Buttons to Push
Sir:
TIME produced an excellent summary of the race for the "ultimate weapon" [Jan. 30]. It frightens me to speculate on what can happen when the pushbutton pushers get something to push.
DALE R. TAFT
Providence
Sir:
I was thoroughly disgusted at the nature of your story. This country claims to be working for peace. Do you call this peace when you refer to missiles as "the birds of war"? Atoms for peace is a current project; why not a rockets for peace program? I am a senior in high school and have heard repeatedly that there is a shortage of engineers, technicians and physicists. Who's the fool who shall work on a project to see who can kill whom the fastest?
DAVE RICHARDSON
Taunton, Mass.
Sir:
Artzybasheff's missile is excellent. With its implications for all of us, it is also one of the most horrible pictures I have ever seen.
CHARLES J. SWIFT
San Diego
Sir:
Let us pray that we will have Artzybasheff's "finger" to point before it is pointed at our shores.
JOHN E. LAYNOR
Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Fort Monmouth, NJ.
Sir:
You omitted mention of Chance Vought's Regulus I, a surface-to-surface guided missile now in use aboard submarines, cruisers and carriers. Regulus I is not only the Navy's first operational offensive missile, but it has been and can be used aboard Navy surface ships as well as aboard Navy submarines. I believe that the Navy would concur in saying that Regulus I is an outstanding item among the family of guided missiles now in operation . . .
JOHN INNES
Chance Vought Aircraft
Dallas
Sir:
Your account makes it obvious that in national hands there will not be a safe way of keeping world peace for an indefinite period. More thought and expense must be devoted to getting international control and abolition of nuclear weapons.
GEORGE F. HOURANI
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Report on Rome
Sir:
What! A "management analysis" of the Roman Catholic Church [Jan. 30]--ye gads, that is a new note; and yet, why not? If God can't do any better than leave His Divine Church in the hands of human beings, I suppose He won't be surprised (nor should we) to have human measuring sticks applied.
FRANK G. RIVERA
Los Angeles
Sir:
American Institute of Management's pompous Martindell gives the Roman Catholic Church a 50% efficiency rating for the 1st century while no evidence exists that this church existed then ... I wonder what the efficiency rating of Jesus and the first disciples would be like.
JOHN D. DAVIS
Philadelphia
Sir:
The moral of the story seems to be "for an honest evaluation of the Roman Catholic Church, ask an Episcopalian."
FRED E. RAMSDEN
Swansea, Mass.
Sir:
Did Supersalesman Martindell ever consider A.I.M.-ing at the U.N.?
E. COSTELLO
Stockbridge, Mass.
P:It is the institute's next big project; findings will be published next year. --ED.
Sir:
. . . Since when has a mere company such as Standard Oil been used as a sort of prorated comparison to anything as high as the "business" of worshiping God? The church was there before Standard Oil ...
RONALD J. KOVACS
Fort Benning, Ga.
Truth & Consequences
SIR:
THE STORY ABOUT ME IN TIME, FEB. 6, IS ENTIRELY UNTRUE. AN APPROXIMATION OF THE INCIDENT REFERRED TO OCCURRED FIVE YEARS AGO. I NEVER HAVE STATED THAT SENATOR MAGNUSON WAS UNBEATABLE. GOVERNOR LANGLIE IF HE CHOOSES TO RUN CAN BEAT MAGNUSON EASILY AND SO CAN A NUMBER OF OTHERS.
VICTOR A. JOHNSTON
PORTLAND, ORE.
P:TIME agrees that the word "unbeatable" overstates the case, stands by the rest of its story, which its reporters got from Reader Johnston.--ED.
The Bald Truth
Sir:
With reference to Governor Goodwin Knight's comments on President Eisenhower ["This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald"--Jan. 30]: one is reminded of the tactless mother-in-law who, on meeting her new daughter-in-law for the first time, remarked, "Why, you're not at all pretty, are you?" The young bride replied, "No, I am not pretty, so I try to be nice. Have you ever tried that?"
H. W. GRANT
Atlanta
Amateur Wrestling
Sir:
It is a source of delight to me to find TIME [Jan. 23] giving the sport spotlight to amateur wrestling via "Bethlehem's Champ." It is refreshing to see such an article in the welter of stuff and nonsense intended to promote, rather than discourage, the utterly stupid "rassling" that callous promoters continue to foist on the naive public.
ALOYSIUS SCHUSZLER
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Sir:
The most cursory examination of the record will show that "probably the No. 1 wrestling town in the U.S." is not "Bethlehem, Pa.," home of Lehigh University. Lehigh indeed! During the time I was a member of the Oklahoma Aggie wrestling team we never once succeeded in scheduling the "hotbed of wrestling" schools, Lehigh and Penn State, try as we would. My understanding is they still are being prudent about whom they wrestle. Certainly Lehigh is to be congratulated on having produced a national champion ["Ike" Eichelberger],"but this is an every-year occurrence at Oklahoma A. and M.
ORVILLE PALMER
Princeton, N.J.
Sir:
Eichelberger was voted the outstanding wrestler last year in both the Eastern Intercollegiate and National Collegiate Tournaments. It is his desire, of course, to make the U.S. Olympic Team, and the final tryouts will be held in Los Angeles at the end of April. This year, for the first time, the U.S. is sending eight Greco-Roman wrestlers, as well as eight free-style wrestlers* to the Olympics.
JOHN H. DRUMMOND
Manager
U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team
Los Angeles
Rebel Yells
Sir:
Surprised that you discuss our problems on segregation [Jan. 30] so lightly. It seems there are some things about the South that you damyankees just can't comprehend.
JOE BOLEMON
Columbia, S.C.
Sir:
TIME should bow in shame for having the author of "The Negative Power" on its staff. Writing of this sort is as much a sin as segregation itself. Such articles, which give no credit for any reasonable efforts at conforming to the Supreme Court's decision, make us almost anxious to join Dixie demagogues just for spite. Do you honestly think it was a report of news, or just an opportunity for a Yankee snob to feel smug?
EDWIN L. ROGERS
Hickory, N.C.
Sir:
Thank God for your two statements: "The path of interposition leads in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey.
HOWARD H. KILLINGSWORTH
Moreland Ga.
Sir:
You quote Governor Coleman of Mississippi as saying "the white people of Mississippi are not a race of Negro killers. Official figures for 1954 show that in that year eight white people were killed by Negroes, while 182 Negroes were killed by members of their own race." Of what significance and comparative value are these figures? Should you not have stated the number of Negroes killed by whites in 1954?
RAYMOND H. SMITH
Mount Vernon, N.Y.
P:Six.-- ED.
Soldier's Prayer
Sir:
I was very much impressed by the prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier quoted by you in the Jan. 2 issue. I should like to know something about the poem's source. How does anyone know that it was written by a Confederate soldier, and so forth? Where is it on record?
KARL A. MENNINGER, M.D.
The Menninger Foundation
Topeka, Kans.
P: Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, whose Christmas card bore the prayer, got it from a book called Think on These Things by the Rev. Dr. John Ellis Large (rector of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest), who, in turn, had clipped and saved the original from a newspaper some 25 years ago when he was a student at Hartford's Trinity College. -- ED.
Club Report
Sir:
Your Jan. 23 story errs in stating that "the Blue Jay Parents' Club passed a resolution denouncing any such move" [towards desegregation]. The resolution was proposed at the club meeting, but it was thrown out by our principal, Father Stallworth, as against the constitution of the club. The whole issue at stake at this time was whether the Jesuits would continue to decide the policies at Jesuit High School or would surrender this right to the parents. The vast majority of the parents have approved our stand.
(THE REV.) HARRY L. CRANE, S.J.
President
Jesuit High School
New Orleans, La.
The Case of the Abominable Snowman
Sir:
In TIME, Jan. 23, you show a picture of footprints (or pawprints) of a "traveling snowman." Obviously, those prints were made by a three-legged fellow (probably a fuzzy, furry type) who was turning cartwheels. Let's not worry about him ; he's having fun.
R. E. MORRISON
Eureka, Calif.
Sir:
The traveling Abominable Snowman is no other than a beautiful snow leopard.
Lois WELLER BECKSFORT
Athens, Ohio
*Greco-Roman rules prohibit tripping and holds below the waist; free-style allows holds on any part of the body.
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