“Good for Anita” from the November 21, 1977 Door County Advocate
GOOD FOR ANITA
Why are we willing to ignore rudeness and insolence in our stores and restaurants? Why are untrained clerks and waitresses tolerated without a complaint to the management?
Why do we accept poor services and products and don’t protest enough to change the attitudes? Have we been conditioned to “second-rate” so long we have forgotten what “best” was like?
Why do we put up with angry, drunk or drugged drivers endangering everyone on the highways? Why do we try to outwit the officers whose duty is to protect us?
When we know our children are not getting the education we want or expect, why don’t we do something about it? Why do we permit a situation where students who do not participate in vandalism, drugs, liquor and teacher annoyance are ridiculed?
Why don’t we register our displeasure with those who offend our standards or morality by downgrading love, sex and religion in magazines, newspapers and TV?
What happened to our country so that now people are afraid to show such virtues as charity, kindness and neighborliness for fear of getting “ripped off”?
Hurrah for those who are willing to take a stand and show they care about courtesy; pride in good work; respect for law and order; respect for persons and property; good education; patriotism; and old fashioned morality.
Hurrah for Anita Bryant who had the courage to stand up for her convictions. Why don’t more of us do the same?
It is as true today as when it was written “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”.
WONDERING
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
[http://www.anitabmi.org/3.html states that, in 2005, one of the city thoroughfares in Barnsdall, Oklahoma was renamed, “Anita Bryant Avenue”. Bryant lived from March 25, 1940 to December 16, 2024.]
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