Want attention? Build a missile

To the editor:

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Southeast Missouri and all the tractors in the field. We have been duped again. For years we were told to build a better mousetrap and the world would beat a path to our door. Now all you have to do is build a missile, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Take 10 oil drums, weld them end to end, fill the last drum with chicken fertilizer and kerosene, paint "ZEC5" on the side, stand it on end and point it toward St. Louis and our federal government will come to you with all kinds of incentives. The feds might even give you chocolates and more fertilizer and kerosene to build more missiles so it can give you more incentives.

RICHARD KLINE, Gipsy, Mo.