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Burlington Atomic Energy Week, 1947

1947-10-17: Des Moine Register Letter to the Editor, ""Burlington Observes Atomic Energy Week"" by Robert M. Eckhouse

DM Reg Oct 27 '47
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Burlington Observes Atomic Energy Week
To the Editor:
As noted in one of your recent editorials, Oct. 25 to Nov. 1 has been proclaimed Atomic Energy Week in Burlington. This is one of the first attempts in the country to wake up an entire community to the imperatives of our atomic age. 
Suddenly, we have a man made conscience with the loudest small voice in the history of man. The mushrooms at Los Alamos, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini are like giant sky writings of the Golden Rule as a reminder to all men that they must live in amity or die in atomy. 
These are not sermonized platitudes for a month of Sundays or a week of meetings. They are facts as stubborn as a bullet, as awe inspiring as an earthquake, and as damaging as an atomic bomb. They require translation in every minute action of a man's day, We have to orient our entire lives around the quest for peace. 
Every social, political and economic act of every individual must be in part determined by its contribution towards peace. And every act counts from the way we teach our children, run our business, treat our neighbor (regardless of geographic location), partake of our responsibilities for government in a democracy (vote and write our representatives that is), all the way up to and including the way we think and act toward the Russians - and we've got to learn to live with them, or not live. 
Can we learn that in an atomic energy week? Well, we had better. We can no longer just live and let live. We must let live to live - Robert M. Eckhouse, 405 Barrett st., Burlington, Ia. 

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DM Reg Oct 27 '47 Letters Fro Burlington Observes Atomic Energy Week To the Editor: As noted in one of your recent editorials, Oct. 25 to Nov. 1 has been proclaimed Atomic Energy Week in Burlington. This is one of the first attempts in the country to wake up an entire community to the imperatives of our atomic age. Suddenly, we have a man made conscience with the loudest small voice in the history of man. The mushrooms at Los Alamos, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini are like giant sky writings of the Golden Rule as a reminder to all men that they must live in amity or die in atomy. These are not sermonized platitudes for a month of Sundays or a week of meetings. They are facts as stubborn as a bullet, as awe inspiring as an earthquake, and as damaging as an atomic bomb. They require translation in every minute action of a man's day, We have to orient our entire lives around the quest for peace. Every social, political and economic act of every individual must be in part determined by its contribution towards peace. And every act counts from the way we teach our children, run our business, treat our neighbor (regardless of geographic location), partake of our responsibilities for government in a democracy (vote and write our representatives that is), all the way up to and including the way we think and act toward the Russians - and we've got to learn to live with them, or not live. Can we learn that in an atomic energy week? Well, we had better. We can no longer just live and let live. We must let live to live - Robert M. Eckhouse, 405 Barrett st., Burlington, Ia. Questions a Story