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a m ag azi n e o f un de rsta nding

ED ITORHERBERT W. ARMSTRONG

MANAGING EDITORArthur A, Ferdig

~PLAIN TRUTHNO . 6

EXECUTIVE EDITORGarner Ted ArmstrongSENlOR EDITORSHerman 1. HoehRoderick C Meredith

Associate Editors\1Villiam Dankenbring Gene H. HogbergVern L. Farrow Paul W. Kro llDavid Jon Hill Eugene 11. Wa lterRegional Editors: U. K . : Raymond F. McNair;AmI.: C. \Y'ayne Col e; S. Africa: Robert E,Fahey; Germany: Frank Schnee ; Phi lippines:Arthur D ock en; Sw itzerland: Colin \'Vilkins;Latin America: Enrique Ruiz.Contributing Edi tors: Gary 1.. Alexander, Diba rK. Apa rt ian . Robe rt C. Bor ak er, Cha rles V.Dorot hy. J ack R . Elliott, Gunar Preibergs. Rob ert E, Gen tet, Ernest 1.. M ar tin. Ger hard O .Marx . 1.. Leroy Neff, Richard F. Plache, Rich ard H . Scdl iacik , Lynn E. Torrance, Basil\V o lve rton, Cl int C. Zimmerman.

June 1971VOL. XXXVI

J ames W . Robinson, Copy EditorJohn Susco, A rt Editor

Research Siafl: H . Faulkner , D onald D ,Schroeder. Coor dinators; Karl Karlov , PaulO .Kn edcl, Clifford Marcussen, David Pri ce, Rod ney A . Repp , \Y', R . W hikehart.Photography: Norm an A. Smith , Director ;Jo seph Clayton, A ssistant Director; Lyl e Chr is topherson , Howard A. Cl ark, Frank Clarke,Dav id Conn. Sam Duncan , Jer ry J . Gentry, IanHenderson , J ohn G. Ki lbu rn , John Portune,Eug ene Smyda , D ave Verdi, W arren Watson .A rt Dep artm ent: Th omas Haw orth , Ron Lepeska , Roy Lepeska , W illi am S. Schuler, HerbertA . V ierr a, j r., Monte Wolv erton , Robb Woods,

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P er so na l from the Editor

"Wha t Eve r Happened to Father""I just fin ished an issue in you r Mar ch

edition. 'What Ever Happened to Father?'was in it. I just star ted to subs cribe to thismagazine and this is my third edition buti t was the best ar ticle I've ever read. Itmade me thi nk as I wa s reading it . Itmade me want to run r ight downstairs(I'm in my room) and st art talking wi thmy pa rents. But the feeling's kind of gon e.I went downstairs to get a pen to write[Continued 011 im ide back cover)

Stephen L.,Palmdale, California

O. A. B.,Santa Cruz, California

Miss R. J . B.,Sur rey, England

Mrs. Fred C ,Cincinnati, Ohio

" Permissiveness""I recently finished reading the articleon 'permissiveness .' It was very enl ighten

ing. We are tr ying to rai se ou r family in anon-perm issive, but l ov ing and Christian,home. Ye t there are times when we lookaround us, when there is the attitude ofpermissiveness in every corner of socie ty,and wonder if we are living in the wrongtimes."

"There's not much difference be tweenthe word ' fr eedom' and the word 'permissive.' I've been an active Americancitizen by birth for the last 50 years andI've lived and worked all ove r these statesand I say if anything we're nowhere nearpermissive enough to be called 'free men .'The criminal types operate with as muchvigor in the most oppress ive socie ties asin the most permissive."

"This is with reference to you r 'Personal,' March 1971 and, especially to paragraph 3, column 3, page 48 - 'And theaccompanying higher wage scale - becamethe highest s tandard of living in theworld.' True!"Then you mention the feather beddingfireman. I have wondered many timeswha t wou ld happen if the lone engineerdropped dead. Why a co-pilot on aircraft?"After the gen eral strike in San Francisco in the middle thirties, my pastorintoned, 'Be content with you r lot.' At thetime I was building busses, pie ce work. Iworked hard to make 70 cents per hour.I worked harder to make 75 cents perhour . When contracts were renewed, Icontinued at the acceler ated speed to aga inmake 70 cents per h ou r. By this conti nuing system, I was forced to join theunion."

has changed or the magazine. Either way,I am now very grateful to whoever paysfor my subscription for giving me theopportunity to benefit from your mostvaluable magazine."

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Personalfrom

Visit With Prime Minister Golda Meir

I s IT SIGNIFICANT of this time, thatgrowing girls and young women arereflecting increasing qualities of leadership, whileyoung men are evidencing less and less?

Every college president, I am sure, has becomepainfully aware of this modern trend. The young peopleborn since W orId War II are, indeed, a new breed.

Today three nations, one of them modern Judah, are ruledby woman Prime Ministers. They are: Mrs. Golda Meir, PrimeMinister of Israel; Mrs. Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister ofIndia's 550 teeming millions - second largest population inthe world - and Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, PrimeMinister ofCeylon.

In t he pas t few months I have had personal meetings withtwo of these ruling women - Mrs. Meir and Mrs. Gandhi. Eachtold me of the overwhelming problems that beset her. I t seemedto me that these problems are too stupendous to have to comecrashing down on the shoulders of a woman.Never before has the whole world been embroiled in suchweighty, apparently unsolvable problems. I t is indeed a frightening world in which we live today. The fact that these are women .of exceptional abilities does no t lessen the burden.I have said before, and I say again, Jerusalem is destinedto be the focal point - the nerve center - of world news from

here on out. And on the human level, the destiny of the Israelipeople is presently in the hands of a woman.What are the crushing problems that confront her?

What kind of woman is Mrs. Meir?Talking With Mrs. Meir

I am able to answer both questions much more intelligentlysince spending forty-five minutes with the Prime Minister inher executive officelast February 7th. She told me her problems,and how she views them. And after this personal contact, seeingand hearing her at close range, I understand much better thanbefore what kind of woman she is.Of course I was previously aware generally of Israel's

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In This Issue:What Our Rea ders

Say Inside Front CoverPersonal fr om th e EditorOur Shocking Character

Drain 2"Let My People Go" 6What's Wrong With th e

World's Economy? 9Advance News 5Surprising Origin of ModernEd ucation 17

Mari;uana on Trial -Ne w Evidence 22

Mercury Pollution - Threa tto Global Environment? 24

Wh y Churches are LosingInfluence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

What YOU Can Do 35How Rome Destroyed North

Africa 37TV Log 44Radio Log 45

Brack - Black StarABOUT OUR COVER

Go lda Meir was born in the Ukra inebu t spent her youth in the UnitedStates, graduating from the Teacher'sTra ining College, Milwauk ee, Wis-consi n. She emi grated to Israel in1921. Mrs . Mei r was among thesigners of Israel's De cl ar ati on ofInde pe ndence. In September 1948,she became Isr ael's fir st Ambassadorto the Soviet Union. From 1956 to1966 she held the post of ForeignMinister. Mrs. Meir became Israel'sth ird Prime Minister, in 1969, atthe dea th of Levi Eshkol.


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Our ShockingCHARACTERThe signs of disintegration are everywhere. Something

dreadfully WRONG is happening to our peoples. We'rera p idly losing character - losing our ability to blush, oursense of shame. Perhaps most sickening of all, we're

learning not to care.by Garner Ted Armstrong

O UR SOCIETY is sick. We are no longer a "great"socie ty, no longer even a "good" society. Oursocie ty is becoming evil.We have los t our way.We don't know what we stand for , where we'regoing, who or what we are.We have no goal.All you see a round you today - the problemsthat concern people most - are but symptoms of adread national sickness. The price-rigging executive,th e turned-off, long-ha ired youth, the screaminghard-hat , t he violen t demonstrators, the sick kil ler- these are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise.We'r e just no t "good" any more. We're losingour sense of what is "good." We're f loundering in amad sea of ha te, where bickering, backbiting, namecalling, faul t-finding, blame-placing and biasedlabelism rep laces kindness, patience, understanding,an d love.

Why? What's happening to us?A president is burned in effigy, and a war criminal is a hero.The kids who scornfully ridicule the "establishment" for it s "hangups" scream for the legal

ization of "pot," an d t he right to their own terriblehangup . Lampooning the establishment for it s habits,they deman d legal permission to plunge into theirown ever more degenerat ive habits. We seek toreplace evil with evil, add poison to poison, pile abuseupon abuse, hop ing all this constitutes acure for ourills.

Criminals are admired, and public protests cryout for t heir absolution and release. Sensationalt rials elici t sobs of sympathy for the accused, andcalloused indifference toward the victims or the lovedones of the victims.

We have lost our sense of values. We're no t sure,now, what IS "truth" or "right." And in this lies amore deadly peril for America t han any othe r problem of our age.Still, in spite of the desperate need to recapturelost values and to rekindle the spiritual and moralprinciples we have trodden underfoot - perhaps the

deepest sickness of all is our inability to care.Millions do care; but too many millions - fartoo many - do not.People's IMIS"concern

Ask most Americans what issue concerns themthe most. With almost bovine-like placidity, they'llanswer "Vietnam." Why? They know the war is"bad." Somehow all the demonstrations have finallyhit home. Millions of Americans, more "hawkish"toward American involvement in Vietnam only a fewyears ago, are being gradually brought around to th eanti-war view which they scorned only monthsbefore. Surely, Americans are dying in Vietnam,albeit no t anywhere nearly approaching the rate ofthose dying yearly on our streets and highways, orfrom heart disease, cancer, or any number of otherdiseases, but dying, nevertheless.So they want the boys home. Now. But it'sapparently perfectly all right to maintain any number of troops in South Korea, in Europe, or otherareas of the world where U. S. troops go daily aboutthe business of helping th e United States police theentire globe.

The concern over Vietnam is highly illustrativeof our lack of VALUES, and our wrong sense of PRIORITY! Of course Vietnam is a useless, no-win war, withan enemy granted sanctuary, where "victory" is notnow, and never has been, the policy. This magazine


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has continually documented the hugely burdensomecosts, no t only in human life and property, bu t in theAmerican economy, of th e Vietnam war.And we have also continually said Vietnam willsoon be paled into insignificance in the face of thereally HUGE problems of the near future!Recent Gallup Polls i llust ra ted once again ourlack of perception - our wrong priorities. Webecome disturbed over terrible consequences. We are

earnestly desirous of removing certain effects , whilewe are totally unconcerned with the CAUSES that produce those consequences - those effects.Look at the list of on-the-street concerns of

most Americans.A recent Gallup Poll showed the first concern tobe Vietnam. Then followed the economy, other international problems, drug addiction, crime and ecology.Then came education, and finally, at the bottomof the list (only 2 percent placed this as the most

important problem facing the U. S.) came the moralscrisis, and our spiritual poverty!

Where wen t our sense of values?Are we so stupefied by sensationalized stories ofthe Vietnam war, so dul l-wit ted by the more thanfive hours per day spent in watching television, sobrainwashed by th e continual hue and cry of the protesters, so mindlessly driven by our own fleshlyappetites and desires that we can no longer see theplain CAUSE of our problems?

For every effect there is a CAUSE. Things don'tjust"happen." Things are caused to happen.

The Gallup Poll proves most of us tend to lookto the effect of evil causes, and a ttempt to removethe effect. We seldom delve deeper, discovering theCAUSE of the evil effect, and st rive to remove thecause.While we struggle mightily over the effec t s -rioting, demonstrating, worrying, legislating, voting,protesting, or even praying - we leave undiscovered,and undisturbed, the basic, underlying CAUSE of theeffects we seek to remove!

I t is our lack of right education (placed secondfrom th e bottom as a concern of most Americans) ,our lack of understanding the the TRUE VALUES of lifeTop - U.P.1. Photo,

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4- what we are, where we're going,what is our PURPOSE in life - that isa major CAUSE of many of our evilsall around us.It is primarily our utter lack of con

tact with God, our CHARACTER drain,that lies at the root of ALL our otherproblems.

America's Character DrainOur people are growing sicker . Most

of us have failed in our personal duty.Parents have failed in their responsibility toward their children; parentshave failed toward each other; ourhomes and families are in a ra-pid process of disintegration; and we don't seemto care.We most desperately need to recap

ture sound, true values - and it MUSTBEGIN IN THE HOME!Character is the result of motive.Motive is produced by having a

GOAL.But America has no goal . There is no

great cause toward which we unitedlypress. There is no transcendental commission sacred to us all - no great,supranational calling, or mission, whichinspires us and drives us on towardachievement. Even the grea t causes ofthe past - "Manifest Destiny," "WhiteMan's Burden" - are suspect in ourmodern frenzy of destruction of all historical values.Because we have no GOAL toward

which we all press - we lack unifyingMOTIVE.Lacking motive, a driving, energizing

desire to fulfill a purpose, we have noreason for building CHARACTER!Character is the ability to determine

r igh t from wrong, and then to force theself to choose the right . Character, then,demands SACRIFICE of the WRONG.But most of us aren't even sure whatis "right" and what is "wrong" anymore. Oh, we may have a fairly goodidea, all right, but it's more "chic" and"modern" to give in to the siren songof ultra-liberalism, God-rejecting atheism and modernism, and the pedantic,scholarly disclaimers of creation, theirideas couched in vaguely titillating,scientific and intellectual phraseologywhich appears to smack of "education."

The PLAIN TRUTHIt has become "fashionable" now toproclaim one's ignorance.So, lacking a deep and profound

belief in our God, and His Commandments, we flounder in a nightmare ofdisagreement and backbiting, lookingworriedly at the hugely dangerous problems in a world armed to its nuclearteeth, nit-picking, griping, complaining,name-calling and protesting - butnever seeming to really accomplishanything.Today, Americans disagree about

America.Millions don't know what America is

- and millions cannot agree on whatshe should be.During the 60's, Britain worried over

its "brain drain ." Drastic economic sickness in the British Isles led thousandsof promising young professionals doctors, dentists, scientists, engineers to seek out other, more rewarding placesto practice their skills.Britain worried, natural ly, over this

flow of trained skilled professi onals,seeing in this "brain drain" a threat tofuture British security.But for the past several decades, andespecially during the 60's both Britainand America have been experiencing aserious CHARACTER' drain! Yet, nei therseems really disturbed by it. It is placedLAST on a list of public concern .

We're losing our capacity for outrage.We're the new "unshockables." Noth

ing seems to inspire in us that kind ofrighteous anger against evil, that indigo.nation against sin, which once seemeda part of our societies.Today, we tolerate drugs, venereal

disease, divorce, premarital and extramarital sex, and illegitimacy. Adulteryis not only "tolerated" but openlyADVOCATED, even by members of theclergy.

Our homes disintegrate, and ourschools have become chaotic assemblages of confused children, subjectedto overcrowded and archaic facilities, anavalanche of purely physiological andfleshly "knowledge" about sex, andready availability of drugs - evendown into the elementary grades.Only recently, one school board in a

major city in Canada banned Ambassa-

dor College booklets against crime,drugs, and hippieism from its schools,falsely labeling the booklets "essentiallya right-wing diatribe" and "John BirchSociety material" which, in every detail ,is a grossly hideous distortion and without the slightest basis in fact.Prayers are not allowed in school.

Books against crime and against drugsare not welcome.

Our motion pictures and variousforms of entertainment grow moregrotesquely violent - and we wonderwhat causes brutalities among ouryouth, and bizarre bloody "thrill kills"reminiscent of the most horrifying ofthe science-fiction and murder movies.

The symptoms are there - they're allaround us - but we don't like to admitour sickness.

What we need now - and that mostIIrgently - is a healing of the broken,lost SPIRIT. We need to begin NOW - building strong, righteousCHARACTER.

We need to stop the "morals tobogganslide into nihilistic abandon, and totallyreverse the present character drain intoa dynamic buildup of CHARACTER.A nation will be judged - and its

future will be determined - not by itsGNP, or its stockpiles of nuclear arms,or the size of its industries and technology , but by its CHARACTER.

Not only are we rapidly losing character, but we're losing the ability to discern our character loss.In 1968, it was determined that

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Amb assador Coll ege Photo sCONFUSED PRIORITIES - Too many in ou r society ridicule th e "Establishme nt" an d its prob lems, yet sc ream fo r the legalizat ion of ma rijua na ,come ou t in suppo rt of lawb reakers an d seem unconce rned with worldprob lems which gr avely affect thei r nat ion .

the view that the Un ited States was a"sick society."

Hopefully, even more than fortytwo percent recognize this deepeningmalaise today.A spokesman for Gallup, who con

ducted the poll , said those who thinkthe nation is sick offered reasons of twotypes, causes and symptoms, such as theamount of rioting and killing, lackof sufficient law enforcement, laxityof courts, breakdown in morals, shunning of religion, poor upbringing, lackof individual ini tiative, and generalselfishness.

The fifty-two percent who rejectedthe idea that their society is sick saidonl y a "small number of indi viduals areto blame for crime," too much publicityis given to crime , and "society is noworse than it was in the past." Theysaid the Uni ted States is no worse thanother countri es, and society is not sick,but merely confused.In another poll by the Long Beach

Press Telegram, several people wereasked the question, "Do we live in asick society?" A model answered, "Idon't know about other people ; I'm not.I f people are happy doing their ownthing, tha t's up to them ."An electrician's comment was, "There's

nothing wrong with society as awhole." In answeri ng the same ques-

tion, "Do we live in a sick society?" acollege stud ent flatly stated, "I don 'tthink so. Oh , you find an occasionaldud in society, but generally things arejust getting more modern ." A laborer'sview was, "No. Society is no differentnow than ever. I f anything it's better. . . ." Finally, an unemployed manasked . "W hat 's wrong with it [ society]?"Such del ightfully uninformed eupho

ria may at least bring non involvedtranquility to those holding such a hazyview - but the facts are otherwise.During the decade of the 60's, whilepopulation rose 11 percent, crime soared122 percent! Arrests in 1968 fo r drugviolations were over four times as highas in 1960 . Ar rests of youths increasedduring the same period 78 percent,while the number of persons in the agegroup rose only 25 percent.About fifteen-and-a-hal f thousand

Americans were mt/rdered 111 1970,alone .Those who deny the grisly statis

tics are simp ly uninformed and livingin their own dream world, where noth ing is really true , until it touches the irown personal lives.So, while our deadly character drain

continues, mill ions play a childish gameof "make-believe," pretending all iswell, and we're not really much worsethan we ever were.And this - this blind refusal to

sacknowledge our moral and spiritualpoverty - is the worst sickness of all.

No TranscendentalGoal

Our people don 't know what they are- nor where they're going. We haveno common goal.Thi s is a time when history's strongest single nation should be leadi ng the

world ont of its terrible troubles, showing the world boto to live, the way topeace, the way to happiness, the wa)' tothe really good life, NOT just materially,bu t qu al it at ivel y. Bu t instead ofresponding to this greatest of challengesand discovering the real SOLUT IONS tothis world's problems, our peop le seemdetermined to degenerate into a looselykn it agglomera tion of self-seekers,engaged in a last frenzy of personalentertainment, interrupted only by temper tantrums agains t our own obnoxiousenvironment.We are losing CHARACTER.And character results from a strong

sense of pnrpose - a goal. Unless aperson is str iving tou iard something,he'll lack the drive and initia tive toforego debilitating, passing pleasures.Unless he is inspir ed by a great CAUSE,he'll lack the willingness to sacrifice forthat cause.Character is the ability to determine

the right from the wrong, and then toforce the self to choose the righ t. Butsuch a decision would never be madeunless there were a desired resultstemming from such choice.Today, our people have no grand,

global, historical mission which theyfeel obligated to fulfill. We 'r e not surewho, or what , we are, not sure what ourplace in th is world should be, and notsure what lies ahead .We have no great, supranational,transcendental GOAL that pushes us on,that unites us, that inspires us, thatcauses us to sacrifice.

Wh ile millions comfort themselves,pursuing their own selfish interests , thenation disin tegrates. Powerful forceswith in the nat ion seek protection fromthe very laws of the nation they seek todestroy. Disruptive elements seek tocreate chaos, disorder, and violence

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"L TMYby Ernest L. Mar tin and Har ry Eisenberg

In February a conference of 750 Jewish leaders in Belgiumconsidered the plight of Jews in the Sovie t Union. Here isa dual report by two of our correspondents tracing the im-portant historical reasons for todayJs problems and what

the outcome might be in the future.

Brussels, BelgiumT HE ETERNAL HOPE and determination of the Jewish people wasagain expressed by Mrs. GoldaMeir, in a personal message sent to theconference in Brussels:"Let us call upon men of good

will, Jew and non-Jew, throughout theworld, to join with us in the appeal tothe authorities in the USSR - 'Let mypeople go.' "This is the hope of Jews worldwide,

including the more than three millionJews in the Soviet Union today. That'smore than the total Jewish populationin the State of Israel.What concerns world Jewry is the

reluctance of Soviet authorities to allowlarge numbers of Jews to emigrate.

I t is this Soviet restriction of movement, coupled with a government banon the outward practice of their religionand culture, that irritates so many Jewsthe world over."These restrictions violate one of the

first principles of human rights - theright to choose one's own place to liveand to worship as one pleases," was acommon statement by many delegates atthe conference in Brussels.Arthur Goldberg, past United States

Ambassador to the United Nations, saidat the conference that no one wishedto antagonize or even to speak badly ofthe Soviet Union, but the delegates didwant to call attention to the .humanitarian clauses in the Soviet constitutionthat guaranteed its citizens the r ight toworship as they desired . They wantedthese guarantees applied in fairness tothe Jewish people.

Russia's Relationship WithIsrael

The present Russian attitude againstallowing Jews to emigrate can best beunderstood by looking at its relationswith the State of Israel over the past 20years. In 1948, Russia was one of thefirst states to recognize the new nation

of Israel. The reasons for this are notdifficult to see.A full 75 percent of the founding

fathers of Israel were of Russian or EastEuropean extraction, who emigratedbetween 1880 and 1930.There was even the Kibbutz move

ment among the early Israelis - a shareand share alike communal type of organization that seemed to have some similarities to the collectives the Russianswere attempting to establish in theUSSR.The Soviet supported the new state of

Israel in an attempt to weaken Britishinfluence in the Middle East. TheSoviets realized that the Jews had manygrievances against Britain and hopedthese could be the tool that would alienate the Israelis from the West. Thusthey hoped Israel could be used as abridgehead of Communism in theMiddle East.But the Soviet Union failed to under

stand the real Jewish aspirations in Palestine. The Zionists were simply makinga national home for the Jewish people,with no sophisticated political philosophy behind their plans.And even the Kibbutz movement is a

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invoked as a means of settling manyincoming Jews onto producing farms,since many of the immigrants had nomoney to buy a farm or set themselvesup in business. The Kibbutzim were notintended to be an idealized Communistexperiment to show the virtues of Bolshevism. Furthermore, no one in Israelhas ever been forced to join a Kibbutz.There is individual freedom. Many donot realize that the majority of farms inIsrael are not the collective Kibbutzim,but are Moshavim, where the land isfarmed privately.The Soviets were also unaware of the

very strong inclinat ion of the Israelipeople toward democracy. Thi s led tostrong ties with the democrat ic nationsof the West, including Britain .Consequently, the newly founded

Russo-Israeli relations were doomed tofailure from the start, and the Russiansfinally came to realize that the Israeliswould not serve as a tool for Communistexpansion into the Middle East.

Results of the Six-Day WarRealizing they had little to gain from

Israel, the Soviets in 1953 came to thedecision it would be far more preferableto favor the Arab side in the MiddleEast conflict. This support became totalwhen Russia demanded Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula in1956. It culminated finally in the totalbreak in diplomatic relations during thestart of the Six-DayWar in 1967 .But, while diplomatic relations

between the Soviet Union and Israelwere ended, an interesting relationshipbetween the Jews of Russia and Israelwas just starting. The Russian Jews hadjust seen (despite the distorted Russian

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news accounts) tiny Israel stand up tothe combined might of the Arab worldand Russia (their major backer) , andwhat's more - the Israelis had succeeded !In Russia this led to an awakening

and a new hope on the part of RussianJews totally unheard of before. Synagogue attendance increased. Some tookthe liberty of writing to the Israeli government and to the United Nationspleading for help. Still others went sofar as actually to petition the Sovietgovernment for exit visas. And somepeople were even granted them!

Seeking World SupportThe Brussels conference was called

not so much because of the plight ofSoviet Jewry as in response to theefforts of the Russian Jews themselves. 'One major purpose of the conferencewas to show Russian Jews that theirbrethren around the world totally supported them. It was further hoped thatthe governments of the Western democracies would lend their support to thecause of minority groups behind theIron Curtain.Many have wondered, why just the

Jews? Aren't all religions persecuted inSoviet Russia? Many people have feltth is to be the case. Inasmuch as Russiais a Communist country and Communism officially professes atheism,being a member of allY church groupcould be a detriment to anyonewishing to participate in government or politics . However, many havenot realized that apart from th is restriction, the various relig ions are allowedto function rather freely in the SovietUnion. This is true as long as they do

t ;

Arthur Goldberg, fo rme r U. S.Ambassador to the United Nations addresses world conferencediscussing problems of SovietJews (extreme left, right center).Other scenes show demonstratorsin London .

Ambassador Colle ge Photos,Wide World (extreme right)

not criticize the government. Freedomto practice religion is guaran teed by theSoviet constitution.What the organizers of the Brussels

conference wanted to point out is thatthe Jews have been consistently deniedthe same privileges that other religiousgroups are granted.For example, since 1917, Jews have

been forbidden to publ ish the HebrewBible either in the original or in a Russian translation, while other denominations have regularly been permitted toprint Bibles and other religious material. Neither are the Jews allowed tomaintain schools for the training ofreligious personnel , though other religions are allowed this privilege. Nor areJewish theologians allowed to studyabroad or attend international gatherings of Jewish religious leaders.Both of these concessions, too, aregranted to the members of other reli

gious bodies. There are a number ofRussian groups that are members of theWorld Council of Churches.

Cultural AttritionSo vast a nation as the Soviet Union

con tain s many national, ethn ic groups.The Soviet Union is considered to be aconglomerate of all of them, with eachnational group guaran teed the freedomof cultural expression and development

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8by the Soviet constitution. The Jews,too, are considered a national group. Infact, Stalin at one time attempted toestablish a "na tional home" for them inBiro-bidzhan in eastern Siberia, near theChinese border.In the last Soviet census over 500,000

Jews listed Yiddish as their mothertongue. There are, however, no Yiddishnewspapers, except one literary monthlymagazine, and the Yidd ish booksprinted are few in number. These arequickly purchased by the Yid dishspeaking public as soon as they aremade available. Yidd ish is slowly dyingout, as the re are no Yiddish schools.(N ote : In Israel, where Hebrew, notYiddish, is the mother tongue, there isstill a Yiddi sh daily newspaper andpublishing house.)The use of the Hebrew language has

been discouraged continually because ofits association with the Bible as well asZionism, the Jewish nation alist movement.

Latent Anti-SemitismJews were ancien tly barred from set

tling anywhere in Russia. However, th ischanged suddenly when in thr ee successive wars in 1772, 1793, and 1795,Russia, under Catherine the Great, succeeded in conquering most of Poland.All at once millions of Polish Jewsfound themselves unwanted inhabitantsof the Czarist empire.The attitude of the Czars can be

summed up in th ree words, "Or thodoxy,Autocracy and (Russian) Na tionality"as stated by Count Uvarov, minis ter ofpublic enl igh tenment under Ni cholas 1.There Jews were looked upon as analien people who had no place in Russia. Religionists preached against themand fanned the flames of hatred.Th is culmina ted in the pogroms

- bloody riots usually governmentapproved and occasionally governmentencouraged, lasting at times for daysand taking their toll in plunder, rapineand the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of innocents - especially womenand children . These persecuti ons wereso severe that both President TheodoreRoosevelt of the United States and theBritish Government strongly deno uncedthem. This caused hundreds of thousands and finally millions of Jews, who

Til e PLAIN TRUTHcould scrape up the necessary funds, tomigra te to the United States, Palestine,Britain and elsewhere.W hen the Communists came on the

scene in 1917, they proclaimed theiropposition to anti-Semitism. But theyalso proclaimed their opposition toZionism on the grounds th at the Zionists were trying to set up a nation as ahaven for oppressed Jews. The Bolsheviks felt that the Jews should work forthe success of international Commun ismand in that find their haven.The utter emptiness of this concept

was clearly demonstrated to the Jewsduring the Naz i peri od , when 1) theCommun ists did little to protest the prewar N azi persecutions, 2) the HitlerStalin pact enabled the Nazis to conquer most of Poland and put millions more helpless peop le under Naziadministration and 3) during the waritself, the Communists did help theJews, but only so far as it was in thedirect in terest of the Russian war effort.Finally, after the war, when the Com

munists took up the Arab cause, theanti-Zionist pronouncements intensified.In many a Russian mind, however, conditi oned to centuries of anti-Semitism,there was little difference between aZionist and a Jew.The Communists are aware what

unb ridled anti-Semitism can lead to witness the Nazi holocaust. They do,therefore, attempt to keep it under control. Nonetheless, " It is quite evidentthat, once again, ant i-Semitism hasbegun to be used as an instrument ofpublic policy to divert the disaffectionof the people to the Jewish scapegoat"(Baron, Th e Russian [eto Under Tsarsand Souiets, p. 333) .Yet, in spite of anti-Semitism, Soviet

leaders realize that the Jews in theSoviet Uni on make a great contributionto the nation.

Jews Key CitizensThis is one practical reason why the

Russians do not seem willing to givecarte blanche approval for its Jewishpopulation to leave.While the Jewish people represent

less than 2% of the total population inthe Soviet Union, they account for 15%of doctors, 9% of all writers and journalists, 10% of the judges and lawyers,

June 1971and 8% of actors, musicians and artists .Jews are also represented by a highproportion of scientists, educators andeven military men. I f the Soviet Unionwould indiscriminately allow these 'talen ted people to leave, Russian culturaland scientific life' would suffer.And further, if mass emigration were

permitted, the Arab count ries wouldobject most strenuously, because themajority would undoubtedly go toIsrael and the reby strengthen that country's position.These are practical problems facing

the Soviet Union which the Jewish leaders at the Brussels conference seemed toacknowledge, Forcing the governmentof the Soviet Union into an extremistattitude to solve their "Jewish problem"is not what most Jews want. As Prof.Hans Morgenthau of City College, NewYork, expr essed it :"What we want is quiet dipl omacy.Mass emigration from Russia is an idealunobtainable at the present ."Thus, for the present, it seems

impractical to hope fo r the SovietUnio n to release their Jewish nationalse ll masse. But it is hoped that theSoviet authorities will lessen restrictions on their Jewish population andallow them freedom to practice theirreligious beliefs and to perpetuate theirown cultu re without government interference. Even if a slight amelioration ofthe present Jewish plight inside theSoviet Union can be brought about as aresult of the Brussels conference, it willhave been deemed a success.

Latest DevelopmentsFollowing the Brussels Conference,

the world press reported a sha rp rise inthe number of Russian Jews beinggranted exit permits . For the first hal fof March, the number is said to haveaveraged about 15 to 25 daily. This isunprecedented when you consider thatthe total emigration for 1970 was only1000 . Furthermore, it is believed thatsome non-Jews may now try to availthemselves of the unusu al opportunityto emigrate.T his surpri singly pleasant news has

left Jewish leaders asking two majorquestions. First, why the seemingly sud den change of heart on the part of

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What's WroWith the

by Ga ry L. Alexander

What are YOU most concerned about? If you aretypical, it is not the threat of hydrogen bomb war, thespace race, crime, or even the Vietnam War. The averageAmerican, Canadian , European, Australian citi zen is mostconcerned abou t mak ing ends meet FINANCIALLY.But WHY are the most prosperous nations in debt?WHY are people worried about keeping jobs and puzzledabout the economy of their own nation , state and city?

"C OST OF LIVING UP 6 PERCENT" ;"Ci ties and States Going Bankrupt" ; "Deficit Spending Sets

Record" ; "Further Inflation Ahead, SayEconomists" ; "Unemployment Worst inNi ne Years"; "Total U. S. Debt TopsTwo Trillion" ; "Wage Demands Rise" ;"Strike Imminent" ; "TradeWar Looms" ;"Balance of Payments Deficit SetsRecord" ; "W elfare Costs Skyrocket" ;"Big Business Bankrupt."Such are the varied - yet intr icately

related - headlines in your daily newspapers and weekly news magazines,constantly blaring forth the tragedy ofour world system: economic chaos andcrises!Unemployment or Inflat ion-

Choose!For most people , however, the main

"economic crisis" is their private pay-

check. I t isn't going as far as it used to.Pensioners, and othe rs on fixed income,particularly feel the squeeze. Thei rincomes remain the same, but the valueof their dollars (or pounds or francs)dimini shes.Survey after survey of American

problems shows that of all the problemsthat face Americans today, the how-tomake-ends-meet issne seems to dominate. Year-in and year-out, personaleconomics seems to be the biggestfurr ow in people's brows.W ith such financial insecurity, many

wonder: "Where is my next paycheckcoming from?" "When is the government going to 'freeze' my salary?""Why save money when inflation robsme of buying power ?" and most worr isome : "What if unemployment strikesme?" Most families are only two orthr ee paychecks away from bankruptcy

at any given time. There are few realassets to draw on.Yet, today, we are told we cannot

have full employment without our dollars or pounds losing value - commonly called inflation.Most nations choose inflation rather

than suffering unemployment, and thatbrings a host of fur ther problems. Worried government leaders must then concern themselves with budget deficits anda rising national debt. Wi th theseproblems comes the threat of beingpriced out of fore ign markets, sanctionsagainst the debtor nation's prod ucts,tariff walls - and possible trade war.Of late, the world economic ther

mometer has indicated a perennial"crisis conditio n." But WHY continuingmoney insecurity - both personal,national and intern ational? Why musthard-working human beings face financial worries? Why must the world'srichest nation have a two-t rillion-dollarpublic and private debt? Who or whatis to blame ?

Experts BaffledThe basic causes of economic prob

lems are buried in the mish-mashof economic blame-gaming between different "camps" of experts and laymen.Everybody can find somebody else to

blame. The unions blame management,management blames the unions. The


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10"Keynesians" are at the "monetarists'"throats, and vice versa . The housewifeblames the grocery store chain, andthe store blames the supplier. Thefarmers blame the government, and thepolitical leaders blame the previousadministration !Nearly every sophisticated economic

system has been tried - but all seem tofail. Crisis condi tions continue, and noeconomist has the answers .

One joke among the economiststhemselves is that if all of the world'sleadi ng economists were laid end toend, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion! Top economists know theyhave an unruly "t iger by the tail."Leading economist and N ewsw eek

columnist Henry C. Wallich has writtenthat: "In economics, nothing is certain,anything is possible, and everythingdepends on everything else. The plaindifficulty of understanding what goes onin the economy is the first big handicapfaced by economists Economics isnot an exact science absolute cer-tainty is vouchsafed to no science andcomplete convict ion in th is world canonly come from ignorance."

Why such a startling admission ofhelplessness from a leading economi st ?Partially, because econom ics is not anexact science. A physicist or chemistdeals with unchangeable, immutableLAW . But economics - a bran ch of thesocial and political sciences - dealswith HUMAN BEINGS. And humans arepredictably unpred ictable.

Economic Upset - A PEOPLEPROBLEM

Economics is inextricably tied topeople. It is people, after all, who makemoney and spend it. The consumer/wage earner can upset the best-laidplans of renowned economists.Trends , fashions, moods among con

sumers may send entire industries intobankruptcy. W ar disrupts all ' fundamental plans in politics, business and labor .A second "people problem" in eco

nomics is the dominant role of a fewimportant decision makers . These arethe leaders of business , labor, andgovernment.

The actions of the nation as a whole,or its leaders, can make or break an

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DAV ID RICARDO

Economics means househo ld (fromthe Greek oikonomos ) , and until 200years ago, economics was merely apragmatic way of running a household,village, or city state. It wasn't until1776, with the publication of AdamSmith 's Wealth of Na tions, that manbegan to expand these "household"principles to the national level.Ad am Smith wrote of the "invisible

hand" - supposedly a natural Godgiven equil ibrium of wages, production , land, and rent - which anyeconomy will reach if lef t alone. Thiswas called, in French, "Laissez-faireet laissez passer, le monde ua de lui meme," or "Don't interfere, the worldwill take care of itself."But Adam Smith didn't foresee

ravages of human nature in wars andrevolutions. In the generation foll owing Th e Wealth of Nations, theFrench and American revolutionscaused widespread destruction andinflat ion in those countries, leading tothe N apoleon ic wars and the War of1812. War and revolution are primary"peop le problems" of economics.

Next came the debate betweenDavid Ricardo, Smith's leading discipleand Robert Malthus, the famed"population explosion" prophet. Malthus simply pointed out laissez fairewas not working! But Ricardo's

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theories showed on paper how beaut ifully it should work (during peacetime) .Both Ricardo and Malthus failed to

foresee the next "people problem" the dislocation caused by the IndustriaRevolution. Because of human greedduring peacetime (about 1815 to1848), economic power was centeredin a few indi viduals, the industriagiants. Cheap labor was lured fromthe farm ; children were employed in15-hour-a-day sweat shops. The robbebarons of the 1800's ruined thetheories of Ricardo.

Marxism and MonetarismThen came "Round Two" of eco

nomic theory - Marx, Mill, Marshalland monetarism.In 1848, revoluti ons broke out al

over Europe , as exploited workers rosto "break the chains" of industry, thfmit of laissez faire.Also in 1848, Marx and Engelwrote the now-infamous Communis

Manifesto, and the brilliant classiciJohn Stuart Mill wrote Principles ofPolitical Economy.Marx wanted all econom ic an

pol itical power In the hands othe peop le (called "proletar iat," oworkers ). He called for now-accepte


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F ECONOMIC THOUGHTconcepts such as 8-hour work days, andSocial Security. But his idea of powerto workers has obviously failed . Dueto the same culprit - human nature- workers have often become "robberbarons" in their own right by demanding more than they produce. Marxist,Socialist, and Communist economiesobviously don't work!"Classical" economics reached its

peak in John Stuart Mill, gifted(200 IQ ) son of British economistJames Mill. He called for "calculatedintervention to spread the benefits ofprogress," or a slightly visible hand .Mill died in 1873, the year of

perhaps the worst depression of thecentury - the Panic of 1873. Due tothe influence of Marx and Mill ,workers' wages and benefits grew,BUT during the half-century 1879 to1928, unempl oyment averaged anestimated 10.2% for all workers inthe manufacturing, mining, and transportation fields. Even in "prosperous"years, unemployment stood at what isconsidered now a recession - 6%.Such panics and massive unemploy

ment were considered "acts of God,"in the laissez faire tradition . Tointerfere was considered near blasphemous.

Professor Alfred Marshall continuedto teach Mill's classical theories for

50 years, until Marshall's death in1924. Throughout the period unemployment and panics reigned, and thebiggest of all hit in 1929.Parallel with Mill and Marshall was

the belief in monetarism, the regulatedsupply of money based on gold andsilver backing. But irregular "goldrushes" caused inflationary siege, yetdidn't prevent panics.

Keynesian EconomicsThe stage was set for round three

- the modern era of Keynesianism.The Great Depression severely

weakened classical economics andmonetarism (our worst depressionsstruck while under the gold standard).But, nevertheless, "most of the respectable economists stuck to their Ricardian guns," wrote Leonard Silk,Brookings Institute economist. "Theycalled for workers to accept lower andlower wages unt il they were allre-employed . . . the Depression was atemporary state of unbalance, andprosperity was just around the corner,they said."But such ivory-tower pronounce

ments d idn 't convince the 13 millionAmerican unemployed, starving andbroke transients.The economic world was ripe for

a change - and classically trained

Britisher John Maynard Keynes (pronounced canes) filled the need of theday, with his 1935 treatise, GeneralTheory of Employment, Interest, andMoney. He turned classic theoryupside down, by advocating governmental planned deficits to "prime thepump" (o r planned surpl uses to cooldown a boom), planned inflation toprevent unemployment, and nationalaccounting systems (GNP and its components) to be the basis of suchplanning.The debate between Keynesians and

monetarists has raged for 35 years,but since U. S. President Nixonbecame the first Republican Keynesian,such planned deficit theories can nowbe called "establishment," the classicism of the 1970's.

But Keynesianism too is failing,due to human nature in the govern-ment sector (as well as business andlabor). Keynes called for half deficits,half surpluses, but political expediencyhas given us about six deficits to eachsurplus since 1931.

All economic systems have failed orare failing. What is the root cause ofsuch universal failure? Men of geniusIQ have failed to give mankind aworkable economy, because no geniuscan change human nature.


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12economy. Yet the actions of neither areforecast by laws. Their decisions areessentially unp redictable.

It is one thing to theorize that IFwages are kept stable, IF governmentdoes not overspend, IF industry keepsprices at a fixed and equitable level,THEN inflation can be avoided.But governments MAY overspend;unions MAY demand exorbitant wages;

industry MAY jack up pr ices out of sight.And external catastrophes - war,drought, weather upset, poli tical unrest- may upset the best-laid economicplans. All are "legal"; all happen.It is, in fact, the very absence of law

and auth ority which leads to economicchaos. The opposite condition - soundfinancial principles thoroughly applied,with use of wise and just governmentalauthority to implement right laws would gl/arantee sound economics.Look at some of the factors which

can wreck any economy. Most of themare man-made. Is it any wonder that nogovernment of men has been able tokeep a national economy healthy over along period of time?The problem is simply one of people

- what they want and do. "Virtuallyall people," writes economics professorLeonard Silk, "still ardently desire thehigher incomes and greater supply ofmaterial goods that economic growt hbrings. They like much less, however,some of the by-products of growth-such as heavy urban concentrations ofpopulation, smog, social tensions, longjourneys to work, and the 'rat race.' ''(Conte mporary Economics, page 268.)Can we change the system? ProfessorSilk is not optimistic. "Only a smallminority would now prefer to give upgrowth altogether in order to avoid itsunpleasant side effects." (i bid., page268).In that case we will cont inue to suffer

the shattering "people problems" ofeconomics:

The "Big Two" - W arand Cities

Economists categorize the two major"peop le problems" as either external(war, foreign aid, trade, space, atomicenergy, etc.) or internal (welfare,education, transportation, agriculture,

medical care, and poverty programs) .The economic policies of nations arealmost solely determined by these volati le social subjects.Most external economic upsets can betraced to the warring selfish humannature of nations - whether hot war,cold war, trade war, or arms races. Andmost in ternal economic headaches canbe traced to the dislocating populationimplos ion called urbanization .

The major cause of any siege ofin flation throughout history has beenoverspending for armaments and war!Wh en a nation must prin t moreunbacked money to spend on armaments, soldiers, war-planes, and veterans' benefits, there is no way to avoidinflation. More money is circulating, butfewer consumer goods are being made.Most wars in United States history

caused a doubling of prices in aboutfive years' time! The ravages of Wo rldWar I caused much more serious "hyperinflation" (prices mult iplying by millions of times over) in Germany andother European nations. Th e same fatestruck China and Hungary after World

War II . In the last five years, war-tornVietnam and Indonesia have sufferedsimilar fates. Serious inflation hasvirtually never struck during peacetime.War also saddles a nation with aback-breaking debt to repay. The yearlyinterest on the United States war debt isgreater than the entire U. S. nationaldebt was in 1930! War also ruins theindustrial and agricultural base of anynation where the war is fought.The Thirty Years' War, for instance,retarded central European economicgrowth by the equivalent of a century!The American Civil War retarded theSouth's whole economy for two generations, and New England's shippingfor a longer period.The best-laid plans of economists

have consistently been ruined by unpredictable wars and revolutions . The "airtight" theories of Adam Smith in 1776(see following article, Two Centuries ofEconomic Tholl ght) were ruined by theAmerican and French revolutions, theNapoleonic wars, and the equallydestructive Industrial Revolution .

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DISRUPTERS OF SOUND ECONOMY - Accelerating we lfa re expend itu res, the c red it exp los ion, eve r-spira ling wage demands, costly wa rfarea re some maj or fa cto rs kee ping an economy in turmoil.

was responsible for another catastrophe- urban ization. The flight from farmto city is the root cause of most internaleconomic woes . It is the primary causeof runaway welfare, labor's exorb itantwage demands, consumer debt, unemployment, insecurity, and other personaleconomic crises.

Land and its produce are the basis forall human security . When the land isruined by improper farming, or if theland is abandoned for a ghetto apartment and an industrial job, tha t securityis lost. Unemployment and rising pricesensue. The end result is an artificialeconomy, artificial money, artificial security, and a totally artificial way of life.

In the end, economists find them selves forced to deal with effects unemployment, rampant welfare, commodity price chaos and so on. Theylose sigh t of the fact tha t the majorcause of "in ternal" economic woes ISthe original dislocation of society.

Th e Fruits of a Di slocatedEconomy

As nations are dislocated - as massmigra tion from fa rms to cities occurs- the economic woes become evident.Runaway welfare is a case in poin t.As post-World War I Southern sharecroppers and "Dus t Bowl" drifte rsarrived in the city canyons of America,jobs weren 't always waiting for them.On the othe r hand, city dwellers beganto find jobs scarce because of the influxof farmers. Often, the re was no available income other than the welfare rollsof an already near-bankrupt municipalgovernment. The trend hasn't changedmuch . As The PLA IN TRUTH reportedin February, publ ic-assistance rolls virtually doubled between 1965 and 1970.

As a result, many city and stategovernments are dangerously nearbankruptcy. There is no solution tothis fiscal insolvency until removal ofthe root cause - the urban packing

of huge masses of unskilled peop le.Another by-product of our social

structure is the seeming impasse betweenlabor and management. Most peop le arewilling to work hard if motivated . Butwhat motivation is there in rivetingexactly 1381 rivets ( un ion maximum)for $3.56 per hour (uni on minimum)on the screeching assembly line of asmog-infested city? Eventu ally suchworkers will want high wages for thesame productivity, because their pro duction has nothing to do with theirlives, and their salary has everything todo with their lives.

The great feeling of malconten tamong urban wage earners is a contributing facto r to the great preoccupationwith escape. Many workers find nochallenge in their work and have fewestablished goals in life . As a result,such workers become overly mesmerizedby personal activities, recreation andmaterial conquests.

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SOCIETY and GREEDY HUMANNATURE are changed, the world willbe under such an economic curse.Depressions and inflation will continueto plague our nations no matter whatnew ideas economists offer to treat thedetailed effects of these two root causes!There must be sweeping reforms and

fundamental changes in the world economic system. But how to "get therefrom here" is the crux of our dilemma .To institute proper economic reforms

is impossible, given the structure of ourpresent world economy. For example,if, beginning tomorrow morning, theentire Western world bought nothingmore on credit , worldwide depressionwould strike, paling the 1930's intoinsignificance. This very fact ShOUlS botafar aUlay from economic sanity theworld has strayed. It makes plain whyno economist, no government leader hasbeen able to solve his nation's economicwoes.The whole economic system of thisworld needs to be scrapped. A new sys

tem must be built from scratch, basedon true values. No ism of man - capitalism, socialism, classicism, Marxism,mercantilism, or Communism - hasworked . Historically, Adam Smith's"invisible hand" failed, as did Keynes'"visible hand" of governmental manipulation. Now a "strong hand fromsomeplace" is needed to change the verybuilding blocks of society and humanbehavior.

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advancenewsin the wake of today 's WORLD EVENTS

Politics by BombingBombings and bomb threats have skyrocketed in the

United States during the last three years.In 1970 a National Bomb Data Cen ter was set up in

Washington, D.C. to help cope with the mounting prob lem.Between January 1, 1969, and April 15, 1970, 40 per

sons were killed, 384 injured, and property worth $22 million was destroyed in 4330 reported bombings .

Other statistics reveal the almost fad-like increase inboth bombings and thr eats. Damage to Fede ral propertyjumped from $10,455 in fiscal 1969 to $729,2 19 in 1970.Even the U. S. Capitol build ing - damaged in early 1971 is no longer immune.

Throughout the economy, disruptions and work loss dueto bomb threats - such as clearing buildings for bombsearches - cost the nation $2.25 billion during the first sixmonths of 1970.

A rather typical U. S. city of 120,000 inhabitantsrecorded a rise from 9 threats in 1967 to 29 in 1968, to 55 in1969 - and a further doubling to 113 in 1970. Across theUnited States these thre ats have become an increasing drainon police budgets and manpower. Departments which havenever before worried about bombings must now face theprospect of shattering blasts of destructive force. Rift in U. S.-Turkish Re lations

In Turkey there is mounting disillus ionment with theUnited States. This is coming after 20 years of more-or-lessclose cooperation between Ankara and Washington.

Nationalistic young firebrands, resentful of continuedAmerican military presence, periodically denounce American"Fascism." Sixth Fleet ships can no longer visit Istanbul, forfear of attacks on American sailors.

Other Turks have been miffed by a decline in Americaneconomic and military aid from a high of around $300 million a year to $150 million a year.

Still others in the strateg ic crossroads country bridgingEurope and Asia are questioning the value of the NATOalliance which keeps American nuclear weapons on Turkishsoil. The fear is that the Soviet Union would be forced toattack Turkey in any nuclear showdown with the UnitedStates.

Anxious to safeguard its own interests and dislodgeNATO f rom Turkish soil, Russia has been playing the

friendly neighbor. Moscow is financing a lO-year, $375 million industrialization program. T rade has increased from $17million in 1964 to over $60 mill ion in 1969. Airline, rail,and road connections have also been established.

The Soviets wan t to insure that the Bosporus-Dardanellesremains open to their naval and commercial fleets in theBlack Sea. Through this narrow sea gate the Kremlin suppl iesits Arab allies and maintains a growing Medi terranean navy tochallenge the Sixth Fleet.

Replacing America's influence even faster is West Germany. Three years ago Bonn took over as Turkey's leadingtrade partner. West German industry, moreover, has surpassed the United States in new private investment.

With a history of more than a dozen sizable wars againstRussia, the Turks are anxious to maintain their new detentewith Moscow. And German influence, based on a friend shipgoing back to World War I , balances off the advances fromMoscow. The apparent loser in the courtship for Turkey'sfavor is the United States, as the U. S. is slowly beingsqueezed out of one of its last strongholds in the easternMediterranean. Papal Ostpolit ik

West Germany is not the only party pursuing anOstpolitik with the nations of Eastern Europe .

The Vatican is also busily building bridges with theCommunist regimes.

Latest in a series of successful contacts was a 90-minuteaudience Pope Paul VI held with visi ting Yugoslav PresidentTito. It was apparently the longest papal conversation with avisiting ch ief of state on record. Tito was also the first Communist head-of-state ever to pay an official visit to thesupreme leader of the world's 600 million Roman Catholics.

In public address, Pope Paul stressed the relations ofchurch and state and the respect each must have for the other.He praised elements of the Yugoslav constitution on religiousrights and respect for the individual. He cautiously avoidedany discussion of Marx ism in the modern world. In return ,Ti to pra ised the Pope's peacemaking efforts.

The visit of the world 's leading "independent Communist" came a week after a Vatican delegation went to Praguefor a new round of talks aimed at improving relations withCzechoslovakia.

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16 The PLAIN TRUTH June 197 Jvisited Sofia, Bulgaria. And on March 2, Vatican envoy Archbishop Agostino Casaroli returned from a five-day officialvisit to Moscow, the first of its kind in papal diplomacy. H isreception at the Kremlin was said to have been cordial. Archbishop Casaroli had gone there to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and also to carry out a diplomatic missionconcerning Roman Catholic minorities in the Soviet Union.

Why the increased activity between the Vatican andCommunist East Europ e?

Both sides have much to gain. The Vatican is pushingfor more freedoms for Catholics behind the Iron Curtain andis hopeful for increased dialogue with the Communist nationsgenerally on the issue of world peace and security.

In retu rn, the Communists hope the Vatican will urgecler ics in Red countries, such as Poland, to cooperate morewith the entrenched political machinery . Moscow would alsolike to see a public Vatican condemnation of Americaninvolvement in Vietnam. Even more important, Moscowwould like the Vatican to endorse a pet Kremlin project a European Security Conference. Ultimate Red aim behindsuch a European East-West get-together would be to reduceor eliminate U. S. military presence on European soil.Nothing has been made official yet, but one respecteddispatch from Vatican City reports that the Vatican has promised to carry out these important Soviet requests. Historic Trip for Japanese Emperor

Emperor Hiroh ito will become the first Japaneseempe ror to go abroad when he visits seven Europeancountries with Empress Nagako this autumn.

Premier Eisaku Sato's Cabine t has formally approved aplan for the Japanese royal coup le to make official visits toBritain, Belgium and Wes t Germany and unofficial trips toDenmark, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland for 18days beginn ing September 27.

Europe appears to have been chosen for a number ofreasons. The Emperor visited Britain, France, Belg ium, theNetherlands, and Italy in 1921 when he was Crown Prince.The journey made a lasting impression on him. He verymuch wants to make a sentimental return tr ip before hegrows much older . He will turn 70 on Apr il 29. The Empresshas never been abroad.

Speaking of his coming tour, the Emperor has told officials: "Never mind what my own tastes are. Th e first essentialis that this visit promote international goodwill." On anotheroccasion he said, "I shall do my best to obtain a harvest ofintern ational friendship. "

The Emperor's wish also fits in with Prime MinisterEisaku Sato's growing desire to enhance Japan's internationalstatus, now that its phenomenal economy is exerting moreand more influence - and attracting more and more atten tion- around the world.

En route to Europe, the Emperor's plane will touchdown at Anchorage, Alaska . But he will not officially visitthe United States on this trip.

U. S. officials believe the way is paved for a visit in the

near futur e. But it could not take place before late 1972, afterOkinawa is returned to Japanese rule. Seeds of Disaster?

Could vast portions of the world 's food supply be wipedout - virtually overnight? Some scientists are beginning toponder this frightening question.

The National Academy of Sciences (N AS) has namedan elite panel of agricultur alists and biologists to examine thegenetic vulnerability to disease of major U. S. food and feedcrops, principally corn , wheat, rice and sorghum.

The question now before the new panel is whether wideuse of hybrid strains of seed corn may not be producing agenetic uniformity that could subject an en tire U. S. corn cropto unexpected destruction via a single new path ogen.

Behind the study is the new strain of Southern leafblight that is devastating American corn production. Last yearit destroyed 10 percent of the $5 billion U. S. corn harvest the nation's larg est and most valuable crop. Agriculturalexperts are warning tha t if warm, humid weather again prevails in the corn states, blight could reduce the 1971 harvestby as much as 50 percent.

The development of new high-yield varieties has ledto Widespread planting of only a few varieties of any singlecrop, and often in concentrated areas. Under these conditionsa disease strain can quickly spread, destroying a major portionof the crop.

I f another mut ant corn disease appears in the next fewyears - one capab le of attacking hybrids resistant to thepresent strain - American corn production could be threatened again. Reports a recent issue of Science magazine :"W hen a new crop is introduced, diseases to which it isresistant are suppressed - those to which it is susceptiblewill thrive and multiply."

It is becoming a hectic race just to stay ahead of themutating disease organisms. Continues Science: " . . . we haveobserved many times the ' running out' of varieties, oftenabruptly, as a new biotype of a pathogen or insect pestbecame prevalent."

Th e NAS study is also considering the rather ugly possibility that if seed-corn resistance to blight is weakened byaltering its gene composition, similar problems migh t occur inother food grains - sorghum, wheat, rice. Very littl e detailedstudy of the genetic base of crops has ever been done. Butaccording to the NAS Research Council: "It is likely thata number of major [hybrid] crops rest on a dangerously narrow genetic base."

A few hybrids and crossbred varieties now dominatemuch of North American agriculture and are rapidlybeing adopted in Asia. As a result, genetic uniformity isbeing produced which could allow new diseases to destroy anentire crop in several conntries at once. The present cornblight is only a warning of how quickly much of the world'sfood crops could be decimated in one grow ing season leading to widespread food shortages and famine .

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Ambassador Colle ge Photo

The Surprising Origin ofMODERNED CATIOby Herbert W . Armstrong

More students than ever before are entering a college or uni-versity. Yet almost none knows the TRUTH about how thissystem of higher education developed - its RECENT DRIFT- and why the system is even now becoming obsolete.

T HOUSANDS of high school seniors,as well as hundreds of disi llusioned university students allover the world make final decisionsabout COLLEGE every year THAT WILLVITALLY AFFECT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!

The WRONG decision may mean failure - unhappiness - frustrat ion forLIFE. Girls, as well as men .

If I were a young man or youngwoman, either already in a university, ornow at last ready for college, I wouldmost assuredly give sober and solemnTHOUGHT to th e thi ngs I want to say toyou here.

I wou ld want to think seriously aboutWHY so many college graduates, after

having already acquired ;. Bache lor's orMaster's degree, feel that the universityfailed to give them what they reallyNEEDED, if their lives were to be successful, completely satisfying.I would want to look, searchingly ,into the REASONS behind the thousandsof FAILURES in l ife by college graduates- and why even most who do achievemode rate or even rich financial statusstill find thei r lives UNHAPPY, far shortof the completely gratif ying, rewardingsense of satisfaction they had antic ipated before entering college.

I would want to find the reasonsWHY SO MANY COLLEGE GRADUATESMAKE FAILURES IN MAR RIAGE -

failures in child rearing as parents.I would want to know WHY so many,

whose minds have been trained andfilled with technical knowledge in specialized fields , still are emotionallyimmature, morally and spiritually mixedup and confused, still plagued with afeeling of inadequacy, uncertainty, inferiority, insecurity - even frustration.

Yes, WHY?WHAT IS IT that these millions, who

spent four, six or more years in "highereducation, " find they failed to obtain atcollege?

It is, plainly and simply, that theywere not given the most impor!clIlfknowledge and experience needed for abalanced, well-rounded, happy, abnn-dan! life that is really successfu l!

May I just speak personally, intimately, as I would in a face-to-face ,heart-to-heart talk if you should come tome and ask private and personal advice


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18about this problem of going to college,and HOW to be sure you choose theright one ?I have jokingly said, many times,

that, like Jack Benny, I am on ly th irtynine. But there has been a note ofser iousness in th at, for that is how Ifeel - even though I am now well pastthe allotted thr eescore and ten.But I have lived , as few men ever

have. I have lived an active, dynamic,much-travelled, fast-moving life . Andtoday I look back, with deep and verygratifyi ng satisfaction, on a lif e ofaccomplishment that has been full,abundant, interesting, even exciting, butalways rewarding. Of course there havebeen problems to solve, obstacles tohurdle. There have been, too, disappointments and setbacks, fo r thosecome to every life . They are the trainingground of character.But I have come in contact withnumerous men supposedly "successful"by generally accepted standards - menwho headed great and vast enterprises,men whose bank accounts were full, buttheir lives empty!I have known scores of multimillion

aires - nearly all of them unhappy!Most certainly I do not consider povertya criterion of success, but after knowingso many hundreds who became financially affluent, neither do I consideracquisition of MONEYa proof of success.There is mo re to life than earning a living, tho ugh that is one of the necessaryrequirements.And I have known wives of finan

cially "successful" husbands - careerwomen - some who reached the top ofthe social ladder. They, too, wereunhappy, discontented .But WHY are most people, even

though affluent in money and materialgoods, still f ailures in LIFE - stillUNsatisfied - frustrated - unhappy?Should YOU not look forward to

something better than that?I f you do not do something about it

NOW, it will be too late .When I was only twenty-two, I was

sent throughout the United States as the"Idea Man" of a national magazine- interviewing businessmen, studying,analyzing merchandising and generalbusiness conditions, learn ing why oneman makes a success, another a failure,

Th e PLAIN TRUTH10 the management of his business .All my life since, I have studied

the CAUSES of success and of failurein lite - the REASONS for so muchunh appiness.

And when, more than twenty yearsago, it became my privilege and responsibility to found an institution in thefield of higher education - Ambassador College - I talked about theseproblems with a number of educators ofgood rank in this business of education.I discussed with them the facts that Ihad found so many college grad uates tobe actual failures in life, not knowinghow to live it, even though many werefinancially "successful."Said Dr. Packer, Chancellor of

Higher Education for the State of Oregon: "Mr . Arms trong, I envy your greatopportunity. We kno w there are seriousevils in our educational system. Wekno w it is gripped tightly in the clutchof a vicious mater ialism. Those of us atthe head of some of these large and vasteducational organizations are also in theclutch of that system - even though wesee the evils, we are powerless to changethem . But, you, Mr. Armstrong , are notbound by these fetters of tradition. Youare FREE to star t anew - to RECAP TURE THE TRUE VA LUES - whileretaining all th at has proven good ineducational experience."Dr. Packer by those words set themotto of Ambassador CollegeRECAPTURE TRUE VALUES !W hat, after all , is basically, crimi

nally, WRONG?First, above all else, people are grop

ing in the dark, not knowing THE TRUEVALUES!The mill ions of even the supposedly

"successful" are spend ing life t imes ofprecious hours and strenuous effortstoward wrong GOALS, false VALUES,that fail to pay off! It 's like devotin gthe energies of a lifetime chasing thepot of gold at the end of the rainbow- groping, open-mouthed, for themirage on a blistering hot desert.Do you want to struggle through life

in that manner, only to end up frustrated, disillusioned, too late to start allover again?Life is a pre tty serious thing . You

only live it ONCE!What, then, is it that these hundreds

June 1971of un iversity students and graduates discover they have not gotten in college WHY do they come to AmbassadorCollege?They have failed to obtai n the very

BASICS of education - the basic FOUNDATION for living!The basic, most necessary th ings you

need to learn are the real meaning andPURPOSE of lif e - WHY we are alive,the TRUE VALUES, distinguished fromthe false (few, if any, of the greatesteducators and wealthiest milli onaireshave ever learned th is) , and THE WAY- the HOW - that brings peace, hap piness, abundant well -being.There is a CAUSE for every effect.

There are REASONS for unh appy, frustrated lives - among those who are"successful" financially, socially, politically, or in usual channels of life . Thereis a REASON for lack of PEACE in theworld : The heads of government do not know the WA Y to peace! I f they did,would we not have a littl e of it ?Just train ing the intell ect is NOT

ENOUGH!Technical training in a line of spe

cialization is NOT ENOUGH!Mill ions have obtained that kind of

education - but it has led to unhappyand unsuccessful lives ! It has not prepared these "educated" for living !

It 's T ime to THINKAbout This!

Two students graduated, then receivedMaster's degrees from one of themost famous universit ies in the world .They said they had spent the bestyears of their lives cramming intothe ir minds useless or DEAD knowledge- knowledge they could not now use.Then they stud ied at AmbassadorCollege, where they learned the truemealling of life, the real PURPOSE forthe ir existence - the real cause andmeaning of world condi tions, and HOWto adapt and adjust for the drast icchanges coming 10 the immediateWorld Tomorrow.

Whether you are already in college- or high school - or long past both,you need to THINK about these facts!

LAWS of SuccessThere is a CAUSE fo r every result .I f your life is to be TRULY successful,


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June 1971you must find and apply the CAUSE ofthat satisfying happiness.

There are definite laws that determinesuccess or failure - happiness orunhappi ness.

Th e very first law of success is to. have, and dil igently pu rsue the RIGHTGOAL ! The second is EDUCATIONpreparation fo r that righ t goal.I have known scores and scores of

people who had success in achievi ngtheir goal. They applied diligently thesecond, thi rd, fourth, fift h and sixth ofthe seven laws for REAL success. W ell,perhaps many rather neglected the thirdlaw, which is good health . To havegood heal th you must know the latus ofgood phys ical health - the physicallaws of body and mind that regulatephysical health. And you must app lythem .The fourth law I call DRIVE. Initia

tive, self-propulsion, prodd ing the self,driving on, instead of letting down.Th e fif th is RESOURCEFULNESS - theability and confident determination tothink the way through, over, aroun d orpast every problem, obstacle or difficulty that comes in one's path . And lifewill be full of these. They stop anddefeat the irresolute, the shiftless, theunthinkin g, those lacking resourcefulness. Th e sixth is pers everance - stickto-it-iveness - refusal to give up orqu it. (And if you want to know whatthe seventh one is, send fo r your freecopy of th e fu ll -color booklet entitledThe Seven Laws of Snccess . sYes, those regarded as successful In

the world have practiced these rules and they have attained their goals. Butthat has not always been real success,because their GOALS were not rightgoals.Many businessmen fail because theyare in the wrong business - the .proverbial "sq uare pegs in the roundholes."But , in the main, the MILLIONS sup

posedly SUCCESSFUL have never knownREAL success. Many of these ended upsuicides! Nearly all have been unhappy.Many, if not most, have been failures intheir home and family life - fa ilures asparents. I t is they, not their teen children, who are the "delinquents."And WHY?

The PLAIN TRUTHAgain, they did not know the TRUE

VALUES. They chose the wrong goals.Th ey worked hard to achieve a wronggoal th at left them disillu sioned, frus trated , unh appy .This thing we call civilization is,

simply, the WAY OF LIFE that is livedby the people. It is the system, thecustoms, the manner of life in humancontacts and associations and organizations and ways. It is, in short, THISWORLD.And th is world is emphat ically NOT

a happy, truly successful world!In the brief span of a li fetime the

world has passed with accelerating

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Bust of pagan philosopher,PLATO (427-347 B. C.). He originated the academic form ofmodern cur ri cu la r education.

speed through the age of invention, themachin e age, the age of science andtechnology, the nuclear age, and, now,the space age. The sudden accelerationin scientific development is evidencedby the astonishing fact that 90 percentof all scientists who ever lived are living today.

New Age in EducationAnd with these developments has

emerged a new age in education.Today's worl d is what its leadershave made it, and these leaders are the

product of this world's education. Bu t

19what kind of world has this educationproduced ?

It is a deceptive world. It appears tobe a world replete with gadgets , laborsaving devices, and luxury undreamedof by ou r ancestors. I t is a worldof inst antaneous worldwide communication, rapid transportation by automobile, railroad, jet plane. I t is aworld entertained by radio, television,stage and screen, giant sports fields andarenas . It is a mechani zed world wheremass assembly-line machine productionmakes possible higher incomes, shorterwork hours, more leisure for entertainment and amusement.Is no t this an exciting world of great

progress? Is th is not a world lookingforw ard to a magic push-button Cen tury21 where labor will be all but abolish ed , with idleness and ease for all ?

It seems so.But it is a deceptive world. Never

was the worl d so filled with discontent,and unhappiness, with crime, with juvenile delinquency, with divorce and broken homes, with sickness and mentalillnesses, with violence and destruction.Never before was it possible to erase alllife - human , animal, and plant from the face of this eart h!This whole disintegrating civilizationis the product of an underlying concept

toward knowledge, and a philosophytoward life , which together haveformed the foundation of modern education. The philosop hic basis of moderneducation is that of the ancient paganGreeks and Romans. The concept,through which the presence and motionof things has been viewed and explained,is the materialistic approach of modernscience.

Modern education, therefore, is almostwholly materialist ic. It develops themachine, the theorem, the hypothesis which becomes the faith or thebelief of modern science. But it fails todevelop the MAN, or to lead him to aknowledge of the true values.Few seem to know that peace of

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