Page 79 - TheGoldBug1967-68

THE GOLD BUG APRIL 12, 1968 PAGE 5 Another day, another man's life and time moves on. Somehow death will have its toll. Today, Martin Luther King, in Memphis. Yesterday, Joe Doe in Viet Nam. Tomor- row, Steve Grayman or Johnny Nigger in Detroit or Chicago or Newark. Lately, much has been said about "the System" and man's relationship with it. One hears terms like involvement and noninvolvement, and finds that involved people actively support or defy the System, while non-involved people go about living, wanting only to be left alone. One hears of Reeds College, where 66% of the male seniors have refused to serve in the armed forces. One hears of the protest march in New York that started with 100 people and ended with 10,000. One witnesses the march right here in Westminster. All in protest of the bigoted, uncompromising System. Respect for a man grows-out of what that man accomplishes-how he acts. Many thought Martin Luther King a Prophet, some thought him merely an "agitator", but re- gardless of what was thought, those that know anything about the man had to respect him. He challenged the System-or one facet of it-and accomplished a great deal. Those sincere bigots that say he was the wrong man to kill are mistaken, for he was the one changing their System. Now the streets of our cities are covered with rubble, not because of this man's death but because of man's basic stupidity. There seems to be no end to his flagrant display. Kill one man today, burn a city tomorrow. Then what? Violence accomplishes nothing but destruction. DOn Elmes ~. "~