The Morrow

Sirs:

SPIRIT OF ST. Louis (Picture Idea: plane shedding tears).

'Twas ever thus,

With joy and sorrow

'Tis "WE" today

Then comes, the "Morrow."

ZELMA SINNITT

Spokane, Wash. Lamont's Foundries Sirs: TIME, April 29--p. 55, col. 3. I believe you erroneously forgot to call attention to Mr. Robert P. Lamont's most recent and probably most active business connection--Presi-dent of the American Steel Foundries. In your desire for exactitude for such matters, I hope you will take this in the spirit in which it is meant. H. E. MANDEL

Philadelphia, Pa.

Other Lament positions, from all of which he resigned before taking office as Secretary of Commerce, were with Armour & Co., Dodge Bros., American Radiator Co., International Harvester Co.--ED. K's Next Sirs:

I was delighted to read about TIME'S recent inquisition. The statistics proved very interesting indeed.

Don't you think an inquisition addressed to all your subscribers would be still more interesting? I for one regretted not being fortunate enough to come under the letter "D" and maybe more of your subscribers feel the same way.

HENRY KRISCH

Ass't Vice President The Bank of United States New York City

To apply the Inquisition to all its subscribers would cost TIME at least $20,000. But when next TIME queries a sample portion of the subscribers, Subscriber Krisch's portion, the K's, shall be chosen. --ED. Tagore's Disgust Sirs:

Perhaps Sir Rabindranath Tagore's "disgust with 'the prejudiced and despicable American view of things and people Asiatic' " (TIME, May 6, p. 48) may be explained by the following fact:

Refusal of the University of Southern California to pay him $10,000 for seven "conferences": not lectures. Tagore is reliably reported to have declined to lecture under any circumstances and to have spurned an offer of $5,000 for the "conferences."

America's outstanding scholars, actuated by a laudable desire to impart their knowledge, rather than to cash in on it, frequently lecture for $100. CRUSE CARRIEL

Los Angeles, Calif. Bald Boy

Sirs:

Under Miscellany of TIME, May 6, was an item headed "Scared" telling of a boy, age five, frightened by a dog and within six hrs. losing his hair. I gave this topic in Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter to convince my teacher. If you could I will appreciate it very much. MARIAN L. SHIELDS

La Porte, Ind. Let Marian Shields's teacher, without abandoning healthy skepticism, hesitate to cry "impossible!" Henry Mates, aged 5, of Washington, D. C., did go bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was called. Henry had had no illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields's grade.--ED. Mix

Sirs: In reading your magazine of April 29, I note on page 26 under the caption "Life, Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week." Mr. Tom Mix has a signed contract with the Sells Floto Circus Company for his services starting on May 26 and lasting--I hope forever. . . . ZACK TERRELL

General Manager Sells Floto Circus Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Mix was last week indicted by the Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charged with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.--ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,-- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian God. He confines his efforts to Americans, English and the savages, who are heathen. The Methodists, Baptists and other Protestant pastors are sore on the Bishop for that. They're hot after the Catholic Filipinos, and leave the heathen Igorots to Bishop Brent. He goes to their villages to talk to them about Christ, and stopping their headhunting. He's done quite a piece of work among them." My memory of Bishop Brent is on that hot, dusty mountain road, his hand upon the head of his lowly porter, as the General and I drank our stirrup cup. I was, as I said, reminded of him by reading that the exalted English prelate was yachting. FREDERICK O'BRIEN Sausalito, Calif.

Ale Testing

Sirs: Apropos of the recent "visit to our shores" of Mr. Reeves-Smith, British connoisseur and tester of wines, and his information of the method by which he does the testing (TIME, April 22): It is told of the old days in England that one of the three officers in every community--the other two were the high bailiff and 'he low bailiff--was the ale tester. Posterity has cast a blot on the 'scutcheon of that worthy by corrupting his honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew as produced. This he did by pouring a small quantity of the precious fluid upon an oaken stool, and seating himself there on--or therein. After contemplating the surrounding scenery for a fixed period he would attempt to rise. If the oaken seat adhered to the leathern seat of his breeches the ale was condemned as unfit for consumption--there was too much sugar in it. These notes were taken from a lecture on Medieval England, by Sir Bertram Windle, professor of anthropology in St. Michael's College in Toronto, Can., in 1922. ELIZABETH E. SCANTLEBURY

San Diego, Calif.

Illinois' "Ed" Hull

Sirs:

... I am greatly interested in knowing in detail about the legislative record of W. E.

Hull, Congressman from the 16th District of Illinois--how he registered on various bills, how he is regarded by unbiased observers so far as legislative ability goes. . . . Your thoro unbiased and courageous reports on national affairs and on individuals lead me to ask whether you can and do furnish to your readers . . . a report on the record of any particular member of Congress. . . . EVERETT M. DIRKSEN

City Commissioner of Accounts & Finance Pekin, Ill. Gladly will TIME report on members of Congress to their constituents, on this con dition: that requests for such reports be signed (in future) by five TIME-readers who are registered voters in the district of the Congressman (Representative or Senator) inquired about. The record of William Edgar ("Ed") Hull,* representing in the House the IIlinois counties of Bureau, Marshall, Feoria, Putnam, Stark and Tazewell (16th District) is as follows: Born: Lewiston, Ill., Jan. 13, 1866. Start in life: peddling gingerbread on the Lewiston Courthouse steps. Career: in Peoria, worked as a Government gauger in distilleries, served as postmaster, sold whiskey for Clark Bros., became a firm partner, originated "bottled in bond.'' When Prohibition came, he sold his distillery interest, gave away 20 barrels of whiskey to his friends, stored some for himself, invested his profits in Peoria real estate, built Peoria's Jefferson Hotel and Palace Theatre. In Congress: first elected to the House in 1922, he voted for Soldier Bonus Bill (1924), Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928), Farm Relief (1922, 1929), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Reapportionment of the House (1929), the Jones (Five & Ten) Law (1929). He voted against the Radio Control bill (1928); was absent on the 15-cruiser-construction bill (1928). A Wet who can still drink his own pre-Volstead stock, Congressman Hull votes for all Prohibition enforcement legislation. Parties at his Washington home are generally Dry, which makes his private stock last longer. Legislative hobby: Inland Waterway Development, especially from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. A hard-working member of the Rivers & Harbors Committee, he will travel many a mile at his own expense to make a waterway speech. His best House speeches are on this topic. In Washington he arrives at his office at 9:30 a. m., works till noon (with three secretaries) on district correspondence, goes at noon to the House floor where he usually sits in the second or third row on the aisle, hands crossed in his lap, a patient listener. Though classed as "a good Methodist," he works Sundays at his office, makes generous church contributions. He shoots ducks, plays poker and bridge, dances, uses no tobacco, gives costly entertainments at which evening clothes are not the rule. As a legislator his House colleagues rate him "pretty good." No statesman, Congressman Hull is above the average in attention to legislative duties, a persuasive speaker of the "business-man" type.--Ed. House with Windows Sirs: So far as I am concerned you may eliminate all the illustrations--except the cover--and the floor plans of the White House and the maps of Mr. Hoover's trip. In general, I always think how much interesting reading matter would fit, for instance, under Mr. Finley's face. Him I would rather understand through his scenario. Discussing this with a Caledonian who borrows my copy each week, he said, "Ay; that's practical enough, but would you build a house without windows?" C. W. HALLETT

Morristown, N. J.

Sirs: Tell Subscriber Russell to read the tabloids the funnies. We want TIME to read, not to at. OLIVER M. BYERLY

President.

Oliver M. Byerly, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio

Sirs:

I do not agree with Advertising Manager Russell (TIME, May 6), as I think TIME has about the right number of pictures.

A. JAMES MCDONALD

Shreveport, La.

The foregoing are representative of a clean-cut subscriber majority against increasing the number of pictures in TIME. But the number will not be decreased.-- ED.

*Striker is an enlisted man acting as a servant.

*Not to be confused with Illinois' other Congressman Hull -- Morton Denison Hull of Chicago, Harvard graduate, lawyer, president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; nor with Congress man Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn.