O'Neill & Andreyev

Sirs:

On Feb. 12, 1914, a group of very young Russians, seated on a marble terrace above the sea (quite in Elinor Glyn's best manner) discussed every subject under the sun, including literature and its High Priest, Leonid Andreyev. On Feb. 12, 1928 (remembered as the birthday of one of them), a group of not-so-young Russians sat in an attic overlooking chimney pots (in the best starving-artist manner), and discussed art--or rather the lack of it--in the U. S. A.

I spare you the translation of our remarks: they were not in the best lo-the-poor-immigrant manner. But at length I said--"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and writes, U. S. A. may boast of a literature far beyond would-be psychological excursions into sordid Main Streets. I am expecting a new weekly magazine of news; possibly it may be less for 'les cretins' than the majority of the news press."

The next morning--Feb. 13--I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied. . . .

S. H. MILORADOVITCH

Cambridge, Mass.

"Please Explain"

Sirs:

I may be obtuse, but I must say I fail to catch the meaning of the title under Senator Walsh's picture this week (TIME, March 12). You say he is "Mrs. Harriman's helper" when the article alongside says that Mrs. Harriman helped him. Please explain.

FRANK R. OTIS

Plainfield, N. J.

TIME, the newsmagazine, speeding to press like a newspaper, committed a typographical error which apologies cannot erase. The caption should have read: "Mrs. Harriman helped."--ED.

Void of Humor

Sirs:

Is it possible that you could expect any dog fancier to subscribe for or advertise in a magazine that could countenance or publish such an ignorant, derisive, misleading article as appeared in your SPORT column, Feb. 27 issue, under the caption of "Putting on the Dog"?

It is even void of humor, the only thing that could possibly have excused its appearance in print, and contains only enough of official data to make it more insidiously poison to the uninitiated in its apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public.

Nor do I see how it could be possible for anyone attending the Madison Square Show to fail to observe the magnificent setting; almost faultless management; unprecedented attendance; the wonderful collection of highly bred, superbly conditioned and groomed animals enthusiastically handled, in many instances, by some of America's most representative men and women who cannot be fittingly termed "haggard, dirty or inarticulate."

The impression conveyed by said article is one of a meaningless, evil-smelling chaos of ugly beasts, cruelly handled by ill-bred people.

F. T. HUNTINGTON.

Plainfield, N. J.

Beagles

Sirs:

In your Feb. 27, 1928 issue p. 24 under SPORT your correspondent was not very observant or informed. Meadow Lark Fearnot is a lady beagle not a gentleman and it is most doubtful if she would have "enjoyed biting a small girl who sat" etc., as whatever their faults may be it is hard to find more docile creatures than beagles. I speak from experience, having a pack of twelve couples (one of which got "best beagle--under 13" at this show).

We subscribe to over a dozen magazines but TIME is the only one I read. It is great.

WM. NEWBOLD ELY, JR.

Original Subscriber

Gwynedd Valley, Pa.

No Women, No Quibbles

Sirs:

I doubt whether there is a single lady or gentlewoman among your readers who was not deeply offended by the article in your last issue concerning, "women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame."

If such creatures indeed exist, they are certainly mere "women" and should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME?

Furthermore my religious convictions (and even my common sense) are affected by your quotation from Mr. Sunday, the evangelist, to the effect that God answers every prayer, but may answer "Yes," "No," or "Wait." This is an unworthy quibble upon the meaning of "answer," much like those from which our President suffered when he carelessly used the word "choose."

Let us have no more "women" and no quibbles in TIME.

MARY RUTGERS CAR

(MRS. MAXIMILI CAR)

Baltimore, Md.

Ready to Die

Sirs:

I received my first copy of TIME in the morning mail.

I was enjoying the news as portrayed until I came to p. 10, your article on the Ku Klux Klan--which I read and reread.

I have been a member of the much abused Klan for years, and I expect to be a member as long as I live and the need for such an organization in these United States exists. I have never received any financial benefit from my membership; on the contrary it has cost me a considerable sum to attend the various meetings, etc. The only benefit received by myself has been the strengthening of my patriotism, my love of Country and God.

I do not know your religious affiliations, nor do I care about them. But, I do know that you are grossly mistaken in the article above referred to. The name of the organization has not been changed, and I never expect to see it changed. The Klan is simply following the course originally planned for it--but you and the likes of you, through ignorance or prejudice are trying to kill an undying organization of American born white citizens, who are as much entitled to organize as any other block of people in the Country, and certainly more so than a lot of them.

Every knock is a boost--keep it up, but you can discontinue my subscription to TIME.

JAMES L. MILSTEAD

Dahlgren, Va.

Born in and ready to die for the United States of America. Publish if you dare.

Lindbergh's Church

Sirs:

Will you please tell me what church Col. Lindbergh is a member of?

ANNE HOLMES

Asheville, N. C.

Col. Lindbergh is a member of the Lutheran Church.--ED.

Republican Louisianan

Sirs:

TIME, "Louisianan Governor:'' "Republicans being as scarce in Louisiana as frogs in the Sahara."

This flippant sarcasm is not relished by the Republicans of Louisiana. The statement does not agree with the records. Mr. Harding received 38,000 out of 87,000 polled and Mr. Coolidge 35,000 of 92,000 votes cast. (Approx.)

Political history was made at Alexandria, La. on Jan. 20 when the Republican State Convention unanimously indorsed Mr. Hoover for the Republican nomination--NOT A LINE in TIME about this important event.

Should Hoover and Al Smith be nominated, Louisiana will go REPUBLICAN.

ASHLEY HAZARD PERRY

Coushatta, La.

Chose to Retire

TIME INC

OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT

EDWARD P BOYD

Addle-Fated ?

Sirs:

In your issue of Feb. 27 you devote almost an entire page to showing how easily New York reporters were fooled by press-agent Strouse. You accuse the newspapers of jumping at the chance to heap free advertising upon his client.

Yet you give four per cent of your news space to the same thing, only doing it better. Have your editors become addlepated? You denounce with gusto the mistake of the daily press but are not satisfied until you have advertised Mlle Roseray and parboiled reporters for two and a half columns.

If this is not an unsurpassed piece of blatantly asinine braying combined with free publicity, I should like to see its better. Being a new subscriber I wait in hopes for some future masterpieces.

EDWARD A. HINE

Hoboken, N. J.

Four Years' Loaf

Sirs:

Since the roommate is a subscriber to your excellent magazine and since I believe in getting all I can for nothing, I am an avid reader of TIME. Temporarily, at least, we are on a four years' loaf in college and have found that TIME, with its conciseness, adds materially to our general information on the world in general without detracting from hours of loafing. If professors and Chapel speakers all took TIME and followed its example of copious brevity in their lectures, college would be a lovely place to live in. . .

ARTHUR H. LAWSON

Middlebury, Vt.