Ego & the Economy
Sir:
Please accept sincere thanks . . . for your article on Texas' Glenn McCarthy [TIME, Feb. 13].
Old Glenn kicks up more dust than 17 Texas sandstorms, and is sure a lot of fun to watch . . .
This nation, if ever it completely stifles the initiative of Glenn McCarthy and of men like him, will have killed its last major, claim to being a free, competitive economy . . .
ALLEN R. ROBERTSON
Weslaco, Texas
Sir:
. . . Where else in the world can a wildcatter, stuck with a wife whom he married with $1.50 in his pocket, venture with somebody else's money to take a chance on oil and succeed to such a wealthy and respected stature? . . . RICHARD L. BROWN Delaware, Ohio
Sir: After reading your story about Glenn McCarthy, I'm happier than ever that I'm not a Texan . . .
SARAH P. HESS Oreland, Pa.
Sir: Your excellent appraisal of Texas prosperity and industrial expansion does not lay enough emphasis upon the basic reason: the tax-free nature of 27 1/2% of a great share of Texas income . . .
President Truman's economic advisers would do well to ponder the effect of a national income tax cut of 27 1/2 % upon our entire economy--some $9 billion of new capital and purchasing power. Is the contracting, stagnant economy envisioned by the disciples of Lord Keynes and Leon Keyserling preferable to the ever-expanding economy of Jesse Jones and Glenn McCarthy? . . .
JOHN C. LOBB Madison, Wis.
Sir: More power to McCarthy . . . If it's ego that accomplishes what McCarthy has, let all men have more of it. DOROTHY WALTERS Dallas, Texas
Circles Suh: TIME marches on but editorial cartooning runs around in circles:
Richmond, Va. P: For a clear, curt comment on the cartoon cliche (TIME, Feb. 20), TIME'S thanks to Cartoonist Fred Seibel of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.--ED.
As You Like It Sir: How refreshing to see a real picture--and a beautiful one--on the Art page: Frederick Waugh's March--North Atlantic [TiME, Feb. 13].
I suppose the linoleum pattern in the lower right-hand corner of the same page is a foil to that--but why the title, Bottle of Bordeaux, I have no idea.
JAMES L. HYDE Albany, Ohio
Sir:
After reading TIME for about 20 years, I find that my artistic education has been appreciably improved. I am now occasionally able to figure out what the artists meant to convey in their "cubistic" and other cuckoo-type paintings.
[But] it seems to me that Gris's Bottle of Bordeaux (see cut) is misnamed, and should be Man in Toilet . . .
HERMAN W. HAWKER Teague, Texas
Sir:
Why is it that in the field of painting alone, success seems to depend on press-agentry, buffoonery and hokum? The explanations in TIME [Feb. 20] given by the Manhattan abstractionists for their work (one gave as his aim, "to make the unknowable manifest") have all the appearance either of inane gibberish or of deliberate delusion. Of course art is a form of exhibitionism, but ... all other cultural efforts stand on their esthetic appeal and can be so judged for their intrinsic worth ..
ARTHUR A. GILBERT Winnetka, Ill
Let TIME'S readers bear in mind Oscar Wilde's words: "There are two ways of disliking art: one is to dislike it. The other, to like it rationally."--ED.
Sex Before Marriage?
Sir:
Your excellent article on "Sex Before Marriage" [TIME, Feb. 13] was more than well done ... It is about time the subject was aired ... It is because of the lack of understanding given to us earlier that this phase of life, which is more than the basis for a happy marriage, is why we humans suffer from the grotesque bugaboo inflicted on us by our so-called religious instructors .. .
A. JAMES MAHEFKEY Rochester, N.Y.
Sir:
Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society. He is guilty of scientific heresy by implicitly disregarding science's theory of evolution: that mankind is evolving from the immoral being to the moral being guided not by misdirected adolescent passions, but by adult morality and intelligence . . .
JASPER BLYSTONE Los Angeles, Calif.
Sir:
Anthropologist Murdock needs to remember that religion is not a science. The animal world has lived happily without sexual restraint since the time of creation, so Murdock's study has proved nothing. He may not feel himself much above an animal, but the rest of us do.
(MRS.) ELIZABETH MORGAN Dallas, Texas
Sir:
. . . The statement by Anthropologist Murdock ... is wholesome advice. It is an indisputable fact that destructive guilt and inferiority complexes very often result from inhibitions built up in the mind of the adolescent by the platitudes of ignorant clergymen and parents. Clergymen should be equally interested in the physical and mental health of the youth under their influence, as well as in their moral health. Sex in itself, like love, is beautiful and not the dirty nasty something many youths are taught to believe. We clergymen ought to be brave enough to face new ideas.
R. S. CALDWELL Pastor
Bedford Presbyterian Church Bedford, Pa.
Vishinskian Pill
Sir:
. . . High Commissioner John J. McCloy's speech at Stuttgart [TIME, Feb. 13] ... [is] a bitter pill for the Germans--U.S. consent to French seizure of the Saarland. What is new in McCloy's speech is the use of distinctly Vishinskian illogic as he tells the Germans that the Saar question is a "foreign issue" and henceforth to be avoided in their discussions. Might as well say that Pennsylvania is of no concern to the rest of the U.S. and anybody saying the contrary will be considered subversive . . .
ANTHONY KOHOUT Sooke, B.C.
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