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    "title": "Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Laura Ingalls Wilder",
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    "ocrText": "3\ncow's picket pin, perhaps, and transfixed see all this from some distance, in\nthe grass. Mightn't she? Or be picking flowers, or something.\nI thought the riots came at the end of summer, when the men were sore\nfrom cold winds and seeing winter approaching and no job and no money saved,\nwhen they were trying to prolong the word for wages and the contractors were\ntrying to rush it to finish their contracts on time. Such riots in early\nsummer, over nothing but delayed pay, when they couldn't really use the money\nanyway, seems not sufficiently motivated. People are more cheerful in early\nsummer, anyway, more good-natured.\nI don't know, I sort of believe I'd leave out Aunt and Uncle's stealing.\nTheir troubles with the railroad are rather adult, for today's 12-year-old\nreading, seems to me, and the book is rather overloaded with adult stuff: the\nriots (labor troubles), the faked sheriff and legal papers for Mr. Boast (law)\non top of railroad building and town building and homesteading. They all\nget rather far from Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace. We have to remember that\nl2-year-olds nowadays are at about my 7-year-old level, and your 4 and 5 year\nold level. Infancy is being prolonged by every possible agency now. I have\njust read an article on college eduaation by the most sensible man prominent\nin education today, Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, and\nhe calls college students \"children\" throughout. Remember that the Federal\nGovernment is taking care of \"underprivileged children aged 16 to 24. \" Minds\nare not permitted to develop as they used to do, and while we needn't yield\ncompletely to this idiocy, still librarians sell your books and we can't have\nthe whole educational field with one voice saying this book is no good for\nchildren because it is far too adult. I think we should leave out some part\nof this adult material, and I would be in favor of cutting the contractors'\ngyping the ráilroad company which gyped him. There's enough praise and\ndefense of dishonesty everywhere today anyway, seems to me. I suppose it's\ntrue enough, but I believe it's a better notion to give children the idea\nthat honesty is the best policy. I'm just that old-fashioned.\nI have to hurry to make a dinner date now. I have got the serial and the\nbook proofs of the serial finished, yesterday. SEP wants another serial quick\nand I have to get this Missouri book thing settled with Mills of Longmans Green.\nI have not had time to do anything that must be done. How are you? What is\nthe news? John is well and enjoying Paris. I have heard no more from Al,\nexcept a telegram, did I tell you? saying he is radio expert for the Chrevolet\ncompany in Owensville, that the company bought his tools and equipment, that he\nis doing well and still intends to go to the University.\nDorothy Thompson is\nstarting a campaign against Teachers Colleges, which will probably wreck them,\nthank goodness. She is the most powerful influence in the country today, and\nat last whole-heartedly anti-New Deal. I have not been able even to call\nup Ida Louise. There just is not time enough in a 24-hour day. Much love,\nRose"
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