WORLD GOVERNMENT

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

—Rev. 13:7

7506 Toynbee’s Statement

In 1955, Professor Arnold Toynbee, widely called “the greatest living historian” made a statement that was announced to the world by the news channels. He said: “The time for world government has come.”

The World Government and the World Church will be concurrent prophetic realities. They cannot be widely separated events.

7507 Natural Tendency Of Organizations

Dr. A. D. Lindsay, a political theorist of international reputation gives this warning. “Any big organization is, however democratic in its machinery, bound to become hierarchical. A community where all organizations are gathered together into one great system cannot give its members equality, whether it is theoretically authoritarian or democratic.”

7508 One-World Mail?

Boerhaave once received a letter from China, directed “To the Illustrious Boerhaave, Europe,” which reached him as safely as if it had been addressed to Leyden, Holland, his place of residence.

—Foster

7509 Letter To “North Pole”

A letter addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole” was received in the Washington post office. The Postmaster General was touched by the urgency of the request; it was from a little boy who did not want toys, but food and clothing for his destitute family. The cabinet member addressed a reply to the little boy on official stationery, saying that Santa Claus had referred the matter to him and the fifty dollars enclosed was a gift from the North Pole.

The following year another letter addressed to Santa Claus, and written by the same boy, came to Washington and was forwarded to the Postmaster General. When it was opened the cabinet member read the following: “Dear Santa: You were very kind to me last year and I appreciate it very much. But next time you send me money don’t forward it through the government. Those men always keep half of what they receive.”

—Gerald Lieberman

7510 Too Much Local Government?

A sailing dinghy broke loose from its mooring on the east coast of Britain. The owner heard nothing of it for two weeks. Then a most courteous letter arrived from a small Belgian port. The dinghy, undamaged, had been picked up by a trawler and brought to harbor.

The delighted owner immediately made plans for getting the dinghy back. But it was not so simple. He had to have an import license from the Board of Trade before his property could be returned. And his application was three times refused—to protect the British shipbuilding industry.

7511 Nobody Knows The Connections

The Department of Defense system, according to Dr. A. M. Zarem, Defense Department consultant and president of Electro- Optical Systems, Inc., is like a gigantic bowl of wet noodles. “Trying to get something done is like pushing on one end of any of the noodles. Nobody knows where the noodle is connected—where it goes in the mass—and what, if anything, will move.”

—Armed Forces Management

7512 U.S. Government Employee

There are nearly 3 million federal civilian employees who work for 11 major departments, 59 agencies, 1,267 advisory boards and commissions.

They dispense over $410 billion yearly, and operate 1,040 separate domestic programs.

About 99% of the employees are protected by civil-service laws, are in office for specific terms, or have special skills that make them hard to replace.

7513 Spreading Governmental Control

Business leaders are becoming concerned over increasing federal rules and regulations on the private sector.

A new government report shows that the Steel Industry is required to comply with 5,500 separate federal regulations. New rules tell the industry what it must do rather than what it cannot do.

7514 Mountains Of Paperwork

Federal agencies require more than one billion reports each year—five for every man, woman and child in the United States. One firm once had to handle 2700 different kinds of reports, with half a million copies filled out, to meet federal, state and local government requirements.

The Government Printing Office prints 2.25 billion forms each year, or 11 for every American. To process this paperwork costs industry, business and the public an estimated $20 billion a year, and it costs taxpayers an additional $7 billion annually to underwrite the government’s processing of its own paperwork.

—Human Events

7515 Chain Papers On Rise

In 1970, the proportion of the nation’s 1,750 dailies (newspaper) owned by chains or groups topped 50% for the first time. But by 1976, while total U. S. dailies had remained about the same, the proportion of chain papers had risen to 59%.

See also: Antichrist ; Government ; United Nations ; Rev. 13:15, 16.