This is a little book with a drab green cover, and it’s the 18th printing, so it must have been popular in its day (1944). It’s a book of goofy letters that people supposedly wrote to draft boards and other official bodies. Some are sort of plausible:
Others seem like they must have been intended as jokes:
It all seemed in good fun until I got to this page:
It’s not too much of a stretch to see what underlies this letter: These people were living on a farm that was confiscated from American citizens of Japanese descent who were interned during World War II. (It has been suggested that one of the driving factors in this was that the internees were successful farmers, and their neighbors were covetous of their land.) The ignorance and racism evident in this letter sort of took the chuckles out of the book for me.