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We aren't particularly interested in Mr. Orton's [book], but we ARE interested in your anonymous book critic's wonderful and incomplete saga of Angela and Carrie Chapman Katz. . . . We long to know more about Angela and her daughter . . . their lives previous to the universal demolition, a chronicle we hope will be salted with plenty of the gifted ladies' ideas and conversation. It isn't fair to give us just this tasty hors d'oeuvre. More! More!
MILDRED BALDWIN Warrenville, Ill.
Benton on Drinking
Sirs:
About that note in Dec. 10 issue: When I have a highball or two I tell the truth about things. The truth, as you continually show in your pages, is tough. It is not then so much my talk that is tough as the stuff it deals with. But I'm not the town drunk. With the reputation you give me I'll be expected to drink everybody in Kansas City under the table and I can't do it—not me.
THOMAS H. BENTON
Kansas City
¶ I Said TIME: "Tom Benton, who does know how to drink. . . ." No town drunk does.—ED.
Overseas Graves
Sirs:
If the Government wishes to spend $200 million for the American dead who are buried overseas [TIME, Dec. 17], wouldn't it be more to the point to spend the money helping America's underprivileged children, who are very much alive? I feel certain that, if the wishes of these dead were known, they would prefer to have their remains left where they are and to have the money spent for the ideal they died for—the future generation.
(MRS.) KATHRYN C. CHERRY Bethesda, Md.
Sirs:
Adoption is the order of the day. Ruined towns are being adopted by those less damaged, villages by cities, cities by provinces, small countries by larger and richer ones. And the latest idea is the adoption of soldiers graves by people in the areas where they exist. . . .
The idea is that a Dutch family should take charge of a grave of an American soldier and put it and keep it in order, providing fresh flowers at regular intervals, seeing that it is kept free from weeds and dirt, and communicating with the family of the soldier in America in a friendly way, keeping them informed as to exactly where the grave is and in what condition. . . .
The adoption is gratis, and the provision of tombstones and permanent decoration is in the hands of a local committee who are in correspondence with the authorities and the families in America. . . .
H. ANTCLIFFE The Hague, Netherlands
Relief for Europe
Sirs:
... I am convinced that most of the nation's important men, of all government branches read TIME; and if you could print a portion or all of the following, I could be sure that it would receive attention:
Open Letter to My Government Gentlemen:
In the name of Humanity, do something for the needy people of Europe! We, the American people, have gone on record repeatedly as believing in the Brotherhood of Man, in man's right to Freedom from Want—remember? . . .