Stout Fellow

SIR:

WOW THAT COVER [April 21 ]. MAKE MINE GUINNESS.

BILL CHASE

TANGIER

Sir:

Imaginative Artist Ben Shahn, with judicious frugality of line, has portrayed Alec Guinness' anonymity as a man while presenting the mirror image of the actor who lives through the looking glass in his make-believe world of grease paint and spirit gum.

PHIL LINK

Reidsville, N.C.

Sir:

Seems to me that the boy from West London deserves to be knighted.

WESLEY F. PRATZNER

Boston

Sir:

You had better stick to your funny (if often unfair) reviews of movies rather than delve into the murky, misguided metaphysics of a great artist who needs your bewildering appraisal like he needs a hole in the head.

C. J. KILGORE, M.D.

San Francisco

Sir:

Neither Webster nor Wodehouse defines "faithful brolly" with which Guinness is braced. Anything like a spot of the tiddly?

ROBERT S. ALDRICH

Los Gatos, Calif.

P: Brolly is an abominable Briticism for umbrella (and tiddly is a short beer).--ED.

Negro Crime

Sir:

The publication of the Negro crime article [April 21] is a cinch to woo back the Faubus-following racists TIME lost during the Little Rock episode, who, no doubt, will take the article's title and figures literally.

MERTIS L. GOLDEN

Oakland, Calif.

Sir:

It was highly reassuring to have TIME admit that integration has wholly failed in the North and that, once Northern people realize that fact, some possible progress may be expected.

J. OWEN REYNOLDS

Lexington, Ky.

Sir:

Damn you, TIME. Every time I get ready to cancel my subscription you come out with an article like this.

W. E. MINER

Columbia, S.C.

Sir:

This article is the most vicious and insidious attack on the Negro people that I have seen since I, as a boy in Mississippi, by chance found a copy of McCormick's Chicago Tribune.

RAY WARD WEST

Seattle

Sir:

During the past six months, representatives of the Seattle police department and the Seattle Urban League have been conducting a survey of Negro crime, in order to develop programs of rehabilitation and prevention. Northern communities have to shed their finger-pointing and false pride, and realize that they too have a responsibility for correcting flagrant racial situations, particularly in housing.

EDWIN T. PRATT

Seattle Urban League

Seattle

Philippine Follies

Sir:

Your article on the Philippines and Mr. Garcia [April 21] is a gross understatement. Things are twice as bad as you relate. Political graft, moral corruption, and a general desire to be spoon-fed is the actual situation.

Jos. LEGRANDE

Manila, P.I.

Teachers & TIME

Sir:

The National Association of Secondary-School Principals' directive [urging members to "question the continuation of subscriptions to TIME and LIFE--TIME, April 21] can in no way be construed as censorship. In educational circles, canceling a subscription is what is known as a critical and dynamic re-evaluation of our selective skills.

WILLIAM A. GROMKO

Uncasville, Conn.

Sir:

Concerning the article on the National Association of Secondary-School Principals' opposition to the LIFE series on education, let me advise that I have taken these LIFE issues to my classroom so that all the students may read them.

ASA N. CASTERLIN

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Sir:

Neither LIFE nor TIME subscriptions will be renewed for our school.

RAYMOND L. LUCAS

Principal

Seaside High School

Waterford, Conn.

Sir:

FIRST QUARTER

Student: TIME

Subject: Education

Content B

Emotional Adjustment A

Language A+

Otherdirectedness A

Teacher: Fred Harding

Bakersfield, Calif.

Economic Winter

Sir:

Re Ike's "Buy" and Congress's headlong antirecession plans [TIME, April 21]: Once again in a winter of our economy the frugal ants are being called upon to support the improvident grasshoppers.

ROBERT S. PICARD, M.D.

Shreveport, La.

Sir:

The recession can be traced very largely to a revolt of the FIGs (Fixed Income Groups) against the wage-price spiral. If this spiral is not stopped, the FIGs will, in the end, be starved out of existence.

C. EDWARD GRAVES

Carmel, Calif.

Sir:

The trouble is that business has not the guts to tell off the unions.

EDWARD K. SMITH

Marblehead, Mass.

Sir:

Lower the drinking age to 16--tax money will put everybody right back on their feet.

B. FRANK DEFORD

H. BLAIR KLEIN

WILLIAM S. MORSE

EARL W. SHAPIRO

Princeton University

Princeton, N.J.

Sir:

I am spending more money in 1958 than ever before, but not on automobiles made in the U.S.A. The U.S.A. has got to a point where it makes the poorest cars in the world.

PERRY A. ANDERSON

Chicago

Sir:

Apparently not only 1958 models have been unattractive to Professor Sumner Slichter [who drives a 1951 Ford -- TIME, April 28] but also 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953 and 1952 models. I have been trying to contact the professor on a nice clean 1928 DeSoto that I am having some trouble selling.

NORMAN VICKERY

Mansfield, Mass.

What's Sane?

Sir:

Your article [April 21] distorts and omits facts in presenting what should be a full-dress debate on the arms race, nuclear and otherwise. You are certainly aware that an end to nuclear tests is part of the official U.S. disarmament package. This committee has publicly endorsed the President's recent proposals to Khrushchev. We differ from Administration policy on what step should be taken first: we advocate separation of the nuclear test ban from the total package.

For the record, I want to clarify the position of the National Committee. The N.C.F.A.S.N.P. advocates:

P: Cessation of nuclear weapons tests by all countries through a U.N.-monitored agreement to detect violations. Detection is now conceded to be technically possible by the AEC's Dr. Willard Libby. The degree of detectability, while not absolute, is such that risks of hidden explosions are certainly less than the risks of continuing along the road we now travel.

P: International control of missiles and outer-space satellites. (Incidentally, President Eisenhower has made a similar proposal.)

Meaningful disarmament will come with the will to provide the means for settling international disputes without force of arms. One major ingredient: a stronger U.N.

TREVOR THOMAS

Executive Secretary National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy

New York City

P: In differing with the Administration "only" on whether first to stop tests or first to get an inspection and production-control agreement, the committee differs utterly. Says Libby: "The whole thing turns on the matter of inspection and . . . the suspension of production [is] very, very important."--ED.

Sir:

It's about time that those of us in favor of continuing nuclear weapons tests made ourselves as articulate as those opposed. Such airing of approval would be especially appropriate in the present propaganda fracas created by Russia's post-test ban.

H. LAWRENCE JONES

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sir:

Instead of attempting to stop the tests at Eniwetok, we should urge the Atomic Energy Commission to load each atomic and hydrogen bomb with vitamins so that the fallout will be good for us.

GEORGE J. HUGHES

Chicago

Joys of Travel

Sir:

Your April 21 review of Fielding's Travel Guide is terrific.

JAMES A. LEFTWICH

La Jolla, Calif.

Sir:

The Fielding beacon was our guiding light many "thrift season" months ago . . .

But a word of warning or advice might be apropos:

So intriguingly recommended for its fado purism

Was one place ruined by American tourism.

Apparently Fielding's kudos served to cheapen it;

For which I felt he made his Baedeker now let him sleep in it.

RAY G. GOODMAN

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Sir:

Your story has recharged our travel-worn batteries with glowing new joie de vivre. Our deep thanks.

NANCY AND TEMPLE FIELDING

Stamford, Conn.

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