To the editor:
Your excellent publication has been a benefit to me for many years. Since 9/3/94, however, I am that bane of the writers and publishers — a knowitall. Therefore, I am obliged, by the rules of my cult, to correct you.

The largest corporation in the world is not headquartered in Arkansas but in China. That is the Chinese army. It owns and runs factories, farms, railroads and trucking lines. Its employees can be switched from military activities to construction work, e.g. the Three Gorges Dam, without any need to bargain with labor bosses or submit the issue to voters. It is truly a military-industrial complex.

Can other stores compete? Sure they can. My wife needed boots. She looked at Marden’s, Wal-Mart and Reny’s; Reny’s had the best buy — quality of product, range of sizes and price. Reny’s was the best buy and she purchased the boots there (Ellsworth). My wife is very intelligent. (She married me, didn’t she?) Despite the fact that we come from widely different backgrounds — she’s from Brooklyn and I’m from the Bronx — we have had a fairly harmonious marriage for 38 years. Let there be Reny’s; let there by Marden’s; let there be Wal-Mart.

Yours prepared for combat —

Harry Scherer
Southwest Harbor