Mail for Medina
Sir:
The report of the picket lines outside the Manhattan federal courthouse, and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on Judge Medina by Communist sympathizers [TIME, Sept. 5] might well make thoughtful Americans wonder if it is later than they think . . .
MRS. ELDEN W. SCANLAND Wichita Falls, Tex.
Sir:
... I should like to pass on to TIME readers a suggestion made recently by a letter writer to a Boston newspaper.
To counteract all this Communist-inspired abuse, all loyal Americans should pause for a few moments during the rush of their daily activities and send Judge Medina at least a postcard stating that they appreciate the difficulty and importance of his task . . .
STANISLAW R. J. SUCHECKI Dorchester, Mass.
Boyle and Lincoln
Sir:
Mayhap TIME . . . will quiz Bill Boyle, newly elected national chairman of the Party of the People, as to chapter & verse whence came his asserted quotation from Lincoln: "I will go along with a man as. long as he is going in my direction" [TIME, Sept. 5].
My reading of Lincoln's reply to Douglas, at Peoria on Oct. 16, 1854, reveals that the truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot . . ."
MARION A. KNIGHT
Dallas, Tex.
¶ Democratic headquarters says it is still trying to find the source of Chairman Boyle's quotation.—ED.
Good Enough for Grandpa?
Sir:
Regarding your Sept. 5 article, "Social Security; Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa":
One of the main Communist platforms is to make the cost of running our government top-heavy. One of these methods is by costly welfare programs . . .
JACK ABLER Clatskanie, Ore.
Sir:
"Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa" . . . highlights again the significance of Jose Ortega y Gasset's verdict that the world "is suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses; it has been taken over by the commonplace mind" [TIME, Jan. 17].
This, in my opinion, is one of the most devastating understatements ever made . . .
MAURY M. TRAVIS Denver, Colo.
Sir:
Your report on the enthusiastic use of free medical and dental care, free hospitalization, medicines, glasses and artificial limbs for the aged in the state of Washington is the best possible argument against nationalized medicine . . .
LILLIE BEGOLKA Normal, 111.
Sir: