Where There Is Muck . . .

Sir / The law-abiding, tax-paying American thank Jack Anderson [April 3] every day for having the courage to expose the wheeling and dealing antics of our politicians in high places regardless of party. We have the right to know what is going on between these high-salaried public servants and big businesses. Exposure is the only control these rats will respect--they like to operate in secret and behind closed doors. Remember, if there is no muck, there will be no muck to rake.

(MRS.) JANET GOULD

Gladstone, Ore.

Sir / Is the threat of exposure by Jack Anderson any more comforting than the threat of exposure by the late Senator McCarthy? God save the United States from government by exposure.

DANIEL H. SHEINGOLD

Waban, Mass.

Sir / Jack Anderson seems to think he is a white knight. With his admitted methods of investigation, he is more like a pot calling the kettle black.

HELEN NORWOOD

Greenfield, Mass.

Sir / To my mind Jack Anderson is a living doll. Everyone lies to you, and you can't believe anything coming from Washington. Tell Jack to keep on. He lets us know it like it is.

DOROTHY BROSIUS

Dearborn Heights, Mich.

Sir / Not all the Mormon brethren "choke" on the words Brother Anderson. And I am proud to say that I am one who does not. I have known Jack Anderson as his student and his friend for 15 years.

He preached from the pulpit the doctrine and the teachings of his beloved faith with the same fiery zeal and uncompromising ardor that he now uses to denounce dishonesty and bigotry wherever he finds them.

No one will fail to see the showman in Jack and recognize his limitations. But, like all thinking, feeling men, he is not blind to the problems that beset mankind and the imperfections of those who manage its systems.

FERGUS R. WOOLLEY

Minneapolis

Sir / It is my belief that America can ill afford to be without such irascible critics of government as Jack Anderson. But when he makes an error, it's usually a beauty. Please add to the list of Anderson "off-target scoops," for which I, one of the victims, have yet to see a retraction or apology: his unquestioning and unwarranted support of Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, as revealed in the new bestseller The Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan; who is also winner of (oh, sweet irony!), this year's first annual Drew Pearson Award for investigative reporting.

WILLIAM T. GENEROUS JR.

Wallingford, Conn.

Sir / I am certainly no particular fan of Richard Kleindienst, but Jack Anderson should be shot for being a national nuisance.

(MRS.) A.D. RICHARDSON

Tucson

No Call for the Victor

Sir / You report that Mrs. Martha Mitchell, wife of the former Attorney General, called Illinois State's Attorney, Edward Hanrahan after the Illinois primary to congratulate him on his victory [April 3]. That report is erroneous. Mrs. Mitchell did not call Mr. Hanrahan on his victory or for any other purpose.

DEVAN L. SHUMWAY Director of Public Relations Committee for the Re-Election of the President Washington, D.C.

.TIME is glad to learn about one nocturnal telephone call Mrs. Mitchell did not make. However, someone who said she was Martha Mitchell did place the call as reported, person to person from Washington, and Mr. Hanrahan spoke with her in all good faith and credulity.

Wallace's Business

Sir / I found several of your remarks concerning George Wallace and his wife [March 27], rather crude and distasteful. While Mr. Wallace is not one of my favorite people, I do believe that he deserves respect, and that remarks concerning his wife should also be made with respect and good taste. I feel his phlegm is his business and not the whole nation's.

SALLY WALLACE

Auburn, Ala.

Sir / Don't fret for this member of the electorate because of the plethora of candidates for the Democratic nomination. I am excited over every message Wallace sends "them." Though I will not vote for him for President, he is rendering America a genuine service by causing the litany of the do-gooders and bums to play second fiddle to the drum roll of those who work, pay taxes and are fed up with the moral and fiscal bankruptcy of the social planners.

FRANCIS T. WEST

Martinsville, Va.

Sir / I do not understand all this fuss in Florida about busing. Busing is a fine old Southern tradition. When I was growing up in the South, I was bused every day for twelve years to all-white schools. An all-black school was closer to my house. Where were all those parents against busing then?

ALICE WISER-YAMAGUCHI

Burlington, Vt.

Sir / Regarding the recent victory of George Wallace in the Florida Democratic primary, I have found that the attitude of most Florida young people, is not like that of their prejudiced parents. Because of forced busing, the students in my high school have lost virtually all racial prejudice, and most new friends are not even referred to as "black" or "white." Most of us would agree that busing has benefited our school more than continued segregation.

In a few years, we the young people and future voters of Florida will let George Wallace know that his reign here is over.

BETH PARKER

Tampa, Fla.

Boston and Busing

Sir / Busing or no busing, Boston public school education [April 13] will never make significant mileage, because culturally all Boston is Louise Day Hicksville.

LEE DANA GOODMAN SR.

Windsor, Vt.

Equal Rights

Sir / I hope no one gets the mistaken impression that Senator Ervin represents the women of North Carolina on the Equal Rights Amendment [April 3]. He doesn't!

Personally, I find the idea and fact of young men being maimed and killed by war just as disgusting and obscene as that of women being maimed and killed. If it takes the threat of drafting girls to bring home to the war-happy the horror and obscenity of unjustified wars, then if this amendment never did another thing, it would have well justified its existence.

PAT SINGLETARY

Chapel Hill, N.C.

Auto Worship

Sir / Los Angeles is not the only place in America where life revolves around the automobile [April 3]. Wherever automobiles can be found, there will be a breed of unique and happy people to customize, worship and race them.

Take away the automobile, and a completely depersonalized society is one step closer to becoming a reality. There is no other product that stimulates the strength, individuality, pride, imagination, intelligence and skill of a person more than the automobile.

DANIEL R. POTTER

Johnson City, Tenn.

Frosty Welcome

Sir / To the people of the Aduntusan Society [March 27]: Don't send your witless, shiftless spawn up here. We Alaskans came here years ago because we were tired of being your maids and chauffeurs. So if you think we treat the poor wolf badly, such treatment will seem gentle to the way I, for one, will handle any of your brainless children if I catch them camping on my property.

(MRS.) AMIE BENSON

Fairbanks, Alaska

Condensation

Sir / Your three-paragraph condensation of a three-hour interview with my wife Barbara and me in your article about new marriage styles [March 20], took our ideas out of context and completely distorted what we had tried to convey. We could not even recognize ourselves in the article. By relating nothing but a generalized schedule (questionable at that), and a few quotes, you conveyed no real information and yet implied a great deal that was erroneous, negative and personally damaging.

MAURICE L. ZILBER

Boston

Coinfusion

Sir / Henry Dreyfuss, student of sign language [April 3], upon landing in Moscow would be able to recognize the value of Russian coins. Because, like the coins of most nations, they show their value in figures (5, 10, 15, etc.). U.S. coins lack this sensible feature.

HOWARD D. KELLEY

Kingston, Pa.

For Want of the Film

Sir / In your article, "Littlest Black Box" [March 27], reviewing the new Kodak Pocket Instamatic cameras, you mention that among others, "Germany's Minox" has never met the challenge of coming up with a film that would produce color prints of sufficient sharpness.

Isn't that like saying that Mercedes-Benz has never come up with a gasoline that would make its cars run 100 miles per gallon?

While Minox came up with the idea and execution of a superb ultraminiature precision camera 34 years ago, which is still unsurpassed today, it had to rely on the world's foremost film manufacturers to provide the best possible film for its tiny (8mm. by 11mm.) negatives.

Kodak's achievement, as Kodak's president pointed out, was in "coming up with the right film."

KURT W. LUHN

Vice President

Minox USA

Woodside, N.Y.

Stiff Competition

Sir / Mrs. Barry Goldwater Jr. [April 3] will offer stiff competition to Mrs. Edward Kennedy as Washington's best undressed woman.

EDWARD G. NOBLE

San Francisco

Sir / TIME quotes Susan Gherman as being a conservative. After I viewed her photograph with Barry Goldwater Jr., my observation was that she leans neither left nor right: a real middle-of-the-roader.

M.H. GORDON

Norfolk

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