Scoundrel

Sirs:

I have been a reader of TIME almost from the beginning and have always found that the few displeasing features were always balanced by the many pleasing ones.

However, I would have enjoyed TIME, June 28, much more if there had been a different picture on the front cover, happen to be one of the millions who had to use "bullets" instead of "ballots" to put "Wilhelm Der Zweite" where he belongs. I was glad to use bullets, in 1918 to endeavor putting him off his throne and I wish I could have used a ballot in 1926 to deprive him of the riches and property which are not his by right and use them for the relief of the poor German people who need it.

I am on a bed of pain to this day, directly, or at least indirectly, because the man, whose conceited likeness you have on your front cover, made it necessary for all the world that believe in justice and freedom to go to war. Of course the article on p. 13 was news, and all right, but why cause Americans, or at least one, to remember any more vividly that arch-rascal and scoundrel "Wilhelm Der Zweite" who felt that he was almost if not equal with God?

WILLIE E. HUNTER

Prosperity, S. C.

Incantatory

Sirs:

TIME is universal, international, historical, eternal. It is unprejudiced and unfearing. Your article on the ex-Kaiser [TIME, June 28, GERMANY] was illuminating, incontatory, stimulating.

ROBERT L. GORDON Baltimore, Md.

"Impressions' "

Sirs:

I have just returned from a European trip and was particularly interested in your article in the issue of May 3, p. 14, on King Haakon of Norway. As you will note from the clipping enclosed, I had the pleasure of conversing with the King about the time this article was written, and hence I am in a position to at least say that my impressions of the King were much in line with your article. . . .

More power to you. . . .

P. S. STEENSTRUP Buick Motor Co. San Francisco, Calif.

Subscriber Steenstrup's clipping reads in part:

"When the King, upon opening the conversation in Norwegian, was informed by Steenstrup that he had not conversed in Norwegian for thirty years, and that his Norwegian conversational ability was hardly fit for a King, the King smiled and continued his remarks in English."--ED.

Unique Sirs:

... As a newspaperman, I find TIME a valuable weekly review. It contains so many facts, so few errors. At first I felt that you overdid the feature angle, but I appreciate your unique style now.

H. P. HOWARD

The Associated Press, Pierre, S. D.

Horrible

Sirs:

You have a lot of good qualities and I shall subscribe to you again. In the meantime it will rest me to get away from your haste and really unnecessarily bad English. No one ought to be in such a hurry and yet have time to manufacture such a new and unfailingly horrible literary style.

A. H. COOK

Narberth, Pa.

Mule

Sirs:

Missouri may raise the most mules but surely Alabama raises the funniest ones. As far back as I can remember I have been regaled with stories of this remarkable quadruped. And now, "honor to whom honor is due." The enclosed clipping is self-explanatory.

An admirer of cleverness, subtlety, terseness of expression and clarity of thought wherever found, may I express my keen appreciation of TIME. I find it indispensable in my world of molecules and men.

A. P. BLACK Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Professor Black's clipping reads, in part, as follows: "An animal owned by H. N. Smith of Montgomery, Ala., saved its master and itself from being bitten by a rabid dog by seizing the dog with its teeth and hurling it through the air. The dog fell into a well close by and was drowned." --ED.

Advertising Sirs:

TIME is to be congratulated for the very able article on advertising as reported in your issue of June 14 [BUSINESS, p. 3]. Rarely is the public given such a farvisioned, fairminded article on the importance of advertising. Let's have more treatises on business of this nature.

H . H . Hilscher The McCormick Steamship Company, San Francisco, Calif.

Patriotic Air

Sirs: Anent Governor Smith's recent visit to a, certain parochial school up in the Bronx (See TIME, June 28, p. 8, col. 2) and his unusual greeting (or has it developed into a form which might be termed other than unusual) the incident should claim more than a passing significance. Here the child mind is being developed in order that he may become a useful and patriotic citizen.

When the youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing--yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York." It can hardly be conceded that such doggerel is a national patriotic air, yet these children are indirectly being taught to so consider it. In years to come their influence will be felt in all quarters of the country whence they migrate. . . . JAMES W. PIERCE

Los Angeles, Calif.

Beloit v. Wabash

Sirs: Is it too late to point out a possible misleading statement under the caption, "Eloquent Hoosier," in TIME, May 17, under EDUCATION ? Professor Brigance may well be proud of the orator he has trained for victory this year, and of the splendid record made by Wabash in recent years; but his suggestion that his college has an undisputed claim to the hypothetical "crown of American oratory" is tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904--four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender up to that period. Beloit won again in 1908, and has had two victories since then, if memory serves me correctly. Wabash has a fair claim to such a "crown" for the present college generation, or decade, but its record still falls short of that set by Beloit 20 years ago, as also for the whole stretch of years.

DARWIN A. LEAVITT

Beloit, Wis.

Gets Laugh

Sirs:

Enclosed you will find renewal card for TIME. I have thoroughly enjoyed every issue during the past year and it seems I always get a good laugh or two every week, learn something. Besides, in fact, I would not dare stop taking it for fear I had lost a friend that never could be replaced.

EARL A. UEBEL Buffalo, N. Y.