The Senators from Oregon
...Thanks for printing [Jan. 17] what I believe is the exact truth about Wayne Morse and Dick Neuberger--and their air-conditioned-by-nature, wonderful Oregon. The "Morseberger" combination are both dedicated men and will ultimately give the Great Webfoot State one of the most eminent teams ever to appear on the U.S. Senate floor. They have the ability, if they'll just keep their "fiercely" independent heads in the same groove; but if ever they meet in a head-on rhubarb, the walls of the Senate will cave in...
Many of us would be happy if only we had a Morse or a Neuberger to team up with Lyndon Johnson.
CARL CURLEE Killeen, Texas
Sir:
Yours is the finest hatchet job I have ever read on two of the best maverick minds that any one state ever succeeded in corralling ...Why make it appear criminal for Morse to use that "brilliant mind" which you praise with faint damns? Why sanctify party loyalty over intelligence?...
JACK E. FINK San Jose, Calif.
SIR:
TIME'S COVER SHOWS HOW A FEW STAY-AT-HOME KNUCKLEHEADS CAN SEND A COUPLE OF KNOTHEADS TO CONGRESS.
E. G. HINES SEATTLE
People & Plenty
Sir:
Your Jan. 10 article "Of People and Plenty" overlooks some important considerations...A serious look at Japan and Puerto Rico would, I think, restrain your optimism in dismissing Malthus and planned parenthood so quickly...However, it would be foolish to neglect the planning of our population...with the necessary facilities to meet the demands which it will make...We should not welcome an increase in population unless we have the schools and the recreational facilities to meet the legitimate needs of an increased population...
MARK STARR New York City
Corpus Hipercubus
Sir:
The interview which I gave to TIME concerning my Crucifixion has not been objectively expressed. This fact, together with the completely biased version of the facts, gives to the article "Dali Makes Met" [Jan. 24] a completely erroneous interpretation...The interest in my pictorial work has continuously increased since I commenced my religious subjects. My first important religious painting, The Madonna of Port-Lligat, which was exhibited in 1947, was very highly praised. A subsequent one, The Christ of St. John of the Cross, was acquired by the Glasgow Art Gallery and has created a tremendous interest...I consider the [Met's] acquisition now of my Crucifixion as being timely. My pictorial conception of Corpus hipercubus is a completely new creative idea which is in direct contrast to the current abstract academism.
SALVADOR DALI New York City
P:TIME grants that Artist Dali is unquestionably the current super-hypercubist, prefers to leave his final place in religious art to the future.--ED.
What to Do About Trees
Sir:
Your excellent pictures and too short an article on tree farming [Jan. 17] should enlighten those who tear through our northwest states exclaiming, "How awful! Cutting and wasting those beautiful trees!" Nature can only do so much with her mature trees; if they aren't harvested before they rot, they are a loss...We continue to "keep Washington green."
PATSY BRITTAIN Seattle
Sir:
...The caption for one of your pictures indicates that the area is part of the J. Neils tree farm in Montana and has been selectively cut. This particular area is owned by the state of Montana and was cut by J. Neils Lumber Co. under provisions of the state contract requiring removal of trees to certain diameter limits. Our silvicultural program for company lands does not permit cutting the timber so heavily. If the area had been cut as indicated in your picture, removing the dead, overaged and damaged trees only, the stand remaining would have been at least five times as great as what is now left on this area...
GEORGE NEILS Logging Department Manager J. Neils Lumber Co. Libby, Mont.
Sir:
The "new approach and program" of "tree-farming" you were so enthusiastic about in your last issue is, in fact, almost as old as the proverbial hills. Practically all European forests have been lumbered according to sound forestry practice for centuries...Forestry...was not practiced in American forests until the end of the 19th century...
WILLIAM COHEN New York City
P:For forestry methods abroad, see cut.--ED.
Transplanted Head
Sir:
Please! No more disgustingly nauseating reports like that one on the two-headed dog [Jan. 17]. I have never read a horror story to compare with it...Ugh!
MARTHA H. MCCLELLAN Coraopolis, Pa.
Sir:
...Wonderful! Now, how long must we wait for a two-headed man? Such an improvement can scarcely come too soon; then perhaps it will be unnecessary to indulge further in such monstrous experiments as the one you described. I like dogs.
LUCILLE JACKSON THOMAS Spokane
Sir:
Re Vladimir Demikov's experiment: at long last a suitable emblem for Russia to replace the two-headed eagle of the czars--the two-headed dog.
HUGH ADAMS New York City
Creeping Forward (Contd.)
Sir:
So U.S. Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business, according to Notre Dame Sociologist Dr. John J. Kane [TIME, Jan. 10] ? In only three fields is eminence achieved: religion, law and education. Would that America's progress were confined to the "creep" pace of religion, law and its observances and education...
PAUL A. FLYNN Brooklyn
Judgment on a Judgment (Contd.)
Sir:
In reference to your Jan. 10 answer to the letter of Patrick J. Hillings (concerning an article in Commonweal):...the political-minded person who wrote the original article in Commonweal was undoubtedly a Roman Catholic Democrat, but there are Catholic Republicans; the opinions expressed in this article should not be in any way construed to be just any Roman Catholic's viewpoint.
BEVERLY CAHILL Winslow, Ariz.
Sir:
Re your reply to Patrick J. Hillings' letter: Why do you aggravate an issue by prefixing "Roman Catholic" to Commonweal?
R. J. SMITH Anaheim, Calif.
P:The 31-year-old Commonweal, owned and edited by Roman Catholic laymen, said in a recent editorial to its readers (80% Catholic): "We have no more standing in the Church than any other laymen...but we have always been left entirely free by the proper Church authorities size up situations as we saw them and to turn our editorial guns even on Catholic targets [e.g., Commonweal is strongly anti-McCarthy] when, wrongly or rightly, we felt it was the thing to do...The area of proper disagreement between Catholics is wide indeed, but we feel that the Catholic publicist simply cannot leave the papal peace program in a pious rhetorical vacuum."--ED.
Mixed-Up Demigods
Sir:
Somebody's face...should at least have a slightly crimson tinge when he finds out that the hero who shielded himself from Medusa's deadly charms was Perseus and not Jason, as stated in your Jan. 17 Cinema review of Animal Farm...
R. SHINN Staten Island, N.Y.
P:TIME scored a near myth.--ED.
Vanished Personalities
Sir:
"Judgments & Prophecies," indeed! Instead of this horrible example of mixed-up journalism...what was wrong with that wonderful "Personalities" section you used to run?...I had only one objection to those pieces...I was unable to find out who did a particularly wonderful piece of writing...Outstanding, inspired writing is fine literature and the author should not be forced to die an anonymous death... just to satisfy some old-maid policy on a magazine. While I'm on this subject, I should also like to add that...whoever writes your Cinema and Books sections often comes up with a masterpiece ...Why don't you let these present-day Wolfes and Menckens get a byline?...Those geniuses should both be given at least a small break...
WHITNEY MALANSEN New Haven, Conn.
Bank Merger
Sir:
In TIME'S Jan. 24 story of the proposed Chase-Manhattan merger, it was stated erroneously that "each of Chase's 7,400,000 shares outstanding...will be exchanged for 1 1/2...shares." It should have said "for one and one-quarter shares..."
CRAWFORD WHEELER Vice President The Chase National Bank New York City
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