The Goldwaterites

Sir: The Eastern fat-cat kingmakers are dead. Long live the Tiger from the West.

JOHN DAVIDSON

Boston

Sir: From their heavenly abode, three great American Republican personages, General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Robert A. Taft and Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, who felt the sting of political crucification by so-called moderate extremists, must have had a hand in the Miracle of San Francisco.

E. B. SCHEETZ

Hatboro, Pa.

Sir: The Republican Party has just elected the first all-American presidential candidate of this century and not the usual lily-livered appeaser we have come to associate with American leadership. The victory is, however, not only that of Goldwater and of the Republican Party but also that of all true anti-Communists in all the corners of the globe.

B.D.H. VAN NlEKERK

Middelburg, South Africa

Sir: The way in which you have so cleverly presented Barry Goldwater in the poorest possible light leads me to the conclusion that the John Birch Society, of which I am not a member, may have something after all.

EDWARD G. KORAN

Phoenix, Ariz.

Sir: As one of those who limits the wearing of tennis shoes to tennis courts, I thank you for restoring an aura of respectability to our cause.

ROBERT J. PINKERTON

Bloomington, Ill.

Sir: Why all this flap over Goldwater's pronouncement on extremism? With Goldwater as President, the Southern states can use a few of their rights at long last, and with a few extreme measures get those agitators (the live ones, that is) out and get their society back in order. I'm for a man who lets the people take care of their own problems in their own way.

BUD CORCORAN

Reily, Ohio

Sir: The liberalistic extremists and patsies who have so unintelligently criticized Mr. Goldwater's magnificent classical statement in his acceptance speech would do well to heed Dante's Inferno: "A special place in Hell is reserved for those who in the face of a great moral dilemma maintain neutrality."

C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D.

Cleveland

The Barryphobes

Sir: I am totally convinced that Barry Goldwater is sincere, intelligent, articulate, industrious, honest, courageous, religious, and dangerous.

WILLIAM F. KUNERTH

Ames, Iowa

Sir: Goldwater dwelt at length on city street crimes in his speech. Surely this is a local problem flatly contradicting his own basic policy: decentralization of Federal Government.

SUSAN WILSON

Durham, N.C.

Sir: Have you seen this?

>Thackeray's antihero, christened Redmond Barry, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, traitor, spy, gambler, spendthrift and all-round cad. He hounded the rich Lady Honoria Lyndon into marriage, taking her name as well as her fortune. The luck of Barry Lyndon finally ran out in a London prison, where he died of delirium tremens.--ED.

Sir: The radioactive fallout of fear, intolerance and ignorance at San Francisco has produced a political mutation that, like the proverbial mule, has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

JACK ELLIOTT

Bound Brook, N.J.

Sir: We Germans have learned, very much to our regret, the inevitable outcome of leaders with big sticks. Are Americans prepared to pay the same tuition?

PAUL HANS BAMBERG, M.D.

Berlin

Sir: I see that Senator Goldwater has called Johnson "the biggest faker in the U.S." How can Goldwater draw such a superlative evaluation without, for example, knowing me?

RUDY BARCHAS

Tucson, Ariz.

Faulkner & the South

Sir: My compliments on your thorough, incisive cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] and his works. As co-editor of a recent book on Faulkner (Bear, Man, and God: Seven Approaches to William Faulkner's "The Bear," I am familiar with most of the extant Faulkner commentary, and have found yours among the most penetrating.

(MRS.) LYNN Z. BLOOM

Western Reserve University

Cleveland

Sir: As a Southerner I have never even once heard anyone reflect a "feeling of guilt" about slavery. Southerners feel no more guilty about having owned slaves than New Englanders who corralled the slaves in Africa and sold them in America.

MRS. J. F. MESSICK

Atlanta

Sir: Racial guilt phobia is the silliest concept since original sin. Southerners abuse Negroes because we all have to have someone to look down on, and for a redneck with no hound-dog, that ain't easy.

P. S. BARROWS

Del Mar, Calif.

Riots in Harlem

Sir: Every freedom-loving Negro, just as myself, must have some feeling of shame and indignation about the actions of roving gangs and mobs of Harlem's Negroes who, in the name of civil rights, loot and terrorize New York City and its law-enforcement officers [July 24]. It is hardly believable that some of the city's civil rights leaders are trying to pin the tag of blame on the city's police department. What is one supposed to do when one is confronted by mobs of bloodthirsty hoodlums?

(A/2C) JAMES HUTCHINSON

U.S.A.F.

March A.F.B., Calif.

Sir: I have lived in Mississippi all my life, and, naturally, I possess likes and dislikes concerning my controversial state. But I have recently added one more "like" to my list: I am glad that there are no subways in Mississippi (disregarding the fact that the state cannot afford them).

MARCUS ASHLEY

McComb, Miss.

Sir: I wonder if the folks in Harlem can refrain from looting, from throwing bricks, Molotov cocktails, empty pop bottles and rocks long enough to denounce Barry Goldwater again because of his stand on "extremism" and civil rights.

ROBERT BRUSCATO

Chicago

St. Louis' Revival

Sir: The article on St. Louis [July 17] was well done in that it presented evidence that our older cities can make a comeback despite the problems to which they are prone. As president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors I am especially appreciative of the continued efforts of TIME to point out the need to meet the challenge of the growth of our urban areas.

RAYMOND R. TUCKER

Mayor

St. Louis

The Commonwealth

Sir: I am delighted with your July 10th issue, which so beautifully portrays a number of historic homes on the James River.

This nation was cradled in Virginia, and we have the feeling that every citizen of this country should visit Virginia. We believe it impossible for anyone to be so exposed and not return home a better citizen and more conscious of his heritage.

A. S. HARRISON JR.

Governor

Richmond

Pamela Takes Exception

Sir: I should not have been in the Press section [July 17] since by so doing, you missed some of the most interesting things about me. I was the first person in the world to wear a topless suit on radio. Groucho's quote that I talk mostly about sex is untrue. In that department, I strictly believe actions speak louder than words.

PAMELA MASON

Pamela Enterprises Inc.

Beverly Hills

Corruption in Thailand

Sir: It is a very sad and disgusting story of the late Premier Sarit Thanarat of Thailand, who siphoned a mountainous amount of money from government funds into his pocket [July 17]. Unfortunately, there has been corruption in our government for decades, and the great robbers have been the Premiers themselves. I want to thank TIME for making such escapades available to public judgment.

KAMTHORN SUKUMARABANDHU

Stockton, Calif.

Presidential Poesy

Sir:

"Destroy these letters!" Harding wrote. The lady smiled, and saved each note. Each precious bloom! O Love divine, To spare these garlands for mankind!

Those scholars who in history roam Between Taft's term and Teapot Dome, May peer at every bud that blows In beds of presidential prose.

WILLIAM J. TAYLOR

Rudyard, Mich.

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