Another Target
Sirs:
In Letters, Feb. 9, you disclose that "another TIME reader, who found Hitler's mug on the cover, used it for a dart target."
Private Joe Yamamoto, as the picture shows, is using your Dec. 22 cover of his distant relative, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in like manner. Watching him is Private Robert Yarnell, cousin of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Both men are trainees at this Quartermaster Replacement Training Center.
PRIVATE JOSEPH E. RAY Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo.
Raring Captain
Sirs:
FEB. 9 ISSUE OF TIME SAYS WILLIAM C. MCDONALD JR. AND J. H WILLIAMSON ARE NOW SERVING WITH AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP IN CHINA. THE FACT IS I AM NOW FLYING FOR DELTA AIR LINES BUT WOULD GIVE ALMOST ANYTHING TO BE OVER THERE NOW WITH GENERAL CHENNAULT. I HOLD A RESERVE COMMISSION AS CAPTAIN AND I AM RARING TO GO WHENEVER THE ARMY SEES FIT TO CALL. I WOULD RATHER SERVE UNDER GENERAL CHENNAULT THAN ANYBODY I KNOW OF. ... CAPTAIN JOHN HENRY WILLIAMSON
Air Corps (Reserve)
Delta Air Lines
Atlanta, Ga.
P:Apologies to Captain Williamson, whose whereabouts should have been known to the authorities TIME consulted. He left China, where he had been training pilots, at the State Department's bidding in 1938.-ED.
Attack Repudiated
Sirs:
THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE ONE YEAR AGO, HAVE TODAY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, WITH VOTES NOT ONLY OF MAJORITY PARTY BUT OF ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE LEGISLATURE, VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATING THE ATTACK BY PUERTO RICAN RESIDENT COMMISSIONER BOLIVAR PAGAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TUGWELL AS FALSE IN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS AND AS PROVIDING, UNLESS REPUDIATED BY THE PEOPLE AND THE LEGISLATURE, A BASIS FOR NAZI PROPAGANDA IN LATIN AMERICA WHICH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE BERLIN RADIO.
Luis MUNOZ MARIN President of the Senate of Puerto Rico SAMUEL R. QUINONES Speaker of House of Representatives of Puerto Rico San Juan, P.R.
P: Handsome Rexford Guy Tugwell has had his troubles since he became Governor of Puerto Rico last September. In Washington last month he was denounced as "an American-quisling" by Commissioner Pagan (TIME, Feb. 2). Result was the foregoing cablegram. -Ed.
Minister Earle's Return
Sirs:
... In TIME [Feb. 9] there is a critical article about me bringing my dog and 13 pieces of luggage on an American bomber to America. . . .
Here are the facts: 1) There were seven pieces of small hand luggage (not 13). 2) I was forced to abandon the personal effects of my wife, three children and myself in Bulgaria with an infinitesimal chance of ever seeing them again or being recompensed by our Government as this takes a special act of Congress. The value of these personal belongings, furniture, etc. is about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours at a stretch, unable to talk and unable to look at anything but another bomb rack.
My dog has been my inseparable companion in Bulgaria (where I didn't have too many friends) since he was a puppy. He probably saved me from being beaten up or worse. . . .
GEORGE H. EARLE
Philadelphia, Pa.
P:Mr. Earle, after reporting to President Roosevelt on his return from Bulgaria, resigned his diplomatic job to go on active duty with the Navy (TIME, Feb. 23). TIME is glad to present his facts on his journey, sorry he had such a tough trip.-ED.
Washboard Weepers
Sirs:
Sportswriter Cunningham isn't the first person in the country to swear at daytime radio programs [TIME, Feb. 2]. Hundreds of women have protested in vain and wished they could take punitive action on the radio in reverse.
I keep a list of every sponsor of a soap opera and not a one of their products goes into my kitchen. . . .
MRS. CLYDE M. SEIBERT
Watsonville, Calif.
Sirs:
... I started this war with a morale as good as anybody's, but it started slipping after a few days of steady "washboard weepers," and by the end of a week I was ready to surrender. . . .
However, I have discovered a silver lining --an infallible technique I'd like to pass along: I leave the volume turned down so that I can't hear a word--only the tone of the voices. Then if the voice is one filled with violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes--then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing in it but words-then I dash to the radio to turn it up and find out who's got Bengasi now.
MRS. E. D. PERKINS
Lewiston, Idaho
"We Can Take It"
Sirs:
Some of us are getting sick and tired of the wail from Washington, echoed in TIME, that suggests that we, the people, are unaware of the war. What do you want us to do? You say we are awake. You say we are working. What do you want us to do? Shall we stand ranting in the streets tearing our shirts like any Congressman to convince you that we are serious? Wars are not won by words but by work and sacrifice. We are working. We are willing to sacrifice.
Our sons have gone and are going gladly and we have proudly watched them go. Do you think the families of men in service are unaware that there is a war? Our way of living has been and is being curtailed and most of us have heard only cheerful acceptance of growing restrictions that affect our daily lives. In many sections, such as ours, where there is little or no defense work our economic security is severely threatened but there have been mighty few complaints. I have heard scores of men whose livelihood is gone completely, say with a smile, "That's o.k., we can take it." . . .
Perhaps our critics thinking of themselves are only surprised that we make no complaints. Perhaps they are suspicious of a silence and acceptance that they cannot understand. Perhaps they do not know the infinite capacity of the people of America to quietly and without heroics give to their country. Perhaps they have lost contact with the people. . . .
(REV.) RUSSELL C. STROUP
First Presbyterian Church Lynchburg, Va.
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