tragic problem. Haiti needs dams and irrigation if
it is ever to ride over the crest of poverty and over-
population.
 We don't have a hot water heater. We heat our
water on the stove for washing and shaving and take
our showers in the afternoon when the sun has some-
times warmed the water in the barrel on our roof.
 There are all kinds of queer people here on crazy
passports. A friend of ours (an American negro here
for the U.N. health education program) was thrown
in jail the other day for conspiring to overthrow the
government. The man he lived with had constructed
an incriminating letter supposedly by our friend to
someone in the States and had brought it to the
police. After questioning, our friend was released
and the man he lived with was arrested and it was
found out that he wasn't a doctor as he claimed,
wasn't using solicited money from people and the
government to start a blood bank as he claimed, had
a criminal record a mile long, and was here on a
false passport. You never know whom you are talk-
ing to here!
 The sewage system here isn't equipped to handle
anything more than wash water, if that. The only
sewage system I know is the open gutters in every
street that drain into bigger underground pipes oc-
casionally and empty eventually into the bay.
 Our St. Paulias are blooming now with nine blos-
soms on one plant. Mary takes care of them.
 The first Time magazine came yesterday. Latin
American Edition.
 Sunday night we are going to try to teach the
people a new Creole song and I'm going to try to
give a short message in Creole if I can muster up the
courage and find time to work on it. I think we're
getting quite a lot out of our Creole classes, and we're
at least being goaded to learn new vocabulary.
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