Man of the Year
Sir:
Time and TIME will both prove in the near future that the Man of the Year is and should be Dwight Eisenhower.
EARLE GRUESKIN Evanston, Ill.
Sir:
We of the Broadmoor Businessmen's Association have nominated Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison our "Man of the Year."
LEWIS A. ROSSI
New Orleans
Sir:
... I think the cover of TIME should be left blank, for two reasons:
In the first place, it is representative of what the mind of man has accomplished this past year.
Secondly, it is also representative of the tremendous vastness of the universe, and how little a part man has played in the scheme of things.
CHARLES PORTER HOCHSTADTER Cincinnati
Sir:
May I nominate a fearless fighter in a blundering world . . . Columnist and Newspaperman Drew Pearson.
(MRS.) W. H. MORRIS
Akron
Coincidence
Sir:
If by design, it's genius. If a coincidence, it's providential.
I refer, of course, to the make-up of your Nov. 17 issue, pages 34-35, wherein the Goodyear ad picturing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is in apposition to the photo of the Bolshevik 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow.
If one picture is worth a thousand words, two such contrasting ones are worth a million in showing the gap between totalitarianism and democracy.
WALTER D. BAER
New York City
The Miracle of Insulin
Sir:
TIME's very succinct and clear abstract of my treatment of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) with 2 1/2% ether [TIME, Nov. 17] has produced a panicky deluge of letters from diabetics. For the sake of my peace of mind and the self-assurance and relief of hundreds of diabetics, please note that:
1) The miracle of insulin by Nobelist Banting and [his colleague] Best is still the greatest single contribution to stretching the diabetic's life as long as the non-diabetic's.
2)! did not intend to convey the impression that death begins after 25 years of insulin or diabetic therapy.
3) The magnificent discoverers of insulin have actually so lengthened the diabetic's life that he is now eligible (in a well-regulated case) for life insurance.
4) A complication of diabetes such as arteriosclerosis is no different from the nondiabetic except it appears somewhat sooner.
5) Solving the problem for the diabetic may therefore help the far greater number of nondiabetics from the complications of arteriosclerosis.
6) I personally do not fear gangrene because I feel that the progress of medical researchers will finally conquer this heretofore neglected disease (arteriosclerosis).
7) And, finally, as a diabetic, I feel proud for the fun of working and living--the privilege of all diabetics since Banting and Best.
ROBERT A. KATZ, M.D. New Orleans
Another Church
Sir:
Thank you for a most inspiring article about the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, author of Abide with Me [TIME, Nov. 17].
Probably you were misled by the fact of his memorial tablet being placed under the statue of the Wesleys [in Westminster Abbey], but for the sake of accuracy and for the credit of the Church of England, I would call to your attention the fact that Mr. Lyte was a clergyman of that communion, and not a Methodist, as stated in your article. . . .
BABINGTON SMITH New York City
Sir:
... He was an English Anglican, although born at Kelso, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained to the ministry of the Church of England in 1815. He held the curacy of Lower Brixham, Devon, from 1823 until his death in the autumn of 1847.
He wrote other famous hymns, besides those you mention. Among these were . . . Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken and Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above.
(REV.) JAMES H. MORRIS
St. Paul's Anglican Church
South Porcupine, Ont.
P: ". . . We have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. . . ."--ED.
More Precious Than Gold
Sir:
If it were not more precious than the gold in the ground at Fort Knox, one could wish heartily that Wheat Farmer Campbell's wheat [TIME, Nov. 17] would rot where it lies on his farms. No more damning indictment of uncontrolled capitalism can be imagined than the vicious economics of Farmer Campbell. Another way to get farmers to sell, besides that advocated by Campbell, would be to stop subsidizing them and thus force them to sell their goods for what a free and open market will bring.
Let Farmer Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good."
JAMES TRACY
Philadelphia
Sir:
. . . My chief motive in seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer, and fair to others, as consumers.
It is only natural that the farmer or any other individual will hold his commodity if he expects a higher price and is not forced to sell. A fixed price established by our Government . . . will answer this question. The farmers will then begin delivery. . . . Many of them are led to believe that the taxes will be reduced next year, which is another reason why they are holding their wheat. It is very difficult for me to understand why the farmer should be criticized for holding his commodities until such time as he chooses to sell. THOMAS D. CAMPBELL
President
Campbell Farming Corp. Hardin, Mont.
De Custodibus
Sir:
I wish to give you the facts in regard to a story which you carried in Nov. 3 issue of TIME, under the heading "QuisCustodiet?"
The story, based upon an Associated Press release from Denver, stated that 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers had been given a history test in Denver by the Rocky Mountain Nevus, and that the average grade was 67.
The facts are that four teachers were given the test. . . . One of the four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher.
Since the erroneous story as released by the Associated Press was carried in your columns, it seems only fair to Colorado teachers and teachers in general that you carry this correction as released by us.
WARD B. KIMBALL
Director of Publications and Publicity Colorado Education Assn. Denver
State & Scripture
Sir:
The recent news reports on the so-called sensational lawsuit of Andy J. Yoder, an Amishman of Paint Township, Ohio, asking $40,000 for being "mited" [TIME, Nov. 17] calls for an explanation. . . .
Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard him.
This letter is not to condone "miting"; it is rather an explanation to help uninformed readers understand the situation. . . . Yoder repeatedly has shown himself out of harmony with the home-and peace-loving Amish. He has himself admitted that he is a saloon adventurer, and any respectable denomination frowns upon such caperings. He has shown himself to be temperamental and incompatible. This is the complete opposite of the life which a Christian should live and which the Church of the Amish teaches. Despite this, Yoder has insisted on remaining an Amishman, continues to wear a beard and wants to be a unit of the Amish body. . . .
His action in suing at law, which his Church says is not scriptural (see I Corinthians 6: 1-8), indicates that he flaunts their teachings.
There is more significance in this suit than meets the eye. It is a dangerous encroachment upon religious liberty, for if the State has the right to regulate interpretation of Scripture, then there may be an encroachment upon religious liberty. . . .
FORD BERG
Mennonite Publishing House
Scottdale. Pa.
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