The Birds

Sir: Your story on Bauer and Baltimore [Sept. 11] was especially well written and highly interesting. However, instead of saying "Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game," you should have given him credit for playing the best--the "Big-League Manager Baseball Game" of Duluth, Minn.

KEITH T. HENRICKSEN Publisher All Sports Digest Duluth

Sir: In 1958, Hank Bauer's middle name should have been "Hustle." Maybe he wasn't a DiMaggio, but he could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since I'm still a Yankee fan, I can't and won't. He never relied on it before; he won't now.

HALTON MANN Andover, Mass.

Sir: Why not the Phillies' Gene Mauch on TIME'S cover? You're a bunch of New York fish-cake finks!

EDYTHE HURFORD Roslyn, Pa.

Sir: Wouldn't you know--I just recently let my subscription to TIME expire and you publish this wonderful article on Hank Bauer. Being an avid Oriole fan, a native Baltimorean, and knowing that Mr. Marsh Clark is an alumnus of St. James School made this article even more interesting to me. You can be sure that I shall renew my subscription immediately.

HELEN O. LOUDEN Baltimore

Democrats' Choice

Sir: President Lyndon Johnson was wise in his selection of the Minnesotan for the vice-presidential spot [Sept. 4]; he put the awesome responsibility in the hands of a man who sees the problems of this age not as group against group, race against race, section against section, but rather, and more correctly, as stability v. extremism.

ROZELL LEAVELL Los Angeles

Sir: All I can say is that Humphrey must be a really good man to get the vice-presidential nomination. It's a relief, in a way, to be able to appraise a man for his worth, not his wealth.

MARCELLA M. HENRY Clifton, N.J.

Sir: Past and passe do-goodies such as Eleanor, Chester and Soapy pale before the chubby-cheeked dynamo that is Horatio. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen must be taught in no uncertain terms that this Fabian gab-bag, one uncertain heartbeat from the White House, is the farthest out since F.D.R. tabbed Henry Wallace.

ROBERT GARY BYERLY Long Beach, Calif.

Sir: Certain programs of the Democratic Administration are those that not only allow but encourage social irresponsibility. The major programs of this sort are the war on poverty, medicare, and the beefing up of the Social Security plan. These new tacks on old New Deal programs can all be lumped under one heading: "Fresh meat for trie ravening wolves of society." For heaven's sake, let me and the people of the U.S. stand on our own two feet.

MARTIN J. COTE Pontiac, Mich.

Sir: The Democrats have argued that Goldwater might cause war and have placed peace as their prime objective. I agree that war is a terrible thing, but should we place peace above freedom?

ROBERT STALEY Ironton, Ohio

Sir: Various Democratic officials at the convention repeatedly stressed the great necessity of keeping control of the awesome American nuclear arsenal in the hands of the President. With this proposition I fully agree, unless, of course, the "temporary Republican spokesman" is elected President, in which case I would feel much safer with the control of our nuclear weapons in the hands of our military field commanders.

JOHN RICHARD STIPKALA Cleveland

The Other Choice

Sir: In Goldwater's "reasonable" speech [Sept. 11], he condemns Johnson's Administration for allowing violence in the streets. He goes on to say that "they" are restrained only by the plea to wait until after the election to ignite violence again. It would be the height of naivete not to realize that he is referring to Negroes, and if this isn't appealing to the white backlash, I'll eat my last issue of TIME.

(MRS.) JOYCE ZANKMAN Havertown, Pa.

Sir: I wonder how States'-Righter Barry Goldwater would curb the lawlessness and civil disobedience in cities that are supposed to be locally administered.

JANET L. SCHMIEDING Hazelwood, Mo.

Sir: The press keeps saying that the only way Senator Goldwater can win is through the backlash issue. Well, I'm voting for him because he's honest.

JOHN J. BAKER Philadelphia

Sir: It should not surprise the American public that Barry Goldwater is for God, Mother and country, and against sick jokes, off-color drama and pornography. The pity is that he does not realize that he himself is the author of the sickest joke of the year--asking us to make William Miller Vice President.

JAMES A. WILDE Princeton, N.J.

Sir: Senator Goldwater is a direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644), and Goldwater wrote The Conscience of a Conservative (1960). Williams led the fight against religious regimentation in his day, just as Goldwater leads the struggle against government regimentation in our times. Both were special friends to the American Indians and to their fellow citizens outside powerful pressure groups.

PEGGY MORRIS Glendale, Calif.

Who's Supporting Who

Sir: You referred to the political survey we conducted for the National Broadcasting Co., saying that President Johnson is favored by "86% of the Negroes, 97% of the Jews." This should read "86% of the Jews, 97% of the Negroes."

BURNS W. ROPER Elmo Roper & Associates New York City

Who's Not Supporting Who

Sir: TIME overstated the Wisconsin State Journal's Republican sturdiness in saying that in more than 100 years it had "never supported a Democratic President" [Aug. 28]. Starting with John C. Fremont in 1856, the State Journal has endorsed an impressive list of Republican presidential candidates, but in 1912 and again in 1916 it supported Democrat Woodrow Wilson. At this date, the State Journal has made no formal endorsement for the 1964 election, but last June 22 it said that it "cannot support Senator Barry Goldwater for the presidency."

WILLIAM C. ROBBINS Editorial Page Editor Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wis.

Philadelphia Riot

Sir: The Philadelphia riot [Sept. 4] was not a "race riot" but simply an infinitesimal part of our Negro community--the rowdy, lawless, hoodlum element--taking advantage of an excuse. There was no issue of black v. white. The Negro community rallied to the support of the mayor and the law-enforcement agencies. Residents opened their homes to police; women prepared free doughnuts and coffee for the weary officers on riot duty; area residents sent telegrams of support to the mayor and an offer to help in cleaning up; a clearinghouse was set up in an area church for people to return taken items. The Negro press condemned the outrage and congratulated the police for their restraint and wisdom.

DELORIS E. GASKINS Philadelphia

The Encyclical

Sir: Pope Paul's first encyclical has been awaited with eager and hopeful expectancy, not only by Roman Catholics but by millions of non-Catholics who have rejoiced at the manifest liberation and revivification of worldwide Roman Catholicism during the "Johannine era." It would serve no useful purpose to mute the fact that the document, released at long last, stirs non-Catholics with dismay and, doubtlessly, "progressive" Catholics with deep if unuttered disappointment. One searches vainly for a single fresh, forward-looking declaration. Even the Pope's offer "to intervene" in the disputes between contending peoples is hardly novel; some of the darkest pages of Western history are stained with papal interventions. Your diagnosis of the encyclical [Aug. 21] was brilliantly acute and accurate--a series of ambivalences dominated by the word "but." But in each ambivalence, the final and decisive alternative is negative, cautious, conservative, in the literal sense reactionary, and above all authoritarian.

HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Union Theological Seminary New York City

Index at Clarke

Sir: As the ever amazed husband of a "Clarke girl," I want to congratulate TIME for pointing out the outstanding training granted to students at Clarke College [Sept. 4]. It was a fine article describing a fine school.

JOHN R. REILLY Commissioner

Federal Trade Commission Washington, D.C.

Sir: Your story attractively reflected the intellectual, cultural, spiritual and social climate of our community of scholars at Clarke College. To clarify one point: our faculty does not ignore the Index or Canon 1399 (which condemns en bloc certain classes of books). The Archbishop of Dubuque respects the intellectual acumen and the prudence of our faculty in judging the competence of certain students to read restricted books. In upper-division courses, our more mature students read and freely discuss specific reserved works of Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Sartre--but only after written permission has been secured from the Chancery Office.

SISTER MARY ANNE, B.V.M. Chairman, Philosophy Department Clarke College Dubuque, Iowa

Puzzling Guzzler

Sir: Knowing that Albert Einstein could not figure out those "scraggly toy birds that dip in and out of a bowl of water in perpetual motion" [Sept. 4] won't make us average intellects feel any better unless we ourselves know the causative factors involved. So come on, spread a little sunshine by letting us in on the secret.

JAMES M. SMITH New York City

>> Had Einstein stripped the guzzling bird of its plumage, the answer might have been clear. The bird's bottom is actually a sealed bulb containing ethyl ether (or a similar volatile liquid); the bird's head is a smaller bulb, with a tube connecting head to tail. To start the bird dunking, it is only necessary to wet the head of the bird in its upright position. The cooling action, caused by the water's evaporating, condenses the vapor within the head, creating a slight vacuum. The ethyl ether liquid then pushes up through the tube and into the head, causing the bird to duck downward. When the tube in the tail bulb rises clear of the liquid, the vacuum is broken, and the liquid in the head flows back into the tail, thus righting the bird.--ED.

Hi-Ho!

Sir: Bringing back The Lone Ranger and all the rest [Sept. 4] is a fine idea. But who's the guy who always played the good-bad sheriff on The Lone Ranger? You know, the one who always said: "Now here's my plan . . ."

KEN DUGGAN New York City

>> Rollon Parker played the sheriff, as well as the "Old-Timer," who used to say, "Who was that masked man?"--ED.

Doggie Bags

Sir: Having had occasion to take my meals in U.S. restaurants, my entire sympathy is on the side of the dogs [Sept. 4].

FETTER C. OMTVEDT Oslo, Norway

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