Best He Ever Saw

Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of news previously published in TIME.

TIME

New York, N. Y.

East Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 30, 1925

Gentlemen:

On the cover of your Feb. 2, issue, you have reproduced a sketch of Fritz Kreisler which, to my mind, is the best I have seen of this great violinist.

I am quite a Kreisler fan, as you no doubt have already surmised, and I would appreciate it very much if you would favor me with a good press proof of this cut or any other sort of a reproduction that I may mount and frame.

N. M. MUSCARO

A high grade press proof was mailed to Subscriber Muscaro. Other press proofs of other subjects will be mailed to other subscribers if they so request.--ED

La Guardia and the War

TIME

New York, N. Y.

Cincinnati, Ohio Jan. 29, 1925

Gentlemen: I am a subscriber to TIME. In your number of Jan. 26, 1925, on page 11, you say in reference to Congressman La Guardia, "Apres la guerre, he returned to his native Kind, capitalized his record as hero," etc. Irrespective of what he said, does not your statement do him an injustice? The fact is that he stood for and was elected to Congress before the War-- in 1916. I happened to be elected to the same, the 65th Congress, from which four members left to enter the Army. The late Gus Gardner of Massachusetts left in May or June, and died in camp the following January. I was the next to leave -- in July, 1917. Then followed La Guardia, who left in September and, after that, Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota who left in November. Of the four, Gardner lost his life, and the other three were wounded in action. I arn afraid your article leaves the inference that La Guardia was elected to Congress solely because of having capitalized his War record, and the fact is that he left Congress to join the Army. Does not his prior election show that he did not need a War record to convince his district that he is the man whom they want to represent them? VICTOR HEINTZ