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Show fhl.Phillipr frs LOVE LETTERS OF A j BUREAUCRAT My (unless otherwise designated) Darling: Your last letter expressing some apprehensions as to the depth of my affection for you has been received and placed on file. Under separate cover I am sending you a more detailed statement of my love for you. This will give you the overall over-all picture of a more secure setup as man and wife, should the proposition propo-sition under discussion be carried to a successful conclusion. Your complaint that you fear ceilings ceil-ings have been imposed on my af-1 fections for you have been given i careful consideration and will be j processed further, and while a more complete report will be made to you later, it is my conclusion that your deductions are basically in error. I have gone over my feelings again with special care to every phase of the project, and all my data shows I have reached a new high in devotion for the last fiscal year. My regard for you has i reached 98 per cent as against a high of 95H for the previous year. We can, I am sure, through the establishment of even greater unity, hold the line. If we maintain a proper spirit of cooperation we can stabilize our affections af-fections at the hoped-for levels of 100 , per cent and then blueprint a course which shall surround them with the proper safeguards against seasonal declines, my (as within the meaning of Section 7) dear. You are quite wrong, my honey child (and nothing in any subsequent paragraph shall be taken as conflicting conflict-ing with my use of this term of endearment), when you imply thai my letter indicated my deep love for you had been frozen. Nor have I sought to establish any controls, as you also seem to suspect. My policy today is as announced to you in my communications of January 3, March 10, June 23 and October 8, and you may consider this document docu-ment as a blanket authorization to so construe it. While my affection for you has exceeded in scope anything origi-nayy origi-nayy charted, I have, of course, been very busy with war problems necessarily affecting our lives, and some reconversion plans will of course, be necessary to permit me to return fully to the realm of romance. ro-mance. I assume this is true of you, too, my sweeti-pie. (Note A fuller distribution of terms of affection affec-tion such as this is now made easier, due to a slight lessening of controls.) Hold to your basic emotions toward to-ward me and in all moments of doubt please realize that you are entitled en-titled to my (1) steadfast devotion, or (2) complete affection (whichever (which-ever is the larger), and without deduction. Beh'eve me to be (dear sir or madam) your devoted slave (within the meaning of the code of August, 1942). UNO WHO. THE DIAPER CRISIS ("Through Edward Sturgis Jr. of the National Institute of Diaper Service of 420 Madison avenue, OPA has been petitioned to lift ceilings on diapers. Diaper Mills are refusing to manufacture them because of the low profit." News Item.) We know what the urge is, Mr. Sturgis. This war is one of the worst, But let first things come FIRST! On- the list of preferentials Let as keep the real essentials Hey! Hey! OPA! Here's a crisis very Extraordinary. Of all goals, Chester Bowles, This is tops; It's over crops It's over stocks And over socks; It's over rentals And price of lentils; Over hamburger prices. And raspberry ices, Over tires and peaches And girdles and breeches! No diaper mill shirking! Get 'em working! Come on, OPA! Let there be no delay! Think, brothers, Of your mothers! Yes, Chester, your problems mount, Bat consider things that COUNT! No Cavities Dentists are having a convention in New York. They had considerable trouble getting hotel rooms, for once their plea to "open wider" going largely unheeded. And we understand the favorite reply of hotel clerks to the dentists when about to tell them there were no rooms to be had was "Listen, doctor, this isn't going to hurt you." It would seem from reports from ibroad that when Greek meets Creek they open tir). |