Letters

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.

Sirs:

"Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich . . . was . . . close to Roosevelt" (TlME, Feb. 15). As close as is a boxer taking a knock-out to his antagonist who gives it.

PHILIP P. WELLS

Harrisburg, Pa.

'South Never Wins"

Sirs: Reading the Prize Winners in your Feb. 15 issue, I certainly expect that you will publish the letters of the winners of Adult's and Boys' and Girls'--at least the winners of the $100 and $50.

A. M. CAMLEY

Bogalusa, La.

P. S. As usual, in all the contests from North and East, the South never wins.

The prize-winning letters will not be published. But copies of them will be sent to anyone upon request.--ED.

"Unwholesome"

Sirs:

I have recently sent two subscriptions to TIME as Christmas presents, but if you continue to print long and detailed descriptions of diseases, such as your article on cancer in TIME, Feb. 1, (MEDICINE), I shall cancel subscriptions to your paper. Such matter can be found in medical works for those who desire it, but it is most unwholesome for family consumption and discussion.

MRS. H. S. LANPHER

Providence, R. I.

Blum Flayed

Sirs: It must have thrilled you to know that someone admired TIME so as to spend time over a TIME acrostic (Jos. A. Blum, Feb. 15 issue.) It is therefore a pity that his effort must be red-penciled. There is no such term as "meti--to be measured" in Latin. The correct Latin form is metiri, this being a verb of the fourth conjugation deponent.

ANTONINO BROCKHUIS

Cincinnati, Ohio

Grove L. Johnson

Sirs:

. . . In the interest of accuracy, you may as well correct the last paragraph on p. 32 of Vol. VII, No. 6, and have it read "father" instead of "brother," which was the correct relationship of Grove L. Johnson to Hiram W. Johnson.

DR. JOHN C. SPENCER

San Francisco, Calif.

"Gyp Joint"

Sirs:

... In your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction, and I must say that he did the United States a great favor when he departed Parisward. Paris isn't wild about Americans, but we will go there.

ARTHUR BARGER

Framingham, Mass.

Takes Chance

Sirs.: If you have any more $1 twelve weeks subscriptions I'll take one, as that is about the length of time I shall be at this address before going east.

The reason I have not felt like signing up permanently with you has been that you are so far short of what you represent you stand for, viz, "TIME." You do not save "TIME" of 'a busy man but consume it in a most disappointing way by using so much space for nonessentials. Space is precious in a time-saving magazine and one would hardly expect it to be filled with gossip of Mrs. Coolidge's swimming lessons, of the Prince of Wales' dog* and many other matters which have nothing to do with current affairs which have any real bearing on cause and effect in the several economic or political fields. Many friends of mine have been alienated from your publication because they have to kill so much time trying to save time by reading it. Yet the purpose it has dedicated itself to should be fulfilled. It has a great mission. It is because it is improving that I take a dollar chance from time to time, in the hope I can eventually make it permanent.

MILTON COLVIN

Professor of Law

Missoula, Mont.

Mouthful

Sirs:

I have just seen in the Feb. 8 issue of TIME (POLITICAL NOTES) an allusion to Mrs. Hylan's alleged remark, "Queen, you said a mouthful," to Elizabeth of Belgium when the latter expressed her admiration for the American soldiers at a military revue during her visit in this country.

So while we are on the subject, it may interest you to know that an American friend of mine engaged in archeological work in Egypt three years ago met the Queen herself at the official opening of the inner chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, and while conversing with Her Majesty he, among other things, casually referred to Mrs. Hylan's famous bon mot, to which the gracious Queen tactfully said: "I too have heard that story, but I do not seem to recall. . . You see, the good lady said so many things I did not understand that I really can not vouch for its authenticity."

VINCENT DE SOLA

Kew Gardens, L. I.

Trumbulls

Sirs: Is it possible that TIME is a magazine of fiction and not of fact? Having had your publication recommended to me as a dependable exponent of current affairs, I entered my subscription with my local newsdealer. However, the very first paragraph of the very first news article in the Feb. 8 number has already shaken my faith in it, and I shall cancel my order. Pray allow me to correct two misstatements in that paragraph. The Governor of Connecticut is John Trumbull--not "Jonathan." He is in no way related to the family of Jonathan Trumbull. Miss Florence Trumbull--not "Jean," as you have it--is a student at Mt. Holyoke College. I might make still a third correction. John Coolidge has visited the Governor's family in Plainville, where the Governor resides--not in Hartford, as you state. If other news items in TIME are as incorrect as the above, how can your magazine be called the truth, which I understood was the aim of the editors'! CHARLOTTE MELTON

Hartford, Conn.

*TIME mentioned Wales' dog only once. -Ed.