North Dakota's A-5 Sirs:

We are pleased to enclose herewith, Senate Resolution A5, which the Senate has passed this date, and your attention to its contents are respectfully requested.

SIDNEY A. PAPKE Secretary of Senate Senate Chamber Twenty-third Legislative Assembly Bismarck, N. Dak.

The resolution:

SENATE RESOLUTION A-5

Introduced by Senators Bangert, Cain, Fowler and Lynch

WHEREAS, TIME Magazine in its issue of Jan. 30, 1933, on p. 15 thereof, in connection with its report of the consideration of Concurrent Resolution A-2 introduced by Senator Martin, by the Senate of the State of North Dakota, makes the following statement, viz:

"North Dakota's 48 State Senators meeting in a Bismarck auditorium rose and cheered 83-year-old Senator William Martin last week when for the first time since the Civil War secession was publicly proposed in a State Legislature," and

WHEREAS, TIME Magazine holds itself out as a periodical which always adheres strictly to the truth, and

WHEREAS, said aforesaid statement is not true and correct in that not one of the 48 State Senators arose and cheered but on the contrary upon the substitute motion made ''that said Resolution A-2 be printed in the Journal with the language to the effect that the 39 States secede from the Union, and reference to our Flag, be eliminated and that the remainder be printed in the Journal," 24 Senators voted for such substitute motion and 24 Senators against the same and the presiding officer declared the motion lost--as shown upon p. 9 of the Journal of the Senate for Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1933, and upon the motion of Senator Hamilton that Senate Resolution A-2 be printed in the Journal, the roll was called and there were Ayes, 28; Nays, 20; absent and not voting, 1; and so the motion was carried.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that in order to set forth the truth this resolution be adopted and the Secretary of the Senate is directed to send a copy hereof to TIME Magazine.

Plain Wrappers

Sirs:

Thank you for the trouble and expense that you went to in sending me my copy of the Jan. 16 issue of TIME. It was just the sort of thing that one would know that TIME, and TIME only, would do. That is the sort of action that gives one a feeling of pride in being a TIME subscriber. . . .

A. W. BRYAN Central Baguanos Cuba

We want to thank you heartily for your kindness in sending us an unsolicited extra copy of TIME, after learning that our first copies had been seized and destroyed by the Machado Government for your truthful account of its crimes.

Once more you have lived up to your reputation of alertness and at the same time have shown your thoughtfulness for your subscribers in this unfortunate country.

E. M. P. L. L. G.

P. S. In case this letter is published please omit our names or else we may meet the fate of Rubiera and hundreds of other liberty-loving Cubans.

Guantanamo, Cuba

TIME'S 140 Cuban subscribers were sent by fast mail copies of the seized issue in plain wrappers.--ED.

Camera Guns

Sirs:

Regarding Cockburn-Lange controversy (Aeronautics--TIME, Jan. 16), I have a small photograph, startlingly realistic, of a British Camel pursuit plane in the act of shooting down a German Fokker, Model D-7.

I obtained this photo from a British pilot (name forgotten) in November 1918 when stationed at the Toul airdrome as a flight commander of the U. S. Pursuit Squadron No. 141 (equipped with type XIII Spads) under command of Princeton's famed "Hobey" Baker.

I was told that an ingenious British pilot was making quite a series of these pictures by first making a drawing or painting on fairly large scale and then photographing it from a distance with a small camera. . . .

With reference to small cameras of those days--we used, at the French gunnery school at Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll--like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger--the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school--for correctness of lead was easily checked from the picture. I doubt if such a camera was ever used at the front. The pictures were about 1 3/4"x 2 1/4" in size. . . .

CHAS. R. D'OLIVE Dayton, Ohio

Buried Musicians

Sirs:

Plaudits for giving space to Aux Frontieres du Jazz (TIME, Jan. 2), a much-needed book in America and one which we hope will let in the light about true jazz. The "musicians' " jazz band, as opposed to the public's, has never before had a champion. As jazz music auditors become educated they invariably rely on the concoctions and artistry of such as Frank Trumbauer, the Dorsey brothers, the late Bix, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and Louis (The Great) Armstrong for satisfaction.

Because great musicians, like great authors, lack the now necessary gift of self-exploitation, the genius of those mentioned above today lies buried beneath the sugar-&-water slop of Vallee, et al.

EDWARD J. FITZPATRICK JR. ROBERT FENDER Del Monte, Calif.

When colored Bandmaster Louis Armstrong read TIME'S review of Robert Coffin's authoritative book, he remarked: "I don't know where those cats get all they know about me, but they certainly set it right."--ED.

Modest Glass

Sirs:

THANK PUBLISHERS OF TIME FOR VERY GRATIFYING ARTICLE ABOUT ME [TIME, FEB. 6] WISH I COULD THINK AS WELL OF MYSELF

CARTER GLASS Washington, D. C.

"Phyfick & Phlebotomy"

Sirs:

The discussion in your issue of Jan. 23 on pp. 28 & 30 of "The Bank of England God" has greatly aroused my interest, as I am familiar to some small degree with the regions inhabited by the San Blas and Choco Indians of Panama. While I would by no means take exception to the opinions of such eminent authorities as the scientists of the Smithsonian Institution referred to in your article, there are one or two points in the final paragraph of the account which invite comment.

It is stated of William Paterson that "along the Panama coast he left his impress. There is still a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escoces [on the site of the old Spanish Acla where, by the way, Vasco Nunez de Balboa was beheaded]. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child." These facts are entirely true, but I do wish to express my doubt that the much-discussed "White Indians" of the San Blas are descendants of Paterson's Darien Company of Scots. The most obvious proof is the fact that "White Indians" were reported in the Darien country 17 years before Paterson and his ill-fated colonists founded their New Edinburgh on Caledonia Bay.

In 1680 one Lionel Wafer crossed the Isthmus of Darien in the company of the British buccaneer, Coxon, for a foray on the Gulf of Panama, and in the following year started back over the same route with that most famous pirate, William Dampier. A powder burn forced Wafer to be left by the main party with the Indians and for a number of months he dwelt among the Cunas or San Blas people, both with the hill tribes as well as with the seafaring branch of the race on the Archipelago de San Blas. Wafer had been the surgeon of the pirate forces and secured the good graces of his aboriginal hosts "administering," to use his words, "both Phyfick and Phlebotomy to thofe that wanted." . . .

In New Voyage and Description, the pirate-surgeon devotes considerable attention to the "White Indians" of the Cuna or San Blas people. Since he saw them in 1681 and the Scots did not arrive until 1698, it is obvious that the blood of the Bruce did not produce the "White Indian." . . . The writer is strongly of the opinion that these light-skinned aborigines were and are nothing more than albinos. The account given by the observant Wafer of these persons describes all the characteristics of albinism. He notes in particular their lack of pigmentation and the extreme weakness of their eyes. In fact, he states that they remained within the huts throughout the day, appearing only at dusk or on moonlit nights when they would take advantage of their freedom by dancing in the obscurity "with many an Antick Gesture." Those "White Indians" whom the writer has seen correspond exactly with the account of the buccaneer-doctor. With their colorless eyes, tow hair, great, blotchy freckles and obvious discomfort in strong light they strongly substantiate the albino hypothesis, Sunday supplements to the contrary. Certainly anyone knowing the rigid laws of the Cunas (San Blas) prohibiting marriage with other races and who recalls the physiognomy of their ladies, each with a large gold ring in her nose (which was worn in 1681 as well as today), would be inclined to doubt that Caledonian philandering resulted in the "White Indian."

ROBERT MILLS MCCLINTOCK Washington, D. C.

TIME Marchers

Sirs:

Last evening, while listening to "The March of Time," a dispute arose among the members of my family as to whether the speakers concerning whom TIMEworthy news was being broadcast, were actually speaking in person or being impersonated by others.

For instance, the speech of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from Montgomery, Ala. was so realistic that the undersigned insisted that some phonographic record must have been made of the speech and transmitted over the radio by your broadcast. Tones, inflections and mannerisms of Mr. Roosevelt were so real that the undersigned made a wager with the eldest son of the family that it was Mr. Roosevelt's own voice then speaking.

Also, the speeches and happenings in the North Dakota Legislature were so realistic that, again, the writer insisted that a record or "talkie" must have been made of the event.

If you continue to make TIME so chock-full of interestingly told news, you will have me applying to the commissaries, since my exchequer will not stand a subscription for each of the five members of my household. There is a scramble to see who shall be first to get the latest copy of prompt-arriving TIME. It usually results that "father" has to read the copy after everyone else has gone to sleep, with the consequence that "father" gets very little sleep that night. '

Kindly decide our "March of Time" controversy for us, as above noted.

DANIEL B. TREFETHEN Seattle, Wash.

Father Trefethen loses, but his is a common misprision. The convictions of hundreds of listeners to the contrary, no "March of Time" character except Christopher Morley has ever impersonated himself or herself. No mechanical reproduction is used. Radioactor William Adams plays Mr. Roosevelt; Ted di Corsia impersonates Mr. Hoover; Jack Smart is Senator Huey Long.--ED.

Wells's Reputation

Sirs:

We question meaning of phrase "second-class writer" applied to H. G. Wells's literary reputation, by your reviewer, Jan. 23, p. 51. Does he mean second-class literary artist--or simply second-class novelist?

Readers of The World of William Clissold and Science of Life resent as presumptuous the judgment that, literary skill therein displayed is second-class.

JOSEPH A. BALL ROBERT H. PATTON J. STUART NEARY Long Beach, Calif.

Commenting on his anti-War activities, said Herbert George Wells in 1930: "I have ruined a good second-class reputation as a novelist by that occupation."-- ED.

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