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lellers
Neitber an orcbid or an onion -
b.
cause it'o
hard
to oay
which
io
the acco–
lade. Sc:ient.iata are coming c!<.e to
6nal
~porta
on
the
onk>n
aod how it curtaílo
fat iD the blood.
Orehida
die quick.ly aod
are
notfor
eatinJ.
Asido úom the frlvolltieo,
1
would like
to eommend you and your editorial otafr
for t.be continuiDg eoverage of food and
population.
•
There -
to be
ao
elemeot
iD
the
food
picture
that
io
frequeotly over–
loollecl .•.
M.-y
1
urp
that your iDveat.–
iptive
~portera
-'< .....,...,..
to the
problem of food deetruction by
ro·
denta .•.•
Tho World Health Organization
iD
Romo noted in
1968
that
iD
tbe previoua
year
33.5
million tono of
atored
graina
had
been
deatroyed by rodenta ••..
Last
yeu
a
N•~~>
Yon\
7'ima
-rtar
writiDg
úom
PtJdstan
told of rata
otor–
U.g
an averap of
12 poundo
of
rice
UD·
ckqround
pu
rat ....
In
the
PhilippiD•
a .25$
natíonal loea of rice, coro, buit.a.
vegetab.Jee. cacao, copra. sugar, etc.
ia
av.
erage annual
d..
truction and thia occu...
J.-be(ore.b.arvtiet·),": •.•
.....
k~
u•
14
Eaob rat
takea
a little
but
tbe
effect or
thousando of rata
is
far
greater
than any–
onewanto to aclmit.
Georp
Peabody,Jr~
NewYork,NY
Thls
iBa delinite orchid for your bou·
quet! You people havo done it agaiD.
1
thought the old format (articlea,
layou~
etc.) wao ao high
el..
and beyond
im–
provement u eou.ld be
imagiDed.
I
can
't
teU you how thrJUinc it
waa
for me lo ¡et
a>Y
band
OD
the
lirat
iosue dooe
the
D–
way.
I
had
my
doubll and
wu
alittle
diaap.
pointed to learn that the ma¡azine
would be cbanged,
especially
when I
leamed it would be cbanged
to
a (bor–
ron!)
newspapu tabloid
type
maguine.
1 mean, bow alepnt can a newapapu
be?!
lt'o fabulouol You've outdo6e your–
oel-l •.
J
love
i~
love
i~
love
it.
Koep it
cominc! Koep it high claeo,
l<eep
chanc–
ing it.
It
alwaya gota better. And free,
yetl It's almoat
too
muchl
Three
cbeera
for the whole atalrl
Excuse me wlille 1
linish
readiDg t.be
firat
new iaaue. Imagine
how
excited
1'11
be when l'm done! That article "How
Liberated
Can
You
Get?"
is
juot
too
muchl 1 thinlt J1llrame it. G-t.
creot..
peat! WeU dono!
Caro!
Balter,
Barberton, OH
'
Regarding Albania ("Tho World'a
FintAtheiotic State,n Fobrua.ry 8), u ao
old man wbo hu
experien~
a
creot
doal of
travail
iD
thia
land
of reJiCioua
rt.dom
(wbcee
eointl'
il
Cl.lmped
"IJI
God
We Tnllt"),l am roore
int.enet.d in
the
way Albania treall ita profi!Mrl,
misery-mon¡era aod orploite"' of t.be
elderly.
Let
us not
loae oigbt of tbe fact that
iD
thia
God-fearing country we have tbe
largeet
a>ilita.ry
appropriation iD the
world, while olderly poor
go
hungry,
are
muaed. lrilled and oxploited by
pro6·
teera
iD
nuraiDc bome rackelli
beaded
by
meo
high iD reli«ioua circlea.
Juot aa
SiDhad riel
himaelf of the old
mao of
the
aoa who faatened
himaelf
onlo
hia
abouldora,
10
hu Albania
Creed
illlelf of organlwd and corrupt religion
that
exploited tbe paople mucb
too
Ion¡.
The
real
Jeaua Chriot wbo waa con–
cerned wit.b the human conditk>n 2000
yearo ago would havo no lroublelivinc
iD
&ver Ho:r.ba'a
Albania.
(Biesoed
are
thoae who li-.,
pnctk>a
and teaob their
children aimplo
aiDcere
¡oodneaa.)
Saul Goodman,
Bronx,NY
Please cancel my subocripúon 10
Plaln
Truth.
1
can no loo¡er tolera
~e
lbe faalbat
you feel only
your
followers
are
lbe true
Chrisúans.
From lhe 111icle, "No Room
for
God
io lhe World·s
Fim
Alhe$><:
State," you give lhe ideo lhat lhe pcople
of Albania are just
as
weU off
UDder
alhei.sm
u
lhey are onbodoxy.
1
say,
4
-bull."
f~
h-It><
.~•m ~ ~.~o~tStanford
Daniel.
t
•'
Mobile,
AL
You havo a>Oved God úom
a
beautiful
catbeclral lo a aawduat trail.
Thio
iaaue
of
Phún
Trullo
11
awful;
God
won't
lib
it.
This
io
tha
begiDniDg of the
end
for
you.
E.M.Gant,
Nasbville,
TN
Here is my oolon for
Plain
Trullo:
"Plain
truth
ia
tbe
unlmowing
teachinr
the unwilllng todo the uru>..-ary."
Davic!Lane,
Oklahoma
City,
OK
The new Orchida and Oniona oection
featureo
98$
complimeotary lettera,
most of whicb are from the Bible
Belt •.. it figurea!
Alicia
Browninc,
Buena Park, CA
1 thou&ht you m.iB)lt be
ÍlliU<sted
iD
lhe
following: Lut 1'ucsclay wbeo baby-sitúo&
for a neighbor's dlild, lhe liule girl bad on
$esame Street. lo a portion of lhe sbow,
il
sbowed a film clJp of a postman riding –
bo.uback and delivering mail in lbe back–
woods
of KtlltUcky. To ooe faaúly be
handed a col?"
o(
P/ain
Truth
along wilh
lhe rest of lheir mail. Seeing
Plain
Truth
on a chilchen"s
8bow
wu lhe
1ast
place 1
ever expec:ted it to
be,
altbouB)l thc maga·
zine
does
sbow up in stran¡e plac:es u we
weUkoow.
Wilma R. Ncal,
Kansas City, MO
1 enjoy your magazine. Your 111icle oo
"Smut Stays in Classrooou. Scbool
Board
Rules~
wu
veJY
aood-
However.
··wm
tbe Real Criminal
Pleue Stand UpT' did
no<
deal with the
real problem lhat people are experiencia&
in our eountry 10day. h
i$
true there
om
all
types of criminals and we are alrected by
..wbite--collar crimc," etc. but we can sur·
vive lhose, at lea.st _physically. We
CllnnO~
bowevcr, survive tbe pbysical crimes being
couunitted on our atnets,
and
in
our
bomes,etc;.
Pcople throuB)loutlhe couotry are living
"' rear of robberiea. rapes, and senseless
murden.
Ooe repon
J
saw rcce:ntly said tbat over
20,000
people are murdered caeb yea.r and
it's inereasing.
You cannot realittically expect
lO
spiri–
tuaily aave tbe entite country
- so
how do
we
deal with
the crime now
a.ocl
bow
do
we
protect our citizens?
lthinl<
lhat magazu>ea sucb as
youn,
and
other media owe lhe pcople help and
&D·
swers to
this
crucial problem. Wben•people
Uve in fea.r for lheir lives - everything
is
alfected - vol\.antec.r work, churcb
at~
tendance.. visitation.s, tru.st ia people,
etc.
Wh.at
is
your potition on ucapital puo·
il!unent," the co11n"s leni•"")'· lhe
loop–
boles
iD
the
oourts,
lhe crime
m
the stceets
and
iD
our
bomes, tbe "Youlh Cornc:tions
A~~
.
lf
you want
to
serve lhe pcople and belp
them, you will deal wilh tbese problems
not avoid tbem. 1 am from Oklahoma and
r
know that ai.me
i.s
all ovcr tht
country, in
lhe
ruta!
ueas,
as weU
u
tbe ciúes. 1 bope
you will llave 111iclcs oo tbit and be an
iolluence
in
belping
lO
solve
this
problem.
Yema
Ano
Bird,
WuhinglOD, D.C.
• PIUJN
rw:uJ
tite
unter
spnod
of
t.his Wue
for
<J.tpeeialftaturw
on
crime.
.Aiso
wrltefor
our,ntl"ly
update~
IHx>kltt, "Crlmt Can Bt
Stop¡Hd.
H
~·
• ·. ....
'"
~ ~
-
Somo montbs ago,
1
requested a oopy,
if
Slill available. of your publicatk>o det.aiJin&
sevctt prerequisites ror
tuccess.
J
had
come
ICrOS$
'ao advertisement of a few years
"&<'
io a magazine, and bad no inlding from
thi.s
that
youn wu a rdigioo-oriented
or–
ganization . ..
In
tbc interest of eonscrvatioo of natural
resources and of human etfort, 1 write thiJ
leuer
to
ask
you 10 delcle my name from
the list
to
wbom your literature aod
Plaín
Trvth
magazineare
IODL
1 am 74
yun
of
qe,
a
paduate
of a
prestigious university, a registered profcs–
siooal civil engineer for rony-five ycan,
aod long ago diacovered bow 1 must live
witbout concerning myself fuúlely with
matte.rs of rel.igion.•..
Plaln
Trutlt
docs •• exccUcnt job io de–
scrlbing the situacion the world
is
io
toda
y,
and the seemingly likely cooaequenceo of
pcople punuin& lheir prescot
oourses.
1
cowd not more fuUy asree with
your
coo·
clusions.
Howevcr,
Plain
Truth
also, in anide af.
ter anicle, fails to go any farther tban lhat
- except to usure the reader lhat only
~~~~ve"¡'¡,¡,=~~ !~r~~:~:"~
timea
is
uodeceived as to how lhey sbould
aot; and lhe cssence of hiJ trulh appears 10
be 10 bclieve wbat the Bible aays "liter–
aUy."
In
your article
in
lhe Febnwy 8
isouc of
Plain
Truth
you write, "Wby
sbould it [tbe Bible) not be t.Uen litetally.
just like cvery olher
book?"
Does any
i.JI.
telligcnt person takc as the trulh what is
written in every other
book?
1 ccnainly do
oot.
You may be doing a
pan
of mankind a
peat service; 1 teod 10
thinl<
lhat you
are
IDleJidiD&
10
do
jUJI
tlltl
(lftl
1101
&mOll&
tbooe
you could belp in lllY way, bence
bonesty prompts me 10
10
inform you.
Anhur
J.
<rapp,
B.mdeniOo,
FL
The Will to Live
vs•
theWish to Die
by Dr. Lyn 8arrow
Edit~s
Nou: Dr.
Borrow
ls
onLofAu.stN•
/la'J
f~niiii)Jt ~X~I
on eh/Id
ps)•chol~gy.
Australia has lhe hJgbest suicide rate in
the
British
Commonweallh nations, ex·
ceeding
that or eilher lhe Uni ted Kingdom
or lhe United States. And lhe iDcideoce of
both suicide and attempted suicide
is
in–
creasing.
Suicide it
oow
oneoflhelcadiagcausesor
dealh
iDAustralia.
Every
five bows somcooe
ltills
himself, and every lhird day an Austro·
lian youth commits suicide.
During
tbe next
year, one Australian in SOO
will
make a sui·
eide try.
Who
are
lhue people who talco lheir owó
lives? ·
Somo
persotU
are
more prone lhlll olhen.
For
exampte,
old meo form tbe lar¡est
voup. More fcmalea
thao
maks attempt
IUicide, but more a>ales are successful. Tbe
targest voup of
"sUCCOISflll~
female suicidea
are lbe
4S-SS
age group.
lt always seems u-agic wben an old person
fecls lhat Ufe is no longcr wonb living, but
the realization that more and more
ot
today's young pcople hove loot tbeir
wiU
to
Uve
is
cvea more cl..is.tutbin¡..
In
lhe
15-co-19
ase
&JOUP,
suicide ..,..
couots for more deatbs
thao
any olher
sin¡lc
cause, except accideots. lo lhe
25-to-34
ase
group, as many u 14 petcent
ot
all
deatbs
are self-inllicted.
Are suicide
vjctl¡nJ..oiPMn~
..
~·noL
Few poaplé wbo atteotpt siilaüe woulcf
¡;e–
judged "inaa.oe,"
from
the paychiatric stand–
point, lhou¡b, ofcoune, many are
in
need or
payclúatric
care.
lnSlead of insanity, it is commoo lonc:li·
ness.
feelinp of oolaúoQ, and spiritual
pov–
eny that cause lhe common suicide. Tbe
' 'vulnerable" person u.sually feds that lhe
demands oo
him
exceed his inne,r resoun:cs
to
mect tbose dem1.nds.
People are also vulnerable when lbey are
lone!y. when lheir
U
vea are devoid ofat least
one meaoiDgfw relalionship v.ilh anolher
person.
This
social ilolatioo can
be
ver¡
de–
structive, especially wbcn akobol
is
uaed
10
"..:ape"
this
lonelioea.
Suicide
PreftDIÍOO ••••
.•. is
everyonc's bU&incss. lt sbouJd stan
:~!: b~~: ~,:: ':l:~~;:r.~h~o~~f~
whicb aggression, quam:ling. and reject.ion
are
lbe order of lhe day. lf they don't at–
tempt a suicide in tbeir youth,
sndt
childreo
srow
up
iniO a "vulnerable" adwL
Oo the olher baod, a child
raised
iD
a
loving home, in a climate of "psyc:bological
safety," tonel$ 10 become a secure adult. He
it bcucr equipped to withstaod defeat ftil–
ure. or the sli.ngs and a rrows of ouuageous
fortune.
Althougb tberapy is lhe province of lhe
psydliatrút, an awaru..s of important
symptoms
of Rlicidal drives sbould be
basa<
knowledge for evcryonc. Watcb out for
sips
of uowarranted rau¡ue, excess sleep, Jack of
drive and
interes~
sadness. a burdcn ofguilL
&Dd 1 general SCD.SC
O(
hopclessoess.
Talking about sufcidc - along witb lhe
token suicide auempts, whicb are obviously
inteoded
to
fail - showd always be taken
teriously. Medicaladvice showd
be
souB)lt.
For the spirituaUy beun pcroon, "'lb
nothio&
to
bd.ievc in. help
&a
more clif&cuh
10 offer.
As
long ago as 1899, William Jamea
said, "Tbe sovereign eure for worry
Íl
dcep
reUgious failh." My experience over many
decades has sbown Qlearly the D11lh of these
simple words. o
WEEK ENDfNG APRIL
S, 1915