The Principal Pioneer
Sir:
TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy.
ALLEN KLEIN
Mount Vernon, N.Y.
Sir:
I am surprised that you would put Reuther's picture on your magazine . . .
To many folks who work for a living, the constant demand of labor monopolies for "more" is very tiresome--more at the expense of the rest of us ... They should be broken up, for they are opposed to the best interests of the majority . . .
JOHN W. KELLOGG
Oak Park, Ill.
G.A.W. (Contd.)
Sir:
Under "Labor" [June 13] you write: "It was a long stride toward Reuther's goal, the guaranteed annual wage, which would give industrial labor job security and status like that enjoyed by salaried employees . . ."
After 26 years of faithful service as a salaried employee, I was unceremoniously "dumped" without reason. I had no "security" . . . I lost my job at the age of 56 without getting any "severance pay" . . .
I strongly believe that the white-collar salaried employee needs protection by law.
CARL BRAUN
San Francisco
Beale Street Comeback
Sir:
Thank you very much for your very interesting story on Beale Street [June 13] . . .
Let me congratulate Memphis' Mayor Frank Tobey for having returned the original name to glorious Beale Street.
LUIGI LUGLI Rome
What's in a Name?
Sir:
Your review of Calvin Hoffman's The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" [June 13] speaks of the snobbery of the "anti-Shakespeareans." Isn't it another kind of snobbishness that makes so many college professors believe in the authorship of "the man who never went through college"? . . . L. M. SMITH
Methuen, Mass.
Sir:
. . . James M. Barrie authored what is probably the best rejoinder to all those who depreciate Shakespeare: "I know not, Sir, whether Bacon wrote the words of Shakespeare, but if he did not . . . he missed the opportunity of his life."
ROBERT J. FRASCA
Pleasantville, N.Y.
Sir:
. . . The true account of the man who called himself "William Shakespeare" . . . is the most thrilling story of the Western world.
All other detective stories are dwarfed by this one, in which the great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known--" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City
Sir:
. . . Anyway, the man who wrote Shakespeare did a very good job of it . . .
CLEVE GROOME
Caldwell, Idaho
Come On In . . .
Sir:
TIME'S report on "The Water Problem" [June 20] is good reading. But all is not gloomy in the U.S. water picture. Illinois and many other states have enormous ground-water reserves begging to be tapped . . .
JOHN W. FOSTER State Geological Survey
Urbana, Ill.
SIR:
THE WATER PROBLEM IN LIMA, OHIO, REFERRED TO IN YOUR ARTICLE, WAS SOLVED AS A RESULT OF OUR RECOGNIZING THE SEVERE ECONOMIC LOSSES BEING SUFFERED WHEN INDUSTRIES . . . "PASSED LIMA BY" BECAUSE OF OUR INABILITY TO GUARANTEE FUTURE WATER SUPPLY. LIMA NOW OUTRANKS MOST INLAND CITIES IN HAVING ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF WATER. WITH OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY ACTION LIMA DOUBLED ITS PUMPING CAPACITY AND MADE SEWAGE DISPOSAL IMPROVEMENTS AT A COST OF OVER $3,500,000 . . . LIMA HAS SECURED NEW INDUSTRIES WITH EMPLOYMENT-TOTALING OVER 7,000 . . .
CHARLES O. GUY
LIMA ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE LIMA, OHIO
Opinion & Desegregation (Contd.)
Sir:
The Richmond News Leader editorial denouncing the Supreme Court [June 13] advocated that Virginia "get around the law." The angry editor adds: "Two broad courses only [are] available to the South. One [is] to defy the court openly and notoriously; the other [is] to accept the court's decision and to combat it by legal means . . ."
There is a third course which is broader and bigger than these. It is to accept integration as an enlightened Christian policy of social justice and a way of life which preserve human rights against totalitarian tyranny in a rapidly changing world.
(THE REV.) ADIEL J. MONCRIEF
First Baptist Church St. Joseph, Mo.
Sir:
The editorial [from the Richmond News Leader) sounds more like something out of the Daily Worker . . . It appears that instead of wasting our time trying to educate the peoples of Iron Curtain Europe we should begin at home behind our own Iron Curtain, sometimes known as the Mason-Dixon line . . .
VIRGIL C. KREBS
Cicero, Ill.
Sir: I hope that TIME readers do not get the impression that all Southerners, or even an overwhelming majority of them, are against desegregation. There are many of us who believe that integration is inevitable and for the best. However, we would not rush headlong into the problem--social customs are not changed overnight.
All in all, we feel that the Supreme Court decision was a wise one. But we are offended by some people who try to tell us how to solve our problems--people who come from sections of the country where segregation is unlawful but exists in just as vicious a form as anywhere in the South . . .
MYRON RESNECK
Oxford, Miss.
Sir: The self-respecting whites of the South should rise up in a mass and salute you for publishing--and thereby bringing before all the world--a part of the fine editorial of the Richmond News Leader . . .
Mostly we keep our mouths shut. But I never saw a finer description of our mental attitude than is contained in the editorial.
J. G. MOORE
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Views of Verdon
Sir:
Congratulations to you on the wonderful Cover Girl Gwen Verdon plus the excellent write-up [June 13]. It should please you that you've given every man in the "hinterland" the opportunity to read about and see the genius of this very fine artist . . .
BELLAH BERKNER
San Francisco
Sir:
I am amazed that a serious publication can see fit to boost a production like Damn Yankees . . .
W. W. GOULD
Cristobal, Canal Zone
Sir:
I regret to say that your article on Gwen Verdon was a successful undermining of Western civilization.
If America and Europe want to depart from Christian tradition, they should be educated by those entertainers to whom you devote such doubtful attention.
(THE REV.) PETER MOMMERSTEEG 's-Hertogenbosch The Netherlands
Saudi Arabia Deports
Sir:
We were rather astonished to read your fantastic story about Saudi Arabia in the June 13 issue. The Saudi Arabian embassy categorically denies the allegations which appeared in your story.
In regard to the few individuals who were deported from Saudi Arabia, they were under surveillance for some time, and were only deported after they were thoroughly investigated and proven guilty of misconduct.
. . . His Majesty's palace is not more heavily guarded than the White House . . . The fact is that any Saudi Arab can have an audience with the King at any time . . .
AHMED ABDUL JABBAR Charge d'Affaires ad interim
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Washington, D.C.
P: TIME said, "In the past three weeks, 173 Palestinian Arabs have been quietly deported--121 of them Aramco employees--and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation."--ED.
Uncovered
Sir:
What is "Freedom of the Press?" It would be interesting to have definitions from some of the newspaper editors who are always screaming about their freedom--especially interesting to see how their definitions circumvent their "coverage" of the Lou Nova case [June 13].
J. G. FARRELL
Gardena, Calif.
Sir:
. . . Is this the same fearless press that proclaimed to the world that our constitutional rights were trampled by its exclusion at the Jelke trial?
WILLIAM H. MCINERNEY
Oakland, Calif.
Society & the Sea Gull
Sir:
I suppose TIME thinks it bright and sophisticated to write up a crime story in the smug manner . . . of the life and death of Barbara Graham [June 13] . . . If we (society in general) refuse to interest ourselves in the lives of maltreated and disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison for life . . .
MARTHA AVERY
Pasadena, Calif.
Sir:
. . . Never have I felt so intensely what a revoltingly cruel thing the death penalty is . . . She had committed murder, of course; yet murder may represent a moment of transcendency and courage which the death penalty, always a cowardly, cold murder, never does . . .
ARTURO VIVANTE
Rome
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