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Louisiana State University is the shrine of America's democracy; the State of Louisiana the cradle of democratic institutions; the student body of Louisiana State University is America's purest contribution to the true spirit of wholehearted Americanism!
Mr. Editor: I beg God that the freedom of the press would never turn to be an un-American instrument in your hands, used against the building of the great generations of tomorrow!
EFRAIN GARCIA ANGULO
Baton Rouge, La.
Late Great Huey
Sirs:
In TIME, July 17, under Louisiana you refer to the erstwhile dictator of that State as the "late great Huey Long." I fail to understand, as a consistent reader of your publication, why you, who have such sensibly liberal leanings, can so describe one who combined most of the despicable traits on the American political scene.
LEONARD S. FLORSHEIM JR.
Highland Park, Ill.
>TIME is not sensible of leaning either right or left, but it tries to give the devil his due.—ED.
Egg
Sirs :
I remember some comment in TIME early this year on the subject of the New Zealand man who hatched an egg in his hospital bed [TIME, Feb. 13]. Some readers were incredulous [TIME, March 6, et seq.] The attached clipping from today's Melbourne Sun makes an interesting sequel:
"Auckland (N.Z.).—A hen hatched from an egg by a patient at Waikato Hospital last year is displayed in a special cage at Rotorua winter show. In the cage is a letter from the foster-father certifying that the hen is the one he hatched.
"The man, who had to spend many weeks in hospital, took an egg to bed with him as the result of a wager. He concealed it from the nurses and the chicken hatched and was six days old before they found it."
ALAN STUART
Melbourne, Australia
"Frightful Stint"
Sirs:
I resent the crack at the Foreign Service* which you take on p. 16 of TIME, May 20. Many Foreign Service chiefs make their staffs work more than seven hours a day and the great majority of Foreign Service Officers would do so quite apart from any orders from their chiefs. . . .
It is felt by many members of the Foreign Service that one of its greatest weaknesses is precisely the fact that we are compelled to spend seven hours a day at our desks. . . . You would scarcely argue, I am sure, that a newspaper reporter should spend seven hours a day at his desk. Similarly, much of the Foreign Service's most important work must be done outside of office hours, which does not decrease the "frightful stint" for the Foreign Service. No other country, so far as I can ascertain, requires seven hours a day of office work from its Foreign Service, nor does any other approach our Foreign Service in the volume of work performed. . . .
JOHN M. CABOT
Legation of the United States of America
Guatemala
Gasped
Sirs:
I saw TIME's (July 31) story about my friend Charles Grey Grey and gasped at the picture. Someone has blundered. I am sending you a photograph of Mr. Grey. . . .
LESTER D. GARDNER
New York City