Long's Louisiana

Sir:

Since the truth is painful, your Aug. 30 article concerning Louisiana almost hospitalized me. My only comment is assent.

The article apparently had its effect . . . Early on election day men in trucks were . . . buying all available current TIME magazines.

... I would appreciate the opportunity to apologize to all these United States and their people for the present plight of Louisiana politics. Believe it or not, there are many here who object . . .

HAROLD C. STOKES Baton Rouge, La.

Sir:

THANKS FOR A MOST TIMELY STORY . . .

ALAN A. STUKER Baton Rouge, La.

Sir:

I was an avid TIME reader. But now that you have printed those "bloodsucking lies" about "our" governor, I'm afraid TIME will be outlawed in Louisiana . . .

HOLCOMBE McDANIEL Baton Rouge, La.

Sir:

. . . THE EARL LONG STORY WAS HIGHLY APPRECIATED HERE BY ALL NOT WITHIN SPITTING RANGE OF EARL. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT STATEMENT THAT EARL SPENT ELECTION DAY AFTERNOON SPITTING UPON THE "ITEM." HE SPENT IT SPITTING ON THE NEW ORLEANS "STATES" AND WITH GOOD REASON. THE "STATES" HAS CONSISTENTLY LED ALL OTHER LOUISIANA DAILIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WHAT EARL LONG STANDS FOR, HAS LANDED THE MOST TELLING BLOWS, AND HAS GOADED EARL INTO HIS MOST VITUPERATIVE REACTIONS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE SPITTING EPISODE . . .

ED OGLE

New Orleans States

New Orleans, La.

Sir:

... I think you hit a new low (no pun intended) when your cartographer scrunched my native state down into the likeness of a run-down Oxford, with its western boundary at the northern end canted at an angle of S 8DEG W. Its true shape, of course, is that of a smart half boot, and the boundary in question runs due N & S. I am sure there is some hellish symbolism in this deformity, but I'm not smart enough to fathom it ...

WILLIAM E. NESOM

Shreveport, La.

P: No symbolism, no deformity; TIME'S mapmaker merely put the state in perspective.--ED.

For Machine-Age War

Sir:

After giving the matter of the registration of the surviving young men between the age of 18 and 25 some thought, I have decided that . . . there are limits to the irresponsibilities, depressions, and wars that the young men of the U.S. are capable of assuming.

There should be a registration of every individual in the U.S. In machine-age war, the old, the women, and the children should be registered, and their potentialities industrially or militarily should be known, so they can be mobilized for the good of the state . . .

JOSEPH CHOBOT* Milwaukee, Wis.

Cafe Criollo

Sir:

Colombian coffee is good and I have taken it in the drab little cafes on the misty Bogota savannah, in subtropical Gali and industrial Medellin, as well as in picturesque Cartagena, sultry Santa Marta and sandy Barranquilla. But certainly it is not worth ten centavos [TIME, Aug. 30].

For the real cafe criollo give me every time the Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10-c- (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell.

THE VEN. JOHN H. TOWNSEND

Episcopal Archdeacon of Colombia Ancon, Canal Zone

Will Lawrher's Fanncie

Sir:

Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME, Aug. 9].

Will Lawther comes from Durham, and is therefore a Geordie (native of northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word--and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should have gone something like this: "Joest fanncie hhav'n' Jaehn L. Luis com'n' oovah heeah, 'n' tell'n' oes hoo tee dee oor bloedy jaebs. Ah'd see tee heem, 'Whin ye teeyek oor tue-fuet-nane seams 'n' gives oes yah eet-fuet seams, we might lissen tee ye.' "

To pronounce all that, read the umlauts as in Norwegian, and bite the "i" and short "a" sounds and the terminal "ahs" as in Nord-Deutsch . .

REGINALD E. DUNSTAN London, England

Nation's Heritage

Sir:

TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose--"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans--through the medium of pictures, art and color."

So far almost 150 libraries, corporations and universities have become charter subscribers not because Heritage will "look impressive on boardroom tables," but because, in the words of Eddie Rickenbacker, through Heritage "a real job can be done, which will bring about untold good."

Thomas D'Arcy Brophy, prime mover of the "Freedom Train," has endorsed the magazine and is writing the foreword to the first issue for the same reason.

Heritage is so costly [$150 per year] because of its size, its use of color, its binding and high quality paper (necessary if the volumes are to stand up under many thumbings), its plating cost, its editorial cost.

MALCOLM FORBES Publisher New York City

Hot Cha

Sir:

Your Hyderabad reporter is talking through his puggree when he infers that separate railway tea rooms for Moslems and Hindus are an indication of Moslem domination [TIME, Aug. 3]. There are separate railway tea rooms all over India, and even the hawkers who sell tea on the platform advertise two distinctly different brands--Hindu cha and Moslem cha.

BRUCE F. ANDERSON Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Chuck Checkup

Sir:

Poor Mrs. Ann Meyer with her oven-roasted chuck [TIME, Aug. 30]. I can sympathize. As a bride I once tried to fry a hen which was intended for fricassee. If Mrs. Meyer will learn to braise and potroast, she will enjoy many delicious roasts, stews, Swiss steaks.

Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people.

Monday morning I usually find a portion of meat which can be sliced (it does slice when cold) for my husband's lunch-box sandwiches. That night we warm up the gravy and finish off the meat . . .

MIRIAM C. MALOY Berkeley, Calif.

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