Minneapolis Speakeasies

Sirs:

A subscriber magazine of named your standing Hammond should Egzs. not pub Until that there are 3,000 beer flats but not one decent speakeasy in Minneapolis. With the first part of his statement I have no quarrel though I think his estimate is too low as there are 100,000 homes in Minneapolis. The second part of his statement simply shows he was taken in hand by a green taxi driver. I don't want to brag but we in Minneapolis have speakeasies that compare with any in New York, Chicago or Washington. Why, we point to our speakeasies with pride, just like we point to our symphony orchestra, flour mills and lakes. One section in was ''done" particular by one located in of a our fine best residential interior decorators; tapestries, oriental rugs, and price less paintings. The liquor is the best Canada has to offer. Would Mr. Liggett like a cocktail? We can offer baits" "Tin "stingers," Roofs" and, ''Clover if he is Clubs," a "Dr. lover of the Eisen-drama, a "Strange Intercourse." Please print this protest so that the citizens of our fair city will not be objects of scorn and shame. TIME'S Minneapolis, records Minn. reveal no HAMMOND EGZS Minneapolis a lish unverified Minneapolis statements, especially subscriber-of-record those re in ports dicting a to the whole contrary, community. TIME will accept Writer There Liggett's appeared in your allegation issue that of there Feb. is 24 not a a statement decent by one speakeasy Walter in Liggett to Minneapolis. the -- ED. effect

Colorado's Phipps

Sirs:

Colorado's a.m. U. S. shift in the Senator, D. FRANK Carnegie Lawrence J. L. C. steel DUNCAN mills. WINSER Phipps. you tor, Your Boulder, of publish the Colo. undersigned record Colorado of is J. as H. ROBERT subscribers J. Colorado's follows: would HOLMES, senior JR. McGLONE Sena appreci The The Born: Denver, At record Colo. of undersigned Amwels IRA C. TIME Senator J. Township, JOSEPH G. A. Pa., subscribers Lawrence ROTHGERBER. ask Aug. JR. JOHNSON CRAVEN that Cowle 30, Phipps 1862. ate Start your in Lawrence life: C. estimate A of Phipps. the WM. $1-per-day E. political EMERY laborer on activity FAST PASMORE the of 12-to-8 Career: Son of an JAMES C. Episcopalian STRATTON minister, grandson of an immigrant English cobbler, he was graduated from Pittsburgh High School at 16, rejected further schooling. Relatives, interested in Carnegie Co., got him his start there. Diligent, shrewd, he caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office. He prospered along with the company, became a part owner, grew rich and respectable. When U. S. Steel Corp. bought Carnegie Co. in 1901, he resigned as vice president and treasurer, quit business. Since then he has lived lavishly on his U. S. Steel investment which has multiplied many times in value.

He migrated to Denver, where as a friendly gesture he established Agnes Memorial tuberculosis sanatorium in memory of his first wife. For diversion he took an interest in minor public enterprises. In 1913 he was president of Colorado Taxpayers' Protective League-in 1917, chairman of the Mountain division of the Liberty loan campaign. A Republican, he ran for the U. S. Senate in 1918. Anti-Wilson sentiment helped elect him. In 1924 the big Coolidge vote helped keep him in office.

In Congress: A regular conservative G. O. Partisan, he has made no great name for himself in the Senate. Seniority of service has elevated him to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, a position that gives him a small patronage potency The most famed legislation bearing his name prohibits the shipment of firearms through the mails. This measure was handed him ready-made by the Post Office Department and he did not even perspire in getting the Senate to pass it in 1928.

He voted for Reapportionment (1929), the Navy's is-cruiser Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Tax Reduction (1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930), Farm Relief

(1929). He voted against the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Soldier Bonus (1924). His own campaign declaration about himself: "There is probably no greater friend of the World War veterans than Colorado's Senator Lawrence C. Phipps."

He votes Dry, drinks Wet, avoids Prohibition as a political issue. To foreign affairs he gives little attention. He favored the World Court, with reservations, opposed the League of Nations.

Legislative Hobby: none.

His chief distinction in the Senate is a fortune estimated at 30 to 50 million dollars. In his class financially is Michigan's Senator James Couzens who sold out his share of Ford Motor Co. in 1915 for 30 million. Few are the Senators who slap him on the back or call him "Larry." Except when he is taking his autumn, winter or spring vacation, he can generally be found in his front-row aisle seat, his hands crossed on his stomach, a far-away look on his face. He wears grey expensive suits, $10 blended neckties. His hair is white, his waxed mustache grey. He gives the appearance of being exceedingly well cared for by valets, well fed by French chefs.

An ineffective debater, he rarely enters the Senate's rough & tumble talks. On the infrequent occasions when he is moved to make a speech, he works it out laboriously with his secretaries in advance, reads it from manuscript in a low sing-song voice like a child reciting a well-learned lesson. A Phipps speech empties the Senate press gallery. A rich socialite rather than a successful politician, he abhors personal publicity, shuns newsmen. His Senate friends: Pennsylvania's Reed, New Hampshire's Moses, Connecticut's Bingham. Democrats of the Senate are below his social notice.

Outside the Senate, he leads an active if restricted, life in Washington's most exclusive society. In his imposing mansion, "Single Oak," onetime home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well. With the present Mrs. Phipps he displays to guests of the right social stamp generous hospitality in his Denver home, his Colorado mountain retreat, his Los Angeles estate.

He has had three wives, each of whom bore him two children. The first died; the second (beautiful, dashing, red-headed Genevieve Chandler) was divorced after a scandal. The present Mrs. Phipps, is the daughter of a onetime Mayor of Denver.

About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington.

Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a business man, rich and reactionary, who has drifted into the Senate more for its social than its political opportunities, .he has had no large or forceful hand in its affairs. As a politician he plays a dull routine game; his money, his corporate connections, offset his lack of imagination. His term expires March 3, 1931. Aware of a rising hostility in Colorado, he does not intend to offer himself for the risky ordeal of reelection.--ED.

Navy Figures

Sirs: The enlisted strength of the U.S. Navy is less than 84,000. The officer strength (commissioned and warrant) is less than 7,000. The Shore Stations, etc., Detached Units, Special Service Squadron and Asiatic Fleet account for, normally, somewhere between 30 and 45% of the total strength. This is governed by conditions such as overhaul periods, etc. The joint maneuvers of the Scouting and Battle Fleets are not participated in by all units of these floating organizations. This arises from the necessity of repairs, overhaul and other conditions affecting the vessels attached to these fleets. From participation in several former joint maneuvers engaged in by the Scouting and Battle Fleets it is my belief that not more than 60-c- of the entire personnel of the Navy has been engaged in any one of them, even under the most favorable conditions. This percentage has pretty TIME Oakland, certainly Calif. regrets not having increased EVERETT E. fallen during too the JACKSON last easily year and or so two for the disastrously simple into reason round that the numbers. shore -- facilities are steadily requiring more personnel.

TIME, of Feb. 17, 1930, under Army and Navy, gives 100,000 as the number of members of the Navy participating in this year's joint maneuvers off Guantanamo Bay, "well out of public observation." Fifty thousand would be nearly correct.

The disparity between the two figures is not, in itself, important. Your magazine is rather widely read. It is regarded, by a majority, as reliable (even in the matter of figures). A preponderance of your readers are grossly un informed on the point of the total strength, just now, of the military forces of this nation. The movement looking toward a reduction of Naval armaments is in full swing. By such a gross misstatement of the strength of the country's Navy many well-meaning persons would feel that material reduction should be effected. By a proper knowledge of the actual strength of the Navy a more mature and reasonable judgment could be formed by these same persons. Again, persons in many countries read TIME. These, unless they be better posted as to our Naval forces than most of our citizens are, would like wise draw erroneous conclusions. Finally, for the sake of accuracy it should be an established policy with all news -- disseminating agencies to strive for accuracy (and nowhere more so than in the field of figures not having to do with money). . . .

ED.

Eminent Jews

Sirs:

In the Feb. 17 issue of TIME, there is a brief comment on the 30th annual report issued by the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc. in which comment mention is made of the President of the Society being no less eminent a Jew than Percy Straus, the president of Macy's.

Permit me to call to your attention the fact that the new president of the Society is no less eminent a Jew than Lewis L. Strauss, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and that the other officers are no less eminent Jews than Henry Morgenthau Jr., the son of the former American Ambassador to Turkey and now publisher of the American Agriculturist and Chairman of Governor Roose velt's Agricultural Commission, who has this year been elected vice-president of the Jewish Agricultural Society.

Mr. Francis F. Rosenbaum and Mr. Reuben Arkush are respectively Treasurer and Secretary of the Society and Mr. Gabriel Davidson who has been with the society for more than 20 years is General Manager.

SAM KOSTOLEFSKY Rockville, Conn. The officers mentioned above have been elected since TIME'S report. -- ED.

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