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Sir:
To the young Democrat from Massachusetts with senatorial ambitions: Ask not what you can do for your brother; ask what your brother can do for you.
PAUL KERBY Greeley, Colo.
Sir:
As a TIME reader of some 14 years and a Democrat for about the same period, may I say I am just a bit weary of tiresome Republican readers who pester us so mercilessly with petty little anti-intellectual, xenophobic notes about Mr. Kennedy. He is a damn fine President, and everybody knows it, including his objective critics. I shall, of course, laugh all the way to the polls in '64. A landslide should prove especially delightful this time around.
BERNARD J. JAMES Director Center for Programs in Government Administration University of Chicago Chicago
Sir:
The atom bomb scares me, sometimes Khrushchev frightens me, but the Kennedys absolutely terrify me.
(MRS.) ANNA M. R. STONE Weirton, W. Va.
Freedom of Truth
Sir:
In your story of June 22 concerning the views of Justice Black on freedom of speech, you incorrectly cite John Peter Zenger as being a victim of the Sedition Act of 1798.
Zenger (1697-1746) was brought to trial in 1735 for publishing the New York Weekly Journal, which contained articles attacking the arbitrary measures of the Governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was arrested on the charge of false and scandalous libel, and imprisoned and held incommunicado for nine months. Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, argued that the statements published were in fact true. In deciding for Zenger, the principle was established that the publication of truthful statements could not be considered libelous.
MELVIN DRIMMER Lecturer in History Hunter College New York City
> Reader Drimmer is correct. Since New York was a colony, Zenger was tried under English law, which stated that "if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."—ED.
Good Pest
Sir:
In the field of pest control, one pest is sometimes introduced to control another, more serious type.
As an exterminator, I certainly approve of "Pest" Harold Gross [June 15] and his methods of controlling the "waste-pests" infesting Congress.
R. L. HAWKS Inter-State Exterminators Wichita, Kans.
Sir:
More Gross in Congress would give us more net in the Treasury.
HARMON WESTON Corona del Mar, Calif.