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Show The Paper That Dares To Take April 15, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 5 A Stand THE E.P. THORNTON COLUMN Billy James Hargis.. If you do not know who he is, this will be dull Have you ever been to a funeral? How did you feel about it? 3. Do you believe in life after death? 4. Have any of your friends or relatives ever died? Begin this students to write strategy by asking up their own obituary. Strategy 6. The Epitaph: Try to find out from students what they would want engraved on their tombstones, what would be an ac- which he founded. Hargis enterprises were many and varied. Conducted tours, radio and TV broadcasts, speaking engagements, overseas missionary work. His newspaper, Christian Crusade ' Weekly, that reached 200,000 circulation, is still being published and he is writing for it. When I first heard the charges against Dr. Hargis, I think I reacted in a normal way. I have seen so many reading. If you do know, you probably have been concerned, grieved, shocked and disappointed by the recent revelations concerning his personal life. There can be no doubt that he ami his staff have made a huge contribution to the American awareness of the communist threat, and that he has made many enemies who would like to do him in. I have acquired a large number of tracts, editorials, booklets published by this man of great defamed, pro-Americ- shot or shot at, chased out of office, Erma J. Christensen connot accused, tried, always A CORNER ON victed (John Connally) that I energy. EDUCATION Hargis took a hard look at old had thought the Justice Douglas, and came out for merely decided Hargis' execution A STUDY OF DEATH his impeachment in a 1970 booklet time had come. THE THROUGH written by Julian Williams of But having been a contributor CELEBRATION OF LIFE over the years to the Hargis comHargis' Christian Crusade. In 1974 noted columnist John D. Lofton, plex, I made a very simple invesErma J. Christensen Jr. did likewise. Senator Strom tigative move. I wrote Dr. Hargis Thurmond wrote to me on March and asked him if he intended to try Two distinguished men have 18th, 1971, closing his letter, I to clear his name, and I said to him collaborated on a paper titled: "A share your view that Justice-Douglathat if he did not try, he would have Study of Death Through the should be impeached." (as we Baptists put it) destroyed his Celebration of Life." They are Dan Smoot in 1969 wrote Christian testimony for the future. both atheistic secular humanists.' newsletters At the same time I wrote to sledgehammer This is Read what they my. of American Christian College, 6310 exposing the connection planned for school curricula for the Douglas as a salaried President of E. 30th St., Tulsa, Oklahoma children of our nation. Their the Albert Parvin Foundation 741 14 and asked them for the facts. names, Sidney B. Simon arid Joel created by Los Angeles gambling They sent the story, said they had Goodman. interests. Gerald Ford joined in the severed all connections with Dr. This writer found much of immovement to impeach Douglas. Hargis, had been hurt financially, portance and relevance, to our In 19S8 Phoebe Courtney's but that their fine cause does not of the "values clarification American seem hopeless. Meanwhile the study Independent classes now coming into Utah conservative newspaper published Christian Crusade Weekly con. schools as "pilot programs" under a shocking table showing the tinues to reach my desk, containing Social Studies TA for Tots, TA articles by Dr. Hargis. voting record of the 9 Supreme for Kids , M ACOS (Man, A Course Court judges then in office under Other concerned Americans Of Study). Earl Warren, compiled by Senator can write to Dr. Hargis, and write There is little that causes Eastland of Mississippi. The test to American Christian College, people so much worry, was whether the vote on matters and make it clear that you want consternation and anxiety, and is concerning communism was anti- - straightforward facts. Then judge so conscientiously avoided, as the red or pro-reas best you can. When our Savior Douglas record topic of death.. ..In schools was 90 in favor of communist was hauled up before the especially, we go to great lengths Sanhedrin, Peter disavowed him to legislation, exceeded only by Hugo keep the subject of death out of L. Black who voted 100. ' and said, MI do not know the man". the curriculum, as if children were I dwelt on this Douglas matter He was. forgiven, but I doubt if too TENDER and FRAGILE to to show how sound, politically, Peter then went around, the coun-tiysi- deal with the concept. (Children Billy James Hargis and his Chrisviolating the Ten Com- view death with terror and dread. tian Crusade have been over the mandments and the Sermon on the Why study it? What is the purpose? issues of O other scores while to Mount gain years. trying ed.) converts. Hargis and his staff have spoken The fact is we CAN explore out strongly for American Sad as is the fact (but a source the issue of death in a positive and constitutional stability, and for of mighty rejoicing to the Commeaningful way, without its high standards of ethics and munists), unless Hargis, brilliant becoming a morbid and fearful morals. orator, preacher, publisher and Out of our work in It is with great sadness that I fund raiser, can clear his name, his experience. "VALUES CLARIFICATION have learned of the allegations influence is dead. That should not. (values changing, I would say. Ed.) mean that the good things he we against the character of Billy James have evolved a set of activities Hargis, that have fanned out from founded should likewise die. But to help children examine the issue a shocking news story that first die they will if they remain tied to a of death in a positive way, and it is broke in Time Magazine. He now guilty Hargis. The American that while the teacher stands accused of sexual mis- - Christian College has made a clean imperative free feel to disclose his or her must conduct with young 1974 students break. If Hargis comes clear I am own personal values, these values at the American Christian College sure they will welcome him back. should not be imposed on the students. ' The students MUSTs. be given the freedom to make their Image Production! presents the Broadway Musical OWN decisions and to find their own meanings." There are seven strategies enumerated in the study: 1. The Coat of Arms the children are told to create a coat' of arms, using symbols for those things that are meaningful in their lives. Questions asked by the teacher are: 1 . If you were to die right now, what do you think your friends would miss about you? 2. Think of what was the closest you ever came to losing your life? 3.. Think of someone close to you who died. 6. Imagine you have just one year left to live. Draw a picture of something to represent what you would do in that year, what kind of activity you would pursue. Capitol Strategy 2: Asking the Hard 534-0334 Tickets on sale 8:00 a.m. to 6:00p.m. Group discount available Questions: 1. Do you believe in Tickets also at Wasatch Bank, Orem 6c Original Rivet, Ogden burial, cremation, or what? 2. sts include: A To this writer this, study suggests to readers that the young, and not so young, people are being asked to role play in a situation calling for euthanasia! Another paper titled Behavioral "Biomedical and Research on Children" was written February, 1976 telling of human subjects being used for biomedical behavioral research. STOP ABORTION Guidelines being used by IM TOO YOUNG TO DIEI and in prisons, mentally retarded homes, infirmaries, were under fire, and scrutinization of EXPOSE YOUR policies ' affecting prisoners, FRIENDS children, fetuses, pregnant women to the Utah Independent were and the use of psycho-surger- y 12 Assorted Back Issues under way. It was revealed that "all for ONLY $1.00 those in any way under the health care of HEW, (Health, Education OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO & Welfare) were to be included in No one ever regarded the first and a this experimentation, ' mechanism assuring the of January with indifference. Charles Lamb participation of those not subject to regulation by the Secretary of HEW was suggested. IN OTHER the affairs of a private family and WORDS, THIS POLICY IN ITS removing two of six children from FINAL FORM WOULD the home because the father was AFFECT ANYONE! (Students in concerned about the anti-Go- d humanism they were learning in schools?) Through testimony from the public schools. He withdrew prisoners and wardens there has them for their own protection from been a thorough condemnation of the insidious brainwashing being behavior modification" or tran- administered in- "state" schools state decreed" mansactional analysis qr "values through clarification" programs in prison. datory education. Our government is in the A moratorium has been called in several states on experimentation hands of humanists who spout of ANY KIND because of the great swelling "humanitarian" DOCUMENTED ABUSES. If slogans, including "peace", as they these things are going on in Utah, try to bring the world into subthe parents should be outraged. mission under "human" authority. What is needed now is proof TA for Tots and TA for Kids are pilot programs that have been that nothing less than victory will used this is Transactional save our children. No better way to provide that proof exists than Analysis for young children! Think of the abuses that could immediate, positive steps to nullify be perpetrated by HEW if the the work the change agents" have Child and Family Services Act done on the children of this nation, passes Congress! The federal day to prepare these children for their care centers would come under the rightful place in a restored same guidelines mentioned above. America an America of fifty James Herrick of Kent, Ohio sovereign states, millions of knows by first hand experience sovereign citizens, once more in how HEW authority will take control of their destiny, their sons childrenfrom a loving and and daughters standing tall beside concerned parent and place them them, in the land of the free and in a state custody" home. It was the home of the brave." (From net a case of poverty or neglect in California Families United InMr. Herrick's case. It was, in fact, formation Center, P.O. Box 20353, a case of the state interfering into Sacramento, CA 95820.) researchers oooooooooooooooo de Theatre' pay. your life. d. ted WO asserted in issue 214 that "If your conscience is opposed to your paying the Social Security tax, get Form 4029 from the IRS and fill it out. Youll not have to female lawyer; her husband who has a serious disease and is expected to live no more than a year; a female who is a suspected drug addict and pusher; a male doctor who cant stand being closed in; a policeman who was thrown off the force for committing acts of brutality and who refuses to enter the shelter without his gun. For each person you admit to the fallout shelter try to make a values statement about s - Washington Observer Since then, numerous WO curate nutshell summary of their subscribers have contacted their lives. IRS office and asked for the nearby The Fallout form. Most of them have been told Strategy 7. Shelter Imagine that our country that there is no such form in is under threat of immediate existence. nuclear attack and you are in a This is not true. Form 4029 is position of command. There is a highly unpopular with the IRS but fallout shelter nearby that can hold Supreme Court rulings leave them only three people, but there are six no choice but to bow to it when it is people trying to get in. It is up to used by persons who do not wish to you to decide which 3 to allow to participate in the unconstitutional enter the shelter. The candidates Social Security racket. anti-communi- sts andor FORM 4029 . - - |