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‘The Sick American’
Charles Edison, director of the McGraw-Edison Committee
for Public Affairs has mailed to all McGraw-Edison employees a
copy of the letter below. Written by a San Franciscan, this letter
was previously published in a number of California newspapers.
We believe it deserves the attention of all Americans.
“I am one of the Americans who heard Mr. Khrushchev tell
our nation that my great-grandchildren will grow up in a Communist
world. For some time now, this has bothered me. I am not a brave
man—not even a big one ... I am now 50. I paint my own house,
repair my own car, grub my own devil grass, and nurse a modest
savings account ... I am a Law-abiding man on the quiet side, and
dissension makes me terribly nervous. Frankly, I am the kind who
simply doesn’t have it in him to fight anyone ever.”
He goes on to report coming across “the huge old family bible”
in the attic with his great-grandmother’s journal of her covered
wagon trek across the Great Plains to the wild, new land of Cali
fornia.
“On the trail she wrote of sickness and hunger, and heat and
cold, and dust and thirst, and the deaths and births like beads strung
together on a thread of hope—hope of freedom and a land of plenty
for their children yet unborn. ... As I read, I began to think about
America and what it all stands for and I thought about our enemies
and what they intend to do to America ... to its freedom and its
hope.
“And, suddenly, I realized that I am a sick American. I mean
really sick ... I am sick of bureaucrats who tell me that my enemy
is not really my enemy and that I should live together with murder
ers and tyrants. I am sick of government that hasn’t the guts to dean
traitors out of its own offices. And I’m sick of being a nice pleasant
guy about it ... I am sick of my country being ridiculed all over
the world. I am sick of pink-fingered diplomats and lilly-livered
politicians who place personal career above the fate of the Flag.
“I am sick of 40 years of relentless, creeping, cancerous Com
munistic godlessness that never once has wavered from its avowed
purpose of conquering that Flag and seeing it trampled in the mud
under Russian boots. I am sick of my genteel desire to stand pat
and pray while the enemy advances. I am sick of educators who teach
tolerance of subversion and of clergymen who would have me quail
at the spectre of battle and turn my cheek in fear of what our
enemies might do.
“In all honesty, the thing of which I am sick is the man who
let these things come to me: myself. And by the living God who
made me, Sir, I am a sick American who intends to get well.”
The letter is signed “Fed-Up Citizen.”
With This We Agree
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Tulsa, Oklahoma, newspaper editor, made
headlines this past year for the decadence of American principles
which have spread through the schools, the newspapers, television
and radio, the arts, and the churches.
Also this fall, speaking before the Washington Newspaper Pub
lishers Association, he had some comments on the Fourth Estate
entitled “Our Sacred Cows” in which he held up for display some
of the “untouchable” issues which editors and publishers avoid be
cause of local pressure groups.
He said, “But there has never been a time when the plain dis
cussion of the public business was so important. There was never a
time when cowardice in the press was less defensible. We cannot
afford a reckless, a headstrong, an irresponsible press. The quest
for rightness and reasonableness has never been more important
than it is today. But neither can we afford a press that in an effort
to be popular, glosses over or ignores the issues of the day.”
Jones concluded, “Let us quit belaboring the bland and the
inconsequential. Let us be guided by two precepts: If it is of genu
ine public interest, let us discuss it. And if there is a conclusion
to be drawn let us come to a conclusion.”
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