More Deserving than the British?
Sirs:
With all the talk concerning a loan to Britain in the air, I feel compelled to put in a bid for aid to a few countries which are a little more deserving. . . .
My friends in the Philippines are unable to buy seeds for their gardens, and they don't see much help in sight on this score coming from the Americans. From India come reports of an imminent famine affecting hundreds of thousands. Although there seems to be little talk at present of starvation in Indonesia, no doubt there will be by the time the British have finished pillaging that country. . . .
Before even considering a loan to Britain, would it not be wise first to obtain a guarantee from her that none of this money would be used to suppress peoples who are attempting to gain their independence?
(T/5) THOMAS SNIPES
Yokohama, Japan
For Nofer Trunnions
Sirs:
After being envised and cerebrally malleated by 1.5 nofer trunnions [TIME, April 15] from a matitudinative 0451 GMT to an epinocturnal-proximate 1155 EST, I felt the need of a spirianimating filliperative and therefore submersinized my hypersensinate endoderm in a 5% fizzionate bicarboalkali-nating Cepsy-Pola.
ERNEST N. KIRRMANN
East Northfield, Mass. .
Sirs:
. . . May I add that if the bearings are lubricated with warm smortch they will not grunch?
STANTON TOMKINS
West Reading, Pa.
Sirs:
In case you are interested in the reaction of a professional scientist . . . you are advised that he passes through the following stages:
1) "I must be having an 'off' day."
2) "What the hell?"
3) "Comes the dawn."
DONALD H. JACOBS
Albuquerque, N.M.
Sirs:
. . . What is a "dingle arm"?
W. E. HABIG
Madison, N.J.
¶ An adjunct to the turbo-encabulator, employed whenever a barescent skor motion is required.—ED.
Men at Work
Sirs:
. . . The article on veterans [TIME, April 1] contains a statement to the effect that in Washington USES had announced that calls for workers outnumbered job applicants by ten to one. This statement is not in line with the facts regarding job opportunities for veterans and displaced war workers, and was not given out by the USES.
The facts are that at the present time there is a serious shortage of suitable jobs for veterans and other job applicants. It was because of this shortage of jobs that the USES, on Feb. 21, initiated a nationwide Job Development Campaign, in which all of the 1,700 local USES offices are now participating. At the present time, representatives of these USES offices are canvassing employers in the communities in which they are located, and asking them to list all their job openings with the USES. .
Employer cooperation in this program will not only constitute a service to veterans and other job applicants, but will also provide employers with the best qualified workers.
ROBERT C. GOODWIN
Director, U.S. Employment Service
Washington
¶ TIME erred; the facts are almost, but not quite, the reverse: ten applicants for every job.—ED.
Parted Per Pale
Sirs: