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HIDIWI
Pottatlal
Yesterclay during my lunch bow,
1
r..d
Mr.
Anmtron(t latest anide oo '"The
ID·
aedible HW'ftan Potentialfl and 1 wub you
would let
111m
lcnow bow much 1 enjoyed
reading it.
1
am aware of mao•s pote.ntial,
but !he way Ood has in.spired him 10 write
that uticle ... wow!l!
1
had trouble dis·
enga¡ing my brain and getting baclc 10
work.
·
K..,p up the
good
"'orlo: - cveryone of
you.
Donald
J .
Lohr,
JobntiOwn. PA
Afler jusi finuhing Part V of "The In·
cr<:dible Human Potential," my mind
is
whlrling and my hean bunling wilh gral·
itude....
Just 10 lulow and undentand the great
plan
and
J"'rpc<e
Ood has in store for
manl<iod
ftlls
me with unspeabble, inocm·
prchauíble Joy!
Just
10 tnow that
AU.
people. little and big
are wanted
by Ood
10
~ld"'á1UJ'\o re.stbre1fi.'Ml.'ff'j>q~
ti
Wagger.~
ing to the human mitl.d.
J
don-t undcr1tand
it- bull
b~lieve
it.l know it to be true.
Sincc readin¡ a¡ain bow Lucifer, who
had evetythin¡ ¡oing ror
bim,
and
how
he
let
hi$
cbanoe
slip and drag¡ed ono-third or
Ood's •QC•II
down
wilh him. 1
am
more
determined lhan
ever
lO
bold (Ul lO my
faitb and lcnowledge and
also
10seclc more
and more or Ood's way
as
he givcs me
ability.
1 want to shout 10 tbe world: "Ood is
alive and in ocmmand, just stop and lisU:n
to bis
LOVE
explod:ing. ove.r the airwavcs!"
T1aank
Ood for you. Oarner Tod, and
AU.
who are canying out Ood't onlers.
Prai$c Ood, hil ocmmandrnenll are n&)l·
PRIME-TIME
CRIME STARTS
AT NINE
by
J.
G.
Calender
This faU the rnajor television networlcs
are implementing a new programming
policy. They have agreed to postpone all
programs that are judged "in·
appropriate for viewing
by
a general au ·
dienc:e" un
ti!
afler
9
p.m. The houn of 7
to
9
wiD
be reserved ·ror
~ramily
pro–
grams."
This
new policy has met witb a great
acrimonious bacldash of criticlsm, espe–
cially from producer Norman Lear, who
is
planning
10
seelc
a
court injunctlon
against the networl:: rule. When Lcar
discovered that only
one
o(
!he 24 "All
in
the
Family~
progrsms
or
last
season
would havo
been
peniüttod to be run
uncensorcd., he moved his number--one
show to
9
p.m. Monday and sought to
WRE.I< ENDINO NOVl!MBl!R 1, 1975
teous. And just
10
know that
1
bave
a
pan
to play! Thanks 10 you.
lfl Were Cod ...
Emily
P.
Bcaver,
McCordsvíUe,
IN
1
am nol onc
wbo
writes
vuy onc.n.
But
afler
readiQC Au¡. 2, "Personal. from Mr.
Herbert W. Armstrong" on
"lf
You Were
God, How Would You Look al This World
Today?"
in
Pla;n
Truth~
1 bavc
co
say
somethíog or CJCplode.
h
i$ worrdcrrul,
more wooderf\11, and most wonderful.
I
plan 10 keep itto read over and over again.
Also,
'"The lncredibk HW'ftan Poten·
tial"
1 would liltc
10
shout lhat 10 the
peoplc or lhe world. Those lhal
are
mi>er–
able and unsatisfted.
So.
bcre i$ my shoul·
ingmoney.
Mrs. Paul McQuccn.
Wayoesburg, KY
dren?" You m.i¡ht
try
writin¡ it wíthout
quoling fl'om lhe Biblc. Thcn you will see
that without lhat book you havc only phys–
íeal surroundinp that you imagine may
speak
10 you.
For
the
reocrd.
1am
a
Christian.
1do oot
l¡uestioo
Ood, hut you
asked,
alt
you were
Ood ..•
r
and
Ibis
is
my
answer.
1 also
happento think that lhe world
u
not bad.
Tbe world i$ beautiful
and so are
Ood's
elúldren. We have problenú but we'll work
tbcm out.
Try
and rerne_mbcr
r.hat
we no
longer reed people 10 the üons - Íl helps at
times.
Sm<*iac
JudyKonos.
Mel&iri~
LA
11
is
lhanks 10 you thal 1 have JIOpped
smoking. 1 who needed at least two packs
of cigarelles a day. 1 made lhis decision
aflcr
having read your anitle on the frífhl·
ening truth or the noxious elfect or
l)lC()o
line, sinec
1
wu
begjnning 10 sulfer from
emphysemL
1 S.,
Beiru~
Lebanon
1 would like 10 teU you about yow
dcx:umentary
"Smoke Unlil
You Dlt."
1
read that anide tbree times and 1 irnmedi·
ately stopped smoking.
11
has now been
five months s inoe 1 s10pped smoking and
1
lfl
were Ood 1would come down 10 thís
am
happiet. 1 101d myself lhat
1
wu
ruin-
eartb
that 1 ereated
and lalk
wilh my cbil·
ing my heallh,
lince 1
had
been smoking
dren. Reassuring lhem mentally and
pbysi·
for four years.
11
wu hard for lhe
ftm
cally
that
1""
here
olwoys.
and
pve lhem
filleeo
clays, hut with. a litUe b;t or
wíll
Ordútb
u4
Oelou
Regarding "Orchids and Oníons" - 1
li.ke
this
scction
of
your paper vcry much.
but 1
un
qucstioning yourappeUation "Or·
cbids" - implying letU:rs in favor or your
poücies
or
"niee"
letten, and "Ooiona" -
implying leuenor
the
opposite ill:.
To my way or thínkins, an orcbid
u
a
v..-onhless Oowcr - it
doeso•t
even have a
fragranoe.
There is noth.ín¡ more fragranl than On·
ions bubbling in a sttw on a cold, wi.nter
aftcmoon, whcn hunger pangs are g.oaw..
ing.
.
liow about the deü&)ltful groen onion.
which bri&)ltcos up a salad with
bolh
color
and flavor?
Tbe onion
u:
a ooblc vegetable. The or–
chid
is
a ftower oflitUe real value e.uptu
a Status symbol indic:ating the prescnoe
o(
umoney" or wea1th.
Mn. MollyRasmussen,
Spriogfield, MO
1
want 10 ocmmeot oo tbe
"'rdúds
and
Onions"
oollllllD 111
l'luin Trv.th.
h
mues
me cbuc:kle
&O
read
or 50Dleone
who reads
your
material and perhaps
listeus
lo the
broad,casl and ocntinually hean about lhe
wo~derful
Kil\gdom or Ood· and what
it
will
be like, cte. Then lhey send you an
onion .and aay,
·~ou
people are 10 pessi..
mutic."
ls
thal pessim.ism?
1
eagerly await
!be clay.
1
shower you w1lh orcbids.
Cathíe Morpn.
OuQuoin, IL
the courage and undentanding lhll cvery
power
~ne ~·
!"!''er
11.1
un
19
years
old, .
ehild..-ed•fromhiso..beuatb.<r-
-
~~idJl
U
~!J!.dlc'!"Clgl\..ljl8.1bc.
l
-- --
1
would teach
m
y cbildren (aU or lhem)
-~-
-naV.'iCijill'i'e11
~ ~te ~~-
While 1
w~
The
spirii"órltoll)'Wood
------1
tbe rcaJ mcatning of lovc...thc gívin& of
smoktng•. l..d•dn
t
partaapate
mueh
U\
A.ftcr reading your anicte on the ..Spiril
oneself."
Th<r
wou ld havo no need to
spons aCUVIlltS, beeause_l
wu
always out or Hollywood." 1 would like
10
say
1
agree
seareh ror me 10 a book (that few read) nor
of.~reath; ~ow,
1
~m
a':"ve
111
r~cquct.ball,
with you ... and dua¡ree. The particular
in
scbooll
or ¡alherinp
where
prayen lose
~g.
skattn..
~Wimmtng.
tennu, Wel¡ht· point
1
disaaree
00
i$ lhe
tilms
or Francis
value throu&)l repetition.
1
would
want
lifling and btking. 1 made rour or my Ford CoppoiL You severely pul dowe
hu
very badly 10 walk and
talk
amOQ¡ my
fricnds read _your
~~
too.
and
th~y
new
film
on
Viemam. 1
am
foteed 10 diS·
elúldrea everyclay
(u we
do wilh our
s10ppod smokios, saytos, lf you can
do
1
~
agree
wilh lh1s. Hi$ intentioo
is
10 sbow
ooa.nhly ehildren).
so
can
we." There are now fow
?~
us
w~o
bow sickening and evil
war
is. He
is
nol
Chíldren wmtOUl" direct family !ove are
no loo¡er smoke. and
we
parttctpate In glorifyíng
i~
but thu is
10
shock lh ·ewer
apt lo be delín.quents. lf our eanhly chíl·
sporu together.
in
lO
realiutíon.
·
e VI
drco wcre expectcd to obey us by lhe
R. O..
The poinl o'r the "Godfalher" films were
teaching rrom a book they would all be
Jolieue,
PQ,
Canada
to show lhat power corrupts. "Tommy"
íl·
delinquen
u.
Children
netd
correctíoo and
•
For
Jurth~'
lnfo"""tion on 4moldnt
-
lustnted how people would abuse and
ex·
guiclanoe and authority.
1ww
-•Nl-Aand
-.idutr«lm"
S7l'l()/(e
In·
ploil people.
Perhaps the next artic:le you wriU: sbould
jwu
o
nonsmolclnt
bptotukr
--
tM
""'
be
'"Does
Ood Have ÍlDle for Hil Chil·
tu-spfflJd
f<iJturt
tmicle
on
pp.
8·9.
rescind thc oontrovenial
~family"
rule.
All the crilicism of this new policy
is
entirely unjustiJied, in my opinion, be·
cause the new rule
(if
properly implt·
mented) promises
10
be !he greatest
victory for morality sinoe Ozzie and
Rarriec
slept in separate
beds.
l::iues
were limited to three seconds, and
Las–
sicwas lbe leadlng lady ofvidoo-land.
The sucx:ess of the new rule
wiiJ
de–
peod oo tbe realizatioo by parents
everywbere lhat violenoe lilerally gushes
from prime-time television from
9
p.m.
to 11 p.m. (ifit doesn't "gusb" from yoo:r
set,
uy
adjusting your
color
control
10-
ward red), and lhat sex
roela
from what
has beeo appropriately
called
!he "boob
tu
be."
lf
the "family bour" had not been
instituted, we would have bad only two
altematives: watching o ur children go
communist or throwing a briclc through
thc quasar controls.
The fint step !he network madc wu
lo
remove
aU
ofl'ens:ivc language tbat
had aept onto the airwaves. The words
that bave aiready found their way to !he
cuttiog room ftoon are sucb Jocl::er-room
smut as Hvirgin:• "atrair,"
and
•'vasco–
tomy." Thankfully, sucb ol>seenities as
"virgin~
are being replaced by the ap·
propriate moral equivalent: "totally in·
nooent."
1lús
ruling
wiiJ
bave its
dfcct
on reli·
gious programming as weD. Al Ouist·
mas, we'IJ bave
10
sing ahout "round
yoo totally innocent" Mary, wbile
Pro–
teslant preacben
will
be reduoed to
"heclc-fire and dam-ation" sermons.
The next step ls
10
citan
up the vio–
lenco.
lt
a top cop
show,
sucb
u
Kojal::,
airs
from
8:30
to
9:30,
!he firat balfhour
•o;ould
6nd
old baldy sudcing on
a
lolli·
pop, l::eeping to the
speed
limit, and
spealcing gently to his inept cronies and
criminal suspects. The second balf bour,
bowever, would bave
hlm
chain smolc·
ing, sbouting curses, browbeating
drunks, and shooting !he bad guy in
a
breathless
car
cha.se. The only problem
with
tbis
is
the ratio&'. Kojak could con·
ceivably end up at
borh
the 10p and
hottom of the Nielsen ratings, depend·
ing
on
wbicb blllfbour is surveyed.
The
third
and ultimate step of the
Ed
Rimshaw,
Dvblin.CA
"family rule" sbould be to bave all news
banned from the
7
p.m. to
9
p.m. s lot.
Networl: news would bave lo stop aU
coverage of bad news, violcnce, crime,
and war. ARer all, if violcnoe is forbid–
den lo actors, wby sbould we allow the
ualthingl
Meanwhile, local news broadcasts will
have to replaoe those handsome fashion
m«?<fels on ..cyewitness news,. with some
typical uglies, oldies, and baldies from
bac:k in the copy room. After all, if sexy
women
are
to be banned from tbe boob
tube,
1
demand that aU !hose sexy malo
newsmen be bidden behind tbe U.P.I.
machine, far away from my impression·
able wifc. Lel lrving
R.
Levine replace
Jobo Chanoellor as NBC ancbonnan!
Eventually. of course. !he "family
bour" sbould become 24-bour policy.
After
all,
my c.hildren must be al JCbool
eariy in lhe morning and are tberefore
seldom awake durin¡;
¡b~
8
p.m.
10
9
p.m. "family bour," espedaJiy in wmter..
Aod,
who knows, wben l'm not borne
!he little monsten may sneak a peak at
the second balf orKojak.
o
JI