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To set her heart on fire.
And a pin that cost me nearly half a buck,
All no use, all no use, I'm out of luck!
Der Fuehrer's Face is excellent mockery; but we don't want too much of that. . . . Much better is religious fanaticism; at its grim best in defeat. John Brown's body lay amoldering, but his soul went marching on. Till we get another such real rouser, a song for men, and keep the Julia Ward Howe's lady fingers off it, the popular Praise the Lord, etc., will do to go on with.
THOMAS McMoRROW New York City
The Women
Sirs:
Your article entitled "The Women" under Press in the Oct. 26 issue is the most revolting "dark ages" type of propaganda I've had to stomach for a long time. It is an insult to every working newswoman in the country, to say nothing of those who are hatching on the half shell in journalism schools. . . .
Granted there are few women copy readers. An intelligent person would take them from women familiar with a newspaper set up. . . . Why doesn't he hire newswomen who do know that style is something besides what is talked about in a fashion magazine? . . .
HELEN EWING Hollywood
False Gospel
Sirs:
In your article, "The Power of Prayer in Kentucky," issue of Oct. 26, p. 78, you missed a chance to point out the fact that the passage so literally interpreted by the snake-handlers is Mark 16:18, which is a part of the well-known "false" ending to the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 16 verses 9 to 20 in the King James version. Nobody who looks at the facts could come to the conclusion that Jesus actually spoke these words, and the evidence that he did not is of the best and most objective kind, manuscript evidence.
The Second-Century Christian who added this "false ending" to Mark may have had in mind such passages as Luke 10:19 and Acts 28:3-6, but there is still no genuine word of Jesus which, literally interpreted, could encourage the snake-handlers.
F. W. GINGRICH Department of Greek and Religion Albright College Reading, Pa.
Crackdown Exception
Sirs:
On p. 90 of your issue for Oct. 26, you state: "The Treasury had asked Congress to crack down on all such outfits (mine and lumber operators) by eliminating all depletion allowances." This is entirely inaccurate.
The Treasury made no proposals at all as to lumber. As far as mines (and oil wells) are concerned, the Treasury has never suggested that they should not be allowed to deduct the actual depletion sustained on the cost of the properties. The Treasury has sought to eliminate the present unsound, unfair and insidious allowance for depletion on the basis of a percentage of the gross income. . . .
ERWIN N. GRISWOLD
Law School of Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
>TIME erred. The Treasury proposed to eliminate only percentage depletion allowances for mines. Whether such allowances are insidious is a matter of opinion.—ED.
How to Influence the Japs
Sirs:
In your Oct. 12 issue, you presented "a sample of the U.S. propaganda spread . . .. among Japanese in Hawaii," in which an inscription in Japanese is supposed to say that the Emperor "wants ... to know where those planes came from that bombed Tokyo."