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The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of Understanding
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Editor
May 5, 1970
Dear Friend and PLAIN TRUTH Subscriber:
I simply can't resist telling you about something that seems
to me exciting and IMPORTANT. Twice yearly we offer, free of
charge, to every PLAIN TRUTH subscriber a copy of a new booklet,
just off the press. But until I read this morning the synopses of
our latest TWO booklets, I did not realize how IMPORTANT and
INTERESTING they are.
I'm really enthusiastic about them. I think you will be. And
of course we offer them gratis -- entirely free -- as a public
service of Ambassador College. It's part of the worldwide
Extension Program of publishing eye-opening, significant and
vitally INTERESTING educational information.
Just off the press, now, are two exciting new booklets. One
is "NEW FACTS About Marijuana," and the other, "Managing YOUR
Personal Finances." Did you ever stop to think (I had not, before)
people are taught how to earn money, but NOT how to manage it
after they get it -- how to spend wisely what one earns?
Did you ever stop to realize, the instant you were born you
knew NOTHING? Animals are born ready equipped with instinct.
Often I have illustrated this point by the example of a new-born
calf. Immediately it begins to struggle to stand up on all four
feet. It may fall back down a time or two. But usually, in a
matter of a very few minutes it is on its feet. And it knows where
to go -- for its "dinner." But a human baby must be taught to eat
-- must learn to walk. And not in five minutes. Often it takes
a year or more.
We seldom stop to realize that humans must either learn by
themselves, or be TAUGHT -- everything.
Until I read a synopsis of this new booklet this morning I
had never thought specifically of the fact we do teach our
on-coming generations how to EARN a living -- but not, in most
cases, how to manage what is earned. And few ever learn this by
themselves.
We have our trade schools. The principal function of most
universities is to teach the professions -- medicine, dentistry,
architecture, landscaping, the sciences, business administration.
But when I read the synopsis of our new booklet, "Managing
Your Personal Finances," I became enthusiastic immediately about
how seriously NEEDED is this new booklet.