Letters, Jun. 21, 1971

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Getting to Know Carter

Sir: Your article about Jimmy Carter [May 31] makes one feel sick. Your facts may be correct. Your observations are all wrong.

Carter might make a good Governor, but he will not be elected to any more offices, thanks to you. The people really did not know him, but they will next time.

The South is not changing as fast as you write. The thing that worries some people now is not race but that the South could become like the North.

W.M. FREELAND

Plum Branch, S.C.

Sir: Governor Carter epitomizes what has been happening in Georgia in general and Atlanta in particular for the past ten years. With a Jewish mayor and a black vice mayor, Atlanta may be not only the South's most progressive city but perhaps the nation's.

ROBERT P. MORRISON

El Granada, Calif.

Sir: TIME's attempt to label Jimmy Carter the precursor of a fresh wave of liberalism in the South overlooks the fact that in winning the Democratic nomination, Carter defeated Carl Sanders, the most progressive Governor in Georgia history.

Although Governor Carter projects a moderate public posture, he clearly stands in the genre of the traditional Southern politician.

DENNIS SLATTERY

West Covina, Calif.

Sir: If the writer of the article on Georgia had taken into account South Georgia, the picture would not be quite so bright.

Here, the Snopeses are alive and well and as mean as ever.

STAN GODBOLD

Valdosta, Ga.

Sir: Atlanta is not the Southern city of the future, it is the city of the future.

DORIS HAUSER

Boston

Sir: Much of the "new day" that has come and is coming in the South cannot be celebrated by us all. The 25% native population of Atlanta cannot take any pride in the polluted air that increasingly blankets the city's soaring buildings, in the clogged freeways for which there is no visible relief, and in the growing transient population that causes more problems than it cares about solving. Atlanta is too busy to hate, a native can tell you, simply because its white residents are too busy leaving town.

FRED BURGER

Atlanta

Abortion and Nurses

Sir: Nurses do not need "psychiatric first aid" to treat their responses to the reality of abortion [May 31]. Instead they should act upon their beliefs, speak out and stop the continued transformation of our operating rooms into human butcher shops.

Those Americans who feel that laws restricting abortion are an unfair restriction on the rights of women should be compelled to see the small, perfect, sometimes still moving human beings who are daily being thrown away in our hospitals.

JULIE G. DONALEK, R.N.

Philadelphia

Sir: There are many situations in nursing and medicine to be "distraught" about. Abortion is not one of them.

PAULINE ROWLAND, R.N.

Ithaca, N.Y.

Chorus-Line Kick

Sir: Crocodile tears for Walter Cronkite [May 31]. If the networks had their way, the only function of the FCC would be to ensure that the three network giants had no major competition. Does Cronkite believe that Agnew & Co. are responsible for his sinking credibility, when Cronkite has held his office longer than Nixon, Agnew and Johnson put together?