Backhand, Forehand
Sir:
I must protest your Aug. 26 issue of TIME with Althea Gibson on the cover. We have enough trouble with these people without paying for a magazine which carries such news. You will ruin your magazine if you continue to run such articles. Don't do it again.
R. M. SHAW
Philadelphia
Sir:
I'll accept Kim Novak, Khrushchev, and even Chief Justice Warren on your covers, but I'm afraid I couldn't stand your Althea Gibson cover around the house.
JOHN E. MEEKS
Baton Rouge
Sir:
The insight you portrayed in your story on Althea Gibson was very heartwarming. She is a tribute to her race and a great credit not only to tennis but to all American athletes and I believe she will be the "best woman tennis player who ever lived."
SALLIE SURRIDGE
New York City
Prices, Wages & Inflation
Sir:
In your Aug. 5 discussion of inflation you neglected to mention one of the causes: namely, pensions. It is very obvious that when a person is promised that he will receive an adequate income in later life he will proceed to spend more of his present income than he would in other circumstances. He has no further need to save and so he spends.
RICHARD SCOTT
The Bronx, N.Y.
Sir:
You said ". . .the increased wage levels set the stage for rise in prices to come--and more inflation." This points a moral for organized labor, but will they stop grabbing for more? Hell no. Not until they have gone through the bottom of the grab bag. Then the only comfort they will have is a feeling of togetherness as they queue up in the soup lines. How long will organized labor pursue this madcap race that will end with the dollarless dollar ?
DONALD JOHN GIESE
Minneapolis
The New Secretary
Sir:
Your Aug. 19 box on Secretary of Defense McElroy and Procter & Gamble reminds me of a time when, as one of a group of chemical warfare inspectors in training, I was sent to a P. & G.-operated shell-loading plant in Tennessee to observe the handling of explosives. P. & G. maintained a discipline in regard to safety rules that is still a goal with me in my present role as teacher and mother. If Mr. McElroy can apply to the Pentagon some of the principles that were of paramount importance in P. & G.'s plant, he'll come through with flying colors.
MARY C. KELLEY
Lithonia, Ga.
Sir:
The job should have been offered to the one man who knows more about it than any other man in America--General Douglas MacArthur.
EDWARD CLARKE
The Bronx, N.Y.
Sir:
I certainly feel sorry for those 30,000 Procter & Gamble employees if their company had net sales of $1,038,290 in 1956 and Mr. McElroy received $285,000 of it.
ALAN Q. ESCHENROEDER
Ithaca, N.Y.
Sir:
Soapmaker Neil McElroy's sudsy salary apparently left a dash of P. & G.'s product in your eye when it came to citing the firm's net sales in '56 at such a paltry low-Tide million plus figure. I think it should be $1,038,290,374.
WILLIAM F. KINDER Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. San Diego
P:TIME slipped on a cake of Ivory. -ED.
The Iron Master
Sir:
Congratulations on your excellent article, "The House That Krupp Rebuilt" [Aug. 19]. Alfried Krupp et al. are a tribute not to German ingenuity but to Allied stupidity. There is little doubt that the Western powers, led by the U.S., will reinstate the entire Krupp empire.
MARTIN S. LITWIN
Boston
Sir:
Your article sounds as if I should have been proud to have labored and almost died in one of Mr. Krupp's slave-labor camps during the war.
GEORGE TESAR
Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Sir:
I would like to ask the State Department if there are two classes of war criminals: the rich and the poor--and why a rich war criminal can come to this country and a poor not? If this is justice, what is injustice?
TED KROL Buffalo
Sir:
An early nomination for Man of the Year: West Germany's Industrialist Alfried Krupp, who commands the respect of the West and symbolizes the phenomenal perseverance and ambition of Western Germany, champion of Free Europe.
JOHN G. COOK
Andalusia, Ala.
SIR:
I LIKE THE TIME COVER STORY ABOUT ME AND MY WORK VERY MUCH. IT PROVES AGAIN WITH WHAT CARE AND OBJECTIVITY THE WORK IN YOUR PUBLISHING HOUSE IS BEING DONE.
KRUPPBOHLEN
FRANKFURT
Prestige Restored
Sir:
We regret to see in your July 8 issue news about a murder committed by a Japanese young man who you said was a student of our educational institution. We ask you to correct this information. Kenjiro Yoshida came up to Tokyo in April 1954 and registered as a student at the college of economics of our university. However, he did not attend any class after his registration. In spite of repeated advice from school, he did not even send an answer to the administration office. We finally settled the cancellation of his name from the register in March 1956, before the murder came to happen.
SHIGEMI KEGA President
Aoyama Gakuin University
Tokyo
Scandal on the Farm
Sir:
Congratulations to TIME, Aug. 19 on "The $5 Billion Farm Scandal." Never before have we paid for so many acres of well cultivated weeds of all kinds. Is that soil conservation?
GEOFFREY SKILLMAN
Wilsall, Mont.
Sir:
The solution is simple. Limit subsidy maximum to $5,000 per farm enterprise; henceforth make public all subsidy payments, locally. Then listen to the yowls drown out the fallout.
ALFRED RILEY
Plymouth, Ind.
Sir:
Texas is not without its farming operators. Down around Corpus Christi they are known as "windshield" farmers; they live in town, and about the only time they ever see the old home place is when they drive by on the way to the airport, where they take off for New York City or Paris, where they buy booze and Cezannes.
F. B. PIERCE
Houston
Sir:
As a fixed-income Government employee, I am convinced that the so-called "poor farm boy" picture most people have in their minds is about as nonexistent and outdated as the picture of the city child laborer in which some farm people still believe.
EDWARD M. BRUCE Lieutenant, U.S.A.F.
Columbus, Ohio
Christian Playmen
Sir:
Concerning "Wanted: Christian Sports" [Aug. 19]: it is obvious that James W. Carty Jr. has searched neither long nor diligently if he has been able to turn up only one individual who is "outstanding both as an athlete and layman." For a religious news editor, Mr. Carty seems lamentably unaware of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. This young organization of coaches and athletes, active and retired (Otto Graham Tommy Harmon, Biggie Munn, Bob Feller, for examples), is doing a dynamic job for Christianity.
EDGAR WILLIAMS
Lansdale, Pa.
Sir:
It could be that Carty hasn't time to read the Tennessean's sports page. Is he unaware of men like Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson and the Rev. Bob ("The Flying Parson") Richards?
MRS. KENNETH M. JONES
Carmel, Calif.
Sir:
What about Donn Moomaw, football star and top athlete, who is now a minister?
HARRIET HARDING
Hillside, N.J.
Whom TV Hath Joined
Sir:
I was very disappointed in the views expressed in your Aug. 19 article on TV's Bride and Groom show. In my opinion, it is a most memorable day for each couple, and I am happy to be at their weddings through the medium of TV.
MRS. ROBERT CORNISH
Lexington, Ky.
Sir:
Your article convinces me that my own original idea for a TV funeral show can garner a large and enthusiastic audience. Awards to the dying participants will include a solid silver casket, a tasteful marble tombstone and the privilege of being tootled into heaven by the NBC staff orchestra playing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. After all, if the profanation of the sacrament of marriage can enrapture 3,000,000 housewives, my show ought to knock 'em dead.
ELISABETH R. LEWIS
Hollywood
Fuss & Fethardism
Sir:
Your Aug. 19 story of Catholics boycotting Protestants at Fethard was very fine. However, I think it should have been emphasized that the boycott was started and supported by the local Catholic clergy. The majority of Irish people, no matter what their religious affiliation might be, was shocked and disgusted by the sordid affair. Most people in the country supported Premier de Valera in his condemnation of the boycott.
VINCENT BEIRNE
Dublin
Sir:
The ceaseless religious strife in Ireland calls to mind this bit of Irish wisdom: "The finest Protestants in the world are to be found in Northern Ireland; the finest Catholics in the world are to be found in Southern Ireland. Rottenest lot of Christians to be found anywhere."
R. L. ROESSLER Philadelphia
Translating the New Testament
Sir:
Reader Owens' comment [Aug. 19] on the Holy Family mounted on a motorcycle for the Flight into Egypt reminds me of an illustration made by a youngster in Sunday school. His picture showed an airplane with four figures in it; he explained that the man was Joseph, the woman was Mary and the child was Jesus. The fourth figure? That, of course, was Pontius, the Pilot.
LUCILE N. STEVENSON
Streator, Ill.
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