Sydney Bulletin

Sirs:

I enclose check for renewal. TIME has become a necessity. A perfect antidote to wordy news and vain repetitions. Style reminds me of Sydney Bulletin, Australia's national weekly. This paper was started without a staff, run mainly on contributions from all over the country, from mines, cattle stations and the bush. These were edited by the office.

Bad ones publicly roasted in the correspondence column making that like yours an amusing feature. Result the paper grew out of its native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies--Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"--received the same pay as a dog fight.

The Bulletin too has its red cover. Red is a masculine color and you are integrating the American mind out of its effeminate idolatry of words. Did you ever tell your 100% objectors to your red strip to begin with the flag?

G. H. GREENE

Provincetown, Mass.

"Try to Collect"

Sirs:

About seven weeks ago I received the first issue of your weekly magazine. Since that time I have read rather in detail the issues.

I wish you would discontinue my name on your subscription list as I do not care to read it. In TIME, June 6* you quote a Chicago lawyer saying, Ceasar is as Grudus,/- Washington is Benefict Arnold, and United States a Jefferson Davis, intimating that Jefferson, the elected President of a seceding organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer the question as to why there are so many different colors among Negroes--"It must be that so many white women have raped colored men."

I understand that you are merely quoting what men have said but I do not care to even receive in my office or home a magazine that prints such statements. Therefore, discontinue my subscription and try to collect for what I have received.

O. D. BAXTER

Raleigh, N. C.

Anti-Coolidge

Sirs:

Discontinue sending paper to me and give the remainder of my subscription to someone you can fool with that Rebecca and Coolidge stuff. I have enough of it.

Where do you get the idea that your readers want to be plastered with a lot of humbug about Coolidge? . . . That weekly babble you hand out is disgusting. I would not give ten cents in ten years to read about Coolidge much less ten cents a week.

A. C. HORSTMANN

Corona, N. Y.

Disapproval

Sirs:

I am an original subscriber and constant reader, admirer and friend of TIME. Simply wish to register my disapproval of article on pp. 6 and 7, last issue [TIME, June 20], concerning President Coolidge. Quotation or not, epithets and slurs, so disrespectful of our President, in my opinion, should not be printed in a high-class journal, certainly not in TIME, which has thus lowered its very high standard and greatly disappointed your good friend.

JOHN G. JENNINGS

President, Lamson & Sessions Co.

P. S. One more such article and I must cancel my subscription.

Cleveland, Ohio.

TIME meant no offense; quoted famed Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun because he is readable, interesting.--ED.

Ignores Red

Sirs:

... I enjoy TIME when I ignore the cheap red border and the letters.

J. W. VANDER, M. D.

Washington, D. C.

Hatch's Run

Sirs:

In your latest issue [TIME, June 27] you speak of a record-breaking run between Milwaukee and Chicago. On October 18, 1916, Sidney Hatch ran from Milwaukee to Chicago, 95.7 miles, in 14 hr., 50 min., and 30 sec., beating the former record made by Al Corey by 3 hr., 16 min., and 30 sec. Hatch ran every step of the way, making only three stops for a total loss of 16 minutes, and finished strong, although he lost ten pounds. He averaged a mile every eight and one-half minutes. After he finished the run he took a large dish of ice-cream and a glass of lemonade and went to bed for a 24-hour sleep. The New York Times said that "Hatch's performance probably was the most remarkable in history."

WM. LYON PHELPS

New Haven, Conn.

TIME spoke of the run of Indian Chief Tall Feather in 19 hr., 47 min.--4 hr., 56 min., 30 sec., slower than that of Hatch; wrongly said "no human had ever before run between Milwaukee and Chicago in so short a time."--ED.

"Boil Down"

Sirs:

. . . I'm not favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. My criticism is intended to be friendly and constructive when I say . . . you do not boil down enough.

I'll not re-subscribe at this time.

CORNELIUS ROACH

(A newspaper editor and publisher for over 30 years)

Kansas City, Mo.

Oberlin's President

On p. 13, of TIME, June 6, in the article entitled "Anti-Saloon," J. T. Henderson is listed as president of Oberlin College. He is not. Henry Churchill King is president of Oberlin College, a Congregational institution founded in 1833. J. T. Henderson is president of Oberlin Business College, a commercial school which gives six months' and longer courses in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography and kindred subjects. The business college has no connection with the college. If rewrite men cannot carry in their heads names of college presidents (surely not an impossible task) a copy of the World Almanac may be had for 50c and the needed information in this case is on p. 388.

NORVAL NEIL LUXON

New London, Ohio.

"Too Much Custard"

Sirs:

... The cream in TIME sometimes surfeits by its very fatness, richness. Too much custard! It must sicken the average mind. Reading TIME is like seeing Hamlet or Macbeth with all the relief scenes left out. Nothing in TIME stands out in relief, because it all stands out, it is all raised to a high pitch, elevation--as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast--all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides--nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop--would thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music--quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news periodicals that he is drifting to and fro on misty flats. . . .

EUGENE P. BERTIN

Head of English Muncy Public Schools

Muncy, Pa.

Dragon's Bride

Sirs:

The enclosed clipping is in quite emphatic denial of your item under MILESTONES in TIME, May 16, concerning the marriage of W. Lee Smith, and therefore in keeping with your usual fairness, it should be given as much publicity as what you printed.

LEWIS TERWILLIGER

Livingston, Mont.

To Grand Dragon & Mrs. W. L. Smith of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan, an apology for publishing (with many another periodical) announcement that Mrs. Smith (the whilom Katharine Kalbig) is a Roman Catholic (TIME, May 16). Mrs. Smith's latest statement: "I am not a Catholic but on the contrary have been baptized in the Baptist Church, of which I am a devout believer and an active member and attendant."--ED.

Prof. O'Hara

Sirs:

I want to give you the name of a prospective subscriber and also tell you a story.

Last evening my friend Frank Hurburt O'Hara of the University of Chicago faculty called with another friend and during the course of our conversation, TIME was mentioned. O'Hara said, "A certain professor's wife tells the story that while she is away, her husband reads TIME but when she is home, he also reads the Saturday Evening Post." It was explained that his social (?) duties increased so greatly with his wife's departure that he relied upon TIME for all necessary information.

I then asked my friend O'Hara if he was a TIME reader and he replied that he had read TIME and did read it when he happened to have a copy. Then quite modestly I asked him if he hadn't observed that TIME readers are, as a class, more intelligent than the readers of the general class. He hastened to add that he, of course, had always intended to read TIME regularly.

Wouldn't it be a good idea, Gentlemen, to send Prof. O'Hara some of your subscription propaganda? Should he oblige with the necessary five dollars, you would be adding a valuable friend and another "Who's Who" to your list.

DONALD M. LOCKETT

Chicago, Ill.

To Prof. O'Hara was sent subscription propaganda.--ED.

*An error. The article appeared in TIME, June 13.-- ED.

/-An error. TIME quoted Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois as follows: "Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had His Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small."-- ED.