SPEAKOUT

Lots of Fests

RIVERFEST, Balloonfest, Bar-B-Q Fest. Can't you people do anything original?

REPLY: Riverfest is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Riverfest Association. The president is Tom Ross (339-5237). Balloon and Arts Festival is sponsored by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri (P.O. Box 901, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 63702). Cape BBQ Fest is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Agribusiness Committee (335-3312). All of these organizations are interested in improving their events each year. If you have a suggestion, give them a call.

Library in park?

I HAVE no problem with the libraries in Jackson combining. However, I think Jackson needs to take a look at the beautiful parks. If they put the library in the park, it's going to take away from the beauty of the park. I think there's a lot of commercial land available, and people would be willing to donate land to the site of a new library.

A woman's place

I WAS just reading in the paper that another girl was going to an all-boys school. What in the world is wrong with the women today? I'm a mother, and I stayed home and I took care of my children, and I didn't go to work until I had my children in school. Why did God make a woman if she isn't supposed to make a home? They can live off of their husband's paychecks if they want to. Three-fourths of them have their sewing done because they don't even know how to put a button on. What is going to happen to our world? I'll tell you one thing: I think God's going to punish women because they're trying to take man's place.

Library access

I'M A senior citizen. I live in Jackson in an apartment. Can you please tell me how it will help me to have a nice new library built at the other end of the city park in a place where I can't reach it? I don't drive. I won't be able to read anymore.

Leave the libraries

I'M 100 percent agreeing with the person who called about the libraries combining at Jackson. I think we should leave them just as they are. To spend $1.5 million on a new building and to raise taxes is ridiculous. And even if you don't have to raise taxes, we don't need another new building. Leave them as they are or utilize the city hall. They have plenty of room. Let's don't build a new building. Leave the libraries as they are.

Autumn's arrival

I WISH someone would really print the day that summer ends and fall begins. It seems like a lot of people have got their fall and winter and summer and what have you mixed up.

REPLY: Happy to oblige. Autumn this year begins at 7:13 a.m. Central Daylight Time on Sept. 23.

Good opinion page

WHAT A fantastic Opinion page in the Aug. 23 paper. My compliments and appreciation to you folks. All articles, even the cartoon, were great. But the ones by Cal Thomas on the Faulkner fiasco at The Citadel and Mr. Meyers' clearheaded exposure of the sinister U.N. women's conference in China really got me. These folks eloquently expressed my opinions with perfect accuracy. The majority of conservative readers of your paper should keep this Opinion page as a reference to what atheistic, socialistic liberals have done and are still doing to destroy our great nation. And to the proud liberal who ironically showed up in Speak Out, I ask this: What, pray tell, can you possibly be proud of? And why are you offended by applying the word socialist to Bill, Hillary and their secret, inner-circle entourage? That's exactly what they are. You liberals consistently failed that practical warning about learning from history. The Japanese learned a lesson the hard way over 50 years ago when they bombed Pearl Harbor. They woke up a sleeping giant. And guess what: You liberals have managed to repeat history by waking up the massive, conservative, Christian giant in America. So stick you liberal heads back in the sand and be proud as our big foot grinds you under.

Next the revolution

ONWARD, Christian soldiers. An editor's note to a letter published Aug. 28, described our society's "involuntary" system of taxation. So much for implied voluntary consent to laws passed by elected representatives of the people, which has characterized our society since its inception. So long to the social contract. Thanks, but no thanks, to the Constitution. Farewell to the Founding Fathers. On with the revolution. Tell me, what awaits us? Mobocracy? A theocratic, Christian state? A right-wing, anarchic utopia, which will be a heaven on Earth for those fit to survive? These are exciting times. Who is in the vanguard of the revolution? Syndicated columnist Walter Williams? George Roche, philosopher king of Hillsdale College? A collective consortium of Cato Commission Czars? Jay Eastlick?

REPLY: EDITOR'S NOTE: Wow. What a mouthful. The tax system is broken. The fact that government taxation is involuntary isn't what makes it in need of repair, but the citizens who pay taxes are entitled to know how the money is being spent. Publication of salary lists is a part of this newspaper's continuing effort to inform those who foot the bills. By the way, having Williams, Roche and Eastlick in charge for a while would come as good news to a lot of folks.