I occasionally hear from Justin O. Smith, uses a typewriter, no shift key, some keys don't work. He lives down in South Eastern Ohio, has his own views on things, and lives in the Appalacian area .......
hi ol dooley hadnt write to you for a while and jus wanted to let yhou know whut was a goin on down hear
thins is purty good we got our checks in last week so we is livin high on the hog for a while we got ourn checks for not growin stuff and some sorta stimulator check cum with it
this yer we is growin soy beans caus they pay us more for not raisin soy beans than corn
we wusnt sure if we wuld like not raisin soy beans but it has worked out ok
had a grange hall meetin last week with a reely good crowd showin up
well we was all in town anyway spnding our stimulator checks like they told us to do
they sed it wuld help the conomy ifn we spent it all so we tried reel hard to oblige them fellers in the capital
thet bama fella seems reel nice he sure issa silver tonged devel aint he
we all jus wondered why his hed keeps goin from one side to the other
esse teylor sed maybe he hadda been watchin they fellas play tennis and his hed just kep on doin it
shee sed he is sucha reglar guy he even invites folks over to his white house ther for a beer or two
reel down to earth sorta guy
ol ray conger sed he thut ol bama with them ears looks like old alf newman thet used to be on them magazins we got
ol whut me worry
we wuz concerned too bout this new medical thing they issa talkin bout
dont know whut culd be better then we got now
we got thet clinic in town an old thelma barton who issa nurse and a few days a week old doc pritcherd comes over to towm to see what issa happenin
an iffn ther is sumtin serious they sends the serious person to the university hospital to take beter care of them than ol thelma can do
so wes got everything pretty well taken care of down here and dont need any reform by ol bama
curly gibney brings up at the meetin bout socialism happen right here in this cuntry right now
he sez bama is headin us they way
he sed the guvernment took over them folks at the gm car place up north an bama is gonna start makin cars we can all have
an he took over banks n some other companys an now he wants to take over our health stuff n he just wants the guvernment to own everthin
well turney sipes sed he thout they already did an whut the government didnt own them chinemen did
then turney gets us to talkin bout this professor that got himself rested for tryin to break in to his own house n all the mess that has caused cause bama had to say somethin bout it then he sed that policeeman was stupid or something
then someone sez why did bama say anythin anyway wuz none o his business
then them press buys made a issue of it now they say all the news shows is a talkin bout it
all them black guys is sayin it wuz wrong thin to do an all the white guys sayin it was ok
there seems to be a whole passle of them black n white guys speeks up when sumtin like this happens
we gotta ol philco radio to home and listen to thet limba guy in the afternoon why he lets us to believe he knows everthin thet is a goin on in the cuntry
sure is a lot a guys like him thou
they talks like they is reel smart
when we need to know sumptin we jus head for the grange hall and get some talkin goin on and afore you know it the problem is solved
an we got all these guvernment men to help us
i member when thet fust guy showed up and sez to me i am frum the government and i am here to help you
nuthin has been the same since
they pay us not to plant corn n stuff
they even tell us which plants not to grow thet pays the most
one o the boys wondereed what they wuld pay if we didnt grow thet maryjuanna stuff we here bout
the guy sed heed let us no but we never heared from him
we hope thet socialism stuff dont happen hear
we got free medical help n the gufernment pays us not raise crops n they gives us stimulator money n they takes our kids over to prouty to school them n they even gave ol stump wells a new house on wheels to live in when the big wind came thru it hed a new tv n stove and a whole bunch of them pliances n then they reelized he didnt have no electricty
but they left them there anyway
they give him some big ol thin they called a generator but didnt give him no gas for it
nyway ol dooley just wanted to let you know we wuz ok down here
we ar having our county seet sweet corn festival in a cuple weeks down here in corn cuntry
since they pay us to not grow corn we we is havin some comin up for floridee
com on down dooley n see how we is gettin along
i will write agin soon
from old justin other smith
got thet name when pappy asked the doctor whut his number 13 child was
ol doc sed just another smith so i been thet ever since
