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This letter is in answer to Reader Mary Littlejohn [TIME, May 19] and all other hysterical idealists who urge our entrance into war. We should like to have these people show us how war can bring about, to quote from Miss Littlejohn's letter, "the highest good, the betterment of mankind, the ideal of brotherly love. . . ."
We are tired of abstract terms and glittering generalities. . . .
JOE WALL
BALLARD HAYWORTH
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa
Sirs:
I am the guy that would like to help England regardless, and go all the way. I have been an airplane pilot and still am, but for various reasons (money being the main one) lost my license after I had worked my time up to 200 hours, and if I can promote the money to get back in line my intentions are to get in the R.A.F. as soon as I can. . . .
JEFF KING
Comanche, Tex.
Sirs: Your superb reporting of the news in wobbly Washington and of our procrastinating President is surely disquieting. . . .
ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE
Winchester, Mass.
Sirs:
After reading in TIME, May 19 regarding the blundering War Cabinet of the U.S., I have only one query: "Does President Roosevelt read TIME?"
WILLIAM BLACK
The University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, N.Dak.
> Yes.—ED.
Fresh Bread
Sirs:
Receiving TlME-by-Air is like eating fresh bread again after years of diet of stale bread. . . .
WALDEMAR F. LEE Pro Arte Musical de Puerto Rico San Juan, P.R.
Sirs:
Orchids for TIME-by-Air! Even in this out-of-the-way mining camp we get our TIME now on the Saturday before the issue date.
VINCENT J. WHITE Pato Consolidated Gold Dredging, Ltd. Pato, Colombia
Sirs:
I could not miss this first air mail after I receive the first edition of the Air Express TIME to manifest to you my appreciation for your wonderful idea of sending TIME via Air Express.
I appreciate TIME exceedingly and read it from cover to cover and the only thing that used to prevent me to appreciate it 100% was to read war news after defeats being converted into victories or vice versa, because of the delay in receiving the magazine. . .
O. ELOY SANTOS Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sirs:
. . . TIME would do a thing like this. We fellows down here in the American Club fairly mangle your airmailed copy, currently flown down. . . . Viva TIME Incorporated! IVAN A. KURYLA American Club Buenos Aires, Argentina Sirs: Congratulations and many thanks! May 5, 1941 issue was on my desk when I arrived in the morning May 8. It was mailed from Rio.
I was proud of TIME and really thrilled when I stopped to realize that TIME readers in the States and TIME readers in Brazil (5,000 miles away) were carrying the same issue of the magazine in their pockets at the same time. Good work! FRANK BEVAN
National City Bank of New York Saó Paulo, Brazil
Amateurs at Rollins
Sirs:
In TIME, April 7, under Sport, you carried an article concerning Miss Pauline Betz, in which you said: "In part payment for her scholarship [at Rollins College] she helps teach tennis. . . ."
The literal interpretation of your article would indicate that Miss Betz was violating the amateur regulations of the U.S.L.T.A. . . .