Suds Unlimited Sir:

Your cover story on" Procter & Gamble (Oct. 5) was excellent--but I'm mad I You didn't mention one word about the best daytime program on radio: Pepper Young's Family.

KAY FLOYD New York City

Sir:

Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media . .

RAY R. RUSSELL Chicago

Sir:

Evidently the long-winded yarn has been a feature of Procter & Gamble advertising for some time. I have a full page verse narrative (154 lines of rhymed couplets) telling the story of Ivory Soap for readers of a juvenile magazine back in 1885 . . .

No more were seen the scabby heads,

Or finest garments all in shreds;

No more unsightly pimples rose

To mar the grace of cheek or nose . . .

For rich and poor, the great and small, Found Ivory Soap had cleansed them all.

The appeal of the 1885 version of the soap opera must have been strong, for either grandmother or one of her brood carefully preserved A Friendly Turn in the commodious family Bible.

FRED L. AMES East Corinth, Me.

Sir:

Soapman McElroy should sign Dick & Rita up real quick for a new soap opera. Their story is a natural and has wonderful possibilities. Will Dick be deported? If so, will Rita follow him? Tune in tomorrow for the next thrilling episode of Yasmin's Other Father.

HARRY J. WELLS Bellerose, N.Y.

The Little Engine

Sir:

Add Wes Fesler, All-America at Ohio State and now head football coach at the University of Minnesota, as a famous exponent of The Little Engine That Could [Oct. 5]. Wes is one coach who honestly believes that character-building is as important as winning football games . . . The Little Engine is his favorite morale builder, and thousands of people have heard him relate the story . . .

JOHN K. MACKENZIE Golden Valley, Minn.

Protestants in Colombia

Sir:

[Re] the persecution of Protestants in Colombia [Oct. 5] . . . The Pope is spiritual leader of Catholics all over the world. Why doesn't he punish, or admonish, at least, those of his subjects guilty of these atrocities? . . .

HARRY E. PATRICK Philadelphia

Sir:

... I see little difference between 42 churches destroyed by Catholic fire and dynamite and the same number destroyed by dynamite manufactured under the [Russian] Five-Year Plan . . .

(THE REV.) DONALD DAUGHERTY

Church of Christ Orleans, France

Sir:

... It should be emphasized that the people of Colombia and probably 95% of the Catholic clergy had nothing to do with this, but could do nothing to stop it during the Gomez regime . . .

B. E. LONG

Call, Colombia

Demoniac or Harmonic?

Sir:

In your review of the forthcoming African sculpture exhibition in the British Museum [Oct. 5] ... when you talk about "harmony and order" being sacrificed to "demoniac fervor," it appears as if you would have never really seen African sculptures. They are, in fact, of great harmony and order of volumes, expressing a deeply felt religious fervor . . . African sculpture is one of the great artistic achievements, comparable to any of the great periods in the history of art.

LADISLAS SEGY

New York City

Cold Feet & Boiling Blood

Sir:

Hooray for Margaret Burke, who expressed her unconcern for the rest of the world's opinion in TIME'S Letters column of Oct. 5.

If that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind."

Sixty years later the copycat framers of the Texas Declaration of Independence got cold feet and inserted in that document a statement to the effect that "Nations are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind."

Had these founding fathers been bolder men, the institutions they established might have had a more glorious destiny.

W. H. KITTRELL Dallas

Sir:

Bravo ! and again, Bravo ! to Margaret A. Burke and Ward S. Yunker on their letters re Secretary Dulles. I am another American who says: Thank God at last for an Administration that dares to stand up and let itself be counted on the side of Almighty God and the American people!

In this connection, your Foreign News article on Great Britain in the same issue makes my blood boil . . . Any nation whose leaders are trying to make a policy of coddling the thugs and bandits of Communist Russia . . . deserves not only to lose its role of international leadership, but its national identity as well, as did Assyria, Babylonia and ancient Rome . . .

KATHRYN N. RHODES Hayward, Calif.

Sir:

The prescription from the Oct. 5 TIME should be served to 160 million Americans at least three times daily, before meals, if we wish to influence our friends and our enemies in the year of our Lord, 1953.

For internal use only, 1/3 Pusey of Harvard for faith concept, 1/3 Nevins of Columbia for history concept and 1/3Fairless of Pittsburgh for intestinal fortitude concept. If taken regularly by nation, it will quickly counteract present epidemic of opportunism, chauvinism, greed, self-interest, hypocrisy and larceny . . .

WALTER F. WANGER Los Angeles

Non-Fan Mail

Sir:

What's the idea wasting a whole page on the likes of Rita and Dick [Oct. 5]?

ELIZABETH Y. HAMMAR Kitchener, Ont.

Sir:

... I [have] resolved that I will never again go see a movie which features or stars such people [as] flout the sanctity of the marriage vow. And I love the movies, too.

MAUD CHEGWIDDEN

San Francisco

Sir:

Your article about Rita's wedding should be written in stone to show our posterity your high skill of journalism--yet also the decadence of our present moral life.

L. J. VALIS

Zurich, Switzerland

Sir:

. . . How disgusting. May I join Hedda Hopper? They do deserve each other.

GEORGIA B. WHALEY Hampton, Va.

Sir:

On one hand, there is the polygamous group living under the Towers of Tumurru --on the other are those fading movie queens, practicing a sort of pseudo-polyandry, who shed a husband as easily as a snake does his skin and about as often.

Which is better--to live in legal sin in a spirit of love and affection or to have a different father for each child in the family with the next applicant already picked out?

WARREN R. PERKINS Rochester

Sir:

In an otherwise excellent article, the rather incongruous comment stood out: "Each headed altarward for the fourth time."

That was going to the altar?

ALBERT SUNDERLAND Athens, Ohio

Bosses--Born or Made?

Sir:

In your analysis of the reason for "The Great Man Hunt" . . . you point out: "Most of them [executives] agree that good executives are born, not made." . . . Industry has not yet recognized that there never have been enough "natural born leaders" ... or that few men are able to fully develop their abilities by their own efforts alone. Until industry provides effective means for training men in the basic skills of leadership, the shortage of capable executives will continue.

PAUL MOONEY

Southport, Conn.

La Llengua Catalana

Sir:

The people of Andorra do not speak Spanish [Oct. 5]. They speak Catalan, which is . . . one of the eight Romance languages, like Italian or French. Andorra belongs to the Catalan area and both the French and Spanish neighbors of that little country have the Catalan language for their mother tongue. GEORGE C. ENGERRAND University of Texas Austin

P:I Catalan is indeed a separate language, spoken by 4,300,000 people in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Spanish Catalonia, as well as in Andorra. Expatriate Catalans are so proud of their native tongue and literature that they still give prizes for literary and poetic contests, called Joes Florals de la Llengua Catalana.--ED.

For the Record

Sir:

... I had at least a dozen calls in a space of a dozen hours, each to inquire if I had seen the story [Sept. 28] about the model plane endurance record . . .

We manufacture the kit from which the model plane--a Ring Master--was made . . . We'd like to send that boy in Fayetteville a defense bond with our compliments . . . We will duplicate the defense bond to any other boy who bests that record . . .

ED MANULKIN Sterling Models Philadelphia

Dogfoot's Life

Sir:

In reference to your excellent armed forces article [Oct. 5], may I add another gripe . . .?

The U.S. soldier lives in drafty, cold wooden shacks that have been condemned years ago. The plumbing is rusted and faulty, and the heating is almost nonexistent. The so-called poorer countries of France, Italy and Germany furnished their troops with comfortable brick barracks that had rooms for single occupancy to a maximum of a squadroom for six to eight soldiers. To ask the

U.S. soldier to live under pneumonia conditions for 20 or 30 years is, I think, a little too much.

GEORGE CHERETON

New York City

Sir:

. . . The paragraph called "Job Security" is the most frank appraisal or evaluation of the situation the services find themselves in at the present time that I have seen published in other than publications which are primarily for service distribution. The sooner Congress ceases to toy with the future of the personnel of the armed forces and adopts a sound policy on a permanent basis regarding the career outlook offered to the members of these forces, the sooner will they find that the personnel will become stabilized as it was in the past.

ROBERT J. MACKLE Lieutenant, U.S.C.G. Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Moral Re-Armament

Sir:

... I was depressed to see in your Oct. 5 issue a one-sided commentary upon a world moral force, that of Moral Re-Armament . ..

The baseless charges of the I.C.F.T.U., or a certain element of it, have been completely refuted by world leaders of trade unions, including some members of the I.C.F.T.U. itself . . .

As a small-town businessman and a contributor to M.R.A., I can say that I am one of those "who supply the money" and I am most certainly not "very well off."

T. W. REESE Echo, Ore.

Sir:

I am grateful for the articles that your magazine has recently printed taking a stand for a positive moral basis for our nation and her policies.

However ... I was sorry to read your one-sided story of the attack on Moral Re-Armament ... I am one of thousands who believe that Moral Re-Armament provides the one positive ideology that can answer Communism . . .

FREDERICK F. TOOKER Summit, N.J.

SIR:

. . . MORAL REARMAMENT HAS DONE MORE TO CURB COMMUNISM THAN ANY OTHER GROUP. IF THE PRINCIPLES OF MORAL REARMAMENT ARE APPLIED BY BOTH LABOR AND MANAGEMENT, DISPUTES CAN BE EASILY SETTLED.

W. O. FRAZIER PRESIDENT, LOCAL 1267 AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF STREET ELECTRIC RAILWAY AND MOTOR COACH EMPLOYEES OF AMERICA

MIAMI

Off the Rheingold Standard

Sir:

... A careful scrutiny of Mr. Sing's letter [about Soprano Helen Traubel's nightclub appearances, Oct. 5] will reveal that the Director of the Met was trying to protect the interests of his company and that the issue of "snobbery" was concocted by Miss Traubel herself.

V. N. DADRIAN Chicago

Sir:

By what stretch of imagination dares Miss Traubel call her nightclub performance "art"? Why can't people be frank and admit their appreciation of larger sums of money instead of pretending rebellion against "rank snobbery" and assailing the integrity and reputation of honorable men for publicity purposes? . . .

ROSE IRENE HAMNER Chicago

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