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Sir: ... If this turncoat Winston Burdett truly repented his past sins, wouldn't his revelations have been of much more value when the great recanters Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley came forth with their stories and were being crucified by the press? . . .
R. J. BRANDT A. C. BRANDT Chicago
Sir: . . . What a travesty of justice and a horrible commentary on American liberty to commend one ex-Communist sympathizer and spy for his "strong sense of duty" and to sentence the other to eight years at hard labor . . .
WALTER SMETANA
Denver
Down on the Farm
Sir: We farmers appreciate your fine July 4 article, ''Automation on the Farm." However, lest the urban public think that farming has become a soft, push-button operation, let me emphasize that today's farmers work as hard as their forebears, and under much more tension, to keep the expensive machinery and larger herds producing . . .
BRAD BENEDICT
Lynden, Wash.
Sir: One of the finest examples of automation on the farm was slighted. The double-page color spread, showing seven Case No. 301 combines speaks for itself, but Case was not mentioned in the text of the article, despite its record of 113 years of mechanical excellence . . . Montevideo
JOSÉ M. PÉREZ GUDÍN
Hildy & the Law
Sir:
Despite the laws of Massachusetts and of the Roman Catholic Church, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound.
ROSEMARY MICKLISH
Madison, Wis.
Sir:
Is Hildy McCoy's future happiness going to depend upon her mother's retroactive conscience? The fact that Hildy was born out of wedlock automatically eliminates the vague legal implications of the Roman Catholic prenuptial contract . . .
(THE REV.) LEE JAMES BEYNON JR. First Baptist Church
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Sin in Cicero
Sir:
I have just read with some amusement the July 4 letter of that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became the one town in the world whose name is synonymous with racial prejudice? . . . Oh, Mr. Krebs! Cast not the first stone!
HAM HOLMES
Columbia, S.C.
Interracial Marriages
Sir:
TIME, June 27 listed North Dakota among those states in which marriages between whites and Negroes are prohibited. If this statement had appeared in the next issue, TIME would have been in error because by Chapter 126, Laws of North Dakota, 1955, this prohibition was repealed, effective July 1, 1955.
MANLEY G. PAISLEY
St. Paul
The Red Dean
Sir: