it—300,000 premature deaths from smoking every year! Very few individuals or organizations are interested in doing anything about it. We hear more and more agitation about the awful killings in Viet Nam. Let it be said that we abominate war as much as anyone. But if the National Council o f Churches, the liberal political “ doves” in Congress, and in the various state legislatures, the American Civil Liberties Union, and many other groups which piously pontificate about the evils o f the war in Viet Nam would only pick up the cry against the evils of the cigarette, we would be more sympathetic to their crocodile tears over our wonderful military personnel whose lives are being snuffed out in the war. We repeat: we do not regard that conflict lightly but we believe that the late President Kennedy, former President Johnson, and the incumbent President Nixon were and are faced with stem reali ties which are totally ignored by the unthinking individuals who would unilaterally pull the United States out of that conflict with out thought o f the ultimate consequences. In a little over one year, more deaths occur in the United States, due to the smoking habit, than in all o f the wars in which the United States has engaged throughout its entire history. In July 1969 Readers Digest, the figure was presented that total deaths in all wars of the United States was 379,000. But nothing is said about this terrible cigarette situation. Instead o f the “peaceniks” dwell ing on the subject o f the current conflict in Viet Nam to embarrass the last three Administrations and to make it more difficult to obtain anything like an honorable peace, why did they not pick on the cigarette? Liberal preachers in pulpits, liberal commentators in the news media, and others of that same ilk, are doing every thing possible to force the United States to surrender its ideals and practices which got us into the war in the first place. They demand that we pull out without asking any concessions whatever from the enemy. The world Communists cannot ask for anything more than that! One dares to prophesy that in years to come it will become more and more evident that there are more actual Communists in the ranks of our political “doves” than we ever dreamed. Very successfully they have pulled the wool over the eyes o f a large pro portion of our citizens. Alas, when the fact is revealed, it wall be too late to do anything about i t ! If these left-wing organizations are so deeply interested in pre serving human lives, let them work with these valiant health organ izations that are trying to educate the American public to the dan gers and evils o f the smoking habit. Until they begin to show an interest in other areas of the national welfare, the hypocrisy of their “mouthings” is plain to every right-thinking individual. Again we stress the fact that we regard the war in Viet Nam most seri ously. We are deeply and genuinely grieved at the death of each one o f our men over there, but at least we know he is losing his life in a noble cause: namely, that of keeping free men free. Our armies are sincerely endeavoring to stop the onward march of Communism, that soul-destroying system which would enslave every human being, and in recent years many of our political leaders are doing all possible to halt its world-wide conquest. Of course, our govern ment and armed forces are being opposed by Communists in all parts o f the world, and by the Communists who are running loose in this country. Alas, these elements are aided and abetted by many in our land who are not themselves Communists, but who are doing everything that the Communists would like to see done in bringing down these United States to the place where Communism actually Continued on page AS NOVEMBER, 1969
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