I HAVE HAD a letter from Professor Schoeck, of Emory
University, Georgia, saying that he has read the correspondence following Henry Fairlie's article 'An Anatomy of Hysteria' with increasing amusement.' The Professor ridicules the suggestion (not made by Mr. Fairlie) that in America only Conservatives write nasty letters to Left-wingers, and ,encloses a selection of scari- fying letters that were sent to a Republican sur- geon in Anderson, Indiana, when he opposed the compulsory inclusion of doctors in the federal `social security''plan. The professor adds that some letters were worse but his secretary refused to type them. Here is one she did not object to typing :
Dr.
As an American citizen—Non Com U.S. Regular Army Honorable Discharge marked Excellent, and whose Father served thru Civil War, wounded at battle of Gettysburg by a Confederate bullet, if these remarks are cor- rect, . . . 1 pray that the curse of God strike you, and that a Cancer come in your throat, and that the Stink from your body will be so rotten no one can come in the room, and that your Wife bring a Blind child into the World who will curse you -until the day of your death.
R. D.
Life Membership Association Professional Base Ball Players. It would be a pleasure to take you on at ten paces with a 45 Colt.
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