Cram & Ferguson
Sirs:
Not that it matters, but please, I didn't wear a "little red cap" at the dedication of Princeton Chapel, nor did I have anything to say in "a squeaky little voice" or otherwise, at the opening of the doors, nor did my face or any other portion of my anatomy "thrust itself between them."
Please, also, the Chapel was not designed by me, but by the firm of Cram and Ferguson, a partnership of four individuals of which I am only one member.
RALPH ADAMS CRAM
Boston, Mass.
To Subscriber-Architect Cram, thanks for correction of fact.
To the firm of Cram & Ferguson, all praise for designing a college chapel which excels all other U. S. college chapels in size and, in the judgment of able critics, in beauty.--ED.
Valorous Dentists
Sirs:
When a "clever child" is featured too much by its parents or their friends, it ceases to be clever or funny, as a rule. It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome:
Just so with TIME.
Imagine this silly stuff (TIME, June 11, p. 17, "King"): "His Majesty though he may look like a dentist, is valorous at heart."
How do you get that way? I know more dentists in U. S. than do all the column writers put together. I can mention scores of big game hunters, mountain climbers and real soldiers from the list of any dental society and prove to you that as a class the dental profession is as valorous as any and more than most.
I am not going to cancel my subscription, but next time you write such nonsense I shall send to every dentist in the country, photos and fingerprints of TIME'S staff and then you will get what is coming to you, eventually.
NILS JUELL
Wyandotte, Mich.
Ansco Sentence
Sirs:
You seem to devote more than a proportionate amount of space to boosting the stock of Eastman Kodak Co., as witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest inkling concerning the merger of Agfa, superpotent Chemical combine, German-owned, with the 86-year old U. S. owned Ansco Photoproducts, Inc. to form Agfa Ansco Corp.; neither did you give, in your article headed "Vanity Kodaks" on p. 45, June 4 issue, proper credit to Ansco for pioneering colored cameras three years ago, when Ansco, too, named this product "Vanity Ansco," available, then as now, in 5 distinct shades for milady's approval.
J. A. TANNENBAUM
Scranton, Pa.
P. S. Huh! One sentence with 118 words isn't so unusual--try counting one sentence in the preceding script. J. A. T.
Not Slim, Not Lucky
Sirs:
You ask [TIME, June11] why was Lindbergh dubbed "Cheese"?
At that time he was neither particularly "Slim" nor conspicuously "Lucky," and by no stretch of the imagination was he either a "Lone Eagle" or "Flying Fool." He might have been called "Lindy" but possibly that was insufficiently picturesque. At any rate, when somebody corrupted his name into "Limburger" it appealed to the schoolboy sense of humor and was soon abbreviated into "Cheese," which stuck as long as he remained at Friends.
JOSEPH C. SMITH
New York, N. Y.
Please Note
Sirs:
Please note the commencement program of the Southwest High School of K. C., Mo. The graduating class of 1928 had as its President, E. Elliott Norquist, National Oratorical Finalist and winner of 2nd place at Washington, D. C. Its vice president was Junior Coen, member of the Davis Cup team, and pronounced by Tilden the greatest player for his age the world has ever seen.
Quite some national honors for a single High School Class.
G. H. CLAY
Kansas City, Mo.
Care?
Sirs:
I cannot see why you are putting in so much stuff about the Jews. We all know that they are a noble race; we are told so in the daily papers constantly. But that is no reason--au contraire, I should think--for turning TIME into a Menorah Journal.
Who cares about Mrs. Moscowitz of the Abie's Irish Rose team, or Judge Sabath & Wife, or the little banker's boy-in New York who runs a jazz orchestra?
W. H. ALLEN
Philadelphia, Pa.
Coffin Teat
Sirs:
May I enquire: how could you have been so careless as .to have classified as Miscellaneous, in your June n edition, the feat of Milwaukee Evangelist Thomas who, by preaching on death from a coffin, so suggestively illustrated his sermon?
This item, quite obviously, should have appeared under Religion.
To your classifier a thoroughgoing rebuke?
R. CARMEN DAVIS
Houston, Texas
Yes.--ED.
Bishops v. Time
Sirs:
On Monday, June 4 I purchased a copy of TIME and was delighted to find under the section devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME.
Yet that very night, when confronted with the printed story, a Methodist Bishop who had suffered the entire conference in person reiterated a denial of its actuality.
Thus the Heavens fall about me; Bishops and TIME oppose each other, not on opinions but on facts. Be a reportorial Laura Jean Libbey and set me right. You see, my family are, have been, and probably will be Methodists though the next "Battle of the Century" be staged in the local pulpit.
G. E. WHITBECK
Buffalo, N. Y.
Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue to have faith in TIME. Jack Johnson was invited by the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance & Morals, to address a conference of that body meeting in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the time of the Methodist General Conference. Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue also to rely upon the reiterations of his Bishop; Jack Johnson did not officially address the General Conference.--ED.
Pickwick Stages
Sirs:
Aren't you a little "behind TIME"?
In TIME, June 4, there is a short article concerning transcontinental motor stage service instituted by the California Transit Co. of Los Angeles.
Please note that the Pickwick Stages System, also of Los Angeles, has been operating transcontinental motor stage service for some months, utilizing strictly its own coaches straight through from California to Philadelphia, by way of Phoenix, El Paso, St. Louis and Indianapolis--with an optional route by way of Salt Lake City and Denver. . . .
You will also be interested in knowing that this company designs and builds all its own equipment--that it operates over some 8,000 miles of highway routes. . . .
Here's another interesting one. Pickwick Started about three years ago to operate Observation-Dining cars along the California Coast High-Way, between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. These stages now have upper decks, raised pilot houses for drivers, lavatory, radio, kitchen, and chef who prepares and serves hot meals while the cars are in motion. . . .
Charles F. Wren, of Los Angeles, is the guiding spirit and president of the Pickwick System, who has consistently pushed motor stage service across from West to East, and who has sponsored the many original features of equipment and service begun by this company.
F. R. McCABE
Beaumont & Hohman,
Los Angeles, Calif.
All praise to Pickwick stages, and a friendly reprimand for not blowing their horns earlier and louder.--ED.
Busy, Opulent
Sirs:
You closed your sketch of the able Walter Percy Chrysler: "To save himself reading labor, he had a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports."
May I ask why does not busy, opulent, auto-mobileman Walter Percy Chrysler save himself additional reading labor and expense by reading TIME?
WM. R. MANDELCORN
Orlando & Orange County Advertising Club, Orlando, Fla.
Walter Percy Chrysler is not a TIME subscriber, but may become so on the advice of Four-year Subscriber Clarence Dillon, with whom he Chrysler-Dodged.--ED.
Greatest
Sirs:
I am very glad to sign a card for the renewal of my subscription to TIME for two years. This is one magazine that I read that never goes in the wastebasket. After I have finished with a copy I pass it on to a friend who is not a subscriber, two or three of which I know have become subscribers after reading my copy.
It is the greatest magazine for information that I have ever read.
J. HERBERT SNYDER
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia Louisville, Ky.
* Roger W. Kahn, son of O. H.