Taft for President?
Sirs:
GO FIND YOURSELF OUT SOMETHING ABOUT CHARLES P. TAFT BEFORE DISMISSING HIM AS FAMED DO-GOODER (TIME, Oct. 4) .... HE IS MY AND COUNTLESS OTHERS' HOPE AS FUTURE PRESIDENT.
H. L. MCCARTHY
Highland Park, Ill.
> Readers with better memories than Reader McCarthy's know that Charles Phelps Taft II, son of the President, has had his share of TIME mentions—as "a bright young man" (Jan 8, 1934), "a socially conscientious progressive" (June 28, 1937), a "topflight layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor of a typical Taft dimple as well as his father's ability to make friends and have fun. Once before, in TIME Letters (Aug. 24, 1936), he was nominated for President. TIME would be happy to record the further advance of Charlie Taft in public service—ED.
Great White Hope
Sirs:
TIME'S STATEMENT OF OCT. 11 THAT MONTANA'S SENATOR B. K. WHEELER IS THE "GREAT WHITE HOPE OF THOSE WHO HATE THE PROSPECT OF FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM" I CONSIDER TO BE AT ONCE THE MOST UNTRUTHFUL, UNFAIR AND UNBECOMING A GREAT NEWS MAGAZINE THAT I HAVE EVER READ IN TIME. WHATEVER YOU THINK OF B. K. WHEELER AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU CANNOT DENY UNLESS YOU ARE BLINDLY BIGOTED AND HOPELESSLY BIASED THAT HE IS ANYTHING BUT A SLACKER OR A COWARD. MORE THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN THE U.S. SENATE TODAY B. K. WHEELER IS KNOWN AND RESPECTED FOR HIS COURAGE AND HIS AMERICANISM. . . .
WILLIAM MAGEE DUNN
Washington
> TIME disagrees.—ED.
Freedom Unlimited
Sirs:
The letter . . . from C. H. Armstrong, of Wichita, Kans., which you published in your Oct. 4 issue under the caption "Contented Cats" has attracted widespread and favorable comment in this community.* A friend has ordered our job printer to reproduce it (5,000 copies) and proposes to have it distributed from house to house. . , .
The fact about the Four Freedoms, as we see it out here on the West Coast, is that the instant you begin to number your freedoms you begin, also, to restrict and limit them.
What we should like to hear is for one of our statesmen, preferably the highest ... to enunciate a program of just one word, but that word total, entire and all-embracive. The word is "FREEDOM."
FRANKLIN KNOX
Tujunga, Calif.
> TIME agrees.—ED.
Short Shifters' Club
Sirs:
Taking a tip from TIME, the Fort Wayne Ordnance Depot has organized a Short Shifters' Club of Detroit business and professional men who work four or more hours a day at the Depot. . . . Without their help the Depot could not meet its huge tonnage schedules in the face of an almost nonexistent labor supply in this area.
RAY M. HARE
Colonel, Ord. Dept.,
Commanding
Detroit
Cover Wrinkles
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