" The only hope for Rhode Island "

             The Bob Whitcomb suggestion ( Achorn commentary, Aug.6 )

    that Rhode Island merge with Connecticut is more than just chuckle

    worthy.  In general many social and economic problems of the United

    States might be easier to deal with if we stop thinking of the 50

    states as if they were almost sovereign countries.

          The United States could be re-organized - without great insult

    to the Constitution - into a few political DEPARTMENTS - with unified

    laws. This will reduce the number of professional jurists and politicians

    -now mostly corrupt hacks.

           And there should be limits  set for the population and immigration

    numbers in every state. No way can we in Rhode Island  support a population

    of more than a million . The  Greater Providence area is already nearly

    unlivable.

           At some point the most democratic government must tell people

    that they have no absolute right to reproduce the race- with no regard

    to eugenics and the ecological situation.

            In  Rhode Island -because the stupid of every race and nationality

    are more prolific than the intelligent - we might soon have a vast population

    of cretins , nearly unteachable and inclined to crime - lorded over by

    a  privileged minority.

        And how horrible to see so many of those cretins driving cars in

    in the once idyllic Ocean State !

                 LIFE CANNOT  GO ON IN THE SAME WAY !  As the late Isaac

    Asimov said: perhaps we just have a choice of catastrophes.