When Georgia Baptists held their state convention in 1955, they hurled charges against the state’s legislature, accusing lawmakers of betraying the church to the state’s liquor interests. “The Yazoo fraud was mild by comparison,” declared one minister.

The action by Maine Public Radio to turn off the music (Victor Hathaway, the opera, etc.), not announced during the last funds drive, was not in the league of the Yazoo land fraud that took place in the early days of the Republic. But the term “Yazoo fraud” does come to mind.

Dean Rhodes

Bangor