LETTERS: SPEND TIME HELPING OTHERS

To the editor:

As I drank my Folgers and smelled the roses and read the Sunday paper, a new smell became evident. It was the article about the lake supporters. As Ed McMahon says, yes, they have done it again, although Joe Vermier comes right to the point and says the real reason for his support of the lake is money. If you will give me $45,000 (the amount the group wants for a study), I too will use it, but for a different cause: I will see that it gets to truly needy people who are struggling to raise their families and do not have enough money for the necessities of life, let along money for a lake tax.

We your you loud and clear, lake supporters: money, money, money. Just keep talking.

As to Tammy Baremore's questions about opposing the lake, I refer her to the March 26 Opinion page of the Southeast Missourian. Read the letters to the editor, and also read the daily prayer, which goes like this: Help us to be thankful, O God, for what we have, and keep us from envy and greed. Amen.

No one has a right to destroy this beautiful, productive area for whatever reason.

The lake supporters would be well-advised to use their spare time doing useful work in their communities helping the less fortunate, as they would find this very rewarding.

JUEL D. MAYFIELD

Jackson