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As distributors of the most dominant and influential publication on the North American Continent, seldom, if ever, do you strike below the belt in your views and reviews of topics of interest, but if you say, as recorded in your Aug. 31 issue, as indicated by one Gerold C. Wichmann, that "U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike President Franklin D. Roosevelt," then you are not giving your readers a true reflection of a cross-section of how most of the service men of the World War really feel toward the one man who prevented the Hoover Revolution—who makes it possible, today, for you to operate without having a brick or two thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men—who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people —whose keen vision and unbending determination to extricate the men, women, and children of the country from the mire of disintegration and disillusionment, has made him the most beloved and exemplary character ever to occupy the nation's most important post—and so on— countless incidents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision illuminate the dark recesses of a nation's folly. . . .
Any man who wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America —every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being— Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
FRAYSER HINTON Former Capt. 42nd (Rainbow) Division Memphis, Tenn.
Sirs:
Gerold Wichmann says in TIME, Aug. 31, that the Veterans hate President Roosevelt. Perhaps some of them do. Here is one Veteran who does not and I am sure there are thousands of others.
Sure Roosevelt vetoed the Bonus bill and my Congressman voted against it. But I mean to vote for that same Congressman on Sept. "9 and for Mr. Roosevelt in November.
Instead of disliking F. D. R. I love him and feel that he should be loved and honored by every man, woman and child in America.
C. O. BROOKSHIRE Demorest, Ga.
Sirs:
Mr. Gerold C. Wichmann, in TIME, quotes Legion National Commander Johnson as follows: "The Bonus is not an issue." He adds that the two vetoes are. Why stop at two? We have the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover vetoes. . . .
Blackest page of all came with Hoover's eviction of the Bonus Marchers, wives and children, by gas and bayonet. Contrast that with the friendly reception accorded by Roosevelt and you will see some reason for the vet's leaning toward Democracy.
GEORGE I. SULLIVAN
Secretary to Congressman Dorsey Congress of the United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
Cayugas Sexton
Sirs:
Please give us the name and picture of the commander of the Cayuga. A man of his spunk deserves something better than complete anonymity.
Also: how did it happen that a U. S. Coast Guard boat was in European waters?
LAURENCE K. FRANK Grove City, Pa.