Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR HARLEM'S AMERICA The "Harlem's America" issue of The New Leader (September 26) was an excellent example of creative editorial judgment. I read the edited testimony before the Senate...
...Let old friends, let those whom he has taught, let those who have read writings of his remember now...
...No man, since John Dewey, has been of a stature like that of Paul H. Douglas in the many-sided and continuous struggle to make real the promise of American life...
...I read the edited testimony before the Senate Committee on the Negro in urban ghettos of America from cover to cover with the keenest interest, and my wife did the same...
...Specifically, taxation of corporate income, particularly if it is on excess inflationary profits, could have a reverse multiplier effect on income and, hence, dampen consumer expenditures enough so that taxation of "the low savers and the high spenders" or "the low income voters" might not be as necessary a part of the needed tax mixture as he seems to imply...
...Nehru Ambassador of India...
...Michael G. S?¤slow Research Assistant Professor University of Washington When next you see Lois of Watts, whom you talk of in the "Editor's Note" of your "Harlem's America" issue, tell her this white person, and millions of others are afraid of being harmed physically...
...I entertain Negroes in my house and in no part of my life does color enter in at all, but I now go to Watts only when it seems really necessary...
...He has served the people of America by sensing their needs and giving of himself to defend and advance their future...
...Boston, Mass...
...Another alternative, which Lekachman does not consider, is to impose controls on installment credit...
...Percy daily...
...Senator Douglas acted as a generous gentleman would, in the red glare of the Percy tragedy...
...Senator Paul Douglas is campaigning for his fourth term against a former student of his, Charles H. Percy, a millionaire businessman and more or less self-made...
...I come from poor people and I've always worked and I'm in no way bitter-I know I've had chances denied any and all Negroes...
...I understood, and I was glad to help and we're as good friends as ever...
...However, the most unspeakable of tragedies is neither a qualification nor a disqualification of a man for the United States Senate...
...And in virtually all senses of the word...
...But I don't intend to drive the first prestigious car I've owned in 39 years of wage-earning down to Watts so I can be stoned, beaten, robbed, killed or whatever because some punk, to paraphrase Claude Brown, "demands his share...
...The material can be sent to Mr...
...One's sympathy of human solidarity-mine, definitely-goes out to Mr...
...A Mexican family I know got in over their heads in car payments...
...When the head of the family was laid off they simply could not keep paying...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...however, I think his argument needs only to be carried a little further to brighten the prospects for inflation control...
...I haven't had occasion to react to an issue of a magazine in that way for a long, long time...
...He is needed in the Senate...
...The originals will be returned to those who wish to keep them after copies have been made for the Nehru Memorial...
...His daughter was sadistically murdered while asleep in her own home...
...Ever since his postgraduate days Senator Douglas has shown his mettle, and he has grown...
...In the course of his long, rich and crowded pubHe career, first as a leader of the national movement, then as the Prime Minister of India, he travelled extensively and met and corresponded with large numbers of individuals...
...Gerald Emanuel Stern DOUGLAS OF ILLINOIS May I call the attention of your readers to the Illinois Senatorial campaign...
...Elizabeth R. Davison INFLATION Robert Lekachman's article, "Putting the Brakes on Inflation" (NL, September 12), is a tour de force...
...New York City James T. Farrell NEHRU LIBRARY The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, is collecting letters, photographs and other documentary material relating to the life and work of Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Senator Paul H. Douglas is Percy's superior in regard to political and intellectual qualifications...
...I am sure he would act as generously, and with as gentlemanly a spirit as has Senator Douglas, had a political adversary of Percy's suffered so markedly brutal a tragedy during a campaign...
...I shall never understand why you failed to cover the Free Speech crisis at Berkeley in the same honest way...
...In the midst of the campaign, Percy suffered an unspeakable family tragedy...
...I train Negro girls from State College...
...Congratulations...
...He is energetic, vigorous and waging a fair and gallant campaign for re-election...
...I went to my credit union and borrowed money to pay off the car, and they finished paying me in small amounts...
...Douglas of Illinois, Senior Senator from that state-the Senate, the country need his re-election...
...As far back as the 1920s, Senator Douglas had a clear and sound view of the issues now threatening to cut the nation apart...
...His study of real wages is a work of fundamental importance...
...It wounds and leaves ineradicable scars upon a man's past, his present, his future...
...Aqil Ahmed, Press Attache, Embassy of India, 2107 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC...
...He is a hero of his country, an ex-Marine who joined as a private at the age of 49...
...Seattle, Wash...
...It is important that a full record of his activities be collected, carefully preserved and in due time made available for research to scholars...
...I've taught in a ghetto school for the last16 years...
...Copies of the documents will be supplied for personal record to those donors who wish to have them...
...He is an Establishment of brains, courage and integrity by himself...
...New York City George Field "Harlem's America," like "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," is an example of The New Leader at its best...
...This would directly curtail consumer expenditures on those durables which compete most directly with our war production...
...They knew and I knew that they should have taken a cheaper car, but they were so tired of clunkers and never having anything to view with pride...
...He is an uncorruptible man with a fine and fast mind, and amazingly extensive knowledge...
...I have Negro colleagues, a Negro superior...
...20008...
...Percy has thanked Senator Douglas...
...He is a living, around-the-clock refutation of Thomas Henry Carlyle's "the dismal science...
...I think I understand the life fairly well...
...I hope your staff and readers will agree with me and forget not a man who has grown into honorable greatness, and is still so growing...
...Many of my friends are teachers in Watts and no matter how little they've been able to accomplish, they have understood and struggled...
...Such a tragedy is like slashing away a big segment of a man's soul...
...I never said, in effect, "let this be a lesson...
...Your substitute then, Lewis Feuer's venomous distortion of reality, is the same sort of journalism that you might have bought for "Harlem's America" from, say, George Wallace or Lester Maddox...
...The associates, friends and admirers of the late Prime Minister are requested to help in this coilection by donating his letters, photographs and other documentary materials, such as press clippings, films, etc., to the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library...
...Harold Wolozin Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts McLUHAN Robert Meister's shrill (and vain) assault on Mount McLuhan ("The McLuhan Follies," NL, September 10) reminds me of that old Yiddish proverb: "The schlemiel, when he lands on his back, only bruises his nose...
...He preaches the New Deal in the conception of humane legislation, and has become part of the consciousness and conscience of 20th century America...
...I wish that I could be confident that your publication of "Harlem's America" reflected a new, uncompartmentalized commitment to accuracy, rather than a lucky accident for the subscriber...
...Washington, D.C...
...I think your editorial is unfair and does a disservice...
...Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y...
Vol. 49 • October 1966 • No. 21
