Tepee Fever

Sir: That was a masterful Essay on the lack of servants [July 9], but you failed to mention what happens to money that might be spent on them. The money goes to doctors who treat housewife's syndrome (monster fatigues and creeping paralysis of the mind), psychiatrists who treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass.

(MRS.) THEO K. McWILLIAMS

Corona Del Mar, Calif.

Sir: Too many college-trained women who once were concerned with the arguments of Hegel and Kant now occupy their thoughts by analyzing the qualities of a new cleaning product or recipe.

(MRS.) JUDITH A. WILLIAMS

Charleston, S.C.

Sir: About your comment that "the secretary is the only good--and socially acceptable--servant left in America": workers we are, workhorses we may even be, but servants--never.

JOAN K. GILBERT

Anderson, Ind.

Sir: You described my situation as a North Shore suburbanite so accurately that I was wondering how you happened to interview me without my knowing it.

(MRS.) ROSLYN S. SCHWARTZ

Highland Park, Ill.

The Best Resorts

Sir: Botticelli would be most pleased with your cover [July 2]; Michael Anderson just floats beautifully across the scene.

WILLIAM G. CONWAY

Orange, Conn.

Sir: How could anyone write on resorts in the U.S. and not mention that heaven called Hawaii? The fantastic beauty of the deep blue-green sea and rugged lava mountains drowned in golden sun! The languid, relaxing atmosphere! The feeling of being far away in a foreign land, yet knowing that this is really another facet of that jewel, the U.S.!

(MRS.) ELEANOR L. DRESSER

Great Barrington, Mass.

>TIME has been to that heaven (four pages color, Feb. 18, 1952; eight pages color, Aug. 10, 1959) and hopes to go again.

Sir: Your story did not contain even a scintilla on North Carolina's historic and famed Outer Banks, to wit, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers), Roanoke Island (site of the first English colonization), and Ocracoke (last of the Eastern frontiers). This enchanting area is not reserved for the affluent society, but is a haven for all who appreciate adventure and solitude.

WILLIAM B. CREWS JR.

Winston-Salem, N.C.

Sir: Oregon deeply resents the Pacific Northwest's ostracism from your listing of America's prime resort areas.

TOM McCALL

Secretary of State

Salem, Ore.

Sir: . . . Arizona?

SAMUEL P. GODDARD

Governor of Arizona

Phoenix

Sir: Sun Valley?

SALLY TOOLEY

Sun Valley, Idaho

Sir: . Nantucket?

JOHN E. McPECK

Boston

Sir: . . . The Greenbrier?

(MRS.) DOROTHY M. SECH

Cleveland

Sir: . . . Mackinac Island?

WILLIAM B. PARKER

Mackinac Island, Mich.

Sir: Must we place such emphasis on American food and spoken English as criteria for vacationing in America? Please save us from a steady diet of the hot dog, New England boiled dinners and hominy grits, and from the boredom of hearing only our own colloquialisms.

(MRS.) SYBIL WISE

Mount Hermon, Mass.

Lonely Outposts

Sir: I find it difficult to look at pictures like "Scene Outside the My Canh Restaurant," [July 2] but I cannot agree with readers who "do not care to have TIME in their homes any longer." Could it be that it brings reality too close to home?

(MRS.) CHERRI WOOD

New York City

Sir: Your reporting of the war in Viet Nam presents the realities of the people's plight in South Viet Nam, and reflects the persistent attitude of the correspondents to "get out where the action is and get the facts." Only in this manner can Americans receive a truer picture of the frustration, brutality and insecurity endured by the Vietnamese daily for more than 15 years. The Communists have made war a way of life to the farmer in the paddy, the mother carrying her baskets to market, the child searching for playmates, the soldier standing guard at lonely outposts; and all of them reflect the bone-weary attitude of long-endured hardships. Americans who serve with these courageous people cannot help being caught up in the promise of freedom for their future.

MICHAEL J. MORIN

Captain, Infantry

Fort Benning, Ga.

Sir: Your article, "Life with the Viet Cong," [July 2] was most interesting and informative. But you do a disservice by deprecating the quotes of Huynh Tan Phat. He is telling all of us a bit of the truth. Before we can win, we must escalate our participation to extensive bombing of civil as well as military targets.

JOSEPH A. VITTONE

Captain, U.S.A.F.

Seattle

Debt & Bankruptcy

Sir: The true origin of debt [July 2] as a moral issue stems from the Bible (Exodus 22:25): "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury."

THEA SAFRIN

New York City

Sir: Where has Emerson's self-reliance gone? I worship Emerson's statement, "Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill." Instead of a War on Poverty, let there be a War on Lack of Character, Lack of a Will to Work, Lack of the Ability of Self-Denial. Give me self-reliance not help. Hurrah for Horatio Alger!

JANET WORTHINGTON ENGELHARDT

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Sir: Your Essay provides a sane, lucid counterbalance to the dire predictions of those fiscal reactionaries who insist that we are on a collision course with national bankruptcy.

ROBERT C. ESKRIDGE

Offutt A.F.B., Neb.

Not a Speck of Remorse

Sir: I am a liberal, a believer in trade unions and a supporter of negotiations that will lead to a fair deal for both labor and management. But I would shut down a newspaper before I would let Bertram Powers [July 2] tell me what I could not do to make my operation more economical. If I were Dolly Schiff, I would not feel one speck of remorse if I were to close the Post and put 280 printers out of work. If automation means there are too many printers, then some of them should get out of the business.

JOSEF HOLBERT

Managing Editor

Glenwood Sage Press

Glenwood Springs, Colo.

Digit for Dollars

Sir: Your story on millionaires [July 9] leaves me breathless. The figure given as my earnings is many times greater than my actual earnings. Also, please give me back that extra year that you added to my age.

G. W. BLAKELEY JR.

Cape Cod, Mass.

> TIME'S transmitter added a digit. Will Millionaire Blakeley, 44, settle for $10 million?

Transubstantiation

Sir: Your cryptic resume of the new Eucharistic theology [July 2] is a parody of contemporary and traditional Catholic belief. Consecration is not "miraculous" but the ordinary way God makes his presence and sacrifice effective today. "Sign" has always been used in Catholic theology, and "substance and accidents" has never hindered belief that the active, living God is present in the Eucharist.

(THE REV.) R. P. DESHARNAIS, C.S.C.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Sir: If the doctrine of transubstantiation is about to be jettisoned for the more enlightening concept of transignification, Anglicans and Roman Catholics may look for limited intercommunion in 1966--and perhaps even full intercommunion by 1970, which, after all, is the fourth centennial of their separation.

GEORGE F. LEWIS

Willowdale, Ontario

Sir: The Roman Catholic problem with the doctrine of transubstantiation has its roots deep in the penchant for defining every jot and tittle of the faith. The current reform is a healthy sign. Rome is trying with great success to return to unencrusted catholicity, and non-Romans must applaud its struggles with charity and hope. The prospects are very exciting for all Christians.

FRANK KINKAID

Vestryman

Parish of St. Mark

Portland, Ore.

Non-Student Protest

Sir: It is shocking that people who have not paid tuition should have the effrontery to walk across college campuses, sit in student unions, saunter into classrooms and ask questions of professors [June 25]. What is the matter with them? Don't they know they can't get a degree that way? How dare these beatniks question the very purpose of a university! (Next, they'll be challenging the worth of grades.) How dare they dawdle away precious years in the idle pursuit of understanding and self-knowledge, when out in the world there is profit to be made.

JACK CARGILL JR.

Austin, Texas

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