MARGARET RISK TATUM University, La.

Sirs:

It may be just my mood this week, but it seems to me that TIME, April 28, is, in its National Affairs section at least, indicative of a definite editorial policy leaning toward the anti-convoy idea. . . .

Sirs:

Your treatment of the Lindbergh-New Deal unaccord was a fine job of middle-of-the-path reporting. . . .

Many of us do not agree with Lindbergh's reasoning but we do not doubt his sincerity. Any man that can, in the face of known opposition, repeatedly stick to his contentions may be wrong, but never insincere. . . .

Sirs:

Many wild orchids from Colombia for the Air Express edition of TIME ! I have been gathering crude rubber in the Amazon, eating beefsteaks in the Argentine, climbing the Andes, and picking coffee in Colombia during the past four months--writing a get-acquainted series of articles for our Midwestern farmers on how our Latin American neighbors live, what they grow, and how they grow it.

That has brought me up to date south of the border, but behind the times back home.

That is, until I got the Air Express edition of TIME which enabled me to sit down and read a May 5 issue published in the U.S. down here in Colombia on May 2. TIME is certainly doing something to time.

Correspondent for The Prairie Farmer Cali, Colombia

Sirs:

... As a Chilean I appreciate greatly your excellent coverage of Latin-American news and I hope that now that you have issued your Air Express edition TIME will become ever more liked south of the Rio Grande. . . . ENRIQUE WARD GONZALEZ Instructor of Spanish Belmont Abbey College Belmont, N.C.

Silent Marchers

Sirs:

There was once a tribe of Indians who showed their respects to the departed by marching around the body voicing all the good things they could think of about the member who passed on. Finally, a very bad brave with no redeeming features died, and all the members of the tribe marched around his body to show their respects in the customary manner. They marched and marched, with no word from anyone, until finally one Indian spoke up and said, "He was a good smoker."

I was reminded of this story when I read your account of Senator Barkley's speech at the unveiling of Huey Long's statue [TIME, May 5].

PHIL MILLER Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Decoration & Character

Sirs:

You must have had many letters of praise for the series of masterly covers Ernest Hamlin Baker has made for TIME. Here is one more.

What particularly gives me pleasure about them is the way Mr. Baker manages to combine pure decoration and first-class characterization. . . .

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