I was in my local bookstore two or three days ago and grabbed a financial newspaper. Imagine my surprise when I got it home and found it was The Small Street Journal and not The Wall Street Journal. Have we, as a society, become so petty and small-minded that this international powerhouse has to take on a small local children’s paper because the name sounds the same?

Even the folks at Small Street did it because it’s a cute play on words — so what? Are the two newspapers competing? I guess they are if The Wall Street Journal has taken to accepting children’s submissions for publication. The people who publish Small Street do it for children and many of the pieces in the paper are done by children. For The Wall Street Journal to say some people might get confused if they saw both papers seems to me that they aren’t giving enough credit to their readers to be able to tell the difference.

Instead of moaning and groaning about this, perhaps the folks at Wall Street should commend the people of Small Street. They are, after all, giving something to children in Maine. They are giving them the opportunity of showing what they can do. In my opinion, that’s a pretty huge thing.

Wall Street has nothing to worry about here. I’m confident anyone who reads their paper knows the difference. They just like to hear yourselves howl at the moon. John S. Skinner Jr. Orland