Look LETTERS continued January 24 Andersonville Remembered saving, capital accumulation and the investment of these savings. How my eyes opened when I The ancients were not more saw MacKinlay Kantor and An- "for moral and human values" dersonville (LOOK, December 13) ! than we are. Even in Athens, not Father being a prisoner in Ander- everybody was Sophocles or Soc- sonville for 16 months, I heard rates, and Athens was still less the about it all: how the boys were whole of Greece than New York shot, hanged, tortured in every is the whole of America. The im- way, the dead piled up like logs, mense majority of the ancient burned. Father volunteered as Greeks were also Babbitts, of a teamster from Ohio. He and course, Greek Babbitts. six others were transferring mules LUDWIG MISES near Knoxville when they were New York, N. Y. captured. He lived on one pint of corn meal and water a day, cooked the best he could with wa- Pam's Looks and Grades ter from the creek that ran I can't get over the comparison through Andersonville with of Pamela Gross (Pamela Goes to gray-backs (lice) so thick he College, LOOK, November 29) and pushed 'em back to get a little Grace Kelly (In Defense of the clean water. Single Woman, LOOK, November Father went to D.C. after the 29). I think Pam looks more like war and got his back pay of $14. Grace than Grace herself (below). He was offered a pension but re- MRS. BETTY HOLMSTEN fused, said, "I'm well, others need Newington, Conn. it worse." Father came out to Kan- sas and homesteaded in 1867. He said that prayer, patience and kindness to his fellow men were all that pulled him through. He preached that to his nine children. JOHN F. DULOHERY Oakhill, Kan. Granting that Mr. Kantor has written a brilliant novel, I cannot help but share the apprehension of E. M. Coulter of the Dept. of History of the University of Geor- gia. Mr. Coulter [writes]: "The Pamela Grace only comment I want to make on Andersonville is that this nov- Pamela's first week at Ste- el. as it has been reviewed far and phens College tends to show Ste- wide, may leave the impression phens as all frosting and no cake. that terrible prison conditions Not so! Stephens also has class- rooms, libraries and some were to be found only in the South For a number of years, rather rugged scholastic standards I have lived about sixty miles from to be met. To earn a C, it is true, the site of Andersonville, and did not in my day demand undue have visited there. Also, I have strain, but B's and A's were earned met many people in that vicinity by working our tails off. Did we whose ancestors vividly recall the complain? You bet. But it was ex- prison conditions during the [Civil citing, and the rewards thus won War]. And certainly the were sweet. Well do I realize conditions were no worse at An- that your story covered only the dersonville than at many North- first week, during which classes ern prisons. Personally, I find it had not commenced. Some of your no more disturbing for the prison- readers, not having this called to ers to "have baked to death in the their attention, might conclude sun" than was the fate of some of erroneously that the classroom my Kentucky ancestors who al- side of Stephens is negligible. most froze to death in the sub- SUZANNE FISHER ANDERSON '39 zero weather of Camp Douglas Riverside, Calif. at Chicago. As is generally known. there was little food of any kind The Unending Strike in the South at that time, but what Perhaps in The Strike That May was to be had was usually shared Never End (LOOK, November 29), alike by the Southern officials of you presented the facts to the best prison camps and the prisoners. of your ability, but I could not MRS. BROOKS GEOGHEGAN help feeling that you were biased Macon, Ga. in your presentation. You neg- lected to tell of the practically Man vs. Machine nonexistent pension plan; of the Man vs. Machine (LOOK, De- poor lighting and ventilation in cember 13) is the first piece the plant and of the no-arbitration and no-seniority rights Mr. Kohler I've seen on this subject that ex- and Mr. Conger wish to write into plains the economics of automa- the contract. When the work- tion in language that everyone can ers in the Kohler Company went easily grasp. out on strike, they knew it might JOHN O. MONTGOMERY be a long and bitter strike. Yet Director of Public Relations they went out because they felt Chrysler Division they were on the side of the right. Detroit, Mich. MRS. EDWARD A. DISCH Your article is very good and Evanston, Ill. instructive but some special Maybe the rest of the country observations: Marx did not say will wake up to the fact that too that machines are the superstruc- much union is just as bad as too ture of society, but the eco- little union. I congratulate the nomic structure of society is de- Kohler Company for its stand termined by the development of against unfair union practices. the material productive forces, i.e., CHARLES BOWER the tools and machines, and is the real basis upon which a juridical Staten Island, N. Y. and political superstructure arises. END Why did the ancient Greeks not develop capitalism and produce Address letters to Editor of LOOK, 488 machines? Because they had not Madison Ave., New York 22, Y. No created the indispensable condi- anonymous letters will be considered tion, i.e., a state of society, legisla- for publication. tion and political institutions that could provide safety for big-scale