Man of the Year?

Sir:

... 1951 belongs to Joseph Stalin. What other leader has succeeded so well in harassing his opponents in so many areas with so little expenditure of his own men and money?

ELIZABETH L. ROCKWELL Saginaw, Mich.

Sir:

... I hereby nominate Secretary of State Dean Acheson . . .

NIGEL BRUCE Malibu, Calif.

Sir:

. . . Pope Pius XII.

GERARD LANGLOIS Quebec-City, Canada

Sir:

. . . Arturo Toscanini.

WENDELL A. NELSON Shamrock, Texas

Sir:

The choice seems unquestionably to lie between John Foster Dulles . . . and Matthew Ridgway . . .

DONALD V. ALLGEIER San Marcos, Texas

Sir:

May I nominate that currently forgotten man, "The White Collar Worker"? . . .

DAVID A. LEGG Pensauken, N.J.

Man's Second-Best Friend

Sir:

In your Dec. 3 article on the Little River duck-tolling dogs, you say [they] are "thoroughbreds."

This term is usually associated with a specific breed of horses of English origin, and should rightfully be reserved for them . . .

SIMON KALISH East Lansing, Mich.

Sir:

... A thoroughbred is a member of a specific breed of running horse, pedigreed descendants in, the direct male line to one or other of three specific "founding fathers"-the Byerly Turk, imported into England in 1689, the Darley Arabian, in 1704, the Godolphin Arabian, in 1728.* All other "pedigreed" animals, whatever their genus, species, breed or variety, are "purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds, are purebred. So if . . . the Nova Scotian duck tollers are thoroughbreds, they can only be horses, not dogs, however cunning their disguise ...

If you should be tempted to quote some dictionary in denial of the above, sometimes even the editors of Webster's are misled by or yield to vulgar use . . .

ELRICK B. DAVIS

Salt Lake City

P:TIME admits that a purebred dog is

a thoroughbred of another color.--ED.

Miracles in the Air

Sir:

Your Dec. 3 revelation of the "Christ over Korea" picture as a fake was well worth the space it took up. Why, then, for lack of something worth seeing in your News in Pictures, did you, in the same issue, allow the very unexciting picture, Solar Miracle, to take up half of that page? I am very much interested in religious news, but, as a Protestant, I like to read a little more in TIME that does not link itself up with speeches and visions of Pope Pius XII. REV. ROBERT E. BREGE (LUTHERAN) Grand Haven, Mich.

Sir:

... It is pathetic when desperate people turn to such fabrications as these two "miracle" photographs to support their weak faith. It shows spiritual poverty when Christian leaders use and encourage such superstitions . . . See Mark 8:12/- . . . True faith is something much deeper and much higher.

REV. GEORGE W. WALKER Walden Presbyterian Church Buffalo

Potter & God

Sir:

Your Dec. 3 issue has an article on Charles Francis Potter, humanist. After a singular career of not being able to make up his own mind, he wishes to win people to his latest way of thinking . . . Surely Mr. Potter must know from his study of the Bible that even St. Peter, whom God chose as His vicar on

*The Godolphin Arabian (sometimes called the Godolphin Barb) was said to have been pulling a water-cart in Paris when he was promoted and sent to England, where he was presented to the Earl of Godolphin. /- And He sighed deeply in His spirit and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation. earth, denied Christ three times before He was crucified?

... I believe man exists, but history has proved to me that I should not put too much faith in him.

R. J. SANDERS Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sir:

. . . Dr. Potter says: "The great question in religion has been ... do you believe in God? The great question of future religion will be -- do you believe in man?" Perhaps if Dr. Potter . . . had a greater love and knowledge of God, he could have arrived at the simple answer to his question by realizing -- why shouldn't we believe in man? God does.

CHARLES W. WELLS Columbus, Ohio

Greetings

Sir:

Thank you for your Dec. 3 article, "Back to Chancery." Children who are taught only "Renaissance calligraphy" (we call it manuscript) learn to read much quicker, easier, and faster than when taught cursive writing. Also, children who are taught manuscript writing excel in spelling . .

MARIE SCULLY McSwiNEY Concord, N.H.

Sir:

Convey if you please, the Greetings of Chicago's Chancellary fans to Lord Cholmondeley and Lord Cockrell for their good work in a renaissance of fine writing. Also to Aubiey West for his research and promotional efforts...

Frank Langdon John A. Weber Fred S Nomiya Chicago The Dead Baby (Confd)

Sir:

... A nameless horrffr swept over me as I read of the inhumane treatment of Kee Chee [whose sick baby died in a bus -- TIME, Nov. 26] and his family. Though these people are illiterate and can do only menial tasks, the breath of life and of free peoples is within them, and they should be treated as such.

Mary Chee's statement that "she couldn't do anything about it because she was a Navajo" is really a fine opening for Soviet propagandists . .

DARWIN J. BAILEY Lewistown, Pa.

Sir:

... It was not a Bear River City, Utah hospital, but Rupert General Hospital, Rupert, Idaho, where the Ghees' baby was a patient. I was the infant's attending physician.

The Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and were willing to go on paying the infant's medical expenses. Notwithstanding this, Kee Chee and his wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason for removing the baby -- against professional advice -- was that they wished to take it to their own tribal witch doctor.

A. F. DALLEY, M.D. Rupert, Idaho

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