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With further regard to the foregoing, I suggest you get a few of the J back numbers of your own newspa- * per published in the past 10 years and compare their content, critically, with that of the current is- , sues. '
Lou, you are putting the readers ! of this county to sleep!
When what I believe you actually 1 want to do is to wake them up. Most 1 of the contents these days we can t
read on the Post Office bulletin j boards which, as you know, are changed so seldom they only gather dust.
There are real and controversial issues in this county which you must perceive and on which you must have an editorial or personal opinion to share with your readers. What you would like to do is to encourage and convince your readers, but they will not do it (or “become involved”), any more than students will, unless you compel them to it with your own words and choice of news articles.
I will now try to help your cause. For your next issue, God willing, I promise you a commentary on your current news item “School drug policy passed.” You will get a true history of this school drug policy business over the past decade. ;
Any unwary or forgetful reader of this article would assume that this new baby was bom without a mother and father, which never happens. You may be a bit shocked, ap
may be the current Superintendent of Schools, but, if so, it will only bp because neither of you have done
your homework among the publicljr available files right under youp noses. For starters, I suggest you scan your own back numbers for thfc fall of 1979 and for July and August 1983! j
Yes, I would like to see you become a crusading county editor fof just and valid causes here; if so I, for one, will applaud you even if, on ocjcasions, I must differ with you. Bu^ no one here, or anywrhere, is too stu*pid to become bored nor able to gi without sleep occasionally. You ar$ observant and smart enough to hav$ seen this. i
You must now resolve to becomq a part of the solution to this problem and not remain a part of the cause of
ROBERT W. EASTHAld
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