|REMfflMt|X:||•: b | DEAR MR. PUBIISHER, j PARSON JONES J Dear Mr. Publisher: This protesting business is getting outa hand. Yester day when I went down town there were 50 people with signs, protesting protesting. Everywhere you go it's the same thing. It's beginning to sound like a broken re cord. You don't reckon the world had developed some kind of stuttering defect, do you? Yes sir, now-a-days it seems a lot more popular to be agin something than to be fer something. When Iwas a youngun trying to leam arithmetic I found it was eas ier to figure zeros than it was to add the numb ers. I reckon the real problem is that we've got too many lazy people today. You take all these kid s who are protesting—most of 'em never done a hard days work in their lives. All they ever done was read books and play. I've heard tell that an idle mind is the devil's workshop, but I'm convinced that idle hands are his tools. If we put 'em all to hoeirg cotton, they'd be too tired to trot round with signs yell ing their lungs out. If you dctA believe idleness is the problem, you just think about this women's liberation movement a little. Back when women had chores to do, they didn't have time for brassiere burnings and such like. Now theyVe been replaced with electric buttons and gadgets, and they've developed a " zero complex". So, in order to fill up the empty spot they carry signs and holler, Nfaybe if they did away with electric washing machines and brought back the old scrub boards it might give these folks a sense of belonging. Mr. Publisher, a wise man once said, "work keeps at random three great evils—starvation, boredom, aid mean ness. " Fortunately starvation ain't hit us yet, but the last two have about took us over. I expect I have said too much already, Mr. Publisher, so I better break it off right here. All I ask is that you don't give people my phone number. Just tell 'em to dial "O". That way they'll get the operator and she 'll do the work for 'em. Until next time just remember a hoe gits rid ofweeds better than a sign. Parson Jones sion and barbarity of our sol diers, then and now, are prevalent in all branches of the military. How are we to explain the moral degradation in which we have become in volved? In conclusion,the book sug gests ways in which the chur ches and synagogues can make a more effective corporate witness to bring about change in our war policy, since our policy makers are so close to the problem that perhaps they cannot see the forest for the trees. Above all, the authors beg us not to commit the sin of silence, for the time has come when silence, in regard to Vietnam, is betrayal. To paraphrase the words of the prophet Isaiah (62-1): "For Vietnam's sake I will not keep silent, For America's sake I will not rest, Until the vin dication of humanity goes forth as brightness, And peace for all men is a burning torch." (o)lj\ss Fouup IH BoGS have pat £P e-c-fr