Show I Letters To Editor r Supports t Councilmen fc To those of you who wrote in Concerning the drink yes it is your privilege and free agency to criticize our mayor and city councilmen in regards to their decision It is also my privilege to say why I Iam Iam Iam am behind them Ulem PERHAPS YOU are not and never will be potential alco alco- holics hoUes But we know just by looking at other states that the drink encourages es more and more drinking by which a greater percentage of people become susceptible to drunkenness and alcoholism should look and think ahead We should consider what could more easily happen to our children and grandchildren Not only do we not want them to tobe- tobe be become come come victims to alcohol but we wedo wedo wedo do not want them to become victims victims vic vic- tims of alcoholics ONE SELF-indulgence SELF most always alwa'S leads to another and the next step down is never very far faraway faraway away I believe that drug addicts first started out with alcohol This goes for prostitutes gamblers gamblers gamblers gam gam- criminals wreck home-wreck- ers etc f. f Shouldn't we be thankful for F d pU public ac officials who care are Enough about us to look into the future Mure There are so few these days if you really look around Who i have the courage to stand straight Most will Just buckle VP P T along with the crowd ANYTHING that can usually cause hurt immorality danger divorce irresponsibility bad example inconsideration frus- frus frustration ration and unhappiness of every every ev- ev ery iry sort Is most certainly go going gong go- go Ing ng against the will and commandments commandments com- com of God And anything that is against God is wicked even If U we wont won't admit it Fallen nations since the beginning of time Ime have proven this And our own wn nation is fast headed downhill downhill down- down hill Mil simply because most all of ofis ofus ofus us is as Individuals are failing to 1 to comply with the simple de decent decent decent de- de cent outline God gave us to live by If U we choose to Indulge thene then we e J also are choosing to suffer the e consequences SHOULD WE be willing to sacrifice people for profit How many souls would we need tossed on the altar to make enough profit to fix up the great salt sewer sewer- How many for forAn- forAn An- An Island And by this Ironical ironical Iron iron- ical method how many and who would we care to sacrifice in order to line our freeways with shrubs and flowers Heres Here's a better Idea just take the money that Is spent for the liquor to do these jobs And oh what a barrel ful of lucre wed have left over overl I ITHE THE RESULTS of alcohol are all bad Name one good thing that has ever come from it For or some valuable advice on how to 11 live ve ask someone who knows he is dying Ask the drunkard go ahead WHEN WE leave this world we cant can't pick the flowers along the highways as we go All we can take with us back to God Is the character we have de developed developed developed de- de and the conscience we have either used or abused Marjorie Hughes PS Thanks to fine city officials officials officials who hold for meaningful principles |