Public Service

* Martin Marty does a good job of defining the brain drain from politics (Opinion, April 30) but goes on to prescribe precisely the wrong remedy. We don’t need more young people entering the “profession” of politics, we need more successful people from the private sector who do not depend on politics for financial well-being to run for public office. That’s how the founding fathers did it.

FRITZ MEHRTENS

Irvine