Integration (Contd.)
Sir:
Your article on Virginia's Governor Almond [Sept. 22] and the nation's oldest and most powerful political machine was excellent. As Horace ("Hunk") Henderson, young Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, put it, Virginia's government too long has been "of the Byrds, by the Byrds, and for the Byrds."
H. B. CLAY Ashland, Va.
Sir:
Go ahead, Governors Faubus and Almond --close the schools. Make your stupid Southerners stupider.
RICHARD M. ALPHER Washington, B.C.
Sir:
The fearful thing about closed schools in Little Rock is that the children may grow up to be as dumb as the Governor.
CLEON FLECK
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Sir:
Governor Faubus is supported by the people of Arkansas, and you gain nothing by calling him a liar, a crook, or by making it appear that he has stirred up this trouble. He has not. He is carrying out the mandate of the majority of the citizens of his state.
CLAUDE B. GARNETT Arvada, Colo.
Sir:
The fact that many Negroes are mulatto clearly indicates that integration is well established in Dixie.
C. ARTHUR LAME San Francisco
Sir:
I wonder if anybody has thought about integration's most pathetic victims--the Negro children themselves. Does the N.A.A.C.P. consider a whole generation of Negro children psychologically and emotionally expendable ?
CHAPMAN J. MILLING, M.D. Columbia, S.C.
Sir:
Can it again be true that "a little child shall lead them"? A rousing cheer to Christian Angie Evans, who had the courage to speak up at the anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide of those who clamor to keep segregation. You said that we lack "moral leadership." I heartily agree. Where are those who are ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices can be heard without the leadership of men who are not afraid to be ostracized because the notion is "unpopular"? Even the ministers in the churches avoid the issue in the pulpits. Who, then, have we to look to?
MRS. MARGARET KASER Beaumont, Texas
Sir:
In contrast to Almond, Evans is beautiful! Here is a young lady who has heard the command "Love one another."
(THE REV.) ARTHUR BAUER
Philadelphia
Sir:
I used to place Virginia way above its Southern sisters, next to Vermont and Wisconsin in godliness, but now I can't help but cram it down into the bottom of the barrel along with Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. But, maybe ole Virginny just ain't what she use to be.
DAVID BRATTEN Winston-Salem, N.C.
No, Virginia . . .
Sir:
Re your story [Sept. 15] on Quiz Contestant Herbert Stempel's accusations and Producer Dan Enright's defense of Twenty One: what really cooks me is the sort of slob who would squeal on Santa after taking a bagful of presents.
MRS. WILLIAM I. TAYLOR Lansing, Mich.
The Stand at Quemoy
Sir:
Ike's radio speech to the nation was right, just and firm. Even an inch of concession to Communists makes their Red gun point closer to us.
CHUNG Do IHM
Seoul, Korea
Sir:
Regarding the President's speech:
"Have saber, will rattle."
JOHN ROBERT BEHRMAN Houston
Sir:
Dulles implied in a press interview that foreign policy is often too subtle for the public to understand. For once I agree with him. His Formosa policy is not only subtle, but insane and unrealistic.
DOROTHY ANN PATRICK Rochester, Minn.
Brown v. Knowland
Sir:
As a former staff member of Pat Brown's, I want to assure you that your profile of the next Governor of California (TIME, Sept. 15) is vicious. Pat Brown has been a great Attorney General of California, and he will make a great governor.
JULIUS FRIEDMAN Walnut Creek, Calif.
Sir:
William Knowland should get ready for his next post, that of Ambassador to the glorious Formosan Republic, where the fact that he is 50 years behind his times matters not, for the government he'll be accredited to is 100 years behind.
T. C. LENGYEL Los Angeles
Sir:
Your picturization of Edmund ("Pat") Brown as an indecisive, insecure character "who just wants to be liked" is a tragic one for California. Behind every puppet in high office, there lurks a powerful force ready to fill the vacuum. One doesn't need binoculars to see the strong arm of Walter Reuther's political machine eagerly waiting to pull the strings.
MRS. JOAN KING Burbank, Calif.
Sir:
Your article about Pat Brown had the unruffled objectivity of a dowager forced to acknowledge a distasteful and uncouth poor relation.
ROYAL STANTON Long Beach, Calif.
Sir:
Summing up, it would seem that California voters must choose between a candidate who tries to be liked and one who tries to be disliked. May they both succeed.
JOHN E. WALASKI Temple City, Calif.
Missing: Minsky
Sir:
Your sneering reference to the Miss America contest [Sept. 15] did establish one fact. Miss Mississippi and the rest of the girls certainly are a contrast in wholesomeness compared to judges Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Cerf and Mr. and Mrs. Moss Hart.
THOMAS W. AVENT
Oxford, Miss.
Sir:
Since when is Bennett Cerf an authority on the subject of virginity, and what business is it of his?
A. KENNEDY Los Angeles
Sir:
What lovely judges. Where was Minsky?
HOWARD SMITH Anaheim, Calif.
Sir:
Oh, Bennett and Kitty, I love you.
VIDGE HITCHENS
Aurora, Colo.
Optimist
Sir:
Referring to my becoming a U.S. citizen [TIME, Sept. 1], I wish to assure you that I never said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country [Czechoslovakia] will ever be liberated."
I said: "I am becoming an American citizen because, due to the inefficient policy of containment of Communism, my country may not be liberated during my lifetime."
Coming from an optimistic family, I also explained that my faith in democracy forces me to assume that Communism will inevitably be defeated -- when democracy becomes dynamic, spiritual and less materialistic.
Bonus BENES Orinda, Calif.
'Ell's Mangels
Sir:
Having seen the British film "Dunkirk," I was surprised to see your criticism in TIME, Sept. 15. Was the attempt at cockney a protest at the British daring to make a war film without Errol Flynn's wiping out Panzer Divisions as he sang "God Bless America"?
P. A. RYAN
London
Sir:
War can be 'ell, but so can some reviews. 'Oo are you trying to impress?
JUDITH CARRIER Mishawaka, Ind.
Sauna & Fury
Sir:
The Sept. 22 issue of your magazine comments on a recent opinion written by me in a majority decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving nudists. Accompanying your comments was a seminude photograph of me taken while bathing in a Finnish sauna. This photograph was but one of several hundred of a wide variety of pictures taken over a three-day period early last spring by a photographer for LIFE magazine, in connection with a photo-illustrated review depicting typical scenes in my native Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the setting of my then recently published novel Anatomy of a Murder.
By omission and by your sly use of picture and text, you have adroitly created the totally false impression
that I posed gladly for you for this picture, and that I did so just recently with the knowledge that it was to be used along with your comments on my opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly defending myself.
JOHN VOELKER
Ishpeming, Mich. P: TIME'S story stressed Justice Voelker's witty, broadminded defense of constitutional safeguards, illustrated it with a picture in which Novelist Voelker stripped himself for a LIFE photographer to help promote his readable, highly sexed Anatomy of a Murder. Let Reader Voelker ponder the rewards and hazards of leading a successful double life. -- ED.
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