Born Southerner
Sirs:
Perhaps one Emily Boothe Radway, who writes in your issue of June 8 that Mrs. Roosevelt's party for wayward Negro girls was ''revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable" would be interested to know that the writer, who is superintendent of the National Training School for Girls (the institution for white and colored girls which was so signally honored by Mrs. Roosevelt), is also a Southern woman, a Georgian, descended from slave-owning ancestry.
She is surprised that anyone sufficiently up-to-date as to be a reader of TIME should cherish such an anachronism as the bit in Miss Radway's letter.
The writer respectfully suggests Godey's Lady's Book or The Southern Messenger, years 1860 to 1865, as reading which would be more to Miss Radway's taste.
A born Southerner, but aspiring Christian.
CARRIE WEAVER SMITH (M. D.)
Superintendent
National Training School for Girls Washington, D. C.
Degree for Distributor
Sirs:
REFERRING TO YOUR JUNE 29 ISSUE, P 45 NEBRASKA'S GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS AT ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHARTER DAY EXERCISES FEB. 15, 1935. HE SPOKE ON "THE INHERITANCE TAX," POINTING OUT THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS NECESSARY IF CIVILIZATION IS TO BE PRESERVED.
E. A. BURNETT
Chancellor
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb.
Some Days
Sirs:
I noticed your story [TIME, June 15] about Senator James D. Phelan giving $1 cigars to President Harding. When I lived in San Francisco in the old days I kept a cigar store and sold cigars to Jimmy Phelan (like we called him as a young man) and also his father. Jimmy bought $1 ones and his father, who had all the money, bought nickel cheroots. . . .
I said to the old man one day: "How is it you smoke nickel cigars and Jimmy smokes $1 ones?" The old man said: "Well, he has a rich father."
I. DEUTSCH
Portland, Ore.
Sirs:
Senator Phelan, according to your article under Art in TIME, June 15, was fond of $1 Havana cigars. This recalls to mind, I was collecting rent from Aron Cohen at his cigar store in Santa Cruz, where James Phelan Sr. had his summer home and where young Jimmie spent his summers under the parental roof.
Aron Cohen to James Phelan Sr.: I observe, Mr. Phelan, that you are always satisfied with a nickel cigar while your son Jimmie buys nothing less than dollar cigars. How is that?"
Mr. Phelan: "That is easily explained, Jimmie has a rich father and I have not." DUNCAN MCPHERSON
Santa Cruz, Calif.
Would any other oldtime California tobacconists care to enlarge the Phelan cigar legend?--ED. Mrs. Landon's Harp String
Sirs: I protest the insipid, too-sweet, smirking voice with which "March of Time" represented Eleanor Roosevelt on the evening of June 12. Never could such a voice depict the forthright character of Mrs. Roosevelt. 'Tis said Mrs. Landon plays the harp. One string thereon, it is safe to say, will not be muted this season--the one singing the praises of the oldfashioned, (horse-&-buggy days) sweet, retiring homebody who "lets the Gov. do the talking." If she refuses to strum it herself, partisan followers will twang it to the breaking point of hearers' sensibilities if not of the string itself. I have no doubt Mrs. Landon is a most estimable person but partisans who work overtime to give her the character of the modest female who knows her place to be the home and who "knows what is going on but tries to hide it," should remember what most of the world knows--that it is such women who have ever been more prone to exert sub rosa, unfair, selfish influence behind the scenes than have women who admit that they have a thought or two about things outside the home and, on occasion, express them without guile or pose. A thing to be admired in the Franklin Roosevelt family is the respect each shows for the individualities of the others and their recognition of the right of each to speak and act for himself or herself. MABEL RUNDALL BOUFFIOUX
Molalla, Ore.
Admirer in Moscow
[In reporting Governor Landon's pre-nomination activities in its May 18 issue, TIME printed a photograph of the Governor being interviewed in his home by Journalist-Scion Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.-- ED.] Sirs:
MAY 18 TIME JUST RECEIVED HERE UPON ARRIVAL TRANS-SIBERIAN FROM MANCHUKUO, CHINA, JAPAN, MONGOLIA. INTERVIEWED GOVERNOR LANDON ONCE FOR RADIO SPONSORS. HAVE
BEEN ADMIRER FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT MANY YEARS AND STILL AM.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT JR. Moscow
Army's Reynolds
Sirs:
In future let TIME proofreaders watch theif A's and N's or suffer stern rebuke.
Much as we like our sister service, we jealously cherish the abilities of brilliant Surgeon General Charles R. Reynolds, U. S. A., not U. S. N. as erroneously reported under ''Kudos" (TIME, June 22).
JAMES M. HYNES
Lieut. Colonel Auxiliary Reserve, U. S. A. Granby, Colo.
Coast Guard's Stone
Sirs:
Your magazine TIME, of three weeks ago [June 1] carried an account of the death of Commander E. F. Stone, U. S. Coast Guard, commanding the Aviation Station at San Diego, Calif.
The account indicated he was a member of the U. S. Navy, which is in error. Commander Stone did serve with the Navy, particularly in the matter of the trans-atlantic flight of the NC-4, under Commander A. C. Read, in 1919, but he was a graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in the class of 1913 and continued to serve in the Coast Guard until his death.
L. W. PERKINS
Lieut. Commander Public Relations Officer
U. S. Coast Guard
Washington, D. C.
Massachusetts State's Godbout
Sirs: No "pink-faced graduate of Amherst College" (TIME, June 22), Quebec's new Premier J. Adelard Godbout is a B.Sc. of Ecole d'Agriculture de Ste. Anne in Quebec and a former graduate student (1919--22) at Massachusetts State College. Ours is, according to their historians, the daughter of Amherst College and we, as New Englanders, may well be proud of that, but the two schools are separated by the length of the village of Amherst and a number of other differences.
WILLIAM L. DORAN
Secretary
Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College Amherst, Mass.
Ingersoll's Ingersolls
Sirs:
Striking proof that TIME'S advertising and news staffs are well-isolated from each other is furnished by the bad slip under Business, TIME, June 15, p. 66. The E. Ingraham Co. does not manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made the dollar famous." The watches were manufactured for the Ingersoll brothers by Waterbury Clock Co. During the post-War depression the Ingersolls became over-extended on short-term loans, their partnership went through bankruptcy and the Waterbury company took over their business. Now both watches and clocks are marketed under the Ingersoll name. . .
PHILIP SALISBURY
New York City
Very Nice Story
Sirs:
May I take this occasion to thank you sincerely for the very nice story [''Publishing Church"] of the annual meeting at The Mother Church in Boston, carried in TIME, June 22. The data is well-selected and comprehensive. I am sure that this story will create a profound and widespread appreciation in all parts of the world.
WILLIAM WALLACE PORTER
Christian Science Committee on Publication New York City
Sirs:
It is not my custom nor inclination to remonstrate with periodical editors upon the policies of their magazines but I cannot overlook one of the articles in TIME, June 22. I refer to the one entitled "Publishing Church."
Merely from a selfish standpoint, one wonders at TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries. . . .
At the expiration of our present subscription, please consider that we do not wish to renew TIME subscription.
HELEN BUTLER BLANDING
Syracuse, N. Y.
Rich Blum
Sirs: It is not that I consider it criminal for a Jew to be rich or "moneyed," as you might put it. I am, in fact, so broad-minded that even rich Gentiles are all right with me. Unlike them, I find no especially negative connotation in the wealth-designating adjective when applied to a member of my race. But "this rich old Jew," Leon Blum (TIME, May 18) just isn't rich, my dear TIMEditors, and I happen to know it. You might have known it, too, if you took more pains checking up on certain legends circulated by your fellow newsmongers, commentators and what have you! M. Blum was, not is, rich. So, please, stop passing on the-- MAURICE WINOGRAD
New York City
Since he recently lost the major portion of his inherited fortune in an attempt to save his three brothers' silk business. France's Socialist Premier Leon Blum is indeed no longer "rich." will not be so designated by TIME in future.--ED. "We Have the Farm" Sirs:
In your issue of June 8, you made the erroneous statement that the World's Largest Spinach Farm was located at Carrizo Springs, Tex. . . .
In your issue of June 22 you printed a letter from Mr. Fred LeCrone, Zavala County Agent, "correcting" the information. LeCrone says that the farm is "north of Crystal City." It is, about 25 miles. It is 20 miles south of Uvalde, the home of John N. Garner, too. It is also 47 miles east of Eagle Pass, an important town on the Mexican border, and 5DEG miles west of Pearsall, the home of the Winter Garden Fair, all of which locates this 4,000-acre spinach farm at La Pryor, Tex.
However, let's forget it. Others may have the publicity; we have the farm. Incidentally, this farm supports one person for each seven acres of spinach.
W. D. CORNETT
La Pryor, Tex.
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