The Sultan & Morocco
Sir: The Sultan of Morocco [April 22] is simply a great man--our Thomas Jefferson. The outcome of our future relationship with France depends on the fate of our neighboring Algeria. Once this country is liberated, a North African Federation will immediately be instituted which will inevitably be tightly linked with France.
ABDELHAK PELKORA Boulder, Colo.
Sir: Congratulations for colorful presentation and fine reporting on Morocco.
UDOM SRIYOTHA Kent, Ohio
Sir: Poor, unwise and unfair report on Sultan Mohammed V and Morocco.
YVES E. REBOUL Philippeville, Algeria
Sir: Your description of the Sultan driving the 55 miles from Rabat to Casablanca in 32 minutes would sound even more chilling if you added that the road is a twisting affair passing through hills and several villages. I have never seen such madmen as on that "Death Strip." We saw six fatal accidents in six times over the course. You can underplay the hard-fighting Moroccans by terming them "restless." It gave us a "restless'' feeling to be filming in towns and villages where the population had been wiped out in bloody massacres just a few months before we arrived.
ROBERT FRIARS Robert Friars Films Hollywood
1890 & All That
Sir: The President, replying to Senator Goldwater's attack [TIME, April 22], said that we cannot turn back to 1890. The conditions which arouse indignation had their inception in 1933 because of economic depression. Why not, in this era of unprecedented prosperity, put them in storage for some future emergency ?
M. C. McLAY Flint, Mich.
SIR: REPUBLICANS OF THE GOLDWATER VARIETY DIED IN 1952. THE PUBLIC SWUNG THE G.O.P. BALANCE OF POWER TO A NEW SPIRITUAL LEADER BY A SPECTACULAR REPUDIATION OF THE OLD GUARD REPUBLICANS AND THE NEW DEAL DEMOCRATS.
CHAPMAN WENTWORTH PUBLISHER DUNSMUIR NEWS DUNSMUIR, CALIF.
Sir: Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the latest darling of the Senate Republican "Neanderthals," is biting the hand that fed him in his despicable denunciation of President Eisenhower.
Were it not for Eisenhower's tremendous wave of popularity in 1952, Senator Goldwater would still be sitting in his cubbyhole office in the basement of his Phoenix store.
JACK JOSEPH Arlington, Va.
Sir: Here's hoping that Ike can modernize the Republicans as F.D.R. modernized the Democrats. Maybe exponents of 19th century politics will not criticize the ''siren song of socialism" when they realize that both political parties have incorporated many beneficial socialistic policies in their platforms.
MALCOLM DEPUTY Hanover, Ind.
Sir: Isn't it about time you stopped deifying Ike and smearing Senator Goldwater and others who have the courage to speak their convictions?
I was an Ike-before-Chicago supporter and favored his first-term trend away from Santa Claus. Why, if this trend was correct from 1953 to 1956, is it now correct to make an about-face? I fail to find anything in the 1958 budget that is so sacred that it can't be cut.
DAVID B. WALLACE Crete, Ill.
Banned in Houston
Sir: In the wake of the book-banning spree by the Houston school board [TIME, April 22], Board Member Mrs. Earl Maughmer Jr. is now advocating the investigation of eight of Houston's school personnel who have connections with textbook publishing companies, either as authors or editors. Oddly enough, most of these authors' and editors' works are not used in the Houston schools, but the board still wants to make sure they are not "controversial."
You quoted the Houston Press, which said, "We predict: after Moreland--the deluge." Well, the deluge has come.
HORACE MARION-DAVIS Houston
Sir: I venture to say that if these good people in Houston read more and banned less they would find truth and reality not half so frightening.
J. A. FITZGERALD JR. Walla Walla, Wash.
Sir: The Houston school board's objection to the textbook Applied Economics, which cited the Government's obligation ''to promote the welfare of all the people,'' appears all the more ludicrous when we consider that the preamble of the United States Constitution enjoins the Federal Government to "promote the general Welfare." I wonder if the school board is planning to ban the study of the Constitution on the grounds that the document is subversive.
NATHANIEL F. MAGRUDER* Danville, Va.
Sir: The Minute Women of Houston would be well advised that there is not one single area of the arts, sciences or humanities that is not controversial.
WILLIAM L. FINK Westlake, Ohio
Sir: The actions of Houston's provincial school board are a good example of the remark, "There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action."
JOHN MACFIE Garden City, Mich.
Sir: Texans are oversensitive to criticism, but after reading of the McCarthyist misdoings of the Houston school board and the Minute Women, it becomes apparent that the rich vein of Texasininity is just being tapped.
RICHARD P. PETTY Detroit
Death of a Man
Sir: The extreme and opposite reactions of letter writers in your April 22 issue to TIME's review [April 1] of Lael Wertenbaker's book, Death of a Man, have interested me.
Charles Wertenbaker was my brother. I appreciate Lael's book as an honest effort to record the circumstances of his death. Also I appreciate TIME's review as an honest effort to appraise the book, the author and the subject, as well as the time in which they have lived.
GREEN PEYTON WERTENBAKER San Antonio
It's Only Money
Sir: Your description of quiz shows [April 22] confirmed what many had already guessed about TV and radio giveaways.
A happy alternative to this form of advertising would be for the advertiser to 1) cut prices of merchandise, 2) increase dividends to stockholders, and 3) pay more federal tax.
E. MARCELLUS NESBITT, D.D. Beaver, Pa.
Sir: Robert Strom could have stayed on the show until he was going for $10 million and his Trendex would still be zero in my house.
DON WARREN Oakland, Calif.
Sir: Congratulations. It is about time somebody told the public the truth about those TV farces, "the big-money shows."
ROBERT ROSENTHAL Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sir: This article substantiated my suspicions of how the operations were carried on, and I still enjoy this type of program.
J. PAUL JONES Orange, Texas
Poetry in Motion
Sir: Concerning your April 22 article on the naming of Ford Motor Co.'s new dream car, no mention was made of its specifications or design. However, if Ford is holding true to Detroit's trend of recent years, no one need have a "quiverful of literary prizes" to realize that a more fitting name for Edsel would be "S.S. United States."
GEORGE W. SZULC San Diego
Sir: Herewith my version of a "Hard-Topped Convertible Turtletopper" [see cut].
STEPHEN COVEY Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Sir: It will be true poetic justice when these examples of "poetry in motion" show up in the junk yards after being wrapped around sundry unpoetic, stationary objects, and are dubbed "Edsel's Pretzels." "
DONALD P. LEWIS Seattle
Sir: Though Ford has my devotion, How about G.M.'s "poetry in motion"
ODES-MOBILE ?
GEORGE S. KONDOS Sacramento
Dr. Freud & Mr. Allison
Sir: Congratulations to TIME for reviewing Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as a plain movie-type movie, which it is, and not as a papal bull, which it isn't.
MRS. RICHARD BRADFORD Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Sir: Thank you very much for printing the abusive letters you received [TIME, April 15] for your review. When a single pointed question draws such fire from the 200% faithful, it's not hard to understand why Hollywood hardly dares touch any subject at all controversial.
FRANKLIN FORD Falls Church, Va.
For the Love of Ludwig
Sir: Three cheers for Howard Richards and Edmund Leites [April 29]. We have gladly joined forces with the "1 Like Ludwig" club in this effort to crush the Pelvis. Ludwig can give rock 'n' roll a run for its money.
HILTON JARVIS LYLE HILLEGAS Dallas
Sir: I want to help combat the menace.
ELIZABETH M. HODGSON McKeesport, Pa.
Sir: A magnificent way to contest Elvis' supremacy.
BOB MILLER Montreal
*No kin to the late Prof. Frank Abbott Magruder, whose textbook, American Government, was also banned in Houston.
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