psychoceramics: all one, all none (fwd)

[Mitchell Porter <mitch @ thehub.com.au>]

>From: Candi Strecker <s--@s--.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.slack
>Subject: Proto-SubGenius' Obituary
>Date: 14 Apr 1997 23:03:45 GMT
>Organization: Sirius Connections

A key figure in SubGenius mythology has died ... the man whose 
kook/psycho rant on the labels of every bottle of his liquid soap, 
available in hippie health food stores everywhere, was a MAJOR source of 
inspiration for the early SubG pamphlets of Stang. Here's his obituary, 
which I got third-hand but which apparently came from the 
LosAngelesTimes' web pages. - - Candi

Emanuel H. Bronner, 89, marketer of peppermint soap and 
philosophy. Born in Germany to a soap-making family, Bronner 
immigrated to Wisconsin as a young man. He married, fathered 
three children and worked for a soap-maker until his public 
speeches for peace and against fluoridation landed him in a 
Milwaukee jail. Transferred to a mental institution in Elgin, Ill., 
Bronner fled and came to Los Angeles in 1947. Two years later, 
he started making and selling Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap, 
which became a favorite of natural-food devotees, backpackers 
and hippies. The liquid soap had Bronner's 3,000-word 
philosophy, which he called his "Moral ABC," on the label. 
While making and selling the soap, he continued to espouse his 
philosophy in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. 
Bronner's operation moved to rural Escondido in the 1960s, and 
eventually sold 1.5 million bottles of liquid soap annually. The 
soap, he said, could be used for everything from washing the car 
to repelling mosquitoes to shining dentures to curing fungus. 
Under his All-One-God-Faith Inc. label, Bronner also marketed 
other aromatic soaps and instant soups and flavorings. His 
products, which are marketed by word of mouth only, are now 
sold by his sons. On March 7 in Escondido of complications from 
Parkinson's disease.