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Show r f.. fay hal williams; ; THE VIEWS expressed In this' column or any previous cstumi are those of the author, Mr. Williams, and not necessarily those if the Orem-Geneva Times management. AMERICAN IS NOT SICK! JUST SOME PEOPLE I The tragedy of last week with assassination of Bobby Kennedy is not the result of a sick society. soci-ety. : It's the result of sick people By itself, a gun is harmless; but put a sick person behind it ind violence Is likely to occur. Interestingly enough, the re-Cent re-Cent assassinations of President Presi-dent John F. Kennedy, the Rev.' Martin Luther King, and Senator Sena-tor Robert Kennedy have been used as gigantic wedges in an attempt to control firearms. '. Certainly automobiles are just as deadly as a revolver or a rifle. This writer has counted the pulses of two womeninnocent as can be--as they lay dying mangled man-gled in two separate car wrecks. Each was a victim of premeditation; premed-itation; that is, the killer did not know exactly who was going to be killed or if anyone was. But the fact that drunkenness caused their cars to kill innocent people is murder by assassination. assassina-tion. ' One of these cars was directly direct-ly in front of this writer's, and we had to swerve off the road to avoid collision. And one can't blame society M-x, r"'f" for these deaths, ; . ' The people behind the wheel were sick. Now when a President's Commission Com-mission states that 'society assassinated as-sassinated these prominent people, that is absurd! How can anyone, other than the culprit that puUedthetrigger.be blamed? The same thing holds true for the blacks of America, Most of their ills first have to be cured by them before they can mature into what one would call civilized man! No matter who gets assassinated assassina-ted or how many, if a criminal (or potential criminal) wants to do the job he would only have to steal a registered gun or use some other weapon to complete his task. Long before guns were invented, invent-ed, men kUled men for sundry reasons. And no matter how many commissions are appointed to study the causes, it apparently will continuemuch to dismay of a 'civilized' nation. Where does the sickness really lie? ' I Ml Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, June 13, 1968 nuti a ufh Louise Partridge Clawson Interiors 177 WEST CENTER 373-9554 Professionally Trained Interior Decorators WE PROVIDE-IN-HOME DECORATOR COUNSELING NO OBLIGATION Drapes, Carpets and Decorator Living Room Furniture OUTSTANDING STUDENTS of the year at the College of Southern Utah for each of the four classes included, front, 1-r: Jan Jones, freshmen, fresh-men, Cedar City; Sharon Dart, sophomores, Orem; Beth Chidester, juniors, Panguitch; Joyce Cram senior, Kanab; Rear, 1-r: Tim Larsen, freshmen, Aurora, Colo.; Brent Heggie. sophomores, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Daryl Whipple, juniors, Pima, Ariz.; Dennis P oilman, seniors, Cedar City. Special awards were presented at the fourth annual CSU Thunderbird Awards programTuesday, May 28. In the individual! Note the following examples or sources from which the 'cancer stems. Recently on nationalTV, a longhaired long-haired man (?) appeared on the Johnny Carson Show, having recorded re-corded the song'TipToeThrough the Tulips. By his actions and the quality of his singing, one could guess that if people in mental homes throughout the nation saw this performance, they would wonder what they were doing do-ing 'in there and what the so-called so-called entertainer was doing 'out-there!" 'out-there!" This is only a part of the sickness sick-ness of the entertainment world. So much is so degenerate nowadays now-adays that these people make yesterday's yes-terday's railroad bums look fit fori Sunday School. One can hardly listen to radio m mm mm tunes today without having a beautiful beau-tiful tune put to some very suggestive sug-gestive and even nasty words. Parents, take one hour and listen to what the teenagers call music; listen especially to the words. Example: 'Mary in the Morning, popularized by Ed Ames. (It's a pair of unmarrieds staying overnight over-night together.) Movies are getting sicker than ever. And seldom can one take his wife (or a date) to one without being embarrassed to tears. And note how the Hollywood degenerates degener-ates areputtingso-called'humor with sex." TV shows are displaying more signs of sickness on the part of the makers. Extreme violence is commonplace - even among children's child-ren's cartoons. Permissive parents have made children spoiled rotten (sick)! Promoters of tobacco (a sure killer 55,000 Americans this year), alcohol, pornography, and drugs are sick individuals. And in turn, they are taking others into sick Never -Never Land. Many never return to reality. Note Dr. Timothy Leary, the former Harvard professor who calls himself the priest of LSD. He's now in a mental hospital! And he has youth in America eating out of the palm of his hand with his sick philosophy. Whatever sick -oriented influences in-fluences attack children outside the home, parents must work doubly hard and long to keep the ship from going aground. America's strength lies in its individual spirituality and turn to teachings in the Bible. Like a chain, America is only as strong as its weakest individual! to sell because of excessive property prop-erty taxes. Don Allen, publicity chairman of the committee, said a campaign cam-paign is being organized to assure as-sure a yes vote on the Agricultural Agri-cultural Land Amendment. He said that all groups backing the Greenbelt Committee have pledged their support to this amendment as well as to four others proposed for the upcoming ballot. The committee is sponsored spon-sored by the Farm Bureau Federation, Fed-eration, Farmers Union, Utah Cattlemen, UtahWoolgrowers and others in state organizations. . Although the group is unaware of any opposition to the amendments, amend-ments, they want to assure its passage by educating voters to the importance of the five amendments. amend-ments. Mr Allen stated that civic organizations and private groups will be contacted to schedule a short slide presentation of the facts. Any groups not contracted who wish to hear the program may call the Farm Bureau office of-fice at 284 N. 100 E., Provo. Chairman of the county organization organ-ization is Eldon Money of Spanish Span-ish Fork. He is assisted by Jim Harvey, Pleasant Grove, and R. Gam Holbrook of Lehi. - When You Subscribe or Renew Your Subscription to Eldred A. Johnson Awarded Doctorate The degree of Doctor of Philosophy Phil-osophy in Business Administration Administra-tion was awarded to Orem resident res-ident Eldred A. Johnson at the commencement exercises of the University of Utah on June 7. 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According to the committee, agricultural land is now assessed according to speculative land prices rather than its current use. Such a practice will force farmers to sell out, they stated, and cited instances inOrem where farmers already have been forced By Ruth Louise Partridge My radio sits right by my hand at night, and I turn it on to listen to a certain all night show which features call ins from all over the place. Night before last I awakened in the dead of night not to the sound of call ins, but to the news that Sen. Kennedy had been shot in the head. I felt at once, that this would be fatal if not in oue vay, then in another, an-other, for being incapacitated mentally or physically would, for a man of such energy and promise, prom-ise, be death in a horrible form indeed. Last night I was awakened again to hear that Robert Kennedy was dead. My feelings are those prevalent in the world, shock, dismay, horror, hor-ror, disbelief that it could happen hap-pen , . . And there is the usual irritation with certain countries which, not being democratic, can keep their own sins of violence hidden. By and large, we talk too much but that is another story. This assasination is a little different. Only once before, I think, has the assailant been a foreigner. Now we have a man from far away, who living here for ten or eleven years has never thought enough of the country to become a citizen. None of his family, fam-ily, the radio said, have become citizens, always at odds. His father fath-er was so disjointed that he left his family here and returned to his native land to live alone and is, today, a broken hearted man. The family left here has gone into hiding, in fear of their lives. Reminds Re-minds oneof the days of fugitive slaves and the 'underground. Reminds one of many things. The murder weapon was stolen somewhere along the line. I had an antique gun worth a good deal of money, stolen from my front room. There's a cartoon out showing a hand carving the third notch in the butt of a gun. This is, of course, for the two Kennedy Ken-nedy brothers and Martin Luther King. There are three notches in the butt of my stolen gun. In some ways, this is a very coincidental coin-cidental world, and getting more coincidental every oay. There is now in the making, a president's committee or commission com-mission or whatever, to go into the business of violence in this country. I wonder if they will take the trouble to talk to the members of the 'Poor People's March" waiting still hopefully in the mud very close to the Capitol at Washington. Still hopeful and still non-violent, be it remembered. remember-ed. ' But this isn't the only afflict-. ed country suffering from vio--lence. When students in the quote civilized and unquote countries, of, the whole world can parade, around carrying the picture of z. Chinese tyrant and babbling the. precepts put down in his little . red book, like a gaggle of hyp-,, notized ... I was going to say geese, but in compairison the:, goose is a very smart creature, indeed. There just isn't anything , one can compare this madness; with. This world wide aberation' must be unique in history. There were those among the . much talked about Founding Fath-, ers who wondered if man was, capable of liviing in democracies. This is a good question today,. Trial and tribulation builds so--ciety. Affluence is something else." Sharing is a wonderful thing when-one when-one is in need. It is not the same . thing as giving, by any means,, Those who have and are willing, still to share, keep the Ship of, State affloat, if only in a sea, full of shoals and worse. I for one, am happy to PAY TAXES. Selah.' Orem - Geneva Times HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah. Office and plant-located plant-located at 546 South State Street.. 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