Jack Is Jake with Arvey
Sir:
Re Chicago's Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey: TIME has it Jack Arvey. Nearly everybody else has it Jake Arvey? Which is it? Yours, for suppression of him, whichever it is.
A. FRANKLIN SHULL
Ann Arbor, Mich.
P:Chicagoans call Jacob M. Arvey both Jake and Jack. Arvey likes Jack.--ED.
Well-Tailored Homespun
Sir:
Why must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent--TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word . . .
Hollywood ELEANOR GREEN GLESS
Sir:
Let's hope . . . that Ike's scantily clad platitudes become as well-tailored as Adlai Stevenson's sentences--spats and all.
DANIEL CAMERON
Brooklyn
Candidates' Condition (Marital)
Sir:
In the Aug. 4 issue of TIME, you say, referring to Governor Stevenson: "As the first divorced presidential nominee (of a major party) in U.S. history, Stevenson will face an issue never raised before."
. . . I have been under the impression that Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, Democratic nominee against Warren G. Harding in 1920, was a divorced man . . .
W. R. BRADFORD
Fort Mill, S.C.
P: Reader Bradford is right. But Candidate Cox had remarried by the time he was defeated by Harding in 1920. -- ED.
Producer's Proposal
Sir:
SUGGEST DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES ADD FATHER RAYMOND LEOPOLD BRUCKBERGER [TIME, AUG. 11] TO CAMPAIGN STAFFS AS CONSULTANT.
WALTER WAGNER
HOLLYWOOD
Navy Retirements
Sir:
It is about time that the Navy's "brazen prejudice" be exposed as in the the case of Captain Hyman Rickover [TIME Aug. 4]. Although this case appears a little unusual, it is not the first instance where the Legion of Merit was soon followed by the order of the boot.
Interweaving the retirement and promotion policies so that captains who fail twice of selection are automatically retired in their early 50s has deprived the Navy of a wealth of experience. It is a silly and profligate practice . . . Throughout industry, the universal practice is to retire at age 65. No company in this country is so rich that it could afford retirement below 60. The cost in dollars between retiring at 52 and 65 is over $53,000. Such extravagance in dollars is bad enough, but the waste in experience is inexcusable . . .
It would be interesting to know how many other captains were forced into retirement by the same selection board and at what cost.
S. E. DUDLEY
Worcester, Mass.
Sir:
It's entirely possible that the naval selection board which passed over Captain Hyman Rickover for rear admiral may be operating under a motive not as evident as prejudice. However, on the surface, their actions make us wonder how that board can put forth a defensible explanation of those actions . . .
In our life and times America cannot afford to dispense with the technical knowledge and brilliant accomplishments of the Hyman Rickovers. If special action is needed to retain and utilize the very great capabilities of this man, for us all, then we ask the naval department to take that action.
ROGER H. PIERCE
Minneapolis
Sir:
Your article about Captain Hyman Rick over made a good story. I hope the reason why Rickover was turned down was not be cause his first name is Hyman.
HYMAN H. HAVES
New Haven, Conn.
Bargain at the Price
Sir:
TIME, Aug. 4 quotes my friend, Ben Ridder of the Journal of Commerce, as saying we bought the Ridder-owned Chicago Journal 20 months ago after offering "more than it was worth." Let other readers of TIME'S ever-interesting Press section waste no sympathy on the Wall Street Journal as purchaser of the Chicago property. We wouldn't sell it today for twice what we paid for it. Reorganized and rechristened the Midwest edition of the WSJ, this newspaper's circulation has gone up from 33,233 in January 1951 to 69,342 today, including but by no means entirely the result of transfers from other Journal plants.
Chicago currently handles, therefore, about 30% of the Wall Street Journal's 233,059 national circulation.
BERNARD KILGORE President
The Wall Street Journal New York City
The Death of Evita
Sir:
. . . We Latin Americans have a great admiration and respect for your Eleanor Roosevelt, although she is constantly attacked by a certain part of the U.S. press . . . I beg you to have more respect for Eva Peron, who is dead [TIME, Aug. 4] and who was a great figure whether you yanquis like it or not.
EDUARDO BERLIOZ ACEITUNO
Valencia, Venezuela
Crow on the Fly
Sir:
I have read with interest your Aug. 4 article on Philip Murray. I fail to see how the culmination of the strike could possibly raise the status of Mr. Murray. Certainly there was no glory in the outcome for the United Steelworkers. There is no provision of any consequence in the new contract which they couldn't have had without their devastating strike. The modified union shop, in my opinion, holds no more security for the union than the maintenance of membership which they had before . . .
It would be poor policy for the big six to crow over their victory, but if Mr. Murray is riding high as a result of the strike, it is only to eat crow on the fly.
PHILIP B. RAY
Bellefonte, Pa.
Sir:
". . . As an ultimate goal, Murray does not claim control of the Democratic Party or of the Government." Can anyone doubt that the unions do not now have complete control of the nation's economy? With industry-wide bargaining, they can (and do) shut down the steel mills, the coal mines, the oil industry, the communications system, the automobile industry, etc., etc. Hawaii, completely at the mercy of the Pacific Coast Maritime unions, is a classic example . . .
CHARLES W. MOORE
Anaheim, Calif.
Clean Slate
SIR:
THANKS FOR A VERY ACCURATE AND INTERESTING STORY ["Cairo's Double Threat"--TIME, Aug. 11] BUT YOU HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED ABOUT THE $2,700 WHICH YOU ALLEGED THAT WE BORROWED FROM THE PALACE. CIRCLE WHICH WE LATER ATTACKED . . . WE HAVE NEVER BORROWED A NICKEL FROM THE PALACE CIRCLE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT BORROWING IS A DISGUISED WAY OF CORRUPTION . . . WE STARTED OUR NEWSPAPERS WITH HONEST MONEY EARNED AND NOT FROM BORROWED MONEY FROM ANYBODY . . .
ALI AND MOSTAFA AMIN PUBLISHERS OF AKHBAR EL YOM
CAIRO, EGYPT
Alphabet Soup Again
Sir:
Would it be possible (or would it take just pages?) to include ... a list of the government agencies to which you so glibly refer by initials only? . . . Many a time the full title of the agency under discussion is not included anywhere in the article! . . .
VIRGINIA T. LESUEUR
Hamden, Conn.
P: It would take pages. TIME prefers the glib American practice.--ED.
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