The Next President
Sir:
The next U.S. President, be he Republican or Democrat, faces the most important challenge of our time. Many countries are groping for the means to alleviate humanity's miseries and make man's life better. The West must help if it is to win the economic war that the Soviets have launched upon the free world.
ANTHONY GEMAYEL, Beirut
Sir:
Not only has Vice President Nixon shown his ample abilities through the Eisenhower Administration, including the "kitchen debate" in Moscow, but also through the fourth TV debate on the foreign policies that would decide the ways, successful or fallible, of the U.S. internationally in the days ahead.
KIWON KANG
Atlanta
Sir:
Win or lose, let's give Senator Kennedy credit for arousing the Republican Party. Had they been as busy for the past 7 years as they have been since the convention, our President wouldn't be out campaigning for this highly experienced, more mature, widely traveled Vice President who in all of his good-will travels hasn't created a lasting friend for our country or frightened any of its enemies.
M. UNDERWOOD Youngstown, Ohio '
Sir:
I am curious to know how Kennedy plans to make America "first class" again. Thanks to his constant haranguing, and an efficient world press, other nations are becoming convinced that we are far down the list. It will take a great deal of undoing.
ARTHUR FAIRMAN London
Sir:
I voted for Eisenhower twice, but am voting for Kennedy. Our need, and that of the free world, is for men who are naturally and professionally capable leaders, leaders who are dynamic, recognize that we are in a new age, and analyze and act on all of our problems--domestic and foreign.
JAMES W. OWENS Beloit, Wis.
One-Mcm Exhibition
Sir:
I would like to express to you my pleasure in the recent article in TIME on my current one-man exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. The information given to your writer and researcher has been sensitively handled and you have my thanks and congratulations. In the four-hour period one Sunday, almost three thousand people attended the exhibition, and I am told that this equals the attendance at Lenin's tomb in Moscow.
YOUSUF KARSH Ottawa
The Land of Nod
Sir:
"I dreamed I went swimming in my Maidenform bra." A tip of the hat to Ida Rosenthal . . . It's about time!
MRS. P. FITZGERALD Toronto
Sir:
This ad suggests that since the '80s copy-dreamers working on Mrs. Rosenthal's line of drygoods really haven't changed their sights much.
JOHN F. PHOENIX Davenport, Iowa
Neutralism Revisited
Sir:
Your article on neutralism certainly did present a "new look," and one that suggests that the editor badly needs glasses.
Norway and Thailand have been members of NATO and SEATO respectively from the very beginning of these two organizations.
K. BECKER RASMUSSEN
Karachi, Pakistan
P: Thailand is a "full and equal partner" in SEATO. Norway is a NATO partner, but has always refused to allow foreign forces and military equipment, including missile-launchers and atomic weapons, on its territory.--ED.
Sir:
Tito is not "independent." U.S. aid is not weaning Tito from Communism but helping him to consolidate his brand of political, economic and religious oppression. The basic philosophy of Communism--whether Tito's, Mao's or Khrushchev's--is identical: the annihilation of human rights. NORMAN J. RUSTIGIAN Providence
The Meaning of Dambala
Sir:
You try to throw ridicule on me and my people. In the article [about Anthropologist Paul Barker's dealings with Haitians while digging for evidence of the civilization Columbus described--Oct. 10, you and Professor Paul Barker depicted my people as the worst uncivilized savages. And that [the god] Dambala removes strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. This is not true. Instead, Professor Barker's job in Haiti was not especially tough.
Dambala means love, truth and justice. We, the Negro race, are able to show the way to peace to our brother, the white race. Don't play with us fellows. The black race is ready to show the only way to peace.
LECBA ELIEZER CADET Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Sir:
M. Cadet is right. His people are most gentle. Their manners are superior to mine. And their morals are no worse. Only good has ever come to me from M. Cadet or his people or from the Voodoo God Dambala.
I rectify any implication that Dambala is vindictive. I have never denounced voodoo, nor do I intend to. I consider it one of the twelve great religions, and I consider M. Cadet the greatest voodoo priest in Haiti. (THE REV.) PAUL BARKER Professor of Anthropology Gorham State Teachers College Gorham, Me.
Kerr's Colossus
Sir:
Congratulations on your Clark Kerr cover and story. While a mere student at Cal, I had the good fortune of meeting him. I can only say that he seemed to epitomize all that is democratic and humanistic in the American public educational tradition.
PATRICK B. VINCENT Christchurch, New Zealand
Sir:
While studying at Berkeley (architecture), I was--on many occasions--much closer than 50 feet to those "great men." One had me, all morning long, drawing horizontal lines on a large piece of white paper. Another watched me while I sawed pine blocks. Take- it-or-leave-it education ? They can have it! ALLAN HUPER Houston
Sir:
Was TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities?
B. R. JORGE
New York City
Sir:
TIME quotes Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, as saying: "You use it like a plumber uses a wrench." Kerr talks good, like a college head should.
LEONARD LEE Los Angeles
P:I And like poets (Keats: "It is astonishing how they raven down scenery like children do sweetmeats"), playwrights (Shakespeare's Juliet: "No man like he doth grieve my heart") and grammarians (Bergen and Cornelia Evans: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage) should, too. -Ed.
Sir:
I resent your reference to the University of California campus at Davis as a "cow college." You have to have all your marbles to be an Aggie.
EDNA AUBEL San Francisco
No Newcomer
Sir:
In your Oct. 3 issue, New Zealand is described incorrectly as a "newcomer to the foreign aid game."
New Zealand was, with other Commonwealth countries, a founder member of the Colombo Plan in 1950, and since that time we have contributed under the Colombo Plan about $30 million to economic development projects in South and Southeast Asia. New Zealand also has a record of substantial support for the assistance programs of the United Nations, including UNRRA, UNICEF, Palestinian and other refugees, the United Nations Technical Assistance Program, Korean Relief and Rehabilitation, as well as the many aid activities of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. Recently, we pledged support for technical assistance for Africa.
G. D. L. WHITE Charge d'Affaires New Zealand Embassy Washington, D.C.
The Value of Inexperience
Sir:
Midwifery is the world's second oldest profession--you say in your Oct. 17 issue.
I protest your downgrading of diplomacy, which since time immemorial has been outranked only by prostitution, the world's oldest profession. This intimate relationship is because they are the only two professions in which experience doesn't count. ROBERT W. RINDEN Washington, D.C.
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