The Republican Split

Sir:

You seemed to give the impression in your May 20 issue that "the Old Guard" brand of Republicanism is maintained by an older, outdated type of leader and voter. When I am released from the Army, I hope to return to teaching and live this conservative way of life.

ROBERT C. BACON Kentfield, Calif.

Sir:

A 1910 model Republican may have the organized influence to win the party's nomination, but he'll get about one in one hundred of the total popular vote when election time comes.

HELEN FRANCIS Hays, Kans.

Sir:

Ike was elected because he was Ike. The Republican governors and legislators were defeated because they were Republicans.

BLANDFORD JENNINGS Maplewood, Mo.

Passing the Buck

Sir:

The Cordiner pay-revision plan for the Army [May 20] or no Cordiner plan; it will still be the joy of the top sergeant (IQ: 50) to give the dirtiest jobs to the man with the most education.

CHARLES S. ALLEN Norman, Okla.

Sir:

The answer to the lagging re-enlistment problem in our armed forces will never be found by consulting know-nothings like ex-Secretary of the Air Force Symington, Ralph J. Cordiner, or any other top-drawer official in the U.S. The real answer is not money but a recognition of the enlisted man as a human being.

ROBERT S. CUMMINGS ex-Radarman, U.S.N. Philadelphia

Priestly Handymen

Sir:

Concerning your May 13 report on the third plenary assembly of the French Catholic Church: as a Catholic, I see no inconvenience in allowing French priests to earn their living in secular jobs which are not incompatible with their religious activities. St. Paul, the Master's best priest and preacher, was a tentmaker, and his priesthood was a vocation and not a paying job. It is high time some of our church dignitaries realized that in the 20th century we can't live by medieval standards.

S. T. WARD Toronto

The Age of Anxiety

SIR:

WHILE THE QUOTATION FROM ME ["a martini before dinner can put a new face on things"] IN THE LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES' PAMPHLET ON WHICH YOU REPORT [MAY 27] IS CORRECT, AND IS TAKEN FROM MY BOOK "BEYOND ANXIETY," I MUST POINT OUT THAT IT IS SET IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHAPTER WHICH WARNS AGAINST THE DANGERS BOTH OF ALCOHOLISM AND OF ESCAPE FROM INNER PROBLEMS BY THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

(THE VERY REV.) JAMES A. PIKE

DEAN CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE NEW YORK CITY

Arms & the Newsmen

Sir:

Not only Publisher Knight's newspaper but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce fell for the alleged "$300,000 boondoggle" [May 20] in the President's national defense budget. The $300,000 is the sole Government contribution to a program which involves nearly 4,000 civilian rifle and pistol clubs in the U.S. These clubs are not the plush hunting clubs so graphically pictured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They are modest clubs of marksmen who, on their own time, on their own ranges, and largely with their own weapons, keep alive the art of rifle marksmanship. The contribution made by the U.S. Government is largely in the form of very limited supplies of surplus ammunition and equipment to those clubs which annually report to the Secretary of the Army marksmanship proficiency based on the Army qualification courses of fire.

FLOYD L. PARKS Lieutenant General, U.S.A. (Ret.) Executive Director National Rifle Assoc. of America Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Some forceful criticism on the part of our respectable press is sorely needed to provoke a wishy-washy President into assuming his position as the Chief Executive.

HARTE C. CROW Philadelphia

The Word from Arkansas

Sir:

Congratulations on your May 27 cover; it is refreshing to see the face of such a distinguished citizen as Senator John McClellan. The time has come for all to realize Arkansawyers have come of age -- we go to school, wear shoes and McClellan makes us proud to be from Arkansas.

MRS. L. K. McMURTRY Moberly, Mo.

Sir:

I was shocked and horrified by the statement you attributed to me in your John McClellan story. I do not use the Lord's name in vain.

SID McMATH Little Rock, Ark.

P: TIME is glad to note that ex-Marine McMath says he does not swear. -- ED.

Noyes About the House

Sir:

Looking at that perspective cutaway of the Noyes house, Roman atrium and all [May 20], I wondered if Architect Noyes realized that if things ever got congested in his Connecticut town he can always do as the Romans did, i.e., make a row of shops out of that row of bedrooms and get himself a few sesterces of rental income.

LAWRENCE A. MEEHAN Kearny, N.J.

P: Says Architect Noyes: A great idea."-- ED. Sir:

Does Noyes put on his coat when he goes from the living room to his bedroom? New Caanan weather gets mighty cold during the winter.

ASTRA SYLVIA TREI New York City

P: Noyes: "It is such a short distance that we never wear coats, we often wander across in slippers and pajamas even in mid-winter.'''--ED.

Sir:

Where is the car parked?

EDWARD B. HENIG New Orleans

P: Noyes: "We park it outdoors, but if the cars get any uglier, I may have to build a garage." -- ED.

Loeb's Low Line

Sir:

Re New Hampshire's Publisher William Loeb, May 20: I cannot but marvel at a country in which an editor can label (and yet not libel) the President as "a stinking hypocrite." May the day never come when it will be otherwise.

PAUL E. REED Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

Most of the intelligent people in New Hampshire laugh off Loeb's editorials as being a lot of garbage; I think they are wonderful. I also like Malenkov, Mickey Mouse and Mad comics.

W. B. MACKENZIE Hanover, N.H.

The New Cardinal

Sir:

We of the Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant, in deep sympathy with the cardinal's patriotic service to his country and to all mankind as well.

BENJAMIN H. KIZER Spokane, Wash.

Sir:

Catholicism is an elastic philosophy. It has managed to play ball with feudalism, capitalism, rightist dictatorship and now with leftist dictatorship. Just as Communism changes front, so does Catholicism change front.

LEWIS A. LINCOLN Denver

Sir: In case you get no reactions except that the Vatican has gone over to Moscow, or that Catholicism and Communism are peas in a pod, or that cardinals wear red hats because of their cunningly disguised political sympathies, may I say that your story is an ably written explanation of a unique religious and political situation. It delineates an intelligent Christian who has tried to do God's will in a complex problem. Whether precarious compromise is better than bloody martyrdom is a judgment few of us are qualified (or, fortunately, called upon) to make.

DOROTHY DEMPSEY Park Forest, Ill.

The Heart of the Matter

Sir: Undoubtedly, with the wide circulation TIME enjoys among thinking people, the result of your May 27 article, "The Heart at Work & Play," will be to bring an end to the form of play known as propagation ; abruptly end the increase of population upon which our economy is based, and wipe out the glorious future of our beloved country.

ANSLEY COPE Pittsburgh

Sir:

Concerning Dr. Dock's theory anent stress imposed by sexual intercourse:

The most moot question up to date: How does a celibate celebrate?

M. I. CALDWELL Arcadia, Calif.

The Buried Caesar

Sir:

I am completely at a loss to understand TIME'S (and NBC's) puzzlement over Sid Caesar's current predicament [May 27]. Your paragraphs about "overexposure" were so much wasted space. Other comedians have cried the blues about TV, have floundered and failed. Sid alone has gone on year after year getting better all the time. There is nothing mysterious whatever about Lawrence Welk getting the higher rating; the higher the art form, the smaller its TV audience. STEVE ALLEN New York City

P: TV M.C. Allen's ratings have been climbing steadily.--ED.

Sir: Over the heads of millions of viewers (Viewers whose heads should be roasted on skewers) Sails the talent of Caesar and crew, Not missed by the many, but mourned by the few.

MRS. KEITH LOCKARD Grand Prairie, Texas

The Eyes of Texas

Sir: All honor to the students of the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts who boycotted Dido and Aeneas because Barbara Louise Smith, a Negro, was removed from the cast because of her race [May 20].

E. E. GARDNER Conyers, Ga.

Sir:

You portray the University of Texas Negro coed as an innocent lamb shorn of her wool. Ten to one she was a plant, and the campus Commies and associates worked diligently to plant her there.

CLEM CARSON Tifton, Ga.

Sir:

Your story seeks to make Dr. Wilson the villain in the integration story at our university. Under his leadership, the university has moved firmly and solidly, without fanfare, toward full integration of its students.

HERMAN JONES Austin, Texas

High Tide

Sir:

I have just read the May 20 review of The Turn of the Tide by "Arthur Bryant. You say that the book "has already sold 70,000 copies in England." The sale of the English edition passed the 100,000 mark before the end of March.

W. A. R. COLLINS Collins Publishers London

Shedding Light

Sir:

As a former colonial (bwana), permit me to congratulate you on James Whitmore's photographs of central Africa [May 20]. They shed new light on what is frequently called the dark continent.

GEOFFREY H. LANE Sarnia, Ont.

Sir:

Those vivid pictures and your map of Middle Africa "bring homesickness" (vi koka ongeva) to one just back from Africa. Your writer, however, brushes off Christianity as "Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few." A conservative estimate gives at least 8,000,000 Protestants and 13,000,000 Roman Catholics in Middle Africa, and the Christian community has been doubling itself about every 15 years.

THEODORE L. TUCKER Africa Committee National Council of Churches New York City

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