Writer Threatened

Sirs:

My letter relative to Senator Heflin (TIME, May 7) caused quite a commotion. My mail has been flooded with vicious, threatening and insulting letters. I also received a suspicious package that I think was a "pineapple." I buried that "gentleman" at sea without a ritual.

It is a serious thing if TIME and other liberal papers and magazines are not allowed to open their columns to a discussion of any subject without the air being full of "brickbats." If a fellow is hit, let him express his views or come back in TIME.

J. H. O'NEILL, M.D.

Morgan City, La.

TIME will do all in its power to bring to justice and jail anyone guilty of pineappling, or threatening to pineapple, the author of any letter published on TIME'S letter page.--ED.

Nigger Lovers

Sirs:

Don't you think it rather poor taste to air the philanderings of a yellow Nigger Wench and two white Nigger lovers to the world?

Could not this space have been used for a better purpose instead? We really enjoy reading your magazine each week and would certainly deplore seeing it descend to the depths achieved by Bernarr Macfadden in his pornographic publications.

Yours for omissions of such drivel,

FRED C. CLURIEL

Wheeling, W. Va.

The affairs of famed U. S. Negress Josephine Baker were recently made the subject of debate by the parliaments of Austria & Hungary. TIME has never "aired" any assertion that Negress Baker "philanders," has never hesitated to chronicle her ebullient antics when they became of general or parliamentary interest.--ED.

Son Ritz

Sirs:

TIME in a recent issue paid a very nice compliment to Cesar Ritz, founder of the Ritz hotel system--not so nice to the son Chas. C.

TIME was in error in stating the latter to be one of two surviving children. Charly, a personal friend of the writer's, is the sole Ritz offspring extant. Failed also TIME to state that he is a successful and highly prosperous importer of French novelties in New York City, married here; that he returns to France solely because he feels it his duty to his mother, alone in Paris without husband, children.

Son Ritz cares nothing for what so-called smart folk term "ritzy;" prefers hunting, fishing, camping. However, should occasion demand it, can be very magnificent. No one has a better right to the name of Ritz; no one more qualified to uphold its traditions. Son Ritz as a rule has no mustache.

VAN CAMPEN HEILNER

Spring Lake Beach, N. J.

P. S. Your journal continues to lead the field; improves issually.

Roosevelt's Courage

Sirs:

One further remark on the matter of President Roosevelt's flying.

I have a picture of President Roosevelt seated in a plane which was of the "pusher" type: Beneath the picture is the following notation: "COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN A WRIGHT AEROPLANE AT ST. LOUIS Archibald Hoxsey, who carried the Colonel twice around the Park, a distance of 4 1/2 miles, is seen talking to Mr. Roosevelt, who was most enthusiastic over his experience, declaring he never felt a bit of fear. This picture shows the Colonel as he took his seat. Before starting he took off his hat and put on a cap."

Unfortunately the picture is not dated but the information may be of interest to those who are debating the "Rough Rider's'' courage anent leaving terra firma.

S. G. WINTER

University of Iowa

College of Commerce

Iowa City, Iowa

"Cheese" Lindbergh

Sirs:

TIME, May 28, p. 18, characterizes the Friends' School of Washington, D. C., as "a stiff Quaker seat of feminine learning." As a matter of fact, it is a coeducational school. Among the males who have been students at this "seat of feminine learning," not the least famous is one Charles Augustus Lindbergh. (At that time, he was invariably known as "Cheese Lindbergh.")

JOSEPH COBURN SMITH

Friends '19

New York City

Subscriber Smith is requested to explain why Charles Augustus Lindbergh was called "Cheese."--ED.

Raisin Day Records

Sirs:

I am curious to know why a sporting event of the importance of the West Coast Relays, held in Fresno, Calif., on Raisin Day, April 28, failed to receive any notice in your Sports Column. In this meet, Lee Barnes of U. S. C. vaulted 14 ft. 1 1/2 in., and Kuck of L. A. A. C put the 16 pound shot 51 ft. 1/2 in., thus breaking two world's records.

The Penn and Drake Relays were held the same day, and received notice by you, but as a matter of fact the West Coast entrants bettered Penn and Drake records in 20 of 21 events common to the three meets, yet you fail to mention the California meet at all.

In TIME, May 21, your Sports Editor gave Los Angeles credit for the meet in which Frank Lombardi, after being set back a yard, tied the world's record of 9 3/5 sec. in the 100 yard dash, while as a matter of information the meet was held in Selma, Calif., and in a spirit of fairness, I feel that to Selma should go the credit.

MILLER ALLEN

Malaga, Calif.

To TIME'S Sport Department, a thoroughgoing rebuke.--ED.

Agency Relinquished

Sirs:

As a TIME representative I have for five years stressed your fairness, omniscience. Your article on dirty Buchmanites (May 28) is utterly unfair, strangely ignorant; your quotation from a "Princeton song" a gratuitous insult. Members of the First Century Christian Fellowship (the movement to which you no doubt refer) are not correctly called Buchmanites; there is no mystery about the Morning Watch--it consists of prayer, Bible reading, religious meditation; there is specifically Biblical authority for the stress laid on "confession" (James 5:16). Wholehearted surrender to the Will of God is a fundamental principle of this group. One of the two finest Christian gentlemen I have ever known is a worker in this live and hopeful movement which is increasingly winning people to a new personal companionship with Jesus Christ.

I have had the pleasure of "selling" TIME to more than one personage, among them Dr. C. C. Wu, famed representative of Chinese Nationalism. With real regret I relinquish the agency, and give up reading my favorite magazine.

ALFRED H. HOLT

Wraukesha, Wis.

Let Agent Holt reread TIME'S report of Buchmanism. TIME reported: "Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity, which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession--upon these it lays emphasis. . . ."

--ED.

Sold

Sirs:

Next to the Bible, TIME comes first as a news-writing stylebook from standpoint of telling most in least space.

That's the concensus of Subscribers Walter Chase (news editor), Richard Washington (federal reporter) and myself of the St. Paul Daily News staff.

With the above argument we sold Editor Howard Kahn the idea of subscribing for benefit of non-subscribing members of the editorial department.

Bill Mr. Kahn and be sure to address the peppiest magazine in America to the EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, St. Paul Daily News; let the business office, too, subscribe if it would read.

GEORGE H. BRADLEY

City Editor

St. Paul Daily News

St. Paul, Minn.

Scales

Sirs:

Your "figures, figures" anent the worth of John D. Rockefeller's weight in gold fall flat before one who knows gold. Perhaps you retain some of the old prejudice against Standard Oil, and so rate him down to 16 1/4 carats or $14.00 per oz., which would bring his pounds to just about your figure of $204.09 each, but one is inclined to consider his vast benefactions and his late judgment of Col. Stewart, and give him the full 24 carat rating of 1000 fine.

The value of gold is $20.6718 per troy ounce, and there are 14.583 troy ounces in an avoirdupois pound, so the pound is worth $301.45 and Mr. R's 135 pounds would be worth $40,696.56 "on a pair of accurate scales."

Generally--for about three years now--I have found your scales very accurate indeed.

FRED G. TYRREL

Selby, Calif.