Back to School

Sir:

The latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame.

LAURIE LORME

Dallas

Sir:

Now that school is starting again, and little kids all over the world will be studying about our great American democracy, wouldn't it be a kind gesture for Congress to add an asterisk to that phrase about Liberty, Equality and Justice for all saying: "Except Negroes"? It would do so much to help relieve all the confusion and doubt the world over about our being a nation of hypocrites.

LEWIS J. STOFFER

Cincinnati

Judgments & Prophecies

Sir:

I have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive and insulting to every decent-minded American, whether he be Democrat or Republican.

JILL WAKEMAN

Hillsborough, Calif.

Sir:

Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President.

CORRY J. BAIER

Honolulu

Sir:

Kempton's scurrilous remarks spur me on to campaign even harder for Vice President Nixon's re-election this fall.

JANET STARR

San Diego, Calif.

Tennessee Foist

Sir:

How long, O Tennessee, will you foist upon the other 47 such as Estes and Frankie Clement?

LILLIAN ROUNTREE

Lubbock, Texas

Sir:

The neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone of an ass."

HARRIET VAN WAGENEN

Green Cove Springs, Fla.

Convention Aftermath

Sir:

Nothing better illustrates TIME'S inflexible political position than its [Aug. 27] paragraphs describing the presidential candidates: from President Eisenhower came "the clear tones of a political leader turning squarely to the future" while TIME found Adlai "scurrying from caucus room to caucus room." We can be wearily certain that had Eisenhower had to solicit delegate support he would have "strode vigorously" in quest of it.

NANCY Osius

Oakland, Calif.

Sir:

The legend of "Joe Smith" rolls on, over the bodies of squashed Harold Stassen and trampled Terry Carpenter, right on the heels of Davy Crockett but not without at least one dissenter. Sure, all the Joe Smiths deserve representation, but there are already a lot of "common" politicians to give it to him without inventing another one.

JACQUELINE CARTER

Kankakee, Ill.

How to Win Fiends

Sir:

I read about Dr. Stein's psychoanalyses of the six modern witches [Sept. 3] with a feeling of sadness for them and for the doctor also, to whom they were "loathsome hags." Let's hope that in time he and others like him in the Jung school will come to see such women less as fiends and more as suffering human beings.

NANCY SOMMERS

Princeton, N.J.

Sir:

Is Dr. Stein smacking his lips in animal desire, analytical discipline, or senile wishful thinking?

HELEN LESCISIN

Los Angeles

Sir:

It's absolutely frightening to read the ramblings of Dr. Stein. He obviously is in need of a good analyst himself . . .

DOROTHY THORNE

Los Angeles

Schoolhouse of the August Moon

Sir:

Having served with the University of the Ryukyus project on Okinawa, I am sure that some of the student demonstrations [Sept. 3] reflect more of a confused and growing spirit of nationalism than rabid anti-Americanism. Indeed, the Okinawans have been blessed by a most generous handout at all levels, and, now being so much in our debt, struggle to become independent in thought and action.

A few more men like Henry Earl Diffenderfer--who will "beg if necessary" for the continuation of higher educational opportunities for a fine-spirited citizenry all but crushed by the mighty military machine of the U.S.A.--and our reputation in the Orient would be greatly enhanced.

RONALD D. JONES

Wheaton, Ill.

Notes on the Northwest

Sir:

Without commenting further on your Sept. 3 report on Washington State's Governor Langlie, I could not help noticing the background scenery on the cover showing a hydroelectric power dam and transmission lines. A picture of Governor Langlie against such a background is like a picture of the proverbial fox guarding the chickens.

CLIFTON W. COLLINS

Ephrata, Wash.

Sir:

In view of Governor Langlie's stand on public power, a more appropriate background would include an expanse of sagebrush wasteland with kerosene lamps rampant.

JEAN KENNEDY

Yakima, Wash.

P: Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same job.--ED.

Joy Unconfined

Sir:

The last three issues of TIME mentioned something about the precious lives of Marilyn Monroe, Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren. It seems a waste of tender care on such rawbust girls.

F. G. DE LA RIVA

Madrid

Banker's Policy

Sir:

In discussing the effect of tight money on the loan policy of a local bank, I pointed out to your correspondent that banks, under such circumstances, necessarily become more selective in making loans. However, my quotation ["When money is scarce, it's the little man who surfers"--Sept. 10] was placed in juxtaposition with a very critical quotation of the system's policy. The strong implication arises that my intention was to criticize the monetary policy of the system, whereas I am strongly in favor of that 'policy. On the whole, your article was excellent . . .

JOHN A. SIBLEY

Board Chairman

Trust Company of Georgia

Atlanta

Views on Judaism

Sir:

Your Sept. 10 footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move me to anger but to derision.

MAURICE SAMUEL

New York City

Querulous Fusspots

Sir:

Your Sept. 3 issue on Israeli Scientist Zarchin defines nudnik as a "pedantic fusspot." There are many delicate shades of meaning in the word, and TIME'S definition may well fall within its subtle nuances, but I have always been brought up to think of and to use the word as meaning simply "a bore."

SAUL DORFMAN

Chicago

Sir :

A nudnik is a bothersome, querulous crank.

LAWRENCE B. HULACK

Trenton, NJ.

Sir:

A nudnik is a common pest. I have been termed one many times by my parents.

MARK LIEBERMAN

Paterson, N.J.

Canal Crisis

Sir:

Why wasn't the Suez matter taken immediately to the U.N.? Were Eden and Pineau afraid they could not find sufficiently favorable opinion there? Nasser could hardly have refused a summons from the U.N., while he certainly could ignore a conference of hand-picked delegates.

MARIE PETERSON MCDONALD

Glendive, Mont.

Sir:

Give the canal to Egypt as a moral debt long overdue. Long live President Nasser.

[THE REV.] JOHN R. HOESMAN

The Moravian Church

Canadensis, Pa.

Sir:

The boys down at the firehouse tell me that any day now, as soon as Colonel Nasser realizes Long Island has a county named after him,* us clam diggers will wake up to find Egyptian technicians running the Long Island Rail Road.

ROBERT MORRIS

Huntington, N.Y.

* Inexplicably spelled Nassau.

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