World on Trial
Sir: I enjoyed and was instructed by your United Nations report [June 27] ... One main trouble with the U.N. is that it is upside down; the Economic and Social Council ought to be on top and the Security Council on the bottom . . . Peace is not just security against aggression. If we could only obtain a more positive and dynamic vision of peace, we would be as excited about waging it as we now are fearful of war ... It is the work of the Economic and Social Council that is the positive work for peace, and the work of the Security Council that is the negative . . .
REV. FRANCIS H. GLAZEBROOK JR.
Christ Church Swansea, Mass.
Sir:
U.N. is not so much a world forum of individual countries that we reactionary isolationists object to as the sanctimonious, double-talking hypocrisy of one-world socialism in the U.N. . . .
J. J. MCCORMACK Houston
Sir:
Your admirable and thorough article on the U.N. correctly states that it is not a superstate or a world federation, but how can you say that "The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government"? All realists must agree that, until the U.N. becomes a limited world federation, world destruction will threaten us at every maneuver of international politics. Will we ever be more ready for world government than we are now?
WARREN J. KAHN
Jamaica, N.Y.
The Marilyke Look
Sir:
I ... was enraged, though not particularly surprised, to read that some good Catholic fathers in the East have taken it upon themselves to dictate fashions for the American woman [June 27]. It does seem logical, however, that with the success their organization has had in the past in censoring our books, motion pictures and television programs, their next step would be to censor our fashions ... If left unchecked, Father Kunkel could very well turn this whole big beautiful country of ours into a virtual nunnery. Deliver me!
BETTY JUDY Huntington Park, Calif.
Sir:
As a Roman Catholic who intends remaining in the faith even if every Catholic including the Pope quits, I disapprove of Fathers Kunkel and Varga's Marilyke tag drive . . . A mother and daughter who believe in modesty do not have to read a tag on a dress to tell if it is modest.
JOHN D. HAIDINGER Los Angeles
Sir:
... A celibate's sales tax on pulchritude? A papacized Varga girl?
GEORGE P. TENNYSON JR. Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Albany, Ga.
Indian & Saint
Sir:
Modernists who find Sculptor Carl Milles "wanting in imagination" are invited to view St. Paul's Indian God of Peace (see cut).
Located at ... City Hall is Milles' memorial statue in the form of an Indian God of Peace, dedicated to the war veterans of Ramsey County. As a group of Indians crouch about their council fire, smoking their pipe of peace, the smoke rising heavenward takes the form of an Indian God of Peace, one hand holding a peace pipe, the other extended in a gesture of friendliness . . .
JOSEPH E. DILLON Mayor St. Paul
Sir:
. . . Please permit me to join with you in saluting the great sculptor, Carl Milles, on his 80th birthday. As for your comments on my work, they are maliciously stupid, uncalled for, and certainly in poor taste. . .
ORONZIO MALDARELLI Head of the Department of Sculpture Columbia University New York City
Sir:
Your story on Carl Milles . . . has been read with great interest in Kansas City, since the [large memorial group] of which you speak is expected here in October ... It shows St. Martin of Tours sharing his cloak with a mendicant, thus expresses the spirit and generosity of William Volker, who died in 1947, and who did so much for the poor and underprivileged ... It will be located on city-owned ground . . . overlooking the . . . campus of the University of Kansas City . . .
SIGMUND STERN General Chairman
The William Volker Memorial Committee Kansas City, Mo.
Ladies of Liberia
Sir:
The lady pictured in your July 4 issue with President Tubman of Liberia is Mrs. Sophia Dunbar Cooper, ex-wife of Liberia's Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce. We are enclosing a photo of Mrs. Tubman . . .
OTTO G. J. SCHALER Public Relations Counsel for the Embassy of Liberia Washington, D.C.
P: For a picture of Liberia's First Lady, see cut.--ED.
When Smoot Smote Smut
Sir:
Your June 27 story on Senator Kefauver's recent smutterings reminds me of Ogden Nash Senator Smoot (Republican Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut . . .
The name and party of the Senator are different in 1955 from what they were back then [1903-33], but the conclusion is still appropriate:
Smite, Smoot,
Be rugged and rough
Smut, if smitten
Is front-page stuff.
JEANINE A. BLAIR Upper Darby, Pa.
Top Marx
Sir:
Over the years you have been very good to me. Twice I've disfigured the cover of TIME --once with my brothers and once alone. In the June 27 issue you have betrayed me . . .
You presented the ten top shows according to the latest Nielsen ratings. My name was among the missing. Strangely enough, on the American Research Bureau, first honors went to your correspondent. Why don't you print both ratings?
GROUCHO MARX Los Angeles
Auto Credit Controls
Sir:
It is only natural, when installment credit in an industry amounts to $11 billion, that the representatives of the industry should take a keen interest in the overall economy ... To imply . . . as TIME did in its July 4 issue, that the distributive element of the automobile industry is seeking Government controls of credit is false and directly contrary to our approach to the problem.
Recently, the National Automobile Dealers Association called a conference in Washington that was attended by the top management of the principal lending agencies in the automotive industry. While this group did not recommend specific terms for automobile purchasers, they viewed with alarm the prevalence of new-car terms that extend beyond 30 months, and expressed concern over the trend toward down payments that are unrealistically low ... At the same time the finance men who were present . . . stated that outstanding automobile installment credit, when related to overall personal income and the gross national product, is not out of line . . .
Far from asking Chairman Martin to take action that might lead to the reinstitution of credit controls, our position has been completely the reverse . . .
FREDERICK J. BELL Executive Vice President National Automobile Dealers Assn. Washington, D.C.
P: TIME misunderstood Admiral Bell's reference to credit controls, is glad to set the record straight.--ED.
Mixed Feelings
Sir:
I have read "The Quality of Citizenship" in the June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race . . .
LIANG-SHEN LEE Hanover, Ind.
Big Ben
Sir:
I should think that Bantam Ben Hogan would rather have that picture, in defeat, and your beautifully written June 27 tribute to his character and sportsmanship, than to have won his fifth U.S. Open title.
E. D. TOLAND Concord, N.H.
What's in a Name? (Contd.)
Sir:
Congratulations on your June 13 book review of Calvin Hoffman's tale regarding Shakespeare. Seldom has a more ridiculous manuscript found its way into print . . .
Mr. Hoffman has no qualms about freely interpreting what went on in the minds of men now dead 350 years, so I am claiming the privilege: I believe Shakespeare looked into the future and foresaw that he would be attacked by certain "scholars" and gave his own opinion in Act V, Scene 5 of Macbeth:
. . . It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
LEROY BEESON Spokane
Sir:
. . .Mr. Hoffman's theory is fresh and fascinating. It will promote me to study English literature more ardently and steadily.
SHIGERU MORIMASA Tokyo
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