Shore Leave

Sirs:

I had just read with inward amusement of the wrath and indignation of our esteemed former Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., in connection with artist Paul Cadmus' painting The Fleet's In, as described in the Art department of TIME, April 30.

Shortly afterward my eye fell on the two enclosed clippings from an old copy of the Panama American, "An Independent Daily Morning Newspaper." These two examples of "frank and progressive" journalism caused no little additional amusement, coming as two bits of printed evidence on top of the mass of occurrences I have witnessed personally in many different ports whenever "The Fleet's In." In spite of Admiral Rodman's indignation it is only too obvious that Artist Paul Cadmus' painting is truly depicted, not only on Riverside Drive, but wherever the fleet is on shore leave. . . .

Efforts to enlighten the outraged and idealistic admiral would probably be wasted, against the overwhelming odds of 47 years spent in the Navy, and the imposing and dignified status of "Admiral U.S.N. retired."

F. M. WlNCKEL San Francisco, Calif.

The clippings, from the same issue of the Panama American, reported: 1) The arrest of one U. S. sailor for setting fire to a prostitute's bed after she "rejected what she regarded as an 'immoral' proposition"; 2) The detention of another sailor for entering a room with a registered prostitute outside the restricted area.--ED.

California's Open Door (Cont'd)

Sirs:

In [the May 7] issue of TIME, Frederick J. Koster, San Francisco, assuming to correct TIME for a statement in its April 2 issue, declared that the attitude of California and of the Pacific Coast has changed entirely in the matter of opening the gates to Japanese immigration, that it is now favorable thereto, and that the initiative to bring about the change originated in California.

The movement did originate in California, but at the instance of Mr. Koster and others who organized the California Council on Oriental Relations three years ago for the express purpose, and who, as prominent members of the Directorate of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, have been seeking to open the gates to Japanese immigration for more than 15 years.

The sentiment in California, and in the three Pacific States, after the three years of propaganda with ample resources, is sufficiently indicated by the fact that in January the entire California Congressional Delegation, 11 Democrats and 9 Republicans, signed a letter to President Roosevelt advising him that they were "vigorously opposed" to the proposed plan for opening the gates to Asiatic immigration, and within a few days thereafter the Delegations from Washington and Oregon signed a similar letter. Congressmen from three States do not unanimously take such action when they are facing re-election unless they know absolutely that the overwhelming sentiment in their respective communities approves the stand taken. The same elements which initiated this movement in California have sought also to induce the President's Cabinet Committee of three, appointed to investigate such subjects, to recommend to Congress favorable action on quota for Japan. The statement of facts authenticated by the record, which was presented by the California Joint Immigration Committee, furnishes a complete answer and serves as justification for the stand taken by the Pacific States' Delegations. TIME did not err.

V. S. McCLATCHY Executive Secretary California Joint Immigration Committee San Francisco, Calif.

Sirs:

I was so surprised when I read Frederick J. Roster's letter [TIME, May 7] in which he says that "The attitude of California--in fact, of the entire Pacific Coast--towards the Japanese has changed completely," that I have wasted almost the entire day in an effort to check up so far as I might in this one small community. It was my intention to show the letter to and get the opinion of the first 50 people who came into the office. However, I only got around to talk with 43. Their opinions, without exception, reservation or hesitation, were that there are too many Japanese here already, and that any suggestion of removing the ban is so preposterous as to be almost unbelievable, especially coming from a Californian. Of course my opportunities to feel the public pulse are much less than those of Mr. Koster. This is only a small farming community--but we have a larger percentage of Japanese population than San Francisco. I hope that cheap Japanese labor is not especially desired for the manufacture of barrels.*

EUGENE L. GRAY Marysville, Calif.

Sirs:

I note with deep interest Mr. Frederick J. Koster's (TIME, May 7) statement that California's attitude toward the Japanese immigrant has changed completely. Could there possibly be any connection between this Californian or at least Kosterian changed attitude and the fact that both Mexican and Negro labor is becoming unionized?

GERTRUDE ORENDORFF Minneapolis, Minn.

More letters on this subject in Letters

Supplement No. 9, available this week. Address requests to TIME'S Circulation Department, 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill.--ED.

Organs & Organists

Sirs:

I have read your entire article on organists and enjoyed it. Most of it is Gospel truth. The organists should thank you for paying them the compliment of a little attention in TIME, but they won't. That's the kind of people they are.

T. SCOTT BUHRMAN, F. A. G. O. Editor The American Organist Staten Island, N. Y.

Sirs:

Interesting article that, "'St. Patrick's Triumph," under Music, TIME, May 7. Sorry that the article fails to answer the who, what, why and where questionnaire, taught students of composition in the early grades. The article answers all these questions except "where?" . . .

GARRETT GEERLINGS Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sirs:

I am wondering just where your associate editor who wrote the article called "St. Patrick's Triumph," under the heading Music in your May 7 edition received the information that led him to state the following: "Of the leading organ manufacturers, Skinner and Kilgen have supplied most of the best church instruments."

I suggest that you get a list of outstanding installations from one or two other leading organ manufacturers, especially Moller and Austin, and then judge for yourself whether the above-mentioned statement should be corrected. . . .

H. M. RlDGLEY District Representative M. P. Moller Inc. Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs:

TIME ranks high in newsgathering and reporting. In mildly polemical subjects where a statement is an opinion and not a fact TIME is equally fallible with other media of its kind. In the art realm, facts are elusive; opinions predominate. . . .

Thus, in your May 7 issue under Music, you fail to include the name of Charles Heinroth, former Organist and Director of Music at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and now associated with the College of the City of New York, who outclasses many of the men you mention.

An artist first, then a musician and organist, Dr. Heinroth in a quarter-century of recitals in Pittsburgh established an unequaled standard of program building and organ playing. With a technical mastery superior to the demands made upon it by every musical form from dance to symphony, he endows his interpretations with that beauty and authority that comes only to the executant whose understanding and insight go far beyond mere recital playing.

JOSEPH E. O'BRIEN Treasurer American Guild of Organists Pittsburgh, Pa.

TIME accepts rebuke on two scores: 1) for neglecting to set the scene of "St. Patrick's Triumph" in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; 2) for flatly crediting two organ-builders with "most of the best." Fine indeed are the instruments of Moller (in West Point Cadet Chapel, Manhattan's Temple Beth El) and Austin (in the elder J. P. Morgan's St. George's Church and the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan). But let no reader regard that as a roll call of all able organ-builders.--ED. Nurses' Hours Sirs: Mention of nurses' efforts to secure an 8-hour day (TIME, May 7, Medicine) would have been more accurate if it had distinguished between the special-duty nurse (largest group in the profession) now working twelve or more hours a day--84 or more hours a week; and the institutional, staff, or hospital nurse, for whom ten hours is the more usual daily schedule. The 300 or more hospitals to which you refer have the 8-hour system for special-duty nurses.

Working as free lances, financially insecure, alternating between overwork and underwork, with most of their "free time" spent waiting anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty.

In a day when NRA codes call for 48-hour, 40-hour, and even shorter working weeks, when only two industries out of 400 under NRA codes have as high as a 54-hour week, special-duty nurses ask that their week be reduced from 84 to 56 hours. Traditions of self-sacrifice, conservatism toward change, stand in their way. Yet patients declare they get better service from the nurse who has shorter hours; doctors and hospital authorities are pleased once the change has gone into effect. Results in spreading work are gratifying. Not only is the 24-hour period divided among three instead of two nurses, but a greater demand for single periods of eight hours results from the fact that shorter units of nursing service are available.

Such changes are sought through voluntary action on the part of employers, especially hospital boards. Nurses, as members of a profession, do not come under any existing code.

ANNA L. TITTMAN, R. N. Chairman Committee on Eight Hours for Nurses New York City

TIME'S story was concerned only with hospital nurses. To Nurse Tittman, thanks for a TIMEworthy account of the problems of special-duty nurses.--ED.

Hen Medic

Sirs:

I'm wondering if the studios are going to continue to thrill the public with inside stories of the medical profession. You know, we do have pride, and to see ourselves so carelessly portrayed is somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed --a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture--evidenced by the perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works stiff-armed; fourthly, doctors don't interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine--that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic coma and insulin shock--no argument necessary, there are just about ten good signs to differentiate the law hastly, residents aren't ever that good handling. Yes, I am a medic.

K. H. MACEACHERN Chicago, Ill.

Jobs & Jews

Sirs:

I am referring to your article "Jobs & Jews" on p. 12 of the May 21 issue. . . . This should certainly convince all people of our faith that--in spite of previous criticism---your articles are written in a fair unbiased manner. The concluding paragraph in the article, which is worthwhile repeating, viz: ''No hierarchy, indeed, are the Jews of the Administration, but they are by no means insignificant. Their power rests not upon their jobs but upon their great industry, their extraordinary mental ability and their crusading fervor for what they conceive to be the high and remote ideals of the New Deal." is outstanding in the sense that you make every reasonable effort to give TIME-readers the facts and if it should hurt once in a while it is just "too bad!"

JACOB A. VOICE President & General Manager Consolidated Lithographing Corp. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sirs:

Allow me to compliment you on your excellent account of the Jews serving in the Administration. . . .

Particularly TIME-worthy is the final paragraph of this article.

GOLDIE LAZARUS Belington, W. Va.

Royal Family

Sirs:

In your Letters Supplement No. 6, issued April 16, appeared . . . a revised version of the Lord's Prayer.

. . . It so thoroughly expressed the current trend that I forwarded my copy of same to a local lawyer, who is rabidly anti-New Deal. His reply follows:

"The King is in the White House, Handing out the money: The Queen is on the front page, Looking very funny: The Knave is up in Boston, Plucking all the plums: While the country alphabetically Is feeding all the bums."

E. S. VOLLERS Chicago, Ill.

Drought Damage

Sirs: ARTICLE On WESTERN DROUGHT COMPREHENSIVE [TIME, May 21]. SINCE PUBLISHED DAMAGE DOUBLED AMERICA'S YEARLY WHEAT CONSUMPTION FOR FOOD SIX HUNDRED MILLION FOR SEED SIXTY MILLION FOR EXPORTS FORTY MILLION FOR RESERVE TWO HUNDRED MILLION TOTAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENT AT LEAST NINE HUNDRED MILLIONS STOP PRESENT SURPLUS EXAGGERATED LARGELY IMAGINARY SITUATION SERIOUS. . . .

CHAS. L. HYDE SR. Pierre, S. Dak.

Charles Leavitt Hyde, banker, realtor, cattleman, rates himself largest landowner, wealthiest citizen, heaviest taxpayer in the State. Last week the Midwest drought was still unbroken. In South Dakota the Government considered transplanting thousands of families to State farms, buying hundreds of thousands of doomed cattle.--ED.

Dillinger for Dellinger

Sirs:

To the Gent that signs himself "ED." in the Letters column.

Dear ED.

Whee! TIME erred. "Honest John Dillinger" spells his name "Dellinger." I asked him in Psychology class half hour after I read your story on the real villain [TIME, May 7].

And you will please notice this is Indiana University and not University of Indiana.

DUDLEY S. HORTH Indiana University Bloomington, Ind.

Burial for Bayes

Sirs:

Although in years of constantly reading your magazine I have never yet had occasion to doubt its statements, I must admit that a shocking report in [the April 30] issue led me to verify it for myself. I refer to the pitiful fact that that great and joyous artist, Nora Bayes, has never received burial. To one who many times was made happier by her singing and had the good fortune to hear her sing "Over There" during the War--which was a thrilling experience--the disclosure was certainly unbelievable. . . . I am at present on a business trip but intend as soon as I return to my home to approach a number of friends who must feel as I do about the tragic abandonment of Miss Bayes by her family and personal friends in death. I am confident that some will be only too glad to do what they can to provide a last resting place for a woman who was so widely admired and respected.

EDGAR LEWIS New York City

Fast-Moving Doolittle

Sirs:

In the issue of TIME which appeared on April 30, under political "Japan-China" news you stated that Frank Hawks and Jimmy Doolittle are now in China demonstrating bombers to one of the Chinese Governments. .

Mr. Doolittle is capable of covering much ground (294 m.p.h. or 432 ft. per second) but has not yet succeeded in being in two places at the same time.

At the unsolicited invitation of Secretary of War Dern, Mr. Doolittle is now serving as a civilian member of the committee formed to study the present status and future development of the U. S. Air Corps (a non-political body).

REX BRASHEAR Aviation Department Shell Petroleum Corp. St. Louis, Mo.

FORTUNE in Pennsylvania

Sirs:

Thanks be to Alumnus Shrigley and non-Alumnus Kaufman (TIME, May 7; April 23 et ante) for having assured TIME'S appearance at the periodical desk of the Pennsylvania library for the next two years. Would now that some kind and prosperous Wharton alumnus might enable TIME'S fair cousin FORTUNE to appear once more at that same desk!

Let no one think however that periodical literature at the University of Pennsylvania has been reduced, because of indigence, to the discarded newspapers of the library call-boys. The University receives currently in its various schools some 5,000 periodicals and scientific journals. An unfavorable foreign exchange and a shrunken income force economies but the editors of TIME & FORTUNE would probably be the first to agree that in a university the Zeitschrift fur komprimierte und fluessige gase or the Revue de I'Academic arabe or the Annals of Iowa take precedence over their excellent publications, for TIME and FORTUNE are rather generally available and these journals are not.

HANS-KARL SCHUCHARD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs: Is there any other university so pressed for funds at the present time as not to be able to afford a subscription to TIME for its library?

I will follow the lead of Mr. M. Zenn Kaufman [TIME, April 23], who is my friend, and donate a subscription to any such university.

I. FERGUSON

St. Louis, Mo.

Let needy universities speak up. To Benefactor Ferguson, thanks.--ED.

*Mr. Koster, onetime president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the California State Chamber of Commerce, is president, of California Barrel Co., Ltd.--ED.

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