"Rue" v. "Rose"
Sirs:
in our high school there seems to be a wide discrepancy in the pronunciation of the President-elect's name. Some teachers insist on the first syllable pronounced like ''goose" or "rue." while others uphold the sound of "rose." I would appreciate the correct pronunciation from you.
HELENE M. SHINCEL
New Haven, Conn.
The first syllable of the President-elect's two-and-a-half-syllable name is pronounced exactly like "rose" '(TIME, July 25). Hereafter TIME will not publish this information more often than once a year.-- ED.
Word
Sirs:
Since it is to make the wheels go 'round why isn't tic-tocracy a TIMELY word?
HELEN M. SUPERNAW
Madison, Wis.
Scallion
Sirs:
A scallion for such loose reporting as contained in your Jan. 16 issue, covering the opening of the Toledo Museum of Art. Surely there must be some mistake.
How can you belittle such a worthy undertaking?
K. L. SNEDECOR
Sun Advertising Co. Toledo, Ohio
TIME regrets its too-brief mention of Toledo in connection with Worcester's new Art Museum. At the next newsworthy occasion, TIME will adequately report on Toledo's beautiful and greatly enlarged Museum with its advanced system of lighting and storage.--ED.
Smith Attitude
Sirs:
In your Jan. 16 edition of TIME, on p. 10 you state that the Smith girls--quite out of keeping with the general feeling of sorrow for the death of the late Mr. Coolidge were attending the movies on the night of his death, while the rest of Northampton was in deep mourning. We regret your attitude in speaking of the Smith girls as being capable of disregarding completely the death of such an honored man. . . . College did not officially open until the next day, Friday, Jan. 6, and practically none of the student body had yet returned from vacation. We wish you to realize that we, too, are lamenting the death of Mr. Coolidge, as well as the rest of the world.
BEATRICE CHESTERMAN SUZANNE SIBLEY
Northampton, Mass.
Craftsman
Sirs:
To the unknown, unsung master craftsman who fashioned TIME'S account of the death of Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16): a bouquet of orchids for a piece of reportorial description worthy of the late great (to all newspapermen) Frank Ward O'Malley. . . .
EARL CLARK
Columbus, Ohio
Sirs:
TIME'S account of the death and funeral of Calvin Coolidge was a masterpiece of reportorial English--clear, trenchant and accurate.
It is good work like this which continues to add to your growing circle of news-hungry readers.
ROBERT CLARKE JR. Sewickley, Pa.
Sirs:
. . . Your human treatment of the scenes in New England and in Washington brought forth at least one heretofore unconscious tribute from one considerably opposed to many principles of the former President. DILLARD GRISWOLD JR.
Atlanta, Ga.
Sirs:
... It is one of the most superb bits of journalism I have ever encountered.
Long, prosperous life to TIME.
ANDREW null Westfield, N. J.
Sirs:
It is a classic. DOROTHY SAMER
Chicago, Ill.
Sirs:
... I want to nominate for a Pulitzer prize.
JOHN G. BROWN
Helena, Mont.
Sirs:
. . . "Death of Coolidge" is the finest thing of the kind I have ever read. I found it dignified, sympathetic and very moving but not at all mawkish or sentimental. . . .
MILDRED B. ALLEN
Orange, N. J.
Sirs:
. . . Especially I admire that closing sentence: "That night snow fell blotting out all trace of the new grave."
MRS. MAURICE EVENSON
Hiland, Wy.
KELLOGG BOULEVARD !
Sirs:
. . . TIME, retailing religiously the refuse-to-bear arms predicament of Rev. T. F. Rutledge Beale, who self-defended himself in court on the grounds that the Kellogg-Briand treaty precluded future war, indifferently stated that ex-Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg was a citizen of Minneapolis.
This indifference is an insult.
Kellogg is a resident of St. Paul. When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill. From his attic window he can see. two miles across a low-lying plateau, the majestic bluffs of the Mississippi River, where this gay young stream flirts sharply around a bend to escape from Minneapolis sewage.
Furthermore, St. Paul has just capped a $15,000,000 improvement program (modernistic new courthouse with debatable Scandinavian art, baby--31 stories* skyscraper in the First National Bank, municipal auditorium with skating rink for two professional hockey teams, Mayo-opened Bethesda Hospital, useful Miller Hospital Nurses' Home, etc.) by gloriously rechristening its expensively-widened, once dingy Third Street KELLOGG BOULEVARD! . . ".
The attempt of Minneapolis to capture fame as the Kellogg hometown is perfectly comprehensible to one who daily witnesses the editorial rapaciousness of the coarser of the Twin Cities.
JUSTUS J. SCHIFFERES
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
Thursday evening, discussing TIME with admiring subscriber, handed kudos to alert editorial staff on unfailing accuracy. Friday morning, studying current issue, faith shattered to read in TIME that ex-Secretary Kellogg resides in Minneapolis. To you, boos, jeers and catcalls on behalf of St. Paul citizens weary of credit-grabbing Minneapolis, claiming St. Paul's great as its own, referring to Kellogg, Attorney General Mitchell. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler as "Twin Cities residents" when referring to these St. Paul citizens in their public prints.
St. Paul, Irish, German, resents bombast of Minneapolis, Swedish: result, cat-&-dog squabbles beyond count. To restore faith in TIME, move Kellogg back to east side of Mississippi, rescue proud Peace-Pact spirit from uneasy wanderings among flour mill tycoons.
DONALD G. COOLEY
St. Paul. Minn.
Sirs:
. . . His address is No. 633 Fairmount Ave.,
ST. PAUL, Minnesota.
KENNETH S. GERARD
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
TIME, which I have read for many years, will in the interest of accuracy for which it strives, be interested to know that Statesman Frank B. Kellogg . . . has never resided in Minneapolis but is, and for many years has been, an, honored citizen of St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota.
K. F. DREHER
First Trust Company of St Paul St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
. . Knowing TIME'S fondness for always being correct, allow me to inform you that Frank B. Kellogg is and has been for the past 40 years, a citizen of St. Paul.
R. W. null Vice President
First National Bank of St. Paul-St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
In spite of the high esteem in which TIME is generally held, I find that its columns are not infallible. . . .
WALTER RASMUSSEN
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
. . . Please correct this mistake in an early issue.
C. M. WATSON
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs: . . . How do these mistakes occur in your usually accurate publication? LEAVITT CORNING
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
As Secretary of our local Lions Club and with the kindest feeling toward your publication I am called upon to correct your files on the home address of our world renowned citizen, Frank Billings Kellogg. . .
HERBERT F. CHASE
St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
. . . Since the policy of your magazine is to correct all errors publicly, we would appreciate your doing so in this instance as Mr. Kellogg has been a citizen of St. Paul practically all his life and resides at No. 633 Fairmount Ave., St. Paul, and is the senior partner of Kellogg, Morgan, Chase, Carter, and Headley.
We will thank you to make this correction.
HERBERT O. DEFIEL
Secretary
The Midway Club St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
. . . Reference is made on p. 30 to Statesman Kellogg as being a citizen of Minneapolis.
This, we realize, is of course an unintentional error and, naturally, we would appreciate it if in your next issue it will be possible in some way to mention the fact that through inadvertence, Mr. Kellogg's address was given as Minneapolis and that it should have been St. Paul. . . .
A. E. EGGERT
Public Affairs Secretary St. Paul Association of Commerce St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
. . . For your information be advised of the following facts:
Kellogg, Frank Billings, was born in Potsdam, N. Y. Dec. 22, 1856. His family later moved to Rochester, Minn, (the home of the Mayo Brothers) and very early in his career at the bar, Mr. Kellogg moved to the city of St. Paul, Minn., where he has resided (with official exceptions) ever since. . . .
WARREN E. BURGER Boyesen, Otis & Faricy Attorneys at Law St. Paul, Minn.
Sirs:
As an old subscriber, a regular reader, and one who loves to quote TIME for its accuracy and pertinent facts, I would like to call your attention to where you erred in your Jan. 16 issue, p. 29. ...
S. A. SPAETH
St. Paul, Minn.
The story began on p. 29 but caused a sensation only on p. 30.--ED.
Sirs:
. . . Your terming Mr. Kellogg a citizen of Minneapolis will result in a protest from St. Paulites who. it seems, must ever protect their city from encroachments of their neighbors across the river.
C. E. KERNKAMP
Owatonna, Minn.
Sirs:
... St. Paul, though a "Twin" city, nonetheless has its own pride, is proud of St. Paulite Kellogg, of his home in the heart of St. Paul's residential hill district, port of call of, among others, the late President Coolidge and the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, and the name of St. Paul's latest city development "Kellogg Mall".
St. Paulites Louis W. GOODKIND ALBERT W. LINDEKE FREDERICK M. STARK THOMAS C. SAVAGE McNEiL S. STRINGER JR. JOHN H. RICHARDSON I. COLE OEHLER BLAKE SHEPARD GEORGE G. MAIRS
Yale Station
New Haven, Conn.
Sirs:
. . Ordinarily we are no longer excited over such errors, but when such a magazine as TIME errs about such a man as Kellogg, I for one sit up and speak.
No doubt the other letters you will receive on this subject will together form a sufficient rebuke and reminder for times to come.
C. H. BIGELOW JR.
St. Paul, Minn.
Subscriber Bigelow's prognostication proved to be correct. The rebuke will be enough for at least 131 TIMES to come. Basis of calculation: It has been some two years since TIME placed a Los Angeles event in Hollywood.
Sirs:
. . . Did TIME never hear of the rivalry between the two members of the Twin Cities? Take heed hereafter!
How many loyal St. Paulites have uttered protest at this error?
JOHN A. BURBANK
St. Paul, Minn.
Up to the time of going to press, 71.-- ED.
*On letterhead of this bank, Frank B. Kellogg is listed as "advisory vice president."--ED.
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