Show Enough To Take A WHEN JUDGE GILLIAM of the Juvenile Court in Denver spoke in Salt Lake City recently he said that one of the chief failings of the American people is that they never mad about difficulties to take a stand against HE SAID THAT IF DECENT people made about juvenile delinquency they could prevent and if they got enough about any other unrighteous imposition upon them they could THE POINT MADE WAS THAT people need to take a The complacency of most people is This type of thing is what has permitted dictators to take over allowed scheming men and women to steal away husbands or wives from their permitted children to with infractions both at home and in the and allowed corruption generally to get a foothold JUDGE GILLIAM SATO THAT the American people need to get about undesirable He urged them to rise up in righteous indignation against perils which confront them and their It would be good indeed if we would follow his WHAT IF ALL THE PARENTS united in getting about the location of a liquor store in their really so that public officials would do something about it instead of regarding their expression as but that of a noisy WHAT IF PARENTS GOT REALLY about the sale of liquor to either in taverns or WHAT IF PARENTS REALLY got worked up about the ease with which juveniles can buy not only in some but at vending machines which are not properly supervised WHAT IF VOTERS REALLY got excited about public servants who lake advantage of their positions to unrighteous over their WHAT IF THE PUBLIC ROSE up in anger and demanded better law WHAT IF PARENTS ALL OVER the nation got so excited about bad movies and television programs that they would do whatever was necessary to wipe them out of existence WHAT IF PARENTS GOT SO at the publishers of pornographic books and magazines that they would clean them off the WHAT EF RIGHT THINKING people got so angry at makers of pornographic films that they would force them to obey the WHAT IF THE PUBLIC GOT so worked up over such evils that they would tell their representatives in the legislature to pass the appropriate laws or get WHAT IF PARENTS WHO LOVE God became so angry at professors who destroy the faith of their children in public supported colleges that they would correct the WHAT EF WHAT But they The complacency of people is almost beyond THEY WOULD SEE their children corrupted by vile books and magazines than to make a fuss over THEY WOULD RATHER SEE their children tempted to drink and smoke than to do something about it THEY WOULD RATHER LET their children go to the lurid debauching movies than to raise enough cry against them to keep them off the THEY WOULD RATHER SUBJECT their children to faith-destroying influences than exercise their right as taxpayers to the THEY WOULD RATHER read about crime in newspaper and make arm-chair comments than to get out and make a fuss about better law In other they want to be no matter what it costs TOO MANY OF TIDE RIGHTEOUS are so occupied with their own affairs that they allow the wicked to take over control of things which affect the intimate lives of TOO MANY ARE AFRAID OF Too many are afraid to fight for their rights close They are willing to fight or and send their boys to the far comers of the earth in the but they are not willing to fight their moral battles at UNTIL PEOPLE ARE WILLING to take a stand for that which is right they will continue to be imposed upon by predatory interests who care nothing for nothing for and nothing for their neighbors' |