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Tito is not "independent." U.S. aid is not weaning Tito from Communism but helping him to consolidate his brand of political, economic and religious oppression. The basic philosophy of Communism—whether Tito's, Mao's or Khrushchev's—is identical: the annihilation of human rights. NORMAN J. RUSTIGIAN Providence
The Meaning of Dambala
Sir:
You try to throw ridicule on me and my people. In the article [about Anthropologist Paul Barker's dealings with Haitians while digging for evidence of the civilization Columbus described—Oct. 10, you and Professor Paul Barker depicted my people as the worst uncivilized savages. And that [the god] Dambala removes strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. This is not true. Instead, Professor Barker's job in Haiti was not especially tough.
Dambala means love, truth and justice. We, the Negro race, are able to show the way to peace to our brother, the white race. Don't play with us fellows. The black race is ready to show the only way to peace.
LECBA ELIEZER CADET Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Sir:
M. Cadet is right. His people are most gentle. Their manners are superior to mine. And their morals are no worse. Only good has ever come to me from M. Cadet or his people or from the Voodoo God Dambala.
I rectify any implication that Dambala is vindictive. I have never denounced voodoo, nor do I intend to. I consider it one of the twelve great religions, and I consider M. Cadet the greatest voodoo priest in Haiti. (THE REV.) PAUL BARKER Professor of Anthropology Gorham State Teachers College Gorham, Me.
Kerr's Colossus
Sir:
Congratulations on your Clark Kerr cover and story. While a mere student at Cal, I had the good fortune of meeting him. I can only say that he seemed to epitomize all that is democratic and humanistic in the American public educational tradition.
PATRICK B. VINCENT Christchurch, New Zealand
Sir:
While studying at Berkeley (architecture), I was—on many occasions—much closer than 50 feet to those "great men." One had me, all morning long, drawing horizontal lines on a large piece of white paper. Another watched me while I sawed pine blocks. Take- it-or-leave-it education ? They can have it! ALLAN HUPER Houston
Sir:
Was TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities?
B. R. JORGE
New York City
Sir:
TIME quotes Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, as saying: "You use it like a plumber uses a wrench." Kerr talks good, like a college head should.
LEONARD LEE Los Angeles
¶I And like poets (Keats: "It is astonishing how they raven down scenery like children do sweetmeats"), playwrights (Shakespeare's Juliet: "No man like he doth grieve my heart") and grammarians (Bergen and Cornelia Evans: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage) should, too. ¯Ed.
Sir:
I resent your reference to the University of California campus at Davis as a "cow college." You have to have all your marbles to be an Aggie.