
Soviet Union, incl uding MIG-21
fight ers. destroyer escorts, tanks,
and helicopters. Indi a has shown
relativel y little interest in obtaining
weapons from the United States .
Numerous studies have shown
that India far outclasses Pak istan in
all forms of wea po nry . India' s.
army of almo st a million men is
more than double that of Paki -
stan's. In addition, India ' s success-
ful nuclear test last May has thrust
her int o the now not-so-exclusive
nuclear club. Though Indi a has re-
peatedly emphasize d her intention
of ut ili zing nucl ear ene rgy fo r
solely peace ful purposes, many ob-
servers privately doub t the sincerity
of this self-i mposed limitation.
These factors prompted Paki-
stan's' Prime Minister Ali Bhutto to
state last Decemb er that Pakistan
would be forced to develop nuclear
capability if it could not obtain suf-
ficient arms for a conventional de-
terr ent. Th is suggestion is believed
to have influen ced the U.S. deci-
sion to resume arms sales to that
nation.
Pakistan's Precarious 3)
perfectl y understandable why Pan-
ama chafe s under the continued
American presence in the Zo ne.
After all, affluent Amer icans are
not a loved race around the world .
"There comes a time ," anal yzes
Jame s J. Kilpatrick, "wh en great
power s must behave as great pow-
ers. Not every source of conflict can
be removed. SOIDe confl icts must
by endured; they mu st be lived
with. Not every wounded sensitiv-
ity can be soothed.
"When every reasonable and
prudent concession to Panama has
been made , a line has to be drawn :
No more. sorry abo ut that: '
,-.i
4 WEEK ENDI NG APRIL 5, 1975

\ CM',..
ouT WflETJ-lER
-mE:
fiJ LL OF_ _
./

ing but an empty lifeboat with the
pathet ic message <I am-not a crook'
sc rawled on the side."
"What do you think happened to
the crew?" I asked Stone.
"They lost their moral compass.
Some thing happens to people' s
sense of direc tion when they enter
the triangle. The best political na-
vigators forget which end is up and
which end is down."
" What other disasters have taken
place in the basin?" . .
" One da y a Judge Ca rswell
sailed out of the White House to-
ward the Capitol to be confirmed
as Supreme Cou rt justice . Then a
mysterio us storm came up and
Carswell disappeared, never to be '
heard of again," Stone said.
"That's terrible," I said.
. " Recently, President Ford sent
up an energy message to The Hill
' and it sunk without a trace.
"At least a half-do zen bills that
Congress has sent down to -the
President to sign have drowned in
the black, murky waters, of the tri-
angle. Budgets have been smashed
on the rocks; campaign promises
have vanished into thin air. Even a
cargo of prayer breakfasts was lost
without a trace or explanation."
"Do you suppose there is some
supe rnat ural power at work in the
triangle that is responsible for so
many disasters ?" I asked .
"I'm sure of it," Stone said.
"There is one theory that sophis-
ticated beings from another planet
live on the bottom of the basin and
magnetically attract all th_e ' _traffic
between the White House and The
Hi ll."
"I believe it," I said.
"Some say -that there is a pre-
historic monster in the water that
eat s nothin g but budge ts, presiden-
tial messages, government servants
and an occasional Vice Presidentof
the Un ited Stat es:'
"That could make sense, too:' I
agreed .
"There is also the possibility that
the bottom of the Tida l Basin could
be the lost coJony of Atlantis:' he
said.
"You mean Fanne Foxe could
be from another world?"
' There are many people, in-
cluding respected scient ists, who
believe it."
The
Washington
li'iangle
WASHINGTON: By now every-
one must know about the Bermuda
Triangle, a vast body 'of water ex-
tending from Bermuda in the nor th
to southern Florida and then east
to a poin t in the Bahamas past
Puerto Rico. .
Charles Berlitz, who has writ ten
a best-seller about' it, claims 100
ships and planes have vanished in :
the area' without a trace, and more
than 1,000 lives have been lost
1945.
There are many theor ies con-
cerning the mystery. Some people
believe that UFOs are responsi ble.
Others feel the disasters may have
been tied in with the lost colony of
Atlant is. In any case, the Bermuda
Tri angle has caused quit e a stir.
What has not been pub licized is
that there is a similar phen ome non
right here in Washington, D.C.-It is .
called the Washington Tria ngle, '
and it also has been a great source
of mystery and unexplained dis-
appe ara nces.
The triangl e .area is located be-
tween the White House, the Capi-
tol , andc.the ' Jefferson Memorial.
Most of the accidents have taken
place in the Tidal Basin, a rough,
treacherous sea, 5 feet deep , which
twists and turns as it .empties into
the Potoma c River.
Jonathan Stone, who discovered
the Wa shington Triangle, said,
"The triangl e is a frightening place.
In a .period of 10 years we've lost
3,400 trial balloons, 200
sional reforms, 453 executive man-
date s, 230 tax cuts and one ship of
sta te . They see m to have dis-
appeared without a trace :'
But there must be some ex-
planation ," I said.
"T he biggest disaster was the
sinking of the 55 Watergate with
all hands aboard, includ ing the
President of the United States. A
search of the area produced noth-
,ART BUCHWALD
Common
Market for
West Africa
term ine prices for ex-
ports to Japan. .
Although these and other prob-
lems should be resolved soon, they
indicate the extent and nature of
the difficulties faci ng the two coun-
tries as their economies become in-
. creasingly integr at ed.
Th ere are also warnings that eco-
nomic interdependence brings its
own problems. There could be fu-
ture occasions whe n the nati onal
intere sts of the two countries con-
flict or when the cultural hiatus tha t
sepa rates them causes tension in
their _ Don Abraham
creased economi c strength and in-
cr ea s ed p'ar t i c i pat io n in t he
internat ional economic system of
two groups of countries - the rna-
. jo r oil producing countries and the
Communist countries - means that
we now must cope with economi -
. catty powerfu l entitie s which do
not adhere to the internatio nal
tradin g rules incorporated in the
GATT." ,
In other words, the two blocs
which could do the most damage to
the free trade system will not even
be at the bargaining table.
- Henry Sturcke
BUREAU REPORTS
NewChallenges
t oWorld
Freetrade,
BRUSSELS: Tr ade war ....inte r-
national economic villain of the
thirties - is looming once again on
the hor izon. The framers of GAlT
(the General Agreement on Tr ade
and Tariffs) set up a system of rul es
and guarantees in 1947 to prevent a
recurrence of crippling protection-
ism. Now that s ystem could fall
victim to the worldwide economic
recession.
Despi te the lessons of histor y, Australl"a
natio na l governments ar e still
tempted to apply a reverse eco- and J n
nomic golden rul e in times of un- apa - SALISBURY, RHODESIA:
certain ty: " Erect barr iers . to my I terde e' ndenc . Leaders of fifteen West African
neighbor's exports befor e he can do n . P e stat es met in Monr ovia. Liberia in
the same to mine." Br -I"ngs Problems mid-February to discuss the
The possibi lity of thi s formula ' tion of a West African Economic
became evident as the latest session Community.
of the Tokyo ..Round of negotia- SYDNEY: The growing impor- Ministers agreed on the forma-
tions (formerly called the Nixon tance of Austra lia's and Japan's . tion. over a . lScyear period, of a'
Round) get underway in Geneva in . trade interdependence is high- customs union that could even-
February. "The danger of count ries lighted by recently released trade tuall y lead to the free movement of
going back to protectionism may figures. trade across the entire "bul ge" of
be almos t i rr esistible, wi tho ut < The J apanese government' s Africa.
countervailing pressure on the in- trade repor ts for fiscal year 1973 All that is needed now is for the
- ...of ,..sta te.. to. . meet , once,
European Community official that Japan's exports to Australia more and formally sign the agree-
glumly. that year totalled US$1, 192,900,000 ment. This will take place later this
Responsible ' officials on both - an increas e of63.8%percent over year .
sides of the realize that the previous year . Imports from The participating states in the
they must contmu e to advocate free Australia for the same period were new bloc are Dahomey, Gambia,
trade. They know full well that the USS3,495,OOO,OOO - up 58.5 Gh ana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
alternat ive is a trade war between cent. ory Coast, Liberia , Mali, Mau-
the nat ions which The value of Australia's exports ritani a. Niger , Nigeria, Senegal ,
win. . to Japan for the same period ex- Sierra Leone, Togo and Upper
Momentous problems await the ceeded ' the combined total of her Volta. All except Liberia and
at the GAIT next five biggest customers - the Guinea-Bissau are former English
mg tabl e, who hope to elimi nate United States, Britain, New Zea- and Frenc h colon ies. The economic
v,arious irritants su.ch as "volu n- [and. France and West Germany' - ' levelof the membe rs ranges all the ,
tary" export restraints and other which stood at U5S3,OOO,338,OOO. , way from newly oil-rich Nigeria to
side-door methods of restricting Australia has been Japan's lead- po vert y-stricken Guinea-Bissau,
free trade. . Ing supplier of minerals such as newly independent from Portugal.
Even more crucial could be the . iron a re, coal , bauxite, alumi num, The region has tremendous min-
ne$otiations .regar di ng t.he devel- and manganese. Australia is also eral and agricultural potent ial , as
c pmg countnes and the raw mat e- number one in sales to Japan of - well as Nigeria ' s oil,
rials they J:lOssess' . ,These matt ers wool , beef and mutton and is sec- Th e treat y that will bind the 15
been Virtually Ignored at ond in the supply of sugar. together establi shes a common cus-
VIOUS GAlT round s (the latest However, there are indications toms tariff for imports from other
being the "Kennedy" Round from that the road ahead may not be as Third World countries. It also sets
to Now, . the indus- smooth for Australia and Japan as up a fund for coope ration, corn-
tria lize d conce rne d it has been in the past. pensation and development .
about keepi ng continued reason- . Friction between the two part- In the present climat e of detente
able access to commodities and raw nees has devel oped recently over between the black African states
materials . . . several factors: and the Republic of South Africa,
The developing nati ons are prov- The Japanese government's sud- there is speculation about a pos-
ing increasingly skillful in negot ia- den imposition of import quot as on sible future role for Pretoria in the
tio ns , a nd the i nd us t r ial ized beef for the latter half of the 1974 area .
nations (primarily the U.S., Japan, fiscal year. This has had an adverse A recent visit by South Africa's
and the EEC) will probably have to impact on the economic welfare of Prime Minister John v orsrer to
give price guar antee s and "open Australia's beef producers. Liberia , and contac ts between his
mar ket" concessions in return for _ Japan's curb on purchases of slowly liberali zing white-ruled na-
supp ly guarantees. Australian wool because of its sur- tion and the Ivory Coast , could
The problems are knotty. and plus stocks of raw wool. lead to the commitment of South
the for . success is at .the The sharp increase in experts African devel opment aid.
moment uncert ain. For one thing. to Australia of Japanese moto r ve- The orienta tion of the new trade
the negotiations will go. far the hid es. This has led to severe ' grouping, however , might be north-
December 1975 dead line initi al ly unemp loyment in Aust ralia's own ward rather than sout hward . Most
insisted upon by the U.S. It took motor industry and the Aust ralian of these West African states have
eighteen month s for Congress to government's impo sition of import formal economic treaties with the
pass the trade bill giving the Presi- quotas on Ja panese cars. European Economic Community.
dent the power to negot iate. _ The Austra lian government's It is here that West Africa will
Another big reason for pessi- insistence on its right to intervene probabl y look for development aid
mism was summed up by one in negotiation s between Australian and close trade ties. .
GAIT representative: "The in- and Jap anese businessmen to de- - Melvin Rhodes
WEEK ENDING APRIL 5. 1975

INDIAN CHIEF, ' ;,
PONDERS
,'.' ,;" .",
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WHITEMAN'S
ECOLOGY
ACbon
A WELFARE CASEWORKER visi ts the cramped two-room (and t wo- iv) apartment of the t ypical fatherless family on AFOC.
OUR DEGRADING DOLE
,Putting Down the Poor
by Robert Ginskey
In 1855. Chief Sealth of Washington
State 's Duwami sh Indians wrote a lette r to
the President of the United States, Franklin
Pierce, _in which he expressed his concern
over the whi te man's concept of ecology.
Russell Peterson, Chairman of the Council
on Environmental Quality. recently read
that letter at the American Association for
the Advan cement of Science meeting in
New York City. Peterson observed that from
our modem perspective 120 years later, the
chiefs poeti c missive would appe ar to be an
incisive, if not dist urbing , prophecy. Work-
ing with nothing but intuit ion and love to
guide bim in the interpretati on oLhis ran-
dom data, Chi ef Sealth wrot e an environ-
mental impact statement which embodied
the basic ecological insight that all things are
connected - whatever befalls the earth be-
falls man as well :
"We know that the white man does not
understand our ways. One porti on of the
land is the same to him as the next , for he is
a stranger who comes in the night and takes
from the land whate ver he needs. The earth
is not his brother, but his enemy.. and when
.he has conquered it, he moves 0 0 . He leaves
his father's graves, and his children's birth-
right is forgotten. The sight of yow cities
by Carole Riner pains the eyes of the red man . But perhaps it
. . is because the red man is a savage and does
. mea'! y e ./h.at ye ..beat "!y ,peop!Il....!O,,: . ; . .:t!ashingtoq,., .. .Jlo.Lunderstand.__ __ _ ._.;.>- .elL.dti:tLJJ.lJ__
. pieces" ,an.d.grind the-faces of the poor? .saith : friend 's check had been lost in the mail , she way they treat their clients. '."There is .no quie t place in . the white
the Lord God ofhosts." . - Isaiah 3:15 would have to drive into Los Angeles (she I found out later that there had been sev- man's cities. No place to hear the leaves of
didn't own a car), be fingerprinted and sign eral incidents of frustrated clients assaulting spring or the rustle of insect's wings. But. per-
What is it like to be poor? Can anybody an affidavit sweari ng she hadn't received it. their caseworkers. I can .sympathize - I felt haps because I am a savage and do not un-
brought up in the cushy-comfort of our af- . and then she could have her name fed into like doing some assaulting myself. derstand, the dener onlyseems the ears.
fluent middJe class ever understand what it's the computer to have another check mailed The pol itician. promulgated myth that The Indian prefers the soft sound of 'jhe wind
like to be on the receiving end of the dole? to her. But in the meantime, nothing could there are thous ands of cheaters out there dartingoverthe faceofthepond,and the smell
I got a good taste of it the other day. My be done. There wasn't any provision to loan driving "we lfare Cadillacs" just plain isn't ofthewind itselfcleansedbyamid-dayrainor
friend had been through some bad luck this her money temporari ly to buy food stamps so. Surveys have actually found . very few scented with a pinon pine. The air is precious
pas t year. He r husband had some . men tal or pay rent. .... cheaters. . to the red-men, For all things share the same
hangups he couldn't resol ve. and,.ins tead of Mr. Washi ngton also let us' know that my Actually, a far grea ter percentage are eli- brea th - the beasts, the trees, the man. The
seeking treatment , he deserted her and their friend 's former caseworker had bullied her gible for welfare than ever act ually app ly, white man does not seem to notice the ai r he
two kids. With a third child on the way: she out of the SIO per mont h pregnancy benefi ts hut the stigma of being "on the dole," the breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he
couldn' t immedi ately go to work. Her folks she was entitl ed to. She had told my friend refusal on technicali ties of many who so is numb to the stench.
lived 4,(X)() miles away. Since she couldn 't that she should n't fill out the necessary seek assistance, and the widespread igno- " What is man without the beasts? If all the
work or move, welfare was her only altema- forms because it was "too much work: ' and ranee among the poor of welfare regulati ons beasts were gone , men woul d die from great
live. .. . ' the caseworker ju st-did n't have the time to keeps the . rolls down , and keeps those al- ' loneliness of spiri t. for whatever happens to
She moved into a one -bedroom, insect-. fool with it. . ready on welfare , from finding out about the beasts also ' happens to man. All things
infested dump with chipping paint and In order to have these belated pregnancy programs and benefits due them. . are connected." Wha tever befa lls the earth
faulty plumbing and did her grocery: shop- benefits restored, he told my friend she'd When I visited the welfare office with my befalls the sons of the earth .
.ping with food stamps. She was "coping" - have to go into town and appear before a friend, I asked if I could see a copy of the " It matters little wher e we pass the rest of
j ust keeping her nose above water - when . review board - and even then she couldn't welfare regulati ons. They were kept upstairs our days; they are not many. A few mor e
one week her check was late. get the eight mont hs of retroactive benefits in a separate room and you needed signed hours, a few more winters, and none of the
AI the time, she was recuperating from the because she hadn't brought in the necessary permi ssion, to look at them, one book at a children of the great tri bes that once lived on
flu, so she asked me to drive her to the proof of pregnancy from her Medical Group time. But first you had know the name of this earth, or that roamed in small bands in
welfare office to find out what had gone (she was eight months along - any other a specific book to request - and nobod y was the woods, will be left to mourn the graves
wrong. This was my int roduction to the de- diagnosis would have been ridiculo us). about to volunteer that information. of a peop le once as powerful and hopeful as
humanizi ng, degrading wringer local bu- When I asked him if this sort of thing What can be done abo ut all this? Various yours .
reaucracy puts poor people through. It was went do very often, he told me a long. sad welfare ref orm plans have been suggested, "The whites, too, sha ll pass - perhaps
an unbelievable hassle. story. His hands were tied by labyrinth ine including a negat ive income tax and sooner than . other tribes . Continue to con-
We signed in with a syrupy-voiced recep- local regul ations and paperwor k. type crea tion of more j obs by the govern- laminate your bed, and you will one night
tionist who spoke us like we were a couple Even if he wanted to buck the system and ment . But with econo mic recession .at the -, ,..suffocate in your own waste. When the buf-
of slow kindergarteners. She told us to take a help us, he couldn't because he'd get himself door , even a new Administratio n wou ld be falo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all
seat and if we didn't hear our name called in in trouble and probably lose hisjob. unlikely to change the status quo very much. tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy
half an hour to let her know. So my sick He also mentioned anot her case he'd been Any reforms, however, are only stopgap with the scent of many men., and the:view of
pregnant friend and I sat in a crowded, involved with. Two chil dren whose parents measures that fail to resol ve .the real prob- the ripe hills blott ed by talking wires, wher e
smoke-filled room for our allotted time, then had been killed in "an auto accident were lem - why people are poor in first place. is the thicket? Gone. .Where ris the eagle?
went back to beg for an audience with her living with their grandparents. The.kids were , And that problem' wi ll -be with us until so- Gone. And what is it to say goodbye to the
casewo rker. "She couldn't be found , so we eligible for food stamps to help suppleme nt ciety is comp letely overha u)ed. , swift and the hunt, the end of living and
were given a substitute. I'll call him Me. the grandparents' Social Securit y benefits. So what can we do in the mean time? The beginning of survival? We might und erstand
"washing ton.va cour teous but harr ied black But their parents had set aside a trust fund in onlyfactor over: which we have any contr ol if we knew what it was that the white man
gentl eman . . the bank for theireducation, which,couldn' t , seems to be "our individual and collective dreams, what hope s he describes to his chil-
He found tha t my friend's old caseworker be touched Jegally until they were age 18. attitudes . toward me -tess fortunate. Hope - dr en on the Ions winter nis htst what visions
had been terminated two a.gO. a. nd Nevertheless, their caseworker and his supe- fully we can work to educate ourselves out he burns into their mi.nds, so they will wish
her file was buried on the casewo rker' s desk rior refused to allow them to buy the stamps .of our negative superiority and puniti ve pa- for tomorrow. But we are savages. The white
with a stack of 200 others. Due to' a budget until they had exha usted the entire trust ternali sm. A change in our collective attitude man's dreams are hidden from us: '
slash. the department perso nnel -had been fund! He said cases like this aren 't uncom- toward the "poor may translate . itself into' Today, we might well ponder Chi ef
deci mated. but n obody could be r ehired to - many times don't make some real action in the direction of kind and Sealth's question, "w hat are the whit e man' s
take their place. ' . '" .,. much more money than the people they dignifie d treatment ofthe poor. 0 dr eams?" 0
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Our Economically
Impoverished Elderly,
by John R. Schroeder;
The sad state of our senior citizens is the -Providence. Most of us at least acknowledge
subject Cormany a magazine article . The the Ten Commandments. Well. what about
worsening economic cond ition of the elderl y . that fifth one? " Honor your father and your
in -our" midst is routinel y depl ored by all. . mother."
Depressed centr al City are as are hardest hi t. , Piet y begins at home . " If a Chri stian man
Garbage-can fare; cat and dog -food dinner s. or woman has widows in the family , he must
and seedy, flea-bag hotels are becoming eli- . suppo rt , them hi mself," wrote the apostle
ches. Pau l (I Tim. 5:'16, The ,New Englis h Bib/e) .
Convent ional wisdom dictates a potpourri Also: "But if anyone does not make provi-
of semi-prac tical solutions: raises in social sia n for _his -relati ons . and especiall y for
. security benefits, additional medical aid.iin- . members of his own household, he has de-
creas ed welfare payments, free or - in- nied the faith and is worse than an unbe -
.expensive bus transportat ion - all a re liever" (ver se 8). ,
popularly propo sed. knowing in advance the The author of the Chri stian religion had
inevitable and "unwanted side effects of a somewhat to say abo ut this matter. Did you
heavier tax load and booming inflation. know that people. in his day were excusing
. No person in his right mind would pro- thems elves from economi c support of their
pose that we discontinue or even severely aged par ents for - can you believe this one?
curtail these government benefits . However. - religious reasons. The y were claiming that
there is a simple. program that would greatly funds which mi-ght have been earmarked for
- aid the elderly that has been largely over - . parental support were " Corban" - .that -is,
looked or ignored by laymen and govern- dedi cated to . the service of the altar .j Jesus
ment alike . Wha t about teaching children said to these hypocritical types: " How well
and able relati ves to CARE'? I read about the ; you Set aside the. commandment of God in
severe poverty cond itions of man y an elderly ' ord er to maintain your tradition! Moses
couple (a nd the widowed or widowers) and said, ' Honour your father and your mother,'
ask myself this question: "Are all of these and , man who curses his father or
poverty-stricken people without any chi l- mother must suffer death.' But you hold that
dren or fami ly'?" . if a man says to his father or mother, ' Any-
The . answer . is, of course. that the vast thing of mine which might have been used
maj ori ty do have economically capable and for your benefit is Corban'. (meaning. set '
mature children, and many concerned: chil - apart for Godj.i'he is no longer permitted.to
dren (now worki ng adults) do cont ribute to do anyt hi ng for his father or. mother.' Thus
the well-beingof their aging parent s - both by your own tradition, handed down among
emotionally and mone tarily. But what about you, you make God's word nuIl and void"
those abl e-bodied chil dren wbc should help, {Mark 7:913, NEB).
but don't? There are far too many who con- Oanwe lear n a nything from -thisexample
.veniently turn their heads the ot her way. so far as "acceptable excusesv vare con-
. We claim to be a Chri stian nation. and cemed? They simp ly do n't exist for those
97% of us. believe in some form .of D.ivlne able to rend er economic support. 0
ARoughDiet
for Altlerica
appendicitis, ulcers. diabetes. obesity, .coro-
thrombosis. dental decay, and constipa-,
non.
As soon as these " primitive" people .
fed the average "civilized" diet, howe ver,
these degene rative disea ses increased 'dra-
matically. Other authorities, such as Weston
"The destiny of nations depends on the A. Price and D. P. Burkitt. found identi cal
manner in which they nourish themsel ves." conclusions: As peoples begin to consume
So stated Jean Brillat-Sa varin 15Q'yea rs ago increasin g amounts of over -refined, pro-
in The Physiology of Taste. cessed. preserved . and packaged products.
If it is true that .OUf destiny lies in" our their health inevit abl y degenerates.
di ets; the "civilized" Western world has Lncreasing evidence indica tes that the "se-
much to worry about. Although modem nu- cret" to health and longevity scat-
tritionists are learning vital principles of tered "primit ive" people s is the essential but .
good diet, most of us are ignorin g this . forgotten form of nutri ent 'called "r ough-
wealth of knowledge. age:'
Th e fact is that the modem Ameri can diet British ' medical researchers have found
has been radicall y altered since our great - that bulky. . fibrous foods stimulate gastric
grandfather's day. The average . diet in the juice secretion. provi de a .quicker sense of
West ern world now cont ains 50 percent satiation, and reduce retention time in the
more refined sugar, 30 percent more fat, and intest ines. .
90 percent less cereal fiber than it did at the One . study found that food... takes six to
turn of the century. .. eight times longer to pass through the in-
Concurrently with this change in diet , a test ines of people, living in Western countries
new patt ern of disease has emerged in the than in' parts of Africa and India where the
United States. Canada, and Western Europe. ..food is natural and unprocessed.
The bid infectious diseases are now -largely .. This -retention time may be an important
under cont rol, but new degenerat ive diseases factor. in causing many serious maladie s, es-
kill the vast majori ty of those over 40 years peciaUy cancer. oC the colon. The longer it
old. take s for food to travel through the alimen- .
Robert Walker wrote that "the new kind tary canal . me re exposure the colon will
of dietary deficiency 'disease caused by con- .receive to cancerous age nts. .
centrated incomplete foods builds up slowly Since a high incidence of colon cancer is
over half a lifetime and then man ifests itsel f usuall y -found in the same nat ions which
in a wide. variet y ' of degenerative"diseases, have a high incidence of cardiovascu lar di s-
both acute and chronic." eases, the lack 01dietary" fiber. may be the
Doct or s, now refer ' to a " twenty-y ear underlying cause. .
"abuse," meaning that we can abuse ou r nat - Accumu lating evide nce continue s'to show
urally. gcod - health for about twenty. years that the soft. bland. refined Western diet
befor e degenerative diseases begin to catch may-be amajor source of .degenerative d{s-
_ _ up.with.us. L,_ _"'---' .- _;7.--..... ......... ........... eases.e.In, the... final anal ysis, ther e-may .be
Elliot Smith. formerly senior surgeon at . much more to "ro ughing it" .than . an oeca-
Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford. stud ied -the na- - sional camp-out in the mountains. . .r
tive people s of Africa and noticed the ' ab- . We should also learnto "rough, if' at the
sence of .t ' mo de r n" di sease s, such as dinner . 0
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SOUrr:6: F.B.I. Uniform Crime Report. 19 72
Larcenists
Weapons
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Assailants
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All Others
A 3-year study of 22 8.000 off enders was u'ndert aken to determine the extent to which
criminal MlCidivism contributed to the an nual crime rate. Of the 228.000 offend ers. 65 %
had been arrested two or more times. accumula ting 87 0.000 documented charges and
244. 000 convictions . Of the repeat offenders. those under 20 years of 8g8 were rearrested
mere freq ue ntly than any ot her age grou p _ on an average once every 3 months. The
average for the 20 -24 age group was once every 6 months . and the average for the 25- 29
age group was once every 1 1 months.
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by Donald D. Schroeder
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you have , to start: in the home, There
seems to be a lack of properresp ect and
. disc ipline in th e home. " And in the
schoo l t here is certainly a great lack of
discipl ine ."
(3) Ineffectual Religion
The Ten Commandment s. if kept in
. both letter and spi rit. will det er crime. .
' One hundred thirt y million Americans
are church members. Forty percen t-at':'
tend church at least once a week, But it
seems that you can 't tell a churchgoer
fr om a . non-churchgoer i n da y-to-dav
business et hic s or social relations. Wh y
this mute inf luence of religion on mod-
ern values ? The answer is, much of
modern religious phi losophy has 'been
overcome by secular society's popular
emphasis on a vague moral value sys-
tem .
. Much of modern rel igion has deteri o--
rated into meaningless weekr'y (or semi-
annual) ritual , to wh ich th e average
churchgoer gives luk ewarm lip service
only for a vari ety of 'soci al reasons. For
millions, mate riali sm, pleasur e seeking
and th e philosophy of " gett in9 mine
now" are idolized more than honest y,
t he fear of God , or respect for the Big
Ten of Exodus 20. .
Millions of mod ern homes , from' poor
to rich , are beset by the' disease of per- :
mi ssiveness. erosio n of hi gh ideals , lack
of right leadershi p, lack of self-dis-
cipline, honest character, warmth . love
arid stabi lity. Nearly half of our nation's
serious crimes are committed by teen-
aqers. Much of this j uveni l e delin-
quency.finds roots in wrong parental
values , parental apathy, or other wrong
i nf l uences.
Senator John McClellan who probed
organ ized crime for years, pin -
pointed this major failure: ". : , I think '
"The carnal mind is enmity,
against God: for it Js not sub-
)ect to the law of God. neither
indeed can be, " Romans 8:' 7
Real Causes Ignored
Vario us officials' claim th e causes of
cri me ca'"! be attr ibut ed to poverty, ra-
A Nation on the Defensive
Recent cr ime increases caused forme r
Attorney General Will iam Saxbe to ac-
clai m in alarm : " We can now perceive
wit h shocking clarit y that we have suf - "
fered a severe set back in the concerted
effort t o 'alter one of t he nat ion 's most
. f;er (but POSliib. IY in- of life . We have lost our cial tensions, class struggle. drugs. alco-
A accurate) drop in reporte d crime initiative and are .back on the defensive. . . hol , glamorizat ion of crime. unequal
in 1972. t he U.S. nat iona l cr i me The nation is in deep troubl e i n its e1- j usti ce, corrupt law enforcement, per -
rat e has soared by more than 20% i n torts to reduce crime." . mi ssiveness, lack of parental 'guidance,
the past tW9' years - 16% alone f or But has the United Stat es ever been: or even diet and genetics. Most, maybe
the fi rst nine mont hs of 1974. '- "l . in recent years, on the offensive again st all of these reasons, have some degree
From 1964 to 19 73 spending on . th e real causes of crime? How could we of vali di ty i n some cases. Vet somethinq (2) Undisciplined Education
local : law enforceme nt shot up over -be when" t op-ranki ng crim inologist s ad- much bigg er is missing in-ni"odern crimi- Once the .hornes -have fai "led to.de-
600 % ' - from -$ 1 bill ion to 'over- $7 mit the y cann ot agree on what causes nal theo ry ; Criminologists and crime velop an .earlv conscious..ness of high
bill ion - . yet cri meconti nued to march crime? Without p greement and coordi - fighters cannot -put their finger' on- it be- mora l value s and right ' characte r. the
on like .sorne l.in'stoppable , mysterious nation amon g t o p cr im ineal t heo- cau se it is a spiritual matter. modern ' school system can do little but
plag ue. Andlike..ihe plague. its cancer- ret icians , it' s no wonder cri me fi ghting Police . courts and penal . inst itu tions hold -weak rein s on t he resulting unpre-
11kespread has iC'!.du.ced a secondary epi - is flying in so man y directions and pro- are failing to reduce' the cr ime rate be- dietable student behavior. Too ' man y
demic of f ear. ,-' . ducing so little results . cause they are almost totally deal ing schools merely concentrate undesirable
t awenforcement off icers, judges and A recent issue qf Skeptic magazine with effects - not causes . And most of ' yout hf ul humarrbehavior i nto one build-
penal admit they don' t .know dealt with the basic dil emmas of-crime them admit it ! " ing ,.The school ,ground then become s a
what ito do" next" t o, discour age ram- today,- and summarized the ' prevaihnq . Let's cl earl y def ine the major causes hug'e t ransm ission ' ground f or criminal
is ..: in " . . ' .
things we vetned. they say, In effec t, . that we dt?n t know-what causes crrme . ", today s spl ralhng growth of cnmlnal"'ac- .., .. ...
"' and-cri me still conti nues to rise. Noth- All we have' been able t o do is descr ibe t ivitv. .' ";.. ' . t eachers, sensing the desperate need to
ing works!"" the co n di ti ons under whi ch ' some fill th e hug e moral and discipl ine gap ,
Outgoin9 Attorney General William B. peopl e cornml ]' Some kind of crime - (1) Decay of the Family may attempt to disciplinestud ents , but
Saxbe judged t he nation' s -effo rts to re- sometimes f or some motiv es: We don 't St and ing as th l primary def ense they often end up cowed (or even t error-
duc e cri me as " a dismal failure," Cit ing know wh y ' everyone, exposed to ' th e against criminal i nfl uence is - or - -ized) byhand s of hostile stu dent s,
';, ' t he incredi ble incr ease in cri me stat is- same del eteriou s influences doesn 't be- . shou ld be the family' unit. But par - 'One recent editorial summed up mod-
tics 'in recent years, " Saxbe said, " t hey come' a cr i mi nal [italics theirs] , , , , Un- ents by the droves, gr ipped with all the ern .educeti on' s mora l deterioration:
keep 90in 9 up despit e bi ll ions in federal ti l we bette r under.sta nd human popularly promoted pressures of social " [The fact) that basic ski lls.' good man -
aid ." . . behavior, we cannot hop e to under- acceptance, mat erial ism and self-gratifi- ners. moral .st andards and discipline
Un provoke d and sensel ess 'violence stand criminal behavior" (Nov.-Dec . . cation have ' practically hand ed ev er have gone so far out of educational styl e
agai nst individuals is a parti cularl y di s- 1974, special issue number 4 , p. 14). t he i r ' chi ldren t o all the , wrong in- as now to be termed ' alt ernat ive' is a
turbing trend . The American murder ' . fluences. Inst ead of standing as-a brea k: measure of the depths to whic h publ ic
rate per tOO,OOOpopulati on doubled in water a'gainst the t ide' of perm issive- education has sun.k,..
adecade. From 196'3 t o 1973, t he pop- . ' . the child shall behave ness, the mod ern fami ly unit t oo of ten is Schoo ls do educate! But fr om too
ulat ion of the Un it ed Stat es increased h If dl agains t the bei ng sviept away with it . No wonder man y of t hese morally emasculated
onl y 11 %, but reported vio lent crimes tm se prou Y we are experi encing .a 'generat ion ' of schools, society is reapi ng little mo re
jumped over 170%_ ' an cient, , Isaiah 3_'5 yout h and adults that have little respect . than smarter cri mi nals. '
The accuracy of such stagge ri ng sta- f or honesty, law, order, decency or prin-
t ist ics has come under quest ion in re- cipl e. .
cent years. The charge is th at man y Why dornanv individua ls in low eco-
forme rly unr eported crimes 'are now nomic areas commit crime : while man y
being reporte d. If this is so, it has yet t o others living in these same areas - just
be' demo nst rated to what degree this is as deprived, with just as low i ncomes,
the case - or if thi s is' the case at all . . enduring just as much env ironmental or
The crime picture, however , is gett ing soci al abu se - do not commi t crime
worse , regardless of what stat isti cs you and do not use thei r poverty to justify
use. It has been esti mated that at least criminal activ ity? Moreover ., wh y does
twice - and i n some cat egor ies, fi ve cr iminal acti vity, dishonesty and corrup-
t imes - as rpuc"hserious crame is bei ng t ion strike frequently in middle- and up-
comm itted as is being report ed . per-class society too?
The proof of increasing crime isn'''.in The key unanswered question to
stat isti cs anyway ; it's in what we all crime is. . How do we explain dev iant
sense .by readin g our local newspapers human behavi or - ' ranging from
or experience in o ur own neighbor- th oughts and temptations of Iust to out-
hood s. ' right t heft, dishonesty or violence7 Un -
less we can explai n human nature (and
cri mi nol ogists admit they can 't ), crime
. can never be met head-on in the most
essent ial areas. .
WEEK ENDING APRIL 5.,1975

. . ..
MONKEY ON
HERE'S HOW!
- tvl. DaVIS' says ri Si n g cnme can t be
solved with wall-to-wall cops , 'or better
prosecutors." as long as " court s ' turn
convicted felons back on our streets."
, Davis charges, "The surest deterrent to
crime is ' the . knowledge -bv potent ial
criminals that they are ,li kely to
caught, and the certainty' - the cer-
tainty - that once caught they will be
promptly ' prosecuted, _'conv i ct ed if
guilty, and jailed. There is no such cer -
tainty today. This idea become a
farce ," .
Chief Davis depicts our upside-down.
law-and-order soci ety by saying , " The
people are locked up i n their homes and
offices, and the cr iminals are, pursuing
happiness on the str eet s. "
As for the " success" of 't he modem
prison system, one source paints j a
gloomy picture succinctly: " Big. ugly,
expensive facilities for the manufacture
and storage of cr iminals." Something is
horribly wrong with our whole criminal
justice structure!
Our nation has violated one of the
cardinal deterrents to crime: " Because
sentence aqainst-an evil work is not exe-
cuted speedily, therefore the : h"eart of
the sons of men is fully set in t hem to do
"evil" (Ecclesiastes B:11) . ' <,
Coming: Law and Order
(with Justice and Mercy)
The bad news is that t hewhole socia l
values of society need to be change d,
The is that the whole value .
system ' of mankind. is going to be
.changed in t he not-too-distant future.
But befo;; that day comes, mankind
.has vetto experience ' an even worse
. crime yyave for rejecting the true God ,
his Word and "a truly right way of lif e
based on his law. [] .
forcement of those laws that is the de-
terrent. "
But society's " t hi n blue line " of cr imi-
nal . defense, the Pl''.ice, find themselves
in an unenviable posit ion . Not only un -
derarmed, and overwhelmed by th e
staggering volume of crime they.. must
deal with, law enforcement officials are
often' harnstrunq by public attitudes and
court decisions in their enforcement of
laws. .
Changing social values - particu-
larly concerning the so-called victimless
crimes - makes enforcement con-
ftJsing and difficult. ... Many citizens
scream for more police, but increased
police population is no great deterrent
to crime. Unfortunately , police corrup-
tion in some cities has seriously marred
their image and undercut t heir much-
needed public support . '
Adding . to the policeman"s frus tra-
tions, ,t oday'"s court s, judges and law-
yers are swamped with criminal cases
and a lot of liberal thinking . The
result is much delayed justice, unfa ir
justice, or no justice at all. Thousands of
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(5) Poverty ".
Popular primi na! theory places gr:eat
emphasis "on poverty as> a < breeding
ground for crime. And it is, 'Povert y con-
centrates the worst of human condi - .
tions, including criminal behavior. Bin
poverty is not an excuse for crime ,and
violence, as many-seem to imply! .
Bringing 'peopl e out of poverty should
be a major goal, but to suggest that
poverty is an acceptable justification for
crime and violence is .an insult ,to the
great mass of people of all races who ..
have lived for years in deprived areas
but who do not commit crime. Many
-poverty-atricken individuals - the
greatest victims of violent crime - do
not permit the ir condition to be an ex-
cuse for criminal behavior or disrespect
for others.
- (6) Crippled Criminal
Justice .... " ,,,, '
' The surest way to promote a,c; i mi nal ,
society is to make sure crime pays . And
tragically, in America; it pays fre :
quentlv. like almost .every other.' in-
stitut ion , the -U. S. criminal justice
system has broken down, become seri-
ously crippled and even' blind.
Crime experts estimate of -all reported
major criminal offenses, only 7% lead to
arrests, 'only , 2% to convictions; only
1% to prisons. and none to the death
penalty, The chance of being punished
for a serious crime in the U.S. is only 1
in 100.
"Laws on books don 't deter [crime] . "
says' Senator McC lellan, " It' s the en-
;:--,,-
The Ward of God clearly states
ultimate deterrent to crime: ", ". by the'
fear of "t he Lord men depart from evil "
(Proverbs 16 :6). . - "."'
The responsibility' for failing to set
forth powerfully the "real ity of God , his
righteous laws, his ultimate judgment
.....:.. as well as his rnercv and forgiveness '
- lies at the door of the modern minis-
try. .'
(41Permissive Society
Movies. TV. maga-
zines and scandal sheets everywhere
glamorize the violent. . the lust provok -
ing , or the perverse. Films now promote
all kinds of racially oriented " criminal "
hero-types as the virtual new idols and
ideals of manhood (and even woman-
hood) . " The not-very-subtle message
gets through to many youth: " crime
and violence pay - money, status , sex
-just be'smart and don '. get caught ."
Crime pays all right . Whole areas of
cities are virtual cesspools catering to
the basest of human behavior. The pub-
lic 's furtive support of vice feeds a grow-
ing tvrann y -of ' o r g an i ze d .crime .,
Everywhere _youth are under pressure
from their peers to conform to bizarre',
crimi nal or unethical practices: Drugs
and alcohol abuse plague ' all levels of
society: Pornography, _. corru:pt ion high
and low, dishonest bus iness practices.
corporate rip-efts.. cheating, lying, steal-
ing, _. ethnic ' and class prejudices, . dis-
. criminationt-e- you name it .- all these
plague our society and fuei bur criminal .
..j\1I thei .;
, money or laws i n,the world won't put an
' end to them. They are due to wrong
moral and spiritual values.
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HilLER BOOM
Healthyor Dangerous?
by Keith Stump
After nearlythirty years of suppression of
the deeds of the Hitler era, the West .Ger-
ma n public today is bei ng deluged by a
need -or 'books. magazines, and films about
- DerF'Uhrerana l fiS twClve..year Reich;:Th C'"
Germans have a word for the phenomenon
- Hitler-welle, or " Hitl er Wave:'
In 1973alone, fourte en maj or books about ,
the life and ji mes of Ado lf Hitler competed
for the attention of West German reade rs.
One of them. Werner Mase r's successful
Adolf Hiller: Legend, Myth and Reality , was
seria lized in the mass circulation news-
weekly Der Spiegel" Another book . Joa chi m
Fest' s massive Hiller, a Biography. was seria-
lized in 15 pans in the popular picture news-
weekly Stern.
In additio n to the major hardbacks, hun -
dreds of paperback books on virtually every
aspect of the Third Reich' add to the Hitler
tida l wave.
Numerous motio n pictures have also ap
peared in the past two years . The British-
mad e film, " Hitler: The Last Ten- Days."
starri ng Alec Guinness, was a great deal
more successful in West Germany than it
was in the United States.
For the mor e serious students of the
Reich, hardcove r e di tions of Hitler' s
speeches (in four volumes) and GOebbeli
speeches (in two volumes) have bee n mad e
available .
If one of the purposes of the ir interest is to
discover "How was . this possible?" : with
' hopes of avoidi ng a repetition. then it' s all
well and good sociologists and historians
claim. As one Ameri can j ournal ist asked,
"Can Americans serio usly crit icize a Ger-
man willingness to look straight at the most
revoltin g aspects of thei r own history?"
If, in addition, anoth er purpose is to sepa-
rat e the popular myths about Hitler from
reality and ,to. present an-objecti ve analysis
of the man , this too could be a healthy sign.
The re have, however, been charges both
in West Germany and, especially. in Com-
muni st East Germany, of "sinister" histori-
cal di st ortions and . "minimization and
mitigati on" of some of the blacker sides of
the Hitler era. Th e Soviet newspaper Pravda
has gone so far as to charge tbat these works
are part of a devious plot to Soften up unsus-
pecting Germans for a return to tbe days of
the Reich - to make the public read y again
to acce pt the ideas of a return to rightist
auth ori tari anism .
Thi s may be going too far. But there is still
a dange r that even an innocent attempt to so
thoroughly dred ge up the past could back-
fire.
Not since the earl y 19305 has there been
such uncertainty in West Germany (not to
men tion Western Europe) , with nagging in-
flation , political disillusionm ent, growing
unemployment, .and socia l unre st Should
probl ems continue to mount in West Ger-
many, bringing the nat ion eventually to lite
brink of economic collapse and social chaos,
this preoccupation with dict atorship i n the
And in perh aps the most exhaustive mass consciousness could manifest itself in
ture to date, a new bimonthly magazin e the fonn of a popular willingn ess to aban-
called Das Dritt e Reich (The Th ird Reich) 'don democracy for a system which could
appeared on West Ge rman newsstands . in more speedily deal with urgent, life-and-
f974. llistory !,dea th riational ..,.,ULi i
Germa ny from 1933 to 1945, the mag azine's Coupled with such a desire there would
52 planned issues will attempt to clarify the likely be the hope tha t such a government
Hitler era. One not ed critic, however. has would know this time how far to go and
charged that it "gl amorizes " the Nazi era would avoid the hideous excesses of the past
instead. . ' Some in Germany have alr ead y gone so far
- The inevitable question in all these ven- as to call for a " little Hitle r" to deliver them
tures is whet her this Hitler boo m indicates from their nati onal problems. ' ,
nostalgic yearning for the "glorious days" of Sebas tian Haffner, the noted Anglo-G er-
the Reich, or whether it is merel y a health y man journalist, has observed that Hitler got
reexamination of what caused the nightmare. to the top because he was the onl y messiah
To be fair, it should be noted that the around, and the German people needed a
Germans may possibl y be blamed for havin g messiah - one to promise quick, painless
more interest in the Reich than they really soluti ons to their complex problems.
do. There appea rs to be comparat ively little Some polit ical observers are even now
interest in Hitler among Ge rmany's pre- commenting on an apparent desire not onl y
domin antl y leftist-oriented stude nts and in West Germany but also throughout wesi-
other ' young Ge rmans today . Hal f of the ern ,Europe for stronger leadership. Former
total populatio n of West Germany toda y West German Chan cellor Will y Brandt ex-
was born aft er World War II. Hitler was not pressed fears prior to his resignation last
their problem, and man y are genuinely unin- year that Western Europe has onl y 20 to 30
terested and unconcerned. , more years of democracy left . Others have
The current interest lies primarily with .the been less optimistic.
generation that was in its 20's toward the end Such are the potential dangers should
of the Reich - those old enough to have . Germans and others look too long at the
been aware of Hitler. bu t too young to 'bear flood of glossy pictures of the "glamorous"
any adm inistrative responsibility for what and " human" sides of fascism and ignore the
the Nazis did. ' " lessons of the bitter fru it of the Nazi era . 0
Herodotus
on Holidays
It was about the , year 525 B.C. when '
Darius, a one-time king of Per sia, decided to
conduct an experiment Summoning a group
of Gre ek soldiers to his court, he told the m
be would pay any amount they wished if
they would eat their fathers upon death. Th e
Greeks were aghast and refused the offer at
any price. Then in the ir .presence. Darius
called in some of his Indian soldie rs who
customarily ate the ir fathers aft er death, and
asked for what sum they would burn them
instead. The Indian soldiers were also ap-
palled and refused the offer. immediatel y.
Each was horrified at the custom of the
other. .
From the above experiment, Herodo tus,
the ancient historian, drew the conclusion
that customs ruled men.
Tod ay we, also have cust oms. It is our
HERODOTUS circa 485-425 8 _C.
custom in the spring to portray rabb its lay-
ing eggs.
In the fall. our children dressas evi l spiri ts
and go from house to house . Then in the
dead of winter , we cut a tree out of a forest
and place it in our living rooms .
Unfortunately , even today, Herod otus ' is:
still right
Customs rule men . For if one would de.
cide not to follow certain of these man-made
customs, he would be immediat ely ostra- :
cized by those around him.
The apostle Peter said that "we ought to
obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). If '
Herodotus were writing about your life,
would he say that cust oms ru led you, or
would he write that God ruled your cho ice
of customs? ..
- N. Gene Griffin
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Fuelish Americans
by Dexter H. Faulkner
Washington Bureau Chief
The clever slogan, "Don' t Be Fuelis h,"
can be seen' almost everywhere in America
today - even on .jhe rear bumper of cars
exceeding the 55-mile-per -hour speed limit
on the highway. -Mere slogans; it woul d ap -
. pea r. do not necessarily change peop le' s att i-
tudes toward the misuse of ener gy.
As John Quar les, Deputy Adminis trator of
the United Stat es Enviro nme ntal Protection
Agency puts it: "Our society seems nowhere
near ready to make a real commitment to ...
ener gy conservat ion."
During the toughes t part of the 1974 oi l
embargo, the government came fort h with
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hundreds of ideas to impleme nt fuel con-
servation, among them the formation of car
pools, the banning of di splay . lighting. the
shutting off of television after midnight and
the elimination of automobile air cond i-
tioners. "
Unfortun atel y. few of these ideas have
survi ved to any degree. Ou tside the lowered
nat ionwide speed limit - violated flagrantl y
almost everywhere - the United States has
no mandatory progr am to save energy. Ac-
cord ing to the Federal Energy Administrator
Frank G. Zarb, " Mandatory compliance in
the country gets rejected like a transplanted.
organ."
_ The Fede ral Energy Admi nistrat ion esti-
mates that the United States wast es 30 per-
cent of the energy it buys and produces-,Yet
energy demand has been steadily growing
faster than supply - an annual growth in
consumption of nearl y 5 percent, compared
with a supply growth of 3 percent
But now, the once cheap and abundant
energy resources that have ma de possible
the human labor- saving devices and the
abunda nt creative comforts tha t are so in-
grai ned in the American life-style are zoom-
ing up in cost and declining in supply. As a
res ult our nati onal attitudes and our nat ional
practices must change .
As President Ford told the nation in his
recent energy message : "Part of our trouble
is thai , we have been self-indulgent ... and
now the bill has come du e:'
Dr . Russell W. Peterson., Chairman of the
President's Counci l on Environmental Qu al-
ity recent ly expressed concern over the
eral impression that the energy crisis will be
over in 10 to 15 years and Americans can
relax and "resume our comfortable rate of
economic growth , ou r American standa rd of
living. "
,The troublejs, experts are saying' ,. that
Americans are still using too much energy,
not fully reali zing there is no bott omless pi t'
of energy available. We may well be seeing
the proverbial handwritin g on the wall ,
spelling out the end of an abundance .of
cheap fuels. Atti tud es and values w-ill have
to change . Conservation laws will have to be
adhered to. People will by neces sity become
less materialistic. Smaller cars. required re-
cycling, and even the joy of making some-
thing last a little longer will repl ace the old
American "throw away" mentality.
If these att itud es don't chan ge. however.
we might see. as one commentator said in a
gloomy prediction , "a lot of war on this
planet" as it becomes "very difficult for
everyone to share what little we have." 0
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OnLeaping toConclusions
What he thought I said : rivulets in the paths? This I have
" It was incredible to hear on your seen with my own eyes; I've been
rad io station yesterday -evening a there. How would such a world gov-
program by one Mr. G. Ted Arm- . ernor approach such problems?
strong speak with such hate about Here 's the way the United States
India and the Hindu religion.... In- has approached it . For rnanv years
stead of coexistence and peace Mr. ,we have 'shi pped direct aid , equip-
Garner Ted Armstrong with his rabid ment, tools, food, money, mil itary
remarks and naive political acumen aid , and even nuclear reactors to. In -
is causing harm to the very cause dia . We have sent everything from
which he professes to be speaking ' the most complex and highly sophis-
for ." . ticated products of modern . tech-
. The above letter was sent to a ra- nology right on .down to the most
dio station manager in protest to a basic staple of life - a bag of
broadcast , did on world govern- wheat.
men'fi ,-,.".\;J .r. ,-, -r ..', c .,_\.:.:,:" .. MOct\'(o-f"it "we''''hate
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What I actually said:' . free. There were no strings attached.
I was talking about the many dis : But even so, wouldn't you think that
tinguished presidents, premiers, once in a while India would at least
prime ministers and educators who vote with the United States in the
have spoken out so strongly' on the U.N.? (India traditionaltv votes with
world 's desperate need for some the " Af ro-Asian bloc" of nations
sort of "world government, " some which votes almost without' excep-
form of supranational management tion contrary to U.S. interests.] Still ,
of this earth as the only possible India is the recipient of much help
method of preventing human ex- frornthe U.S.
tinction. - You cannot cite alleged internal
In asking what kind of governor or disturbances in India caused by the
ruler could possibly fill the bill, I CIA, but you CAN cite 't he fact that
brought up the case of India. I said , both private and public agencies '
" Someone with the power ought to have sought to , HELP the Indian
go to India and say, ' Look, you 've people. We have striven mightily to
got more protein running around on prevent starvation; we have shipped
the hoof over here than we have in hundreds of millions of bushels of
the entirety of the United States. Yet wheat , rice and barley to India -
you people are protein malnour- GIVING it away, when we knew the
ished. You have your religions, all wheat which found its way into
the se various gods - a polytheistic black marketeer. hands was selling
belief in false gods. But there is just for $25 a pound. We also knew that
ONE great God who made the whole poor storage methods, shipment
universe, heaven and earth; who set damage, and an enormous number
it all i n motion; who sustains it ; who of rats would contrive to consume
is the designer, the i nvent or of all fully fifty percent of the wheat we
law. . . . ' " INTENOED for human consumption
How would anyone have the - so only half of what we sent
power to correct the stifling prob- actually reached starving people,
lems of a nation like India, where and some of them ended up buying
illiteracy (the caste system is still the grain we sent free.
there to a large degree) and poverty No. We haven't interfered in In-
still abound; where the populace dia. We have not attempted to edu-
lives in terribly overcrowded condi- cate the people of India i nt o a
tions, living in discarded sewer different religion which would allow
pipes, junky, ramshackle; thrown- the balanced diet they so desper-
together, corrugated tin and card- ately need . '
board shanties with human ex- What kind of a world leader would
crement and urine visible in trickling it be' - one with the power to
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CHANGE A MAJOR , RELIGION - to
solve the problems of hundreds of
millions?
I said , " Loo k at th is under-
developed world and try to find
some sense of overview of the condi-
tions in the world. If you were the
pres ident of the world and you were
delivering a ' State of the World'
message, you would be forced to
report that about 90% of all human-
ity is poorly fed , ill-clothed, poorly
housed , many ' of them without
shoes or any of the practical physical
amenities - living at absolute pov -
erty level.
" You would have to' report that
illiteracy is actually higher now than
at any other time du ring the indus-
trial revolution - even into the
space age .
" Here we are, Ii vi ng in a world
reeling from one huge problem to
another, going in no certain direc-
tion, voraciously devouring dwin-
dling nonrenewable resources -
the natural means of survival be-
neath our feet in the soil of our nar-
row ecosphere.
" From time immemorial , from the
time of the abortive attempt to build
the Tower of Babel until today, man
has recognized the need for some
central, world-governing authority.
He has wanted world government!".
'Speak with such " hat i'ed': 'ab'oi.r Y
India and the Hindu religion?
No, I was speaking from a feeling
of deep compassion. I was trying to
help listeners grasp the monumental
truth that though world government
is the ONLY solution (I agree with the
leaders ' who have voiced such an
opinion). any such government i n
the hands of mere men would be
doomed to failure before it started.
. I used the problems of India as a
case in point . I went on to show that
ONLY a world-ruling government can
in fact save this world from certain
destruction, but that world govern-
ment will be the rule 'of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth - government of God ,
taking the authority out of the hands
of selfish, egotistical , vain human
beings.
The gospel of the kingdom of God
is a message about a coming world
government - but the government
of God , not man.
I am sorry my Indian listener mis-
understood. My own emotional
shock and feelings of helplessness
in viewing the i ncredible, inhuman,
unbelievable squalor in the streets of
a major Indian city were certainly
anything but hate, They were of
hurt, empathy, compassion, and a
deep and fervent desire for SOLU,
TIONS to such privation:
. My radio program the im-
possibility of any human govern-
ment truly bringi ng solutions to this
sick world, Jesus said we should
pray " t hy kingdom come. . . . " I
do . ' 0
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They cry out: "Peace/ Peace! " as they
prepare for war . But God says, "When
they shall say peace and safety, then
sudden destruction will come upon
them."
I have told my audiences here - four
of them so far - we are going to have
world peace. But humans and human
leaders will not bring it about. Our gen-
eration of the human race has-inhe rited
such colossal problems and evils that
we cannot extricate ourselves. I have
told my audiences here in India that I
have noted the great effort they are
. making to solve their problems . But the
population and the troubles mult iply
faster than the progress . and the
progress cannot even keep pace. We
cannot bring any permanent WORLD
PEACE by human effortsI
No, you' who read this are betting
your lives on the existence of the "great
God who soon will intervene and by his
power bring us peace.
Let me quote the corollary of the pas-
sage about preparing war:
.. But in the last days, it shall come to
pass, that the mountain [kingdom -
government] of the house of the Lord
shall be established in the top of the
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means the kingdom and qovemmentof
God shall be ruling over All NATIONS in a
supreme WORLD GOVERNMEN T.
Many scientists have said the only
hope of world peace is to form one su-
per world government with power over
all . But humans can never do that .
But continue this prophecy: " and it
shall be exalted above the hills [smaller
nations]; and people shall flow unto it .
And many nations shall come, and -sav.
Come, and let us go uptothe mountain
[kingdom] of the Lord, and to the house
of the God of Jacob; and he will teach
us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths [God's way of life] : for the law
shall go forth .of Zion. and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. And he
[Christ) shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations afar
off; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares. and their spears into pru-
ninghooks: nation shall not lift up a
sword against nation. neither shall they
learn war any more" (Micah 4: 13) .
A passage in Isaiah gives one quick
final gl impse into that peaceful, happy,
joyous world tomorrow: " The whole
earth is at rest. and is quiet: they break
forth into singing " (lsa . 14 :7).
Human nature shall have been
changed - and man cannot do that .
People will turn from the " get" and
self-centered way of life to the God-cen-
tered way. Then we shall . have per-
manent and lasting peace.
. As an ambassador for world peace. I
do not seek, in any manner . to person-
ally bring about peace, nor start any
activist movement with that objective. I
seek to proclaim the way to world
. peace, whereas, in this world, " the WAY
of peace they know not " (Isa .
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Greek . . . bond nor free . .. male nor fe-
mal e: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus"
(Galatians 3:28). And they quot e Pau l's in-
structions to the Romans to recei ve Phebe .
"a servant of the church . . . at Cenchreae,"
and note how he called Priscilla his helper in
Christ Jes us (Romans 16:1-3). They also
clai m the New Testament shows no dis-
approval of prophetesses, the most promi-
nent examples being Anna (Luke 2:36-38)
and the four daughters of Phili p the evange-
list (Acts 21:9).
The early church did provide for the ordi-
na tion of women to positions of service in
the diaconate (Rom. 16:1; I Timothy 3: II ;
5:9-10), but ther e is no record of them serv-
ing as evangelists or pastors .
With the apost le Paul the Issue seemed to
be one of authority. He saw the Ge nesis
pattern of man as head of the famil y (Gen.
3: 16) and extrapolated this pattern as an
orgaI]izat ional guide for church services. Al-
though he - allowed women to teach other
women (Titus 2:4) and serve as deaco nesses.
he reserved preaching in a formal church
situation for men alone as a symbol of the
God-ordained structure of things.
But in the light of the rest -of the New
Testament , even this prohi bition does n' t
seem to be a blanket restriction on women
teaching men. Priscilla and her husband
Aquila both expounded unto Apollos the
way of God more perfectly (Acts 18:26).
So there is scriptural support for the ord i-
nation of women for certain ecclesiastical
responsibili ties. The office of deaconess ex-
ists in recognition of their right to serve in
the church . But aside from specially called
prophetesses. the New Testament still defi-
nit ely seems to reserve the pulpi t as an all-
male preserve. 0
by Caro le' Ritter
, ; UPI
THREE OF THE eleven ,wqmen. w bo were ordained to the Episcopal priesthood
last July celebrate Eucharist in New York City's Riverside Church. ' .
FOOTHOLD IN THE MINISTRY
The recent ordi natio n of eleven women as
Episcopal pri ests in defiance of church rules
has turned the spotli ght on an escalat ing
trend . Femini sts of all denominations are
beginning to demand an equal chance to
serve in a . traditionally male-dominated
ministry.
In the past, well-kn own female chur ch
leader s like Mary Baker Eddy and- Aimee
Semple MacPhers on did their work outside
the mai nstream of organized Prot estanti sm.
Since the 1950' s. though. most maj or Protes-
tant chu rches have opened their ministry to
women. Still, less than 2% of the nat ion's
-380,000 cleri cs are women - and most of
these belong to the smaller Pent ecostal
churches.
But the number of organizations .with
women in the pulpit is rapidl y rising. The
worldwide Anglican communion and the
Luthe ran ch ur ch have both o r dai ne d
women, and in June 1972 the first woma n
was accepted into the Reformed Jewish rab-
binate.
. Although a comm ittee of 'U.S. Cat holic
bishops is studying whether the priesthood
should be opened to women, Pope Paul re-
mains a stau nc h ho ldou t. He still sees
women as "maki ng a specific contribu tion to
society by rearing childr en."
Most of those who oppose the idea of
" lady preachers" cite the apostle Paul' s ad-
monition to the Cori nthians: " Let your
women keep silence in the churches: for it is
not P.7rmitted unt o them to speak; but they
ar e commanded to be under obedience, as
also saith the law .. .. for it is a shame for
wom en t o s pea k' in the chur ch "
(I Corint hians 14:34-35).
But feminists counter with Paul's letter to
the Gala tians: "Th ere is neither Jew nor
Read the Beok
God warns us in many places that in the
time frame just before his return , conditions
in society would be a blat ant , unblushing
dupli cation of Sodom and Gomorrah just
befor e he - wiped them out-. Read Gen esis
18,19; Jeremiah 6: 13-16 and Luke 17:28-
30. Then pick up your local paper and read
throu gh the advertisement pages for the
movies, or go to the local drugstore and look
at the books and magazines for sale and ask
yourself whether or not God' s Bible is the
Word for toda y.
Try reading Daniel , chapters 7 and 8,
along with Revelation 13 and 17. Then pick
up your newspaper and see how a union of
European .nat ions is corriing along. Count
and see. God says there will be ten. How
many are there now? Hmmm. '. . Ve-e-t ry
interesting! .
But don' t get shook ! Today's news is bad
and getting worse. Yet as you read mor e of
the: Book you' ll see more of the good news
beyond our tempor ary traumas. There are
entire books that outline in detail God's
good news for tomorrow.
If any questions come to your mind which
you can't answer for yourself, just drop us a
line. We'd be glad to help . We read the
Book. Remember. you too can read about
contemporary and future world conditions
fi rst in the book. the Bible . That 's the Word
for today! 0
mestic and internati onal crises today will
shorten that short half-li fe. In the continue d
abse nce of better ways of headin g off these
multipl e crises, our half-life may no longer
be 10 to 20 years, but mor e like 5 to 10yea rs,
or less. We may have even less than a 50-50
chance of living until 1980 . . . . The time is
short . . . . The time is horr ibly short.' "
. Another concerned scientist-writer, Isaac
Asimov, foresees the end of civilization by
the year 2000 - unl ess we see harmony
among nat ions to the tune of a one-world
governme nt, the overhauling of the concepts
of family, sex and motherh ood and the turn-
ing of all industry to selfless service! (Do you
see any of those signs on the hor izon") His
prediction, written in 1971, epitomi zed the
problems of mankind : "We don't have to do
anythi ng about it, you know. It' s j ust that if
we don' f ther e won' t be any civilization in
another 30 years." (Can Man S urvive the
Year zooor;
The Word for Tomorrow: Good
But though things may look bleak for the
futur e, God says event s are not going to end
the way mankind is predictin g. God says he
knew mankind would develop the power to
blow himself off the face of the earth, but
Go d insists by his right as creator that he
will not allow things to go quit e that far . He
plans to stop the world and get on.
If you get busy and read his Book, you' ll
be able to anti cipate those world events.
And, more impo rtant, you' ll learn how
God in that s<?- me Word provided the prin-
ciples which will ena ble you to live through
those events and particip ate actively in the
good news beyond . When you pick up your
daily newspaper, your weekly news maga-
zine, when you watch TV news (or 'pro-
grams), you' ll be able to say, "I read it fi rst
f in the Bible: ' 't' .
Does that mean we should take today's
bad news and the horr ors yet to come with a
shrug of the shoulder? No! Does that mea n
we shouldn' t be ala rmed into action? No!
Does that mean- we should not begin to
make personal changes because God is go-
ing to do it all? Of course not. It simply
means that as you begin to see God's plan
for the futur e, you won' t have to face it with
all the frustr ati on of the ignorance of the
unknown that mank ind, alone , without Go d,
must face. It mean s you can have hope
beyond the black terr or man predicts for the
world's future.
Predicting Doomsday
Everybody is getting into the act pre-
dicting doomsday. No longer are. these
prophecies the sole domain of the street-
comer prophet with a bea rd, a long robe and
a nearly illegible sign predicting "the end is
near." Scientists. politicians. historians. fact
and fiction writers, statesmen and even busi-
nessmen see the handwri ting on the wall.
Some of their predictions seem more hair-
raising than the bibli cal Apocalypse - be-
cause they are specific, scientific, and exact -
whereas the Bible spea ks in general, planet-
wide terms.
In fact, for centuries the writ ings of the
apostle John in the book of Revelation were
viewed as imposs ible to interpret. In the in-
troduction to his 1934 translat ion of the
Bible, James Moffat t dismissed -any possi-
bilit y of actual application of those proph - __
ecies to his world. He succinctly summarized
the view of most theologians of his day in
the following way: In form this extraor di-
nary book resembles Jewish writings of the
same class, which profess to unveil the fu-
ture and uppe,r world. It is a series of

terms of Oriental fant asy, and depicting a:
struggle which ends in the return of Jesus in
messianic power and the decisive overthrow
of the anti-divi ne power on ea rth. followed
by a new universe of bliss ' and peace: '
(From the Introd uction to A New Trans-
lation of the Bible by James Moffatt , 1934.)
Perhaps Revelation seemed that way in
1934. But in 1975 the "weir d . . . visions" of
one third of mankind dying in a catastrophic
war no longer seem ju st "symboli c" in light
of nuclear weapons . The death of life in the
sea no longer seems to be an " Oriental fan-
tasy" in light of the staggering poll ution en-
gendered by man. An army of 200 million
men marching agai nst the faithf ul no longer
seems out of line with the overwbelming
population of such nation s as China and
India. The scope and grandeur of the book
of Revelation come into focus because we
can see around Us today wha t John saw in
vision so many years ago!
"The Crisis at the End"
The above subhead is not mine. I bor-
rowed it from the pages of my favorite book :
."And now, 0 Daniel, keep all this a close
secret and keep the book shut as a secret, till
the crisis at the end" (Daniel 12:4, Moffatt
translation). Dani el goes on .to say, "I heard
this, but J did not understand it. So I asked.
' 0 my lord, what is to be the last . phase -
before the end?' But he said, <Ask no mor e.
Danie l. for the revelation is to be kept secret
and close, TILL THE CRISIS AT THE CLOSE'"
(DanieI 12:8-9, Moffatt).
"End-time crises: ' however, are no longer
solely the verba l domai n of the evangelist.
Dr. John Platt , research biophysicist and as-
sociate di rector of the Ment al Health Re-
sea rc h Jnsti t ute at t he Univers i ty , of
Michigan, Ann A rbor . used those same
words in an article for Science magazine in
its November 28. 1969 edition.
.. <A few years ago. Leo Szilard estimated
the ' half-life' of the human race with respect
( 0 nuclea r escalation as being betwee n 10
and 20 years: wrote John Platt . who goes on
( 0 warn. <I think this multipl icat ion of do- .
WEEK ENDING APRIL 5. 1975
by David Jon Hill
Where can you find words to describe
today' s world? Problem s bubble , seet he and
then explode i n every corner, in'every direc-
tion. Where are the phrases which capture
the feeling of the massive megaproble ms
pushing us to the brink?
What'sthe Word
For Today?


_ Ions
The Will tolive
vs.
the Wish toDie
by Dr. Lyn Barrow
Editor's Note: Dr. Barrow is one ofAustra-
lia'sf oremost experts on child psychology.
Australia has the highest suicide rat e in
the British Common wealth nations, ex-
ceeding that of either the Uni ted Kingdom
or the Unit ed Stat es. And the incidence of
both suicide and atte mpted suicide is in-
creasing.
Suicide is now one of the leading causes of
death in Australi a. Every five hours someone
kills himself, and every thir d day an Austra-
lian youth commits suicide. During the next
year . one Australian in 500 will make a sui -
cide try.
Who are these people who take their owrl.
lives? .
Some persons are more pron e than others.
For example, old men form the largest
group . More females than males attempt
suicide, but more males are successful. The
lar gest group of "s uccessful" female suicides
are the 45-55 age group. .
It always seems tragic when an old person
feels that life is no longer worth living, but
the realizati on that more and more of
today's young peopl e have lost their will to
live is even more disturbing.
In the 15-to-19 age group, suicide ac-
counts for more deaths than any other single
cause, except accidents . In the 25-to-34 age
group , as man y. as 14 percent of all deaths
are self-inflicted.

Fe w' people who attempt swe ae wou:zcn;e
ju dged "insane ," from the psychiatric stand-
point, though, of course , many are in need of
psychiatri c car e. .
Instead of. insanity. it is common loneli-
ness, feelings of isolation, and spiri tual pov-
erty that cause the common suicide. The
"vulnerable" person usuall y feels that the
demands on him exceed his inner resources
to meet those demands. .
People are also vulnerable.when they are
lonely. when their lives are devoid of at least
one meaningful relationship with another
person. This social isolation can be very de-
structive , especially when alcohol is used to
"escape" this loneliness.
Suicide Preven tion
.. . is everyone's business. It should start
in the home. Most childr en who attempt
suicide come from disordered homes in
which aggression, quarreling, and rejection
are the orde r of the day. If they don' t at -
tempt a suicide in their youth, such childr en
grow up into a "vulnerable':' adult.
On the other han d, a child raised in a
loving home. in a climate of "psychological
safety," tends to become a secure adul t He
is better equip ped to withstan d defeat, fail -
ure, or the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune.
Although therapy is -the province of the
psychiatrist , an awar_eness of important
symptoms of suicidal drives should be basic
knowledge for everyone-,Wat ch out for signs
of unwarranted fatigue , excess sleep, lack of
dri ve and interest, sadness. a burd en of guilt,
and a general sense o.f hopel essness.
Talking "about suicide - along with the
token suicide attempts, which are obviousl y
intended to fail - should-always be taken
seriously. Medi cal advice shoul d be sought.
For the spiri tually bereft person, with
nothing to be lieve i n, hel p is more difficult
to offer. As long ago as 1899, William James
. said, "The,soverei gn cure .for worry is deep
religious faith ." My experi ence over many
decades has shown clearl y the truth of these
simple words . 0
. WEEK ENDING APRIL 5, 1975
Some months ago, I reques ted a copy, if
still available, of your publication detailin g
seven prerequisites for success. I had come
across an advert isement of a few yean ago
in a magazine, and had no inkling from
this that yours was a religion -oriented or-
ganization .. .
In the interest of conservation of natural
resources and of human effort, I write this
letter to ask you to delete my name from
the list to whom your literature and Plain
Truth magazine are sent.
I am 74 years of age, a graduate of a
prest igious university, a registered profes-
sional .civil engineer for forty-five years,
and long ago discovered how [ must live
without concernin g myself futilely with
matters of religion. _. . . _ ' .
Plain Truth does 'an excellent j ob in de-
scribing the situati on the world is in today,
and the seemingly likely consequences of
people pursuing their present -courses . ]
could not more fully agree with your con-
clusions .
However, Plain Truth also, in article af-
ter article, fail s to go any farther than that
- except to assure the reader that only
Herbert W. Armstrong of all the peopl e
who have inhabi ted this world in historical
times is undece ived as to, how they should
act; and the essence of his truth appears to
be to believe what the . Bible says " liter-
ally." In your art icle iii the February 8
issue of Plain Truth you write, "Why
should it (the Bible] not be taken liter ally,
j ust like every other book?" _Does any in-
telligent person take as the truth what is
written in every other book? I _certainly do
not.
You may be doiDg a part of mankind a
great service; [ tend to think. tha t you are
intending to do j ust that. I am not among
those you could help in any way, hence
hones ty prompts me to so inform you._
Arthur J. Trapp,
Bradenton , FL
types of criminals"and we are affected by
"white-collar cri me ," etc. but we can sur-
vive those, at least .physically. We cannot,
however, survive the physical crimes being
committed on our streets, and in our
homes,etc.
People thr oughout the coun try ar e living
in fear of robb eries, rapes, and senseless
murders.
One report [ saw recently said that over
20,000 people are murdered each year and
it's increasing.
You cannot realistically expect to spiri-
tuall y save the entir e country - so how do
we deal with the crime now and how do we
proted our citizens? .
I think.that magazines such as yours, and
other medi a owe the peopl e help and an-
swers to this crucial problem. Wben"people
live in fear for their lives - everythi ng is
affected - volunteer work, church at-
tendance, visit ations , tr ust in pe ople,
etc.
Wha t is your position on "capit al pun-
ishment," the court 's leniency, the loop-
holes in the courts, the crime in the streets
and in our homes, the "Youth Corr ections
Act"? -
If you want to serve the peopl e and help
them, you will deal with these problems
not avoid them. [ am from Oklahoma and
[ know that rome is all over the country, in
the rural areas, as well as the cities. [ hope
you will have articles on this and be an
influence in helpin g to solve this prob lem. .
verne Ann Bird,
Washington, D.C.
Please read the center spread of this issue .
f or a special featu re on crime. A Iso write f or
our newly updated booklet, "Crime Can Be
..
[ enj oy your magazine . Your arti cle on
"Smut Stays in Cl assrooms, School Board
Rules" wasvery good.
However, " Will the Real Cri mina l
Please Stand Up?" did not deal with the
real problem that people are experiencing
in our country today. It is true there are all
Alicia Browning,
Buena Park, CA
E.M.Gant,
Nashville, TN
Wilma R. Neal,
Kans as City, MO
] thought you might be interested in -the
following : Last Tuesday when baby-sitting
for a neighbor's child, the little girl had on
Sesame Street. In a portion of the show,
showed a film clip of a postman riding
horseback and delivering mail in the back-
woods of Kentucky. To one family he
handed a copy of Plain Troth along with
the rest of -thi::ir mail. Seeing Plain Truth
on a children's show was the last place [
ever expected it to be, although the maga-
zine does show up in strange places as we
well know.
Here is my onion for Plain Truth:
"Plain truth is the unknowing teaching
t he unwilling to do the unnecessary.'
Da vid Lane,
Oklahoma City, OK
The new Orchids and Oni ons section
features 98% compli menta r y letters,
most of which are from the Bible
Belt .. . it figurea!
You ba ve moved God from a beautiful
ca th edr al to a sawdust trail. This issue
of Plain Truth is awful; God won't like
it . This is th e beginning of t he end for
yo u.
Carol Baker,
Barberton,OH
Regardin g Albania (" T be World' s
Firs t Atheistic State," February 8), as an
old man who has experi enced a great
deal of travail in this land of religious
freedom (wh08l! coinag@ ill stAmpOO "In
God We Trust"), I am more interested in
t he way Albania treats its profiteers,
misery-mongers and exploiters of th e
elderly.
This is a definite orchid for your bou -
quet! You people have done it again. I
thought the old format (articles, layout,
etc .) was as high class and beyond im-
provement as coul d be imagined. 1 can't
te ll you how thrilling it was for me to get
my hand on the first issue don e the new
way .
I had my doubts and was a lit tle disap-
poin t ed to learn that the magazine
would be changed, especially when I
learned it would be changed to a (her-
rors!) newspaper tabloid t ype magazine.
I mean, how elegan t can a newspaper
be?! '
It's fabulous! You've out done your-
sel ves! ...1 love it, love it , love it . Keep it
comin g! Keep it high class , keep chang-
ing it . It always gets better. And free,
yeti It's almost too much! Three cheera
for the whole staff!
Excuse me whil e I finish reading th e
first new issue. Imagine how excited 111
be when I' m done! That article "How
Liberated Can You Get ?" is just too
much! I think I'll frame it . Great , great, .
great! Well done !
letters
Let us not lose sight of the fact that in
this God-fearing country we have the
largest military appropriation in the
Neither an or chid .or an onion - 00- world, while elderly poor go hungry. are
ca use it ' a hard to say which is the acco- mugged. killed and exploited by profi-
lade. Scientis ts are coming close to final teers in nursing home rackets headed by
reports on the onion and how it curtails men high in religious circles.
fat in the blood. Orchids die gui ckl y a nd Just as Sinbad rid himself of th e old
are not for ea tin g. man of the sea who fastened himself
Aside from t he frivoli ties , I would like onto his shoulders 80 has Albania freed
to commend you and your editorial staff itself of organ ized and corrupt .religion
for the contin uing coverage of food and that exploited the people much too long.
population. . The real Jesus Christ who was con-
There seems t o be an element in the cern ed with the human condition 2000
food picture that is frequently over- years ago would have no trouble living in
looked . .. May I urge that your invest- Enver Hoxha's Albania. (Blessed are
igative reporters seek an swers to the those who live, practice and teach their
probl em of food destruction by ro- children simple sincere goodness.)
dents. . . . Saul Goodman,
The Wor ld Health. Organization in Bro nx, NY
Rome noted in 1968 that in the previous
year 33.5 million tons of stored grains Please cancel my subscri ption to Plain
had been destroyed by rodents . . . . Truth. I can no longer tolerate the fact that
Last year a New York Times reporter you feel only" your followers are the true .
writing from Pakistan to ld of rats stor-
ing an average of ,12 pounds of rice un -
derground per rat . . . . In the Philippines State ," .you give-the idea that the peopl e
a .25% national lOBS of rice, com , fruits, of Albania are just as well off under
vegetables, cacao , copra, sugar, et c. is av- as they are orthodoxy. I say,
erage annual destnlction and thiBoccurs
of
thousands of rats is far greater than an y-
one wants to admi t .
George Peabody, J r.,
New York, NY
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One Man's Poison
IsAnother
Man's:Faith
by Paul Graunke
"And these signs shall follow. them thaI
beli eve; in my name shall they out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues; they shall
take up serpents; Q!1d if lhey drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurl them; they shall lay
hands on the sick. and they shall recover"-
(Mark 16:17- 18).
On the basis of these words. members of a
sma ll -Holin ess sect scattered throughout the
so utheastern part . of t he United St at es
babble in unkriown tongues and routinel y
handle snakes in wo rship services. To most
Christians. this dange rous rite is sheer folly.
but to Holiness people it is the ultimate test
of faith. In addition, many test,their faith by
drinking water poisoned with strychnine.
Even blowtorches are used to demonstrate
faith. The flame is applied to the face and
arms of those who "have been anointed by
the Holy Ghost." Hcliness . worshi ppers
claim to find scriptural support for blow-
torches , in Hebrews 11.: 33-34. which, speaks
of faith that "quenched the of fire: '
The Ecstasy and the Agony
Snake handling and drinking poison are
highlights of religious services that last up to
4 and 5 hours. There is plenty of singing,
emotional testi mo nials and fiery preaching.
the tempo and fervor rise, members may
dance in the aisles orroll and writhe on the
floor as they chatter in unknown tongues -
..manifestations of the "power. of
-'.the Holy Ghost " ." ' ..
At the height of this rel igious ecs tasy, the
snakes are released from wooden boxes.
UsuaUy they arc rattlesnakes or coppe rheads
- alt hou gh co bras have been procured for
an to uch. On!y membersl who .have
the faith - who belie ve they are anoi nted
with the spirit - areallowed to handl e the
Vipers. Spec tators and children. who some-
times outnumber believers at these spec-
tacl es. stand to the back or one side to avoi d
harm. In addition to the snakes. there IS
usuall y a jar present for those who wis h to
drink to their faith with strychnine.
If bitten by snakes or struck with the ago-
nizing convuls ions Of strychnine poisoning,
WEE K ENDI NG APRIL 5. 1975
most mem bers refuse treatme nt, choosing
rather to have the faithful pray for their
recovery. If death foll ows, fellow member s
are distressed, but thei r faith is not shake n.
The y have a ready explanation : either the
deceased had insufficient faith or it was sim-
ply God's will.
Ove r 40 deat hs have been recorded from
snakebites in these services. and at least hal f
, ' a dozen from strychni ne: Dozens more are
bitten each year; some come perilously close
to death while o thers suffer few symptoms or
none at all. (Snake handlin g is now illegal in
several states and cities , but curious ly. there .
are no laws against drinking strychni ne) .
Faith or Folly?
Many Bibl e scho lars cite the snake-
handling practice as a classic and .traglc ex-
'ample of misappl ying 'Bible scripture. The y
beli eve .snake handle rs overlook 'a funda-
mental rule of interpretation: No 'passage
should be read in isolation from the total
conte xt of the Bible .
Thus, Christ's words in Mark 16:17-18
should be und erstood in light cf't he exampl e
he set when asked to test his divinity and
faith. In Matthew 4:5-7 Satan told Christ to
prove himself by jumping 6ff the pinnacle of
the Temple - quoting scriptural proof for
this act: ','If thou be the Son of God, cast
. thyself down: for "it is written, Heshallgive
his angels charge concerning -thee : in,
their hands they shall bear thee up. lest at
any time : thou dash thy foot' against a
stone ." I
Satan here referred to Psal m 91: 11-12.
Verse 13 goes on to say: "You will tread on
' the lion and the adder, the young lion and
the serpent yo u will trample -under foot'.'
(RSY ). .
..... rejected this "argument, He.
knew he didn't have to deliberately put his
lif e in jeopardy to prove a spiritual point He
corrected Satan' s "with
another scnptu re...It IS wn tten agam, Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord ' thy Go d" (citing
Deuteronomy 6: 16). Or as one commentator
on the Bible put it: "Don't put theLord God
to a foo lish test."
When a person deliberately 'picKs: up a
deadl y serpent, or drinks a strychnine cock-
tail. is he not putting God to a "foo lish test"?
In the case of the 4O-0dd people who have
died because of such practices, it wo uld
seem that God is no more in' favor of such
demonstrations of faith toda y than he was in
the time of Christ 0
..

by Stanle v R, Rad er .
DominoTheoryRevisited
ABOARD TH E G-Il EN ROUTE FROM TOKYO TO LOS ANG.ELES :
We a re a pproaching Cold Bay, Alaska - returning to the Uni ted States after
eight weeks abroad and two visits to Bangkok, Thailand. 'I have been discussing
the worsening .conditions in Southeast Asia with one of our very dear friend s
from Tha iland - a man educ ated in the United Slates , a prominent leader in the
Bangkok and Hong Kong commercial circles and a recent candidate for political
office inThailand 's first truly democratic election. J have often discussed condi -
tions in Thailand and Southeast Asia with him. and he and his family have been
instrumental in bringing Mr . Armstron g into frequent cont act with -the last two
prime ministers and other members of the Thai government
, It was natural for us to discuss what would hap periin Southeast Asia s hould
Cambodia' s military government of Presiden t Lon ' Nol collapse and what the
effect of such a collapse wou ld be in neighboring Thailand in par ticular .
It was President Eisenhower in' 1954 who first announced the now highl y
di scredited dom ino theory: Should one coun try in Southeast Asia be "los t" to the
Communists. other nat ions in the immediate area would topple like dominos.
Man y of us had hoped that the domino theory was a thing of the past, and yet
today-we once aga in hear that , should Cambodia fall to the indigenous guerrilla
forces df the Khmer Rouge, U.S. credibi lity with its ot her allies worldwide would
suffer. and that 'other nations in the immediate area would one by one slip into
the communist orbit.' .
My Thai friend, however, informs me Ihat the military regime of President
- Lon Nol not and never has been popular, whereas Prince Norodorn Sihanouk ,
who suecessfully led the fight (or Cambodian inde pendence, was and continues .
to be a hero of the Cambodian people. My friend states very strongly that it was
the Uni ted Sta tes government which decided to je ttison Pr ince Siha nouk and to
support the mili tary takeover, because the prince was too friendly.to China..and ,
tOO critical of United States policy in Vietnam. ' . '
Why, asks my friend, does the Un ited States insis t that other na tions and
other people s not have friendly relations with their nei ghbors if their neighbors
happen to have internal government structures and policies that are different
from or in some way opposed to the American defin ition of American interests'!,
Will the United States never learn that it cannot wage .a nd win a pol itical war' in
a fore ign country ? Does America not realize that its prese nce in Cambodi a and
Th ailand has caused more rather than .less difficulties for the entire area? Does
anyone in the United States really beli eve, he asks. .that should the unpopular
Lon Nol government fall, the governments of South Korea, Vietnam, M alaysia,
Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand would be seriously threat-
ened? ""',
My Thai friend poses some valid questions. Shoul d Americans, in fact , not
examine the domino theory a l itt le more fully? Should we not exami ne American
intervention a little more seriously? Should we not ask ourselves 'how we recon-
cile our support of repress ive elitist governments from time to time ar ound the
world when our own country was founded on completely different principles and
has be'en the source of inspiration to so many millions of people for alm ost 200
years? ' , . ' .
What nations besides China have we "lost" to communism in Southeast
Asia, for exa mple , since 1945? Wha t exaclly did we lose when we "lost " China in
. 1949? Wha t will we reall y lose if the government of Lon No l should fall? Wha t
would we gain if it does not fall?
As Me. Armstrong travel s thr ough out the world brin ging his message of
peace and hope to mankind everywhere, a message whi ch, if belie ved and
followed , would creat e better understanding a mong people and nations every-
where, we' see onlY'.too well that the domino theory, as well as many other
the ories thai have controlled the minds of men 'in the enti re postwar period, have
produced much suspici on, much fear. much conflict and confrontation - and
certainly no peace between neighbors anywhere.
It seems that the time has come when -we must really begin to face the world
as it. is. It is also time that the American .people be given the real inside story
behind the rise and fall of governments. "
'; ' . All of us are becoming too well aware of the tendency of our government to
back 'the wrong governmen t in other .places a-round .the world. and, once our'
government has done so and placed American prestige and credibility on the ,
line, itis then forced..to do whatever it 'can, including military interventi on if
nece ssary , toavoid the loss of presti ge and credibility that would foll ow if the
govern ment it has backed (in fact , sometimes inst alled ) should faiL
It is clear to this observerthat we must also begin to pay more heed to the
advice and counse l of other peopl e (such as our Thai friend) _ . peo ple who know
their own countrie s, their own cul tures and the .min.ds of the ir people and a re
aecutely aware of what -the relat ionships of their people and those of their
neighbors should be. .
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