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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . The letter printed in TIME, Feb. 28, under the caption "Ohio's Coal Bin" is no more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...
...which anyone who has ever stayed in West Virginia any length of time will know is not true, and those who have not will be lead on the wrong track fearing they will come in contact with such people as stated by George Zweiger in Ohio's Coal Bin...
...letters exchanged through your pages by vehement supporters of Ohio and West Virginia. In the interest of fair play, although an Ohioan I wish to take exception to the letter of George Zweiger (TIME, Feb. 28) in which he referred to West Virginia as "Ohio's coal bin." While a good Ohioan, still I perceive many of our state's shortcomings. We do everything fairly well but nothing exceptionally well. For instance, statistics show that there are more colleges of learning in Ohio than in any state of the Union, or for that matter in the world...
Ohio's Coal Bin...
Ohio can't be proud of the "gang," of course, but it's going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce...