Bonjour Jeunesse

Sir: Thank you for "France: The Younger Generation" [May 30] . . . Only by understanding the thinking of the rest of the world's youth can ours hope to form peace with them.

All is not hopeful in France nor aligned with our standards; yet youth and youth's realizing each other's values can only yield hope . . .

JOSEPH KABAT JR. Dartmouth College Hanover, N.H.

Sir: French youth, like France, is finding itself just too far advanced in culture to cope with modern problems in the way that the "Harry High School" American Approach provides.

Spiritual individualism, lack of polarized thinking; call it what you will, it is the result of the farthest advance in mental erudition.

JOHN LESLIE GARDNER Georgetown University Washington

Sir: I hope your article on the younger generation of France doesn't evoke the silly, nonsensical remarks of our pseudomoralists that "Sin & Sweden" did. It was interesting, informing . . .

WILLIAM A. HILLMAN University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho

Sir: This is to tell you that I found your "report" on French youth both vulgar and ignorant . . .

DAVID FINCH

Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.

Sir: I have just finished reading "France: The Younger Generation," and I find it most provocative . . .

What the French student needs is not too different from what the French people need. He needs to be a go-getter, an eager beaver, someone out for a fast buck. Say what you may, it's this kind of person that has brought competition into the U.S. And we all know from our civics books that competition makes us strong . . .

JOHN WADHAMS Bloomfield High School Bloomfield, Conn.

Sir: . . . The report is particularly right to link social unrest to the housing crisis--if it disappeared, the Communist Party would disappear with it, or very nearly. It is true too that French youths are indifferent to politics, but could they be more indifferent than the average young comics-and baseball-imbibing American? What does America offer its youth, apart from material comfort . . . Can we have a report on American youth, written by a Frenchman ?

RUSSELL WARREN HOWE New York City

Monkey Gland

Sir: In your Publisher's Letter [May 23] you mentioned an interesting alcoholic concoction, a "Monkey Gland."

Please! Let's . . . distribute the recipe . . . V. J. ROBINSON Fort Sill, Okla.

Sir: . . . We are anxious to serve this drink to our guests . . .

JOHN L. ROY

The Castle Harbor Bermuda

P:Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders.--ED.

Knight Life (Contd.)

Sir: When the cover of a news magazine steps out from the field of fine art, it should be a news story in its own right. Never have I been so impressed by--or heard so many comments on--Bohrod's cover of Governor Knight and daughters [May 30] . . .

DAVE BREGER West Nyack, N.Y.

Sir: The cover actually fooled me as I touched it, thinking it was torn. So the trompe-l'oeil had me yelling "Touche" . . .

JOSEPH A. CUNNINGHAM Philadelphia

Sir: Having spent some time in Republican campaigns, I have long since learned that in politics one must live with one's mistakes. My proposal is that we who encouraged and allowed the rise of Goodwin Knight take full responsibility for him. Let's put the welfare of our country first, and keep Goodie here with us.

RUTH ARNOLD Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Sir: Your article . . . was excellent! Do not minimize Knight as a presidential possibility ! . . .

Should the Republican presidential field be open with President Eisenhower not running, Goodwin Knight would be the most formidable Republican available. He is dynamic, forthright and honest. There isn't any Republican of national prominence who compares with "Goodie" as a campaigner.

JOE JACOBSON Lebanon, Tenn.

Sir: . . . You have cheated the U.S. male (a serious offense), and you have done an injustice to two good-looking gals (an even graver offense): your cover partly obscured the faces of California Governor Knight's two charming daughters, Carolyn and Marilyn ... I think you should run a much better picture of these two young ladies . . . HENRY J. MEREDITH Captain, U.S.A.F. Mather Air Force Base California

P:For Captain Meredith and other offended parties, TIME's pretty penance (see cut).--ED.

Sir: TIME shows a seed package marked "California Poppy, Mixed Colors." The California poppy is a wild flower, and grows only in one color.

I have wagered $75, winner to donate same to the Boy Scouts, that you will receive --by June 25--in excess of 35 letters drawing your attention to this error, artist's license excluded . . .

NEIL C. NEEDHAM Los Angeles

P:If Reader Needham wins his bet (score at press time: one letter), it will not be because he is correct. TIME's poppy is the tamed Eschscholtzia californica.--ED.

Rddle-Faddle

Sir: True, depredations have exhausted the family atomic survival kit (May 30). But we're still sardine-scared. It's not the fiddlehead ferns unfolding in Vermont that worry us. It's the faddleheads fiddling along the Potomac.

DOUG BAKER Portland, Ore.

Criminal & Moral Codes

Sir: In your May 30 issue, I was pleased and interested in your article concerning the American Law Institute's recommendation that sodomy as well as adultery be removed from the list of crimes against the peace and dignity of the state. This is certainly a step in the right direction toward a much needed revision of most of the states' penal codes . . .

JAMES T. RUSSELL Milwaukee

Sir: . . . The penal codes in the United States are probably the most flagrant infringements of personal liberties that exist, and it is fine to see that we have thinking jurists who recommend that our churches, schools and parental influences should guide our morals . . .

STANLEY MARTIN Evansville, Ind.

Sir: ... I am astounded that anybody with the ability to read can still think the way Judge Hand does . . . If sodomy is a matter of taste, why not murder? . . .

WILLIAM L. MAIER Webster, N.Y.

Outsized

Sir: A 3,000-liter Ferrari (June 6) is too much even for the great Ascari!

CHRISTOPHER JAMES New Haven, Conn.

P:TIME erred a thousandfold, should have said 3,000 cc.--ED.

Engineer Problem

Sir: Bravo for your account, "The Engineer Shortage," in the May 30 issue. We know we are in the front line, and your article helps to show many how thin it is . . .

FRANCIS G. YATES Colorado Springs, Colo.

Sir: As an ex-engineer, I place the blame for the shortage on low pay. While the starting rate offered at colleges is high, progress thereafter is slow. Only a few specialists, due to demand shifts, can command salary ranges that are common to executives, salesmen and owners of small businesses. My work requires less effort but pays more, and offers more freedom than when I was an engineer. In addition, I do not have to live in a dirty industrial town.

STUART CAMPBELL Miami

Sir: Your article . . . was passed around to a number of engineers in our office. They are agreed that it covers the subject nicely, but all commented on one sentence: ". . . ten years out of college, the average bachelor-of-science engineer earns only about $750 a month . . ."

If you know any firms or agencies who are willing to pay that much for an engineer with ten years' experience, please let me know. I can guarantee his shortage will be alleviated by one engineer . . .

DONALD T. MYLAR Euclid, Ohio

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