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Following the Pratt idea there would today be no reservation system; the languages, tribal customs and habits would long since have vanished and the American Indian would long since have been but a memory. This idea follows the assimilation of the many racials that have come to the U. S. to be lost in the "melting pot of citizenship." . . .
Pratt was right. ... I was his orderly during my years at Carlisle. I knew him, contacted him right up to the time of his death. His memory is respected, his memory is loved by every Indian who came in contact with him. No one would love anyone who thought of a people as "marbles."
Louis F. PAUL
Alaska Native Brotherhood Wrangell, Alaska
Jack for John
Sirs:
If Dr. Mudd's pardon was signed by President Andrew Jackson as you state on p. 57 of your issue of Feb. 24, it must have been done on a ouija board. Don't you mean President Andrew Johnson?
A. A. O'KEEFFE
Chicago, Ill.
"In the spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson." Your history, TIME, your history! I blush for you.
A. LEO LANMAN JR.
Atlanta, Ga.
. . . Did Jefferson cross the Delaware, and was it, perhaps, Cleveland who authored the Gettysburg Address?
FRANK B. WOODFORD
The Detroit Free Press Detroit, Mich.
When he left the editor's desk, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd was being pardoned by President Andrew Johnson.—ED.
Red; White
Sirs:
In Hearst's San Francisco Examiner appears nn editorial concerning the Moscow scenes of "The March of Time" cinema feature. . . .
A summary of the editorial would be that your "March of Time" reel is not in any sense facts, that it is pure propaganda, that it is plainly false propaganda, that you accepted Russian films without satisfying yourself as to their authenticity.
... As a reader of TIME, a listener to "The March of Time" and a spectator of ''The March of Time" I have found your news quite reliable. I would like to see you vindicate yourself.
V. O. MEENK
San Francisco, Calif.
Sirs:
1 have long suspected that you were a firm with definite fascist leanings. Now I know that I was right.
The March issue of The American Spectator reveals the sinister connection between your company and J. P. Morgan & Co. and how your radio program is under the sway of those fascists, Remington Rand. . . .
Your ''March of Time" movie enterprise, with its constant fascist and militarist propaganda, shows more than any of your activities which way your affections lie.
J. LUESCHER
New York City
Sirs: Yesterday in Hearst's New York American I read how your offspring, "The March of Time'' is spreading subversive, communistic propaganda. About ten minutes later I was shown an article in Charles Angoff's left-wing American Spectator berating your fascistic qualities. This, to me anyway, is definite proof of your greatness. Congratulations! . . .
ALVIN M. JOSEPHY JR.
New York City
TIME'S thanks to Readers Meenk, Luescher and Josephy for having reduced to an absurdity this Fascist-Communist teapot tempest. Facts are: