Explosion About Population

Sir:

Congratulations on your fine exposition of the problem of undernourishment and the emerging peoples as carried in your Nov. 30 issue.

Certainly this type of thinking is more valuable and constructive than the hysterical and negativistic brand so widespread at the moment.

Thank you for an aid to clear and logical thought.

ANNE HANLEY The Bronx, N.Y.

Sir:

Man has thus far survived the challenges of nature by adapting to and overcoming them. Has the human race lost its self-confidence? The only progress the race has made has been through expansion and growth.

Birth control can't possibly be the answer to any of our problems. A society that stops breeding stops living, both intellectually and, eventually, physically. The human race cannot grow by limiting itself.

HENRY E. CHAPUT JR. Cumberland, R.I.

Sir:

The world had better listen to Malthus and Toynbee. The main problem is not one of food. Sooner or later the world will have to face up to birth control.

ED WOOLVERTON Cook, Minn.

Sir:

Let's feed the hungry and clothe the naked--as Christians should--instead of proposing to corral the world's population like so many animals by proposing a Prophylactic Policy of Containment.

Not all Protestants, I am sure, agree with birth control, just as I am equally certain they do not side with the continuing and increasingly more personal inquisition of Senator Kennedy.

TOM CLARK

Scranton, Pa.

Sir:

Since some of our friends are convinced that God wishes to be in sole control of our conception or arrival and that any artificial human interference is sinful, isn't it logical to assume that He may be equally concerned --and consider it sinful--when use is made of any human artificial means to interfere with or delay our own death ?

On this basis, doctors, surgeons, X rays and antibiotics may find themselves classed with contraceptives. It seems more reasonable to believe that a loving Father would be concerned with the quality, health and happiness of all his children--both present and future.

GLENN E. HANAFORD Oak Park, Ill.

Straws in the Wind

Sir:

Since we live in the center of the "hot"--both politically and climatically--Middle Belt of Nigeria, we were interested in your report of the federal election campaign.

In a rapidly developing country like Nigeria, we see some peculiar paradoxes. We saw one of these when the Action Group campaign helicopter landed on the road in front of our Mission compound here. The wind from the rotor almost tore the grass roof off a nearby house. It is probably the first time that "repair of grass roofs" might be listed as election expenses. The helicopter pilot mentioned that one disadvantage of the helicopter's use was the fact that it often attracted more attention than the campaign speech.

(THE REV.) W. H. BRENNEMAN United Missionary Society Jebba, Nigeria

China Policy

Sir:

My China policy recommendations do not, as you correctly report [Nov. 30], meet with the approval of either the Red Chinese or the Nationalist Chinese. I have been expressing them publicly since 1954, and I believe an increasingly large number of Americans hold the same opinions.

My views coincide with the recommendations made earlier this month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Conlon Associates Ltd. at the conclusion of a study requested by that committee. Of course I knew that Chiang Kai-shek was the most cherished of TIME'S sacred cows but, even so, the extent of your personal attack, distortions and inaccuracies surprised me.

For example, you report that a "glacial silence" followed my opening remark at my Taiwan dinner meeting with Chinese Nationalist leaders, and then you say that I returned to Tokyo the next day, as though that were the reason. This is untrue and misleading. As I intended, my remark relaxed the atmosphere and we had a cordial discussion. I returned to Tokyo the next day to fulfill a predetermined schedule of work for my committee.

Will TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, produce from its editors a champion to dispute publicly and in person the proposition that effective opposition to the Red Chinese requires disengagement from our warm embrace with the defeated, discredited Chinese Nationalists?

CHARLES O. PORTER Member of Congress Washington, D.C.

P: TIME, having rechecked its sources on the Porter story, stands by what it said. As for the invitation to debate, the answer is no. TIME'S business is not bootless personal debate.--ED.

The Huffer

Sir:

A wonderful article on pro football and the New York Giants' Sam Huff [Nov. 30].

JOHN J. GRAMMATICO New Haven, Conn.

Sir:

It was my father, the late Joe F. Carr, who organized the National Professional Football League, was elected its president in 1921, and remained president until his death in May 1939.

My father was responsible for the success and integrity of pro football, and it was he who sold "postgraduate" football to the late Timothy J. Mara, George Halas, Arthur J. Rooney, George Preston Marshall, "Curly" Lambeau, the late Charles Bidwell (Cardinals), the late George A. Richards (Detroit) and the late Bert Bell.

MARY CARR Columbus

Discord

Sir:

TIME'S cynical theater reviewer is not only deaf to The Sound of Music, he must also suffer from a basic inability to enjoy some of life's simple pleasures [Nov. 30]. If Mary Martin can ever be "a little too lovable," I want to be there!

CARLETON KNIGHT JR.

Worcester, Mass.

Sir:

Is it now considered bad taste to have such wholesome entertainment as The Sound of Music?

Is it mandatory that the stench of the gutter must permeate most of today's viewable entertainment?

H. REMILLARD

Linwood, Mass.

Payola

Sir:

Quiz-show scandals, payola and labor-union graft are simply the result of a trend of the times.

In this day of comparative prosperity and overconcentration on material wealth, lack of integrity and moral decay are brought about by the prevailing theory of many that "you are not guilty unless you get caught."

MRS. WARREN D. LUST

Harper Woods, Mich.

Sir:

Must we insist that advertisers, TV producers, magazine writers--in short, everyone who feeds the eyes and ears of the public --present their products (and life) as they really are, or can't we allow them what they've been allowed for so many ye"ars: the right to persuade as well as to describe?

This right is essential to a high sales volume--and a healthy economy.

CHARLES H. PERRY Orono, Me.

Sir:

To get this country back to some status of morality as relates to people who have some service to sell, someone should start a movement to stop tipping. And that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude.

After all, everyone of us who tips is paying over the payola.

S. J. WILCOX Warren, Pa.

Democracy & Economics

Sir:

Hurrah for Builder Milgram and Teacher Repsholdt, who advocated the integrated housing development in Chicago's Deerfield [Dec. 7].

It is time we suburbanites were shaken from our complacent parlor liberalism to practice what we preach. I'm sorry that some feel they have to hide their prejudice behind the "declining property value" argument. As a mother of small children in an adjacent child-oriented suburban community, I can only say, "we just can't afford not to be democratic."

MRS. LIONEL G. GROSS Highland Park, Ill.

Sir:

I am writing because we own a home adjoining Mr. Milgram's "Maplecrest" here in Princeton. Without going into a long treatise on the subject, I would like to say that six years ago we bought our house for $14,500 before the advent of Maplecrest. Today the value has increased to the $20,000-$22,000 range. Houses similar to ours have sold for this amount just as quickly "after Maplecrest" as before.

There always has been and is a demand for these houses because the neighborhood is known as one "ideal for bringing up children." We are happy with our new neighbors, not because they are Negro or white, but because they are intelligent, congenial, with a diversity of interests and occupations which would make them a welcome addition to any neighborhood.

PATRICIA H. CASSERLY Princeton, N.J.

Cost of Color

Sir:

In your Nov. 2 issue, you printed an interesting article on color in newspapers. Unfortunately for us, you quoted the Chicago Tribune's rate as $6,324.72 for a full-page color advertisement. Our rate for such is $5,349-72--only $975.00 over the price of a black-and-white page.

WALTER C. KURZ Advertising Manager Chicago Tribune Chicago

The Cost of Defense

Sir:

After reading your story, "The Defense Budget," in the Nov. 30 issue, I am convinced that the financial immorality practiced by industry and Congressmen puts to shame the recent so-called TV quiz scandals, and by comparison makes the occasional hanky-panky payola participants a puny and feeble lot.

FRANK HALL Philadelphia

Sir:

The Russians are playing a mighty rough game, and they are playing it for keeps. Our shortsighted Government officials must come to their senses soon and reshape our plans--even if it bothers that budget-happy old man in the White House.

THOMAS STANKIEWICS Chicago

Man of the Year

Sir:

I nominate Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming. He is the first to stand up for the rights of the American consumer.

STEVEN H. SASSOON Carmel, Calif.

Sir:

Dr. Thomas Dooley [of Laos]. Not for the extent of his works but for his leadership in the application of the principles that can save us.

XAVIER SHULTZ, S.M.

Kirkwood, Mo.

Sir:

Charles Van Doren. He personifies the lack of intellectual vitality and technological purpose that currently plagues America. He held a mirror for the rest of us.

HARRY LOBEL Omaha, Neb.

Sir:

Fidel Castro, who undeniably stole the headlines of American newspapers since Jan. 1, 1959. J. BELZA, M.D. Menomonie, Wis.

Sir:

The Panamanian freedom fighter.

DAN PISART

Madison, Wis.

Sir:

Edgar Kaiser. He, of all the people in steel, has come up with an idea which has worked.

DON STALKER

Portland, Ore.

Sir:

Who else but Roger Blough, U.S. Steel's board chairman, who is battling for all of us in the fight against inflation.

R. B. TUFTS New York City

Sir:

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. He has, in the past year, proved his honesty and integrity by having both popular and unpopular legislation passed.

JOHN NORMAN KING New York City

Sir:

President Eisenhower.

JACOB YOFFE

Bradenton Beach, Fla.

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