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---------------------Letters
Gambler's Eyes
Dear Sirs:
From GAMBLER'S GIRL [by William Heuman, Mar. 26] first paragraph: "They were the eyes of a man who could sit on your chest and calmly cut out your heart, and smile all the way through the operation."
A neat trick, even if he didn't smile. Far as I read.
JOHN KALUF
Bethesda, Md.
·Heuman admits the operation would require" some rather remarkable gymnastics." But cartoonist Leo Hershfield, a chronic punster, suggests a possibility (see drawing below) which may get Heuman off the hook.-ED.
He Admits He's Biased
Dear Sirs:
It was with great pleasure I read George Allen's article [My FRIEND THE PRESIDENT, Apr. 9]. It's about time somebody spoke up for Ike, and I think it is a tribute to his real and genuinely warm personality. . . that it was finally a Democrat who had the initiative and courage to do it.
CLAIRE FLYNN
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sirs:
You have given us the views of the President's best friend. Now let us hear from his worst I appreciate that that will not be an easy selection as they are legion.
ELEANOR PERRY
San Diego, Calif.
Dear Sirs:
Your article. . . is a gross absurdity. President Eisenhower is neither a great man, a great President nor even a great politician. . . . He got into office. . . on a slogan-"I like Ike"-which a dumb populace parroted without facts or reason.
F. DONNELLY
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sirs:
The article is a slander to the late and great Senator Taft.
- K. MARTIN
Waco, Tex.
Dear Sirs:
Have had enough of George Allen. I want a new court jester. If I can find a candidate that promises to keep Allen out of the White House, that will be my man.
- L. BRADLEY
Seattle, Wash.
Dear Sirs:
Thank you, thank you for publishing an article that openly and courageously announces that "there will be no taint of objectivity" in it. "Taint" is the right word; it is what we are all sick of. Thank God for an honest, unapologized-for opinion and some plain, unvarnished, old-fashioned enthusiasm.
HELEN M. SPEAR
Ada, Ohio
Alarm on the Farm
Dear Sirs:
I want to congratulate The Post for publishing THE FARMER'S SIDE OF THE CASE by Mary Conger [Apr. 9]. . . . I was almost convinced that no metropolitan editor was aware of the true farm picture or would dare publish it if he did know.
JOHN G. SWATZKA
Tangent, Oreg.
Dear Sirs:
It's like having a bear by the tail-you can't hang on and you're afraid to let go. I am fifty-nine, and there is no future in farming for me, my wife and son. We have done as the Congers have done- borrowed and gone without-[but] there is less and less of real value left each year.
ROBERT D. WARD
St. Johns, Mich.
Dear Sirs:
We farmers don't want sympathy, but we do want understanding and, as Mary Conger so aptly phrased it, "We don't like to be accused of being greedy or of being tax-eating parasites."
MRS. ORVAL BOETTNER
Fremont, Nebr.
Dear Sirs:
My heart bleeds for Mrs. Conger. Of course, I don't exactly understand what point she is trying to make, unless it is that the remainder of the population should be taxed to support her family in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Or maybe she would like for us to station a congressman at her gate to see that no one lets the cows out.
She and her husband continue to increase their land holdings, having a nice number of acres already. . . . If I had even seven acres of land, much less 700, I would be very happy. . . .
This increasing dependence on government, particularly by the farmers, is surely leading to disaster.
BILLIE BEMAN GERECKE
Corpus Christi, Tex.
Dear Sirs:
"We have had a busy, happy life on our farm," Mrs. Conger admits, almost as an afterthought. You can't ask for much more than that, can you? . . .
The most frightening admission of the whole article is that they are afraid of a free economy, the same free economy that enabled the Congers to . . . rise above the bare-subsistence level that is the lot of most of the rest of the world.
JOHN VLAHOVICH
Dishman, Wash.
Dear Sirs:
For a long time I have been concerned at the attitude seemingly prevalent in urban areas that the farmer is enjoying a vast handout from the Federal Government at the expense of other taxpayers. Your article . . . certainly explodes that impression. Many of your readers must have been astonished at the level to which our most basic industry has descended.
FRANCIS CASE
U.S. Senator from South Dakota Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I Hereabouts a poor farmer is hard to find. . . and the farmer's daughter is still a good catch for a lucky young man. I know because I married one.
CHRISTIAN W. WIRSTAD
Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Dear Sirs:
Many farmers feel deep concern, as Mrs. Conger said, but we at Farm Journal don't find that they have succumbed to a, "general undercurrent of despair." Not by quite a bit. . . .
Farm debt is rising, but assets are going up about as fast, keeping the ratio about the same. Seven out of ten farms still have no mortgage. Family farms are about as big a percentage of the total as they were ten years ago, even thirty years ago. We believe they have a future.
The outlook is not worse for 1960 than in 1959. For some lines it may be, but for the others the prospect is better-hogs, eggs, for example.
This is by way of supplementing, from a national viewpoint, what Mrs. Conger said so well about a part of the picture.
CARROLL P. STREETER,
Editor Farm Journal Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Sirs:
We do not have to urge our teen-age son to seek a career off the farm; he figured that out a long time ago. We do urge him to vote the straight Democratic ticket for the rest of his life. He knows why.
SARA J. FOWLER
Round Pond, Maine
Dear Sirs:
Even now, with all the adverse conditions, I have an absolute horror of having to join the "sell-out-and-move-to-town" parade. I would not be happy without our-and the bank's-cows.
MRS. H. E. AHLSCHWEDE
Wymore, Nebr.
Birds, Bees and The Post
Dear Sirs:
I heard a most amusing story last week. The name of your magazine is mentioned, so I think you will get a kick out of it. A seven-year-old had just received a detailed lecture from his father on the facts of life, the birds and the bees and simple biology.
The father leaned back at the end of the recital and said, "Now, if there is anything else you want to know, don't hesitate to ask me, son."
The boy pondered a minute, then gravely asked his father, "How come they put out The Saturday Evening Post on Wednesday?"
EUGENE V. ROWAN
East Norwalk, Conn.
·Tell the boy The Post comes out on Tuesday. -ED.
For Shame!
Dear Sirs:
[Re your April 2 Post cover:] For shame! All them boys and girls, and only " one convenience."
C. E. BARNES
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Dear Sirs:
When I was a boy going to a country school, there was always two of them- one for the girls, and one for the boys.
C. F. NELICK
Walnut, Ill.
Dear Sirs:
Is this "togetherness"?
GLADYS R. JOHNSON
Onarga, Ill
·The Pine Creek (Montana) School has had indoor plumbing for two years. Two "conveniences" were in use before that. One is shown at left on John Clymer's cover. The other, not shown, is to the right of this scene. -ED.
Dear Sirs:
If school is in session, where is Old Glory?
MARK B. SCURRAH
Albany, N. Y.
·Sometimes the wind blows too hard to have the flag up, says teacher Mable Easton. But there's always a flag in the schoolroom. -ED.
Post Picture Credits
Reading across pages, then down:
23-Dalmas-Pix. ·24-Sovfoto; Peter Schmid-Pix; Dalmas-Pix. ·25-United Press International; Dalmas-Pix; Gaby-Pix. ·28, 29-Larry Fried. · 31-Sid Avery. ·32-Three by Claude Jacoby; map by Center Studio. ·33-Claude Jacoby. ·34, 35-Joern Gerdts. ·36-Larry Keighley. · 38, 39-Bill Shrout. · 42-Wolf Suschitzky. · 48-Hans Knopf. ·49-Two by Hans Knopf; Mike Wilson; Hans Knopf. . ·l30-Map by Center Studio; Hal G. Evarts. ·136-Larry Keighley; from Robert Standish; John R. Wells; Burt Glinn from Magnum.
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