The Tarheel State

Sir:

Like other enthusiastic Tarheels, I was greatly pleased with your May 4 article recognizing North Carolina's leadership in the South. It was a good story. We are sorry that the name of the Methodist College at Fayetteville did not also march in the front rank, along with Wake Forest College.

FRANK JETER JR. Executive Director Fayetteville College Foundation Fayetteville, N.C.

Sir:

As an ex-resident of Greensboro, N.C., whose genuine affection for that splendid city and its residents will never wane, I resent your omitting the city from the Tarheel State map. Greensboro is one of America's great, growing cities.

E. J. TOWEY Jacksonville, Fla.

P:See cut.--ED.

Wayne Morse v. Clare Luce

Sir:

In consideration of the many instances of undeniable incompetence in our nation's diplomatic relations with other countries, it cannot be of slight concern to responsible Americans that a remarkable Senator has provoked a proven diplomat to withdraw, after Senate confirmation, from her new assignment [May 11]. Nothing Wayne Morse has said vindicates his fierce opposition; and yet he has succeeded in depriving us of an opportunity for better, more informed communication with Latin America. Wayne Morse now seems to take on the colors of a latter-day disciple of McCarthyism.

JOSEPH V. LUTOMSKI JR. New York City

Sir:

In spite of the knowledge that ends do not justify means and that Senator Morse's campaign left much to be desired, I cannot help but be pleased with the result--the resignation of Mrs. Luce. I have never forgotten her "G.I. Jim" speech.

RAYMOND L. LUCAS Norwich, Conn.

Sir:

Having been stationed at the American Embassy as a member of the Marine Security Guard during Mrs. Luce's tenure as Ambassador to Italy, I was appalled at the comments offered by Senator Morse concerning her nomination as Ambassador to Brazil.

Mrs. Luce did not do a 100% perfect job in Italy (nor has any other ambassador), but surely if all her errors were added up, they could not possibly outweigh her part in settling the Trieste question. Can you imagine Senator Morse having a prominent part in such delicate diplomacy?

S/SGT. WALTER RITTEREISER U.S. Marine Corps Jamaica, N.Y.

Sir:

It's no wonder that it is becoming more and more difficult to get capable people to work for the Government of this country, when a gracious lady who was doing a good job can be insulted by a smart aleck from Oregon.

STACY B. RANKIN Yellow Springs, Ohio

Sir:

Wayne Morse, forgetting or ignoring his ethics as a lawyer, attempted to induce a member of the medical profession to breach his professional duties by asking him to disclose whether Mrs. Luce had ever had psychiatric treatment.

FRED E. PETTIT JR. Los Angeles

Sir:

Mr. Morse is undoubtedly the most thoroughly disliked public figure in Oregon. The results of the next election should put a slight dent in his egotistical armor.

MARY H. DAY McMinnville, Ore.

Sir:

As a native Oregonian speaking for Oregon residents, may I say that we are distressed at the despicable action of our Senior Senator Wayne Morse, concerning Clare Boothe Luce? He has frequently embarrassed us in the past by his unpredictable, often ruthless actions, but never on so great a national scale.

(MRS.) SHARON L. LEHMAN Dayton, Ore.

Sir:

Mrs. Luce's husband may be correct that TIME is the real target of the Senator's anger. But I, for one, am gratified that at long last the arrogance and almost insufferable smugness of the world's technically best magazine has received the notice it deserves.

HERBERT O. ALBRECHT Springfield, Pa.

The Space Explorer

Sir:

After reading your May 4 cover story on Dr. James Van Allen, I have applied for admission to the State University of Iowa. I don't see how Van Allen can miss the Nobel Prize for 1959.

ROBERT V. FRAMPTON

Austin, Texas

Sir:

I read your article with considerable interest, of course, and wish to thank you for your most sympathetic and generous treatment. With only one section do I have any significant disagreement--the section remarking on the Soviet's failure to find the trapped radiation. To my best knowledge, our work with Explorers I and III did indeed provide the basic discovery; and I gave the first public report at the joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences on May 1, 1958. Two weeks later Sputnik III was successfully fired, and it provided substantial confirmation and extension of our earlier results. The U.S. and Soviet contributions to knowledge of the great radiation region have been nip and tuck throughout the past 15 months. I wish to extend my sincere congratulations to the Soviet IGY workers in this field.

J. A. VAN ALLEN

State University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

Mississippi Lynching

Sir:

It is with horror that I read your May 4 report of the abduction of the young Negro, Mack Parker, from his jail cell in Poplarville, and feel that I must, somewhere, put on record the utter revulsion of this white woman that such a thing could happen in a so-called "civilized" country. I would be ashamed to be a citizen of the Southern States.

PATRICIA NESBITT London

Sir:

Cowards, cowards, cowards!

EUGENE M. KELLEY

Dunmore, Pa.

Sir:

Can we afford any longer to criticize Iraq, Cuba or Russia? Does our concern for human rights end where the Mason-Dixon line begins ?

MRS. SAMUEL AVANT

Charleston, S.C.

Proper Authority

Sir:

In a May 11 article you say that S. 144 ''would transfer power to approve or reject REA loans from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson to power-hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association."

This statement is patently false. Under S. 144, loan-making authority would have been restored to the REA administrator. The present administrator is David Hamil, an Eisenhower appointee.

Your story completely ignores the issue with which S. 144 was concerned. The REA administrator is appointed by the President for a ten-year term, and is confirmed by the Senate. His job is to make loans for rural electrification facilities. In 1957, Secretary Benson ordered a political appointee in the Department of Agriculture--who has no term of office and is not confirmed by the Senate--to review loan applications before the loans were made by the administrator. We do not believe this is a principle of good administration or good government.

RICHARD A. DELL

Director

Legislation and Research Department National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Washington, D.C.

P:TIME erred. Clyde Ellis, onetime Democratic Congressman from Arkansas, is director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a lobbying organization for "low-cost electric power for rural America."--ED.

Faith & Fervor

Sir:

Re your article on making Jews Christians [May 4]: while it has not been the custom for Jews to proselytize their faith, there are moments when I, as a Jew, am urged to shout to the non-Jews: "Come on to our side of the fence; we can offer you an enriching way of life, structure for a stable home, security in the age of anxiety and, above all, belief in the one God."

JUDAH LANDES Palo Alto, Calif.

Sir:

Evidently the well-informed Mr. Niebuhr has overlooked the words of the Lord of Christianity himself in St. John's fifth chapter, "He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father which hath sent him." Perhaps our deep-thinking theologian thinks Christ a bit presumptuous when he said ". . . no man cometh unto the Father, but by me [John 14:6]."

FRED ILLICK Balboa, C.Z.

Sir:

In matters pertaining to their religious beliefs, even noble men might err in the violence of their sincerity.

I know of a certainty that a segment of Christianity will continue to inflict its fears and prides upon man.

JOHN P. JOHNSON Bradley, 111.

Sir:

I heartily agree with Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Jews may find God more readily in their own faith than in Christianity.

(THE REV.) HARRY TAYLOR (Ret.) Portland, Ore.

Target Practice

Sir:

It is frightening to a serious artist to read in your May 4 issue about such an artist as Jasper Johns. If the director of the Museum of Modern Art has become the tastemaster in art, art has reached the depths. As for the picture shown, I am sure the layers of old newspapers pasted to a canvas made it much more desirable.

ANNE S. RITCHIE Atlanta

Sir:

I loved your slings and arrows aimed at Jasper Johns's Target.

MARY T. SMITH

Crowley, La.

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