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Published on 11/16/1998 All articles from this issue

Letters to the Editor

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You don't understand Los Altos Hills

I feel that your pre-election editorials about the Los Altos Hills races showed very little grasp of the issues and the deep feelings the majority of the voters had about them.

All of us treasure the rural atmosphere of our town. But many of us are tired of the entrenched few who persist in micro-managing every detail of every plan, however legal, which is presented to them; the same few who would carve pathways around, or through, every lot in town but can't find the means to clean up the precious ones we have; the same few who find it difficult to simply ask the citizens how they feel about the town's needs.

The citizens have spoken and times are a-changing. You ought to attend a few council meetings and get in tune with our community.

Carl J CottrellLos Altos Hills

Words of wisdom still ring true

It struck me yesterday, as a friend read President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 address, how relevant the message is today. The occasion was to commemorate the observance of the first national day for giving thanks, or as this day was called then, a National Day of Fasting, Humility and Prayer.

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, the many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

George MacFarland

Los Altos