My Experiences With Frank Lloyd Wright In the Fifties

My Experiences With Frank Lloyd Wright In the Fifties
Bernard Pyron

Photo I Took Of Frank Lloyd Wright Coming Out of the Spring Green High School in 1957

Photo I took of Frank Lloyd Wright coming out of the Spring Green High School where he had just given a speech in the summer of 1957.

When I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, which is forty miles east of Taliesin, Wright's Wisconsin home place. I had already become interested in Frank Lloyd Wright. On a troopship coming home from the Korean War I was sitting on deck one day reading The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand and a soldier came up and said the novel was based upon Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1952 I had never heard of Wright,, but when I got settled I began reading some of the books written by
Wright.

One day in the summer of 1957 when my first cousin A.C. Donaho was living with us on Middleton Beach Road In Middleton, northwest of Madison, we went to Spring Green and to the high school where Frank Lloyd Wright was sitting on the stage behind William T. Evjue, the editor of the Capital Times, who was giving a long winded political speech, probably on Wisconsin Progressivism. Progressivism was the Wisconsin form of the Populist movement of the Midwest, Texas and the South which went on in the late 19th century and later.

This was my first experience of being in the presence of Frank Lloyd Wright.

In the early Fall of 1957 Walter Gray, a graduate student in music, and I walked up to Wright in Hillside sitting at a drafting table surrounded by his apprentices. I asked his permissions to photograph many of his floor plans and perspective drawings for his houses after the late forties. He agreed and assigned his senior apprentice John Ottenheimer to help me. Wright's floor plans and perspective were then in some disarray in a room at Hillside which was mainly Wright's Drafting Room and the Fellowship Mess Hall, where I once ate lunch. My wife Gail and I were in Taliesin one day with a Wright Apprentice and I was talking about a Bach Contata called "Ich Habe Hunger."

Gail and I sat in the front row of the University of Wisconsin Student Union Auditorium in the Fall of 1957 where Frank Lloyd Wright gave a talk. I remember that Wright had a strong presence when he appeared onstage from the left.

I went back the following Fall - of 1958 -, to get Wright's
permission to photograph more of floor plans and perspective drawings for the houses on my list and his
secretary Gene Masselink had me make an official appointment to
talk with Wright. We spent about an hour that day showing Wright the
color slides and black and white photos I had of his recent houses.

One day when Bruce Radde went with us to Taliesin, on the way home to Middleton we stopped at Wright's Wyoming Valley School on the west side of Wisconsin State Highway 23, about two and a half miles south of Taliesin. We saw Wright that day looking at the building which then was almost finished. He had his cape on.

Bruce Radde, our companion on several
trips to see Wright houses, made up a list of Wright structures
from Henry-Russell Hitchcock's book, In the Nature of Materials, and from my list. I made up a list of Wright buildings from a list I was given by the Burnham Library of Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago, and from Senior Wright apprentices I talked to at Taliesin, including John Ottenheimer.

When he was at Falling Water, probably in 1958 or 1959 Bruce Radde met Edgar Kaufman and got his list published in the 1960 book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings edited by Kaufman and Ben Raeburn.

When we went to Texas for Christmas in late 1959, we met Bruce
Radde in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the way back in January of 1960 and he went with us
to Madison. He then told us that the list was to be published in the
Kaufman and Raeburn book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings.1960.

Bruce F. Radde published on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright after I lost contact with him. . I found this: Frank Lloyd Wright - Steiner Ag www.steinerag.com/flw/Periodicals/1970-79.htm

Radde wrote a book on Wright's buildings in California when he was a Professor of Art History at San Jose State.

William Storrer said that some of the Wright houses listed in the Bruce Radde List cannot be found.

See:www.franklloydwrightinfo.com/damietta.html :

"Built or Not?

"When no photographs are known of a work, we wonder if truly it was
built. When the Taliesin archives state that it was, we work on the
basis that they are right. This led to some errors in the first
edition of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, a complete catalog.
Most of the incorrect listings in the list attributed to Bruce Radde,
but actually assembled by John Ottenheimer, in Raeburn and Kaufmann's
Frank Lloyd Wright; Writings and Buildings were found simply because
the listed buildings wheren't there. This, however, did not solve the
problem of buildings that had been built but were not on the list, a
problem that was only solved, and then only partially, with
publication a quarter century later of The Frank Lloyd Wright
Companion. Here all the Erdman prefabs were finally listed, but some
Richards prefabs remained to be found."

www.franklloydwrightinfo.com is William Storrer's web site.

From the photos of Wright's floor plans and perspective drawings and from a number of photos I made of Wright homes, I wrote a manuscript in the period of 1957 to 1960 on Wright's houses since 1949.

.In 1963 Ben Raeburn, the editor of Horizon Press, took my manuscript on Wright's houses since 1949 to Mrs. Wright to see at Taliesin West. I still don't know what happened to it.

Mrs Wright did not admit me to the Wright nomenclature. But the Internet has its own nomenclature.

Mrs Frank Lloyd Wright did not seem to like my book manuscript that Horizon Press gave to her to look at in the spring of 1963. I never got the manuscript back from Horizon Press. Nothing. Much later, in 2006, I sent an E Mail to the Wright Foundation Archives asking if they have a copyright on Wright talks. They sent me a shorter paper of mine on Wright's owner built houses they had, but did not find the big manuscript of 1963.

I had not done anything on Wright since my 1961 article, "Wright's Diamond Module Houses His Development of Non-Rectilinear Interior Space, Art Journal
Volume 21, 1961 - Issue 2, Pages 92-96 | Published online: 09 Mar 2015, and my 1963 article "Wright's Small Rectangular Houses: His Structures of the Forties and Fifties," Art Journal, Vol 23, No 1, Autumn, 1963, and . The return of my long lost paper on owner built Wright houses led me to write two Internet articles for PrairieMod of Chicago. The first was "Owner Built Wright Houses: The Robert Berger House,October,2006. The second PrairieMod article of mine was on the Patrick Kinney house of Lancaster, Wisconsin, which is no longer available on the Internet. But I have a longer article on Wright's development of his nonrectilinear interior space designs, especially his diamond module houses,on a blog.

See: http://www.blogster.com/…/wrights-small-diamond-module-desi…

Though I may not have thought of this when the Art Journal published my chapter on Wright's Diamond Module Houses in 1961, it was appropriate to publish this in a journal called Art Journal. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect and not a painter or sculptor. Yet he was a great American artist, probably our greatest.

"PrairieMod put an article I wrote for them Online about Frank Lloyd Wright's diamond module houses, with a focus upon the Patrick Kinney house in Lancaster, Wisconsin. I mentioned this article on Save Wright .org - http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php….

" I prefer the small, compact Robert Berger and Patrick Kinney diamond module houses to both the Gillin and Thaxton houses. The John Gillin house is a large diamond module design in Dallas, and the Thaxton house is also larger than Wright's smaller, compact diamond module usonians."

THE NIGHT OF THE GREAT SALT

 

THE NIGHT OF THE GREAT SALT

Bernard Pyron 

 My short story in Quixote Magazine, Volume 2, Number 7, 1967, The Night of
the Great Salt, was written in 1964 and based upon our actual night salt
firings of this kiln and my larger more conventional kiln in Whitewater,
Wisconsin. "We drove up to Old Main on the hill and viewed the University
as a wrecking machine...Inside the kiln we could see several of Clayton Bailey's critters, some dead with their feet sticking up...His creatures snort
through their ceramic noses and twang like a mountaineer's mouth-bow.....We
opened the kiln and shoved in wet salt. A small explosion shook the
neighborhood and clouds of white chloride gas billowed out....The salt
cloud hung low in the night sky.........,.

.Never forget that the University
is like a mad dentist. It opens the mind and then slams it shut... Never
doubt.....topple the wrecking machine, and tranqualize the mad dentist."

Though I mentioned driving up to Old Main on the Hill, a reference to
Whitewater State College in Wisconsin, I was talking about viewing the
University of Wisconsin at Madison as the Wrecking Machine, and as the Mad
Dentist. At about that time in 1964 I had seen large wrecking machines
tearing down two story houses in a block just west of University Avenue
near South Park Street. The University as a wrecking machine which opens
the mind and then slams it shut was more of a prophecy than an observation
of something n 1964. I spent some years later as a non-tenure track junior
faculty member at Wisconsin......"

 In the short story I mentioned that in the salt kiln we could see some dead critters with their feet sticking up. Here is an example of a dead critter by Clayton Bailey -

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Bernard Pyron More Photos For Night of the Great Salt - In the short story, Night of the Great Salt the University of Wisconsin was seen as a Wrecking Machine and as a Mad Dentist which opens the mind and then slams it shut. Soon Clayton Bailey made a series of ceramic sculptures about the work of Mad Dentists.

Bernard Pyron Clayton Bailey in 1965 in the back of 525 West Washington, Madison, Wisconsin - at the meeting of the Dennis Murphy Gang for a 1965 movie.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Bailey...............":Clayton George Bailey born 9 March 1939.

Two of My Salt Glazed Ceramic Pieces from 1964 at Whitewater,

Bernard Pyron Still more from Night of the Great Salt: Small salt kiln ready to fire

Bernard Pyron And more from Night of the Great Salt: My Larger Whitewater kiln firing in 1964

E Mail To Morris Edelson: On Madison, Wisconsin Counterculture, September, 12, 2008 -

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E Mail To Morris Edelson: On  Madison, Wisconsin Counterculture, September, 12, 2008 - Bernard Pyron Morris Edelson was editor of Quixote Magazine during the years of the counterculure and anti-war movement of about 1966 to 1975 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Quixote was a little literary magazine which published mostly poems, short stories and other kinds of creative writing by those of literary bent.  Quixote published Bob Watt's book of poems, called Watt's Happening, before Watt became well known as the Beat Poet of Milwaukee..  In 1967 Quixote published my article The Night of the Great Salt, about firing salt kilns at night in Whitewater, Wisconsin with Clayton Bailey. So you returned to Texas and to East Texas. I became a member of the Lone Star Diaspora when I left Austin in 1956 for Madison. But I get interested in Texas and search Google for things Texas. I was looking for an online recording of talks by J. Frank Dobie in his typical South Texas Brush Country accent, which I had when I first arrived in Madison. I still have a residual of it. But I never did find an audio online by Dobie. On my main blog, JournalHome, I have at least two articles on Texas, Coyote Hunters of the Quesenberry (Southwest Bexar county) and Aunt Annie, Clay McGonagill and the Cattlemen and Trail Drivers of Old Sweet Home (Lavaca county). Even though I was glad to be out of Madison in 1978, out of the Children's Zoo, Psycho City, Fool's Paradise, Mind Swamp, etc., I find I am interested in it but mostly in the Madison counterculture of the period of about 1967 to 1975. Recently I corresponded by E Mail with Michael William Doyle, who wrote Free Radicals and is co-editor of Imagine Nation, essays on the counterculture. Doyle says "The trick to writing about the Sixties counterculture, I think, is in how you define this "movement" in way that is coherent and plausibly differentiates it from the other, more conventional social movements with which it is inextricably intertwined." He might say the sex lib movement in Madison in the sixties was such a conventional social movement intertwined with the counterculture. In the period of about 1961-64 there was some "free sex" going on among undergraduates at UW, but this wasn't the counterculture. Then, in the later sixties from about 1967 on, many more young people in the University and others in the community were interested in sex and engaged in it, who did not take any form of drugs. There was a great deal of social life among university people from about 1967 to the late seventies, if not before. Someone might write a history of the Blue Bus. In the sixties the Blue Bus was an old bus painted blue, whch housed a few medical students, a doctor to write prescriptions, and volunteers who dealt with sexually transmitted diseases, some years before AIDS. In the early seventies the Blue Bus was in an old building not far from Mifflin Street. Even though the sexual liberation movement was not limited to the counterculture, like the counterculture it attacked Christian morality and the family. It led to instability of relationships and to divorce somewhat later. Another movement that was intertwined with the later counterculture in the early seventies was the New Age Occult movement. It had roots in the late 19th century English Occult Revival, in Helena Blatatsky and Alice Bailey, but was popularized within the counterculure and spread with the counterculture. I see Paul Soglin's history of the Mifflin Street Co-op on the Internet. The Mifflin Street Co-op was a grocery store which sold some bulk foods and produce and was run by members of the local counterculture commmunity. They sold membership in the co-op for a few dollars and you had to have a card to buy there. Someone might write on the Whole Earth Co-op on East Johnson. It came a little later and was more linked to the back to the earth movement, whose name Whole Earth comes from the Whole Earth Catalog. Paul Soglin was a leader of the anti-war movement at the University of Wisconsin in the sixties and early seventies who had become a member of the Madison City Council and soon the mayor of Madison, Later, as mayor he was instrumental in ending the Monona Terrace Wars and finally getting the city and state to build the Frank Lloyd Wright Monona Terrace Project. When it was finally under construction in the late nineties, Wright had been dead since 1959. Doyle says in his first E Mail "As for archival sources, the Wisconsin Historical Society can help, as can the UW-Madison Memorial Library archives and special collections dept." I knew the name of the person in charge of that special collections unit at one time. No doubt Quixote is there. This got me to thinking of you and I looked you up on Google. Have you written on the Madison counterculture, not the anti-war movement which is also interesting. I generally don't read books but maybe you have something on the Internet. When did you get out of Madison? In October of 2007 I did an interview which was supposedly on my book The Great Rebellion. It was on one of those Internet radio shows, but the host led us all over the place. He was interested in the Frankfurt School, Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Carl Rogers, etc. The audio is at: http://search.everyzing.com/viewMedia.jsp?res=324987480&dedupe=1&col=en-all-public-ep&index=6&e=12742397&channelTitle=US+Dollar&num=10&s=PZSID_pods_pod4_8_4_0002;The+Threshing+Floor+Radio+Show&start=0&expand=true&match=query,channel&bc=42,155&filter=0 There is a download button at the bottom left of the little screen. My book The Great Rebellion (1985) looks at the contribution of self psychology, the drug movement, the hippies, feminists and the art bohemians to four strands of rebellion, which are an increase in selfishness, revolt against Christian morality. the lowering of man to his desires, feelings and conditioning, and the denial of objective reality. I use the findings of Herbert Hendin in The Age of Sensation, Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Daniel Yankelovich's, New Rules. The book does not deal with the counterculture in Madison, Wisconsin or elsewhere. Anecdotal Material in the Great Rebellion. Several times I talk about a sculptor friend of mine from the sixties, but do not give his name. He is Clayton Bailey, who started out as a potter. I was also a potter then. He and I and two or three others made up the Wisconsin Art Bohemian group I knew. Back in the period of 1960 to 1962 in Madison we met regularly, usually in our house, to hold "sessions" of improvised music, based on renaissance, Japanese and folk music. I got to know Clayton Bailey in 1960 in pottery classes at the University of Wisconsin. He was a regular in our improvisation group, though he only played the Jew's Harp and mouth-bow. Dennis Murphy was the chief musician, along with Raleigh Williams and sometimes others, such as another potter, Monona Rossol, who was a classical singer and into the theater. Clayton Bailey and I taught together for a year in the art department at Whitewater State College in Wisconsin. We were into surrealism and dada, or at least what we knew of those art movements. I put Bailey in a major art journal, Artforum, in California in 1964 and had helped him get his position as Artist in Residence at Whitewater. He was making ceramic sculpture then and experimenting with inflated rubber sculpture. He did some interesting ceramic sculpture satire on "Mad Dentists" and "Mad Doctors." When he got to California he started making ceramic "finds," or bones of fantastic critters his "other self" Dr George Gladstone was supposed to have found. Later in California he taught himself to make metal sculpture. He became a "shock artist." And he became fairly well known on the West Coast. He grew a huge moustache, several feet long. However, by about 1990 or so he was making occult sculpture and devil sculptures. I broke with him over that.  Bailey has some image on the West Coast as a weird sculptor. I thought that many who were into the art bohemian movement in the sixties and seventies had by 1999 become involved in what is called political correctness. They thought they were still art bohemians but their movement had fizzled out and was absorbed into the more political movements, especially political correctness. The surrealist shock artist of 1969 had become tenured professor and chairman of his art department.  Since I was in social and personality psychology at Wisconsin I was aware of the important book by Theodore W. Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality. I was also aware that it was among the most referenced books in the shrink journals and books during the fifties and sixties. Adorno claimed that Christianity and the family create the authoritarian personality, which causes fascism. But when I wrote the Great Rebellion I did not realize that the counterculture, to some extent, grew out of the influence of the Frankfurt School. I did not even know then that the LSD drug movement was promoted in part by Aldous Huxley through Gregory Bateson at the Palo Alto VA Hospital and through Tim Leary and Richard Alpert at Harvard. I knew of Ken Kesey, Alpert and Leary but not of Huxley and Bateson's role in the drug movement. There is some evidence that the British elite promoted the New Age Occult movement in the United States during the 20th century. They also promoted the use of LSD, and the drug movement after 1962, and the rock music that was a vital part of the counterculture. For example, Marilynn Ferguson is said to have been a protogee of Willis Harmon of the Stanford Research Institute of Stanford University. Marilynn Ferguson was a New Age Occult leader who wrote The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980). Willis Harmon was influenced by the Tavistock Institute of England, which was part of the British elite, to introduce a counterculture in the U.S. that would weaken Christianity and the American family. On Marilyn Ferguson under influence from Stanford Research Institute's Willis Harman see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/10/willis-harman-and-marketplace-ministry.html Aldous Huxley - of the British Elite - was important in creating the LSD or drug movement in both California and in the Boston area through his protogees Gregory Bateson, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Huxley promoted his LSD project in California by making use of Alan Watts and Gregory Bateson. Watts was the "guru" of a Zen Buddhist cult. Bateson, who had been with the OSS, became the director of a hallucinogenic drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. Bateson was one of the first to experiment with giving LSD to mental patients and others. The OSS to which Bateson had belonged, was the Office of Strategic Services, the American intelligence agency during World War II which was the forerunner of the CIA. For Gregory Bateson's promotion of LSD in California see: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm During the fall of 1960, Huxley became visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. While in the Boston area Huxley recruited Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert to help him promote the use of LSD. Leary and Alpert were assistant professors in the Harvard psychology department. (Tim Leary bought large amounts of LSD and began experimenting with it.) In California Bateson continued his LSD operation in the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. Among his Palo Alto recruits was the writer Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson administered the first dose of "LSD to Ken Kesey. Kesey soon organized a group of of LSD users called "The Merry Pranksters." They toured the country in a bus giving out LSD and helping to develop the then very small counterculture. The English elite Tavistock Institute also helped set up the rock and roll, drug and hippie movements. According to the web site http://www.apostle1.com/daily_news_2006/abouna_2_cents/awakeiv.htm "What exactly is the Tavistock Institute? The purpose of Tavistock is "Is to weaken the moral fiber of the nation and to demoralize workers in the labor class by creating mass unemployment. As dwindle due to the post industrial zero growth policies introduced by the Club of Rome, the report envisages demoralized and discouraged workers resorting to alcohol and drugs. The youth of the land will be encouraged by means of rock music and drugs to rebel against the status quo, thus undermining and eventually destroying the family unit. In this regard, the Committee commissioned Tavistock Institute to prepare a blueprint as to how this could be achieved. Tavistock directed Stanford Research to under take the work under the direction of Professor Willis Harmon. This work later became known as the ´Aquarian Conspiracy´" The "Committee" is the Committe of 300, an organization of the ruling elite. The site goes on to say "The Tavistock Institute headquarters are located in London, England. Sigmund Freud became the prophet of Tavistock when he moved to England, settling in Maresfield Gardens. He was given a mansion by Princess Bonaparte. Tavistock´s pioneer work in behavioral science along with Freudian lines of "controlling" humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology. Its network now extends from the University of Sussex to the United States through the Stanford Research Institute, Esalen, MIT, Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation, Center of Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown, where State Department personnel are trained." The Frankfurt School also played a role in the creation of the American counterculture. Remember that Theodore W. Adorno in the 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, said that Christianity and the family cause the authoritarian personality which leads to fascism. Therefore, the Frankfurt School tried to manipulate the Gentile Culture from their positions as American university professors. They sought to weaken the cohesiveness of the Gentile Culture by creating radical movements, i. e., the counterculture. The members of the Frankfurt School had come from Nazi Germany in the thirties and became highly influential professors in American universities. In addition to Theodore W. Adorno, other members of the Frankfurt School included Max Horkheimer, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Keven MacDonald wrote The Frankfurt School of Social Research and the Pathologization of Gentile Group Allegiances He says "The Authoritarian Personality attempts to show that gentile group affiliations, and particularly membership in Christian religious sects, gentile nationalism, and close family relationships, are an indication of psychiatric disorder...The opposition of Jewish intellectuals to cohesive gentile groups and a homogeneous gentile culture has perhaps not been sufficiently emphasized...another way of conceptualizing the Jewish advocacy of radical political movements... is that these political movements may be understood as simultaneously undermining gentile intrasocietal group affiliations, such as Christianity and nationalism, at the same time allowing for the continuation of Jewish identification." The counterculure of the sixties was a radical cultural movement with several different cultural strands, all undermining Christianity and the American family. The link to Keven MacDonald's work on the Frankfurt School is: http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/frankfurt_resed.html Wickipedia says "Kevin B. MacDonald, (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach." Some researchers who are not cultural Marxists have argued that Cultural Marxists and the Frankfurt School helped spark the counterculture social movements of the 1960s. In the period of about 1950 to the early sixties, the teachings of Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others of the Frankfurt School were transmitted by university professors to their students at Berkeley, Brandeis, etc who spread them. This helped produce the counterculture. So, following Adorno, the counterculture turned out to be focused on an anti-Christian and anti-family approach. I don't agree with Doyle on the importance of the political movements, the New Left and Feminism, to the original counterculture. I still think the core movements of the counterculture were the drug movement after 1962 and the hippie movement. Bernard Pyron in Ol Misery

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Attitudes Toward The :Poor, Increase In the Number of the Poor, and the Tribulation of Matthew 24: 29-30

Attitudes Toward The :Poor, Increase In the Number of the Poor, and
the Tribulation of Matthew 24: 29-30

Bernard Pyron

Matthew 24: 21, 29-30 say “For then shall be great tribulation, such
as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be.......Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the
stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:”

In the tribulation there will be a heightened or more intense form of
the “controversy of Zion” of Isaiah 24: 8.   The controversey of Zion
includes the conflict between that Israel who are the children of the
flesh in Romans 9: 8, and the children of the promose who are the
seed, and a spiritual battle between the ministation of death and the
ministration of the Spirit in II Corinthians 3: 7-8, as well as the
conflict between the Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her
children and the Jerusalem which is above, is free ad is the mother of
us all of Galatians 4: 25-26.    Paul writes in Galatians 4: 29 that
“But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was
born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

We would expect that in the tribulation there will be suffering, and
to a great extent the source of this suffering is man made.  Some of
this suffering will come from the elites as they try to dominate and
control the people.

Revelation 11: 18 says “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is
come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that
thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest
destroy them which destroy the earth.”

Destroy is from Strong’s number 1311, diaphtheiro, “...to ruin,
corrupt, destroy, perish.”

The environment - the physical world - is ruined and corrputed by
harmful chemicals, and in other ways.  Toxins are in our food, air an
water, so that more and more people have cancer or other degenerative
diseases and die young.  Chemicals in the water and food dumb people
down, so they are more easily controlled.

Economic recessions and eventually a great economic depression will be
a major couse of suffering.  The number of poor people will increase a
great deal, as well as he numbder who are homeless who suffer more.
Wars and violence caused by divisions in society will be the source of
much more suffering.

The movements to abolish  our Christian and individual freedom based
dominance by a Marxist-leftist opposition will cause divisions in
society, which also lead to suffering.

Christians will be persecuted by non-Christians, following prophecy
such as in John 16: 2, “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea,
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth
God service.”

Luke 21: 16 says: "And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and
brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they
cause to be put to death."

"And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates,
and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or
what ye shall say:" Luke 12: 11

And Matthew 24: 9 also mentions martyrdom of Christians. "Then shall
they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall
be hated of all nations for my name's sake."

In addition, some of those claiming to be Christians who follow false
doctrines may cause Christians who hold to the Gospel of Christ to be
persecuted and some put to death.

I want to focus on the probable increase in the numbers of the poor
and of the homeless in the U.S.because of a very possible coming Great
Depression.  Scripture defends the poor and their rights.

"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4.      Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
wicked." Psalm 82: 3-4

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed;  2.      To turn aside the
needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my
people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the
fatherless!”  Isaiah 10: 1-2

The federal government and the society began first to deprive the poor
of their rights because the poor are generally more powerless and less
likely to resist than those with some  money and position in society.

“The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
speaketh right.”  Isaiah 32: 7

See:  http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/poverty/

“Since 1973’s historical low of 11.1 percent poverty in the United
States, poverty rates generally rise during recessions and drop during
recoveries. The recovery following the 2001 recession, however, saw
poverty increase and then further explode during the Great Recession.”

“The official poverty rate is widely accepted as being inadequate in
capturing those whose earnings make it difficult to make ends meet. To
account for this, many cite the “twice poverty” rate, which is double
the threshold ($44,628 in 2010 for a family of four) and provides a
more accurate measurement of material deprivation. In 2010, the twice
poverty rate was 33.9 percent.”

“The further below the official poverty line you fall, the more
vulnerable you are. Nearly half (44.3 percent) of the poor are in deep
poverty (living on half or less of the official poverty line; this
deep-poverty threshold stood at $11,057 in 2010 for a family of
four).”

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/17/432578282/fact-check-is-it-obamas-fault-that-poverty-has-grown

“The most recent official count from the Census Bureau put the number
of Americans in poverty at 45.3 million as of 2013 (the most recent
year for which the census has measured poverty). That's not quite 5.5
million more people in poverty than there were in 2008, just before
Obama took office. So there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 6
million more people in poverty now than there were before Obama took
office.”

https://www.homeaidatlanta.org/helpnumbers.php

“83 percent of the cities surveyed reported an increase in
homelessness over the past year. On average, cities reported a 12
percent increase in homelessness in 2008.”

If another and worse economic  recession begins in  2016 or 2017, the
number of poor people will increase a great deal - and soon after the
number of homeless will also increase.

In addition to the suffering of the poor from not having money to buy
food and shelter, etc, the non-poor may be prejudiced  toward them.
Some research on attitudes toward the poor in America say that many
people believe lack of effort and negative personality characteristics
are the causes of poverty, rather than circumstances of a depression..

I have remembered a lost and forgotten publication of mine in the
seventies  on attitudes of the non-poor toward the poor.  What I
remembered was that a social psychologist in the University of
Wisconsin Psychology Department wrote about or mentioned to me
something I had written on this topic.  I also remembered that a guy
who worked in the Social Science Library at Wisconsin showed me a book
in the seventies with a reference to my supposed publication on
attitudes toward the poor.

I found that supposed "forgotten and lost publication" on the Internet.
It was not a publication, but a research proposal to  the
U.S. Dept. of Labor, for a grant  to support a research project.  The
proposal was dated  December 6, 1968, Madison, Wisconsin, The
University of Wisconsin, Urban and Regional Planning Dept..

Although my research design was not funded, the
proposal is quoted on pages 82-83 of Chapter 3,
"The Culture of Poverty. What Does it Matter?" by Hylan
Lewis, in the book,  The Poor:. A Culture of Poverty, or a
Poverty of Culture'  J. Alan Winter, editor. (Grand Rapids,
Mich., William  B. Eerdmans, Publisher, 1971.)

I have no idea how Hylan Lewis, a sociologist, got hold of a research
proposal of mine sent to the Department of Labor in 1968.  .

My proposal was on the topic of attitudes of the non-poor toward the
poor, and probably was generally within the subject area of the
culture of poverty, which goes back to the work of Oscar Lewis, who
emphasized the  poor having high divorce rates, with mothers and
children abandoned; and families headed by women, and that those in
this culture of poverty do not participate in community life or join
political parties; and make little use of banks, hospitals etc. I
could not find an online version of the 1971 book The Poor: A Culture
of Poverty Or A :Poverty of Culture.  My proposal was for a lab type
study of attitudes of the non-poor to the poor, but I don;t remember
what it involved.