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. . . Agriculture is at last succumbing to what the great portion of industry has, namely the corporation type of enterprise. No longer will we have many 80-to 120-acre farms with each farmer his own owner and operator, but we will have 1,000-to 10,000-acre farms with executives, white-collar workers, technicians and laborers As a small (215 acres) farmer, I don't like it at all ...
PAUL M. SHOGER
Aurora, Ill.
Sobs from the West
Sir:
O.K., fellers, I give up ... It is true, though unfortunate, that TIME, the biggest hodgepodge of slanted pseudo-sophisticated misinformation on the face of the earth, is, for reasons that you might not suspect, worth having. You see, I have to read it to check up on my friends . . . who are frequently guilty of TIMEConversation. This is a disease for which there is no known cure. Symptoms: patient exhibits smooth, well-informed opinion-taking stand on anything from Adenauer to Zeitgeist; is never at loss for any rationalization of Eisenhower policy, or any criticism of latest book by Bertrand Russell; will begin cocktail-party dissertation on latest TIME-covered celebrity at the drop of a capsule-summary; buys Brubeck album day after article appears; lauds Dylan Thomas and explains poems thereof ... is, in short, the very model of a modern man of the world. No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs. No doubts, no indecision, no brains.
. . . With my most sincere hopes for a speedy and well-deserved drop to obscurity.
ROBERT A. POTTER
Los Angeles
Time & Interest
Sir:
Now that the sound and fury of the Talbott investigation [Aug. 1 et seq.] has died away, and before the clamor of the 1956 "campaigning" session of Congress begins, would it be impertinent to ask: 1) How many Congressmen have business associations that might affect their votes on pending legislation, and 2) how many Congressmen are past 65—the accepted retiring age for labor?
MRS. JOSEPH HELMICK
Weirton, W. Va.
¶Of Congressmen who admit (in the Congressional Directory} to a date of birth, 55 Representatives and Senators are over 65.—ED.
Death of a Boy (Contd.)
Sir:
As a native Mississippian, I want to thank you for the very fine reporting you did [Oct. 3] on the Emmett Till murder trial. The handling of the case by Judge Swango and the prosecution renew hope against the almost overpowering futility of the verdict.
W. R. WATKINS III
McComb, Miss.
Sir:
Whenever the war news is slack . . . the biased editors of TIME capitalize on such controversial articles as the Till case.
I wish I could read the article TIME writes 2,000 years hence, when the Deep South rides in "white" and "colored" rocket ships.
GLORIA BARTON MORRIS
Aiken, S.C.
Sir: