Letters to the Editor Nov. 17, 2009

Regarding the Nov. 5 letter (“Keep your dogs on leashes and pick up their poop”), while I agree that all dogs should be leashed while in close roximity to other dogs, humans and especially children, I am always perplexed about dog poop complainers. I have never heard the same people complain of skunk, possum, fox, raccoon, goose and cat scat that also litters our Front Street Park.

While it’s true the hundreds of feral and domestic cats that roam the city may partially bury theirs, I’m sure you can find horror stories from professional landscapers and yard maintenance workers that uncover shallow graves of such; especially with weed eaters. Have they written the editor to complain? Of course not, because it is a part of life, as is all the above scat.

Dan Jeppson
Crescent City

Continental Congress was corrupt

In her Nov. 14 letter (“We should remember and thank our veterans every day”), Virginia Walworth wrote: “It all started with those brave men who told King George to keep his tea and taxes...”

There is much to be learned from history. The original 13 American colonies formed the Continental Congress to organize and fund the revolution against the British. It is not so well known that the incompetence and corruption in this first American Congress gave George Washington more problems than did the British army.

So much so that, after the British had been beaten, George Washington's officers urged him to march his army into Philadelphia and forcibly dissolve the Congress.
George Washington’s refusal to do this may have been a mistake.

John Cupp
Smith River