Letters, Oct. 7, 1946

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One could just as well say the fall of dice is governed by astrology, or the weather, or by blowing one's breath on the dice. I personally have had good results by saying, "Little Joe, the man that picks the cotton! Pick all that cotton, Joe!" However, I take the straight 2-to-1bet against a 4.

BERNARD L. TRIPPETT

University, Miss.

One World

Sirs:

Student Federalists appreciated TIME'S coverage of our week-long national convention in Chicago [TIME, Sept. 16]. We regret, however, that you were unable to present the newly written Student Federalist Charter, which explains the exact stand that the organization is taking in working for world government.

We think that you will be interested in the following resolution adopted by the organization. The Charter reads: "We support the U.N. as the primary existing international organization attempting to achieve some of these aims [social and economic foundations of a world community] of world government. However . . . it will not be adequate until it is capable of making, interpreting and enforcing world law."

Student Federalists pledged themselves to the following program:

1) Stimulate thinking on the urgent need for federal world government.

2) Educate our generation in the principles of federalism.

3) Find, train and organize the necessary leaders.

4) Support all proposals which embody the minimum essentials of federal world government.

At Chicago we united "in our determination to achieve federal world government in our time."

COLGATE S. PRENTICE

President of Student Federalists

New York City

Pained Request

Sirs:

Your article [TIME, Sept. 2] relating to my Hollywood Bowl appearance pained me considerably.

Your facts were not only untrue but were vulgar to the extreme. Why did you burlesque me with beer drinking? Although I do not dislike the beverage, I did not at any time make reference to drinking gallons of it. I was misquoted throughout the entire article, especially the part which said: "They want to show those films through the colonies and say 'Look what we have done for Dunbar' — but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans."

I request that you make an apology, and if you are decent enough, you will publ'sh this letter.

RUDOLPH DUNBAR

Washington

>Conductor Dunbar herewith sees his letter, but no apology. — ED.

Kansas' Sacred Cow

Sirs:

Orchids to TIME for your splendid article on Kansas Prohibition [TIME, Sept. 9]. . . . Kansas dry laws are as big a farce as Mississippi's Bilbo. In Wichita one can purchase a fifth of Schenley's, Seagram's, or even Old Granddad for only $8. . . .

Louis B. JENDRUSCH JR.

Wichita

Sirs:

While our three children have been growing up, we have lived 23 years in Kansas and five years in Missouri. We saw a great deal more drunkenness in Missouri in five years than we ever thought of seeing in Kansas in 23 years.