[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Anti-War Billboard! U-C Friends Meeting seeks support

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I agree with Carl on everything except the assertion that the campaign 
is unfortunate.  Encouraging the converted is always a worthwhile 
activity that strengthens the core and the weaker converts at the fringes.

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> I continue to think this an unfortunate campaign.  Putting aside the 
> real question of the effect of the war on the American economy, it is 
> at best a matter of preaching to the converted: you find this argument 
> effective if and only if you already find something wrong with the war.
>
> Consider what the reaction would be to such a campaign in the US 
> during the Second World War.  If you said the fight against Naziism 
> was costing too much, you would be condemned as someone putting a 
> price on freedom.
>
> We have to be imaginative enough to realize that defenders of the 
> current war hold a similar opinion.  If we can't convince them that 
> they're wrong about the character of the war, we won't convince them 
> with niggling complaints about the cost. --CGE
>
>
> Stuart Levy wrote:
>> This billboard:
>>    http://picasaweb.google.com/BarKes/NewAlbum423081210PM/photo
>>
>> will be coming to the Champaign-Urbana region in May,
>> sponsored by the U-C Friends Meeting and American Friends' Service
>> Committee and supported by checks from  everyone who wants to see it
>> happen.  This will be up for 28 days at an unannounced location to be
>> chosen by the Adams Outdoor Advertising Co., which may be able to give
>> us more space as the summer goes on.
>>
>> What we need is around $1550 as projected cost for several billboards.
>> $775 of that will get us the first one.
>>
>> Please make out checks to "UC Friends' Meeting" and give
>> it to whoever is soliciting the check, OR mail the check to
>>
>>     UC Friends' Meeting
>>     1904 E. Main St.
>>     Urbana, Il 61802
>>
>>
>> [Passing this message along from Barbara Kessel]
>>
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