Senator's Shooting-irons
Sirs:
Some months ago, perhaps back in September, your magazine offended me greatly by saying that my friends call me ''Colonel" (TIME, Oct. 9). That is just naturally not true. I have been called nearly everything else, but I let it be known down in Kentucky many years ago that I kept shooting irons and that if any person, male or female, Jew or Gentile, black, white, yellow, red or brown, should ever apply that epithet ''Colonel" to me, I would use the shooting-irons so they would do the most harm in the worst way.
Now you can see what a predicament you have placed me in. Shooting is not free in New York State like it is down in Kentucky, so I am afraid to come up there and "crack down on you," to borrow the language recently used by a sure enough full-grown American citizen, officer and gentleman. Neither can I send you a challenge to fight a duel, which would be the gentlemanly thing to do, because no one down in Old Kentucky can hold an office until he swears that he has neither fought a duel nor accepted a challenge to fight one, and I am not through with holding public office so far as my own free will and accord are concerned.
Considering all of these reasons led me to conclude that my best policy was to forgive you and hold no hard feelings against you. All of which I did according to my forgiving nature. But you cut loose again in that aforesaid magazine in the issue of yesterday, and what you did was worse than you have ever done before. Being sort of a lawyer, I think you have libeled me by printing that picture with my name under it (TIME, Dec. 4). You must have hired one of these newspaper boys to slip up on me when I was not looking and grab that picture. I am so humiliated by it that I may resign from the Senate. So you had better be watching out for me. I might come up to see you with my shooting-irons.
M. M. LOGAN (Kentucky) U. S. Senate Washington, D. C.
TIME would gladly restore to Kentucky the dignity of its Junior Senator; were that not a service which the Senate itself is so certain to perform.--ED.
Orator
Sirs:
TIME refers to Detroit's radio priest, Father Coughlin as '''demagog." For this appellation the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary gives as definitions: "1. One who leads the populace by pandering to their prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician. 2. Anciently, any popular leader or orator." Which definition was in the mind of modern up-to-the-minute TIME's usually accurate reportorial staff? I think an answer is due a subscriber and reader of long standing. I make no further comment here on this point lest I appear to be trying to put the answer in your mouth, figuratively sneaking. . . .
TIERNEY A. O'ROURKE Long Island City, N. Y.
TIME lapsed into the antique use of the word. An observation now current is that Father Coughlin is the first man since William Jennings Bryan to achieve a mass-following in the U. S. by means of oratory .--ED.
Dysentery Treatment
Sirs:
In the interest of public welfare we must object to your ill-advised answer (TIME, Dec. 4) to Harvey M. Korthal's unfortunate suggestion to improve your dramatic article on Dysentery in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 20) "by mentioning some form of emergency treatment in cases [of amebic dysentery] where the symptoms became noticeable and no understanding [sic] doctor were available." Your reply
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 (1 grain every morning for ten or twelve days) and emetine bismuth iodide orally in keratin capsules (one-half grain every evening).
is dangerously misleading because 1) it presumes a skill in diagnosis and therapy on the part of a layman that is ridiculous to believe he may possess. . . . It would have been wiser for you to have replied that any form of self-treatment in acute diarrhoea is unsafe and that the best thing to do is to find a competent physician as quickly as possible. . . .
J. C. GEIGER, M. D. Director of Public Health of the City and County of San Francisco
K. F. MEYER, PH. D. Director Hooper Foundation for Medical Research
E. L. WALKER. Sc. D. Professor of Tropical Medicine
H. H. ANDERSON, M. D. Instructor in Pharmacology
C. D. LEAKE, PH. D. Professor of Pharmacology University of California Medical School San Francisco, Calif.
The above doctors give six other reasons--including the fact that emetine is a toxic drug--why TIME should not have published a dysentery treatment. But they are superfluous, since TIME concedes the argument on the first round, accepts rebuke.--ED.
Goebbels v. Untermyer
Sirs:
I was astounded and distressed to see those letters in the last issue charging TIME with an anti-Semitic bias (Nov. 27). I am a Jew of quite highly developed sensitiveness, yet never once in all my cover-to-cover reading of your magazine have I discovered anything in the least offensive. On the contrary, touching particularly the developments in Germany you have been so trenchant and frank that I've wondered why TIME has not been barred in the Reich. (At least, it was apparently not under the ban when I was in Germany in May.) The Goerings and Goebbels certainly have a case against you, but not the Untermyers.
Your correspondent who complains because you seem to regard Jewishness as involving something more or other than the religion of Judaism should go to Majorca and see the Ghetto of Palma where live the "Chuetas"--a people who have been the most pious of Catholics for five centuries, but who are still savagely discriminated against because their ancestors were once Jews. . . .
LEWIS BROWNE Santa Monica, Calif.
Herren Hitler, Goering & Goebbels have been as reluctant as Mr. Untermyer to believe that TIME is dispassionate, fair. Despising a free-press, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Goebbels barred the Oct. 23 issue.--ED.
Nudist
That nudist picture was a hell of a thing to label Medical. . . .
W. C. BARTLETT, M. D.
Alma, Neb.
Sirs:
. . . Today I called on the parents in our community to apologize for the recommendation of TIME I had made and to ask that p. 21 be clipped before the pupils brought the copies to school Monday morning.
It is a matter of keen regret and disappointment to find TIME failing to realize its responsibilities to its readers. Nothing is gained and much is lost by such decadent journalism.
If a representative of TIME had called in our home, or spoke before an assembly of our 100 high school boys and girls and flaunted this picture before them I would have punched his nose and kicked him out of the teacherage and the schoolbuilding. . . .
FRED BOYD Principal Parksville High School Parksville, Ky.
Sirs:
. . . This letter is neither to condemn nor to condone. Rather it is an inquiry lo ascertain if you can furnish me with the address of the maid-of-honor. That's all I want right now.
GEORGE W. VANAMAN
Trenton, N. J.
Sirs:
. . . As far as the photograph itself is concerned, I do not know if I ever saw a parade of bowlegged, knock-kneed, crooked-spine, spindle-shanked, potbellied, emaciated and physically deformed half wits, unnatural looking people than the photograph which you had the nerve to publish in your supposed to be high class and respectable magazine.
I shall continue my subscription as it gives me great pleasure to give you the bawling out that you so richly deserve, for having the audacity to print such a photograph, but let me warn you, don't let it happen again.
PAUL CIFRINO Boston, Mass.
Sirs:
. . . Yours for bigger and funnier nudist pictures.
BEN H. PETTY Lafayette, Ind.
Sirs:
Liberalism is a curse whether it appears in the realms of:
1) Morals
2) Religion or
3) Politics
Mussolini used Liberalism as a tool to destroy the existing order, then he threw it aside. The same was true of Lenin and Hitler Liberalism is simply a weapon, in the present American crisis, for the purpose of destroying the ideals and institutions that have made us the best, most advanced and happiest nation in the world. If we are to survive, so-called Liberalism must be replaced by our time-worn methods that have stood the test. . . .
I protest against your use of Liberalism as applied in matters of morality, in connection with the whore-like picture on p. 21, Dec. 4 TIME. . . . Hereafter, you will be thought of in par with the Police Gazette. . . .
A. L. ALEXANDER Houston, Tex.
Sirs:
Undoubtedly you arc in for an interesting time receiving protests for illustrating the Nudist Nuptials. Console yourself by imagining what the storm might be if you had staged the scene in your "March of TIME"--with television! . . .
MILTON RONSHEIM Cadiz, Ohio
Sirs:
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines.
TIME, never hypocritical, handled a realistic situation in no vulgar manner. Indeed, the picture was correct, tart, informative, in good taste. It had the mystery of Dore's sketches, a good deal of the expression so common to Raphael's paintings, a shading akin to that found in Titian's masterpieces, and even that artistic sense of proportion found in Michelangelo's creations.
WILLIAM P. BARBER Putnam, Conn.
March to England Sirs:
MARCH OF TIME RELAYED BY COLUMBIA AND BBC* THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLAND STOP THREE LISTENERS WITH ME WERE EXCABINET MINISTER A PROMINENT INDUSTRIALIST AND NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR STOP ALL MOST IMPRESSED WIDE RANGE OF NEWS COVERED AND GRAPHIC PRESENTATION BUT THOUGHT ATTITUDE RATHER SUPERFICIAL AND RESEMBLED MUSICAL COMEDY OF WEEKS NEWS STOP BROADCAST OFFSPRING NOT AS TIMEWORTHY AS FATHER TIME STOP ANNOUNCER SPOKE TOO FAST FOR ENGLISH AUDIENCE STOP INCIDENTAL MUSIC SUBTLY APPROPRIATE EACH ITEM STOP ROOSEVELT LAUDED HERE SHARPLY REPROVING THOSE WHO HAVE APPLAUDED LYNCHING STOP IMPLIED CRITICISM OF ROLPH APPRECIATED AND APPROVED STOP MARCH OF TIME CERTAINLY GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON INSIPID COLOURLESS NEWS BULLETINS GIVEN BY BBC WHO THOUGH OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL ARE UNOFFICIALLY OFFICIAL THUS BARRING THEMSELVES INDEPENDENT CRITICISM AND COMMENT
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
London
Sirs:
HAD TEN PEOPLE LISTENING IN MY HOUSE ALL VERY ENTHUSIASTIC STOP ROOSEVELT IMPERSONATION EXTREMELY GOOD MADE ME WANT MORE ABOUT AMERICAN POLITICS
WICKHAM STEED London Times London
*British Broadcasting Corp.
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