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My first year at Bethel I worked with security for the Annual Meeting. There were a couple hundred non-Bethelites that were given the privilege of Bethel rooms and SOciety-provided transportation to the Annual Meeting in Jersey City.

I asked the overseer of our department what determined who got these special perks from teh Society. He looked around to make sure no one was looking, turned back to me, smiled and rubbed his thumb and fingers together (the international sign for MONEY), and said, "It's the big donaters that get the perks. The money makes the difference."

Naturally that seemed odd to me.

"We cannot but admire the hight principles embodied in the proposed League of Nations, formulated undoubtedly by those who have no knowledge of the great plan of God.  This fact makes all the more wonderful the ideals which they express.  For instance, it has been made plain by President Wilson and the advocates of his ideas that the proposed League of Nations is more than merely a league to enforce peace.  They would not have us consider it too exclusively from the standpoint of politics or of military relations.  It should be considered as fully from the economic and social points of view.  The President's idea seems to be that the league of Nations which he proposes should stand for world service rather than mere world regulation in the military sense, and that the very smallest of nations shall be participants in its every arrangement.  In other words, his idea undoubtedly is that the league shall not be established merely for the purpose of promoting peace by threat or coercion; but that its purpose, when put into operation, will be  to make all nations of earth one great family, working together for the common benefit in all the avenues of national life.  Truly this is idealistic, and approximates in a small way that which God as foretold that he will bring about after this great time of trouble."

--The Watch Tower, February 15,1919, p. 51.

Changing driving habits introduce a profound effect on fuel savings for any vehicle. In brief, the following tips collectively save gas in the long run.







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  slower acceleration
  


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  reduced top speed
  


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  proper tire inflation
  


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  using cruise control
  


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  proper vehicle lubrication
  


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  correct transmission gears
  


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  using air conditioning only when necessary
  


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  reducing aerodynamic drag
  


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  removing excess weight
  
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