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Show incooeis All the news that's lit to print from the Delta Airpott Ey Dick Morrison Conespondsnca . . . Being thhe kind of a guy who is always ready to write somebody a letter at the drop of a semicolon, semi-colon, I have managed to get my opinions on all and sundry rather widely published. The responses have been interesting. inter-esting. It seems there is a certain class of people, not too numerous, who take the world's problems seriously and who, on reading something that strikes a responsive respon-sive chord, like to set their own thoughts on the subject down on paper and send them to you. Their letters range all the way from "Dear Sir, you cur," sort to the "I consider your piece on the subject of so-and-so one of the best I've ever read." Unsolicited, unexpected unexpec-ted responses have come in from Congressmen, writers, editors, friends fri-ends and acquaintances, 'and from cranks. I always regard writers of anonymous letters as cranks. Some are from obvious,but sincere sin-cere illiterates. I like to make sympathetic responses tothese; to others, on occasion, I send replies not so sympathetic. Let educated people of strong mind and will stand up and take it, say I. Not infrequently they ask for it. A lot of correspondence has gone on behind scenes; touched off by some published letter or Wing-over. Wing-over. My attitude toward people who won't yield or quit is that I can keep up a debate by correspondence corres-pondence as long as they can. Sometimes the altercations go on for weeks. Others, which for one reason or another, stray from the main track, develop into exchanges exchang-es of a highly rewarding nature. Here are a few examples, chosen at random. The owner of a large coal company com-pany in Ohio, on reading a letter on the money question, tore it out and mailed it to me with the words, "This mean devaluation," written across it in ink. I wrote and told him it did nothing of the sort. It meant, under present circumstances, cir-cumstances, the exflct opposite. We kept the airmail hot for weeks before we finally eased off. The l-rty-ufi" came later, when, on reading read-ing another of ny pieces, he wrote, "Your article, 'I.ivalid Arguments,' Ar-guments,' is sound economics. Yoius is the more credit,- that many millions cannot understand what you can state so simply. and forcibly." I wrote hack and' said thanks and added that I had been glad to see a letter by him published pub-lished in the same issue as mine. A man from Searsdale, N. Y., wrote: "You say the men who brought us to this unhappy junc- j ture are still directing our foreign affairs. Weil, Sir, they certainly made mistakes, but, thank God, not the fatal one, which you obviously ob-viously would have done in 1941 if you had been entrusted with guiding our foreign policy." Maybe, May-be, but it's a moot question, because be-cause I never was Sec. of State. Here's one 'from the middle west: "Why do you want to be so bigoted, Mr. Morrison?" Me bigoted? Humph. Another asks, "If you know so much, why aren't you president i.istead of Eisenhower?" I dunno. You answer it. Here's a two-year old postcard from Washington, D. C. "What you said is exactly right and ought to be given the greatest publicity." There's a man who knows good stuff when he reads it. A review of Progress and Poverty Pov-erty brought this: "I'm glad to see you have become a Georgist." Yes partly, but I'm not a Gorgeous Georgist. Another, who plainly didn't think me a Georgist asked, "Do you contend, .then, that gains from land speculation are legitimate profits?" As a matter of pure econ omic theory, I don't. Heres' a howler. "I enjoy your stuff very much. I've always wanted wan-ted to be a writer myself. It would be such an easy way to make a living." But one who has tried freelance free-lance writes that when, after a year of hard work he was asked if he'd sold anything yet, he had to reply, "Yes, my watch, my radio, ra-dio, and my car." From a recent letter: "Arthur Goovrey gets 10,000 letters a day in the hospital. Think of it! Ten thousand letters a day for old hip bane trouble." I'm thinking of it. Another: "Your stuff is pure poppycock." At least I'm glad he cril.ed it pure poppycock. I'd hate to be guilty of writing impure poppycock. Then, oi course, there is always the kind who make remarks like . this: "I do so enjoy your Flop ' Overs." Great minds seeme to think a-hke a-hke in musical matters. A lady in California writes, "I love Tschai-kowshy's Tschai-kowshy's 6th Symphony. I don't see how there could be any more beautiful music," and a man in Moroni adds, "Tschaikowshy's 6th Symphony is my favorite symphony." sym-phony." Can't anybody say a good word for Brahms First? Again, from Salt Lake: "Of course the Boston is the most pol- ' earth, a conclusion Monteax stated stat-ed to me while he was still conductor con-ductor of the S. F., and which I agreed with Tuesday night at PrO-vo, PrO-vo, if not before." No argument there. Once I received a letter from the east two days ahead of the paper my piece was printed in. I made reply, and, when I did get the paper discovered that I had gotten myself into the silly position of vehemently re-affirming so me-thing me-thing the editor hed deleted in the first place. Fighting windmills. Editors often exercise a restrain ing influence on their letters column col-umn contributors, but there is nobody no-body to cramp the style of the behind- the-scenes correspondents. A man wrote, "I was sorry the editor deleted my statement that Eisenhower is a mutt and Hum-prey, Hum-prey, McKay, Benson, et al are a menace to civilization." What else could he have expected? And so it goes. A lot of people like the, letters columns of the dailies. One paper made a survey and found htat more people read the letters than the editorials. Even the best series of editorials can become stereotyped: in the letters columns there is just no telling what somebody's going to bust out with next. Tread thin? Trade in! Trend thin? Trade in! Tread thin? Trade in! O n I V 1 3U r1 II The tiro that comes on new cars SALE ENDS MAY 30th ate llw ;iTR 1 1 J I 1 f i n X I i r 1 . I t 1 . 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Mr. and Mrs. William Overson and family and Mrs. Jean Tolbert and family drove to Tooele Saturday Satur-day where they visited Mrs. Dean Durrant before she ieft during the afternoon for San Diego to be with her husband. They also visited vis-ited Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Jacobs in Stockton. Announcements are being received receiv-ed telling of the marriage of Mary Beth, daughter of Kirt and Wanda Roper, of Provo, to Orand Phill Rollins, of Lyman, Wyoming. Both young people are students at the BYTJ. Mary Beth lived here all her life until the 'family moved to Provo Pro-vo several years ago. Mr. and Mrs. George Evans have moved here from Leamington. Saturday Mrs. Mary Johnson and Ross left for Los Angeles where they will visit relatives and attend a wedding reception for Mr. and Mrs. Norman Johnson, who were married the first part of May at the base in San Luis Obispo. Social Security ItcEicfiis T11 David Judd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Judd, returned to Delta Thursday. He returned to the United States recently from Korea where he served as first lieutenant, lieuten-ant, and went to Camp Carson, Colo., where he received his discharge dis-charge from the service. Social Security is family business. bus-iness. Most families do not know about their survivors insurance protection under social security when the breadwinner dies. Four out of five mothers and children in the nation now have this protection. pro-tection. Anyone desiring information regarding re-garding old-age and survivors insurance in-surance benefits may contact the social security representative in the basement of the Court House in Fillmore on Tuesday, May 26, at 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Mima Steele and Mrs. Zephyr Ze-phyr Steele have returned from a ' week in California, where they at- tened the funeral services at Bur-! bank, for their niece, Maxine a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Steele. i MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah, Thurs May 21, 1953 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pace from Salt Lake City visited in Delta Sunday and Monday. Ss Elosiess Yt liridtjp Club Mrs. Wanda Beckwith was hostess hos-tess to Saturday Bridge Club at her home Saturday evening, for dinner and cards. Present were EttaU nderhill, Amelia Am-elia Cole, Romania Bird, Dorothy Killpack, Ruby Vodak, Verna Shepherd, Shep-herd, Doris Jensen, Luella Nickle, LaVonne Morrison, club members, and Merlene Callister, Vi Robinson Robin-son and Lucille Stapley, guests. High score awards went to Mrs. Shepherd, first, and Mrs. Morrison, second, with consolation prize to Mrs. Killpack, low score. Why settle for less? Mrs. Stanley Black from Fillmore, Fill-more, visited in Delta Monday with Mr. Black's mother, Mrs. De-onna De-onna Black. Her husband, Seaman Lucion Stanley Block, is now on sea duty in the Pacafic. Mrs. Iva Mitchell, president of Unit 117, A L. 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