Jimmy's Victory

To the Editors:

Your cover photograph of Jimmy Carter "Running Tough" [Aug. 25] does the President justice. And, as they say, "when the running gets tough, the tough continue to run," in this case right back to the White House for four more years.

Gerald Bohn Camden, N.J.

"The surrender of our energy future ... of our economic future ... service cuts for the poor and massive inflation for everyone." Carter's speech sounded more like a realistic assessment of the present than a "bleak Republican future."

Eliot Osherman Chicago

I have now decided on one candidate and one program; unfortunately, they are of opposing parties. If the candidates would just switch platforms, I'd have it made in November.

Claudia R. Thomason Prescott, Ariz.

The Democrats call for $12 billion to be spent to create 800,000 jobs. This amounts to $15,000 a job. If the Government will lend my contracting firm $75,000 at a reasonable rate, we will create not five but 25 jobs, and will pay the money back plus interest in two years.

George Farren, President

Rytek Ltd.

Sanford, N.C.

Vice President Mondale tells us that Reagan "will fall like a crowbar ... awfully fast." Everyone knows that in a vacuum a peanut can fall equally fast.

Edward J. Gauss Fairbanks, Alaska

Teddy's Cause

For nine months Senator Kennedy was attacked by the President and his supporters. Suddenly he is expected to em brace Carter and is called cold when he doesn't [Aug. 25]. Rather than merely tolerating hypocrisy in our political leaders, it seems we now demand it of them.

Joseph A. Condo McLean, Va.

What with George Orwell's prophecies and Ted Kennedy's probable ascendancy, 1984 is already shaping up as a rough year.

Barry D. Caiman Cherry Hill, N.J.

Perhaps Kennedy should have quoted a more appropriate Tennyson passage than the one he used:

Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Greg Jour He s University Heights, Ohio

Whose Lives on the Line?

In "Rethinking the Unthinkable" [Aug. 25] you claim that the current arrangements for protecting U.S. leaders in a military crisis are "frighteningly inadequate." I hope they remain that way. Perhaps if our leaders know that their own lives are at stake, they will not be so prone to lay others' lives on the line.

Steven L. Snyder Louisville

Jousting over Jerusalem

Re "Jihad for Jerusalem" [Aug. 25]: Islam has Mecca and Medina; Christianity has Rome and Istanbul. Why is it such an injustice for the Jewish people to declare Jerusalem, which has been their religious center for more than 3,000 years, their capital?

Sandy Delopoulos Belmar, N.J.

Years ago, King Solomon was faced with deciding the fate of a child with two mothers. Today the world has to decide the fate of a city that has three children. Did the biblical mother decide to have half a dead child? Should the children decide to have part of a "dead city"? Solomon knew the real mother would rather give up the child than let him die. Will the children of Jerusalem give up a bit of pride, a bit of selfishness and a part of themselves to save their "mother," the city? Jerusalem should be a free city and belong to all her children.

Howard Scott Pearlman Haddonfield, N.J.

Sports in Perspective

Three cheers for the chancellors who had the courage to bring attention to the violations committed by five Pac-10 schools [Aug. 25]! It is refreshing to see someone finally put athletics in their place. A music major puts in as much practice time as the average athlete; yet one does not hear of musicians receiving free credits to avoid flunking out of school. Sports are fun, but when they become more than that, something is amiss.

Chuck Dot as Connersville, Ind.

Styron's Slight

So William Styron doesn't like people from places he's never heard of, like South Dakota [Aug. 25]. What does he have against some of the most honest, intelligent, friendly, hardworking and patriotic people in the U.S.? We're tired of being the brunt of "nowhere" jokes.

Tim Roti Pierre, S. Dak.

William who?

Gordon Lokke Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Dr. Gordon's Due

Thank you for your report on "Dr. Gordon's Serious Thinkers" [Aug. 25], describing one of my father's many innovative programs in science. I only wish he had lived to know the far-reaching effects of his efforts.

Fortuna L. Gordon Louisville

Sunday Schools Scored

Re "Of Raikes and Ragamuffins" [Aug. 25]: The Sunday school is dying because the church too often welcomes with gratitude and relief any hunk of protoplasm with a yen to teach who can be scrounged up and stuck in front of a class. Misinformation is innocently, unapologetically, enthusiastically and dogmatically perpetrated. Thoughtful students can hardly be criticized for fleeing this scene.

Martha S. Nelson McKeesport, Pa.

Our Sunday school is alive and well. Our decline bottomed out two years ago, and we have since experienced steady growth that can be attributed to offering a curriculum relevant to today's needs, employing innovative teaching methods and, most of all, assembling an outstanding volunteer staff. The day of the dedicated lady occupying the same classroom for 20 years may be over, but the Sunday school structured to meet the demands of the 1980s is hardly on its last legs.

Janet C. Jacewicz

Christian Education Coordinator

Lewinsville Presbyterian Church

McLean, Va.

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