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Show Chronicle M&iilbox story and you don't persuade anyone any-one that you're right by rambling on about your little brother, PTA meetings and Huntley and Brinkley. It's fine to discuss censorship if you make it applicable to others' situations. The only thing you seemed to consider was yourself. It was a waste of time to muddle through your column. We agree that there are things "far more worthy of one's meager store than someone else's choice of language or reading material or sleeping habits." So what was the purpose of the article? Go ahead and be obscene, just don't write about it. Heidi Sorensen Angelyrt Nelson But-I'm Not Prejudice Dear Editor: I am disturbed over the attitude expressed by several of the proprietors pro-prietors interviewed for Ron Scott's Scotch Bottle. I am not talking about the scarlet faced landlady. That was sad, but she was honest. I am referring to people such as the landlady and landlord who said they had no opposition to Negroes Ne-groes moving in but were worried about their neighbors. It seems now that only neighbors are prejudiced. preju-diced. I am tired of all the people who are "not prejudiced, but . . ." Anyone Any-one who thinks he is not prejudiced and then interjects a "but" is fooling fool-ing himself. A Negro friend once told me she would fill in forms asking for race with "human." Three cheers. Jeanie Kempe Book of Johnson This passage is taken from the Book of Johnson, chapter 9 verses 1-14: CHAPTER 9 AND the Lord God Dollar spake unto Johnson, saying, I have seen how that the heathen doth wax bold in the land Viet, which I have promised unto you. 2. And how that the people thereof there-of do gird themselves and do commit com-mit trespass against the armies of my people which aTe encamped about. And that they do fight against them. 3. Verily, I the Lord God Dollar am a terrible God. Therefore, this is the thing which the Almighty hath commanded: 4. Arm yet more of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Vietites, for I will smite them and deliver them up- unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction. 5. And speak thou unto thy servant, ser-vant, IMac-nam-er-ah and command him: 6. Behold, when thou shalt smite the heathen, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them, but with a consuming con-suming fire shalt thou destroy them and bring them down before thy face. 7. Ar.d Johnson did harken and obey all that was commanded, and sent them, three score from every draft board, them and the priests and the holy instruments of war. 8. And they strengthened themselves them-selves against the Vietites. 9. And they burnt their villages, wherein they dwelt and their goodly good-ly harvest with napalm, and smote them and relocated the women and the little ones. 10. And they did strike the cities of the Vietites and their brethern in the land Northward, and their strong castles and their temples, destroying them one by one, that they might repent of their stiff-neckedness. 11. For in that day did the armies of Johnson smite the Vietite exceedingly. ex-ceedingly. 12. And the Lord God Dollar spake unto the armies that were gathered on the plain of the land Southward, saying: 13. Ye have seen this day that I do destroy them before you; now therefore, yet will I grant unto you dominion is this place, and the land wherein ye are pitched will I make safe for my sanctuaries and my prophets. 14. Therefore, thou shalt love the Lord Dollar thy God and keep. His charges and His statutes. . . . Shem Richards Harmless Vulgarities? Editor: Well Bauman, so you want the freedom of pursuing your "harmless "harm-less vulgarities" do you? Why don't you proceed without offending the Chronicle readership with two columns col-umns of inane, pointless opinion? Were you really trying to make a point elaborating about a person's hairy armpit, or were you just out to create sensationalism? Taking up two columns with your senseless jargon seems such a waste when there are many on campus who could offer insight into in-to topics worthy of the editorial page. Though censorship is a highly high-ly discussed subject worthy of editorial edi-torial comment, we feel your representation rep-resentation was anything but adequate. ade-quate. There are two sides to every |