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In the last three months I have talked to farmers all over Georgia about first one thing and then another, including liquor. Many of these fellows know how to make good drinkable liquor, so why not let them, as well as others, make a few hundred gallons a year in a legal manner? Let them pay a license to the Bureau of Internal Revenue and other taxing agencies, and market their product in a legal manner. . . .
The suggested procedure could usually be followed in the farmer's spare time without hindrance to our main objective of winning the war. He could also be allotted a certain number of gallons a year, which would be in line with other New Deal brain storms.
WILL N. SWAIN
Atlanta, Ga.
Man of the Year
Sirs:
For this year I recommend Henry A. Wallace who, like his great predecessor in belief, Tom Paine, is not afraid to stand up for the Rights of Man—and of all men.
WALT V. BODLANDER
Lieutenant, A.U.S.
Camp Ritchie, Md.
Sirs:
For Man of the Year—still the backbone of aggressive Allied action, and the kind of leader whom the postwar world will depend upon, Anthony Eden.
(PFC.) JACK SCHNABEL
Princeton, N.J.
Sirs:
. . . the Allied Airman over Europe.
ROBERT D. ROSS
Louisville
Sirs: I nominate . . . the Russian Soldier. Stalin is a great leader; various Russian generals have proved exceptionally able; but it has been the common Russian soldier who . . . has been responsible for the headlines of the past year's news.
FLOYD E. DUNN
Macon, Mo.
Sirs:
It looks like Joe for Man of the Year.
A. B. RITTER
Memphis
Sirs:
If Governor Thomas Dewey cleans up the city of Albany ... he certainly deserves the title of Man of the Year.
AVIATION CADET ROBERT W. SHAW
Santa Ana, Calif.
Sirs:
If TIME'S Man of the Year means anything this year you have only one prospect—the American Farmer.
Just one among many of his aids to victory this year, three billion bushels of corn—and this when nature, draft and rationing boards and various bureaucratic agencies were "agin" him. . . .
VICTOR H. CAMPBELL
Berrien Springs, Mich.
Sirs:
. . . HENRY J. KAISER. . . .
I. A. STEVENS
Clayton, Mo.
Sirs:
John L. Lewis—who has just shown his superiority to the Commander in Chief by winning the Battle of Washington.
W. E. CROSBY
Washington
Manufacturers, Pilots
Sirs:
In TIME Nov. 22 in the article about Don Douglas you accuse the "passionate engineer" of being president of the biggest aircraft company in the world.
Where, may I ask, does Curtiss-Wright stand? . . .
LEWIS T. APPLE
Kirkwood, Mo.
>Douglas is the largest manufacturer of aircraft, Curtiss-Wright the largest maker of aviation products, i.e., aircraft propellers, engines, etc.—ED.
Sirs:
Your comment on Donald Douglas: He dislikes flying . . ."would suggest that you consider this unusual for an airplane manufacturer. On the contrary, it's standard for the oldtimers, who are packed with unsettling recollections of the many items that can go wrong. . . . Airplane manufacturers are by nature pessimists; test pilots are optimists.