Business School Type
Sirs:
I have heard of the Harvard type but never of the Harvard Business School type to which you refer in the middle column of p. 9 of your issue of March 26.
For the sake of myself and other unenlightened ones will you kindly describe the H. B. S. type?
FRANZ PAULEN
Wesson, Miss.
TIME mentioned the "type" in discussing the Hoover candidacy. TIME conceives the Harvard Business School "type," in its political aspect, to be a student of economics who puts business efficiency ahead of political parties and who thinks that "the greatest good to the greatest number" would result from having the U. S. Government administered scientifically.--ED.
Mestrovitch Without Price
Sirs:
Will you be good enough to correct an item which appeared in your issue of April 2 [p. 13]? I refer to the note about Ivan Mestrovitch, the eminent Jugoslav sculptor, of whom you say that "he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes."
At the time, four years ago, when the Woodrow Wilson Foundation inaugurated its custom of making occasional awards, M. Mestrovitch was asked to design the accompanying commemorative medal. He thereupon designed the Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal which has been given in turn to Viscount Cecil, Mr. Elihu Root and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. M. Mestrovitch contributed his services entirely without charge, as his personal tribute to the memory of the American President who aided the Jugoslavs to achieve national freedom and unity.
HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG New York, N. Y.
"Likes Rolly-Coasters"
Sirs: I like TIME...but it...takes my breath away...Bold...Fearless...I read it each week.... usually on my way to a on my way to a class...Spicy...Much News & Intelligence in Small Space...Rush to Press so often mentioned very evident...too bad...no time to put captions under pictures... that have something to do with same...must read whole article sometimes...to get what devilish caption means...this is waste of time...I am rushed too...Comment on Foreign & Nat. Affairs... very good...reviews of plays, movies, books, etc. meaningless, hasty, unsympathetic...but...as I said...I like TIME...even if I am giddy after reading it...but then...I like... Rolly-coasters too...they have same effect. Now, caption this "Likes Roily-Coasters" and don't say I wasn't thoughtful in giving you that head.
J. RICHARD PURSER
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.
S. of St. L. IV
Sirs:
Perhaps, by the time this suggestion reaches the correct point of contact, the baptism will already have been perpetrated. I refer to a name for Lindbergh's new plane [TIME, April 2].
How can it be named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"--and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d--4th--" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of the glory which has immortalized the man and his achievement.
For the most obvious and self-evident reasons, any further planes entering the "WE" partnership have just about as good a cause to go under a different name as would Col. Lindbergh himself.
HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Buffalo, N. Y.
Sirs:
Anent your statement in the April 2 issue [p. 28] that Colonel Lindbergh's new plane still needs a name, why not call it "The Spirit of America"? It seems so appropriate.
CLARA E. RANDALL
Chicago, Ill.
Cheers Sir Robert
Sirs:
I have never had a journal or a magazine interest and delight me more than TIME....
Under the heading FOREIGN NEWS, in TIME March 5, [appeared] "'Lindy' v. 'Bert'" which reads in part as follows: "Last week at Canberra, the new Capital of Australia, a renowned British financier compared the feats of 'Lindy' with those of 'Bert.' The financier is Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Home, a director of the Suez Canal Co., of Lloyd's Bank.... Last week he boldly said that Airman Hinkler's flight constitutes 'the greatest single achievement in the history of aviation.' He added that Airman Kinkier has 'outclassed' Airman Lindbergh."
I admire Mr. Lindbergh but I also wish to shout "three cheers" for Sir Robert. He (Sir Robert) also completed a single-handed achievement when he openly expressed his view.
Let us have more of Airman Hinkler!
E. KEATING LATTA
Hollywood, Calif.
Santa Clara Valley Santa Clara River Valley
Sirs:
The internationally known Santa Clara Valley, famous for unsurpassed prunes, apricots and abundant vineyard crops, lies entirely undamaged, 450 miles north of the Santa Clara River Valley mentioned (TIME, March 26, p. 13) under the heading of "Catastrophe in California."
Let TIME correct the false impression created by unintentional ambiguity.
M. K. SPIEGL
San Francisco, Calif.
Reason for Negroes
Sirs:
I notice whenever you have occasion to publish an article about the strikebreakers in the coal strike around Pittsburgh, mention is not failed to be made of the fact that the strikebreakers are in great numbers Negroes. This mild form of propaganda would seem to be in slight prejudice against the Negro.
If it is a fact that a large number of these strikebreakers are Negroes, isn't it barely possible that there are some pointed reasons for it. It would seem that the labor organizations, and the American Federation of Labor in particular is to blame. Their attitude toward admitting Negroes into their organizations has been all along unreasonable, unchristianlike, uncharitable, inhuman, silly, senseless, and impracticable, an attitude which by no means could be construed as one based on brotherly love.
Aside from attractive wages which the operators might offer as inducements, the discrimination mentioned above would naturally engender a certain amount of bitterness, a bitterness which would consequently find a willing expression in some fashion.
A change of attitude by the American Federation of Labor would tend to eliminate one weapon against them.
The Negro is not by any means an ingrate, neither is he to be expected to kiss the hand that is constantly smiting him. If qualified Negroes were welcomed into all labor organizations like other human beings, the operators would no doubt not find it easy to get them as strikebreakers.
LOVETT B. GROVES
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Works Boston, Mass.
The A. F. of L. denies that it "discriminates" against race, creed or color but admits that its local unions, disregarding A. F. of L. policy, often "make it difficult" for Negroes to join. In the A. F. of L. is many a local union for Negroes only. At its convention in Los Angeles last autumn, the A. F. of L. voted, as often before, not to guarantee Negroes an equal standing with whites in all locals.--ED.
Lap
Sirs:
I have read TIME for a year and a half. Most of the reading has been done in crowded subway trains. Many times has it been a peculiar pleasure to entertain underground strangers who read over my shoulder; I resent their parasitic habits not at all. At my place of business there is a cartoon pinned to the wall. It depicts myself at work with TIME typically evident nearby on a window sill. I do not resent it. My friends harangue me: "TIME is a Babbitt magazine written to please Babbitts," "It is colorless, weak, without opinion," "As long as you have time for only a little reading you should read the best." ... I am going to investigate the "best." Perhaps I will some day return to my first love but now I'm off to sport amongst the less conservative, the bold, the iconoclastic magazines. You've given me everything you could and I want you to know that I've been true to you. If I do go astray, if I find that I'm in bad company, I'll always have the solace of knowing that I can go back to you at any time and take you in my lap once more.
WALTER H. McKAY
New York, N. Y. $10 per Gallon
Sirs:
TIME, March 26, mentions Sir Wilfred Grenfell, under heading PEOPLE, as saying "Whiskey is $10 a quart in Chicago," doubtlessly meaning $10 a quart. Nevertheless I noted at the time and distinctly remember he said "$10 a gallon." The first price ($10 a quart) seems rather high, $10 for a gallon cheap; makes me wonder where Sir Wilfred got his prices. . . .
SUBSCRIBER WM. O'KANE Quebec, Canada
Asleep on Train
Sirs:
As a charter subscriber to TIME I feel that I am entitled to file this protest against the, what appears to me to be, most crude review of Arthur Train's latest book entitled Ambition.
I am no relative of Train's and have no interest one way or the other, but as I have just finished this book I was really "shocked" to read what your reviewer has to say about it on p. 40 in your issue of March 26. Evidently your reviewer just skimmed through the book, or must have been asleep at the time he read it, as aside from the inaccuracies of statement it makes no mention whatever of any of the wonderfully fine delineations of character Train portrays in this novel.
GOODWIN B. SMITH Ballston Spa, N. Y.
To Charter Subscriber Smith, all thanks for his sharp watch. TIME reviewers never skim; do, sometimes without good reason, sleep.--ED.