Proposition 63: <i> ‘Se Habla Ingles’</i>
Del Olmo calls Proposition 63 a joke. Let him tell that to the Canadians. Canada now has two official languages, English and French.
We went to Expo ’86 and it was ridiculous to see French stop signs in British Columbia! This imposition is because of a small minority of people, not immigrants, in Quebec who refuse to learn English.
S.I. Hayakawa has long championed measures to prevent this in the United States. People should be able to use whatever they wish, but California should have only one official language and that should be English.
I am going to vote for Proposition 63 because that’s what it does and, as far as I am concerned, that’s all it does. If it can be used to prevent shopkeepers from putting up signs in Vietnamese or to tell the public library that it can not use public money to buy Spanish books, I would vote against it.
E.C. PERRY
Palm Springs
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