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TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which has come out to rescue them is having a hard time with leaks and goes under just as it reaches the side of the steamer. The passengers shout and cheer as the lifeboat crew are saved.
C. R. HAWORTH
Montreal, Que.
Pacifist Muste
Sirs:
I think TIME did an excellent job on the review of the Pacifist Handbook [TIME July 10].
I wonder whether some people may not be misled by the phrase "go to the front but refuse to kill" placed under my picture. The fact is, of course, that although that is one of the possibilities for pacifists mentioned in the handbook, there are probably no religious pacifists in the U. S. who would advocate or take that course. Personally, I would refuse to render any service, combatant or noncombatant, under military orders.
There is one other small point. My pacifism is not as recent as the reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both in 1936. . . .
A. J. MUSTE
Labor Temple
New York City
Hole-in-one
Sirs:
Let Reader Hay wood (TIME, July 7) stand corrected.
No hole-in-one is luck, since the golfer is playing for the hole. To get the ball in the cup is his aim and objective, ergo, how can you call it an accident?
It is an "accident" only when the ball does not go in the hole, the accident being due obviously and logically, to his faulty playing. . . .
FRANK L. MOORMAN
Captiva Island, Fla.
Ampleness and Vastness
Sirs:
I have been a reader of your magazine TIME for five years. I believe it is a very interesting publication; but I do not agree with your statement entitled "Louisiana" published in TIME, July 10. . . .
Louisiana State University is a growing institution. It is a school created over the massive pillars of Union, Justice and Confidence. Its student body and alumni are as proud of it as are the ones of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make guilty a devoted, scholastically competent faculty and a loyal corps of students that cherish deep in their hearts the alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Declaration of independence with more ampleness and vastness than any other student body in the nation's universities.