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Show ner" and who holds back tears when he hears those chilling high notes of the brassy trumpet trum-pet when Old Glory reaches the top of the flag pole. I am a tired American who wants to start snapping at those phony "high priests" who want us to bow down and worship their false idols and who seek to destroy the belief that America Is the land of the free and the home of the brave. I am a tired American who thanks a merciful Lord that he was lucky to be born an American citizen a nation under un-der God, with truly mercy and justice for all. By Roy Gibson In the Nephl Times-News (Following is a reprint of "I Am a Tired American," by Alan Mcintosh, publisher of the Rock County, Minn. Herald). I am a tired American. I am tired of being called the Ugly American. I am tired of having the world panhandlers use my country as a whipping boy 365 days a year. I am a tired American weary of having American embassies and information centers cen-ters stoned, burned, and sacked by mobs operating under orders or-ders from dictators who preach peace and breed conflict. I am a tired American choked up to here on this business of trying to intimidate intimi-date our Government by placard, plac-ard, picket line and sit-ins by the hordes of dirty unwashed who rush to man the barracks against the forces of law, order or-der and decency. I am a tired American weary of the beatnicks who say they should have the right to determine what laws of the land they are willing to obey. I am a tired American fed up with the mobs of scabby-faced, scabby-faced, long-haired youth and short-haired girls who claim they represent the "now wave" of Americans and who sneer at the old fashioned virtues of honesty, integrity and morality moral-ity on which America grew to greatness. I am a tired American weary unto death of having my tax dollars go to dictators who play both sides against the middle with threats of what will happen if we cut off the golden stream of dollars. I am a tired American nauseated by the lazy-do-nothings who wouldn't take a job if you drove them to and from work in a Rolls Royce. I am a tired American who is getting madder by the minute min-ute at the filth peddlers who have launched Americans in an obscenity race, who try to foist on us the belief that filth is an integral part of culture. I am a tired American weary, of the . bearded bums who tramp the picket lines and the sit-ins who prefer Chinese Chi-nese communism to capitalism who see no evil in Castro but sneer at President Johnson as a threat to peace. I am a tired American who has lost all patience with that civil rights group which is showing propaganda movies on college campuses from coast to coast movies denouncing the United States, movies made in Communist China. I am a tired American who is angered by the self-righteous breast-beater critics of America, Amer-ica, at home and abroad, who set impossible yardsticks for the United States, but who never apply the same standards stand-ards to the French, the British, Brit-ish, the Russians, the Chinese. I am a tired America who resents the pimply-faced beat-nicks beat-nicks who try to represent Americans as the "bad guys on the black horses." I am a tired American who is weary of some Negro leaders lead-ers who for shock purposes scream four-letter words in church meetings. I am a tired American sickened by the slack-jawed bigots who wrap themselves in bedsheets in the dead of night and roam the countryside looking for innocent victims. I am a tired American who dislikes clergymen who have made careers out of integration causes, yet send their own children to private schools. I am a tired American who resents those who try to peddle ped-dle the belief in schools and colleges that capitalism is a dirty word and that free enterprise en-terprise and private initiative are only synonyms for greed. They say they hate capitalism, but they are always right at the head of the line demanding demand-ing their share of the American Amer-ican way of life. I am a tired American who gets more than a little weary at the clique in our State Department De-partment which chooses to regard re-gard a policy of timidity as prudent the same group which subscribes to a "no win" policy pol-icy in Viet Nam. I am a tired American real tired of those who are trying to sell me the belief that America is not the greatest nation in all the world a generous-hearted nation a nation dedicated to the policy of trying to help the "have nots" achieve some of the good things that our system of free enterprise enter-prise brought about. I am an American who gets a lump in his throat when he hears the "Star Spangled Ban- , |