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...Zweiger Flayed...
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...
...Zweiger's stab at our Sunday laws, I thank God that I live in a State that has the decency to at least observe one day out of the week. We do not have shows, roadhouses and dance-halls going at full swing as in Ohio. Our citizens have a proper regard for the Sabbath. . . . It was in the State of Ohio and the City of Cincinnati that I first saw women drinking in public and I have never yet seen this in West Virginia...
...intelligentsia . . . cannot be pleased with the "Gum-chewers standard" which you set in printing the gutter-like statements of Mr. Zweiger. Such a letter is not news, it is not literature, it is not even rational...
...have been interested in reading the 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...