Letters

Heaven-Descended Mud

Sirs: I am inclosing a clipping from the Dayton Journal. The morning newspaper which printed the story, unlike its sister afternoon headliner the Herald and Jimmy Cox's* News, is usually quite unsensational, commonplace, dull and unimportant--it seldom "probes" or "raps." I do not think it even prints an annual sea-serpent story. So much for the implied authenticity of the story. PAUL A. LAY

Dayton, Ohio

To Subscriber Lay, $3. See AERONAUTICS.--ED.

Epigram

Sirs:

President Coolidge, speaking like Jefferson, acts like Hamilton.

GEORGE B. OKEY

Columbus, Ohio

Duco

Sirs:

Please refer to page 26 of the May 24 issue of TIME. In this list of automobile terms the only brand name that you have included is that of our product "Du Pont Duco." In a way, I suppose we should be flattered, but on the other hand we are spending thousands of dollars in advertising the fact that "There is Only One Duco--DU PONT Duco" in order to protect the buying public against substitution. It does not seem, therefore, as though anyone responsible for the editorial content of a publication such as TIME, should permit this misuse of a manufacturer's private brand name. W. A. HART

Director of Advertising E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Wilmington, Del.

TIME, in listing common automotive terms, put "Duco" (U. S.) opposite "cellulose" (British); neglected to state that there are in the U. S. many cellulose finishes which are not Duco, although often sold as such to the unwary.--ED.

Truth in Advertising

Sirs:

Because I have enjoyed TIME so wonderfully and because it is all your advertising said it would be, I have kept all the issues received. They have seemed too valuable to throw away.

HELEN B. FLUDE (MRS. M. A.)

Wilkinsburg, Pa.

*James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for President in 1920, shrewd publisher, jovial person.

Telescope News

Sirs:

Amid your manifold and widely interesting articles, can you not find space for something on popular astronomy--a subject of fascinating interest to multitudes who have never had even the chance to look through a telescope?

EUGENE ALLEN

Iowa Falls, Iowa

TIME will be more watchful of the skies.--ED.

Temples

Sirs:

TIME moves rapidly everywhere but in the Orient. For that reason it is this many months late that I am able to reply to an article under RELIGION which appeared in TIME, Dec. 14, 1925.

You did rightly to head the column "Intolerance" for, as a Christian missionary in China, I shared the expressed amusement of the press that such men as Reisner, Wise and other prominent ministers should manifest this brand of ecclesiastical provincialism regarding the statue of the Gautama in Central Park.

When we see such amazing intolerance on the part of progressive and educated ministers in the U. S. A., perhaps it is easy to understand the furor among the anti-Christian students in China. But, as a matter of fact, these aforesaid students do not represent the attitude of the best Chinese. For their priests and temple officials are almost universally gracious and hospitable toward Christianity, and most of our summer student conferences are held in Buddhist and Confucian temples. I could pray that some of our learned Christian leaders might have more of the spirit of Christ and of the Gautama--might have more faith in God, and not be so fearful of their little brand of religion being overturned by tolerance toward other faiths. Intolerance will never make the world Christian, but sympathetic understanding of God-likeness wherever we find it will redeem the world. DRYDEN L. PHELPS

West China Union University Chengtu, Szechwan, West China

Busch Flayed

Sirs:

I am but twelve years old, but I always have, and always will, detest any being (or fiend, as Subscriber Marlborough put the German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured every baby in the world to his death. I felt like writing to TIME and telling to TIME how I felt, but I said to myself "TIME has no place for little boys" and I dropped the subject, but when I read the letter of Karl Busch [TIME, June 7, LETTERS] I could not restrain. I say: Let Busch have his own opinion, everyone has, but it is my opinion that not many will agree with Mr. Busch.

DENHAM FOUTS

Jacksonville, Fla.

Sirs:

Busch informs the squeamish American race that it "seems unable to appreciate the artistic honesty of director Schwarz."

Quite right, we are altogether unable to realize the artistic qualities of a director who forces horses over a cliff to hideous agony and death and then takes pictures of them! The only people who could are the "strong-minded" persons such as Busch.

JOHN M. GOODWILLIE

Rockford, Ill.

Sirs:

Karl Busch's latest "Hymn of Hate" does not merit even a contemptuous reply.... It seems too bad that thousands of prospective good citizens are excluded by our immigration authorities each year while Busch is permitted to remain here to sneer at America and Americans.

LAURENCE W. BABBAGE

Bloomfield, N. J.

Sirs:

Whenever I read of Germans such as Director Schwarz and Karl Busch I have renewed thankfulnees that I was able to be a 1/2,000,000th part of the A. E. F. that helped to administer a good licking to the "Boche."

DONALD A. ROGERS

Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs:

... I would suggest that as a penance you be compelled to supply a modern machine gun for Mr. Busch and obtain a permit for him for a day's hunting in the grounds of some Old Ladies' Home.

It would be interesting to know if he ever yelled "Kamarad!"

L. J. BARRY

Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Can.

Sirs:

. . . Karl Busch appeals to the sporting instincts of Americans in bespeaking their favorable consideration of his hero, von Richthofen. Now he appeals to our artistic instincts in defending Artist-Butcher Schwarz. What think ye, Americans?

HUGH L. TORBERT

Highland Park, Mich.

Sirs:

. . . We Frenchmen--many of us at least--have enough humor to see the world as it is and to laugh at a good man who thinks two dying horses represent true art.

ANDRE JEAN

Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville, N. J.

Sirs: It is high time that someone call a halt to these self-appointed representatives of nations! I read Mr. Karl Busch's letter with growing abhorrence. . . . "We Germans"--where does he get that way? What he means is, "I, Karl Busch. . . ."

LYDIA ANDRAE SPORLEDER

Binghamton, N. Y.

P. S. As a "ruthless German," also as a former student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I recommend that he be "spurlos versenkt." LETTERS

Sirs:

. . . With utmost disgust and abhorrence I read the account in TIME of German Schwarz and his fiendish acts. And now Karl Busch rises against Americans for not appreciating the actions of Schwarz. . . .

. . . Instead of infesting this country why does not Busch return to his own kind and live happily with Schwarz? America is too lenient with such persons.

THOMAS M. MAGRUDER

Toledo, Ohio Sirs: ...If I were a man, one of us [Busch or Craig] would most certainly need the services of a surgeon.

LON CRAIG

Washington, D. C.

Sirs:

. . . He [Busch] is positively fascinating. The Superman Himself is in our midst! I'll bet he wouldn't even be afraid of a lion in the zoo, or could stand up real bravely and throw stones at a trapped weasel.

He defends the needless slaughter of two respectable horses in the name of art, by that master craftsman Schwarz. Splendid! Bravo, brave Busch! . . .

In fact I would suggest, Mr. Editor, a gathering together of all the Schwarzes and Busches and allowing them to practice art on one another....

RALPH L. MARTIN

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sirs: Let Mr. Busch of Madison condone the action of Sportsman Salm, noble fellow-countryman, as reported in TIME, June 7, 1926, MISCELLANY. Or do I wrong Mr. Busch by saying "fellow-countryman"?*

RICHARD B. LEVY

Cambridge, Mass.

Sirs:

. . . You have already met the situation admirably by setting off Busch's letter with Marlborough's letter in parallel columns. The deadly parallel! Hun v. American! Why we went to war!

Let no American protest at Busch's blanket indictment of his own race.

RALPH M. FARLEY

South Milwaukee, Wis.

Sirs:

At last there arises in our beloved U. S. a champion of the suffering of others, notably horses! I refer to Mr. Roger J. Marlborough who so eloquently gives vent to his feelings anent a German motion picture director named "Schultz" (or Schwarz, TIME, June 7) who made two horses jump over a cliff and killed them in order to obtain pictures of their agony. It does all honor to the tender heart of Mr. Marlborough that this deed of "a fiend in human form" would not let him sleep until he had penned a letter to TIME. Too bad that Mr. Marlborough didn't develop insomnia when General Dryer massacred a few hundred Hindoos in cold blood at Amritsar, when Lord K. of K. starved 24,000 Boer women and children to death in the concentration camps of South Africa, when the French wantonly bombarded Damascus a few times and incidentally did away with many hundreds of Syrian women and children. What touching letters this noble soul would have written!

CARL SUESSER

Detroit, Mich.

Sirs:

I envy your Subscriber R. J. Marlborough (TIME, June 7) the honor of being the first in the field, and should be proud to shake hands with him. He may be quite sure that many another was wakeful after reading the account of the atrocious horse-massacre ordered by Mr. Schwarz as reported in TIME. . . .

ANNA KINGHAM

Gilmanton, N. H.

*Salm is an Austrian.--ED.