It was unfortunate that Mr Grady went ‘off on a tangent’ recently in an unfair attack on Mr. Worden as well as brazenly mis-representing a well-known & respected globally-printed newspaper. Perhaps Mr. Grady should have taken Mr. Worden’s invitation personally by coming into the library recently to view many sample issues of both The Epoch Times & The American Rifleman; he would have found none of the ‘evangelizing’ he so adamantly propagandized. Also, it is certainly worth noting that none of the five people who helped examine The Epoch Times early on mentioned anything about evangelizing.

Being a research biologist & public school teacher my entire career, I first was attracted to The Epoch Times due to the excellent international science research articles, showing proper resources for their reported data. Since then, I have appreciated a variety of their properly-researched data on a variety of subjects. I wonder if Mr. Grady realizes that every weekly issue of The Epoch Times always includes four separate topic sections: 1) Truth & Tradition (current news), 2) Life & Tradition, 3) Mind & Body, 4) Opinion. In addition, I was one of several ‘loyal library patrons’ who offered to help fund the two publications in question, knowing that was a proper solution due to being a lifelong ‘friend of the library.’

I’m a firm believer in free speech & having it available, in this case the printed form, for all our Marshalltown community patrons to be able to peruse, scrutinize, & analyze. Since my own research and my science students personal research over 45 years depended on a variety of pertinent sources, I believe we are ‘selling ourselves short’ if we do not believe we should provide varieties of informational sources to our students & adults in our community. These two sources in question certainly meet that scrutiny. And shouldn’t we be able to keep all this as a ‘cooperative civil discussion’ without ‘degrading’ people?