Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-14
OTHERS VIEWS
IN ANSWER TO MIR. WRIGHTS
IRONICAL RETALIATION

1hON1OAA hE1AA1Ax1ON
| TO The Editor:
Due to my absence, l am sending
i in a much-belated answer to that
"Great Humanitarian's letter to the
! Dispatch some time back.
! Dear Mr.. Wright:
Observing your reply to my high
| ly intelligent argument against Mrs.
! H. L. Wrights simple pleadings,"
! it seems that your 'econornic savior"
Mr.. Roosevelt, has the same ethical
principles on the question OF elk
kerr as the rest of us criminals; but
! l did notice that he went Sailing"
into office on ''dry ticket" And not
only that, your economic savior
is a wine-bibber. Haven't l seen
pictures of him in the Washington
papers guzzling wine with some OF
the parasites that he numbers among
his friends?
If you will observe the report on
the polls that brought liquor back,
you will find that the criminal world
voted the "dry ticket" so they could
continue their illicit businesses,
known as "rum-running' and "boot-
Logging" And as for humans being
animals they certainly are, since l
have never heard of any being
plants. Living things are divided in
to two categories, they are: plants
and animals. CANNES, equines, fell
ines, bovineS, mastOdOns, anthropOlds
and humans are in the animal cate
CORY. However, there is life that are
semi-plant and semi-animal. Some
germs are in this category.
was in an insane asylum during
prohibition, and most of the inmates
were there from drinking that ''fine
old'' prohibition poison. Besides,
you shouldn't be criticizing liquor,
since most of the drunkards that I
have ever known came from wealthy
] families. Since liquor works havoc,
this will further your cause. And
another thing, all the communists
of Russia drink their national liquor,
known as vodka, "wood-ka."
| Do observations and court records
show where babies are being run
down by bootleg racketeers' trucks?
Do court records show where to-
day little children playing in the
streets are shot down by bootleg
racketeers in their battles with the
"reve-nooers?" Do hospitals show
!! records today Of people being blind
ed with wood alcohol? Do you see
as many of our young people drunk
as you did under prohibition? If
you do, you stayed at home or work.
ed nights during prohibition. Or else
you were blind. If some of the old
codgers prefer to drink themselves
to death, let them go; after all, there
are more humans than there are jobs,
anyway.
And the machine, they cannot
be wholly bad, for 1 have seen our
wonderful schools, wonderful roads,
modern combines" all manner of
/ labor-saving devices for the farmer,
mail carriers have retired "ole dob
bin'' and are now using nice auto
mobiles, thus preventing cruelty to
animals. My father used to ride on
an old ox-cart, he now '0ustS the
| road open" with a nice automobile,
and the 'nefarious political machine"
Of North Carolina haven't squaked
yet.
Don't you worry about me keep
ing the populace drunk, you better
be thinking how prohibition" is
going to keep them from getting
drunk. There was more drinking in
America during prohibition than
there was per capita in any other
nation.
l have sponsored, in this paper,
i good schools, good roads, rural cleo
trification, modern machinery for
farms, higher prices for farmers
products, higher prices for labor,
medical research, revision of mill
machinery, whereby mill workers
could gain more regular employ
ment, I have praised our firemen,
police, doctors and every other per-
son that promotes the welfare of our
wonderful town, and you call it
perdition. Because I do not believe
in exhorbitant expenditure of gov
ernment borrowed money as means
of economic recovery, you label me