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. . . You print a letter [Aug. 12] from J. Rosser Venable of Little Rock, concerning what he terms as "Wall Street Joe Robinson." Better check up on Yenable. a man who runs for some office or other practically every election, and who is defeated by the voters each time he runs. Only this week he has announced that he will run against Joe Robinson for the Senate in the coming election.
This "Wall Street Joe'' sounds very much like Huey Long has a hand in Yenable's race this time. At least, he is Robinson's opponent who has ''contacted people in 35 counties in the last week and has made discoveries." If that doesn't sound like a typical campaign statement, what does?. . .
T. R. WYLIE
Fort Smith, Ark. College Coolies
Sirs:
Please discontinue the roster of women hauled in rickshas by college coolies [TIME, Aug. 5 ]. This short haul idea will spread and does not need endorsement. The rider gets a superior feeling. The puller gets needed cash. Industry has a new article to manufacture and in time we forget we've sunk to an Oriental level. Promoters will circus ricksha marathons and soon the fine points of the white human horse will be contrasted with those of the black one. Personally I'd back my old Chinese puller against the finest any college could turn out.
WINSTON LANGDON
Hornersville, Mo.
Message of Peace
Sirs:
... I found the article in your magazine [TIME, Aug. 5] and I must admit that the accompanying illustration seemed to me to annihilate all the efforts of the written text. I wonder whether you realized the terrific damage caused by such an illustration. Your magazine is being read all over the country and you have succeeded in convincing people that I am only a painter of horrors. As a result ... I may lose every opportunity for years to come to receive other commissions for murals or portraits. . . .
Although I was born abroad I have been an American citizen for many years and I am entitled to full support in my desperate attempts to further the cause of art and culture in the United States. I have been the first person in this country to give a University course on Living American Art.
. . . The Board of Education has just announced the decision to have the panel removed, which, of course, amounts to destruction. I do not consider this affair a personal matter and I will do everything within my power to fight for the public's right to be protected from the censorship of a few individuals who claim that "the infantile mentality of the American people" should be preserved at any cost.
My picture is a message of peace. I have painstakingly avoided every indication of political propaganda. All I wanted to convey to the people was the historical law that civilizations have to balance the destructive forces by an equal effort on the constructive and creative side. . . .
I have worked for over a year and a half on those murals. I had to cancel my art courses at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. . . . I risked my health and made considerable financial sacrifices in order to paint my message. . . .