Your article about ”Pops” Panczko (”No More Mr. Bad Guy,” by Bill Brashler, Nov. 18) brought to mind an incident that happened to my father, a jewelry salesman, sometime in the 1970s.
He was calling on a client when a man entered the store and told him he had fogotten to turn on his car alarm. ”However,” the man said, ”I know you are a nice man. Your wife is a schoolteacher, and you drive her to work every day. I won`t steal your car and samples today, but be more careful in the future.” The man then left. The storeowner identified him as Pops Panzcko. SOURCE: PAULA JOSEPH Chicago
Why would you put that criminal on the front page of your magazine on the Sunday before Thanksgiving? And with a cigarette in his mouth! For shame! SOURCE: DOROTHY FAHY Chicago
A much more constructive subject than Pops Panczko might have been chosen for the full-page, front-page picture and the seemingly adulatory feature story about him in the Nov. 18 Magazine.
Surely there are quite a few highly successful men and women in the Chicago area who have moved themselves up from humble beginnings. Would not it be more constructive to select some of them? SOURCE: DONALD MURRAY Fulton, Ill.
Chicago extremes:
Our lakefront.
The amused tolerance for Pops Panczko. SOURCE: W. R. ANDERSON Chicago
It is society that it to blame for the Pops Panczkos of the world-there is no excuse for this man other than he didn`t know how to earn a living other than by stealing. Let`s help the criminal into kicking his alcohol or drug habit, help him complete his education, develop a little self-esteem and help him want to live the right life. SOURCE: LAUREN R. JANUZ Lake Forest
