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...facts, has made so little effort to remedy the situation. . . . Your attitude has been one of indifference if not of antagonism. You regard the farm problem like the poor, as something 'we have with us always.' You discuss it along the same lines as the ladies refer to the household help problem-something that has to be endured if one is to avoid having to do the work oneself...
Next Capone heard the Dade County grand jury refer to him as follows: "We endorse, commend and urge all legitimate efforts to exterminate from this community . . . a cancerous growth. The efforts of State's Attorney Hawthorne toward what is nationally recognized as a menace, a public impostor and an enemy to organized government are of paramount importance. . . . We urge all law-abiding citizens to give their unstinted cooperation to the end that 'Scarface Al' Capone, his accomplices and their sinister influences shall not continue to be inflicted upon . . . Florida...
...your issue of March 31, on p. 60, you refer to AMORC, the Rosicrucian Order of North America, and for some peculiar reason you speak of me and comment on my religion and my previous business activities. I do not know why my religion or my previous business affairs should be of any interest in connection with a comment on this organization, but since you thought they were of importance, you should have stated them correctly...
...mortgaging their homes, impoverishing themselves to get funds to carry them to San Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
However I do not think we need be unduly alarmed. Many of the boys who wear French Crosses still refer to our late, great allies as the Damned Frogs, and I have eaten much chop suey and caviar and felt no inclination either to open a hand laundry or join the Third International...