Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME.

"Clean"

TIME Jamaica, N. Y.

The News-Magazine Aug. 24, 1925.

Sirs:

I read with deep feeling your account of the persecution of a Chinese Laundryman in your Aug. 10 issue, Page 24.

It is a pity such things are allowed to continue toward "Foreigners" who should have Justice, if boys (?) of 22 do not possess sufficient courtesy toward their fellowmen. Such things as the above "Persecution" are what occasion international prejudice and lead to wholesale murders.

Personally I wonder where the Policeman was in all the weeks of the petty persecution. It was deplorable.--

Thanking you for your patience in reading this letter and tendering you my compliments for placing on the market such a clean paper as TIME (since reading it I have dropped the dailies with their sensational sheets).

W. J. BENNETT

Garbled

Western Union Telegraph Co., New York, N. Y. TIME

The News-Magazine, Sirs: Aug 27, 1925.

The only interest which we had in the attached clipping from Page 29, Aug. 17 issue of TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made it to me.

I thought you might be interested in it because it is evident that some one has done an injustice to your publication by foisting upon it a garbled version of the occurrence.

J. C. WILLEVER. First Vice President in charge of Commercial Department.

The attached clipping read:

As they (the finalists in the national municipal course golf tournament) stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read: MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE.

And the local (New York) general superintendent's report said:

Mr. Willever:

The facts are that, on the morning of the day in question, an unknown caddy handed to Mr. Wm. Serrick a note written on one of our sending newspaper special blanks. This note read: "Ma died at eight o'clock this morning. Line." Line is the pet name of Lincoln Serrick, a younger brother of the addressee.

On the afternoon of that day, when Mr. Wm. Serrick went out on the Course to begin his game, an older brother stepped up to him and assured him that there was nothing in the note he had received that morning.

Mr. Wm. Serrick is employed by the Niles Bement Pond Machinery Tool Co., Ill Broadway, N. Y. He is a fine specimen of American manhood. He said that he never suspected for one minute that this Company was in any way involved in this unsportsmanlike affair, which, as a matter of fact, had not in any way upset his game. He said that, contrary to this article, he was perfectly composed when he played this game, and that his competitor won the contest on merit. . . New York, Aug. 21, 1925. (sgd) J. F. NATHAN.

--ED.

Not Lyautey

TIME New York, N. Y.

The News-Magazine Aug. 20, 1925

Sirs:

On Page 9 of your issue of Aug. 17 you show an illustration of Marshal Lyautey ... Probably the International News (who furnished TIME the picture) is not familiar with European faces as this illustration happens to be that of General Roques, instead of Marshal Lyautey . . . General Roques was War Minister of France during the World War and previous to this position was Chief of the Aviation Service in the early days of the War.

J. E. WINGATE

Investigation confirms the accuracy of Reader Wingate's charge TIME was in error. On page 13 of this issue will be found an honest likeness of Marshall Lyautey. -- ED.

Mrs. Rheinstrom Flayed

Chicago, Ill.

TIME Aug-24' W25

The News-Magazine

Sirs:

I am enclosing an editorial on "Jewish Hypersensitiveness" which I wrote for the Aug. 14 issue of the Chicago Sentinel. I believe that it may interest your readers.

S. FELIX MENDELSOHN-The enclosure:

JEWISH HYPER-SENSITIVENESS

A recent issue of the TIME Magazine contained an account of the career of George Gershwin, who is making a name for himself as a composer of popular melodies. The story referred to the musical star as "young Jew." Now comes Mrs. A. M. Rheinstrom of New York and in a letter to the editor of the said journal she "takes exception to the nonchalance with which you have discriminated in the status of the subject of the article.'

"I doubt very much," continues Mrs. Rheinstrom, "whether you would speak of other persons in your columns as 'young Catholics,' 'young Methodists,' 'young Presbyterians/ or 'young Holy Rollers.' "It strikes me that this continual discrimination against the Jew can do nothing but foment antagonism and aid ill-breeding, race hatred; it astonishes me greatly that a progressive sheet such as yours should have stooped to such stupid practices. Such editorial implication in your news columns is amateurish and unprofessional bad taste."

Mrs. Rheinstrom must be a very good Jewess, since she possesses the weakness of her race in a full measure. The writer of this page read the article in the TIME Magazine and yet he did not think that any malice or slander was intended by the designation "young Jew." Mrs. Rheinstrom's objection simply represents Jewish hyper-sensitiveness which very often looks for anti-Semitism and finds it in places where it does not begin to exist. The fact of the matter is that we ought to be glad that Mr. Gershwin was characterized by a Gentile writer as "young Jew". Whenever American newspapers give accounts of crime they will very frequently tell you that this or that criminal is Jewish. On the other hand, whenever they describe Jewish geniuses they invariably speak of the "Russian violinist," the "German novelist," or the "French playwright." The TIME Magazine proved to be an agreeable exception in this regard.

Mrs. Rheinstrom makes a very poor and illogical comparison when she says that Christians are not ordinarily spoken of as "young Catholics" or "young Methodists" or "young Presbyterians" in newspaper accounts. Judaism is much more than a religious denomination, and a Jew is a Jew not necessarily by virtue of his religious affiliation. A Jew may be an agnostic and yet he still passes for a Jew by virtue of his descent from the Jewish race. To say this is of course rank heresy, and now that we have made this statement we are quite prepared for the attacks which may come upon us from those who continue to maintain that a Jew is a Jew only by virtue of his membership in the "Israelitish Church." --ED. "National Asset'

TIME

The News-Magazine

Sirs:

Los Angeles, Calif. Aug. 22, 1925

... It is amazing to find to what a degree you manage to cover so wide a field while being at once precise and percipient, concise and concinnous, racy and readable.

No other country has, as far as I know, any publication comparable with yours. It is a national asset of high value, especially as it is usually a long and difficult job to dig out of the ordinary American paper the news of importance and of more than local interest.

I have lately come here from the West Indies, where it was difficult to obtain (and then somewhat out of date) your admirable summary and comment. One of the advantages of being here is that I can get it every Wednesday . . .

W. INGE

-Rabbi.

j-Issue of July 20, Page 14.