Editor
The Economist
London, England

Dear Sir:

I have written you several times over the past two or three years as you
have published articles on Utah or the Mormons which I considered
ill-informed or tendentious.

Let me thus hasten to congratulate you on the article in the May 25-31
issue (p. 42) which I found not only informative, but balanced (though I
wonder what was implied by the strange title "More Than Mormons").

You cite some interesting statistics which support the view I've been
trying to put across to your writers in my several previous letters that
Mormons are not the peculiar odd-balls you've at times implied, and that
the State of Utah (which because of its high concentration of Mormons can
more or less serve as proxy for what Mormonism  produces) has an admirable
educational system and economy.  I enclose for your reference library some
additional statistics I've extracted from the current World Almanac,
supplemented by a couple of additional factoids not included in the
Almanac.  I add that President Bush's National Security Advisor General
Brent Scocroft is a Mormon, as is his White House Counselor for Domestic
Affairs Roger Porter -- on leave as a Harvard Professor.

Harvard-educated business consultant Richard Eyre has just published an
exceptionally thoughtful and well-organized book on the Utah economy, its
problems, and potential, looking towards the triple Jubilee coming up in
1996-97-98 (Centennial of Statehood, Sesquicentennial of the arrival of the
Mormon Pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, and [hopefully, but yet to be
decided] site of the next Winter Olympics.  Utah is the United States
candidate, it being widely acknowledged by expert skiers that Utah has the
best snow in the country -- certainly better than the more widely
celebrated Colorado.  I'd have liked to send you a copy of the Eyre book
for your reference library, but mine has sentimental value being 
autographed by Dr. Dale Johnson (Harvard Medical School), a lifelong
friend, Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Children's Hospital, and current
President of the American Pediatric Association, who just visited us here
in China as a lecturer to the Chinese Pediatric Association.

If my favorite magazine is to do more writing about Utah and/or the
Mormons, which I expect and certainly hope you will, I highly recommend
this as a source book for your reference library.  Copies may be obtained
from Eyre and Associates, 1615 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84108.

Sincerely,. DBT