Letters, Nov. 1, 1954

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. . . You state in the Oct. n issue: "Through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Georgia, Southern tempers flared." How can Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia be considered part of the South? The first two were border states that fought with the Union in the Civil War. The people of West Virginia refused to secede with Virginia and formed a separate state. They joined the Union in 1863. Geographically, each of these states is as close to Pennsylvania as it is to Virginia . . . Could it be that those were "Northern tempers" that flared in Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia?

FREDERICK C. LOWRY

Austin, Texas

¶ South is where the heart is.—ED.

Sir:

. . . Your picture of mothers hysterically egging on their children graphically shows the ignorant, savage cruelty that motivates them. I notice that Bryant Bowles also took a swipe at the Jews. Can it be that these vermin consider themselves Christians?

JOHN F. NIHEN (white, and ashamed of it)

Dorchester, Mass.

Sir:

Well, Bryant Bowles made it ... Once again it is proved that any redblooded, straight-shooting young man can rise from obscurity to success. Columns and pictures in all the local papers, wire-service notices, etc. . . . finally ... his arrest ... I am a Southerner, and I strongly sympathize with the problems of the South, and I appreciate the difficulties that must be met in the slow and inevitable accomplishment of integration. I only regret that such a large and ticklish undertaking must be complicated by the Northern and Southern minorities of gutless, poor-spirited and fanatical trash, inspired by the opportunists who can see money to be made in every human perplexity . . .

THOMAS C. PACE

Arbutus, Md.