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Show Letter to The Editor Dear Editor: We moved here eight months ago to get away from corrupting influences in California Cal-ifornia that were becoming vastly powerful at an alarming alarm-ing rate of speed in the schools and local governments. govern-ments. We strived diligently to bring our five children to a comparatively "safe" area here In the Rocky Mountains. We are very happy to be here and the people here have been very good to us on the whole. However, having experienced ex-perienced what we did in seeing see-ing our secluded area in California Cal-ifornia turn into a hippie and ultra-liberal den with ram- buy them they wouldn't be offered for sale. Obviously, the community is not abiding by church standards by the looks of what the warm weather produces in short shorts, pants tight enough to determine if and what is be.-neath, be.-neath, and some near topless tops. What do the scriptures mean when they say we should "avoid even the very appearance appear-ance of evil?" Why are the children in a captive audience situation in schoolrooms subjected sub-jected to bad language used by lazy teachers who seem incapable in-capable of putting over a point without a "hell" or "damn" for emphasis. Pretty limited vocabulary for a teacher! Why would a community com-munity tolerate the invasion of a psychedelic light thow u . ; i , iu tuiiupi uic minus tinu morals of young people? Are we unaware of the insidious purposes behind such? The scriptures and the words of advice from the prophet are true and we face moral and physical annihilation annihila-tion if we refuse to comprehend, compre-hend, evaluate and root out these evils from among us and strive to keep ourselves "unspotted by the sins of the world." Betty Lynch pant immoramy and narcotic addiction, we naturally become be-come alarmed at the slightest slight-est indication of our new environment en-vironment becoming tainted with danger signals and like Influences becoming too powerful pow-erful here. Coming to an area that is composed mainly of LDS people, peo-ple, we naturally expected alert, informed and spiritual citizens. We did not expect perfection and we readily admit ad-mit imperfection ourselves. In the main, the individuals with who we have come in contact con-tact have met these expectations. expecta-tions. However, there are some aspects of the community commun-ity as a whole that disturb us greatly. For instance, why do the citizens ci-tizens allow and patronize movies that depict mainly violence and sex with little and most generally no redeeming re-deeming moral feature? "Devil's "De-vil's Angels," "Point Blank," "Family Affair," and "Valley of the Dolls" . just to name a few. I notice Parowan citizens citi-zens are not subjected to such, bless them! Why do our theater managers subject the community to such for the extra bucks they reap from the perverted and sadistic minds that patronize them? Why do our clothing stores display and pawn off clothing fashions that are not in keep-ing keep-ing with church standards? If the community refused to |