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PUBLISHER
ANNOUNCES
NEW FORMAl
And
NOW an announcement. T he
J-\..
time has come we feel that
our readers sho uld receive at
leas t around twice the number of
arti cles. twice as often, semimon th ly,
in a more economica lly produced
fo rma l wh ich will come to you
beginning February 1975.
An astute businessma n manages
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turn disadvantages and o bs tacles
into a big lea p fo rward and to his
own adva nt age. One of th e world 's
biggest tro ubles right now is esca lat–
ing inftation a nd
a
wo rsening econ–
o my in vi rtua lly eve ry nation .
lnfta tioo has hit us in cost of pape r,
ink. postage. We find we ca n RE–
DUCE
cosr
very substa ntially whil e
g iving o ur readers TWICE the a rti–
cles, TWICE as o ften, TWICE THE
VALUE -
if
o ur reade rs will sacrifice
the costly "slick paper finisb" a nd
the full-colo r illus tra tio ns. We felt
we were maki ng important p rogress
when we s tepped the
Plain Truth
up
to one of the fi nest produced maga–
zines
in
the world, with a circulation
of ove r tbree milli on copi es. But it
was a luxury for which we cha rged
o ur readers NOTHJNG. We have al –
ways published the
Plain Truth
wi thout any subscri p ti oo price in–
come or a ny ad vertising revenue.
And now we be lieve o ur readers
will be happy to give up the more
luxurious appearance, but receive
TWICE the va lu e, TWICE the number
o f a rticles. TWJCE as ofteo. Now
TWICE EVERY MONTH, and Still we
cha rge you no thing. How's tha t for a
b ig dou ble bar ga in and a ll FREE?
Our goal is to ma ke the
Plain
Truth
the widest circulat ed maga–
z ine in the world. severa ! times the
three mill ion circula tio n. WiH you
he lp us by asking friends to sub–
scri be a t no subscription cost wba t–
soever? Hel p us reach this BIG goa l
- the LARGEST CIRCULATED MAGA–
ZINE ON EARTH.
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what our readers
say
The Eyes Have lt
1
hm·e a common
C)
e
J 1 ~ca~c.
myop1c
aotigmati>m.
Thi~
Í\
a cond11ion that 1s
normall) inheríted. but can be acquíred.
Al an) ratc. líght Í> ver!' damagmg. C>pe–
ciallv reflected li!!ht. The
Plam Trurh
and
the
-Good
Ne11·~
ymagazine> havc >uch a
glo'>>)' coat on them that
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mu;t angle them
in a dirccuon or pO>ÍliOil tha t rcflcw. the
light away from
In)
fa~c ~o
that thc glare
does nol obscure thc arucle>.
You might consider
a
papcr tha t
doe~
not gi'c this problcm
w
pcoplc.
A
buff
papcr would be a blessing lo us. not a
reduction 111 quality.
e·
Claude ..
folcdo. Ohio
•
Ediror'v nare: Beginning nexr monrh. rhe
Plam Truth
11·i//
be primed on so(rer paper.
in 1ab/oid formar . fearuring more nnicles
per poge (like ··wor/dlmrch ") and hm•e a
Garner Ted Armstrong
Speaks Out! -
Conlinued
acceptab le s tandard o f society, then
it is o bvious this is a giga ntic lea p in
the opposite directio n!
Firs t, it was " in with evolutio n";
then it was "out with p rayer.'' Now
it is "i n with profa nity. fi lth, and
violence."
If p raye rs sho uld not be a llowed,
then the
opposite
of prayer - blas–
phemy. sacrilege. a nd the ridicule of
praye r - should likewise be dis–
a llowed .
God's Word says, " My people a re
destroyed for
/ack of knowledge .
. .
And ince you have forgo tten the
law of your G od ,
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will a lso forge t
your children" (Hosea
4:6,
RSV).
Obvio usly, in a " kn owledge ex–
plosion " of the publish ing of about
1.000
books each mo nth in tb is
world . G od is more conce rned with
qualitat ive
knowledge tha n quao–
tita ti ve . We live in the age of total
trash in literature. Smut and fil th
a re readily availab le in a ny come r
d rugs to re magazine rack. But, so
long as the freedom o f cho ice is the
ruling factor,
a
parent o r a young–
ster may freely decide
not
to
buy
where pornogra phy. racism. a nd as–
sorted p rurient ma te ria l may be
readily availa ble in pub lic book–
stores . But in the classroom such
mudrjiwer "¡umaround rime... Be wtuclring
for rlre finr issue in
ear~~·
Fehruarr.
Worldwatch
1
receivec.J the
Ploin Trwlr
a
fcw c.Jay' ago
and
1
rcall) like the ne" fcature. "World–
walch...
ll
Jet:.
me know what 1., happenmg
uround thc world but in
~hon arucle~.
Cccily
H ..
Rale1gh.
N .
C.
l'm very cnlhusiastic ovcr thc ncw look
of thc
Piain Trurh.
l t\ now more news–
brcakmg lhan any time 111
memor~.
AnJ
the black-and-whitc picturcs makc ít even
more new., oriented. Thc amde., are
~hon.
conci~c.
crísp. and fast-movmg. likc
¡1/ews–
wee/..
or
U. S.
Ne~>'S
and World Repon.
The
new "Worldwalch" is cxccllent. and
1
would like to see this expandcd.
Patrick G..
Trenton. N.
J.
ma te ri a l is being given the comp lete
stamp of a pproval of "ed uca tio n."
As
such. children are led to implicitly
trus t in, and bel ieve. what t hey are
taug ht. Outside the class room, a clear
distinction be tween wha t is avai la ble
a nd what o ne may choose is mad e .
Why. then, such dogged determ ina–
tion to insist smut must be spoon fed
to children in the classroom?
That a ny thinking pe rson could
ho nestly be lieve s uch books be–
lo ng in American classrooms is a
mystery . Perha ps. in o ur ultral ibe ral
belief that we mus t objecti vely " tell
it like it is" the re will someday
emerge a new group of emancipated
free th inkers who wi ll serio usly ad–
vocate bringing into di nner conver–
sation the olfac tory d ifficulties o f
da ily living.
J
ust beca use i t "happens" doesn't
make it "newsworthy"!
And j ust because the people who
read the smutty words know what
t hey mea n d oesn't imply they
should be l i bera ll y s p rinkl ed
t h ro ugho ut th e conve rsa ti o n of
gove rnment leaders - and found
thro ug hou t our children's tex tbooks
in school. Le t the gu tte r remain the
g ut ter. Le t the graffi ti remain ,
if
it
mus t, in its ignom inio us a nd shame–
ful p lace - on the to ile t wa lls.
But don' t put it into our tex tbooks
and into ou r chiJdren's minds!
o
PLAIN
TRUTH
January
1975