IN THIS article we wish to discuss with you some facts that every student of Truth, and every thinker must face.

Only the blind, the thoughtless, the politician or racketeer profiting from present conditions, fails to recognize that the Old Order is rapidly crumbling before our very eyes. We see plain evidences of it in every department of life, and it is therefore wholly unnecessary to point out such evidences to the readers of this Magazine as they have been already indicated numerous times before.

However, we feel the time has come for us to be more explicit in showing what will be the outcome or final method of collapse of the Old Order, and what will be the nature of the New Order that must step forward and replace the Old.

Of course we speak only of what pure reason, aided by observation and an inner understanding of the causes of present conditions, has made clear to us; and we trust to make it as clear to you who read, so that you will begin to watch carefully from now on and prepare yourself for whatever may come to pass.

Those who have made any intelligent study of what is happening in this country, of the rapidly decreasing number of hours worked in all lines of industry, the fewer and fewer number of jobs available, the increasing number of people on relief, and the unprecedented mounting of the National and Individual Debt, cannot but view with alarm and fear the National chaos that awaits, unless something entirely different from all the old methods is devised, and we cease our efforts to bolster the Old Order, such as slump-pumping, borrowing, taxing and trying to deceive the public and ourselves into believing that such will ever bring a solution. When, in fact, such is but hastening the day of collapse of our whole social, business and financial structure. Every thinking man is woefully blind who cannot see this, and who will not admit it.

We can not get away from it, no matter how much we refuse to see and face this fact, it will continue more and more derisively and stubbornly to stare us in the face. And then the time will come when we must do something.

Yes, we see on every side new ideas and plans being introduced and loudly pushed as solutions to our present dilemma. The Government has given us its New Deal, and has put phases of it in operation, Communism has put its plan in operation in Russia, and is trying to force it upon other countries through controlling politicians and Labor Organizations. So-called Fascism is in operation in Italy and Germany, with Spain emerging out of Communism into its class; and various other plans are being assiduously brought to the attention of an ever increasing number of followers, who think their particular plan is the only way out.

And where have we arrived? All of these plans give glimpses of the real Plan and are permitted and utilized by the Great Ones in control of man’s destiny to wake him up and make him think and thereby see the calamity that is so rapidly approaching, and thus help him more ably to recognize and accept the Perfect Plan, when it appears and when man is ready to fit in and work with it.

But every real student of economics and world affairs has come to the conclusion that it is futile to try to restore the old or build an ideal state, especially in America, with its highly mechanized operation of all lines of industry, including farming in all its branches, under the old price and profit system—they are as obsolete in their application and corrective possibilities in present conditions, as it would be in these conditions to go back to the use of ox-carts and cotton-spinning by hand.

Which means that there must be devised a new method of determining the value of all things in use; a new system of exchange replacing money; a new system of National production and distribution of all needed things; a just system requiring an equal distribution of labor according to one’s ability and fitness, and an equal distribution of the earnings of all that is produced. This can only be ascertained by a scientific study of all departments of human endeavor, such a study as Industry and Banking call upon trained technologists to make in order to reduce all waste and bring all parts of the organization in question to its highest operative and productive efficiency.

Yes, it would mean the scrapping of all the old obsolete machinery of social, business and governmental organization and the installing of an entirely new system; even as is the case, when engineers make their report, and prove unequivocably that their findings are the only possible solution that will stop the present devastating loss and waste.

But could a scientific study be made of all these departments of human life and activity, which seemingly are of so vast a number, and could engineers work out a system for each that would accomplish the greatest possible returns for the least possible expenditure of energy?

Why not? That is their business, their training, and there are many thousands of such now, and hundreds more are being developed yearly in our Institutes of Technology, who would put heart and soul as well as their highly trained and equipped minds to solve such problems; and under wise direction, wholly concerned with getting the most good out of every department of life for the benefit of the Whole, and absolutely divorced from all private interests, a perfect system of government, banking, industry, transportation, education, farming, mineral and oil production could in time be developed that would actually be the ideal system all are seeking.

This could be accomplished in this country especially, and probably only in this country, for we are sufficient unto ourselves—that is, we grow and produce everything we need, and can produce a great abundance of everything, which if wisely and properly divided would be enough for all. And with our highly mechanized industries it would soon be proved that we could produce enough for all by men working only four hours a day for perhaps only one-half of a year. Think what it would mean if all labor, production and the returns therefrom could be wisely and equably apportioned to all!

After much study of the many different plans advanced we have been forced to the conclusion that only by such a procedure could the ideal plan be devised—the plan now in operation in the Kingdom or invisible world—and be put into practice in this world. It would have to be developed by experts, by highly trained minds concerned only with getting the maximum of results from a minimum expenditure of energy.

We do know that it will be but a matter of three or four years at the most, with the rapid increase of labor-saving machinery being installed in all lines of industry and farming, and hastened by the strikes and other obstructive tactics of labor, abetted by governmental agencies, when there will be only enough work to keep present workers employed one day a week, as compared with the two, three and four days now commonly accepted as being the maximum possible—not to speak of the vast present army of unemployed and the scores of thousands of young men and women graduating yearly from schools and colleges.

This being so what is going to happen to our country under the present system? Think you the politicians can save us, the Labor Unions, or the New Deal—when there will be so few jobs left and from one-half to three-fourths of the population supported by the government? Where is the money coming from to support further relief needs and to provide for the vast expenditures being planned?

Think you we can possibly escape national bankruptcy? Do not let anyone fool you into believing that we can escape it. Then what? Loss of everything as in Germany after the war, and then start all over again? And all under the same old system that has failed so ingloriously to bolster, patch up, and work out its many new and untried ideas? Witness what has been accomplished by the New Deal with countless millions at its command! Where have we arrived? Practically back where we started five years ago but $50,000,000,000 in debt, with the natural problems of unemployment, relief, marginal farming, drought and erosion, water control and water transportation, mental defectives and venereal disease, crime and highway accidents all still before us to be solved.

Dear friends, we must face the facts. It will do no good to say, “Oh, it will work itself out all right.” Until enough thinking people do face these facts we will run rapidly along to destruction. This article is to wake up our readers to what is approaching, to make them think, and thereby to prepare them for whatever happens.

In order that you may know definitely what is in store for this country as a result of the machine age, we refer you to an article in the February 1933 Editorial of this Magazine and to several other articles in the same number which was devoted to the “End of the Age,” and which is now five years old. If what was stated then is so, you can see how rapidly we must be nearing the catastrophe then prophesied. The sources from which that Editorial was taken now claims the end cannot be postponed beyond 1942—unless war is brought about as a palliative by the Powers That Be.

This you may be sure of, however, whatever plan or system is offered by those then in control, or those who come forward with seemingly the only solution at the time, unless it is presented by God-fearing men, conscious and selfless disciples of Jesus Christ, and it satisfies without question or doubt that Silent One within, such system or plan is not of God, but of man, and would be just another effort of the Powers That Be to fool the people.

We urge every reader to consider carefully the words in the preceding paragraph, they are pregnant with meaning.