Letters
Letters Morality For Atomic Age From Guy EMERY SHIPLER, Editor, the Churchman To the editor: admiration for Eduaid ('. Luide-iiiin these many yeara has always suffered but one limitation: he so...
...Yet, while nations...
...8. Kleinssan The New Leader stimulates me s great deal and it is the most constructive, if not the only constructive, piece of work that the Social Democratic Federation has ever done...
...That shirt must go...
...but the people have to buy .their juice from the Pacific Gas and Electric...
...Its contribution to the United Nations cause has been altogether out of proportion to its sise...
...It is the fashion in the West for chambers of commerce to boost the building of big dams, and then fight to the death every move for public power' lines to distribute public power over public lines...
...Senstor, you have indeed performed s service for the American people by boldly underlining the meaning and consequences of race prejudice...
...Dodecanese Islands and London Conference The fate of the former Italian possessions and colonies is being discussed these days at the London London Council of the Big Five Foreign Ministers...
...As aa Individual you bar** the right to your own prejudices—though they're hardly in accord with American traditions or the welfare of the American people...
...1 have known and knew a good many liberal clergymen...
...Russian, Spanish, English...
...N. G. Mavrls, President...
...San Francisco has a Ane gonerationg plant in the Yosemite National Park...
...Think of our coal mine*, our steel mills, out brick kiln*, our automobile industry, our factories snd workshops...
...you are on the right track...
...I call your attention to the chapter on Hetch Hctchy in th* autobiography of George W. Norris, entitled A Fighting Liberal...
...This would bo a thoroughly moral act—for I sgre* with him that "an atomic age requires a dynamic morality...
...And the private companies buy wholesale current from public "plants at Merced, Modesto, Yosemite, Turlock, Yuma, snd from Boulder...
...1 suspect that he would agree that—at least in the churches—the degeneration has too long rovsreV too much territory...
...Without these accoutrements fashioned by despised immigrants, how you Sp look...
...for we are all immigrants...
...But I wieh he had mad* the distinction—as I wish all writers and speakers would...
...at) Open lattar to Senofor Bilbo Dear Sis: We followed with considerable interest your recent statement* attacking minority groups, whose devotion snd loyalty have helped to make America a great nation, both materially and spiritually...
...Again congratulations on thst splendid last psge editorial...
...When the plant was built, the private companies were given the privilege of sticking in their awn generators, after Uncle Sam had spent his millions in building the highest dam in the world...
...His "Morality for an Atomic Age" in The Nets Leader has me down again on that count...
...but the Pacific Gas snd Electric gets the current to distribute to the people of the city...
...Very truly yours, KNITGOOD8 WORKERS' UNION Local No...
...The cotton was picked hy Negro workers...
...The appeal asked that the Freedom Fund for Reconstruction of European Coops help the Italian* on sn equal basis...
...Detroit Mkh...
...Suffice to say that 'at the time of its liberation, only twelve.houses were remaining standing on the island, according to official UNRRA reports...
...Take OH Your Shirt...
...That suit must go...
...The inhabitants of 'Castellorizo, like those of all the other Dodecsnese Islands, were, feeling confident thst their age long aspiration to be united with their mother country, Greece, would be fulfilled at the...
...cause has so soon been forgotten, snd whether she has been reduced to s status inferior even to that now given to a former enemy nation...
...On the battlefields of this war, the Mood of all our immigrant strains poured oat in n common defense of the Amerv icon nation and the American way of life...
...Oakland owns its public power plant...
...The immigrants are net just Italians or Jews...
...Or, are we witnessing a return to the times when power politics were the only guide to international relations with the fate of the small natio«:o being judged in absentia...
...It seems a timely request that the Freedom Fund be utilised without discrimination for the rebuilding of Coop* in Germany...
...and when the lids sre all lifted, it would make the Mexican Water Treaty and Teapot Dome smell sweet by comparison...
...Yes, snd no...
...But it took a long, long fight to get freed from the utilities in Ontsrio and in TVA...
...Louis Nelson, Manager-Secretary Sam Sinensky, President...
...And (t is 'Boulder that smells the loudest...
...There is no word to describe that article—except the word claatie...
...but where do they get the current...
...On the contrary every one of them would say, and probably has said fruitlessly in numerable times, that science has long since far outpaced our moral insights They have said it not aa a condemnation of science or scientists, but with envy and ardent admiration as well as a warning* 'Whereupon the average layman ~2u* usuwUy remarked...
...166, I.L.G.W.U...
...But if you wish to strip the Americsn people of the contributions of our citizens who are Catholic, Jewish, Italian, Negro, as well aa other minorities, then it behooves you to set the example...
...RIIUILDINO MRMAN COOPMAT1VES From MARTIN M FERBEK To th* Editor: I.N its first issue in 1945, Th* New Leader published my letter which called attention to an appeal addressed to Arturo Toacanini by s socialist cooperative loader in Italy...
...Wherever you turn, you find the contributions of the immigrants, of miner, ¦ties...
...The Hay's Office won't like ft...
...A conference of the International Cooperative Alliance is to be hold in England on Sept 10...
...which are not even Italy's immediate neighbors are participating in the deliberations, Greece —the first of the United Nations to debunk the myth of Axis invincibility and to check fascist aggression—has not been invited to attend the London counsels and present her view on the Italian Peace Treaty...
...And that shirt was made by immigrant workers, member of minority groups...
...They ere all th* Americans...
...I am glad that Lindeman wrote: "Jf the htimaiiistie tradition doe* not align its affirmations with realistic and scientific fact, U will degenerate into n deadly faith which bear* no relatipn to" life...
...This is a question directly affecting Greco-Italian relations, the population of the islands being overwhelmingly Greek...
...There are a groat many of them Csech, Italian, Irish, Swedish, Jewi,*/ Slovaks, Chinese, Poles, Germans, Negri...
...If bo wants to uiau all the ewayiaU and pop them off with an atomic bomb I'll be happy to join the enterprise...
...but all current coming from their own generators is credited to them as private generation...
...I admit that there are far too few...
...Washington...
...Of course ne hi right when he soys that the "alarmists ' have cried out for a "back to religion" movement, and that tbe demand includes "(a) an assumption that morality resides in and may be evoked from no other source than religion, and (b) an assumption that these is something sinister about science.'' I am grateful that lie cracked down on persons, among those in other fields, "who think religion moans helping people to avoid the world of reality...
...You have chosen to nee tho Senate as a forum to broadcast to a shocked world the limitations and narrowness of your so very pretty mind...
...I hsve no figures ss to the percentage of the • "dump" power that goes to the companies...
...Furthermore, while the English-speaking nations, according to dispatches from London, "are represented ss resolved that all the Dodecanese should go to Greece," they seem to be inclined to give Csstel-lorizo to Turkey...
...But in the last paragraph on page two you made a statement which caused me to tear out a good part of what little hair I have left In quoting from the Wall Street Journal as to the high.percentage <>f (California farms that hsve electricity, you add that "most of tho power is supplied by private utilities...
...Luide-iiiin these many yeara has always suffered but one limitation: he so rarely writes anything with which 1 can disagree...
...CONSTRUCTIVE WORK From Dr...
...This tiny isle off the Turkish coast, with a prewar population of about 2,000 people, all Greek, has always formed an integral part of the Dodecanese group...
...gWell—he's just an idealist," and gone home to stultify his thinking processes, if any, with too much Sunday dinner...
...That suit you are wearing—it was made by Americans of Italian and Jewish descent...
...Hargft dignified...
...Now, they And that the Big Powers- consider them a* chattels to be tradnd, without their voice being heard...
...Keep it up...
...It would take a congressional committee a month to find out how much of it is generated by the companies...
...and of the war...
...Included in the agenda is the future status of the Dodecanese...
...One is entitled to ask whether Greece's contribution to the common United Nation...
...The spirit which animated this vast movement before it was taken over by the Nasi Labor Front should receive every possible stimulation from the international organisation...
...and the West is now traveling the same road to better days...
...Not one of them represents the benighted point of view suggested...
...1 know Eduard I.iiidemsn well enough to realise that he would be among the first to acknowledge that no libarnl thinker in the religious field— - using the word liberal in the untainted sense—would fell into that category...
...Dodeeastosian National Council New York...
...Power Supply From EUHU BOWLES To the Editor: ThIS is primarily to congratulate you on Liston M. Oak's editorial, The Atomic Age...
...True that the private companies deliver the current...
...Not at all like a Solon...
...Therein lies our strength, our grandeur, and promise for the future...
...These immigrants adopted this cos*, try and they gave It their love, loyalty, work and Uvea...
Vol. 28 • September 1941 • No. 39
