Presidential Prestige
Sirs:
Your statement: "Franklin Roosevelt had won nothing," in your discussion of the coal strike unsettlement [TIME, July 5] may be slightly in error.
"Congress, reassert[ing] ... its rights and powers as an equal member of the three great branches of the U.S. Government" by demonstrating its belated independent action in overriding, emasculating and nipping in the bud recent Executive efforts, is no ultimate loss to Presidential prestige. . . .
The ill effect of so-called Presidential indecision, regarding strikers and homefront, etc. will be forgotten by the time of the fourth-term decision. The real detriment to the future of the present Administration, a fear for the preservation of an independent legislative branch, has been discredited. . . . The people can again afford to indulge in their favorite personality—Franklin D. Roosevelt, without fear of losing their democratic process. . . .
The situation and developments resulted in a wonderful bit of applied mass psychology. It could not have been better planned. ROY F. CHALKER Yeoman 2nd Class, U.S.N.R. Macon, Ga.
Lesson from Attu
Sirs:
After reading TIME, June 28, "Burial in the Aleutians" by Robert Sherrod, I wish that every man & woman . . . could read these lines. . . . TIME'S reporters have brought the war on Attu so realistically to us that I know those who read about it will never kick about rationing points or gasoline, but will give up willingly former comforts and help materially and spiritually to end this war.
MRS. C. J. WADDELL Peoria
How Talk Began
Sirs:
Under Science you say, "Nobody knows how men began to talk" (TIME, July 12). I thought everyone knew it was by listening to women.
R. G. COLE Chicago
Original Quick Lunch
Sirs:
Being a pushover for anything out of the past because now my life is almost entirely past, and having had close-up experience with the birth and development of the quick-lunch movement in New York (as a customer) I am bound to offer a correction to one statement in your glance at the history of the Childs' restaurant chain: "When they went into business there was nothing between carrying your own lunch to work or eating at a leisurely expensive 'continental' restaurant." [TIME, June 28].