Congress Thanked

Sirs:

I wish to call your attention to quite a gross misstatement of facts, wherein you state, in article on first page of your magazine of May 28, under the caption of "Signed & Consigned" that the members of the Legislature, now in session, had defeated a resolution of thanks to the U. S. Congress.

I attach herewith copy of resolution which was unanimously adopted by the [Louisiana] Senate and concurred in by the House of Representatives, and a copy sent to the President of the United States and members of Congress.

SAM G. DUPRE

Secretary of Senate Baton Rouge, La.

No Political Prisoners

Sirs:

In your issue of May 28 in an article on the death of Wilham D. Haywood, you refer to the I. W. W. men convicted of violating war laws and say that most of them are still in Leavenworth prison. We are glad to state that every one of them has long since been released by pardon of the President and that there are not now any federal political or industrial prisoners. . . .

ROGER N. BALDWIN

American Civil Liberties Union, New York, N. Y.

Blown Up

Sirs:

In your issue of May 28, col. 1, p. 12, you say, "Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him." The facts are that a bomb was placed at the gate opening into the lawn of the Governor's home in Caldwell. When the Governor opened the gate he was literally blown up. Harry Orchard confessed to having placed the bomb and was sentenced to prison for life.

This correction is not of very great importance but is mailed in the interest of the accuracy of which you are justly proud.

WILLIAM F. VANCE Harvey, ILL.

Erratum

Sirs:

In a recent edition you printed an article on General Wrangel of the White Army. On account of the particular interest which will later appear, I copied the following quotation from that article:

"His misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife . . . lost when the Yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British Steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor."

I am led to inquire the source of your information because I have had a charming woman whom I supposed to be the Baroness Wrangel, General Wrangel's wife, in my house twice during the past four years and have received letters from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding of her jewels in her young child's rag doll, of the sinking of the Lucullus, which she said she was not aboard at the time, of General Wrangel's efforts and hers to hold together the remnants of the White Army in Siberia, of her sanitaria for those affected with tuberculosis.

If she is not the genuine Baroness Wrangel she is a wonder. Incidentally she has collected considerable sums of money from various cities in the United States for the support of her tuberculosis camps.

It was a coincidence that Mrs. Sawyer had half finished a letter to Baroness Wrangel enclosing a check to her when I read your article. I hope that your reply will release the letter.

ANSLEY W. SAWYER Buffalo, N. Y.

Let Subscriber Sawyer's wife finish her letter and post with check. TIME erred in saying that the Baroness went down with the Lucullus.--ED.

Covers

Sirs:

I was a subscriber for your periodical before you had printed a copy of it, hence I presume to ask you to decide a bet as to the number of prominent Democrats whose pictures have appeared on the outside covers of your magazine since you began its publication.

WM. R. PALMER

New Haven, Conn.

Pictures of the following potent U. S. politicians have appeared on TIME'S covers:

Republican Lincoln C. Andrews James Montgomery Beck

William E. Borah Theodore Elijah Burton William M. Butler Joseph G. Cannon-Arthur Capper Calvin Coolidge James C. Couzens Albert B. Cummins-Charles Curtis Dwight F. Davis James J. Davis F. Trubee Davison Charles Gates Dawes Chauncey M. Depew-Frederick H. Gillett Warren G. Harding-Roy Asa Haynes Will H. Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead James W. Wadsworth Charles B. Warren John W. Weeks-William Allen White Leonard Wood-

Democrat Newton D. Baker Bernard M. Baruch George Brennan Carter Glass

E. M. House William G. McAdoo John Barton Payne James A. Reed Albert C. Ritchie Franklin D. Roosevelt Alfred E. Smith James J. Walker Thomas J. Walsh Burton K. Wheeler Woodrow Wilson*

Republicans, 43; Democrats, 15. The preponderance of Republicans is largely explained by the fact that they have been in power since TIME'S Vol. I. No. 1.--ED.

Pure & White

Sirs:

In your edition of May 21, p. 14, you spoke of the "white granite" of Aberdeen. Are you not mistaken? I have never seen anything there but red granite, but as I have not been there for fifty years it may be that there is some change.

JAMES BOWRON Gulf States Steel Co.,

Birmingham, Ala.

The Encyclopedia Britannica observes with emotion that "Aberdeen . . . the

'Granite City' ... the 'Silver City by the Sea' . . . should be seen after a heavy rainfall when its stately structures and countless houses gleam pure and white under the brilliant sunshine."--ED.

Slate

Sirs:

Now that June, the convention month, is here, may I submit the following slate for your consideration? With this bunch conducting our affairs for the next four years, I am quite sure our institutions would never suffer again.

President Sen. J. Thomas Heflin V. Pres Gov. Ed Jackson S of State William Hale Thompson S of War Rev. Norris of Ft. Worthf S of Treas Will Hays** S of Navy Albert E. Fall S of Int Harry F. Sinclair Atty General Geo. Remus Post M General Dr. Frederick Cooktt S of Com Will Rogers S of Labor Emma Goldman S of Agri H. L. Mencken.

E. LANEY Des Moines, la.

Three Cities

Sirs:

... I certainly cannot understand why TIME is published at 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, has its Editorial Rooms, Advertising Department and General Offices at 25 West 45th Street, New York, and its Circulation Department at Penton Building, Cleveland, Ohio.

I know nothing of the financial structure of TIME, Incorporated, but it struck me as rather strange that these conditions should exist in an otherwise efficient publication. Out of curiosity I am interested in knowing why the division.

J. O. CARTER JR.

Chattanooga, Tenn.

TIME is edited in New York City because New York City contains more sources of news than any other U. S. town. (But TIME has news correspondents in many another city.)

TIME'S advertising headquarters are in New York City because more national advertising is controlled in New York City than in any other U. S. town. (But TIME advertising representatives are stationed in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris.)

TIME is printed in Chicago because Chicago offers the best printing & distributing combination of any U. S. town.

Normally the circulation department of a magazine follows the printing. Until Jan. 1, 1928, both the Production and Circulation Departments of TIME were in Cleveland. On Aug. 1, 1928, the Circulation Department will follow the printing from Cleveland to Chicago.--ED.

Greeks

Sirs:

. . . This expression "frat" is particularly obnoxious to college fraternity men because of its adoption by imitators in high schools and prep schools. I don't believe that TIME would like to be called a "tabloid," still the expression is just as applicable to the make-up of TIME as it is to the ridiculous sheetlets which bear the name. Your linotype operators won't mind if you use the full word "fraternity" and your readers who are "Greeks" will appreciate the change.

E. T. MORRIS

The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

TIME, deferring to Greeks, will, at least temporarily, abandon its preference for the monosyllabic frat.--ED.

Zeta Psi

Sirs:

In your issue of May 28 I notice a letter from Floy McEwen, associate editor of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly calling your attention to the fact that Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and not of Zeta Psi.

Mr. Longworth is at the present time a member of the Zeta Psi Club of New York, and has always paid his annual dues to the Zeta Psi Fraternity.

C. S. BRADEEN

Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America, New York, N. Y.

Sirs:

In re: Nicholas Longworth and College Fraternities

Please refer Floy McEwen, Associate Editor D. K. E. quarterly, to the last issue of the directory of Zeta Psi Fraternity.

Name of Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of House of Representatives, is listed with the Zeta Psi members of Rho Chapter, Harvard College, Class of 1891, along with other notables of that class, including:

John W. Geary, Philadelphia, Pa.;

Foxhall P. Keene, New York City;

Joseph Leiter, Chicago--Washington;

Frederick Winthrop, New York City.

JOHN R. WALLER

International Bank, Washington, D. C.

Houseparty

Sirs:

Your correspondent is rather dogmatic in referring to Frank Buchman's work at Oxford in your issue of May 28. Has he ever been to a "houseparty" or to Oxford? A year ago I attended a conference, such as the one which comes in for criticism in this latest issue of TIME at Wallingford, England (twelve miles from Oxford). There was no single piece de resistance; the discussions, continuing over a period of three days, centered on the life of Christ, prayer, and the implications of the Christian way of life for the individual Christian--what willingness to carry out the will of the Lord might involve. The sex question was discussed in my hearing--just once, in a private talk which another American (male, 29 years of age) and I had about the mysterious reticence shown by the leaders of a boys' camp, which we had both attended, with regard to the facts of the biology of sex and reproduction.

IRVING HARRIS

East Orange, N. J.

Multifarious Tan

Sirs:

Our attention has been called to an article contributed by Bishop Titus Lowe and published in your weekly dated March 12, 1928, in which we find certain remarks made by him became distorted through purely innocent enthusiastic eulogy of Mr. Tan Kah Kee.

We feel that a great injustice has been done to him by the statement that he professes "an unalterable resolve not to set foot in the United States," which we wish to disclaim at once now, as readers of your paper might think that Mr. Tan Kah Kee cherish an aversion towards the American people, whom he has always held in high esteem and regard as sincere friends of China's welfare. He has never been to Europe or America (the statement is wrong when it says that he has several times visited Europe), owing to the multifarious duties of his business, which take away practically all of his time. Some day perhaps Mr. Tan Kah Kee will be glad to tour your country and see the various industrial enterprises of which he is much interested.

Tan Kah Kee & Co. and its various ramifications are known all over the world, and are the pioneer Chinese exporters of crude rubber and preserved pines to Europe, America and Canada. . . .

LUG KEM Loo

For Tan Kah Kee & Co.

Singapore

Tan Kah Kee whose picture appeared in TIME, March 12, is reputedly the "richest Chinese."--ED.

*Deceased. *Who M. F. and H.'s The Pope. /-Killer Norris.

--He knows how to get the coin. /-/-Has had valuable experience regarding use of mail.