Dear editor:

How serious should we be as Americans as our U. S. Secretary of State negotiates with the Iranian government who seriously wants to kill infidels? And we are the appointed ones.

 I continue to question why a race of people who want to develop a nuclear bomb fail to understand the practicality of western style toilets. 

My friend Paul Johnas was the general superintendent with J. A. Jones Construction Co. In 1977 he was let go. Paul was a professional and within a few days he was on his way to Tehran, Iran, working for the soon-to-be U. S. Postmaster General, Mr. Red Blount, (as I knew Him), the owner of  Blount International Construction Co., Montgomery, Ala.  Blount had contracted with our friend at the time, the Shaw of Iran (who then was being treated for cancer at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C.) to build a 22-story apartment building in Tehran.

 Paul would call me frequently from Tehran, often to describe social aspects of Iran. No printed telephone books existed in Iran. My reason for remembering this segment of my life is: 

A person in Moultrie just discovered the non-existent phone listing for “America’s US Postal Service” in America’s telephone books. I commented to myself, “At last we have commonality with Iran.”

Paul was totally put out after discovering toilets missing from the construction drawings. However, each floor hallway had vented tubes which both sexes used as toilets.

 I question, after many years passing now, just how foolish our diplomat corps, U. S. State Department and secretary of state must feel negotiating with this mentality?

How serious should we be with the Iranian government — a people who do not recognize a social need for toilets over nuclear bomb production.  

  

Tom Rogers

Moultrie