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about how rich she is, her marriage and divorce plans, nor where she
is and how she sunbathes. We have largely lost interest in Jackie.
"If our hearts and treasures are in the Work, we will surely talk about
it, and so we should. The problem of course is hqw we talk about it.
As Mr. Armstrong has said about everything from shotquns to sex, it is
not the thing, but the misuse of the thing that is wrong."
Then he continued with much more that is very good and it's much in
line with what we've been trying to do here in the Pasadena area and
through the pages of the GOOD NEWS. We're trying to be certain that
there is the proper kind of interaction between department heads here,
between employees and department heads, or you might say, between
employees and administration. It's also very important to have inter
action between the student body and the faculty, between the faculty
and the administration, the administration and the student body. That
interaction brings about dialogue, and dialogue brings about better
communication, and better communication prevents or helps to prevent,
at any rate, misunderstanding. There can always be differences of
opinion, but there need not be so many things to misunderstand. Hence
we have found it to be reasonably successful on two occasions to
answer questions from people in the forums that we've had. Mr. LaRavia
and I are responsible here in headquarters for quite a few people in
our respective departments, so we have gathered them together twice
now over the last three months and have given them an opportunity to
ask any question that they might have.
As a consequence of Mr. Fahey's article, which I saw before it was
published, I thought it was so good and so much to the point that
I added a short comment here for the PASTOR'S REPORT: We should "do
everything we can to clear up any rumors or gossip that involve our
areas of responsibility, but your help and cooperation is needed.
All of you that receive the PASTOR'S REPORT should feel free to write,
asking for comments on any rumor you may have heard. I will write a
reply to each letter. It needs to be emphasized that any question,
any subject is welcomed. The questioner will not be presumed to believe
the rumor or the gossip that he's asking about unless he states that
he does. Rather, it will be assumed that he is trying to help stop
rumors and the harmful effects they produce in the church."
I have found, and it's been Mr. Armstrong's unfortunate observation
as well over the past several years, that when people have somethinq
on their mind, they'll almost always ask anyone but the person more
than likely to have the answer. I don't know why that is true, but
if it's a question in a particular area or about a particular matter,
it would seem that it would be very, very easy for each person who
had something on his mind concerning that particular matter to just
simply go directly to the person more than likely to have the answer
and have the right answer. But almost invariab.},y, that isn't what
happens. It is discussed with almost every other person, including
those who would have little likelihood to know what really is involved
or to be able to contribute much other than confusion.
So we'll see that maybe this gets into the GOOD NEWS and give our
brethren at large the opportunity to ask what they might have on their
minds about subjects which are, as Mr. Fahey pointed out, so very
important to them because, as he said, we do have our heart and our
treasure in the Work, and we are interested in it. It's just a