A SCROLL THROUGH
Brian Bex's Life
The duty of man is not
a wilderness of turnpike gates,
through which he is
to pass by tickets
from one to the other.
It is plain and simple,
and consists but of two
points. His duty to God,
which every man must feel;
and with respect to his
neighbor, to do as he would
be done by. -Thomas Paine
The Beginning
February 5, 1943
South Shore Hospital
6646 Stoney Island Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Grant Park Chicago, IL
Not long after
If
wishes were horses,
then beggars would ride. . .
If
turnips were bayonets,
I would wear one by my side.
-Rudyard Kipling, 1919
Brian and Friends
Lake Michigan
1945
Brian’s mother,
Jeanne,
as a sophomore
at the University of Chicago
Elected Phi Beta Kappa in
math and physics
John Bex
(Brian’s father) staff judge advocate
WWII Intelligence Officer. Okinawa, Japan
1943-1944.
We honor Liberty
in name and form.
We set up her statues
and sound her praise.
But we have not
fully trusted her.
And with our growth
so grow her demands.
She will have no half service!
-Henry George
(Right to Left)
H.L. Scharbau,
Rowena Scharbau, Jeanne Scharbau (Bex) and Indian guide
on their lake in Northern Wisconsin.
(Brian’s
maternal grandfather,
maternal grandmother,
and mother).
John and Jeanne Bex
(Brian’s mother and father)
OCS
(Officers Candidate School),
Yale University.
1945.
1127 Master Drive
Decatur, Indiana
Brian with mother (Jeanne) and
brother (John David)
Decatur, Indiana
Brian’s first dog,
Una,
She loved to work. Decatur, Indiana
Brian and father (John) at home in
Baltimore, Maryland
Fishing in Chesapeake Bay
The first Blue Gill (Sun Fish)
Brian Bex in
2nd grade.
Can you identify him?
(Mrs. Chestnut’s class.
Her husband was Brian’s 1st basketball coach.)
St. Joe Center Grade School, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Athletic competition began with Little
League Baseball and expanded into football,
basketball and track and field.
Brian Bex under Rodin’s
The Thinker
Fort Wayne, Indiana
(perhaps it began there)
From first base to a
left-handed pitcher.
He lettered in 4 sports in high school
but his first love was
baseball.
Bex family at 4607 Haffner Drive,
Fort Wayne, Indiana
John, Jeanne, Brian and David
Always building:
Brian, brother David
and a friend build “a fort”
in the backyard
on Haffner Drive
(Also a place “to target”
for hitting homeruns)
College bound at age 17
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania to the
Sigma Chi Fraternity House
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, Illinois
It was Prom night
with the preacher’s daughter
Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Then off across the river
to William Penn High School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
(The Hawaiian lei was the hit of the evening)
1959-60.
Jacob Bex
Civil War
H.L. Scharbau
(Brian’s maternal grandfather)
A builder of hundreds of homes in
Wausau, Wisconsin
Lost it all in depression.
The preacher Bex and his wife
The church and graveyard
(dating around the time of Jefferson)
still exist in Mitchell, Indiana.
Great, Great Grandparents
Grace and Clena Bex
(Brian’s paternal grandmother and grandfather)
School teachers and basketball coach
Fort Wayne, Indiana
The educational initiative had sound roots.
Rowena Webster Scharbau (maternal grandmother)
at the University of Chicago
A descendent of
the author of the Dictionary
(Noah Webster)
The Oracle of Delphi
Brian’s mother, Jeanne,
with Governor and Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller
When welfare worked and the “poor” actually benefitted
Joseph Bex, Brian’s Uncle in Western Europe working
for the original C.A.R.E.
Brian’s father, John,
with the 38th President
of the United States,
Gerald Ford
You do not have the right to anything
that coercively places
an obligation on another.
A society won’t remain economically robust
if its discipline disappears.
Its politics won’t be healthy
if honesty rots away.
I think, therefore I am!
-Descartes
I Am; Therefore, I’ll think.
-Rand
If you don’t think, you ain’t!
-Bex
Is there such a thing as “Moral Glue”? Yes. . .
This answer, is astonishing;
a Puerto Rican diplomat was found
to be in substantial agreement with
an Italian banker and
a Sri Lankan journalist as well as
the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; not to mention a 100 year old Maori woman
living in the remote village of
Pangru, New Zealand – when he said,
“The effect of one upright man is incalculable.”
-Kris Bex
His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate’er he can,
And he looks the whole world
in the face,
For he owes not any man.
-Longfellow
The Village Blacksmith
The classics
do their best work when they
are discovered by thinking,
not by rote. And they do their best work too, when a student and a society says,
yes this is a basic concept, but it can be refined further. That process is the essence of education.
-Minor Myers, Jr., Former President,
Illinois Wesleyan University
. . . The devil no longer moves
about on cloven hooves,
reeking of brimstone.
He is an affable, efficient fellow.
He claims to want to help us all along to a brighter, easier future,
and his sales pitch is very smooth.
I was, as the old song goes, almost persuaded.
Anyone who liked might listen;
anyone who liked might pass by.
-Albert J Nock
Remains of Delphi
Present Day Temple
..."led 3 lives."
...had "3" wives.
& ..."raised" 3 sons.
Socrates was twice married, but of the two wives given him, we know nothing except of the famous Xantippe, by whom he had a son named Tamprocles; Xantippe rendered herself celebrated by her ill-humor, and by the exercise which she afforded to the patience of Socrates.
He had married her, he said, from a persuasion that
if he were able to bear with her bad temper,
there could be nothing which he might not support.
-DIOGENES
ADAPTED FROM
SOLITARY WALKS V.2
BY BRIAN BEX
Jay Douglas
Howe Military
Howe, Indiana
Charles Andrew
Culver Military Academy
Culver, Indiana
Kristophor Aaron
while studying at Oxford University
Thetford, England –
The birthplace of Thomas Paine
It all began in a duplex apartment
Brian Bex helped build
in Bloomington, Indiana.
2530 W. 3rd Street.
Remember something:
The only thing government can do
when it goes beyond proper bounds
is to confiscate private property;
its excuse for confiscation is always that it distributes the proceeds among the “deserving”;
the fact is that most of what it takes it keeps and spends on itself. Its purpose is to gain support from those it subsidizes.
It buys power with other people’s money.
Original
library
in the middle bedroom of duplex apartment
Members of Congress,
Richard Roudebush and John Myers
from the Indiana Delegation
present Brian Bex
with a flag flown above
United States capital, 1968
Expansion to Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce Building
1968
American Communications Office
1970
HOW THOSE IN THE KNOW REMAIN SO!
"The flow of information
and the 'social media'
elevates the irrelevant
to a place of prominence.
Results?
Mediocrity."
-Brian Bex
Brian Bex Report
television broadcast.
1968.
The Brian Bex Report,
television version. Aired weekly
1968-1992.
2 guests on television broadcast
Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Birch Bayh
Senator Vance Hartke following television interview
Mayor of Indianapolis, Richard Lugar and Brian Bex following television appearance at headquarters
in Knightstown, Indiana.
Moved to Knightstown, Indiana
1971
American Communications Network
Freedom Study Center
Knightstown, Indiana
1972
American Communications Network Administration
Knightstown, Indiana
A young Richard Lugar and a younger Brian Bex open
American Communications Network Study Center
at press conference.
Knightstown, Indiana
A television script is created
Visitors, by the hundreds, learn.
National press interview on
American Communications Network
educational programs.
Youth following daily tours
Student Groups, Boy Scouts, Civic Organizations
Labor Unions, Management Groups.
Along the banks of the Nettle Creek
American Communications Network, The Brian Bex Report
opened its headquarters in
Hagerstown, Indiana
1980.
Congressman, Andrew Jacobs Jr. and the general public
learn American history
from books and artifacts
Former congressman Philip Sharp with two American Communications
Network interns at headquarters in
Hagerstown, Indiana.
Educational programs continued to spread nationwide
American Supply Association National Convention,
New York City
Air War College
Maxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery, Alabama
for the Department of Defense
5,000 people at
a fairground in Pennsylvania
with then congressman, George Goodling.
Question and Answer session
Denver, Colorado
Reserve Officers Association opening ceremony of National headquarters
1 Constitution Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
Contemplating television in studio.
Bex at Hagerstown headquarters
Eisenhower Society Annual Meeting
Chaired by Leroy Smith
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
An elderly farmer once found me
"stuck in-the-creek" literally - he taught me how to "split my brakes" - out of the creek I came. Then followed discussion about The State of Our Republic - he exclaimed as he faded from the field:
There are 2 kinds of farmers:
ONE
makes his money in the country
and spends it in the city -
THE OTHER,
makes his money in the city
and spends it in the country.
You, Bex, are obviously the latter,
but you are learning.
Parade Marshall
at Canal Days,
Cambridge
City, IN.
Yep!
That's him driving the Queen.
Claudio Jo
catching salmon
Southeast Alaska
Always at the Edge
BEX
Speaking Engagements
ECON 101
(at least it should be)
IF I DON'T GO
I DON'T GET
-from a man running a ferry
in MIssissippi
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive, revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privelege, established institutions and comfortable habit.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
Thought is great, swift and free,
the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
-Bertrand Russell
Brian Bex continued the weekly television program through 1992
115 stations
weekly,
30 minutes without commercials.
With that exposure ranging in air time from Sunday morning to prime time, he never made a solicitation for funds.
I would urge that you be dissatisfied.
Not dissatisfied in the sense of disgruntlement, but dissatisfied in the sense of that 'divine discontent' which throughout the history of the world has produced all real progress and reform.
I hope you will never be satisfied. I hope you will constantly feel the urge
to improve and perfect not only yourself,
but the world around you.
My purpose is
AS THE GRAIN OF SAND TO THE OYSTER
- to irritate a little -
someone else must make the pearl.
IF I HAVE SEEN FARTHER, IT IS MY STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS,"
SAID FULBERT OF CHARTRES.
TO OVERTHROW A GIANT, IT IS NECESSARY EITHER
TO BE A GIANT ONE'S SELF,
OR ELSE A DAVID FAVORED OF THE LORD;
and few of us are either. THEREFORE WE YIELD TO THE SEERS -
the PROPHETS and POETS and PHILOSOPHERS of the Great Tradition - as authorities,
because without their guidance we would wander hungry in a dark wood.
Government is not made in virtue of NATURAL RIGHTS,
which may and do exist in total independence of it; and
exist in much greater clearness,
and in much greater degree of
abstract perfection.
Government, by perceiving a right to everything,
WANTS EVERYTHING
and Americans being so enamored of EQUALITY seemingly would rather be equal in slavery
than unequal in FREEDOM.
TO BE CONTINUED...
(at least tried to)
I. Necessity, II. Responsibility, III. FREE CHOICE
I. Personal, II. Private, III. OTHER
