New Deal (Cont'd)
Sirs:
. . . The New Deal is what it says: a new and more even distribution of wealth.
HAROLD M. LEVY San Francisco, Calif.
Sirs:
The philosophy of the New Deal is pragmatic. Such a philosophy discards all blueprints for social change, and accepts the experimental method of science. . . .
BENBOW F. RITCHIE Chicago, Ill.
Sirs:
The New Deal is an attempt through political means to improve the functioning of the capitalist system in the U. S. . . .
WILLIAM MCLEAN Palo Alto, Calif.
Sirs:
The New Deal is the application of the experimental method to government.
LAWRENCE METTERSHEIMER Summerdale, Ala.
Sirs:
The New Deal is Socialism.
J. M. NEWCOMB Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Sirs:
The New Deal is cannibalism: it evaluates the existence of some people in terms of sustenance for other people.
MARY ALLEN GRANT Sparta, lll.
Sirs:
The New Deal is a form of cancer and, like it, it is unbeatable.
CHARLES N. WHEATON New York City
Sirs:
New Deal is Roosevelt--nothing more or less.
MRS. T. R. GILCHRIST Galesburg, Ill.
Sirs:
. . . The New Deal realizes the economic changes brought about by the Machine Age and is trying to find ways and means to enable the Profit System to continue under these new conditions, without sacrificing our liberties as other countries were forced to do. ...
ALBERT B. NOR WALK Houston, Tex.
Sirs:
New Deal defined: "The organization of the nincompoop majority whose object is to harass and exploit the producing minority."
CHAS. J. CAMPBELL Seattle, Wash.
Sirs:
The New Deal may be defined as the Government of the U. S. taking over the fatherly job of supporting the people. . . .
DALE SOUTER Attorney-at-Law Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sirs:
. . . The only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way--and funny thing, damn if it ain't!
ROBERT L. SMITH East Chicago, Ind.
Sirs:
To me the New Deal means a philosophy of government . . . the major premise of which is:
THE ECONOMIC WELL BEING & SECURITY OF ALL THE PEOPLE AS THE CONCERN OF A REPRESENTATIVE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. . . .
A. R. BULLOCK Rutherford, N. J.
Sirs:
New Deal merely age-old attempt to check dwindling Income by drafts on Capital. Age-old result should be due fairly soon now, and will doubtless be styled the New Mother-Hubbardism. . . .
W. A. MACLEAN Whaletown, B. C.
Sirs:
The New Deal is a system of gardening by which the fertilizer is withheld from the corn and applied to the weeds. . . .
ANGUS E. ORR Atlanta, Ga.
Venom for Pain
Sirs:
May we ask you to amend your article which appeared in the Medicine column of the July 11 issue, entitled "Venom for Pain,'' to point out that the treatment as applied in its entirety has no ill effects and serves for speedy rehabilitation.
The nerve-blocking procedure in which alcohol, acetone and chloroform are used in addition to cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours.
H. FELSBERG Executive Secretary The Post Graduate Fraternity Association of Regional Anaesthesia New York City
Hideous Article
Sirs:
That contemptible, outrageous article on Groton School, TIME, July 25, is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. There is hardly a word of truth in that hideous article. How can you print such trash ?
Dr. Peabody knows everything that the boys do, and nothing is done without his permission. Furthermore, we do not have that kind of an attitude. There is no phalanx of problem children and no overnourished, overclad boys at Groton. Most of the boys don't have a town and a country house.
You may think this is funny, but I don't!
MINOS L. FLETCHER III Nashville, Tenn.
Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun.--ED.
Ad
Sirs:
Would you accept a Position Wanted advertisement in TIME Magazine ? I am very anxious to buy space--about one and one half inches by one column--in TIME for that purpose, but never having seen such an advertisement in your magazine I'm curious about the possibilities.
If you would accept my ad, there is a still more important question--what would be the cost of said ad? Here is the ad I would want to run:
IS THERE AN AMERICAN LEFT who can give work to a young, ambitious man who refuses to take WPA charity? Have had 2 yrs. M. I. T.; writing experience; military background; can farm; active outdoors; married; no children thru lack of funds. Will take any honest work anywhere.
PAUL C. SMYTH 20 Cross Street Hingham, Mass.
Because TIME'S cheapest advertising space (one column by 14 agate lines) costs $99.54--too steep a price for Reader Smyth--TIME herewith runs his ad for nothing. But let not other jobless readers presume that a once-broken rule will be broken again.--ED.
Hog on Ice
Sirs:
... As a child in North Dakota I used to try to drive the family pigs from one pen to another!
Independent on ice, they will neither stand up nor fall down but slide sideways, and some times sit down and propel like a pup with a bite!
I have always thought the phrase "Like a hog going to war" had to do with their indecision when they hit a slick spot. . . .
ELSIE SMITH PARKER Lincoln, Neb.
Sirs:
TIME'S explanation of the phrase "as independent as a hog on ice" is weak. . . .
It shows a blissful ignorance of the personality of swine. I envy the man who has never had to become familiar with their perversity. . . . The average hog can only be driven by a system of deceit in which one attempts to prevent it from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet. . . .
TIME, which seems to delight in an occasional salty phrase like that one, might like to be reminded of "as pert as a barn rat" which would be an ideal descriptive locution for Simone Simon, and not bad for some of Mussolini's poses. If you are asked to explain that one, I'll be glad to take it apart for you.
ROBERT HOOPER Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sirs:
The expression "as independent as a hog on ice" is as old as the hills, and refers to live hogs on slippery, frozen ground, and it simply means this, "If you can't stand up you can dog-gone well sit down!"
(MRS.) M. PAGE Phoenix. Ariz.
TIME derived its explanation (TIME, July 25, p. 4) from able lexicographical authority, but in the face of such a common-sense consensus acknowledges its misguidance. Thanks to Readers Parker and Hooper for two more bacony phrases.--ED.
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