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'Custom' Is Dehatabled Pittman, a grest aathority on tbe subject, insists. . that there nerer was such a jaw. A "custom" wouid be debatable but anyway the widow now pleads tht grand fraud sullty of mercenary submission to bigotry. She apparently forgot that in her flrst book, prat- tled In 1939, she put herself dead to rights. Discuss- Ing her problems in Washington, she wrote: "I decided. that life would be simpier if I took colored servants... which would obviate my having to find new white ones... Perhaps it is just the Southern blood of my HSMY ancestors but I have entoyed my contsct with such colored people as came to work for me.. I...com- pletely starfed my house with colored servants.". The oplum question is handled thus, slightly. shrunken to save space:. "Tor years some American. politlcal writers opposed to the New Deal asserted. ah? uf nnuon apnn py Annng .pueqnny Au gnag oplum trade in the days of the cllpper ships...At Hongkone. - British merchant gave me a history of the China trade wh!ch showed that all forelgn mer- chants had to obtain ptrmits and that, to get a per- mit they had to agree to take a small amount of oplum, too. So I suppose the Delanos, like everybody. else, bad to include opium in thelr cargoes to do Any trading at all.". This is false. The truih is on record in old docu- ments. Delano and others farced creat chests of oplum on the Chinese coolies, cxploiting their hor- rible addictlon for dtrty money and Deiano wss camp cook for a colony of British rascals in thelr fortress during the historle Oplum War waged by the Chinese Emperor tn a futile effort to deliver his people from thelr bopeless condition.. .1