Show A society without standards The cover stories in both Time and Newsweek on Lynette Squeaky Fromme set many Americans to wondering just what kind of society have we become No American has voiced those concerns more lucidly than Clare Boothe Luce the distinguished author former U U U. S S. S Representative from Connecticut and former Ambassador to Italy In a recent profound and disturbing newspaper article she writes America is now producing a deluge of warped souls' souls and amoral freeks reeks It is no paradox that a society which has helter been abandoning its traditional Judeo- Judeo Christian moral values is now producing demons And to say that it has found no way war of controlling them is isto isto isto to ignore the reasons why our free and liberal society is continuing to produce them in greater ever-greater numbers Some years before the counterculture counterculture counterculture coun became a newsworthy phenomenon Joseph Wood Krutch wrote rote Without standards society lapses into anarchy and the individual becomes aware of an intolerable disharmony between himself and his universe Today's youth were in their cradles when in the sacred name of free speech the liberal intellectuals defended in the Supreme Court the right of publishers play and film producers to flood America wi with h filth The merchants of porn perversion and violence became millionaires The kids who were nurtured on them are today's and alcoholics firebomb throwers and We deceive ourselves if we fail to see that the counterculture thrust is not towards reform or even social revolution It is towards terror and nihilism violence and anarchy Its impact upon American youth is not receding it is growing And not the least of the reasons is that in America nothing still succeeds like success Elizabeth Seton the first native native- American to be canonized as a saint couldn't make the cover of Time But Lynette Fromme made it It is getting late It is indeed getting late |