Checker Department?

Sirs:

I read your magazine called TIME at various clubs and hotels on my stops from coast to coast and the idea came to me today it would be an excellent plan if you would allow me to run a weekly checker column in it. Am well known throughout the entire English-speaking world and am sure it would enable you to get many men subscribers in clubs as well as at private homes. Can give you one of the finest weekly columns in the world if you care to use it. ...

Trusting you may see my views in a favorable light,

N. W. BANKS

American Checker Champion

Potsdam, N. Y.

P. S. At present am completing arrangements for a World's Championship Match.

Do subscribers desire a checker column conducted by Champion Banks?--ED.

Twoddle

Sirs :

I was greatly amused at Hester May Root's twoddle anent John Coolidge in TIME, April 4. ...

WEST HUGHES

Los Angeles, Calif.

Honest

Sirs:

May an old advertising man offer you his compliments on the sterling honesty with which your magazine is edited? I refer to two items appearing on your business page, TIME, April 18, in which you state that William C. Durant "spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 states" that Sir Charles Higham has come to the United States to "spend 5200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers."

In a day when more and more national advertising is appearing in newspapers, when magazines generally are viewing with concern the amount of newspaper space taken by national advertisers, your announcement of these two newspaper campaigns, considerable in their amount and important in their significance, is, to my mind, a tribute to the honesty of your broadminded, impartial editorial policy.

GEORGE Y. KINGSFORD

Brooklyn, N. Y.

The newspaper and the magazine, they both have their function in carrying advertisers' messages. Properly viewed, they are cooperative rather than competitive.--ED.

Bindery

Sirs:

Will you please order a thoroughgoing reprimand to the girls in the bindery who neglected to staple in one form of TIME, April 4.

Through this error I have been deprived of LETTERS, CINEMA and BOOKS.

May I say, with a great American communist: "Give me everything, or give me nothing."

BRUCE F. BUNDY

No. 436-541

Serving "Time"

Los Angeles, Calif.

To the binders a thoroughgoing reprimand. To Subscriber Bundy a whole copy.--ED.

Good One

Sirs:

Did I not warn you that if you persisted in disrespect to Christianity I would not renew when my subscription ran out?

So please mark my name off your mailing list.

It is my opinion that if you do not quit your infidelity display the good people will quit you (I for one).

J. B. MCCONAHA

Monolith, Calif.

Poor One

Sirs:

Please cancel my subscription at once. I can no longer tolerate your sneering articles regarding Catholic persons and affairs and I do not understand how any self-respecting Catholic can remain your subscriber. Your articles under RELIGION this week are an insult to nine-tenths of the Christian world for nine-tenths of that world is still Catholic. Your policy is a poor one.

CECELIA M. HATFIELD

Progressive School of Music

Miles City, Mont.

Let the friends of onetime Subscriber Hatfield read to her page 20 of this (current) issue.--ED.

Dog Avenged

Sirs:

I am a lover of dogs, and have a great fondness for TIME. You will find the enclosed clipping from the Lexington, Ky. Herald of April 11. I hope you find it interesting and newsy.

C. H. RICHARDSON

Georgetown College,

Georgetown, Ky.

The clipping showed a photograph of a sad-looking little fox terrier dog. Said the clipping:

"DOG AVENGED

" 'Skipper' is only a mongrel dog who loiters about the campus of Furnam University, Greenville, S. C., yet three students have been expelled from the school by vote of the student council because of him. The youths cut off his right ear with a razor, inclosed it in a envelope with a note and slipped it under the door of his master's room." --ED.

Husband Dislikes

Sirs:

I am receiving (2) two TIME each week, one under name of Ruby S. North and under my marriage name Mrs. Raymond North.

Although I asked you to renew my subscription and bill me I am now canceling all subscriptions to TIME.

I like the periodical very much but my husband refuses to foot the bill for it as he dislikes it, so kindly discontinue my numbers at once.

RUBY S. NORTH

(Mrs. Raymond)

Terryville, Conn.

Son Likes

Sirs:

Enclosed please find check for $5 in payment of another year's subscription of TIME, as per statement rendered.

I think your paper is a wonderful organ and is worthy of great commendation, with one exception, and that is: you are such biased Republicans, so prejudiced always in your comments on the Democrats, that I would not take the paper at all, except at the request of my son. . . .

I spent this winter at The Mayflower in Washington and while there of course came in contact with a number of gentlemen who lived at the hotel, and think I must have heard this winter, at least a dozen make the same comment, in regard to your biased political attitude.

WILBUR W. HUBBARD

Chestertown, Md.

TIME is not conscious that it has favored the Republicans, denies allegiance to any party or creed.-- ED.

Sewage

Sirs:

The things you say about people under their pictures are sometimes little short of disgusting. What a blasphemy to print the photograph of saintly Joseph Lister and underneath it say: "They reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace.

EMMELINE STANDISH

Washington, D. C.

TIME reported accurately that the smell of festering wounds suggested to famed Dr. Lister that carbolic acid might be applied to them as it was to sewage in Carlisle, England.--ED.

Gangplanks

Sirs:

In the course of his undoubtedly extensive travels your FOREIGN NEWS Editor must surely have boarded and left enough steamships to realize that gangplanks nowadays do not "touch Manhattan" (TIME, April 11) but are run out from the pier to touch the docking ship. . . .

FREDERICK STELGER

Boston, Mass.

Ill Advised

Sirs:

I have noticed that when a non-subscriber writes you a letter you take occasion in your answer to call him: "Newsstand Buyer." This is a superfluous and ill-advised adjective. All clubs, that I belong to, carry TIME on their literature tables and all libraries, that I have visited, also subscribe to TIME. presume the object of keeping TIME in clubs and libraries is that visitors should read it and, if so, a non-subscriber who has read your paper is not necessarily a "Newsstand Buyer." Reform !

J. ELIAS FRIES

Birmingham, Ala.

Cadman-Utley

Sirs:

Lest anyone should be further misled, please give me space to say that I have not indorsed Miss Utley's leadership of an evangelical campaign in New York City, nor do I think it is advisable. With best wishes,

S. PARKES CADMAN, D. D.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Because he was chief speaker at a mass meeting in a Manhattan church, at which it was announced that Uldine Utley, 14-year-old evangelist, would perform in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 28), and because he spoke sympathetically of Miss Utley and seemed to welcome her proposed visit, Dr. Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, was wrongly understood as having "indorsed" Miss Utley. No such misunderstanding now remains. -- ED.

Mrs. Poe

Sirs:

In TIME, March 21, you state that one Virginia Clemm was the wife of Edgar Allen Poe. This is a fact. But why do you use the word "one" before her name? If a daughter of one of our millionaires, or senators, or governors was married, or her name used in any other connection, would you use the word "one" before her name? Yet Virginia Clemm was married to one of the Earth's immortals and as such is imbedded forever in history. The name of a daughter of any millionaire, or senator, or governor will soon be forgotten and leave not a trace behind. If Who's Who in America had been published in her time would not her name have appeared in it? How about a daughter of many a millionaire and others I have mentioned appearing in it? Then, again, Virginia Clemm was a cousin of the immortal Poe. Some of the same blood that coursed through his veins coursed through hers. Anyway, she was the daughter of Poe's aunt with whom he had his home and she was one of the family. How long, of necessity, must this family remain a part of human history?

Using the word "one" as you did certainly marks TIME as "something different."

BURTON E. BENNETT

Seattle. Wash.

Hotel Flayed

Sirs:

Your several circular letters advising me that my subscription would shortly expire have been received. I am well aware of this expiration and assure you that I enjoy reading your publication, but regret that certain conditions prohibit me from renewing my subscription at present. As my address shows I am living at an hotel where the help are very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft" seems to run wild.

I contemplate changing my residence in the near-future, and until I do so, will have to be what you call "A Newsstand Buyer."

With best wishes for your continued success which I hear you are enjoying. I consider TIME the only magazine worth reading today. Its frankness, truthfulness and unafraidness make it outstanding.

MARY J. LANE

Newark, N. J.