OBJECTIONS RAISED
To Country Life’s Characterization of
Pomfret Boys
To thp Editor of the Observer:
In the November issue of Country
Life in America appears a letter
written by a resident of Pomfret Cen
ter describing an entertainment giv
en in Pomfret last December under
the auspices of the Pomfret Neigh
borhood Association, as follows:
“Picture to yourself the audience
numbering 300 composed of the
‘scum of the earth’ and their off
spring" and again, the writer quotes:
“The Magic consisted of the plumb
er. the postmaster and a Porto Rican
negro with a retinue of small, tough
Irish boys.”
Considerable indignation has been
aroused in Pomfret by these com
ments and there is a strong feeling
that a public apology should be made
to those who, it is believed, have been
insulted and misjudged. As for the
boys described as tough coupling it
with the word Irish; well, their feel
ings are hurt. The fact of being Ir
ish they admit and spem to feel proud
of. The fact of being boys was not a
question of choice with them, but the
“toughness" they deny. It seems un
fortunate that one of the leaders of
the Social l'piift movement in Pom
fret should have (thoughtlessly per
haps! spread abroad opinions which
“Country Life in America" with a high
opinion of the inhabitants of Pomfret
who strongly protest against being
classed as “Scam of the earth."
The name signed to the communi
cation in Country Life was Miss M. fi.
Boult.
AN OBJECTER.
Pomfret Centre, November 10.
PUTINAiW
Clayton Seward, of Bradley street,
has been indisposed but is now better.
