Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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Science Technology MAN at last walking and ca- vorting about on the MOON! Talks of a visit to Mars and other planets! MAN con- quering the HEAVENS! Heart transplants! Science has almost learned how to CREATE LIFE! Wonders and MORE WONDERS! Science and Technology now promise, before 1980, to pro- duce a magic pushbutton dream world of leisure, luxury, and license. It even dangles before the incredulous but worshipful eyes of the world the hope that it may confer on humanity the means of living on forever in this flesh- and-blood existence. Today ' s world looks with awe at Modern Science as the Messiah to deliver it from poverty, pain and suffering— from the drudgery of labor— to give it the heaven of Idle- ness and ease. But has Modern Science revealed to the world the PURPOSE of life, explained its meaning, revealed the TRUE VALUES? Has it brought WORLD PEACE? Has it delivered the world from poverty, famine, disease, and unhappi- ness? Has it ridded the world of broken homes, divorce, crime, insanity— or are all these on the upward spiral? This tour, too, leads only to disillu- sionment. Science and Technology confine themselves to the realm of the material and the mechanical. True Values? Purpose and Meaning of LIFE? THE WAY to peace, happiness and JOY? Ah, we find these are not their concern. These are outside their field. Let us look, again, to the fruits. True enough, we find accelerating invention and production of gadgets, labor-sav- ing mechanisms, entertainment and amusement devices. But people have not been taught to put added leisure to beneficial uses. The fruitage here is increasing idleness, aversion to the happiness of work, covetousness. These are false values, which only increase unhappiness and evils. An increasing segment of adolescents become frustrated, staring into the face of a hopeless future. The leaders of Tomorrow are becoming the beat gen- eration. Thepnnc pa contribution of Science and Technology has been the produc- tion of constantly more terrifying weap- ons of mass destruction. Pushbutton world? Yes, today either of two men could push a button and destroy two whole continents, probably ending in the extinction of mankind! Modern Science stands exposed as a FALSE MESSIAH-the Frankenstein Monster about to destroy us all!

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s CALIFORNIA BANK SECURITY BANK Commerce Industry Our tour of the world of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY reveals an astonishing production that would cause people of only a century ago - could they come back to life — to look on it with incredible amazement! The modern telephone, radio and television— the motion picture— the motor car— the streamlined railroad trains and steamships— the giant jet planes— the space flights— the gadgets and modern electrical de- vices—just to name a few. Commerce and Industry are, each, a fast-moving, pulsating world of high- geared activity. Are all of these produc- tions bad? No, but most of them are being made to serve bad purposes as well as good. And we find this vibrant, high- pressure field of activity based on com- petition and greed, appealing too often, in marketing its products, to vanity and wrong desires, utilizing dishonesty, misrepresentation, deception, unfair dealing. The motivating incentive is to give less, while charging more. Is honesty the best policy ? A re- cent magazine survey put this question to 103 business executives. An over- whelming majority doubted whether a strictly honest policy would enable a man to rise to the top in the business world. Only two answered Yes, and one of these said he knew he was being naive. Here are pertinent comments: People who don ' t get dirty don ' t make it. In thirty years I ' ve known of only three men who ' ve reached executive positions cleanly, and I admit I ' m not one of them. The higher the execu- tive is in the management ladder, the more likely he is to do some dirty work. Our tour here discovers selfish moti- vation, disregard for public good, sharp practices, dishonesty, dog-eat-dog competition — NOT the TRUE T7 VALUES that would give hap- Al piness to the world. V. - I ISfOP IIKi 7 IOam 3 7pm piour ' FORKING IOam 3pm 4