Remington Rand's Propaganda
Sirs:
It is high time that the honest, thrifty, debt-avoiding majority of the people of this country rise up in arms against the flood of inflationary, contract-breaking propaganda that is being stuffed down the throats of this nation.
I have been an avid reader of TIME and FORTUNE from their beginnings but if you intend to sell out to Rand and his bunch of propagandists as exemplified in your last Friday evening's broadcast you can count me out.
Keep on giving us the real truth in the news but steer clear of that doctrine of "prosperity for everyone forever." God give us more guts and fewer jelly fish!
D. B. BARLOW
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sirs:
Last evening, for the first time, I was disappointed in the presentation of the "March of TIME," praiseworthy contribution to radio entertainment and enlightenment. . . .
When it was made known that the "March of TIME" would be sponsored by Remington Rand, the question arose as to whether this would mean that the program would be influenced by the private interests of the sponsor.
I still believe that the editors of TIME, who are instrumental in shaping the character of this program, will continue to maintain the old high standards. But if the sponsors are to attach riders to the "March of TIME," in which they try to propagandize their own political beliefs, that is the nearest thing to supervising the make-up of the original program. It is just a matter of capitalizing on TIME'S popularity and reaching this audience through false means.
. . . The mere announcement that Remington Rand is instrumental in presenting the feature should be priceless advertising for the sponsors. Additional advertising announcements detract from the favorable impression first created. . . . A. F. McCRORY
Columbus, Ohio
Sirs:
Friday night has been TIME night for our family whenever TIME has been on the air. It takes something very important to make us miss the program. TIME is also our regular weekly newsmagazine by unanimous vote of the whole family, old and young. We value your publication not only for its brilliant readability, correctness and broad outlook on national and world affairs but for its impartial selection and statement of all significant news. . . . Tonight we were disappointed to see TIME used as a bait for a very partial and one-sided discussion in an after-program. As you know, the Administration program has about crowded adverse discussion off the air. Questionable methods have been used for a long time now to get the views of the Committee for the Nation and those views alone before the American people. Discussion has just about been suppressed. The Administration's high hand with the Federal Trade Commission has cowed other supposedly bi-partisan commissions, including the Federal Radio Commission. We are threatened with a licensed press and, according to the published writings of the brain-trust, with a regimentation that amounts to slavery. It is discouraging under these conditions, to feel that TIME is failing us. However, we are trying to convince ourselves that the second program was put on the air without your knowledge. An unworthy trick to get a hearing from TIME'S large audience. L. MITCHELL
Columbus, Ohio
TIME keenly regrets that the announcement separating the "March of TIME," proper, and Remington-Rand's two minutes for "commercial use" at the end of its half-hour, was not more distinct on Friday evening, Nov. 17. Since the demarking announcement cannot possibly be made so clear that no one will mistake the voice of Remington-Rand for the voice of TIME, hereafter Remington-Rand shall use its time only to sell Remington-Rand products and services.--ED.
Tough Old Hens
Sirs:
I greatly appreciate your treatment of my lawsuit against Rufus Cutler Dawes in TIME, July 51. headlined "Fair Without Pants" in the Theatre department. It just occurred to me an original valentine I wrote to a woman friend last February might amuse your readers as "The Big Bad Wolf" has since become prominent. If you wish to, you are welcome to use it.
TO TWO TOO TOUGH OLD HENS
Hark! The Wolf is at the door. Kick him once. Kick him some more.
Makes no difference what's the matter, We won't let our store teeth chatter.
We can beat this old depression; We can teach it one good lesson.
Take a look at how we scratch,
The toughest old hens that ever did hatch.
The Wolf would think he was trying to chew Railroad steel rails and iron spikes, too.
We raise such a dust we are out of sight; So Old Man Wolf will never get a bite of Two too tough old hens.
MARY BELLE SPENCER
Chicago, Ill.
Warrant Corps Sirs:
In my copy of TIME, Nov. 6, under the heading Army & Navy, I note, in your description of the fog crash of the U. S. S. Chicago, an error by insinuation.
You stated "Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death." This insinuates that Chief Pay Clerk John W. Troy, killed in that accident, was not an officer. May I inform you that Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer in every sense of the word as indicated by his commission which reads exactly the same as that of any other commissioned officer with the exception of his title.
The commissioned and warrant officers and the warrant corps of the U. S. Navy feel that TIME, of all publications, should be correctly informed on this score, so that in future full credit may be given an officer of this Corps as regards his rank and status. We deeply regret the loss of our beloved shipmate and therefore feel that in fairness to his memory, he be placed in some definite category instead of that of neither officer nor enlisted man.
Commending TIME for its good work in putting out real news in the manner which must appeal to men of the military services, and with best wishes for its continued success, I am FRANK M. HENDRICKS JR.
Chief Machinist U. S. Navy Norfolk, Va.
A commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps.
The warrant corps has 1,454 men, consisting of boatswains, gunners, electricians, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers, pharmacists, pay clerks, acting pay clerks with their commissioned chiefs. Warrant officers wear officers' uniforms but have their own mess.--ED.
Pesthole Viewed Askance
Sirs:
All praise for your unbiased and enlightening article on Dysentery in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 20), which could have been improved only by mentioning some form of emergency treatment in cases where the symptoms became noticeable and no understanding doctor were available. . . .
Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge? . . .
We, in a city that prides itself on an enviable health record, look askance once more at our neighbor to the south and damn it again for the pesthole of filth, greed, racketeering and thievery that it is. ...
HARVEY M. KORTHALS
Milwaukee, Wis.
For amebic dysentery (which should not be confused with bacillary dysentery or ulcerative colitis) rest in bed, take liquid diet (milk, whey and broths). Treatment is emetine hydrochloride administered subcutaneously (i grain every morning for ten or twelve days) and emetine bismuth iodide orally in keratin capsules (one-half grain every evening).
Last week became known the names of four lumber company executives who died of amebic dysentery following a trade convention in Chicago last June: President Wells Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., Boston; President Archie Mandert, Canadian General Lumber Co., Toronto; Sales Manager A. C. Long Jr., Great Southern Lumber Co., Bogalusa, La.; Mark Reed, Mill Co., Seattle.
Uneasiness about amebic dysentery last week continued to harass Chicago Exposition visitors as Winnipeg reported the appearance of a case and New York City the appearance of eight cases, four of them traceable to Chicago.--ED.
Sirs:
... Were I an advertiser requiring national circulation, I could not bring it upon myself to use the pages of TIME after reading "Dysentery in Chicago," pp. 29-30, your issue Nov. 20. It was most unfair.
How much prestige and loss of patronage that has been created through the years by advertising and word of mouth the Congress and Auditorium Hotels will suffer because of your discreditable article, neither time nor TIME can ever tell. Suffice to say, the loss will be irreparable as the public remembers adverse publicity long after the cause has been forgotten.
''By last week most Chicago hotels and restaurants had had their food handlers examined, ousted all those infected." Could not TIME have been more generous by not naming specific institutions, inasmuch as those infected were ousted? . . . You have dealt two of Chicago's hostelries a jarring, as well as lasting uppercut in the guise of news, at a time when our Government is interested in lending everyone a helping hand.
I have no interest in the Congress or Auditorium Hotels other than that of fair play.
PERCY COHEN
Nashville, Tenn.
Sirs:
TIME should have placed under "Crime of the Year" the story which appeared under Medicine in the issue of Nov. 20. Almost beyond belief is the fact that the Chicago Board of Health, apparently for the sake of the income from the last 100,000 visitors, should have imperilled the whole country by hushing up the news of the amebic dysentery outbreak.
With the possible victims spread from one end of the country to the other, the list of dead will far exceed the known 16. . . .
RALPH H. DREYER
New York City
Sirs:
TIME scooped the Journal of the American Medical Association (published in Chicago) on the epidemic of amebic dysentery during the Fair.
We doctors learned of it in TIME, Nov. 13. The Journal received Nov. 13 did not mention it--but did Nov. 20. ...
Louis LENVILLE HILLS, M. D.
Westbrook, Me.
Not scooped but generously, constructively co-operative was the Journal of the American Medical Association. Let Dr. Hills re-examine the dates on his Journal and his TIME. The Journal going to press with its Nov. 18 issue, and having the public interest at heart, permitted TIME to compare and check its facts, printed in TIME, Nov. 20, with galley proofs of the Journal's account. That Dr. Hills reads his TIME before his Journal is a feather for the former, no blot on the latter.--ED.
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