Letters: May 24, 1963

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The article should encourage people to have regular examinations for the early detection of cancer of the colon and rectum, which takes a toll of approximately 40,000 lives in this country each year. At least three-fourths of these lives could be saved by early diagnosis and proper treatment.

HAROLD S. DIEHL, M.D. Senior Vice President for Research and Medical Affairs American Cancer Society, Inc. New York City

It's Arizona State Sir:

We certainly appreciate your recognizing our world-record mile relay team [May 10], but please, please, PLEASE make it Arizona State University, and not our No. 1 rival, the University of Arizona.

DICK MULLINS Arizona State University Tempe, Ariz.

Mount Everest

Sir:

Whuptse! Muptse should be Nuptse! (See Mount Everest footnote, May 10 issue.)

MARGARET FRENO

Barberton, Ohio > Yuptse.—ED.

Educated Educators

Sir:

Hooray for your education story [May 10] on California's new teachers' credentials. And thanks for being the first national publication to give the credit to the person who deserves it: Tom Braden.

The article, however, says that California may have an initial shortage of teachers because of the stiffer requirements. Surveys show that wherever standards have been raised for teachers, the number of applicants has also risen.

RONALD MOSKOWITZ Education Editor San Francisco Examiner San Francisco

Sir:

As a teacher, I have cursed California as an educational wasteland for many years. Its certification laws, I felt, constituted one of the prime perpetuators of "educationism" in the U.S. Now I find that I must dine upon crow. I do so delightedly—with a grateful bow in the direction of Tom Braden.

LEWIS T. CETTA American High School Naples, Italy

Inspecting the Inspector

Sir:

Your book review of the autobiography of C. G. Jung [May 10] was both gratifying and repugnant to those of us who have read Jung's writings carefully and have had the pleasure of analysis by a Jungian analyst.

The article was gratifying in that it pointed up the importance of Jung's final thoughts following a career which yielded nearly 20 thick volumes of major psychoanalytical literature, but repugnant in that it portrayed Jung as a doddering mystic obsessed in his old age by his reflective speculations.

RONALD S. HURST

Denver

Sir:

I was disappointed that you neglected to work into the review the best-known pun on this father-son relationship by the greatest paronomasiac of all, James Joyce—". . . when they were yung and easily freudened" (Finnegans Wake)—who also provides a possible subtitle for the book reviewed, "Jungfraud's Messongebook."

PETER SPIELBERG New York City