Letters: Mothers Answered

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Sirs:

Our news sheet tells us that Congressmen are being "troubled" by two questions from their constituents: 1) "Why isn't my Johnny getting home faster?" and 2) "Why are they drafting my Johnny, now that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell.

HENRY C. MCILVAINE JR. Commander, U.S.N.R.

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"September 1945"

Sirs:

. . . The lead article entitled "September 1945" [TIME, Sept. 17] reaches rare heights in journalistic writing. This is the kind of picturesque reporting occasionally appearing along with the rapid-fire reporting that makes TIME even more human and puts it in a class by itself. In my eyes TIME is America's best-balanced news magazine for the busy folk who want to keep up with world happenings. . . .

PAUL MARKHAM Pastor

First Presbyterian Church Fairgrove, Mich.

Sirs:

. . . As long as people like your writer of "September 1945" are broadminded enough to see the nation as a whole, this nation can't stop—neither can TIME. Such an article should be framed. . . .

W. C. VAN METER Judsonia, Ark.

Sirs:

As you may well have guessed, the Nina Leen pix of the "U.S. Scene" has raised a storm of arguments as to its origin. To be sure it's home for all of us, but still to each of us it bears a marked resemblance also to each of our own home states (see cut).

There is blood about to be spilled, so please enlighten us, for sake of some threatened friendships and some folding green stuff to boot. Could it be Penna., Mo., Va., Conn., Calif., or even La., we dunno, do you?

Give us the word but quick!

Thanks a lot—one thing's unanimous, no matter where it might be, it looks wonderful to us all.

Six NAVY FLYERS

ENSIGN J. D. WILLIS (PA.)

ENSIGN M. E. BAND (CALIF.)

ENSIGN W. LINDEMANN JR. (Mo.)

ENSIGN H. W. KUTHLEY (VA.)

ENSIGN G. E. DUNN (CONN.)

ENSIGN J. R. HILLERY (LA.)

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Sirs:

I am willing to bet that the picture [illustrating "September 1945"] is taken near Pawling, N.Y., on the road to Quaker Hill, home of Lowell Thomas and Thomas E. Dewey.

(SGT.) SHERWOOD W. TRAVERS Boiling Field Washington, D.C.

¶ Bullseye.—ED.

Yamashita to Leavey

Sirs:

Your otherwise excellent story on Jap surrenders—"A Bubble Bursts" [TIME, Sept. 10]—was dead wrong on one point. Yamashita did not surrender to General Wainwright but to Major General Edmond H. Leavey, Chief of Staff of the Army Forces in the Western Pacific, who was acting for Lieut. General W. D. ("Fat") Styer, commanding general AFWESPAC.

General Wainwright was there all right —but only as a distinguished visitor. Correction ?

(AFWESPAC LIEUTENANT'S NAME WITHHELD) % Postmaster San Francisco