Many of you have written to me in recent weeks about stories in TIME that particularly caught your interest. One such story was TIME's two-page article (April 14) entitled, "Human Relations: A New Art Brings a Revolution to Industry."

Its main point was that management can increase efficiency in mass-production operations by helping employees gain more satisfaction from their work. As an executive of Armour & Co. put it, "The philosophy conveyed by this article is possibly as dynamic an idea as the steam engine was an invention."

Requests for copies of the article and for permission to reprint it have come from all over the world. We have heard from college professors who wanted it as a text in their classes, from high government officials, from religious organizations, and from hundreds of corporations, most of which distributed copies to their own employees or featured it in their company papers. And the chief engineer, Way & Works, Malayan Railway, Kuala Lumpur, who had read the article in TIME's Pacific Edition, asked for a list of books on the subject, which he wished to study "as intensively as possible" before embarking on a career as consultant to the managers of industrial firms in Australia.

Just as notable--though different in kind--was your response to TIME's July 21 report on the homeless children of Pusan. Almost every letter expressed the thought of one TIME reader: "I don't want to think that in this world and in this day, little children can be abandoned to die. I feel that the U.S. has a very real responsibility . . . How can I help?"

Two similar letters were published in TIME's Letters column, Aug. 18, along with the names of three agencies through which you might send contributions-- CARE; American Relief for Korea, and Save the Children Federation. Since that time, all three of these agencies have reported that generous gifts and packages are coming in from individual TIME readers in every part of the country.

As a further result of the Pusan story, the citizens of at least one city are embarked on a group effort. At the home of TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings.

TIME's readers have also done their share toward helping the children of wartorn European countries. Mrs. Lenore Sorin, a director of the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, tells me that as a result of four advertisements in TIME in the past year, she has received "adoptions" ($180 a year toward the care of a particular child) and extra contributions totaling well over $100,000. Mrs. Sorin hopes that soon her organization will be able to start helping children in Korea as well.

In the July 28 issue, TIME carried a brief story about a new non-shrinkable, waterproof hat for men developed by the M. & B. Headwear Co. A letter from Irving Joel of that company tells what happened next: "The magazine first appeared on the newsstands, to the best of my knowledge, on Thursday. The following Monday we had a cablegram from Zurich, Switzerland. And since that time we have received requests for information from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, The Hague, Holland, Hong Kong, China and Canada. In addition to this foreign response, we have received well over 200 inquiries from both individuals and stores in this country, and they're still coming' in."

Cordially yours,

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