Odorless Highlands (Cont'd)
Sirs:
. . . You say the U. R. W. called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life.
You say Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated.
It possibly is just a small point to your college boy writers, but the Goodyear disturbance was not primarily a Goodyear strike, and it was not originally an authorized U. R. W. strike, although such fine points of reporting escape your nasty nice writing boys.
H. C. ATKINSON Executive Secretary
Akron Chamber of Commerce Akron, Ohio
Sirs:
". . . U. R. W. called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. . . ." The strike was not authorized in the beginning and not called until long after the trouble. . . .
JAMES E. ALPETER Police Prosecutor
Criminal Division Municipal Court Akron, Ohio
Sirs:
. . . With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women--just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific equipment, is taking excellent care of him and he is improving rapidly. . . .
ALEXANDER D. KING
Chicago, Ill.
TIME has already replaced the Seven Hills in Akron's odorless landscape (TIME, June 27). TIME'S story, otherwise in order, erred in the following particulars: 1) The Goodyear strike was not approved by the local union until after the rioting had begun; 2) The majority of the rioters were apparently not Goodyear workers; 3) Donald Dixon, the 19-year-old who was shot through the kidney, was no striker, but a hospital employe.--ED.
Vigor through Enjoyment
Sirs:
In TIME of June 13 under Transport you are translating the name of the German movement Kraft durch Freude as Strength through Joy. This is a correct literal translation but does not express the spirit or thought back of the movement.
Using synonyms for Strength through Joy you would obtain Force through Gladness or Power through Pleasure which are obviously very hackneyed phrases. . . .
To express Kraft durch Freude in English and retain its initial meaning it would be much more fitting to translate it as Vigor through Enjoyment or Vitality through Delight or Health through Happiness. . .
PAUL C. BRUHL
Highland Park, Mich.
New Deal Defined
Sirs:
PREDICT TIME WILL HAVE TO ADD TO STAFF TO HANDLE LETTER DELUGE THAT WILL RESULT FROM SLY EDITORS' NEW DEAL QUERY . . . [TIME, June 20]. EAGERLY I AWAIT THE COMING INEVITABLE THOUSAND DIFFERENT ATTEMPTED DEFINITIONS OF THE NEW DEAL.
RONALD JARRETT
Midland, Tex.
Sirs:
Define the New Deal? Tammany methods made magnificent.
LAURANCE C. BAKER
Comstock, N. Y.
Sirs:
. . " Would not abortion be "curt, clear, complete"?
HOLLIS F. PECK
Chicago, Ill.
Sirs:
The New Deal: Rape with consent.
E. C. SNEED
Trona, Calif.
Sirs:
After listening to my "Econ" students freely discuss the New Deal for the past six years I wish to submit the essence of three schools of thought as to the meaning of the term:
1. Left-Wing opinion. The New Deal was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a millionaire political demagogue, for the purpose of prolonging the life of the archaic and defunct capitalistic system. . .
2. New Deal opinion. The New Deal is the name given to F. D. Roosevelt's political, social and economic program which has for its aim the conservation of America's human and natural resources, guided by the principle of "the greatest good to the greatest number." . . .
3. Right-Wing opinion. The New Deal is the ambiguous label of Roosevelt II's multifarious, opportunistic, meddlesome, extravagant, pseudosocial, alphabetical agencies designed to make this country safe for the Democratic Party. . . .
RALPH W. WELCH Professor of Economics
Chapman College Hollywood, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . In the heat of the presidential campaign of 1936, the local Democratic headquarters received a telephone call. '"Say," a voice exclaimed, "tell us just what the principles of the New Deal are--we're having an argument." "Hold the phone," was the answering injunction, followed by a long pause. Then: "Sorry. We're having an argument, too."
SILVANUS KINGSLEY Attorney at Law
Portland, Ore.
Sirs:
Why not N ational
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Semantics, eh ?
J. FURBISHER
Toledo, Ohio
Sirs:
The New Deal is a game between Capital & Labor with the Government dealing and at the same time raking in the "kitty." The kitty is fast assuming the proportions of a full grown pussy cat. If the players keep at it long enough they will both be broke.
This last phenomenon was deduced by my 12-year-old son in 78 seconds flat and for his sluggishness I will deduct 10-c- from his weekly allowance.
MILTON H. DAXE
The Bronx, N. Y.
Sirs:
Perhaps the New Deal might be defined as bewildered idealism, leftish in objectives, rightish in methods, misunderstood by liberals, misused by conservatives, mistrusted by businessmen--but still relied upon reluctantly by indebted farmers, doubtfully by organized labor, helplessly by the unemployed, and hopefully by bewildered idealists.
ROBERT H. RAMAGE
Scarsdale, N. Y.
Sirs:
. . . The first genuine effort of public spirited officials to aid their less fortunate fellow citizens over the violent and vociferous opposition of entrenched privilege and against the organized and virulent hostility of a 99% antagonistic, subsidized Press. . . .
MARK BELL
Passaic, N. J.
Sirs:
What is the New Deal? . . . The Government's attempt to change "relief's" direction, giving comfort to a different part of Uncle Sam's giant anatomy. He now gets his calloused hands oiled, corns removed and feet tickled, instead of having his back scratched, face massaged and perfume behind the ears.
LINDSEY C. FOSTER
Pennsboro, W. Va.
Sirs:
The "New Deal" is a political system whereby--without admitting it--money is taken from those who have ("the rich") and given to those who have not ("the poor"). Whereas this form of society is represented as a means of redistributing opportunity, it actually redistributes wealth. The system in theory should make the underprivileged more capable of making a permanent economic adjustment. In practice it makes more certain their economic bondage. Mr. Roosevelt will go down in history as a 20th Century reincarnation of "Robin Hood." Economic waste can do only one thing. It will impoverish not only the rich but also the poor, and last but not least the entire nation as a whole.
WALTER O. ESSMAN Essman & Johnson, Insurance
Tulsa, Okla.
Sirs:
The New Deal: a courageous attempt to remake America overnight, doomed to failure because Americans cannot adapt themselves so quickly: an attempt right in principle and aim, wrong in numberless details. . . . F. J. CULVER
Halls, Mo.
Sirs:
... A sincere, but admittedly experimental, effort to close the disastrous gap between industrial and social progress. . . .
BRYANT D. ROWLAND
Knightsen, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . My definition of the New Deal is: An effort by the present Administration to broaden the principles and mechanism of economics so as to provide for the general welfare of all.
BEN FARBSTEIN
St. Joseph, Mo.
Sirs:
. . . Yesterday we used the word reform.
NORMAN W. BELLEVILLE
Glenn, Calif.
Damn Lie, Damn Shame
Sirs:
Just saw your ad in Herald Tribune on article in LIFE on President Roosevelt.
You say in big type
EVERYBODY LIKES HIM !
It's a damn lie and a damn shame to spread such damnable lying propaganda as this in the country.
I know hundreds of people that not only do not like him but intensely dislike him and many hate him with all their hearts & souls and I'm one of them. . . .
I don't care what you said afterward. To publish the remark that "Everybody likes him" is a criminal lie.
L. P. MILLS Gates-Mills, Inc.
Johnstown, N. Y.
Kitchen Criticism
Sirs:
"To avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another.
C. CARLETON SEMPLE
New York City
Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat.--ED.
Word
Sirs:
Can TIME, always resourceful and concise, coin a word describing the occupation of a person who lives on an income from investments?
The French have a word for it--rentier--but I know of no one English word.
T. J. INGRAM JR.
Lynchburg, Va.
Not to be applied to everyone who lives on income from investments, but only to the really inane rich, TIME suggests "incompoop."--ED.
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