More About Marijuana

Sirs:

. . . Your article on marijuana (TIME, July 19) was dangerous and misleading. You compared its effects favorably with the use of alcohol, and made the use of this weed seem attractive and ''delightful. . . .

FRAZIER REAMS Toledo

Sirs:

. . . THERE IS NO DOUBT MARIJUANA AS A DRUG SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM ANY CONSIDERATION. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR ITS USE AT ANY TIME. IT IS AN ADDICTION DRUG WHICH BY ITS USE CAUSES CHANGES IN PERSONALITY INVARIABLY FOR THE WORSE. . . . MOREOVER IT HAS NO PLACE IN RATIONAL THERAPEUTICS. . . .

J. C. GEIGER, M.D. Director Public Health San Francisco

Sirs:

... I realize that you would not admit even condoning the use of marijuana and that you would stand up for your right to print the truth. . . .

I question the scientific basis of some of your opinions; I object to your implications; and I wonder why you did not give adequate treatment to the case against marijuana.

JOHN WlLDENTHAL JR. U.S.N.R. Austin, Tex.

> TIME would be shocked to think that its story had attracted anyone to marijuana. The facts of TIME'S story were based on recent findings by outstanding authorities. Reports based on earlier studies have sometimes been more sensational than scientific.

TIME'S considered advice: if you must smoke cigarets, stick to the standard brands.--ED.

Political Notes

Sirs:

In regard to your statement that Wendell Willkie's prestige is growing (TIME, July 26), I should like to say that if he were offered as a Presidential candidate in opposition to Roosevelt, I would vote for Willkie. However, if any other candidate were offered by the Republican Party, I would zealously help vote Roosevelt into his fourth term.

HELEN S. WEBB Murray, Ky.

Sirs:

TIME (July 26) refers to Colonel Mc-Cormick's statement that Illinoisans think Willkie is nuts and that he (Willkie) cannot carry that state.

I don't know what we in Illinois would do without Colonel McCormick's humor. He is our favorite funny man. We like a comedian who plays his part straight. . . .

JOHN A. DUPEE JR. Freeport, Ill.

Literary Cabbage

Sirs:

Last week I panned the TIME book reviewer for pretentious writing.

This week I commend the thrilling sum mary of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (TIME, July 19). ... I read it twice over with satisfaction.

The appended account of the writing of the book is good except for TIME'S penchant for how much cabbage everyone will get. . . .

E. F. OAKES

Springfield, Mass.

> Cabbage, like kings, is sometimes TIME worthy news.--ED.

For Those Who Worry

Sirs:

For those who worry what this war may do to the morals of our American soldiers, may I quote from a letter from my husband who is stationed somewhere in North Africa? Technical Sergeant George writes:

"The people over here are very American conscious; most of them to whom I have talked have expressed the hope that they can some day visit America. It gives me a feeling of pride that I am a citizen of the U.S. and am fighting for her. . . .

"The great majority of the boys here are sending most of their money home for the purchase of war bonds and to guarantee a secure future when they do return. In fact, the old cry that war ruins men is a lot of bunk as far as I have been able to observe. I believe that the soldiers here are more sober, thriftier, and go to church more than an equal number of civilians do. If a man comes through combat without physical harm I believe that he will be a much better man than he was before the Army service; he will be better able to cope with the problems that he will have to face when this is all over, and the serious task of living and being a good citizen is assumed."

MRS. LOREN E. GEORGE Clarkdale, Ariz.

Bad Bump

Sirs:

We English teachers labor all year long to instruct our students that verbs like feels, seems, looks, and smells, when describing the subject, are followed by adjectives and not adverbs.

And then a widely read magazine like TIME undoes all our good with one inexcusable blunder . . . July 26 issue: "Bumpy does not feel too badly."

GEORGE CORNELL

Columbus, Ohio

Sirs:

Maybe I am badly for asking you why you say, "Bumpy does not feel too badly" . . . but I think it looks badly and when you read it aloud, it sounds-badly. Could it be that it is badly English?

Once before, you wrote, "Mussolini felt badly" but I let it pass, thinking that perhaps his "fine Italian hand" had become calloused (perhaps petrified) and you were using "feel" as a transitive verb.

WILLIAM F. ABLER

Pittsburgh

> After protracted argument and the citation of many an authority, the stubborn editor responsible for this grammatical crime admits it, feels bad.

--ED.

Crapologist

Sirs:

If that Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine really had a mind that could "dominate dice," (TIME, July 26) he wouldn't be teaching school.

SPENCER VANDERBILT

Webster Groves, Mo.

Sirs:

. . . Professor Rhine should have been a member of the Brain Trust. Mebbe the New Deal would have worked better with hir mental control over the dice.

E. M. KEPHALT, Mentor, Ohio

Father Dodd's Get-Up

Sirs:

Many thanks for the excellent article about Father Dodd of Hollywood (TIME, Aug. 2), but where, oh where, did you find that atrocious photograph, which makes him look like "an odd fish" indeed? Never have I seen a priest, whether Anglo-Catholic or Roman Catholic, arrayed in such a getup!

REV. EDMUND L. SOUDER

Cincinnati

> It was Hollywood's idea of what a nondescript preacher should wear for the wedding of a divorcee (the picture: Silver Dollar).--ED.

2,000 Years From Now . . .

Sirs:

Thanks for "Wings Needed" [TIME, July 26]. It helps to put the present war in its historical place.

Perhaps 2,000 years from now a TIME editor will write a similar article about the Invasion of Sicily, 1943.

JOSEPH M. KNOTEK Chicago

French Flash

Sirs:

... I was visiting in Algiers one Saturday evening. French papers came out with 3-inch headlines proclaiming . . . "Mussolini Out, Badoglio In." That was May 16 !

Were the French in possession of news you couldn't print? Was the French press used as a sounding board for public reaction? Was our delay in reporting the overthrow political or military? . . .

LIEUT. C. U. WOLF

Phoenixville, Pa.

> TIME has been reporting Musso lini's downfall as a probability for more than two years, Badoglio's succession as a possibility (May 24), but raises its eyebrows at reporting a fact before it occurred. -- ED.

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