The Running Debate

Sir:

The Democratic Party has two major objections to the Eisenhower ticket: 1) Eisenhower's health, and 2) Richard Nixon. I would strongly suggest that the Democratic Party at their convention nominate Eisenhower by acclamation, and then nominate Stevenson as vice-presidential candidate. This would settle both the problems, since Eisenhower and Stevenson on the Democratic ticket would certainly defeat Eisenhower and Nixon on the Republican ticket.

CHARLES E. STRACHAN, M.D.

Burbank, Calif.

Sir:

I think that we the people are entitled to know from the Republican Party before the election just who will run the Government--and where the capital will be situated--Maryland, Georgia, Palm Springs, Denver, Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md.

DOROTHY MASON East Lansing, Mich.

Sir:

How silly can some Republicans get? They rival the A.D.A. and Harry Truman in their hatred of Nixon. I consider Nixon, with his forthrightness, about the best asset in the Republican exhibit.

E. L. BAKER Bradford, Mass.

Sir:

Anyone in his right mind should not even consider letting Ike decide who should be Vice President. I sincerely believe Mr. Nixon should be running the Government.

W. J. HALL

Mobile, Ala.

Sir:

Practicing the virtues of a true Christian, together with the duties of a perfect gentleman and patriot, President Eisenhower's tested leadership inspires confidence and trust. All those who toil for a peaceful world will wish him Godspeed in a second term of office.

BARONNE DE FURSTENBERG Brussels

Joseph & the Democrats

Sir:

You folks were nodding when you failed to scotch Representative Bob Poage's crack about Joseph taking gold vessels from his brethren [March 5], which shows how ignorant of the Bible a Texas Democrat can be. Joseph took nothing from his brothers. On the contrary, he gave generous gifts to them. As for "gold vessels," the only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt. We all know that Harry Truman is rewriting history to suit the doctrines of the Democratic Party. Has Bob Poage undertaken the job of rewriting the Bible for the same purpose?

ALFRED OLSEN JR. Lawndale, Calif.

P: Says Texas' Poage: "Being from a silver-producing state in the West, Mr. Benson probably knows more about Joseph than I do. Possibly Joseph was a Free Silver Democrat."-- ED.

Sir:

Few Republicans or Democrats would be a match for Bible Reader Benson, who was too polite to correct Bob Poage. . .

MRS. WALTER WHITE Rio Linda, Calif.

Sir:

Not any of the Senators present seemed to be aware that the comparison between the Biblical Joseph and a truly great Democrat of the 19305 was made by the late Thomas Mann. They do not seem to know that Joseph the Provider, although planned in the 19203 in Germany, was finally written during the early 19405 in California, as a discreet tribute to F.D.R. and the New Deal [TIME, Aug. 22].

HANS ALBERT MAIER Associate Professor of Foreign Languages The University of Connecticut Storrs, Conn.

High Tide of Terror

Sir:

I never heard of Lo Jui-ching until his story appeared in TIME, March 5, but I knew instinctively that there must be a few such men in our world; of these, it would seem that you have found the alltime champion Amidst all the fuzzy theories about the ills that beset us and all the monstrously costly and clumsy blunderbusses that are being loaded and cocked to deal with them, the sort of publicity you have given this filthy fellow is a tantalizingly well-planted step in the right direction.

ROBERT C. WELLWOOD

Pittsburgh

Sir:

Why do the free countries of the world allow such murderers to exist even if it means war?

A. H. FORD

Ayer, Mass.

Sir:

The massacre pictures in the Lo Jui-ching story were incredible in their shocking brutality, in their morbid realism, in their true portrayal of the erstwhile land of the Good Earth, and in their lack of a photographer-newsservice credit. If the source of the picture is not so secret as to jeopardize the life of the photographer or alienate the services of a good photo supplier, please disclose it.

JIM HANSEN Los Angeles

P: The pictures were taken in northern Kwangtung province, then smuggled into Hong Kong, where U.S. officials and TIME'S Bureau checked their authenticity, agreed to keep secret the photographer's name.--ED.

Sir:

I hope you sent a copy to Earl Attlee; he and many other well-meaning members of the left wing have at last been persuaded that the Russian regime is basically evil, and not just socialism gone a little wrong. The result of this has been that they now have turned to Mao Tse-tung for solace

R. W. F. EASSIE Cambridge, England

Sir:

You pick a professional killer like Lo Jui-ching to adorn your cover; when you have to dig that low, material must be scarce. Makes me want to cancel my subscription. R. J. SCHAPPERT JR. Somers Point, N.J.

Sir:

You could have done no greater service to modern humanity than to factually present to the court of world opinion the crimes of Red China. May God give us the wisdom and courage never to give recognition in any form to them. We made that mistake with Russia and have been paying a dreadful price ever since.

LEWIS H. SPIVEY Greensboro, N.C.

The Root of the Matter

Sir:

Congratulations to Mark Ethridge [March 5]. At last, common sense from the South.

M. HUMPHRIES Sarnia, Ont.

Sir:

I wish to commend you for reporting Mark Ethridge's fine speech. I regret, however, that he saw fit to equate the courageous efforts of the N.A.A.C.P. with those of Senator Eastland's, labeling both organization and man with the word "radical." Are those who insist on obedience to the highest law of our land to be classed ethically with those who encourage disesteem for law? This kind of thinking would place the hero and coward in the same category, also the extremely generous man and the miser. Indeed, such thinking would actually destroy all value and all discrimination in judging human acts. Everybody would be judged according to the amount of energy that goes into his actions, not by the quality of his acts.

LILLIAN SMITH Neptune Beach, Fla.

Sir:

Publisher Mark Ethridge's telling words did not tell the truth. The rest of the country has the desire to hurry the process of integration.

JEAN B. LYNN Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Franchise Agreement

Sir:

You erroneously state in your March 5 "A Company for Hanns" that Butler Bros, "own 2,375 Ben Franklin stores." These stores are not owned by Butler Bros, but by individuals like myself, operating under a franchise agreement with Butler Bros.

F. W. LOEB Guthrie Center, Iowa

NEEDLESS SLAUGHTER Sir:

In the March 5 issue your movie reviewer proceeded to make unnecessarily cynical remarks about The Last Hunt--an epic of the needless slaughtering of the buffalo. It has been the habit of your reviewer to make fun of all pictures that are not to his liking.

RICHARD DINMAN Brooklyn

Sir:

Enjoyed and agreed with TIME'S review of The Last Hunt. Since many of the scenes had been filmed in our state, my husband and I, like many other South Dakotans, were "buffaloed" into going.

MRS. MILO POTAS Brookings, S. Dak.

Sir:

I thoroughly enjoyed your review; I am mighty proud to be a South Dakotan, but I reversed this stand when I viewed this morbid picture.

JANET KEATING College Station, S. Dak.

Cloudy Title

Sir:

Thank you for the open attitude taken by your Feb. 27 article dealing with the question of whether or not I am entitled to be known as Baron Nugent. I am most anxious about the sentence "But a spokesman for Burke's [Peerage] ruled sternly, 'Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain.' "

In Burke's there is the usual paragraph relating to the relinquishment of the title by my uncle and the Royal warrant dated 1920 giving this authority. They then proceed to list my father, Albert Beauchamp, as the fifth Baron Nugent. If the warrant in 1920 abolishes the title in Great Britain altogether, then why do they list my father as the fifth baron two years later? By right of succession from father to son, I am, unquestionably therefrom, the seventh Baron Nugent.

JAMES NUGENT Los Angeles

P:I Reader Nugent's argument is with his peers; the 1949 edition of Burke's listed him as the seventh Baron Nugent, the latest edition does not.--ED.

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