MacArthur & Yalta
Sir:
As a Chinese citizen, I wish to thank TIME, Oct. 31 and General MacArthur for stating clearly that: "The issue involved at the origin of this controversy is not whether Russia should have been brought into the Pacific war but whether we should have made vital territorial concessions at the expense of Chinese sovereignty to induce Russia to come in at the end." . . . The apologists of Yalta are practically telling the world that Uncle Sam will do it again if the price is right or, as they say, "justifiable." If a nation must make concessions, let it give away its own possessions and rights; apparently the Yalta crowd did not know that Nemo dot quod non habet* is within the limit of moral order.
(THE REV.) AUGUSTINUS TSEU Director
Chinese Academy in Chicago Chicago
Down on the Farm
Sir:
You have honored the 383,219 members of the Future Farmers of America by your story and a painting of Joe Moore on the Oct. 24 cover. On behalf of the members of the F.F.A. and the 10,000 teachers of vocational agriculture, we want you to know we appreciate the recognition you have given to one of the outstanding farm boys in the U.S.
A. W. TENNEY National Executive Secretary Future Farmers of America Washington, B.C.
Sir:
Your 21-year-old F.F.A. champ who gets up at 4:30 a.m. to slop the hogs but falls asleep while penning a love letter concerning bulldozers to his sweetheart, truly epitomizes this chromium-plated age of chivalry.
JOHN R. BURROUGHS
Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Sir:
You are rendering a great service to the world by honoring such humble, unknown and yet hardy, wholesome producers of useful products instead of glorifying crooners, kings or queens, who too frequently occup_y the covers of most magazines.
MRS. NO-YONG PARK
Oceanside, Calif.
* "No one gives what he has not."
Sir:
I think that it would be appropriate to turn that smoothly satirical movie reviewer of yours loose on the star farmer story; all the ham wasn't left down on the farm.
GARY A. BRAGA
Ames, Iowa
Sir:
Joe Moore is America's answer to combat Communism and juvenile delinquency. May his tribe increase!
L. PHILIP SAMUELSON
Schenectady, N.Y.
Sir:
While giving us every other intimate detail of the F.F.A.'s personal life, you did not mention his political affiliations. Is Joe Moore one of those awful Democrats?
BETTY GRUDIN
Syracuse, N.Y.
P:Says Joe: "I like President Eisenhower mighty well, but if he don't run, I don't know if I'll vote."--ED.
The Church of Christ
Sir:
We appreciate the story on Joe Moore, and are thankful that the girl to whom he is to be married is here in David Lipscomb College. However, we believe that you hurt these two young people by what you said concerning the Church of Christ. This church was in existence over 1,500 years before Thomas and Alexander Campbell were born.
WILLARD COLLINS David Lipscomb College Nashville
Sir:
It is true that the Campbells had much to do in launching the movement to restore primitive Christianity. However, they were by no means the only ones. The term "Campbellite" is greatly resented by members of the Church of Christ.
HOMER PUTNAM REEVES Minister
Central Church of Christ Houston
Detroit's Dinosaurs
Sir:
Re "The Horsepower Race [Oct. 24]": I have registered my protest against 300 h.p., 30-ft. behemoths of the road that bring traffic in our metropolitan alleyways (called streets) to a jell. I have bought one of those
European 4-cylinder jobs. With only 35 h.p., it rolls along easily at 50, 60, 70 m.p.h., and gives 30 to 40 miles per gal. It's a car for one who still likes to drive; I don't like to be driven by gadgets, neither do I want a living room or a parlor car on wheels. I predict that the monsters from Detroit will become as extinct as the dinosaur. It is still true that "The meek shall inherit the earth."
(THE REV.) T. H. RESSLER Lutheran Church of the Messiah Flushing, N.Y.
Cartoons for the Republic
Sir:
TIME, Oct. 24, says that the Fund for the Republic did not proceed with a television program featuring Herblock, the distinguished editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post and Times Herald, because it decided that he was "too hot to handle." Herblock's work is not considered "too hot to handle" by many great publications here and abroad which maintain the highest standards of journalism; and he was never considered "too hot" by the Fund, which found his work excellent.
TIME further stated that the "official reason" for not proceeding with the program was that "he (Herblock) is too political." The Fund said only that his effectiveness as a news commentator would depend in large part on his complete freedom to discuss current issues and particular legislation. As the project proceeded, it became apparent to the Fund and to Herblock both that it would not be practical to limit his field of discussion to the boundaries set by the legal status of the Fund.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS President
The Fund for the Republic Inc. New York City
Sir:
You say right-wingers "bombarded" me "heavily" for a cartoon drawn just before Ike's illness. Total repercussions of that cartoon and effects of that "heavy bombardment," as checked with the editors of the Washington Post and Times Herald: two letters, one of which said the cartoon sounded fine and requested a copy of it. You say the Fund for the Republic decided I was "too hot to handle." In the spring of this year, I made two pilot films for the Fund at its request. After seeing these films, the Fund directors unanimously voted $200,000 for a 26-week series. My temperature was no different in the autumn when I did two more films for program use. You say the "official reason" for dropping the project was that I was "too political." This the Fund did not say. The program films were, in fact, no more political (in the sense implied by your article) than the original pilot films, which dealt with such subjects as postal censorship and the internal security program, and were received with enthusiasm by the Fund's directors.
HERB BLOCK
The Washington Post and Times Herald Washington, B.C.
P:TIME, which has never considered Cartoonist Herblock or his work too hot to handle, is determined to remain cool under the collar.--ED.
Health & Dedication
Sir:
You have had your fun through the years razzing my father with your "Body Love" phrase. Isn't it a shame you cannot use it any more?
Now that he has gone to his just reward, I think your Oct. 24 obituary could have been more kind, or was it impossible? My dad dedicated his life to making the world health conscious.
HELEN MACFADDEN WIEGERS Larchmont, N.Y.
Pitcher's Penmanship
Sir:
Is Hero Podres just resting his left hand in your Oct. 17 picture, or does he bat and write righthanded?
T. CLINT CROSS Syracuse, Kans.
P:For important matters like batting and pitching, Johnny Podres keeps to his left; when autographing a baseball, he moves to his right.--ED.
Teaching the Deaf
Sir:
I read the Oct. 24 story about Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf with great interest; I found some statements which I wholly disagree with--especially on the sign language for the deaf. It is a beautiful and fascinating language. We deaf people are proud of our language and learning. We learned faster under deaf teachers than others. A hearing person who is adept in sign language and has the welfare of the deaf schoolchildren in their hearts makes a good teacher; I will not argue that point with you, but the deaf teacher makes a better teacher as they understand the deaf students' problems.
MRS. HARMON REEDER SR.
Dayton, Ore.
Sir:
My very warm personal thanks for the wonderful story. This is a cause that is very close to my heart, and I am most grateful to you for bringing to the attention of your readers the effort being made at Clarke School to do for little deaf children what other schools are doing for those blessed with hearing. Teaching the deaf child to lip-read and to talk, and thus take his place in our hearing world, is only one facet of the work --another important part is to bring about a greater public understanding of the problems of the deaf, and in this you have helped immeasurably.
MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE The Clarke School for the Deaf Northampton, Mass.
Maidens from Japan
Sir:
The Hiroshima maidens who journeyed to Manhattan for plastic surgery have asked us to write you and tell you that they have seen the Oct. 24 story of their progress. They feel you should tell the American people of the other devoted members of the project whose time, labor and efforts have been as important to their return to life as even the surgery itself. The three men who have made their trip possible and who have been saintly in their care for them have been Mr. Norman Cousins, Dr. Arthur Barsky and Dr. William M. Hitzig. Dr. Hitzig, who brought to fruition Mr. Cousins' inspiration to bring the maidens to America, has been the medical director and has been a dear father, bringing smiles of happiness to their faces and keeping them warm and well day and night. Plastic surgery is repairing their bodies. But the great love of these people, we feel, is just as significant and should be recorded.
HELEN YOKAYAMA
Counselor to the Hiroshima Maidens
TOMIN HARADA
Director, Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Treatment Council
New York City
The Soar
Sir:
Your Oct. 17 Saar article presents a distorted viewpoint and serves only as anti-German propaganda. Has it ever occurred to your reporter why the Saarlanders have so recently started to demonstrate? Since the close of World War II, the Saar has been a police state. Any attempt on the part of the Saarlanders towards self-determination was rigorously suppressed.
URSULA SMITH
San Francisco Sir:
It is beyond doubt that France bitterly needs the economic resources of the Saar, but they tried to pull a fast one on the Germans. The best thing would have been to destroy those silly frontiers between France and Germany. Until 1952 there was a genuine feeling in Germany in favor of a European union. Now, since we have the luck of living as good and better than our neighbors, this onetime far-spread movement is dying out, and it really is a pity. Perhaps, when the political weakness of the French has been overcome, there will be a good chance for a union between France and Germany. Let's hope that one glorious day it will become a reality.
JOST PRUSSING
Sydney, Australia
Crown of Thorns
Sir:
Before reading your Oct. 24 explanation of the Crown of Thorns by Alfred Manessier, the painting had already become a "meaningful experience" to me. I thought it was two red eggs in the nest of a mentally confused bird, over which a one-eyed crap shooter had carefully laid a spiked steel trap.
H. BUTTON Portland, Ore.
The Continental
SIR:
I NOTED WITH INTEREST THE REACTION IN YOUR OCT. 31 LETTERS COLUMN TO YOUR OCT. 10 STORY ON THE CONTINENTAL MARK II WHICH ERRONEOUSLY STATES THAT "PRESSAGENTS LET WORD LEAK THAT POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS WOULD BE CHECKED FOR SOCIAL STANDING." SUCH RUMORS ARE NEITHER TRUE NOR WERE THEY INSTIGATED BY THIS DIVISION. THE CONTINENTAL MARK II IS SOLD BY THE FORD MOTOR CO. TO FRANCHISED DEALERS, WHO IN TURN MAY SELL IT TO WHOMEVER THEY WISH.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD
VICE PRESIDENT FORD MOTOR CO.
GENERAL MANAGER
CONTINENTAL DIVISION
Detroit
P:Noted with interest.--ED.
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