Kahlege Kids and George V

Sirs:

I've just been a-readin' that right-and-proper rebuke that was sent to you from England ITi.ME, March 12]. Mr. G. Ovendale, over there says you sound like a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt when you refer to the King of England as George V.

If I ain't too brash, I'd like to tell Mr. Oven-dale that they ain't hardly none of us out here in the Bible Belt what goes to Kahlege, because we're so busy just a-scrapin' the cowdung off our heels an' plowin' the south forty an' one thing an' another that we just naturally don't have time. We don't hardly even have time to stretch our American brains, like he asked us to do. But we do know that the King of England shouldn't be talked of as if he was just a ordinary human being. We know what's right and proper, and we don't want our TIME mag-axine to be a-flauntin' its Americanism so im-modest-like.

Fact is, Mr. Ovendale, we don't know just what name to use when we're a-talkin' about the King of England. Ever sence he got ashamed of his family name durin' the War an' changed it, we're all of a doodad to find a handle fer him. But last Sunday after Bible-class I got next to some kahlege kids an' asked them fer a proper, respectful title that TIME magazine could use in referrin' to George V, an' we thunk an' thunk fer a long time. We wanted something dignified, with plenty of dash an' sperrit. We ain't all quite satisfied, but we'll hit on it yet. We've decided on the main part. We think TIME ought to square off an' use the follerin' title when referrin' to George V: "His Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous--someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.--like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they is a limit to things. All th' credit in th' world to th' King of England an' th' English people; but we don't have to be Ovendales about it! I say, leave off the boom-de-ay." Then some was shoutin' "We want the boom-de-ay!'' an' others was savin' "Leave off the boom-de-ay--leave it off!" So we put the boom-de-ay to a vote, an' it was six-to-six, hog-tied as neat as you ever see. So. Mr. Editor, you'll have to use yore own jedgment. For mcsself, I'd leave off the boom-de-ay. ARTHUR B. ANDERSON

Minneapolis, Minn.

Reader Corbett Flayed

Sirs:

RE WILLIAM CORBETT'S LETTER [March 12] IF LINDBERGH IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING FLYER THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WERE WRONG AND CORBETT'S SECOND AND PARTICULARLY THIRD PARAGRAPHS FAIRLY REEK WITH GOOD TASTE. AMONG MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE A PASSING INTEREST AND LITTLE ADMIRATION FOR OUR PRESIDENT BUT THEY ARE ALL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT COLONEL LINDBERGH. PERSONALITIES ARE STILL ODIOUS.

DAVID ALEXANDER WILLIAMS

Philadelphia, Pa.

RE MR. CORBETT'S LETTER IN THE MARCH 12 ISSUE OF TIME. AS ONE OF THE "ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BRING UP THEIR OWN CHILDREN" MAY I STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT TO ME ANNE LINDBERGH IS THE EXEMPLIFICATION OF A REAL HELPMATE. SHE STICKS TIGHT TO HER HUSBAND AND SHARES HIS HAZARDS AND FURTHERMORE IS A REAL MENTAL COMRADE. THEY ARE ONE IN SPIRIT AND THAT IS WHAT A REAL MARRIAGE SHOULD BE. A WIFE'S MAIN INTEREST SHOULD BE HER HUSBAND. CHILDREN-ARE BUT A BY-PRODUCT THOUGH AN IMPORTANT BY-PRODl'CT OF MATRIMONY.

MRS. WILLARD SPORLEDER

Hammond, Ind.

For more comments on Reader Corbett's estimate of Col. Lindbergh, see TIME Letters Supplement No. 5, available next week on request. Hereafter requests for the Letters Supplement, like all other correspondence regarding subscriptions, should be addressed to the Circulation Manager, 350 East 22nd St., Chicago. 111. Requests will be filled as received, beginning with the first available issue. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 have been exhausted. Editorial correspondence should be addressed to 135 East 42nd St., New York City.--ED.

Airmail Sirs: I have been a TIME enthusiast and subscriber since my undergraduate days. At times some of your pert comments have nettled me but in your March 5 issue I find a type of journalism that I consider distinctly unTIME-worthy. I refer to the article, "Army's First Week" under your Aeronautics section.

Why the unnecessary contrasts between the unfortunate airmail crack-ups and the "snugness and warmness of the Senate Office Building''? . . . The entire article is shot through with ugly implications and vicious insinuations, the repeated inference being that the contracts were canceled merely in a misguided effort to make political capital, and that the Administration is unconcerned about the disasters resulting therefrom. As a deliberate, skillful, and unfair propaganda piece in opposition to the cancelation of the contracts, and questioning, by inference, the good faith of the Administration, it could scarcely be improved upon. . . .

The entire tone of the article I condemn appeals to the emotions, not to the intellect, and that, TIME, is beneath you.

WALTER W. RICHTER

Neenah, Wis.

Sirs:

Is TIME trying to show up our kind President by emphasizing the tragic fate of our Army mail flyers? . . .

WOLFRAM HILL

St. Paul, Minn.

Sirs:

... I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my admiration for the man who wrote "Army's First W'eek" under Aeronautics in the March 5 issue. . . . No coloring of the facts, no superlatives, no emotionalism but by the simple, unexpected arrangement of the facts, he drives home a moral with unusual force. He doesn't set forth an argument or a conclusion but the absurdity of the whole airmail situation hits you between the eyes and you get a thrill down your spine. . . .

ROGER S. FIXDLEY

Staff Correspondent U. S. Air Services Glendale, Calif.

For more letters on Airmail, see TIME Letters Supplement No. 5.--ED.

Virgin Birth & Immaculate Conception Sirs: In the March 12 issue of your most interesting magazine, in a footnote to the article en- titled "Joseph's Son," reference is made to Kenan's Life of Christ. Your writer speaks of Renan as one "who also rejected the Immaculate Conception." It is very evident that your writer has fallen into the popular error of confusing the Virgin Birth with the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is one that is accepted by most Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant, while the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is one which is held only by the Roman Catholic Church. The Virgin Birth refers, of course, to the birth of Christ, while the Immaculate Conception refers to the birth of Mary, the mother of Christ, and holds that Mary was born free from all original sin. Protestants believe, of course, that Mary was a normal, God-fearing woman who was honored by being selected to be the mother of our Lord.

May I take this opportunity to express to you my appreciation of your magazine? A minister hasn't very much time for so-called secular reading, but after reading TIME I feel that I am well posted on the current affairs of the day. I look forward eagerly to its arrival, and never let it go until I have read it from cover to cover. In any intellectual group I am always proud to give TIME as my authority.

EDWARD H. PRUDEX

Pastor

First Baptist Church Petersburg, Va.

TIME admits stumbling into a common secular error, accepts rebuke.--ED. Sylvester Harris' System

Sirs:

Your issue of March 12, p. 11, col. 3, re Sylvester Harris, the Mississippi gentleman of color and his success in negotiating a Federal Land Bank loan as the result of a personal 'phone call to the White House: Do you suppose the same system would work if applicants for Home Owners' Loan Corp. assistance were to invest the necessary amount of toll charge to the same end? Or does it only work in Mississippi? Or with the Land Bank exclusively? Or only with colored people?

Or did I hear somebody say "peanut" publicity?

FRANK P. LAWTON

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Splendid Example

Sirs: I notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew who he was." Apparently, also, the newshawks did not have access to the records of the House of Representatives. The Representative spells his name Ayers, and he hails from Lewistown, Mont, and not Lewiston. When last seen in Montana, he did not wear glasses, but if the newshawks actually saw him leave his glasses case on the rostrum I of course am not in a position to dispute that part of the statement. ... As for the claim that he has never made a speech in the House, don't you think it would be a good idea if more Congressmen would emulate his splendid example? E. K. CHEADLE JR.

Shelby, Mont.

Printable S. O. B.

Sirs: The other day I was reading the New York Times, as is my custom, and came to the story of the trial of ex-Convict Manny Strewl for kid napping O'Connell, the nephew of the Albany political bigshots (TIME, July 24 et seq.). It told how O'Connell identified Strewl in court as one of the kidnappers, and how Strewl jumped up and said (I quote the Times, dashes and all): "Why you -- -- . You're a -- -- liar. I saved your life and you know it." Of course it was nothing to me, but I couldn't overcome a curiosity as to what a man like Strewl actually calls another man who wants to send him up for 50 years. So I looked in the Herald Tribune. It said: "I saved your life, you -- -- , and you know it." Still not expecting to learn any more, I bought a copy of the tabloid Daily News. And did I find it! Listen to this (now I quote the News): "With a snarl Strewl leaped to his feet and before he could be silenced shouted at the witness: 'You damned liar. You dirty son of a bitch--you dirty skunk, I saved your life and now you are trying to hang me!' " Wowie! Did you ever see anything like that in a newspaper before? LEONARD PAGE

New York City

Investigation indicates that Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson's lusty Manhattan tabloid Daily News was indeed the first modern metropolitan newspaper to spell out "son of a bitch."--ED.

Warning Sirs: On December 21, 1933 a Mr. D. G. Green, representing the Times Sales Co., of 431 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., called on me and sold me a contract of Times Encyclopedia, 10 Yrs. Revision Service, Asia 2 yrs., Life 3 yrs., and Harper's i yr. subscriptions respectively. All this was to come to me for the total cost of $15.00 which sounded very absurd. He said this proposition was guaranteed by the Times Weekly Magazine and that he was only making this proposition to professional men, preparatory to a general sales campaign'. In looking through the current issue of TIME I see no advertisement announcing this encyclopedia. . . .

K. M. HORNBROOK, M. D.

New Martinsville, W. Ya.

Sirs:

The TIME renewal subscription which I placed through a Mr. James C. Baker, Representative of the Times Sales Co., Chicago, has evidently not been turned in to you.

I accepted the contract of this company solely for the purpose of renewing my subscription to TIME for two years and to Red Book for two years.

However it seems that I have been duped to the extent that Life was substituted for TIME.

It occurs to me that there should be some way of holding Times Sales Co. responsible for such gross and unnecessary misrepresentation. . . .

GEO. E. SPAXGLER. M. D.

Humboldt, Tenn.

TIME publishes no encyclopedia, no books, offers no premiums, has no connection with any company of similar name. See "Warning to TIME Subscribers," page 51.--ED.

Psalm of Politics Sirs:

ARTICLE UNDER PRESS P. 38 TIME ISSUE MARCH 19 LIFTED A COUPLE OF SENTENCES FROM "PSALM OF POLITICS" AND VOLUNTEERED "THE INTIMATION THAT SPEAKER ERNEST ROGERS SR. WAS ACCEPTING BRIBES." THAT IS WHAT

THE COMMITTEE PRETENDED TO INFER. MATTER OF FACT "PSALM OF POLITICS" OPEN TO NO INFERENCE CONVEYED NO INTIMATION. DIRECTLY CHARGED THAT THE STATE ADMINISTRATION DOMINATED THE HOUSE. COME DOWN AND TAKE A RIDE ON MY ROLLER COASTER-SOME TIME.

VANCE ARMENTROUT

Editor

Courier-Journal Louisville, Ky.

For further news of the Courier-Journal v. the State of Kentucky, see p. 35.--ED. "How Old Is Ann?" Sirs:

After three solid hours of figuring I, with several other pseudo-mathematicians, give up.

Please furnish a mathematical solution to the problem of little Ann's age (TIME, March 5, p. 38), and save us from the lunatic asylum.

EDWARD J. WOOD

Detroit, Mich.

The puzzle:

"The combined ages of Mary and Ann are 44 years, and Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was half as old as Ann will be when Ann is three times as old as Mary was when Mary was three times as old as Ann. How old is Ann?" The late Puzzler Sam Lord's own solution:

"Mary was 3x years old and Ann was ix, showing a difference of 2x years in their ages. Therefore, when Mary was 5x and Ann 3X their combined ages amounted to 44 years. Dividing 44, which equals 8x. by 8 1/2. we find that x equals 5 1/2 years, which shows Mary to be 2 7 1/2; and Ann 16 1/2 For other treatments of Ann's age. see Issue No. 5 of TIME Letters Supplement, available next week on request.--ED. . ,^

Thickbloods Sirs: Scene: Hsinking, Manchukuo TIME: March 12 "With great relief Emperor Rang Teh put aside his dragon robes, wandered about his garden in a U. S. sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket . . ." Another in whose veins flows blood thicker than water* sympathizes with imperial Henry who must seek relief from stuffy clothes and overheated buildings in the cool of his garden. Other thickbloods culled from TIME: Lou Gehrig, La Argentina, late great Fridtjof Xan-sen (who qualifies as the daddy of us all by self-avowedly sweating profusely when the Arctic nights warmed to zero). Pu Yi travels in distinguished company. RICHARD KENNEDY

Jacksonville, 111.*As a child, half the lush pathos of Uncle Tom's Cabin was lost on me--from a smouldering theatre seat I envied Eliza's dash over the ice. The friend who caught me walking home barefoot in the snow, shoes under my arm, refused to attest my will.

Appreciation & Disgust

Sirs:

While, as the French would say, Reader Ancel Baird va mi pen fort in the letter published in March 12 issue of TIME, there is some justification in feeling that way and your editorials, if they can be called such, often leave one with mingled appreciation and disgust. . .

J. GRENIER

Montreal, Que.

Sirs: In your magazine dated March 12 you print a letter from one Ancel Baird under Letters. Is this not an error? In my opinion this letter should have been next to an article on Blue Boy, for a more hoggish, boorish display of feeling it has never been my misfortune to read.

I am a Republican, nevertheless this does not prevent me from admiring Senator Carter Glass, a gentleman of much ability, and it is probably because he is both a gentleman and has ability that Ancel Baird cannot appreciate him.

Furthermore, only history will prove who is right and who wrong, President Roosevelt or Senator Glass; but if Ancel Baird would like to make a little bet of $1,000, TIME to hold the money and decide, the money to go to any worthy charity, I will take the same side as Senator Glass.

WILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON

Philadelphia, Pa.

Wales's Hat

Sirs: 1 have just read with interest, the very excellent description of the funeral of the late King Albert of Belgium, in your issue of March 5. Mentioning the dignitaries present, you say: 'All in overcoats, a great throng followed on foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them." Can TIME possibly have erred regarding this unique head-dress?. . . DOUGLAS M. STEEL Petersburg, Ya.

TIME based its description on early news reports which, as newsphotos later show, were in error. H. R. H. wore the cocked hat of the Royal Navy.--ED.

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