Does No Good
What a loud-mouthed jackass this Morris ("Al") Epstein Jr. must be [TIME, Aug. 8 15]. Henry Ford, Sinclair Lewis, Civil War, Revolutionary War, Foreigners--they are all the same to that swellhead. You showed him up nicely, but it does no good to bawl his kind out; those roughnecks are too ill-bred. Many thanks for printing Pug Tunney's monocled picture alongside his remarks about radicals [TIME, Aug. 15]. MAX SlLVERMAN Ambridge, Pa.
Dislikes Jews
Sirs:
I would like to voice my opinion regarding Anti-Semitism in answer to Mr. Epstein's remark that "they all fall down sooner or later"* referring to Ford's apology. I don't like the Jews. Why I don't like them is my own business -- maybe I am just built that way. But this is a free country and I have a right to my likes and dislikes. I am sure that many Jews feel the same way towards me. When people dislike each other they usually avoid each other and live happily. Why can't the Jews let us alone? Why, when I, and people who feel as I do, make up a club, an association or an organization, do a host of Jews immediately attempt to crash the gates and enter into our midst? If any group of people make it plain to me and my like that they don't care for our company we never force ourselves upon them. I have never heard of any Gentile belonging to a Jewish association or being particularly anxious to join up. What is so attractive about us to the Jews anyway? Why can't they leave us alone and form their own clubs, hotels and associations where no Gentiles will be allowed. If they did this I believe that there would then be no reason for any Anti-Semitism. HARRY PASCAL
New York, N. Y.
Dislikes Reviews
Sirs:
... I like TIME except the book reviews which are not clear and clean cut, but slangy and incoherent often.
LOUISE INCHES
(Mrs. C. E. Inches) London, England
*An error. Mr. Epstein said: "They all lay down sooner or later."--ED. Again, Epstein
Sirs:
"They all lay down sooner or later." I'll never let TIME forget that phrase of mine, not so long as I catch it like I do this week. Gracious sakes alive oh me oh my! What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like myself, think real bowling is not only good exercise but good he-man sport: "bowling or tenpins, playe 1 now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts." I don't claim to be any dude but I am no barfly and I BOWL, IN AN ALLEY. Now here's where TIME lay down last week: in the SPORTS department were only that story about the bowling for old ladies, one pretty good story about baseball and two little stories about GOLF. That's another of these old maid's games, golf, where you go around after a little ball and only give it a hit about every five minutes.* Where TIME lay down was in not printing some of the real sport news of the week. Why not tell how Babe Ruth socked his 37th, 38th and 39th and 40th homers? Why not write up some of the good fights ? How about the races? Maybe they wouldn't admit it but I bet you most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green." Oh, Percival! Oh, Clarence! When TIME left out such things it was laying down, just like they all do sooner or later. MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN JR.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
In Madras
Sirs:
... It is my opinion, as an American resident in India, that TIME is indispensable. . , .
It may interest you to know that my copy of TIME is circulated among the Indian officers assisting me, and that it contributes materially to broadening their views.
To the multitude of suggestions for improvement you receive may I add a request for more Russian and Asia Minor news, and (at the risk of being suspected of descending to the ridiculous), an occasional word as to style trend in men's apparel at Home. Doubtless my wife would appreciate the same in regard to women's fashions, but that strikes a less responsive chord in me ! . . .
J. KENNETH PEARCE
Logging Engineer to Gov't of Madras Madras, South India
Horses
Sirs:
TIME is always so fair and equitable in correcting any false impressions that might have been created in their publication that I know it will welcome a correction of a false impression which was created
* An error. Average time for an 18-hole round of golf is 150 minutes. Even should a player take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. -- ED. in a letter signed by L. A. Merillat-- which appeared in your issue of Aug. 15. In this letter the writer states "there are fewer horses in cities than formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report of the department of agriculture is 17,000,000 and 5,000,000 mules, or about one to every five persons." This is a false impression, for the facts of the matter are that the horses have been steadily decreasing. In fact, there were 3,189,000 less horses in this country the first of this year than the corresponding date of 1920. I am also enclosing a booklet called "The Horse Situation, Facts Regarding Number and Value of Horses in the United States 1911-1924." . . . Our viewpoint is entirely unprejudiced as we manufacture and sell horse-drawn tillage tools as well as power farming equipment. E. R. DURGIN
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. Racine, Wis.
Woolf Pictures
Sirs:
I notice that you have used paintings of Artist S. J Woolf. It occurred to me that you migh. be able to inform me where I can purchase a copy, suitable for framing, of one of his pictures. The picture is the one that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine of Sunday, July 31, 1927, and shows an immigrant family arriving in New York harbor in front of the Statue of Liberty. The Tribune was unable to assist me in the matter. Possibly through your connection with this artist you can assist me.
J. H. SAILLIARD.
Great Kills, S. I., N. Y.
Let the subscriber address Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf at 457 W. 123rd St., New York (home), or 253 W. 42d St., New York (studio). --En. Dislikes Follies Girls
Sirs:
... If you should ask me, I'd say the Follies type [TIME, Aug. 29] compared to other types of show girls is about the same as a show horse compared to a race horse. All a show horse does is stand around and get looked at. A race horse can do something. I've seen them all and I know. Once they get in the Follies you know they'll never be anything but glorified dumbbells. . . . Give me a girl that works for her living, every time, instead of one that works somebody by just being dead from the tonsils up.
BARTON C. COLEMAN
New York, N. Y.
Shrewd v. Bad
Sirs:
On p. 2 of TIME, Aug. 16 you print a good letter from Mrs. Cecilia Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd" it is "Bad."
ETHEL OWEN
P. S. You might have headed the article on p. 24 "Two of a kind," since both parties to the transaction were doing wrong. . . .
Washington, D. C.
Colorado's Railroad
Sirs:
Uncalled for ridicule calls for a rebuff and I feel, as many a Coloradoan does, that our famed Moffat railroad, built only by reason of the perseverance and great personal sacrifice of David Moffat, not to mention the sixmile, $16,000,000 tunnel, is anything but "a puny little point in Colorado."
Mr. Conwell's letter [TIME, Aug. 15] shows a decided tendency to belittle our country's engineering feats and exalt the feats of some Peruvian or other we care very little about.
His statements are interesting, if authentic, but I resent his attitude of an American ridiculing America. SUBSCRIBER H. EVERETT SACHS
Denver, CoL
Freeman Suggested
Sirs:
.... May I suggest the name of Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, present Episcopal Bishop of Washington, as a possible choice for your cover design sometime in the future? I believe his high office, coupled with his generous service to the building of our great Washington Cathedral, merits your recognition in this manner.
THOMAS HUDSON McKEE II
Washington, D. C.
Cats & Snakes
Sirs: In your issue of Aug. 8 [MISCELLANY] regarding the letter of Ratski & Co.,-- I would like to take this opportunity to warn the general public against investment as in its present unperfected state it looks to me like a "skin" game. I would suggest however that some of Luther Burbank's methods be employed and the cats be crossed with snakes so that they will shed their skins and thereby saving the labor item of $200 per day. . . . HOWARD HARRIS JR.
Woodstown, N. J.
Wants Cheer
Sirs:
... I am going to ask you for heaven's sake to cut out the expression, "as it must to all of us." That's a bird. Let's have good cheer, instead of gloom.
Also, no more stories so old that the whiskers are all grey. I refer to your last cat and rat story [TIME, Aug. 8, MISCELLANY]. My great-grandmother handed me that with my rattle and I am old enough now so that "as it does to all of us," "get's me goat."
N. E. TURGEON
Buffalo, N. Y.
Sussman Queried
Sirs:
It may seem curious to you that I should select out of the department LETTERS [TIME, Aug. 8] a subject of controversy as unimportant as the letter regarding the nationality of a ham-and-bean prizefighter called Paolino Uzcudun, but I confess that my curiosity overcame me to the extent that I must ask why a person named Morris Sussman should excite himself as to whether this "pug" was born north or south of the Pyrenees. . . .
I shall welcome "one" Sussman's reply to my questions if TIME will publish this letter.
(My wife is a TIME subscriber.)
NICHOLAS CUYLER BLEECKER
Minneapolis, Minn.
* An error. Average time for an 18-hole round of golf is 150 minutes. Even should a player take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. -- ED.
* Editor of the North American Veterinarian.--ED. -Ratski & Co. proposed to raise cats for their skins, to nourish the cats raised for their skins by means of an adjoining rat farm, to nourish the rats on the carcasses of the skinned cats. In this business the only expense according to the prospectus would be $200 per day paid to 100 skinners each of whom would daily skin fifty cats, thus netting an estimated daily profit of $9,800.--ED,