"Marion Star"
Sirs: Yesterday in reading Marion Star of Ohio, I saw an interesting article about the late President Harding & Mr. Crissinger copied from TIME, a magazine of Washington, D. C.* I would like copy & price of Sept. 26, also the price of a year of TIME. I. W. LAYERS
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Boston, Mass.
To Mr. Lavers a copy of TIME, Sept. 26, containing account of how Daniel Richard Crissinger and Warren Gamaliel Harding played together as members of Ohio gangs in boyhood. The Marion Star referred to is one of a string of small Ohio newspapers acquired in the past few years by "two unknown young men"--Roy D. Moore & Louis H. Brush./- Banker Frank A. Vanderlip of Manhattan got himself in trouble by suspecting publicly that the Messrs. Moore & Brush obtained the Marion Star at an exorbitant price from its onetime owner, Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924 et seq.). Among the Messrs. Moore & Brush's other newspapers is the Steubenville Herald-Star-- the Herald part of which was once owned by Woodrow Wilson's father & grandfather.--ED.
Courts
Sirs:
In a Court of Law, "time" is the essence of all commercial transactions.
In a Court of Chancery, "time" is the essence of all contracts relating to real estate, if such contracts so provide.
In the Court of the Reading Public, TIME is the essence of all the world news.
I, therefore, herewith enclose my subscription for "TIME."
WILLIAM L. STUCKERT
Baltimore, Md.
Students
Sirs: . . . Our students get a great kick out of reading TIME. It possesses more real news of interest to the students, and says things with more kick than any other news magazine we have found for our Library. But for God's sake leave out the "Fashion sheet" page.** My wife and I depend almost wholly on TIME for the general news of each week. You have a few critics of minor importance, but you have a host of admirers among whom are the best students in our school. V. M. ROGERS
High School Principal
Gunnison, Col.
Dressed in White
Sirs:
In TIME, Sept. 12, under the caption of "A Lost Princess,"/= the statement is made that Prince Ludwig Karl zu Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg fell fighting against the United States in Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American War.
As a matter of interest, allow me to quote the following taken from "The Military Surgeon" of August 1927 under the title "Reminiscences of the American-Filipino War, 1899" by Surgeon Rear Admiral C. M. Beadnell, R. N., C. B., K. H. P., at that time a Junior Medical Officer in the British Navy, and courteously "lent" to the American Forces, who were short medical officers.
"... On our extreme left, that is, westerly, our (American) troops were advancing and heavy firing was going on. An unfortunate incident occurred in this move. Prince Lowenstein and a German comrade had been out with the western section of Wheaton's line for the latter part of the day and had been taking a rest in one of the deserted Nipa huts. They were both dressed in white, contrary to the orders and warnings of the authorities. They were very naturally mistaken for the insurgents and were fired upon with the result that the Prince was killed and his comrade severely wounded."
Below follows a footnote as follows: "Such are my notes made in March 1899. By a curious coincidence, I met a near relation of Prince Lowenstein in 1925, and she expressed the greatest surprise when I gave her my account of the Prince's death, having always understood he had been shot by the insurgents. She may have been quite correct in her view; my information was based on a purely verbal report."
Am sending this to you as a matter of interest, and, entirely on its own merit, as a correction to the statement above noted. Louis L. BURSTIEN, M. D.
Glendale, Calif.
Fear
Sirs:
"The terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears," so said TIME, [Oct. 10, p. 22, col. 3], giving its readers the impression that the Miscellany Editor must surely have studied his psychology in the Dark Ages and have been unduly influenced by his surroundings.
Since that era I believe it has been quite definitely proved that there are only two stimuli which will arouse a child's first fears: a loud sharp sound and loss of support. From either of these two initial fears, that of noise and that of falling, a whole complex set may develop through conditioning. A dog enters a dark room and barks loudly in a baby's ear. Later the child may become afraid of dogs and of the dark, the original fear having transferred itself to those things with which it was associated. . . .
GERTRUDE PARDEE KELLER
Hazleton, Pa.
Not Hopkins
Sirs:
I notice that on p. 31 of TIME, Oct. 10, you state that Babe Ruth gained his record-breaking 60th home-run of the 1927 season when he hit a ball pitched by left-handed Thomas Zachary. Press reports indicate that the Washington pitcher was Paul H. Hopkins, a young twirler who graduated from Colgate last spring. He pitched for Colgate for four years and served as captain during his senior year. Was this youngster in big league baseball the player who had the honor and misfortune to be facing Ruth when he scored his 60th homer or was it Zachary? The New York Times reports that it was Hopkins.
HOLLAND L. SMITH
The Colgate Maroon Hamilton, N. Y.
Press reports naming Hopkins were inaccurate. The unfortunate
Published weekly by TIME, Inc., at The Penton Building, Lakeside Ave. and West Third St., Cleveland, Ohio. Subscriptions $5 a year. Entered as second-class matter Aug. 25, 1925 at the postoffice, Cleveland, Ohio under the act of March 3, 1879. pitcher was Thomas Zachary.-ED.
Publican
Sirs:
. . TIME'S knowledge of the Scriptures is lamentable. Recently the Atlantic Monthly spoke ignorantly of the "parable" of the Widow's Mite. TIME showed just as profound ignorance [Sept. 26] when she corrected Mr. A. F. Higgins' misquotation of Scripture in a footnote, but failed to correct Mr. Higgins' second Scripture reference. "PornoGraphic" can humbly pray with the Samaritan: "Oh, Lord, be merciful to me a Samaritan," and his words were "God, be merciful to me a Sinner." Nor is this the first occasion that TIME has shown ignorance of Scripture. However, I will not burden you here with other incidents. . . .
PAUL PRICHARD
The First Presbyterian Church Redlands, Calif.
Potent McNamee
Sirs:
I was . . . gratified with TIME, Oct. 3. My pleasure was derived from the sight of Graham McNamee on the coyer. How great he looms in these days 'tis hard to estimate. He is assumedly an artist with great abilities, and astonishing power (nine men died from the excitements aroused by Mr. McNamee's voice).
K. G. KENNEDY
Buffalo, N. Y.
Toothache Cure
Sirs:
I have been intrigued with Mr. V. C.
Heilner's account of a toothache and its cure in a case of emergency [TIME, Aug. 29].-- It is not my purpose to belittle TIME'S efficacy as a sedative or anaesthetic in such a case. But I believe that some advice on the subject would not be out of place.
A toothache, as a general rule, is due to one or the other of two things: an inflamed vital nerve, or a dead pressure. In the first case the symptoms would be a "jumping" ache aggravated by drawing in cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction.
Occasionally the tooth is just at the wrong stage for effective treatment--half dead and half alive. In that case I am willing to subscribe to Mr. Heilner's suggestion of holding liquor in the mouth-- with amplifications. My suggestion is that the sufferer hold and swallow at least six drinks of liquor; and then look for a convenient place to lie down, when the toothache would be of minor consequence.... DR. MORRIS T. MANN
Brockport, N. Y.
--Subscriber Heilner described his toothache cure as follows: "How could a man after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant. Toothache had vanished."--ED.
Dr. Baker
Sirs:
Kindly refer to TIME, Aug. 1, 1927, p. 30, item "Died. Charles Fuller Baker . . ." and permit a correction. The College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines, of which Dr. Baker was Dean, has an enrollment of 842 (latest figures), and not 5,000 as you stated. The enrollment of the entire University of the Philippines is at present 5,689.
As to the rather romantic idea of Dr. Baker's living in a village shack and sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, it may be remarked that the houses of the faculty of the College of Agriculture are comfortable, though simple; and that labor for the repair of broken bamboo beds is plentiful and cheap. In fact, excellent beds of American or local make may be had at reasonable cost in Los Banos, which is only a couple of hours from Manila by railroad or automobile.
It is understood, of course, that these remarks are not intended to discredit the work of Dean Baker, whose achievements are appreciated by Filipinos and Americans alike, and whose labors for the Philippines need neither romantic trappings nor numerical overstatement.
G. P. SHANNON
(Professor, and Head of the English Department, University of the Philippines) Manila, P. I.
TIME said: Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College (unique in the Orient, enrollment 5,000) at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson") ; at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens. --ED.
Critique
Sirs: Having subscribed to TIME for more than a year, and having read every issue, I venture four criticisms and a question. Criticisms: . . . Let TIME be careful to make no rash statements. Examples: 1) Bowling-in-the-alley is played now by barflies, by roustabouts. 2) "If 100 subscribers write to TIME requesting a section on Fashion they shall have it." Let other publications cater to those who ask cutting remarks, fashion plates, checker corners; let TIME continue to delight those who ask significant news, intelligently digested, well condensed, brilliantly written. Let TIME'S LETTERS editor pat himself on the back for adroitness in the use of the retort courteous and the quip modest-- and for knowing when to say nothing. Let TIME thank its lucky stars for Artist Woolf. He's great! Let TIME'S book reviews be written more slowly, more thoughtfully. Of course, it 'takes fast work to bring put a weekly on time. But if TIME'S reviewers will read what was said of "The Women at Point Sur", and then imagine that review if it had been written more carefully--even at the expense of printing it a week later-- they will see what I mean. Question: Because TIME is well-proportioned, accurate, thorough, I find it indispensable for reference. Often, in a hurry, I need an index. Is it not possible to obtain an index without buying a backnumber binder, a luxury which I, a college student, can ill afford? Yours till Epstein learns English.
BRUCE SMITH
Pasadena, Calif.
Any subscriber may have an index free for the asking. Address the Circulation Department, Penton Building, Cleveland.--ED.
*A mistake. TIME is edited in Manhattan, printed in Cleveland.--ED.
/-Father-in-law of Novelist Katherine Brush, author of Glitter and Little Sins.--' ED.
**TIME will print Fashion news as often as there is anything to report.--ED.
/=TlME told of the attempted transatlantic flight of Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, who, with Capt. Leslie Hamilton, was lost at sea.--ED. TIME, October 24, 1927