Miscellany Morbid
Sirs:
After reading your Miscellany column in the last issue of TIME (Aug. 20) I think it would be more fitting and proper to head the column with the word Morbidities, or words to that effect.
M. UNDERWOOD
Buffalo, N. Y.
Let Subscriber Underwood turn to p. 38.--ED.
Never Cork
In your issue of August 20 you relate the failure of an attempt at suicide, the attempter failing to drown because he wore a "cork" leg.
TIME, perpetuating an ancient myth, can help explode it. Artificial limbs are made of willow-metal; never of cork. I know. I've had to buy one every five years for half a century.
C. A. GORDON
Columbus, Ohio
No Mare
Sirs:
In this week's (TIME, Aug. 20) account of Reconstructor McAdoo's prancing at the recent Santa Barbara fiesta, the word "mare" was used in description of Mr. McAdoo's mount If the newsgatherer who wrote the story will look closely at the picture accompanying the write-up he will see that he should have used "stallion"' or gelding" (as the case may be).
Accuracy should be above genteelness.
M. P. WILLIAM, Observer
New Haven, Conn.
Sirs:
... The issue of August 20 states that ... McAdoo got himself up in the red and black velvet of a caballero and up onto a prancing-mare. Mare and McAdoo were chief prancers ..." and prints a picture signed by Wide World.
Your subscriber is always prepared to accept TIME's statements at face value, but he did think he knew a horse from a mare. Of course California and Luther Burbank have produced many wonders, but--well, anyway. ...
JOSEPH T. WALKER, JR.
South Hanover, Mass.
Sirs:
Apropos of that caballero and equestrian tycoon, William Gibbs McAdoo, recently depicted with Mexican accoutrements en grande tenue, and set forth as mounting, "up onto a prancing mare," (TIME, Aug. 20), kindly permit the following correction; --"Hell! that aint no mare!"
GEO. T. PACK, M. D.
New York City
Sirs:
If the Editors of TIME are not sufficiently discerning to report accurately the sex of a horse (TIME, Aug. 20, p. 11, picture and text) what credence is to be accorded their reports of more intricate matters?
CRUSE CARRIEL
Los Angeles, Calif.
TIME'S political correspondent, no horseman, was misled; but is now able to state definitely that Mr. McAdoo was mounted upon Joaquin, an animal owned by Dwight Murphy of Santa Barbara. Joaquin, no mare, is a gelding.--ED.
Fowl Blood
Sirs:
... I go almost every Sunday to cockfights and I have never seen spurts of blood other than the fowl blood.
And as to whether cockfighting is barbarous and cruel, it is a matter of opinion: we think the same about boxing.
As I say before, you always try your best to humiliate and ridicule us, but, did you mention in your paper the tryumphs obtained by the debating team of our university when our young men visited the States last spring and won all the debates, both in Spanish and in English, over several of your colleges and universities?
Of course not!
EUGENTO VERA
Guayama, Puerto Rico
TIME regrets its failure to report the Porto Rican debaters, will not debate the matter of blood spurts.--ED.
Vulgar, Putrid
ON LECTURE TOURS ACROSS CONTINENT HAVE RECOMMENDED TIME TO FRIENDS AS ENTHUSIASTIC NEWS STAND READER YOUR UNWARRANTED VULGAR PUTRID ATTACK ON JOHN ROACH STRATON DISGUSTING IN EXTREME STOP SORRY EVER MENTIONED TIME TO FRIENDS HOPE YOU PUBLISH TO LET THEM KNOW I WAS MISTAKEN IN YOU AND AM THROUGH WITH YOU
GERALD B. WINROD
Toledo, Ohio
Some of the Best
Sirs:
You probably receive throughout the year a number of letters of criticism about various things, and I thought you would be pleased to know some of us think your section on Business contains some of the best information of any general publications that we read.
E. N. STURMAN
Geo. A. Hormel & Co.
Austin, Minn.
To Subscriber Sturman & friends, hearty thanks, and a question: Where do they find most of the rest of the best?--ED.
Best Sign
Sirs:
The best sign that Evangelist Billy Sunday should come at once to New York is that the U. S. District Attorney here, one Charles H. Tuttle, will try to hamstring his work for God, just as he is now hamstringing able Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, while she is trying to enforce Prohibition in the city. . . .
CHARLES ALFRED BOYER
New York, N. Y.
Prudent
Sirs:
Mr. Willis' suggestion that Billy Sunday come to New York [LETTERS, Aug. 27] is splendid. But I think it unjust. Billy Sunday is a very old man now and it is not fair to have him spend his strength on great revivals here. He has been very prudent now for several years. He has labored for the Lord in the smaller cities of this country and he has been a tower of strength to the pastors there. May the Lord preserve His valiant worker. But I fear that that will not be long now. He should not spend his strength on New York.
MRS. ALICE JOHNSON
(Subscriber)
New York, N. Y.
Billy's Schedule
Sirs:
. . . My schedule is a Lecture in Springfield, Illinois on "Crooks, Corkscrews and Bootleggers, and Whisky Politicians. They shall not pass." . . .
I begin a ten-days Camp Meeting at Ocean Grove, N. J., August 24. I speak in Clifton, Ohio, Sept. 6 and in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9. I begin my campaigns for the years 1928--29 Sept. 16 for six weeks at Madisonville, Ky. From there I go to East Liverpool, Ohio, for six weeks. Then to Elyria, Ohio, right after New Years for six weeks. Then to Corpus Christi, Texas. From there to Sterling, Colorado, or New Rochelle, N. Y. I am to meet that Committee Sept. 5. That will carry me up to June 1st which ends my season.
I hear everybody speak in the highest terms of TIME. It is a wonderful publication. One of the most concise and reliable in the land. I compliment you.
Ever your friend
W. A. SUNDAY
Winona Lake, Ind.
Chesterfield
Sirs:
Interested in your account of smoking tests at Reed College (not Institute), Portland, Oregon. Recently gave similar tests myself and five out of six chose Chesterfield. . .
H. J. KELLY
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Mail Order Champagne
Sirs.
In your issue of August 6, on pages 34, 35 and part of 36 is an article concerning mail order champagne. Evidently one Paul Garrett is conducting or has conducted this campaign, as noted on page 34, to relieve the overproduction in the grape industry.
I would appreciate very much having a copy of said advertisement sent to me with all particulars so that I might order a few cases of the fruit juice. A number of Denver men are very desirous of ascertaining the supply house as well as the price per case, so would appreciate prompt and definite information.
Have been an intermittent reader of TIME since my first year in Amherst, 1923, and have always enjoyed watching your progress due, in my estimation, to the full although condensed information found therein.
JACK D. FENLASON
Denver, Colo.
Let Intermittent Reader Fenlason write to the Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc., Penn Van, N. Y.--ED.
Artist Flayed
Sirs:
If ''Dickie" Byrd sees the cover meant to be a "likeness"--he'll never get to the Antarctic--he'll die on the spot of chagrin for being pictured as a freshman in the university of TIME!
What had the artist against the explorer to do such a thing and where was your art editor when he let it pass?
The International, Keystone, Acme, P. & A. or the Wide World picture services could have furnished him with a better photographic model than this blank face of a youth about twenty years Byrd's junior!
Oh, TIME--Oh, Tempus--you better fugit before the Commander sees this--you know he has a few more years to his credit than this meaningless, insipid drawing gives him. . . . Look up a P. & A. photo and see if I'm just in my criticism.
THEODORA MARCONE
New York City