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Sirs: Your comment on "Munitions Men" in the current number (TIME, March 5) is a genuine satisfaction to many of your readers. The seriousness of the European situation is made very clear in recent books-which my own observation in Europe this last summer confirms. The time to safeguard peace is now. Such measures as that sponsored by Senator Vandenberg to eliminate profits from the munitions business will help-but beneath all else there must be the Peace Sentiment. . . JAMES W. FIFIELD...
...Wagner places the fee of the artist before the responsibility of himself and of the artist to the public. Both Mr. Wagner and Mr. Thomas are placed in the position where they can protect themselves; the generous public who support both but which cannot safeguard its interests is left out of consideration...
...little fellow: You on code authorities are your industrial brother's keeper and especially are you the keeper of your small industrial brother. We must set up every safeguard against erasing the small operator from the economic scene. . . . The anti-trust laws must continue in their major purpose of retaining competition and preventing monopoly. It is only where these laws have prevented the cooperation to eliminate things like child labor and sweatshops, starvation wages and other unfair practices that there is justification in modifying them...
...there is a war, Japan, and not Russia, will start it, because the Russians realize that it would play havoc with their economic plans to get embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...