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A very sobering issue of
The Plain
Truth-now like an entirely new magazine. The meaning of
world events today-a prophetic look into tomorrow!
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N ALL our worldwide activities, I have personally
been initiating a housecleaning.
The Plain Truth
is
now a much improved magazine. As always, it still is
ahead of its time!
It
is entirely unique-unlike any
other-giving you the
meaning
of the now fast-moving
world events today-and giving you a look into the world
TOMORROW! You get this UNDERSTANDING in no other
magazine.
The P/ain Truth
is now running around two million
copies monthly.
It
should be the largest-circulation
publication on earth. We hope to expand it to that.
When we turned our calendars over to January 1,
1980, we were entering a new DECADE not only-but a
new and more active phase of this fateful
TIME
OF THE
END! As I have written before, entering the decade of the
1980s is an enti rely "new ball game."
Actually the world did not realize it, but we entered
the " time of the end" (of this world's civilization) about
January 1, 1900-as the 20th century dawned.
How well I remember that moment! I knew nothing at
that moment of the fateful century I was to experience. 1
was
?Y2
years old. My parents took me toa "watch–
night" in a Methodist church in Des Moines, lowa.
Along about 9 o'clock that night I wanted to lean over
and go to sleep. My father kept waking me and sternly
whispering I must stay awake. Time and again 1 would
start to drift off into slumber-but my father was very
attentive. What a relief when the clock struck 12-the
old century gone and the hectic 20th century ushered in.
At that moment 1 had no desire to live (awake) on into
this 20th century. All 1 wanted was to drift off to sleep!
The old horse-drawn streetcars had just been replaced
by the electric trolley car. Very few homes had
telephones (hung on a wall, with a handle to ring a bell).
Such things as airplanes, radio, television, motion
pictures were unheard of.
Modern science was yet in its infancy. Technology and
the Machine Age were in swaddling clothes. No one had
yet heard of the automobile. Indian tribes still ran free
from parts of lowa and west and south. But
2~
years
before, 1 had seen for the first time a President of the
May 1980
United States- William McKinley.
But what has whipped by since then? When 1 was 11
Orville Wright made the first flight of sorne 50 or 100
feet in an "airplane." By 1914 airplanes played an
important part in World War
l.
The automobile came–
fi rst as a "horseless carriage" guided by a stick instead
of a wheel. World War 1 started the downward plunge in
mórals. I was shocked to see women working as elevator
operators in the Marshall Field store in Chicago.
Women were beginning to "win their rights." Everybody
was out to GET his "rights." Women won the vote. The
emancipation of women had begun- and with it the
COJlapse of the FAMILY STRUCTURE.
After World War I it became legal to publish
information about sex. The moral toboggan-slide was on.
Family life began disintegrating. Science and .technology,
promising the world a new age of leisure, license and
luxury, began producing more and more terrifying
weapons of mass destruction. Then, carne radio, movies
and after World War 11, television. We entered the age
of mass transportation, instant communication, the
NUCLEAR Age that empowers one madman at the head
of a government to blast all LlFE from off this planet.
But never mind! We now can go to other planets!
A man by my family name (but no relation) was the
first to set foot on the moon. We have sent cameras to
land on the surface of Mars and send back close-ups of
the martian surface.
All the while, people have more and more fiercely
striven against others to "GET" or to "TAKE" from them.
Violence has spread over all nations of the earth. We
await the WAR that will DESTROY ALL HUMANlTY!
In this mad, mad struggle for advantage in a
technological world that in near-fatal sickness HAS LOST
ITS WAY,
The P/ain Truth
continues, after more than 46
years, to give you true UNDERSTANDING of today's brutal
world and to give you a look into the FUTURE-to bring
you the oooo NEWS of what finally WILL take place on
this earth! A time when PEACE and RIGHTEOUSNESS,
HAPPINESS and knowledge of RIGHT WAYS will cover the
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