June 19, 2000

By Louise Lowry

with a copy of eds "a book in every home" at the end
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CONTENTS

#1. Mysteries Of Coral Castle Article and photos by Frank Joseph http://www.fatemag.com/

#1. Mysteries Of Coral Castle

Article and photos by Frank Joseph http://www.fatemag.com/

Reprinted with permission from FATE by: Andy Honigman ( AndyH@LLEWELLYN.com )

In 1993 I went searching for Florida's and perhaps the world's most bizarre place. I had seen the strange complex known as Coral Castle on a television documentary, and my curiosity was aroused. Since I was already in Florida for a book convention, I decided to combine business with investigation.

I drove south on Highway 1 toward Homestead, where Coral Castle is located. The town is better known as the focal point for Hurricane Andrew, the worst tropical storm in U.S. history. Even though this natural catastrophe had occurred a full two years before, dramatic evidence of its impact was still visible from the highway. On the way, through Princeton, Naranja, and Leisure City, there were lingering reminders of the disaster.

The shell of what used to be a bank stood beside a roped-off supermarket, its roof buckling under the impossible burden of an upside-down semi-trailer truck. Block after block, private homes, mostly little brick bungalows, were individually smashed almost beyond recognition, as though by some giant's hammer. No structure stood undamaged. And numerous heaps of unidentifiable rubble shoveled together by relief workers were all that remained of many buildings. Mile after mile, south Florida resembled an atomic bomb testing site.

The devastation increased the closer to Homestead I got. I assumed Coral Castle had been badly damaged by the storm, if not obliterated. Homestead had taken the brunt of Hurricane Andrew's fury. Although violent desolation lay at the castle's very gates, however, the peculiar site stood intact, the only structure untouched by the swirling carnage.

But what is Coral Castle, and how could it have defied a cataclysm that devastated everything around it for thousands of square miles? The fortress-like complex is constructed of massive coral blocks, many of which exceed five tons. These are imaginatively arranged and fit together to form a central courtyard surrounded entirely by dominating walls.

Entrance is made through a gate fashioned from a single coral block weighing nine tons. This miraculous monolith is approximately 80 inches wide, 92 inches tall, and 21 inches thick. It fits within a quarter of an inch of the walls on either side and pivots through an iron rod resting on an automobile gear. The enormous block balances so perfectly on its center of gravity that a visitor can easily push it open with one finger. Modern construction engineers are at a loss to explain how such a ponderous object could have been set with such a high level of precision. Another gate, this one a great triangle, at the opposite wall, weighs three tons.

Inside the courtyard, to the visitor's immediate right, rears a broad, square tower, with a flight of stone steps ascending to a single doorway near the top. They lead to the highest point in the area and a small room. This chamber is occupied only by a leather hammock and a crude wooden table piled with primitive tools -- chains, saws, many kinds of drills, wedges, hammers, chisels and crowbars. Tools also festoon the walls. This imposing tower was raised with approximately 243 tons of coral cut into cyclopean blocks weighing from four to nine tons each. The roof alone comprises 30 one-ton blocks neatly fitted together. Although modern electricity and plumbing are absent, oil lamps and a well of fresh water serve the living quarters -- a sleeping chamber with twin beds, an outdoor cookery, and a bathroom. Usually overlooked by visitors is a low but massive altar comprising two coral blocks set against the south wall. To what god or gods it was dedicated, no one knows.

Through a single window looking out over the courtyard below, the extent of this peculiar place can be perceived in a glance. Among its oddities is a scattering of oversized chairs made of coral, each one weighing a half-ton. Although they look extremely uncomfortable, the chairs are, in fact, exceptionally restful and balanced into perfect rockers. Remarkably, not a single tool mark has been found on any of them. A smaller number of chairs was not made to rock. These resemble contour lounges oriented to the sun after dawn and at noon. But they are not the only Coral Castle features with celestial orientations.

Strolling through the castle, I noticed numerous stone representations of planets, moons, and suns, many -- perhaps all -- of them deliberately aligned with various sky phenomena, as were the 25 huge chairs carefully positioned throughout the precinct. The site appears to be some kind of celestial observatory dating back to a time before the invention of the telescope.

Twenty feet outside the wall stands a lensless, telescopic structure, 25 feet tall and weighing 20 tons. Cross-hairs inside its aperture resemble those in a bombsight, and they are aligned with Polaris, the North Star. Nearby is a massive sundial calibrated to noon of the Winter Solstice, December 21, and the Summer Solstice, June 21. The sundial is adjacent to a fountain adorned with representations of the moon in its first and last quarters and when full. On the north wall are sculpted images of Saturn and Mars. The latter is shown next to a Palmetto plant, signifying the artist's belief that life exists on the Red Planet. Other astronomical depictions and alignments abound throughout Coral Castle.

The Castle's astronomical identity is subtly reinforced throughout the site. For example, a feature referred to by guides as the "bird bath" comprises three concentric circles 124 inches, 62 inches, and 18 inches in diameter, respectively. These measurements represent the solar system. The concentric rings correspond to the three major divisions of planets. The innermost group includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus make up the middle group, and Neptune and Pluto are represented by the outermost circle.

An appreciation of the extraordinary labor that went into building it may be gained by inspecting this same north wall. The center section, surmounted by the representation of a crown, is the site's heaviest single block at 30 tons. Almost as massive is a 40-foot obelisk set in a hole six feet deep. In addition, Coral Castle has a 2.5-ton banquet table surrounded by half-ton rocking chairs. The stone chairs are so perfectly balanced that they continue rocking long after a light touch has set them in motion.

But Coral Castle was not built by stone-dragging slaves of an ancient civilization. No less incredible than its own stupendous construction is the fact that the entire complex was built between 1920 and 1940 by and for one man working alone and in secret. His name was Edward Leedskalnin. He was born in 1887 into a farming family at Stramereens Pogosta, a small village near Riga, Latvia, but emigrated to North America before the outbreak of World War I.

While working in a Canadian lumber camp, Leedskalnin contracted tuberculosis and fled to the warmer climate of Florida. With his puny savings, he purchased an acre of land near then-obscure Florida City for $12. Here he began building the first structures of the Castle.

At five feet tall, weighing 100 pounds, and in uncertain health, Leedskalnin would be an unlikely candidate to quarry and move the tons of coral that even a robust man would have found impossible to budge. And his fourth-grade education hardly qualified him as a construction engineer.

His tools were handmade saws, chisels, chains, hoists, and hammers of the most primitive kind, and his only mode of transportation was an ancient, dilapidated bicycle without tires.

Leedskalnin was a fanatic for secrecy and worked only after sundown, when he was certain no one was watching him. If anyone did stop by to inquire how he was getting along, he would immediately stop working and chat pleasantly with visitors until they left, when he would resume construction. When we consider that he cut, moved, and positioned all of the structure's megalithic blocks in the dead of night, the man's achievement assumes a truly incredible scale. Some teenagers spying on him one evening claimed they saw him "float coral blocks through the air like hydrogen balloons," but no one took them seriously. If their testimony can be believed, they were the only witnesses to the construction of Coral Castle.

In 1936, when developers threatened to set up a subdivision near Florida City, Leedskalnin bought ten acres in nearby Homestead with money saved through years of performing odd jobs for neighboring farmers. He dismantled the largely finished Castle and transferred it block by block to the new location. Each piece was placed on a pair of iron girders mounted on a makeshift truck chassis and transported over ten miles to Homestead.

For this major operation, he relied on outside help for the first and last time. He hired a tractor, but insisted that its driver not be present whenever the blocks were placed on his truck. The driver showed up at 9:00 every morning, returning in late afternoon to find the chassis loaded with coral monoliths.

Once, the driver absentmindedly returned after less than half an hour for a lunchpail he had forgotten on the seat of the tractor. He was astounded to see several multi-ton stones already laid neatly on the girders. "It was impossible to have stacked those gigantic blocks in under 30 minutes," he recalled, "even with a steam-powered derrick. And Ed had no equipment, just a simple tackle and chain hoist. Yet, there they were, piled like cord wood." Their mysterious mover was nowhere in sight, and the driver, somewhat apprehensive, left before Leedskalnin returned.

Relocating Coral Castle progressed with an easy haste. Leedskalnin accomplished this amazing engineering feat in less than a month and re-erected his stone complex, working under cover of darkness all through the night until dawn. It took him four years of unrelieved labor, during which time he added walls eight feet high and four feet wide at the base, with an average thickness of three feet. These forbidding ramparts weigh at least 6.5 tons.

After Coral Castle was completed, Leedskalnin opened it to restricted tours, charging 25 cents per visitor, but he preferred to live behind the great walls in seclusion. He never shared the secret of its construction with anyone, saying only that he had rediscovered the laws of weight, measurement, and leverage used by the Ancient Egyptians, and that these lost principles somehow involved the relationship of the Earth to certain positions of the heavenly bodies.

Leedskalnin is quoted as saying, "I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids. I have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons." The very stones of Coral Castle support his story -- at an average of six tons, they are twice the weight of the blocks in Egypt's Great Pyramid at Giza.

Carrol A. Lake, a colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, stated that "Leedskalnin proved for all the world to see today that he knew the construction secrets of the ancients." He was seconded by one of America's leading investigators, Vincent H. Gaddis, who said of the mysterious Latvian immigrant, "There is no doubt that he applied some principle in weight lifting that remains a secret today."

Even the purpose of Coral Castle was deliberately obscured. When asked why he assumed such an enormous undertaking, Leedskalnin smilingly explained that it was built entirely for his "Sweet Sixteen," Agnes Scuffs, a woman he once asked to wed, but who never left Latvia, where she married even before he arrived in Florida. Revealingly, he never contacted Agnes after coming to America. He seems to have used this tale to politely put off unwanted curiosity.

Little is actually known about Leedskalnin, a friendly though private person. His dedicated isolation once got him into trouble, however, when he was beaten by a gang of local yahoos who threatened to kill him if he did not divulge the location of what they believed was a treasure hidden inside Coral Castle. He suffered their savagery and told them nothing. After his death, $3,500 was found in the tower -- his life savings, mostly from land sales -- but that was all.

Leedskalnin's work was his life. Material pleasures meant nothing to him, and he merrily subsisted on a diet of sardines, crackers, eggs, and milk. His meager garden produced green vegetables and some fruits, and he trapped the occasional rabbit. He worked tirelessly from sunset to sunrise and spent much of his day reading from his library about magnetic current and cosmic forces, resting only a few hours in the late afternoon.

Leedskalnin passed away in his sleep in 1953, of malnutrition and kidney failure. His only living relative, Harry, inherited what was then known as "Rock Gate Park." Shortly before he died, Harry sold the property to a Chicago family, who gave it its present name. Thirty years later, Coral Castle was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nearly six decades later, Leedskalnin's marvelous home is still explored each year by thousands of visitors from across the country and around the world.

Coral Castle has attracted the international attention of professional construction engineers, astounded and mystified by the apparently impossible achievement of this diminutive wonder-worker. In the mid-1970s, for example, a large bulldozer was hired to manipulate a coral block equivalent to the Castle's 30-ton monolith; the bulldozer could not even lift it.

Alternative science investigators suggest that Leedskalnin somehow learned the secret of the "world grid," an invisible pattern of energy lines surrounding the Earth which concentrates points of telluric power where they intersect. It was here, at one of these intersections of Earth energy, that he was supposedly able to move his prodigious stone blocks using the unseen power of our planet. In fact, in The Enigma of Coral Castle, Ray Stoner suggests that Leedskalnin moved the Castle not because it was threatened by an encroaching subdivision, but because a surveying error misplaced the site ten miles from an Earth energy vortex or focal point. In order for the structures to maximize this energy, the entire complex needed to be relocated in Homestead, where the telluric forces were focused.

Bruce Cathe, in The Energy Grid, one of the most credible books on the subject, says "the site of Coral Castle is mathematically related to the world energy grid, as are the other remarkable structures which, however, date from ancient times. Ed Leedskalnin had not moved on to the Florida site by chance. This geometric position was extremely close to one that would be ideal for setting up harmonics related to gravity and light harmonics. The fact that [he] had access to secret knowledge is much more evident in the relationship of Coral Castle to the world energy grid system."

Stoner says some fundamental conditions must be met before a structure like Coral Castle can be made to function as intended. It must be exactly situated over an energy vortex, aligned with a celestial event or events sufficiently precise to predict their recurrence, constructed in a specific shape, and built with certain materials. Finally, activities at the site may be successfully undertaken only at the moment the celestial events to which it is oriented take place.

Stoner's prerequisites for particular shapes and building materials are reminiscent of experiments in pyramid power in the mid-1970s, when the precise angles (variants of 15.2 degrees) of the pyramid and its special construction elements (crystalline granite and non-conducting limestone) determined their success. In Using Pyramid Power, James Wyckoff writes,"The ancient Egyptians knew that the shape and angle of pyramids contained a mystical energy force."

Traditions from various parts of the ancient world describe levitation as the construction means used by the unknown builders of miraculous structures. In Britain, Merlin was said to have originally found Stonehenge in Ireland, where, like Ed Leedskalnin, he singlehandedly took apart its massive stones and transported them through the air to England's Salisbury Plain. A world away in distance and time, the South Pacific islanders of Ponape still tell how the 20-ton basalt column of Nan Madol, an enormous megalithic site, were floated across the sky by two Merlin-like magicians. Recalling the teenagers' report of multi-ton blocks floating through the air, it may be easier to believe that Leedskalnin was using Earth energies after all.

Cathe suggests that "at certain positions on the globe there are localities where the forces of gravity can be manipulated by the application of certain geometric harmonies. Where these geometric conditions exist, it is evidently possible for people who have the knowledge to use gravitational forces to construct great buildings of massive material. Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids, the temple at Baalbek, and perhaps the pyramids in Central and South America were the results of a combination of knowledge and gravitational anomalies. Coral Castle, I believe, occupies one of these positions."

But how Leedskalnin built Coral Castle is no more mystifying than why he did it. He had little interest in money, consistently resisting efforts by entrepreneurs to advertise his place and turn it into a tourist attraction. Indeed, outsiders could gain entrance only after pulling on a bell cord, to which he may or may not have been in the mood to respond. He rarely left the site, and what he did behind its sheltering walls no one ever knew.

Like the enigmas of its construction, its real function is unknown. Why did he make so many sculpted references and astronomical orientations to the heavens? For whom were 25 half-ton rocking chairs designed? To what or whom was his barbaric altar dedicated? What need could have demanded so massive a complex as Coral Castle? And why did Edward Leedskalnin devote his whole life to it?

Today, Coral Castle is open to the public as the self-made monument of a reclusive man's mysterious genius.

Frank Joseph is the editor of Sacred Sites: A Guidebook to Sacred Centers and Mysterious Places in the United States and Canada. He lives in Wisconsin. For further information, visit his web site, Ancient American.

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#2. Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form

Publisher: The Book Tree 800 number (800-700-TREE) web site: www.thebooktree.com Also this book may be order through Amazon.com both in the US & UK

If you haven't already ordered this most fascinating book, I advised you to go out and order it right away.

Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form, covers a very wide range of topics, which author Joan d'Arc backs up with some very credible documents and pictures.

Are we alone in this Universe? Is our own EARTH holding secret to it's own making? What are the different artifacts on the Mars and the moon? Could they tell us of our Past?

This and a host of other topics and questions await you and will come with an answer..

Could it be that this author has found some of the very pointed questions that we all seek? Please check out the book for yourself which was published in February 2000, I personally was impressed in the research that she has done to bringing some of these issue to light.

By The Author: Joan d'Arc , March 9, 2000

Can Darwinian evolution prove we are alone in the universe? This book looks at anthropomorphic artifacts on Mars and the Moon which are evidence that we are not alone, even in our own solar system. In addition, Darwinian evolution is shown to be a highly touted philosophy, not an empirical science, of Western materialism, which cannot be used to argue that mankind is alone in the Universe. Humans did not accidently climb out of the pond scum of our local habitat. Indeed Earth may be a controlled DNA repository for the ongoing creation and dissemination of life forms, including the human form. This book looks at ancient myths which describe the human form as common in the universe, rather than being a local, Earth-based, one of a kind anomaly. In essence, Darwianian evolution serves to keep us unaware of our true ancestry from the "sky" rather than from the "water." This book shows the reader how we have been hoodwinked by materialist philosophies, paraded as science, into believing we exist in an isolated consciousness in an isolated oasis, closed off from the larger family of man.

#3. Remote Viewing, Are We Confused Yet? A Review of Joe McMoneagle's "Remote Viewing Secrets"

By Skye Turell < mindtrekker@mindspring.com > http://www.sightings.com/general2/remotec.htm

Five years ago the U.S. government openly acknowledged their involvement in psychic research. Not just research, but the operation of a team of "psychic spies" for nearly 20 years.

Public reaction was mixed. Some were indifferent, citing this as yet another example of blatant monetary mismanagement -- right up there with studying the aerodynamics of Frisbees (Now, I wonder why that would be of interest?) and $600 toilet seats. Others embraced this revelation with open hearts, "Oh, I've been doing remote viewing for 10, 20, 30 years!"

Suddenly everyone was a remote viewer and half of those opened remote viewing training services. Some training packages started at $3500, just for the beginner course. Others sold instructional videotapes for far less, but sold them by the thousands. You too can remote view in only a week! Just draw a little sketch on the back of this matchbook. All this despite the fact that the "real" remote viewers at Ft. Meade had gone through rigorous daily training, often for months, before they were allowed to go near a real operational target. And these viewers had been screened. There was some indication these individuals might make good remote viewers. And even so the Ft. Meade unit wasn't always successful, not all the time.

"Former military remote viewers" were crawling from the woodwork. One of the Ft. Meade viewers was offered cash to verify someone's false claim to a connection with the unit. Meade viewers found their names listed on executive boards of organizations they'd never heard of.

Others claimed to have been part of even more secret military units and insisted we should accept their superior knowledge, despite their refusal to have their credentials vetted in any way, simply because they claimed it. (Even I, a lowly civilian, know how this works. You get someone who knows someone to give a subtle nod, a positive statement about something not overtly related to the matter at hand, which confirms the person's bona fides. Of course you have to indeed know someone to vouch for you in order to have this work.)

The claims about remote viewing made by these trainers started out grandiose, "We guarantee 100% accuracy," and went up the grandiosity scale from there. And their public appearances, books and websites promoted more and more bizarre predictions, virtually none of which have come to pass. (We're still here, right?)

Even former Ft. Meade viewers were not immune from the lure of the dollar and promise of more than 15 minutes of fame. Some of the worst misrepresentations came from a couple of former unit members.

The legitimate Ft. Meade viewers went into overtime, making radio appearances, posting to email groups, and fielding phone calls, attempting to clarify the confusion and warn against those who had no credentials (or who had apparently simply gone insane).

The net effect has been that the world is now very polarized on the subject of remote viewing. You've got your hardcore debunkers (skeptics keep open minds and debunkers don't fall into this category) and you've got your "believers." Most of the RV students appear to be of the later category. It doesn't matter if they've ever had real verifiable feedback on their performance, or if those sessions were conducted under any sort of controls. They know they are right. Ask them how they know? Well, a bunch of other remote viewers got the same thing! (There are reasons this agreement between viewers can happen, correct data being only one of the possibilities.) Or they'll resent you for even asking. Heaven forbid you should question their experience. They saw it! They remote viewed it!

The sad thing is, the scientists at Stanford Research Institute tried to prevent this polarization from the very beginning. If they could muzzle the negativists by conducting extremely clean research, and keep the believers happy because the lab results were good, theoretically that would end the debates. The very term "Remote Viewing" was an attempt to distance the legitimate research they were doing from the loosey-goosey street "psychics." The neutral terminology no doubt helped manage their conservative government contract holders, but more importantly it also communicated that the substance of their experiments was clearly different, scientific.

Their remote viewings were held under strict lab protocols, which had been hammered out, with much bloodshed, over many years. Each "concern" of the debunkers being met with a further tightening of procedures, to a point now, according to a recent study, where psi research operates with something like 10-12 times more "double blindedness" than your average pharmaceutical study. (The statistical evidence for psi is 7 times more robust than for the fact that aspirin prevents heart attacks - something we all assume to be true. We saw it on the news!) When you've got debunkers drooling to cut you down, you want to ge0t it right the first time.

Not surprisingly, having spent thousands of dollars on training, the student generation is very reticent about the scientific side. It would be a rude awakening to find that you aren't as good as you have been told. Indeed most of the students don't appear to know what kind of controls are used in legitimate studies and have never bothered to read up on the subject. And clearly weren't encouraged to by their trainers. This despite the fact that "remote viewing" is a controlled process. That's what makes it remote viewing and not your garden-variety psychic stuff. In fact, the labs have found that talented viewers perform better when they are completely "blind." A little knowledge, after all, is a dangerous thing. But the less-than-talented? Do they perform well under those controls? That might be another story.

I had a rather circuitous email conversation with one such student who had been claiming that his remote viewing scores were higher than the best lab-performer. The student was making rather pointed statements that perhaps the lab viewers (and the Meade viewers, too) apparently didn't know all that much on the subject. This from a graduate of an organization that is known for doing UFO targets and grading the sessions according to whether their data matches that of the instructor!

I patiently explained how the scoring of sessions is done in the lab - a very rigorous and difficult procedure that, in effect, deducts points for less than stellar performance, but offers no "extra points" for sessions that are blueprint picture perfect, which the world class remote viewers sometimes provide. I typed several pages of explanation. How did he respond? Don't bother me with the facts; this is all too complex. Gawd! You want me to do some MATH? I just want to declare that my remote viewing school is better than those old guys. Don't hassle me with details!

This is just one example and there are many variations on this theme. We don't need to pay any attention to what was learned over the previous 20 years. We like the data we get. We have a new way of doing remote viewing that is easier and the results are better, never mind that we've never done a real remote viewing session in our lives, and would be hard-pressed to even define what remote viewing is. We are more evolved than those other people. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

This is where the field of remote viewing stands today. Are we confused yet? You bet we are!

In the midst of all of this madness stands Joe McMoneagle, who is probably the best remote viewer in the U.S. Certainly he is the best-documented remote viewer in the U.S., if not in the entire world. He has spent over 20 years both on the research and the applications side of the field. While many like to play the two sides off against each other, Joe is able to integrate and clarify the experience of both.

Joe's new book, "Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook" is the most comprehensive book ever written on the how-to of remote viewing. Not just how to do a practice session, but how to use it for real world applications. Not just what makes it work, but what makes it not work. Despite what many have been taught, much was learned over the past 20 years. While Joe is the first to admit that he doesn't know everything about remote viewing - no one does - he does have a wealth of knowledge. If you were to listen to one voice in this chaotic field, you would do well to listen to him.

He'll even answer you the question: If all these remote viewing schools are so evolved and do better work than anyone else, how come Joe receives so many calls from discouraged graduates of these schools, wondering where they went wrong and how come their sessions aren't as good as Joe's are?

Remote viewing is suffering terminal oversell. The real efficacy of this skill is being lost in the shuffle. Joe McMoneagle can tell you exactly what to realistically expect. Sounds like a good starting place to me. _____

Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook is available from http://www.amazon.com/ Joe McMoneagle's website is http://www.mceagle.com/ Skye Turell < mindtrekker@mindspring.com

#4. Guests Choose Inns For Ghostly Amenities

By Sarah E. Richards Of The Associated Press Forwarded by: nelke@stlnet.com

COPIED FROM: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ARCHIVES Originally published on Sunday, October 19, 1997.

DONNA Robinson couldn't ask for a better business arrangement. She looks after the Woodnutt Country Inn during the day, and Sarah the ghost takes over at night.

Sarah doesn't mind the hours, and she has a knack for attracting guests to Salem's historic district.

Sarah is a spinster lace maker who died in 1889 at age 33 and, Donna Robinson believes, never moved out. Sarah is harmless and seeks only men who are about her age, Robinson assures her visitors.

Otherwise, travelers can relax in the guest suite in the restored Colonial home and enjoy breakfast of homemade peach and pear crepes with hot caramel sauce. It's $65 a night, apparition or no.

The 1995 edition of "Haunted Hotels: A Guide to American and Canadian Inns and Their Ghosts," by Robin Mead, lists more than 100 historic hotels, motels and inns that claim at least one non-paying guest.

Hauntings and hospitality may not seem an obvious mix, but some innkeepers find profit in marketing the mysterious.

Ed Okonowicz, a storyteller and ghost chaser from Elkton, Md., is author of the "Spirits of the Bay" books, a series documenting nearly every shadow and shudder on the Delmarva peninsula. The Woodnutt Country Inn was mentioned in his "Presence in the Parlor."

"Certain innkeepers don't want to talk about it," Okonowicz says. "Others call me and ask if they can be included because it's good for tourism."

In the month after publication, Robinson received 20 calls from readers. She decided to make Sarah a partner and now mentions her in the house brochure.

In a living room redolent of vanilla candles, Robinson recounted how she learned of Sarah. In 1992, she said, a 29-year-old male guest told her he was lying in bed and saw the shadow of a woman. Others related similar stories of a figure in a long white gown. Then Sarah visited Robinson's son.

"I thought with each episode, this is getting too bizarre," she said.

Across the Delaware River in New Castle, Del., Elaine Class plans seances and poetry readings at the Fox Lodge at Lesley Manor. When she and her husband bought the Gothic revival mansion in 1994, she thought such ethereal entertainment would complement its looming tower and cusped arches.

But the ghosts, she says, are real. A 19th-century couple, Dr. and Mrs. Allen Vorhees Lesley, made their presence known during renovations. Class says she often sees Jane Lesley's swirling skirt in the parlor and once felt the doctor's hand on her shoulder in what had been his examining room.

Chris Woodyard, of Beavercreek, Ohio, writes the "Haunted Ohio" book series. "Owners are seeing the marketing value of it - the P.R. a ghost can provide," she says.

The Buxton Inn, a former stagecoach stop in Granville, Ohio, was mentioned in Woodyard's fourth volume. Owner Audrey Orr says guests who have read it want to stay in Room 9 - the favorite haunt of a former proprietress in a blue dress and gardenia perfume.

No matter how popular the ghosts, innkeepers rarely bank on them totally. Sarah Sonke, president of the American Bed & Breakfast Association in Richmond, Va., says most balance them with other promotions.

Doug and Lily Vieyra, owners of An Elegant Victorian Mansion in Eureka, Calif., speak cautiously of Elizabeth Alice, a twentysomething spirit who, unlike the amorous Sarah, prefers the friendship of women.

They chose to advertise their 1890s inn as a "spiritually endowed" living history museum so as not to scare off clientele who prefer their vacations soundly in this realm.

But the ghost is mentioned in some guide books, and if the owners sense that a guest is looking for a "complete Victorian experience" they enclose a pamphlet about Elizabeth with the registration packet.

Woodyard calls the fascination with the supernatural a "safe scare," an adrenaline rush like riding a roller coaster. "We need that scare to make us feel alive," she said.

#5. Witches Welcomed By Pentagon

By Damian Whitworth- In Washington Forwarded by: Para@clara.net

Source: The London Times Date: June 5 1999 Subject: Uncle Sam's Witches Welcome To Do A Spell In The Ranks

The US Army, bristling with high-tech wizardry, has discovered that soldiers are coming under the spell of more ancient practices. It turns out that there are rather a lot of witches in the ranks.

Broomsticks will not be replacing troop carriers as the preferred means of transport just yet. But the Pentagon has given its blessing to those who wish to practise witchcraft. It has come as a surprise quite how many do. Among the 42,000 soldiers stationed at the army's biggest base - Fort Hood in Texas - at least 300 admit to being members of the Wiccans' Open Circle.

At a recent celebration of the Rite of Spring, 40 witches, male and female, held hands round a fire chanting "Great Freya be you adored," as a robed high priestess blessed water, bread and salt at an altar. The Pentagon respects the religious beliefs of all its servicemen without passing judgment and so the neo-paganists who worship Wicca are allowed to go about their business in the same way as Christians, Muslims or Jews.

It is believed that a number of the 28 per cent of the Armed Forces who say they do not have a preferred religion are Wiccans. The popularity of Wicca at Fort Hood is so great that some new recruits are even asking to be posted there to join the Open Circle. Congregations are being formed at other bases across the United States and in Germany and Guam. A Wicca information pack is dispatched from the chaplain's office at Fort Hood to interested parties in the forces.

There are some who question how the ethics of witchcraft can sit comfortably with the basic tenets of warfare. The Wiccan Rede, or Golden Rule, states "and it harm none, do what you will," a maxim that does not easily lend itself to firing in anger. Officers are reluctant to talk about the witches in their midst. "It's such a volatile subject. It just sparks a fury," said one colonel. And some of the witches themselves remain shy about their beliefs and are careful not to advertise them. But the presence of Wiccans, who worship the Mother Earth and Father Sky, has unquestionably angered Christian groups around Fort Hood.

"I have no tolerance for evil or people who do evil," said the Rev Jack Harvey of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. "We don't think anybody in the army or otherwise should be in favour of witchcraft. The Bible states explicitly, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'."

#6. Ghost Hunters Take Their Camera To Alton House In Search For Spirits!

By Bill Reiter Of The Post-Dispatch

Investigators Film Throughout Mansion For Potential TV Pilot!

COPIED FROM: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ARCHIVES Originally published on Thursday, July 8, 1999.

Filmmaker James Gregson is always looking for new talent. But his search for a star took an eerie turn last month.

The Alton producer recruited a trio of ghost investigators to help film his newest cast - the fabled spirits haunting McPike Mansion.

It's a marked change from other Gregson Independent Productions projects, such as "Cooking for Singles," "Sockville," and "Jake Steele: Future Spy."

Nonetheless, the idea of a series on local haunts had executives excited in January at a television programming convention in New Orleans.

"We were just going to do investigative re-enactments of local haunted houses," Gregson said. "(Ghost investigator) Mike Lynch came down and said he had footage. I looked at it and said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa - this is weird.' "

The pieces came together, and the project materialized.

So as darkness settled on a recent Thursday night in Alton, technicians began to set up video equipment and the Para-Vision ghost investigators from St. Louis armed themselves for the hunt.

The paranormal specialists wore black pants and T-shirts. They unpacked a video camera set to a specific light frequency, two "helmet cams" - infrared video cameras rigged to hard hats - and a remote-controlled truck complete with an infrared camera and infrared lights.

Other cameras were set up throughout the mansion.

The goal was simple: record specters invisible to the eye with equipment capable of seeing them and use the footage for a pilot on local haunts.

With motion detectors on each floor of the mansion ready to beep at any ghost floating by, investigator Michael Lynch crept slowly to the front of the darkened home.

The production team watched from the front lawn and monitored the video screens. Lynch pressed a video camera to his eye and marched through the front door.

"I've got a couple," he said, turning his camera on an otherwise invisible specter. "They're small ones."

The other investigators moved cautiously through the house, trying not to disturb the spirits.

Lynch examined the three floors for another 40 minutes without spotting much. He then went into a small, concrete cove in the basement.

The air was foggy. The cold room smelled of brick and decaying wood. In one corner, a video camera with infrared lights stood at the ready to record passing ghosts.

"You see that fog?" Lynch asked. "It's not fog. It's an energy. It's always been there, and it attracts the entities."

Lynch has investigated ghosts and tried to scientifically prove their existence since 1992. He said his experience has taught him how to track spirits.

His conclusions include:

* An entity is a human consciousness without a human form.

* They vary in power, and only the strongest can be seen by the eye.

* Most dance across rooms like an intense, baseball-shaped strobe light and must be viewed in a particular light frequency

"You can feel the energy," investigator Jeremy Johnson said. "You can feel the electricity. You can feel the cold spots. You'll walk there, and it'll be a 15-degree drop."

After investigating the yard and house for more than two hours, the ghost hunters and Gregson's technicians retraced their steps to see if any entities were recorded.

But there were no overwhelming sightings. The colony of ghosts Lynch said he saw at the mansion earlier this year did not appear.

Even so, he called the trip a success. He said the crews did record some spirits of the dead.

Flashes of light - what Lynch said were ghosts - were filmed whipping past the camera about nine times, zipping up a stairwell, across the yard or against a wall.

"That could be a flashlight," complained music composer Jim Callahan, as he watched a ball of light jet across the television monitors.

But some images flashing across the footage were strange.

"Wow," Callahan said a few moments later, watching a light dash from the back of the yard and over Lynch's shoulder. "That's weird."

Sitting in front of another television screen watching the footage, Lynch rewound the tape again and again to watch the light flutter across the yard.

"We know that's it," he said, as light moved across the screen for a few seconds. "Nothing else in the world creates that."

And what about the possibility that the lights are from flashlights, passing cars or other places?

"You have to look for the source of it," he said. "Going frame by frame of the video, you can take away the possibility of what it could be. When we run it through a software package, it shows beyond a doubt this is not a light source of any sort. That light is unique and in a unique spectrum.

"I don't doctor my evidence," he said. "I do this to prove the evidence."

The night did not produce the blockbuster recording session necessary for a television pilot. But Gregson isn't giving up. He'll return in the coming weeks for other sessions.

"I've seen enough to know there's some serious evidence," he said. "This is an excitement. There's an energy here."

#7. Giant Crystal Cave Discovered!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_787000/787776.stm

EDITOR'S NOTE: Please go to the web-site above to view the beauty of this crystal!

BBC News Online: Sci/Tech Monday, 12 June, 2000, 13:25 GMT 14:25 UK

So clear, you can read text through the crystals

A gigantic cave of crystals has been discovered in an old silver mine in Spain.

The geode, which is eight metres (26ft) long and crammed full of gypsum prisms, has been put under police guard to prevent souvenir hunters from raiding the extraordinary natural phenomenon.

The next possibility is to drill a hole to fix a window in the geode to show the tourists

Javier Garcia-Guinea

The geologist who announced the find, Javier Garcia-Guinea, wants to turn the site into a tourist attraction.

He told BBC News Online that up to 10 people could sit inside the geode - an object normally small enough to hold in your hands.

"Bending your body between the huge crystals is an incredible sensation," he said. "When I was young I dreamt of flying, but never to go into a geode internally covered with transparent crystals."

Rumours of the existence of a giant gypsum geode had been circulating among mineral collectors since December.

But it was only on 28 May that Javier Garcia-Guinea, from the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, finally managed to track down the cave.

"The crystals are absolutely transparent and perfect," he said. The geologist has searched the international literature and can find no other object to compare in size.

The geode - essentially a rock cavity which has become lined with crystalline deposits - is eight meters in length, 1.8 metres wide and 1.7 metres high (26 feet by six by six).

The crystals of gypsum - hydrous calcium sulphate - are about half a metre in length.

Javier Garcia-Guinea is concerned about theft

The giant geode may have formed at the same time as a geological event called the Messinian salinity crisis.

At this time, about six million years ago, the Mediterranean Ocean evaporated, depositing thick layers of salts. The same, salt-saturated fluids could have filled up the Spanish geode, which lies near the coast.

The drying out of the Mediterranean was probably caused by a restriction in the straits of Gibraltar, the sea's only connection with rest of the Earth's oceans.

Javier Garcia-Guinea has blocked the entrance to the geode with five tonnes of rock and called in the police to guard the location. After a period of scientific study, he hopes the cave can be turned into a major local tourist attraction.

"The next possibility is to drill a hole to fix a window in the geode to show the tourists. Almeria is little town with nice beaches just four kilometres from the mine and is well known to English holidaymakers."

The crystal are made from hydrous calcium sulphate.

#8. FOIA Request Frustrations: Searching For The Truth

By: Dennis Balthaser ruthskr@roswell.net http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Base/2997/editorial05012000.htm

In previous editorials and usually at my lectures, I have referred to the anticipation, satisfaction and sometimes frustration, involved in the research of ufology. Because of the time frame already involved with the alleged Roswell Incident of 1947, (53 years), it is extremely difficult to obtain factual information about that incident. If in fact there is a cover up, and many of us still believe there was and still is, due to the fact that it has not been satisfactorily explained in 4 attempts by the United States Air Force. One has no choice but to utilize the Freedom of Information Act law, in order to attempt to obtain information. Many witnesses have been interviewed, some of whom I consider very reliable and believable, and others that may be spreading disinformation, or have no knowledge of the incident, or worse, use the incident for their own benefit. Most of those individuals know who they are, as those of us serious about this research and investigations also do. I therefore decided to question the very organization, (United States Air Force), that has provided the excuses for what took place at Roswell in 1947, and to quote from their own report, published by the United States government in 1995.

The Freedom of Information Act law, enacted in 1966, was authored by California politician John Moss, took 13 years to get it through Congress, and is without a doubt one of the best tools available to obtain information. Over the years, many documents previously kept from the public have been disclosed through FOIA requests. Most researchers that I've talked to however, share my experience in that many times the information takes months or years to obtain, if in fact obtainable. Many times it is still cataloged as secret or not available due to National Security concerns, and some information is still "blacked out", or delay tactics are used in their responses. In the requests I've made in reference to the Roswell Incident, I have experienced all of those. Perseverance is the key. I have a lot of respect for researchers such as Stanton Friedman, Wendy Connors, John Greenewald Jr., and others that keep "digging" and eventually are able to obtain heretofore, unavailable documents.

I have recently asked my web master to post some of the FOIA requests I've done on my web site, in order that visitors to my site can be kept updated on the progress, (or lack of progress), on requests I'm working on. I have others that are not posted due to still being in process and not enough information obtained to share with the public yet, but they will be posted when appropriate.

One of those FOIA requests, and all correspondence thus far, is listed on my web site, involves the General Ramey photos taken in Fort Worth, Texas, by James Bond Johnson in July 1947. The United States Air Force, in their 1995 voluminous report entitled, "The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert", actually has a 31 page Executive Summary section written by Col. Richard L. Weaver in the front part of that report. In that article, on pages 29, 30 and 31, Col. Weaver states that the United States Air Force requested and obtained copies of the photographs taken of General Ramey, Col. DuBose and RAAF Intelligence officer Maj. Marcel in Ramey's office, from the University of Texas at Arlington collection. The University has the copyright on those photographs. Additionally Col. Weaver states that the photographs were submitted to a "national-level organization" for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis. On July 20, 1994, the Air Force was notified by that national-level organization that the photographs were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis, primarily the flowered tape and/or hieroglyphics originally reported by certain witnesses at the debris field.

Several individuals and organizations have recently been analyzing copies of those same photographs and most are now of the opinion that certain words can in fact be read on the Teletype General Ramey is holding in one of the photographs.

Since these photographs and the information contained on them could well be the "smoking gun" connected with the Roswell Incident, I decided to request information from the United States Air Force through the Freedom of Information Act. If in fact, they had requested the photographs from the University of Texas at Arlington, and had in fact, had those photographs analyzed by a national-level organization, with a report back to the Air Force as stated by Col. Weaver, I assumed there would be some record of those events to support the statements made by Col. Weaver. The Air Force report is available through the U.S. Government Printing Office, for $57.00. This is an official government publication, authorized by the United States Air Force and has a 31-page summary, written by a Colonel, whom I assume, had credentials and documentation to support the statements he made.

My first request for information was mailed to the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon, July 27, 1999, with a copy of that request furnished to the Secretary of Defense also. I specifically requested information pertaining to the photograph of General Ramey holding the Teletype, and made reference to the 1995 Air Force report, including furnishing them a copy of the photograph in question.

Their first response informed me that I had a misunderstanding of the operation of the FOIA and that FOIA does not require any agency to analyze, interpret or create records by combining or compiling information contained in existing records. They also informed me that their office is not a repository for UFO information, but information about Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were retired to the National Archives and available on 94 rolls of 35MM film in archived microfilm publication T1206.

My next response was more specific, referring to Col. Weaver's statements on pages 29, 30 and 31 of the 1995 Air Force report, to address the request made by then, New Mexico Congressman, Steven Shiff about the Roswell Incident. In my request I included pages 29, 30 and 31 and even hi-lighted the particular sections I was questioning. I asked for copies or documentation on the following four specific items:

* The initial request to obtain copies of the photos from the University of Texas at Arlington, archives. * The initial request to have the photographs analyzed by a national-level organization, and any subsequent or additional documents related to that request. * The report returned to the researchers requesting the analysis, from the national-level organization, with any corresponding reports or documents, pertaining to the results of the analysis. * The correspondence furnished to the Air Force for inclusion in "The Roswell Report", issued in 1995.

After more correspondence with the Air Force headquarters in Washington, DC, I was informed in November, 1999, that records regarding this subject were returned to the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. May I assume then that the Air Force is a repository for UFO information and it's located at Maxwell AFB?

Maxwell AFB informed me they have no such documents in their archives and gave me the opportunity to appeal their "no records" response, to the Secretary of the Air Force through Maxwell AFB, rather than the Pentagon, where the Secretary has his office.

I prepared my appeal and submitted it as instructed by the Air Force. On January 7, 2000 I received a response indicating the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell had made another "extensive review" and once again determined they have no records pertaining to the 4 specific items I was questioning. The Air Force did however furnish me with some 80 pages of titles of microfilm available for sale at about $30.00 each. This will give me information about the Supply and Food Service, Motor Vehicles, Air Refueling, Flying Training, when certain type aircraft were assigned to the base, and very little about 1947 or the specific information I requested.

In my latest response, I have asked the Air Force if they did an "extensive review" as I was told, did they ever contact Col. Weaver to determine where he obtained the information stated in his summary in the 1995 Air Force report? If the report is accurate, where is the documentation to support the statements made in that report? Since I'm referring to an official document authorized by the United States Air Force and printed by the United States government, it is my contention that the method of obtaining that information and reporting it is a valid FOIA request, which I will continue to pursue. I will not pursue it any longer under the Freedom of Information Act however, but will select alternative options such as a congressional investigation or legal representation.

So there you have just one of the FOIA requests I'm working on, which gives you an idea of the frustration one can have while attempting to obtain information. It's their publication---I simply want to know where they obtained the information in the report.

A BOOK IN EVERY HOME

Containing Three Subjects:

* Ed's Sweet Sixteen,
* Domestic and
* Political Views

By EDWARD LEEDSKALNIN

Published by EDWARD LEEDSKALNIN

Homestead, Florida

COPYRIGHT, 1936,

By Edward Leedskalnin

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Reader, if for any reason you don not like the things I say in this little book, I left just as much space as I used, so you can write your own opinion opposite it and see if you can do better.

The Author
Ed's Sweet Sixteen

To those more than fifteen thousand people who have seen Ed's Place, I told about Ed's Sweet Sixteen. Now, I will tell you why I did not get the girl.

In Ed's Place, there was a lasting fame for a girl's name but it would have taken money to put the fame upon her. The trouble was that I did not have the money and didn't make enough. That was the reason I could not look for a girl.

Now, I am going to tell you what I mean when I say "Ed's Sweet Sixteen". I don't mean a sixteen year old girl, I mean a brand new one. If it had meant a sixteen year old girl, it would have meant at the same time, that I made money for the sweet sixteen while she was making love with a fresh boy.

I will furnish all the love making to my girl. She will never have to seek any from anybody else, for I believe that there is not a boy or man in this world good enough to be around my girl and I believe that the other men also ought to have enough self-respect so that they would think that I am not good enough to be around theirs.

Anything that we do leaves its effect, but it leaves more effect upon a girl than it does upon a boy or a man, because the girl's body, mind and all her constitition is more tender and so it leaves more impressions - and why should one want to be around anybody's else impressions?

A girl is to a fellow the best thing in this world, but to have the best one second hand, it is humiliating.

All girls below sixteen should be brand new. If a girl below sixteen cannot be called brand new any more, it is not the girl's fault; the mamma is to blame! It is the mamma's duty to supervise the girl to keep those fresh boys away.

In case the girl's mamma thinks that there is a boy somewhere who needs experience, then she, herself, could pose as an experimental station for that fresh boy to prctice on and so save the girl. Nothing can hurt her any more. She has already gone through all the experience that can be gone through and so in her case, it would be all right.

But all the blame does not rest on the mamma alone. The schools and the churches are cheapening the girls! They are arranging picnics - are coupling up the girls with the fresh boys - and then they send them out to the woods, parks, beaches and other places so that they can practice in first degree love making.

Now, I will tell you what the first degree love making is. The first degree love making is when the fresh boy begins to soil the girl by patting, rubbing and squeezing her. They start it in that way but soon it begins to get dull and there is no kick in it, so they have to start in on the second degree and keep on and then by and by, when the right man comes along and when he touches the girl, then he touches her like dead flesh. There is no more response in it because all the response has been worked out with those fresh boys. Why should it be that way?

Everything we do should be for some good purpose but as everybody knows there is nothing good that can come to a girl from a fresh boy. When a girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as good as she ever will be, but when a boy is sixteen years old, he is then fresher than in all his stages of development. He is then not big enough to work but he is too big to be kept in a nursery and then to allow such a fresh thing to soil a girl - it could not work on my girl. Now I will tell you about soiling. Anything that is done, if it is with the right party it is all right, but when it is with the wrong party, it is soiling, and concerning those fresh boys with the girls, it is wrong every time.

Now, how can you find out if I am right? Pick out any girl you want but do it before she has anything to do with anybody - as soon as she begins to couple herself with somebody. You watch her every day and some day you will see the girl coming home with a red face. One's face is a window for other people to look in on and when it turns red it shows that there was something done that her moral conscience told her should not have been done.

It is shocking to imagine that someone else produced that red face to my girl. In such a case she could not be one hundred per cent sweet. As soon as a girl acquires experience the sweetness begins to leave her right away. The first experience in everything is the most impressive. It should be reserved for the permanent partner - the less of the new experience is left, the cheaper the affair will be.

That is the reason why I want a girl the way Mother nature puts her out. This means before anybody has had any chance to be around her and before she begins to misrepresent herself. I want to pick out the girl while she is guided by the instinct alone.

When I started out in doing things that would make it possible for me to get a girl, I set a rule in my behaviour to follow:

The sweet sixteen had to be a beginner and a likeable girl and with a mild disposition; I had to be deserving of her. Everybody's sweet sixteen should be so high in one's estimation that no temptation could induce one to act behind her back. I always have wanted a girl but I never had one.

The reason why is that I knew it would produce several conditions and leave their effects, but I did not want any effects from past experience left on me and my sweet sixteen.

A girl will economize, go hungry and endure other hardships before she will put on another girl's dress to wear. I will put gunny sacks on before I will wear another man's clothes, and this is only a step from having another fellow's girl or another girl's fellow.

Having such a case the present possessor would have to clean up the past performer's effects. Now you see, to clean up the other person's leavings, it is humiliating, so it would be a cheap and undesirable affair. I want one hundred per cent good or none. That is why I was so successfull in resisting the natural urge for love making.

Now about sweet and how sweet, a girl can be one hundred per cent sweet to one only and no more. To illustrate, suppose we are two men and a girl together somewhere and some one else would ask if she is sweet and we both would say she is sweet. But let her act very friendly with the other fellow and then if someone should ask if she is sweet, I would say that she is not. Now you see her friendly action with the other fellow produced a change in me and it would produca a change in any other normal man.

We always strive for perfection. We are only one-half of a perfect whole, man is the bigger and stronger half and the woman is the other. To be perfect there must be two, but where there is two there is no room for more, so the third party is left to go somewhere else with sour feelings.

A normal male is always ready to strive for perfection, the female is not. It is not only with human beings, it is the same with every living thing. If you watch a flock of chickens, where there is a rooster, and if you add another rooster, you will see them fight to death. One will have to go or be killed and this is the same thing with the other living things.

Lower forms of life are guided by instincts alone so the present only comes into consideration. As soon as the other male is chased away, the female is as good as she ever was, but with us it is different. We are guided more by reason and thought than by instinct and so the present, past and future come into consideration. Now, if it is not good today, it was not good yesterday and it won't be good tomorrow. That is why an experienced girl cannot be one hundred per cent sweet.

According to my observation the girls are wrong in looking for their permanent partners. They are too quick. By being too quick, they only get those fellows with quick emotions. All quick emotions are irresponsible and short lasting.

There are two kinds of love - sensual and sentimental. Sensual love has the present and little future only. The sentimental love has the present, past and future, so it is more desirable. It will be slower but it will last longer. Now, girls, when any fellow jumps quickly at you, you had better keep away from him. He has no consideration that the action would do any good to you. You are the weakest side, so you should have the better deal and if you don't get the better deal, there is a little brute in him and it may come very hard to train it out of him. The fellow who makes an advance toward you, and if he won't state what the eventual purpose will be, he is not a gentleman. All men should know that the girl's primary purpose is to find a permanent partner while they are young. Those fellows who fail to see this are not desirable to have around.

Girls below sixteen should not be allowed to associate with the boys, they are practicing in love making, such a thing should be discouraged. Love making should be reserved for their permanent partners. With every love making affair, their hearts get bruised and by the time they grow up, their hearts are so badly bruised that they are no more good.

Boys and girls start out as friends and finish as disappointed lovers, now let me tell you. Male and female are never friends, a friend will not want anything from a friend, but a boy or a girl, one or the other, sooner or later, will ask for a little kiss, so they are not friends, they are lovers.

Let's see what happens when they are selecting their partners while they are young. They select their partners on account of good looks. The liking for the good looks remain but the good looks change and they change so much in ten years that you would not recognize them if you had not seen them now and then - and the boy gets the best deal almost every time. By that time they are grown up. The girls will be faded so much that the fellow would not want her any more so then, any girl who associates with a fellow only five years older is headed for a bad disappointment. This all could be avoided with the right kind of an education.

Now, a few words about education. You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is not really educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

The misleading began when our far distant ancestors began to teach their descendants. You know they knew nothing but they passed their knowledge of nothing to the coming generations and it went so innocently that nobody noticed it. That is why we are not educated.

Now I will tel you what education is according to my reasoning. An educated person is one whose senses are refined. We are born as brutes, we remain and die as the same if we do not become polished. Some are too coarse to take it. The main base of education is one's "self-respect". Any one lacking self-respect cannot be educated. The main bases of self-respect is the willingness to learn, to do only the things that are good and right, to believe only in the things that can be proved, to possess appreciation and self control.

Now, if you lack willingness to learn, you will remain as a brute and if you do things that are not good and right, you will be a low person, and if you believe in things that cannot be proved, any feeble minded person can lead you, and if you lack appreciation, it takes away the incentive for good doing and if you lack self control you will never know the limit.

So all those lacking these characteristics in their makeup are not educated.
Domestic

The foundation of our physical and mental behaviour is laid while we are in infancy, so the responsibility of our shortcomings rest upon our mothers and fathers, but mainly upon our mothers.

Today, I myself would be better than I am if my mother and father had known how to raise me and the same is true for almost everybody else.

At the first contraction in any part of your body, you will never notice any mark, but keep it up and some day you will see a crease, and it will be permanent. We all want to look and act the best that we know how, but we cannot learn from ourselves so we have to learn from others.

In my thirty years of studying conditions and their effects I have come to the conclusion that I can tell pointers to the people that would be a good help to them. That is why I wrote this little book.

To accomplish good results, the mothers will have to keep good watch on their darlings until they acquire the natural ambition to shine, and the girls should be more carefully watched than the boys, because the girl's looks are her best asset and should be cultivated.

Don't raise the girls too big by over feeding them and too curved by neglect.

People who want to shine will always have to restrain themselves, because if they don't, their actions won't be graceful. Even when one's looks are good, if he abandons restraint, the performance won't be good. It is more likely that the person himself won't notice but others will.

The first thing I notice about other people is, if there is something wrong and if it could be improved and the same must be true about other people noticing my defects and neglects. To correct those neglects, somebody will have to point them out, but to do it directly will not do, because they would think you are mean. That is why I want to point out the defects and neglects in this book.

The most striking neglect that comes to my attention is when one is smiling. A smile is always pleasing if it is regulated but without restraint, it is not. When smiling, the teeth only should be shown. As soon as you show the gums, it spoils the good effect. When showing the gums you are doing triple harm. First, the gums never look good; second, you are making too big creases in the side of your mouth and third, your lips come too wide apart. Especially should a girl be careful not to show too abnormally big mouth. Girls should do nothing that would impair their best looks. I have seen moving picture stars, public singers and others with their mouths open so wide that you would think the person lacks refinement, but if they knew how bad it looks they would train it out. No doubt they have practiced before a looking glass, but a looking glass does not show such an enormous opening, because while they are looking at the looking glass they are under restraint and so they really don't know how it looks while they are not watching themselves. In a looking glass you will never notice all your neglects and defects. They have to be pointed out by somebody else.

It is painful to hear other people pointing out our neglects and defects so do not entrust your friends to do it. Your friends may not always be your friends. The best way is to leave that to your own family. Your mother and father will do nothing to embarrass you. Your mother will do it better and it should be started while one is still a baby.

The first thing the mothers should do is to watch the baby's mouth so it is not hanging open. The mouth, by hanging open, stretches the upper lip and when kept open while growing, then when fully grown, the lips will not fit together any more.

Mothers should keep close watch on their children's behaviour. As soon as they notice some action and contraction that is not graceful, they should correct it immediately, because their actions leave their effects. To small children, it doesn't matter how ugly they look, but when they are grown up, the good looks will be the best thing, and one with a disfigured face cannot be satisfied with oneself. The foundation for one's best looks will have to be laid while one is small.

A graceful smile is pleasing but if it is not perfect, its pleasing effect is marred. To obtain better results, don't make the smile too big by opening the mouth too wide, drawing the lips over the gums, or drawing one side of the lip more than the other, or drawing both lips to one side and have them twisted.

Children should not be encouraged to smile too much, smiling in due time will produce creases in the sides of their mouths. It would be better to save the smiles till they are grown up. Children while they are growing should be watched, closely. They are stretching their mouths with their fingers and are jamming too big objects in their mouths and making ugly faces. All these actions should be forbidden for their future's sake.

Eyes should be trained to look in the middle between both lids, never through the forehead. If this is done, it will produce creases in the forehead. When the lids of one eye are more narrow than the other it should be trained out and equalized.

In case one leg is shorter and one shoulder lower, they can be disguised so that other people would not notice it. In walking the toes should be carried a little out, by carrying the toes out one can walk better. Shorter steps would make the walking more graceful and those who stoop over, higher heels would help to keep the body more erect.

Girls should take smaller steps than boys. By taking smaller steps the body would not jump as much up and down or swing from side to side.

Mothers should study the other people's children and then pick out the best model from which to train their own child.

Everybody should be trained not to go out anywhere before somebody else has examined them to see if everything is all right. It would save many people from unexpected embarrassment.
Political

Before I say anything about the government, let's establish a base for reasoning. All our ideas should produce good and lasting results and then anything that is good now would have been good in the past and it will be good in the future and it will be good under any circumstances, so any idea that does not cover all this broad base is no good.

To be right, one's thought will have to be based on natural facts, for really, Mother Nature only can what is right and what is wrong and the way that things should be.

My definition of right is that right is anything in nature that exists without artificial modification and all the others are wrong.

Now suppose you would say it is wrong. In that case, I would say you are wrong yourself because you came into this world through natural circumstances that you had nothing to do with and so long as such a thing exists as yourself, I am right and you are wrong. Only those are right whose thoughts are based on natural facts and inclinations.

It is natural tendency for all living things to take it easy. You watch any living thing you want to, and you will see that as soon as they fill up, they will lie down and take it easy.

The physical comfort, the ease, that is the only thing in this world that satisfies. It cannot be overdone and it is the real base of all our actions. We all cannot take things easy because there is too much competition from other people only those who possess good management will succeed by exploiting domestic animals, machinery, other people and natural resources.

Everything will have to be produced that is consumed and to those who have to produce the things themselves, they are consuming the easy days are not coming to them.

It has been told to you that the government is for the purpose of protecting "life" and property, but it really is to protect "property" and life. Nobody wants your life but everybody wants your property.

In International dealings, when an army conquers the land, they don't want the people, they want the physical property and so do the thieves and the bandits. They want your money and property and if you will submit peacefully, they won't harm you.

Now you see, nobody wants you, they want your property so really the property is the one that needs the protection and not you. You are the protector yourself.

Government to be lasting will have to be just. This means it will have to protect all the property alike and all the property will have to pay equal taxes, which means big property, big taxes, and small property, small taxes. Government cannot exist without taxes so only those who pay taxes should vote and vote according to the taxes they pay.

It is not sound to allow the weaklings to vote. Any one who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote, because their weak influence weakens the state and a degenerated state cannot exist very long, but every state should be sound and lasting.

By voting, the voters dictate the state's destiny for times to come and then to allow such a weak influence to guide the state, it is not wise and so you see one should vote according to how he is carrying the State's burden.

Another unwise thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to take the property away from producers and stronger people, and then another unjust thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to demand an easy life from the producers and leaders.

Self respecting producers will not stand such an injustice for long. It is not the producers' fault when one is too weak to make his own living. The producer's life is just as sweet as the weaklings and loafers life is to them. All people are independent so you see everybody will have to take care of themselves and if they cannot, they should perish and the sooner they perish the better it will be.

To be lasting, the government should be built in the same way as the Supreme power of the land "the army." Governments have been rising and falling but the army always remains. You know there is no equality in army and so there can be no equality in the state if you are not equal producer you cannot be an equal consumer.

Fifty per cent of the people don't want to lead, they want to follow. They want somebody else to furnish the money for their living expenses and as long as such a condition exists, they are not equal with their leaders. That is the reason why everybody should be put in the right place according to their physical and mental ability.

There is only one way to share the National income. It is by sharing the production and if you are not producing equally you cannot share equally. Nobody is producing anything for the others. They are producing only for themselves.

People are individuals. For instance, if you want an excitement you have to test the thrill yourself, or if you have a pain you will have to bear it yourself, or if you want to eat you will have to eat for yourself. Nobody can eat for you and so it is that if you want the things to eat you will have to produce them yourself and if you are too weak, too lazy, lack machinery and good management to produce them, you should perish and that is all there is to it.

A BOOK IN EVERY HOME

Containing Three Subjects:

* Ed's Sweet Sixteen,
* Domestic and
* Political Views

By EDWARD LEEDSKALNIN

Published by EDWARD LEEDSKALNIN

Homestead, Florida

COPYRIGHT, 1936,

By Edward Leedskalnin

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Reader, if for any reason you don not like the things I say in this little book, I left just as much space as I used, so you can write your own opinion opposite it and see if you can do better.

The Author
Ed's Sweet Sixteen

To those more than fifteen thousand people who have seen Ed's Place, I told about Ed's Sweet Sixteen. Now, I will tell you why I did not get the girl.

In Ed's Place, there was a lasting fame for a girl's name but it would have taken money to put the fame upon her. The trouble was that I did not have the money and didn't make enough. That was the reason I could not look for a girl.

Now, I am going to tell you what I mean when I say "Ed's Sweet Sixteen". I don't mean a sixteen year old girl, I mean a brand new one. If it had meant a sixteen year old girl, it would have meant at the same time, that I made money for the sweet sixteen while she was making love with a fresh boy.

I will furnish all the love making to my girl. She will never have to seek any from anybody else, for I believe that there is not a boy or man in this world good enough to be around my girl and I believe that the other men also ought to have enough self-respect so that they would think that I am not good enough to be around theirs.

Anything that we do leaves its effect, but it leaves more effect upon a girl than it does upon a boy or a man, because the girl's body, mind and all her constitition is more tender and so it leaves more impressions - and why should one want to be around anybody's else impressions?

A girl is to a fellow the best thing in this world, but to have the best one second hand, it is humiliating.

All girls below sixteen should be brand new. If a girl below sixteen cannot be called brand new any more, it is not the girl's fault; the mamma is to blame! It is the mamma's duty to supervise the girl to keep those fresh boys away.

In case the girl's mamma thinks that there is a boy somewhere who needs experience, then she, herself, could pose as an experimental station for that fresh boy to prctice on and so save the girl. Nothing can hurt her any more. She has already gone through all the experience that can be gone through and so in her case, it would be all right.

But all the blame does not rest on the mamma alone. The schools and the churches are cheapening the girls! They are arranging picnics - are coupling up the girls with the fresh boys - and then they send them out to the woods, parks, beaches and other places so that they can practice in first degree love making.

Now, I will tell you what the first degree love making is. The first degree love making is when the fresh boy begins to soil the girl by patting, rubbing and squeezing her. They start it in that way but soon it begins to get dull and there is no kick in it, so they have to start in on the second degree and keep on and then by and by, when the right man comes along and when he touches the girl, then he touches her like dead flesh. There is no more response in it because all the response has been worked out with those fresh boys. Why should it be that way?

Everything we do should be for some good purpose but as everybody knows there is nothing good that can come to a girl from a fresh boy. When a girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as good as she ever will be, but when a boy is sixteen years old, he is then fresher than in all his stages of development. He is then not big enough to work but he is too big to be kept in a nursery and then to allow such a fresh thing to soil a girl - it could not work on my girl. Now I will tell you about soiling. Anything that is done, if it is with the right party it is all right, but when it is with the wrong party, it is soiling, and concerning those fresh boys with the girls, it is wrong every time.

Now, how can you find out if I am right? Pick out any girl you want but do it before she has anything to do with anybody - as soon as she begins to couple herself with somebody. You watch her every day and some day you will see the girl coming home with a red face. One's face is a window for other people to look in on and when it turns red it shows that there was something done that her moral conscience told her should not have been done.

It is shocking to imagine that someone else produced that red face to my girl. In such a case she could not be one hundred per cent sweet. As soon as a girl acquires experience the sweetness begins to leave her right away. The first experience in everything is the most impressive. It should be reserved for the permanent partner - the less of the new experience is left, the cheaper the affair will be.

That is the reason why I want a girl the way Mother nature puts her out. This means before anybody has had any chance to be around her and before she begins to misrepresent herself. I want to pick out the girl while she is guided by the instinct alone.

When I started out in doing things that would make it possible for me to get a girl, I set a rule in my behaviour to follow:

The sweet sixteen had to be a beginner and a likeable girl and with a mild disposition; I had to be deserving of her. Everybody's sweet sixteen should be so high in one's estimation that no temptation could induce one to act behind her back. I always have wanted a girl but I never had one.

The reason why is that I knew it would produce several conditions and leave their effects, but I did not want any effects from past experience left on me and my sweet sixteen.

A girl will economize, go hungry and endure other hardships before she will put on another girl's dress to wear. I will put gunny sacks on before I will wear another man's clothes, and this is only a step from having another fellow's girl or another girl's fellow.

Having such a case the present possessor would have to clean up the past performer's effects. Now you see, to clean up the other person's leavings, it is humiliating, so it would be a cheap and undesirable affair. I want one hundred per cent good or none. That is why I was so successfull in resisting the natural urge for love making.

Now about sweet and how sweet, a girl can be one hundred per cent sweet to one only and no more. To illustrate, suppose we are two men and a girl together somewhere and some one else would ask if she is sweet and we both would say she is sweet. But let her act very friendly with the other fellow and then if someone should ask if she is sweet, I would say that she is not. Now you see her friendly action with the other fellow produced a change in me and it would produca a change in any other normal man.

We always strive for perfection. We are only one-half of a perfect whole, man is the bigger and stronger half and the woman is the other. To be perfect there must be two, but where there is two there is no room for more, so the third party is left to go somewhere else with sour feelings.

A normal male is always ready to strive for perfection, the female is not. It is not only with human beings, it is the same with every living thing. If you watch a flock of chickens, where there is a rooster, and if you add another rooster, you will see them fight to death. One will have to go or be killed and this is the same thing with the other living things.

Lower forms of life are guided by instincts alone so the present only comes into consideration. As soon as the other male is chased away, the female is as good as she ever was, but with us it is different. We are guided more by reason and thought than by instinct and so the present, past and future come into consideration. Now, if it is not good today, it was not good yesterday and it won't be good tomorrow. That is why an experienced girl cannot be one hundred per cent sweet.

According to my observation the girls are wrong in looking for their permanent partners. They are too quick. By being too quick, they only get those fellows with quick emotions. All quick emotions are irresponsible and short lasting.

There are two kinds of love - sensual and sentimental. Sensual love has the present and little future only. The sentimental love has the present, past and future, so it is more desirable. It will be slower but it will last longer. Now, girls, when any fellow jumps quickly at you, you had better keep away from him. He has no consideration that the action would do any good to you. You are the weakest side, so you should have the better deal and if you don't get the better deal, there is a little brute in him and it may come very hard to train it out of him. The fellow who makes an advance toward you, and if he won't state what the eventual purpose will be, he is not a gentleman. All men should know that the girl's primary purpose is to find a permanent partner while they are young. Those fellows who fail to see this are not desirable to have around.

Girls below sixteen should not be allowed to associate with the boys, they are practicing in love making, such a thing should be discouraged. Love making should be reserved for their permanent partners. With every love making affair, their hearts get bruised and by the time they grow up, their hearts are so badly bruised that they are no more good.

Boys and girls start out as friends and finish as disappointed lovers, now let me tell you. Male and female are never friends, a friend will not want anything from a friend, but a boy or a girl, one or the other, sooner or later, will ask for a little kiss, so they are not friends, they are lovers.

Let's see what happens when they are selecting their partners while they are young. They select their partners on account of good looks. The liking for the good looks remain but the good looks change and they change so much in ten years that you would not recognize them if you had not seen them now and then - and the boy gets the best deal almost every time. By that time they are grown up. The girls will be faded so much that the fellow would not want her any more so then, any girl who associates with a fellow only five years older is headed for a bad disappointment. This all could be avoided with the right kind of an education.

Now, a few words about education. You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is not really educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

The misleading began when our far distant ancestors began to teach their descendants. You know they knew nothing but they passed their knowledge of nothing to the coming generations and it went so innocently that nobody noticed it. That is why we are not educated.

Now I will tel you what education is according to my reasoning. An educated person is one whose senses are refined. We are born as brutes, we remain and die as the same if we do not become polished. Some are too coarse to take it. The main base of education is one's "self-respect". Any one lacking self-respect cannot be educated. The main bases of self-respect is the willingness to learn, to do only the things that are good and right, to believe only in the things that can be proved, to possess appreciation and self control.

Now, if you lack willingness to learn, you will remain as a brute and if you do things that are not good and right, you will be a low person, and if you believe in things that cannot be proved, any feeble minded person can lead you, and if you lack appreciation, it takes away the incentive for good doing and if you lack self control you will never know the limit.

So all those lacking these characteristics in their makeup are not educated.
Domestic

The foundation of our physical and mental behaviour is laid while we are in infancy, so the responsibility of our shortcomings rest upon our mothers and fathers, but mainly upon our mothers.

Today, I myself would be better than I am if my mother and father had known how to raise me and the same is true for almost everybody else.

At the first contraction in any part of your body, you will never notice any mark, but keep it up and some day you will see a crease, and it will be permanent. We all want to look and act the best that we know how, but we cannot learn from ourselves so we have to learn from others.

In my thirty years of studying conditions and their effects I have come to the conclusion that I can tell pointers to the people that would be a good help to them. That is why I wrote this little book.

To accomplish good results, the mothers will have to keep good watch on their darlings until they acquire the natural ambition to shine, and the girls should be more carefully watched than the boys, because the girl's looks are her best asset and should be cultivated.

Don't raise the girls too big by over feeding them and too curved by neglect.

People who want to shine will always have to restrain themselves, because if they don't, their actions won't be graceful. Even when one's looks are good, if he abandons restraint, the performance won't be good. It is more likely that the person himself won't notice but others will.

The first thing I notice about other people is, if there is something wrong and if it could be improved and the same must be true about other people noticing my defects and neglects. To correct those neglects, somebody will have to point them out, but to do it directly will not do, because they would think you are mean. That is why I want to point out the defects and neglects in this book.

The most striking neglect that comes to my attention is when one is smiling. A smile is always pleasing if it is regulated but without restraint, it is not. When smiling, the teeth only should be shown. As soon as you show the gums, it spoils the good effect. When showing the gums you are doing triple harm. First, the gums never look good; second, you are making too big creases in the side of your mouth and third, your lips come too wide apart. Especially should a girl be careful not to show too abnormally big mouth. Girls should do nothing that would impair their best looks. I have seen moving picture stars, public singers and others with their mouths open so wide that you would think the person lacks refinement, but if they knew how bad it looks they would train it out. No doubt they have practiced before a looking glass, but a looking glass does not show such an enormous opening, because while they are looking at the looking glass they are under restraint and so they really don't know how it looks while they are not watching themselves. In a looking glass you will never notice all your neglects and defects. They have to be pointed out by somebody else.

It is painful to hear other people pointing out our neglects and defects so do not entrust your friends to do it. Your friends may not always be your friends. The best way is to leave that to your own family. Your mother and father will do nothing to embarrass you. Your mother will do it better and it should be started while one is still a baby.

The first thing the mothers should do is to watch the baby's mouth so it is not hanging open. The mouth, by hanging open, stretches the upper lip and when kept open while growing, then when fully grown, the lips will not fit together any more.

Mothers should keep close watch on their children's behaviour. As soon as they notice some action and contraction that is not graceful, they should correct it immediately, because their actions leave their effects. To small children, it doesn't matter how ugly they look, but when they are grown up, the good looks will be the best thing, and one with a disfigured face cannot be satisfied with oneself. The foundation for one's best looks will have to be laid while one is small.

A graceful smile is pleasing but if it is not perfect, its pleasing effect is marred. To obtain better results, don't make the smile too big by opening the mouth too wide, drawing the lips over the gums, or drawing one side of the lip more than the other, or drawing both lips to one side and have them twisted.

Children should not be encouraged to smile too much, smiling in due time will produce creases in the sides of their mouths. It would be better to save the smiles till they are grown up. Children while they are growing should be watched, closely. They are stretching their mouths with their fingers and are jamming too big objects in their mouths and making ugly faces. All these actions should be forbidden for their future's sake.

Eyes should be trained to look in the middle between both lids, never through the forehead. If this is done, it will produce creases in the forehead. When the lids of one eye are more narrow than the other it should be trained out and equalized.

In case one leg is shorter and one shoulder lower, they can be disguised so that other people would not notice it. In walking the toes should be carried a little out, by carrying the toes out one can walk better. Shorter steps would make the walking more graceful and those who stoop over, higher heels would help to keep the body more erect.

Girls should take smaller steps than boys. By taking smaller steps the body would not jump as much up and down or swing from side to side.

Mothers should study the other people's children and then pick out the best model from which to train their own child.

Everybody should be trained not to go out anywhere before somebody else has examined them to see if everything is all right. It would save many people from unexpected embarrassment.
Political

Before I say anything about the government, let's establish a base for reasoning. All our ideas should produce good and lasting results and then anything that is good now would have been good in the past and it will be good in the future and it will be good under any circumstances, so any idea that does not cover all this broad base is no good.

To be right, one's thought will have to be based on natural facts, for really, Mother Nature only can what is right and what is wrong and the way that things should be.

My definition of right is that right is anything in nature that exists without artificial modification and all the others are wrong.

Now suppose you would say it is wrong. In that case, I would say you are wrong yourself because you came into this world through natural circumstances that you had nothing to do with and so long as such a thing exists as yourself, I am right and you are wrong. Only those are right whose thoughts are based on natural facts and inclinations.

It is natural tendency for all living things to take it easy. You watch any living thing you want to, and you will see that as soon as they fill up, they will lie down and take it easy.

The physical comfort, the ease, that is the only thing in this world that satisfies. It cannot be overdone and it is the real base of all our actions. We all cannot take things easy because there is too much competition from other people only those who possess good management will succeed by exploiting domestic animals, machinery, other people and natural resources.

Everything will have to be produced that is consumed and to those who have to produce the things themselves, they are consuming the easy days are not coming to them.

It has been told to you that the government is for the purpose of protecting "life" and property, but it really is to protect "property" and life. Nobody wants your life but everybody wants your property.

In International dealings, when an army conquers the land, they don't want the people, they want the physical property and so do the thieves and the bandits. They want your money and property and if you will submit peacefully, they won't harm you.

Now you see, nobody wants you, they want your property so really the property is the one that needs the protection and not you. You are the protector yourself.

Government to be lasting will have to be just. This means it will have to protect all the property alike and all the property will have to pay equal taxes, which means big property, big taxes, and small property, small taxes. Government cannot exist without taxes so only those who pay taxes should vote and vote according to the taxes they pay.

It is not sound to allow the weaklings to vote. Any one who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote, because their weak influence weakens the state and a degenerated state cannot exist very long, but every state should be sound and lasting.

By voting, the voters dictate the state's destiny for times to come and then to allow such a weak influence to guide the state, it is not wise and so you see one should vote according to how he is carrying the State's burden.

Another unwise thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to take the property away from producers and stronger people, and then another unjust thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to demand an easy life from the producers and leaders.

Self respecting producers will not stand such an injustice for long. It is not the producers' fault when one is too weak to make his own living. The producer's life is just as sweet as the weaklings and loafers life is to them. All people are independent so you see everybody will have to take care of themselves and if they cannot, they should perish and the sooner they perish the better it will be.

To be lasting, the government should be built in the same way as the Supreme power of the land "the army." Governments have been rising and falling but the army always remains. You know there is no equality in army and so there can be no equality in the state if you are not equal producer you cannot be an equal consumer.

Fifty per cent of the people don't want to lead, they want to follow. They want somebody else to furnish the money for their living expenses and as long as such a condition exists, they are not equal with their leaders. That is the reason why everybody should be put in the right place according to their physical and mental ability.

There is only one way to share the National income. It is by sharing the production and if you are not producing equally you cannot share equally. Nobody is producing anything for the others. They are producing only for themselves.

People are individuals. For instance, if you want an excitement you have to test the thrill yourself, or if you have a pain you will have to bear it yourself, or if you want to eat you will have to eat for yourself. Nobody can eat for you and so it is that if you want the things to eat you will have to produce them yourself and if you are too weak, too lazy, lack machinery and good management to produce them, you should perish and that is all there is to it.

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