Ugly Men

Sirs: We wonder from TIME to TIME if you specialize in picturing ugly men! Why not if "TIME brings all Things," bring out occasionally the picture of a handsome man--unless they are, like "faithful lovers," all dead. M. L. CARTER

Shreveport, La.

Some men lately pictured in TIME: Sweden's Trygger, J. J. Tunney, Edwin Foster Lowry, Henry Byron Warner, Sir John Chancellor, Kentucky's Rev. Settle, Gus Orvel Nations, Felix Warburg, Crown Prince Umberto, Joseph Denis Murphy, Jimmy Johnston. Alfonso of Spain, Milwaukee's Younggreen.

Vale Kvale

Sirs: . . . Although many citizens disagreed with the beliefs of Mr. Kvale,* all respected his sincerity and admired the man himself. He was more loved and better known by the people of the seventh Minnesota district than any previous representative. Benson, his home town, has a population of less than 2,500, yet more than 5,000 persons attended the funeral of Congressman Kvale. At dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best for the final tribute to its greatest citizen. Paul John Kvale, eldest son, world war veteran and secretary to his father during his years in Congress, is the most likely candidate to succeed his father. . . . Alfred Kvale, second son, is famed as master of ceremonies and orchestra leader at the Oriental theatre in Chicago, and is an accomplished musician on several instruments. There are four other sons and one daughter, Dr. Ingolf Kvale of Willmar, Minn., and Mildred, Walter, Arthur and Robert of Benson. Mrs. Kvale died three years ago. D. M. LAWSON

Hampton, Iowa

Crabtree Quizzed

Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps Mr. Crabtree refers to the manner in which the Federal government distributes its expenditures among the States. A stock of merchandise in a village, whether owned locally or at a distance, would pay the same personal property taxes and the earnings on the business would pay the same Federal income tax no matter where it was owned. Mr. Crabtree is right, however, to this extent, that the earnings of a business which is owned locally are spent locally, but the earnings which are sent to the distant owner are spent in a far away place.

I should like to hear from Mr. Crabtree, however, as to just what his meaning is when saying that chain stores pick up profits in villages which are taxed in a far away place. Perhaps he means that the money is sent to headquarters where it is taxed locally as money and credits, but we doubt this.

R. A. JACKSON

Nash-Finch Co. Wholesale Distributors

Minneapolis, Minn.

Catholic Key

Sirs:

TIME, Sept. 23, p. 16, chronicles Baltimore's celebration of anniversary of British siege and writing of "Star Spangled Banner," etc., noting that fraternal societies of all religions paraded amicably together and formed a permanent association. This should be pleasing to all liberty-loving Americans.

Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic?

IRA S. HURT

(Non-Catholic) Cincinnati, Ohio

Blackmail, Lion

Sirs:

1) Was Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail"?

2) Genuine golf hazard as chronicled in Bulawayo, South Africa:

Beira, Monday. A lion has again made its appearance on the golf links here. It was heard twice last week. The spoor was also found near the nth hole. It is thought the animal has been outlawed by others and is now looking for food and water. Members of the club are seriously contemplating carrying a rifle in their golf bags.

VICTOR LENTI

New York City

Wooden Kingdom ? Clown King ?

Sirs:

... Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times.

Your description and comments on Jugoslavia indicate that you are following the writing of the American Weekly, published by Wm. Randolph Hearst. Or in the other words, as that American Weekly is commonly known among the people as a "scandal sheet." What you are trying to make out of it is a comedy, not an innocent comedy, but a comedy well aimed and with a purpose. And yet, in spite of those facts. I do not and cannot believe that you as an American newspaper man would cultivate in his heart such a purpose. . . .

Your information on Jugoslavia is quite thorough, although your interpretation is misleading. . . .

JOHN J. KNEZEVICH

Los Angeles, Calif.

TIME does not "follow" the Hearst or any other weekly. Nor has TIME any policy on Jugoslavia other than to'report events there literally, tersely.--ED. Higgins-Hawley Sirs: At suggestion of several friends here in the Plaza Hotel and some of my staff in the Imperial Oil Co., Canada--Toronto--I sent you ten days ago news note regarding marriage of my son Louis Severance Higgins to Miss Hawley of Toronto, Oct. 9. I thought you might cover in your issue 16 or 23 Sept. We are subscribers to TIME at the Plaza Hotel. Toronto family are as well. I appreciate you cannot do this for all, but I thought in this instance you would as his name connects up a prominent family--Severance--a family that helped make Cleveland.

C. M. HIGGINS

Vice President Standard Oil Co. of N. Y.

New York City

Not Mellon-Controlled

Sirs:

I quote from your issue of Sept. 23, at the top of p. 42: "United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled. . . ." The statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United Gas Improvement Company. It is true that the latter company has been for many years a substantial minority stockholders of Public Service--its proportion of voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years--ever since its formation--and am a director and member of the Executive Committee of the United Gas Improvement Company. . . .

THOMAS N. MCCARTER

Public Service Corporation of New Jersey

Newark, N. J.

Pacific Giants

Sirs:

Be it known that "giant Center Walter Heinecke" of Stanford (TIME, Sept. 23, p. 72) is in reality five feet six and a half inches tall, and weighs in the neighborhood of 175 pounds. TIME may have confused this "little giant" with Herbert Fleishhacker, six foot four and 220 pounds, quarterback on the Stanford team, or with Paul Jessup, six foot seven, Captain of the University of Washington eleven, who last year played tackle, this year may play center.

R. H. W.

Burlingame, Calif.

Filthy Falsehoods

Sirs:

Your circulation department sends me a letter showing why we should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except that of the witnesses against me-- even the anti-Long leaders themselves did not allow a vote to be taken on such a charge--you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras party, that I was supposed to have attended, to have been a terrible thing. Evidently some of you have been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have, you know that the whole town carries on on Canal Street as much as could have been carried on in any of the several Little Theatre parties that I might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from these libelous and scandalous persecutors, but you did not take any note whatever that it was my administration which had aroused the old time element, because: 1) We began to give school books to all school children of the state, so as to get them in the schools and cure illiteracy. 2) We began to open up night schools for adults, so that we might teach the people from 20 to 70 years how to read and write and spell. We have already turned over thousands of people from illiteracy to literates by this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars a year, to an institution making money. 4) That over the opposition of all the Ring newspapers and all the oldtime politicians, we voted a good roads program in this State to pave the highways and build a thousand miles graveled farmers' roads every year, and we are building them of the highest type. 5) That we took the Charity Hospitals of the State and reformed them so as to reduce the death rate from 30 to 40%, and increased the capacity. 6) That we went into the Insane Asylum and extracted as many as 1,500 abscessed teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years. 7) That we stopped the pardon craze in this State, forced a few people to be hanged, and used the militia where it was necessary. I begin to wonder what kind of respectability or conscience can be attached to your magazine, with the kind of filthy falsehoods that you circulated through this country. You never have explained anything; you did not print the truth when it occurred to the contrary, and you have not so much as had the decency to undertake to get anything to show the .facts about the things that you circulated in your magazine.

HUEY P. LONG

Governor

Baton Rouge, La.

Governor Long was impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. Proceedings were dropped when it became apparent he had sufficient friends in the Louisiana Senate to make his trial by that body a farce. TIME never stated that the charge of suborning murder was voted in the impeachment. TIME reported Gov. Long's loud denial of this and other charges. TIME reported the Long campaign promises, the whirlwind Long reforms, including making cobblers out of convicts.--ED.

*Pronounced "Ka-volley" and not "Quail" as erroneously reported by TIME. -- ED.