Man of the Year
Sirs:
Congratulations on your selection "Man of the Year" [Haile Selassie]. To me, his treatment of the missionaries in his country proves his real character. . . . Long may your excellent publication continue to use such judgment.
F. D. BALZHISER
West Chicago, Ill.
Sirs:
Your choice of the Man of the Year reveals an astonishing lack of perspective. You have overlooked the real men of the year for the mere pawn of lesser men, an impotent, historically insignificant tribal ruler. The article itself is uncritical, unTIMEly and bombastic. . . .
IRA C. POWERS
Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs: Congratulations on the Man of the Year. Please print some of the howls that come in; they ought to be good. For a man who has not had the advantages of education in diplomatic skulduggery as practised in the majestic precincts of European governments, Haile Selassie has done a fine job of out-diplomating the diplomats. . . .
GEORGE D. GREER
Minister
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church Bayville, L. I.
Sirs:
I am amazed that you would permit such filth as that which appears under the caption "Ethiopian Icon" on p. 15 of the Jan. 6 issue of TIME. It would seem that an editor should feel under some obligation to observe the ordinary standards of decency in selecting material to be presented to his readers. Since your magazine apparently does not consider the moral welfare of its readers, we are compelled in the interests of more than 20,000 high school students in our city to remove the above mentioned number from our high school libraries.
W. W. THEISEN
Assistant Superintendent Milwaukee Public Schools Milwaukee, Wis.
Sirs:
Congratulations to you upon your selection of the Man of the Year. I was apprehensive until the arrival of my copy today. . . .
W. H. LOWRY
Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
Sirs:
Your selection ... is most unfortunate. . . . For sheer trickery and cunning, Selassie is unsurpassed and has made himself conspicuous. . .
LEO OSTAGGI
Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the World War Oakland, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . He richly deserves it.
MRS. G. H. THYE Akron, Ohio
Sirs:
. . . What ignorance! What tomfoolery! What has Haile Selassie done for the progress of the world?
GEORGE LEAHY JR.
Louisville, Ky.
Sirs:
Your presentment of facts is such that if I had known them in just that light my vote, too, would have been for him. . . .
The colored portrait on the cover goes into my scrapbook. I would have you understand that is a great honor. Only a few personalities retain a position there, and among those few are Roosevelt II and Einstein. . .
SYLVANUS K. POST
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Skis
Sirs: As Moslems turn to Mecca, as Jews turn to Zion, so all U. S. skiers turn to Red Wing. Your ski article [TIME, Jan. 13] was much like a production of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Red Wing has the oldest ski club in the V. S., the oldest skier in the U. S., the best natural ski slide in America, several former national champions and thousands of loyal Norse citizens who would rather ski than eat lutefisk. J. R. P. KERNAN
Publicity Advertising Manager National Ski Tournament Red Wing, Minn.
Other communities which seek to be included among ''the best skiing grounds in the U. S.";: Ishpeming, Mich., "birthplace of the U. S. Ski Association, home of the 'Five Flying Bietilas,' famous for its Washington Day ski classics;" Government Camp, Mt. Hood, Ore., where a new $250,000 hotel is to be built with PWA money; Pocono Manor, Pa. (elevation 1,800 ft.) with "an all-year hotel-cottage community," served by snow trains from New York.--ED.
Mrs. Driscoll's Day
Sirs:
After reading your excerpts from Dame Roosevelt's column "My Day" [TIME, Jan. 13], I wonder if some enterprising newspaper editor could use an account of my day's activities. It would go something like this:
Rise at 6. Fifteen minutes of exercise which consists of descending two flights of stairs, shaking down furnace and building fire in water heater. Back to kitchen. Prepare breakfast for twelve persons, including self. Serve orange (not prune) juice extracted by hand from two dozen oranges, breakfast food (three choices), raisin bread toast and poached eggs. Then say good-by to one schoolteacher, four stenographers and two high school freshmen. Eight o'clock. Wash dishes. Do family wash which consumes three hours. Get lunch for five. Wash dishes, make beds and dust. Clothes now ready to be ironed. Wield iron for two hours. Four o'clock. Put roast in oven and prepare potatoes and two vegetables. Dessert will be mince pie, baked yesterday from mincemeat, self-made during week before Thanksgiving. Serve dinner at 6:30. Fifteen-minute pause after dessert to listen to burst of rhetoric from unemployed husband anent, State of Union. Dinner dishes washed and dried by high school boy and girl. One hour of listening to radio (NO SPEECHES)--ho hum --and so to bed, weary, but glad and thankful not to have to work as hard as our First Lady. EDITH M. DRISCOLL Evanston, Ill.
Professional Reviews
Sirs:
We were very much interested to read under Business & Finance in TIME, Jan. 13, comments regarding the business review and forecast editions of the daily papers.
Equally well-known in the publishing field is the Annual Review and Statistical issue of The Iron Age published each January. The current edition . . . has a total folio of 638 pages with 400 pages of advertising. This makes it the largest issue of The, Iron Age published since the beginning of the Depression. . . .
C. S. BAUR
General Advertising Manager The Iron Age New York City
Sirs:
In the current issue of TIME I have read the long and interesting story on Annual Reviews. I had hoped to see some comment regarding ours, which was by far the best, both in a business way and editorially, that the Chicago Journal of Commerce has ever had. It occurred to me, however, that perhaps our Annual, coming out on Jan. 6, was too late for comment.
The paper is doing well and . . . has the best business and financial news west of New York City.
JOHN D. AMES
Publisher
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Chicago, Ill.
No slight was TIME'S failure to mention Iron Age or John Ames's alert Chicago journal of Commerce. Equally conspicuous was the omission of Railway Age and the Wall Street Journal, which has the "best business and financial news" east of Chicago. In reviewing year-end reviews TIME advisedly confined itself to sampling the lay press, passing over many an able financial editor and the entire field of business dailies and trade periodicals.--ED.
Cripple's Feeling Sirs: . . . May I express appreciation of the manner in which TIME'S news columns deal with the President's disability? No exaggeration, no ranting sympathy, but just plain reporting of pertinent facts. Most periodicals seem to have joined a conspiracy of silence.
Suffering from a spinal disease perhaps even more hopeless than infantile paralysis (multiple sclerosis), I can assure you I prefer my state to be taken as much for granted as any normal physical attribute, and doubtless other cripples feel similarly.
JULIAN STANLEY
Evanston, III.
Sirs:
I am not renewing our subscription.
The crude manner in which you refer to the physical deformities of people in public life is disgusting. . . . Calling attention to a person's physical deformities is equal to striking a cripple or kicking a sick dog. . . .
I repeat, it is disgusting.
BEATRICE SHEPARD
West Lafayette, Ind.
"Honks High"
Sirs:
TIME Jan. 6, p. 17. col. 2: "... all the more reason for Haile Selassie to feel that his goose hangs high."
Isn't the expression "goose honks high," from the sound (I've never heard it) of a flock of geese on the wing? Why should a goose hang high?
PAUL JOSEPH
Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . Speaking of affairs in Ethiopia, you use the expression "goose hangs high."
Is not "goose honks high" the correct way to put it?
M. B. HAZELTINE
President
The Bank of Arizona Prescott, Ariz.
Right are Readers Hazeltine and Joseph. -'The goose hangs high" is a corruption of the original expression, which probably derives from the fact that in good weather wild geese fly high.--ED.
"Modern Sodom" Sirs:
How fortunate that we Britishers, whether originating in the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada or elsewhere, have so strong a sense of humor, otherwise we might permit ourselves to be annoyed at the disgustingly vitriolic attacks which your paper launches weekly against our Empire. No doubt you have accurately gauged the mentality of your people and give them what they want. But, my God, what a people! . . . It is indeed a big laugh with us Canadians to hear and read the verbose rantings and ravings of Americans about "God's own country." Does an American ever stop to think what God has to say about it? That God sees the States as it is, in all its lecherous filth, not as the American affects to see it, but as the greatest criminal country in the world, the modern Sodom. He sees its devastating immorality, not only in its so-called society, but in its schools. (He has probably seen several startling and illuminating articles on this subject in Liberty, Cosmopolitan and other U. S. magazines.) The rackets, kidnappings, the graft of which the country reeks and stinks from border to border. . . . What are His reactions to the substitution of a system of licensed prostitution for the old sacredness and sanctity of marriage? What does He think of the lynchings--and Hollywood? What a country! What a people! Having to hire and maintain armed thugs to prevent other armed thugs from tearing children from parents, holding them for ransom and finally knocking out their brains if the money is not forthcoming! Is it any wonder that Lindbergh has fled, with wife and child, from "God's own country" to England to seek the peace, protection and security that country affords all and sundry within its borders, irrespective of color, religion or race? ... In an island which was the birthplace of parliamentary institutions which are still their greatest remaining strongholds.
As Winston Churchill said, "England, with all its faults, is still the best country in the world, whether for duke or dustman." What do TIME and the Hearst atrocities hope to achieve by keeping up a continual bombardment of vulgar abuse and gratuitous insult directed at the British Empire? JAMES C. BARTON
Vancouver, B. C.
Let annoyed Canadian Barton forget his sense of humor long enough to mind his manners hereafter. -- ED.
Sirs: . . . I'm no professional patriot, for I grant that America has a good deal to learn, but I resent the smirking attitude of many from foreign shores. . . . Faults we have aplenty -- and one of them is being so ultra well-mannered as to give ear to these persons' offensive remarks. . . RALPH T. MCQUINN
Chicago, Ill.
Taft Dressing
Sirs:
Ben Allen is quoted (TIME, Dec. 30) as saying "that Mr. Hoover gets into his white tie & tails in seven minutes flat."
Archie Butt wrote that President Taft could change into his evening clothes "in seven minutes, including a bath."
EDWIN STANLEY THOMPSON
Bristol, Pa.
Hamper of Champagne Sirs:
A magnum, aye a hamper, of champagne to TIME'S Science Editor for masterful exposition of difficult stuff in the story of the Comptons [TIME, Jan. 13].
My choicest animadversion is the tradition of ponderous and involved science writing. In manner, within its field, the story is as exemplary as Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby. Authors of textbooks might profit by looking it over.
It is possible to write well on scientific subjects !
F. JOSEPH LORZ
Science Department Monticello Junior High School Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Artist's Elm
Sirs:
May I extend to Artist Luigi Lucioni, through your columns, congratulations of a practical nature from the scientists and arboriculturists of this organization on the masterly delineation of an American elm, UIernus americana, in the reproduction of his painting shown on p. 23 of TIME for Jan. 13?
The Gothic springing of the leaders away from the main trunk, the exact rippling of the buttress base, the true feathery top prove that Lucioni is, as stated, painting things "as he sees them."
I would certainly like to get a glimpse at the original painting.
EDWARD A. CONNELL
The F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co. Stamford, Conn.
Let Tree Expert Connell visit Collector P. J. Wickser in Buffalo. N. Y., to whom Ferargil Galleries have sold Artist Lucioni's elm.--ED.
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