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Show Letters to the editor i i hi Thanks to Lions The Iron County Record welcomes letters from all responsible individuals or groups. i Letters should be typed or printed neatly, double spaced. Also, no letters will be printed that are not signed. However, if the writer requests, with good reason, that his name be withheld from publication that request will be honored. fabrication of gods of stone and steel-ships, steel-ships, planes, missiles, fortifications and depend on them for protection and deliverance." President Kimball was anti-MX long before the proposal was known. The MX is a manifestation of the idolatrous religion known as "reliance on the arm of flesh." This religion even has its own sacred Triad, object of the devotion of its believers. There is no salvation in this religion, and no safety only eventual destruction. What we need today is politicians and - government and military leaders with ideas to match the vision of our prophets. Mark A. Riddle Salt Lake City issues, a concern he shared with me in many hours of conversation. Of course Craig gets people mad that's part of a job of a good cartoonist. car-toonist. But he also gets people thinking. It's ironic that he should be in all this hot water by just being honest, and caring. (Maybe Richard Nixon did have something all along!) What is involved here is more than a simple clash of personalities. It is a basic challenge to Constitutional rights we all treasure. I hope the Record will approach it as such and strive to gain the widest possible support and coverage of this situation. Lee Warnick West Valley City, UT Editor: The Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce expresses our appreciation to the Cedar Lions Club for their help in cooking the steaks and dutch oven potatoes at the roads school convention held here last week. As usual they did a great job and received many compliments. com-pliments. S. Garth Jones Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Enjoyed Holyoak Follow prophet Editor: Since the May 5 publication of a statement of the LDS First Presidency opposing the MX missile basing plan, many persons, both Mormons and non-Mormons, non-Mormons, pro- and anti-MX, have claimed to have been surprised by the statement. While the specific content and timing of the MX statement may not have been predictable, the fact that it has caused surprises is an indication that we have not been doing our homework, for the spirit and tone of the May 5 statement are clearly present in the Christmas 1980 and Easter 198V' messages of the First Presidency, arid were present, five years ago, in a message written by President Kimball and published in the Ensign in June 1976. In his article, entitled "The False Gods We Worship," President Kimball condemns as a form of idolatry the building of and reliance on armament systems. "We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people," he writes. "We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the Editor: For the good part of a year I had the pleasure of working with Craig Holyoak at the Record. As a cartoonist in the community media, he is without peer in Utah. As a police officer, I observed him to' be highly conscientious and dedicated. Cedar City would be much poorer to lose him as a cartoonist or a police officer. Craig has always seemed to have a much easier time separating the two functions than the city fathers have had. I found his approach to the two roles always mature he didn't take potshots; he didn't pay off or punish people for relationships as a policeman in his cartoons; his cartoons always grew out of an honest concern for |