The Faubus Affair

SIR:

IN REFLECTING UPON YOUR COVERAGE OF THE FAUBUS AFFAIR [SEPT. 23], I HEAR ONLY THE MOCKING LAUGH OF HISTORY -- AT THOSE OF MY FELLOW SOUTHERNERS WHO WOULD HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF SOCIAL GROWTH WITH THE MINNOW SEINE OF TRUTHLESS REASON.

DANIEL H. MCDONALD CHAMPAIGN, ILL.

Sir:

I am quite sure that you Americans have the faith and brains to solve the colored problem in a way that we all can be proud of you--not like that Faubus.

GUY BAUMANN Olten, Switzerland

Sir:

As a displaced hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee I resent your slurring, disgraceful, damnable remark about hillbillies and Governor Faubus.

CHARLIE CRENSHAW

Laurens, S.C.

Sir:

Thanks for the factual reporting of the situation in Little Rock.

JAMES J. DENTON

Hot Springs, Ark.

Sir:

I can't begin to express my disagreement with Governor Orval Faubus' actions of late, but inciting prejudices because of a man's background can certainly be no more commendable than inciting prejudices because of a man's skin pigmentation.

DOROTHY M. WIND New London, Conn.

Sir:

It is regrettable we don't have more "slightly sophisticated hillbillies" who have guts enough to stand up for what they believe.

B. P. MARTIN

Richardson, Texas

Sir:

The road to oblivion is paved with Little Rocks.

HANS KNIGHT

Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir:

There are many honest and decent people of the South who feel only horror in witnessing the activities of the governor of Arkansas and other rabblerousers who deny the freedoms which our nation ostensibly seeks to advance.

ULMAN E. LONG

Wichita Falls, Texas

Sir:

Governor Faubus should be nominated for the Stalin Medal or its present-day counterpart for his contribution to the cause of Communist propaganda.

(A/IC) ROBERT A. SMITHEY San Francisco

Sir:

More power to Arkansas' Governor Faubus. He could be elected President tomorrow if it were left to eleven of the Southern states.

W. B. BURCH

Killarney, Fla.

Sir:

TIME'S Arkansas story sounds like a collaboration between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Beecher Stowe as rewritten by a Hearst editor.

ROBERT W. BLAIR, M.D. Los Angeles

Sir:

Congratulations! Your story on Governor Faubus of Arkansas couldn't have been better if Al Capp had done it.

LILLIE LEE ROGERS Jonesboro, Ark.

Sir:

Who is running this country--President Faubus or Governor Eisenhower?

DORIS SALZMAN

Wichita, Kans.

Sir:

My sympathies are with Governor Faubus.

A. W. STANTON London

Sir:

Our integration troubles down here have advertised to the world one fact: we have some young Negro girls of remarkable strength of character. They have carried themselves with simple dignity.

FRANK BRYAN

Groesbeck, Texas

A New Shame

Sir:

The brutal act done to Judge Aaron [who was emasculated by six Alabama hoodlums--TIME, Sept. 16] should make all men weep. What hope for world peace when in the U.S. we have fallen so short of setting an example for other nations to follow?

MRS. RICHARD F. DZENGELESKI

Quincy, Mass.

Sir:

So long as white men, with a Bible in their shack, feel justified to mutilate a stranger just because of the color of his skin, I feel it is my duty as a Catholic priest, who just happened to be born white, to offer my sincere apologies to Judge Aaron, and I do so with a deep feeling of guilt for a Bible so misused.

J. M. JAMMES

Chicago

Sir:

A new shame hangs over America.

FLEMING R. WALLER

Sacramento

Sir:

The responsibility for this degenerate crime is upon the whole of the American people.

GEORGE JAMES TKACH

Carlyle, Sask.

Sir:

No American will be able to say a word when the atrocities of the Chinese (and others) are mentioned.

INEZ BROWN

New York City

Sir:

The most fitting punishment for Aaron's four attackers would be the application of the ancient law, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth." I have several used razor blades which I would be willing to donate.

TED COPELAND Havertown, Pa.

X Marks the Spot SIR :

MAY WE CORRECT A STATEMENT THAT HONDURAS IS ONE OF FIVE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES NOT PERMITTING ILLITERATES TO VOTE [TIME, Sept. 16] ? STATISTICS OF THE NATIONAL ELECTION COMMISSION PUBLISHED LAST MONTH SHOW THAT 313,373 MEN AND WOMEN WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE--60% OF THE ELECTORATE WERE NEVERTHELESS DULY REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR MEMBERS OF A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [IN THE LAST ELECTION]. THIS RIGHT HAS EXISTED FOR DECADES.

MAJOR ROBERTO GALVEZ B. COLONEL HECTOR CARACCIOLI

JUNTA MILITAR DE GOBIERNO

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS

Rock 'n' Shockers Sir: Producer Cohen's teenage werewolves [TIME, Sept. 9] are doing a thorough job of degenerating America's youth.

ELLEN M. EDMUNDS Kenbridge, Va.

Sir:

As for this young chick, I think they're the greatest. After all, no one put you down for braving the sawmill with Pearl White--and King Kong wasn't born yesterday, you know. I saw Teenage Werewolf three times, and as yet I haven't had any trouble with fangs or unsightly facial hair.

LORI R. KOFF

San Francisco

Sir:

It astounds me that intelligent human beings could waste their time and dirty their souls with such a moronic product.

MRS. CONNIE MELIN Payson, Ill.

Soviet Survivor

Sir:

Compliments upon your revealing closeups of the high and mighty of present-day Sovietism--this time that of no other than slick Khrushy's latest stooge, Mikoyan [Sept. 16].

VIVIENNE MARQUIS New York City

Sir:

Mikoyan has done more harm to the Armenian people than anybody else except the Turks.

HAGOP ARSHAGOUNI

Los Angeles

Sir:

By our American standards, Mikoyan is not a prize, and repeated reference to him as Armenian creates a disservice to the overwhelming majority of Armenians, who are antiCommunists.

VINCENT YARDUM

Rye, N.Y.

Sir:

This ungodly character doesn't deserve the right to call himself an Armenian. Armenians are good Christians, first, last and always !

JOSEPH ESSEGIAN Watertown, Mass.

Sir:

Isn't it about time we fought fire with fire in this "cold" war with Russia? We should be grooming an Armenian-American to talk Turkey with that Armenian-Russian. If there is ever a man who can understand the psychology of the Armenian at the bazaar, it will be another Armenian.

CHARLES BOODAKIAN Rennington, Vt.

Intellectual Myopia?

Sir:

I feel a great concern over the letter about Zionism in your Sept. 16 issue by Clarence Coleman Jr. of the American Council for Judaism. That organization is often referred to in Jewish circles as the "American Council against Judaism." I consider myself a Zionist, and yet as good a Jew and American as any other.

THOMAS RADO New York City

Sir:

To claim unanimity of the heterogeneous American Jewish community on any topic is hazardous; to airily dismiss a rich intellectual tradition by claiming that "most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism" requires intellectual myopia.

DONALD WEINSHANK

Evanston, Ill.

Arctic Adjusted

Sir:

Re Milestones [Sept. 16]: Peter Freuchen died at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska, not Fairbanks, Alaska. How dare you discredit our All-American City.

THOMAS E. GARASICK

Anchorage, Alaska

P: TIME overflew. -- -En.

Manners v. Morals Sir:

The recommendations of the British Wolfenden Report on homosexuality and prostitution [Sept. 16] for the repeal of criminal laws that infringe upon the rights of consenting adults in private to determine their conduct deserves the praise and emulation of America.

The present laws in both England and America against homosexuality create many unintended problems including blackmail and suicide.

W. R. WESTFALL

Los Angeles

Sir:

It occurs to me on reading your discussion of the Wolfenden Report that both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church are guilty of the "sentimentalizing" from which Mr. Cozzens' Episcopal rector was cleanly free. Kinsey and his unrestrained treatment of the subject has been pointed at as one of the villains. I wonder if this is not further evidence of Gnostic perversion of Christian teaching.

JOSEPH PAUL MORRIS JR.

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Sir:

At -L-60, taxfree, per night, or even per week, the prostitute's position is certainly an enviable one to the tax-poor Briton.

A. KALSON

Pittsburgh

End of the Search

Sir: In the Sept. 16 issue of TIME, you published an article entitled "Little Spacegirls." I don't feel that the U.S., with its long educational background and intelligent young women of today, need take a back seat to Russia in space flight and exploration. I am writing to offer my services.

I am five feet tall with my shoes on, and a second-year mechanical engineering student.

MARY ELLEN L. Du VALL

Flat Rock, Mich.

Sir:

Science's search for a psychotic female to fly to the moon is at an end. All it has to look for is a woman with three kids.

MRS. LEONARD S. BRAM Iselin, N.J.

Savory Hunk Sir:

I have read with admiration the story of the Connecticut General building (Sept. 16). You compressed a tremendous amount of information into a short space and accurately reflected the character of our new office.

FRAZAR B. WILDE President

Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Hartford, Conn.

Sir:

Your menu sounds tempting, but hasn't Chef Bunshaft just sliced off another savory hunk of the endless Skidmore, Owings & Merrill bologna ?

BILL GARDNER Pleasant Ridge, Mich.

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