Letters to the Editor 03-19-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Endicott Death - Turn To God - Madison PTO Says Thanks - Saving Tax Dollars - Keep Libraries Quiet -
Endicott Death
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in regards to the discovery of Heather Endicott's body last Thursday. What kind of society do we live in that a person's life means so little? How could anyone take this woman's life and dump her in a pond and go about with their life as if they had done nothing? I did not know this woman but I am sure many did. Our Sheriff Rovenstine is quoted in The Journal Gazette on 3/16/02 that there were people who had seen the body out there before but did not say anything. How can these people live with the fact that this was a person, not some pile of trash? Didn't these people think that just maybe someone loved her and would have given anything to know where she was? This was someone's daughter and she was a mother herself. I pray the person responsible for this is found and punished soon. It is hard to imagine that there are such cold heartless people living in our town. I pray her family can finally find peace now that she has been found. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Donna Brett
Warsaw
via e-mail
Turn To God
Editor, Times-Union:Actions and words have consequences, some good, some bad. Some make us glad and some make us sad.
A recent article in the newspaper about "Marriage Trends and Divorces" I find depressing, interesting but not surprising. Depressing because it shows human nature willfully departing further and further from God's standards for the home, that He designed in the beginning.
It is interesting because we read trends, discuss them and then keep going in the same direction. They are destructive to our children and to our future. And we know it. We pretend to love our children so much, while the truth is we are lovers of self far more than we love our children. We are willing to give them almost anything except an intact, two-parent (male and female) home.
We make much to do about car seats and about every month a new finding about how to be sure they are strapped in just to go around the block, but the truth is, we don't love the children enough to even protect their homes.
The trends are not surprising. In 1963 hardly a word was said when one atheistic woman and a few pagan friends persuaded our Supreme Court that the Bible in public quoted or read and/or prayer made a person a criminal.
What other than a demonic imagination could bring forth such an interpretation of the following words,"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ... "
Even the words "thou shalt not steal," "thou shalt not commit adultery," are words from the Bible which can't be written and seen in our public classrooms. How heathen can we get?
We adults told God to get out of the way of our enlightened educational system. We also demonstrated to our children our total disrespect for God's authority and His book of instructions.
We all but outlawed the Bible from our educational system at the most impressionable time in our children's lives. What are youth to believe about the "authority of the Bible" following such actions?
Now they can become a criminal for reading that book, even a best seller. "In a free world that supposedly champions free speech."
The Bible is the only authority for and about marriage and the home. Apart from the Bible, marriage becomes only a convenient and social institution, rather than the oldest, greatest and most important of all institutions.
Our enemy, the Devil, plans his work and works his plans. He has done a bang up job, wouldn't you say? Since 1963 when we told God to get out of our educational life, divorces increased 300 percent per year for the next 15 years. Unmarried people living together has increased 353 percent. While single parent families increased 140 percent and violent crime has gone up 544 percent.
In most cases people don't destroy their home and family to live alone, but to make a new marriage if and when the opportunity presents itself. The enemy of our soul and home usually presents the opportunity.
Beloved, there is an answer to this growing cancer in our society. Are you, are we willing to invite God back into our education system, our society and our homes?
Are we willing to show honor, respect for His Book, its instructions and authority? If so, there is hope, if not, we will continue the downward trends and their consequences. More broken homes, more disrespect for God's authority and more crime.
I challenge you to read Mark 10:1-10, Romans 7:1-3, I Corinthians 7:1-39 and Malachi 2:16. I am not the message, just the messenger.
Turn to God in Jesus' name for forgiveness and begin living for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gilbert Hawkins
Warsaw
Madison PTO Says Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:On behalf of the Madison Elementary PTO, I would like to thank the many local businesses, and our corporate partner, Mutual Federal Savings Bank, for donating their time and resources for this year's winter carnival.
We would also like to thank the teachers, parents and staff of Madison Elementary School who unselfishly donated their time and hard work to make this year's winter carnival a success. It is your generous support that makes this carnival a success every year, and we are truly thankful for your generosity.
Richard Utley Jr., president
Madison Elementary PTO
via e-mail
Saving Tax Dollars
Editor, Times-Union:In his Times-Union letter of Feb. 12, 2002, Indiana Republican Party chairman, Jim Kittle Jr., asks for suggestions on ways to save tax dollars. Volumes could be filled with suggestions on how to cut state spending, so what's his point? Is he suggesting the Republicans will cut spending and taxes? I have lived in Indiana all of my 66 years and I don't believe spending or taxes have ever gone down except perhaps temporarily. It doesn't make any difference who is in office. They get us riled up every election year about government waste, but nothing ever changes.
You've got citizens out here being taxed to pay for retirement and health insurance for public employees and they can't afford it for themselves. That makes me angry! We've got local governments spending millions on school facilities including thousands of dollars for weight lifting facilities and equipment. Any way you say that, it still sounds like a crime against the taxpayer. We are spending millions on new jails to house people who abuse themselves with alcohol or drugs. The crime here is against the hard-working taxpayer and it is being committed by the state. We have 145 of our citizens in Kosciusko County behind bars and we are told we need more jailers. Not only does that mean more public employees, it means the poor working person has to cough up more taxes for their wages, health care, retirement, paid holidays, vacation, sick days, etc.
Mr. Kittle, if you really believe in cutting spending and taxes, as vice chairman of the Kosciusko County Libertarian Party, I invite you to join us. Cutting the size of government is the bedrock of our philosophy.
Charles Carnes
Warsaw
Keep Libraries Quiet
Editor, Times-Union:Not long ago, I was watching a short news commentary on TV regarding libraries, where a young teenager beamed enthusiastically, "I'm glad I don't have to be quiet in the library anymore!"
Well, as far as this mortal is concerned, all libraries, which are dedicated to study and research, should be a place of quiet and orderliness in which one can study and focus fully on his work. Today, I'm afraid that there are few quiet, completely calm moments spent in a library; in fact, at times, noise seems to run rampant in that great institution of books and learning known as the library. In the old days, when noise and disturbance got out of hand, with a stern, no-nonsense look in her eye, the head librarian at the front desk would warn, "You have to be quiet! If you're not, out you go!" But all of that has changed. In these times, I have seen certain groups congregate in the library and start gabbing away until they sounded like a gossip session at a female coffee klatch. And, due to lack of discipline, the little ones are let loose to sometimes run wild and throw screaming temper tantrums, which is quite disturbing not only to the eardrums, but it's also tough on one's sense of concentration. Whenever readers and students frequent the libraries, they should abide by the following quote from the famous philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
I understand that now, in some academic libraries, food is permissible. For instance, the Texas Christian University has adapted an idea from the Barnes and Noble bookstore where a student holds a book in one hand and a Krispy Kreme doughnut in the other, and while he's listening to music he claims to be studying. Well, if you're going to sit and chaw on a doughnut and listen to music while studying, how are you truly going to be able to concentrate on the academic matter at hand? If all libraries, including academic and public, should allow food to be distributed within their portals, how messy and disorderly the environment in the library, a place of study, could become; furthermore, the janitor would likely be working overtime sweeping up popcorn kernels, fragments from potato chips and clutters of candy wrappers. And how about a few smears of chocolate on the pages of the great classics? Why, if that happened, that immortal trio of literary masters, Tolstoy, Hugo and Dumas, would surely turn over in their graves! I believe that every library, both academic and public, and every classic and reference manual within should be respected and kept clean by keeping foodstuffs out of the library. Also, I am certain that a little less noise would be greatly welcomed.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
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Endicott Death
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in regards to the discovery of Heather Endicott's body last Thursday. What kind of society do we live in that a person's life means so little? How could anyone take this woman's life and dump her in a pond and go about with their life as if they had done nothing? I did not know this woman but I am sure many did. Our Sheriff Rovenstine is quoted in The Journal Gazette on 3/16/02 that there were people who had seen the body out there before but did not say anything. How can these people live with the fact that this was a person, not some pile of trash? Didn't these people think that just maybe someone loved her and would have given anything to know where she was? This was someone's daughter and she was a mother herself. I pray the person responsible for this is found and punished soon. It is hard to imagine that there are such cold heartless people living in our town. I pray her family can finally find peace now that she has been found. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Donna Brett
Warsaw
via e-mail
Turn To God
Editor, Times-Union:Actions and words have consequences, some good, some bad. Some make us glad and some make us sad.
A recent article in the newspaper about "Marriage Trends and Divorces" I find depressing, interesting but not surprising. Depressing because it shows human nature willfully departing further and further from God's standards for the home, that He designed in the beginning.
It is interesting because we read trends, discuss them and then keep going in the same direction. They are destructive to our children and to our future. And we know it. We pretend to love our children so much, while the truth is we are lovers of self far more than we love our children. We are willing to give them almost anything except an intact, two-parent (male and female) home.
We make much to do about car seats and about every month a new finding about how to be sure they are strapped in just to go around the block, but the truth is, we don't love the children enough to even protect their homes.
The trends are not surprising. In 1963 hardly a word was said when one atheistic woman and a few pagan friends persuaded our Supreme Court that the Bible in public quoted or read and/or prayer made a person a criminal.
What other than a demonic imagination could bring forth such an interpretation of the following words,"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ... "
Even the words "thou shalt not steal," "thou shalt not commit adultery," are words from the Bible which can't be written and seen in our public classrooms. How heathen can we get?
We adults told God to get out of the way of our enlightened educational system. We also demonstrated to our children our total disrespect for God's authority and His book of instructions.
We all but outlawed the Bible from our educational system at the most impressionable time in our children's lives. What are youth to believe about the "authority of the Bible" following such actions?
Now they can become a criminal for reading that book, even a best seller. "In a free world that supposedly champions free speech."
The Bible is the only authority for and about marriage and the home. Apart from the Bible, marriage becomes only a convenient and social institution, rather than the oldest, greatest and most important of all institutions.
Our enemy, the Devil, plans his work and works his plans. He has done a bang up job, wouldn't you say? Since 1963 when we told God to get out of our educational life, divorces increased 300 percent per year for the next 15 years. Unmarried people living together has increased 353 percent. While single parent families increased 140 percent and violent crime has gone up 544 percent.
In most cases people don't destroy their home and family to live alone, but to make a new marriage if and when the opportunity presents itself. The enemy of our soul and home usually presents the opportunity.
Beloved, there is an answer to this growing cancer in our society. Are you, are we willing to invite God back into our education system, our society and our homes?
Are we willing to show honor, respect for His Book, its instructions and authority? If so, there is hope, if not, we will continue the downward trends and their consequences. More broken homes, more disrespect for God's authority and more crime.
I challenge you to read Mark 10:1-10, Romans 7:1-3, I Corinthians 7:1-39 and Malachi 2:16. I am not the message, just the messenger.
Turn to God in Jesus' name for forgiveness and begin living for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gilbert Hawkins
Warsaw
Madison PTO Says Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:On behalf of the Madison Elementary PTO, I would like to thank the many local businesses, and our corporate partner, Mutual Federal Savings Bank, for donating their time and resources for this year's winter carnival.
We would also like to thank the teachers, parents and staff of Madison Elementary School who unselfishly donated their time and hard work to make this year's winter carnival a success. It is your generous support that makes this carnival a success every year, and we are truly thankful for your generosity.
Richard Utley Jr., president
Madison Elementary PTO
via e-mail
Saving Tax Dollars
Editor, Times-Union:In his Times-Union letter of Feb. 12, 2002, Indiana Republican Party chairman, Jim Kittle Jr., asks for suggestions on ways to save tax dollars. Volumes could be filled with suggestions on how to cut state spending, so what's his point? Is he suggesting the Republicans will cut spending and taxes? I have lived in Indiana all of my 66 years and I don't believe spending or taxes have ever gone down except perhaps temporarily. It doesn't make any difference who is in office. They get us riled up every election year about government waste, but nothing ever changes.
You've got citizens out here being taxed to pay for retirement and health insurance for public employees and they can't afford it for themselves. That makes me angry! We've got local governments spending millions on school facilities including thousands of dollars for weight lifting facilities and equipment. Any way you say that, it still sounds like a crime against the taxpayer. We are spending millions on new jails to house people who abuse themselves with alcohol or drugs. The crime here is against the hard-working taxpayer and it is being committed by the state. We have 145 of our citizens in Kosciusko County behind bars and we are told we need more jailers. Not only does that mean more public employees, it means the poor working person has to cough up more taxes for their wages, health care, retirement, paid holidays, vacation, sick days, etc.
Mr. Kittle, if you really believe in cutting spending and taxes, as vice chairman of the Kosciusko County Libertarian Party, I invite you to join us. Cutting the size of government is the bedrock of our philosophy.
Charles Carnes
Warsaw
Keep Libraries Quiet
Editor, Times-Union:Not long ago, I was watching a short news commentary on TV regarding libraries, where a young teenager beamed enthusiastically, "I'm glad I don't have to be quiet in the library anymore!"
Well, as far as this mortal is concerned, all libraries, which are dedicated to study and research, should be a place of quiet and orderliness in which one can study and focus fully on his work. Today, I'm afraid that there are few quiet, completely calm moments spent in a library; in fact, at times, noise seems to run rampant in that great institution of books and learning known as the library. In the old days, when noise and disturbance got out of hand, with a stern, no-nonsense look in her eye, the head librarian at the front desk would warn, "You have to be quiet! If you're not, out you go!" But all of that has changed. In these times, I have seen certain groups congregate in the library and start gabbing away until they sounded like a gossip session at a female coffee klatch. And, due to lack of discipline, the little ones are let loose to sometimes run wild and throw screaming temper tantrums, which is quite disturbing not only to the eardrums, but it's also tough on one's sense of concentration. Whenever readers and students frequent the libraries, they should abide by the following quote from the famous philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
I understand that now, in some academic libraries, food is permissible. For instance, the Texas Christian University has adapted an idea from the Barnes and Noble bookstore where a student holds a book in one hand and a Krispy Kreme doughnut in the other, and while he's listening to music he claims to be studying. Well, if you're going to sit and chaw on a doughnut and listen to music while studying, how are you truly going to be able to concentrate on the academic matter at hand? If all libraries, including academic and public, should allow food to be distributed within their portals, how messy and disorderly the environment in the library, a place of study, could become; furthermore, the janitor would likely be working overtime sweeping up popcorn kernels, fragments from potato chips and clutters of candy wrappers. And how about a few smears of chocolate on the pages of the great classics? Why, if that happened, that immortal trio of literary masters, Tolstoy, Hugo and Dumas, would surely turn over in their graves! I believe that every library, both academic and public, and every classic and reference manual within should be respected and kept clean by keeping foodstuffs out of the library. Also, I am certain that a little less noise would be greatly welcomed.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
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