Will St. Lawrence and this increase in
exemption help balance the budget? They will not. Neither should
pass until that budget is balanced, if we are really going to try
to balance it, and St. Lawrence should not pass at this time
above everything I have as yet heard proposed.
KANSAS CAN BE CRUEL
March 29, 1954
Honorable I.C. Wiatt, Chairman
Board of County Commissioners
Lakin, Kansas
My dear Mr. Wiatt:
I have just read with deep concern your letter of March 25, 1954,
to the effect your Board had received a signed complaint that our
land is in a "blowing" condition, and that. . . "the former
tenant". . . would assume no responsibility for it. . .
Please bear with me, if you have the time and inclination, and
allow me to recite a part of my experiences with that land. About
the year 1895 my father bought the quarter section from the
Entryman and his wife. . . During World War I, while returning
home from California in a cold January, I stopped off at Lakin.
As is the case everywhere, there is always someone who knows the
location of land. In my case he was a man who owned about the
only Ford in town. We struck west on the highway. Then by
instinct, it seems to me, rather than by landmarks, he turned
north over the unfenced land.
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