Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Other Side Dear Bottom writes am from Kansas and my observations freedom in the local are quite I'm from Ohio and my observations are also quite IS THERE ANOTHER area in America where a man who has been smoking for four years with parental knowledge and consent can be ticketed and brought before a judge to pay a fine of for smoking a Is there another state in America where the all the U.S. senators and the presidents of the two major state universities and a majority of the state legislature profess the same religious Or where the largest state has not its but most of its major administrative officials and most of its regents belonging to that same religious THE CUMULATIVE effect of this concentration of power in people of a common and political background colors their every decision and Thus the atmosphere in the culture becomes peculiarly narrow and Obviously there are counter-pressures now working against but these are far from achieving any major changes unacceptable to the prevailing prevailing The resulting stagnation is hardly representative of the diversity in heritage that has made America unique in the history of the AND A FEW Utah does have blue Public dancing is illegal on Sunday in most areas of the By Hoard of Regents this newspaper is not to publish cigarette Few states are more restrictive in their liquor laws than Only Oklahoma and Mississippi come to mind as being equally The Using the great melting pot areas of the Easi and West Coasts as a Utah presents a singular lack of As a sameness becomes a major community diversity and disagreement are nasty even nastier JOHN C. LOVAS Historic Dear The memory I had of the dis and arguments with my brother Robert C. Farb over ten years ago later did two of postdoctoral studies in concerning religion and psychology recalled the figure of I should like to quote a are the general outlines and a few details of a massacre the full horrors of which it is outside of the province and beyond the ability of history to Nor is it even possible to set down figures that may be relied upon as expressing the true number of those who were unjustly put to The difficulty experienced by a well-informed has not been notwithstanding the careful investigation of those who earnestly that posterity might not be deprived of what it needs to in order that it might become wiser at the expense of We shall be safe in supposing that the number of Huguenot victims throughout France was somewhere between as conjectured by De Thou and La and as stated by Jean de Serres and the Memories de rather than in adopting the extreme views of Sully and the latter of whom swells the count of the slain to and It can scarcely be much less than the lower number 1 have Farther quotes concerning the King and the Catholic meant to be a good as his word when he announced his determination that not a single Huguenot should service to reproach him with what he had p. Now as to the Catholic priests in kit no doubts entered the minds of the Parisian They spread abroad the fame of the The icing the church bells in token of and invited tho blood stained populace to witness the and gain new courage in their murderous AIL THIS HAPPENED in a little over a month following August The reference Emil Lucki is Rise of the Huguenots in Henry M. Charles Scribner's NORMAN E. FARB |