Sips
Sirs:
In the Jan. 14 issue of TIME, there is an article on Secretary of State Kellogg, in which the statement is made that "he sips sparingly."
Is this not an ironic comment on Prohibition? If the Secretary of State is allowed to sip, however sparingly, may we not expect a reasonable immunity from the law if we also sip? Should not Congress issue a list of those who may sip and those who will be arrested if they are caught sipping? Then you would not be troubled with letters from curious people like myself.
I enjoy TIME very much.
JAMES RAMP Y. M. C. A. San Francisco, Calif.
Among the places in the U. S. where one can sip sparingly and legally are the various embassies in Washington, D. C. Also, possessors of sips bought before Prohibition, or prescribed by a doctor since, may sip legally.--ED.
West & Son I am sending you under separate cover, a copy of the testimony taken at the hearing before the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys on Dec. 12, 18 and 19, 1928. This hearing was in connection with the nomination of my father, Roy O. West, as Secretary of the Interior.
I think that the article appearing in the Dec. 17 issue [of TIME] was somewhat unfair and inaccurate in its statements regarding my father's connection in a legal way with Mr. Insull and his company and also with regard to stock holdings.
As you will note my father sold his stock in Insull companies before his appointment was announced and before he took the oath of office last July. Whoever wrote that article apparently had not investigated the facts. If he had looked into the matter and then persisted in printing the article it would seem that in all fairness, an explanation or apology, or both, would be in order, especially in view of my father's subsequent confirmation which took place today by a two to one vote of 54 to 27.
OWEN A. WEST
Chicago, Ill.
Let Son West re-scan the article and observe that TIME spoke of Secretary of Interior Roy O. West's "past affiliations and investments" when stating the consensus of opinion that "it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would not be confirmed." This consensus having been reversed by the Senate (TIME, Jan. 28), congratulations to Secretary West and his son. -- ED.
A Personal Insult Sirs:
In talking about possible Cabinet appointments (TIME, Jan. 28), you say: ''Not to be anything: any woman. Reason: Mr. Hoover wants in his Cabinet persons of wide political experience, which no woman has."
I take this as a personal insult. I have worked for the Republican Party for five years, and, if I may say so, have had some success in getting-out-the-vote. My husband, a Democrat, has failed utterly in trying to do the same for his party.
I do not want a job in the Hoover Cabinet. Furthermore, I do not believe that Mr. Hoover feels that women (as such) are politically incapable. Look at his wife; she has wide experience and more charm than he has. Look at Mrs. Coolidge; she is the highlight of the Coolidge administration.
Shame on you, TIME, every woman cries.
MRS. EMMA WOOD THOMAS
Chicago, Ill.
SIRS: WOMEN ARE GLAD TO BE WITHOUT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE WHEN THEY GAZE UPON MALE SPECIMENS STOP I SAW THE SENATE IN SESSION YESTERDAY STOP I KNOW.
MRS. W. G. BELL
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Women of Texas
Sirs:
The paragraph quoted in TIME, Jan. 14 issue, from a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from me John C. Box of Texas, of whom I've never heard, is fairly representative of the expressions of those who continue to use their efforts and influence to ''break up" the Democratic part).
I have preserved the evidence, both written and printed, of the unbelievably nasty methods used to abuse and attack the Democratic nominee for president of the Anti-Smith forces and by those who were religiously intolerant. There arc those in the South who regard religious liberty as the peculiar privilege of their own kind. There are also women in Texas who offered prizes to those who would "scour" the country and secure the most votes for Hoover. (Was it the women who were to purify politics?). . . . Jo MILLER GRAVES
(Mrs. W. F.) Honey Grove, Tex.
The Box of whom Mrs. Graves had never heard is her party's whip in the House of Representatives.--ED. Hard-Boiled
Sirs:
What do you mean by calling a hard-boiled publisher a sociologist in the last issue of TIME? Where do you get that stuff?
GEORGE J. HECHT
Publisher.
"Children, the Parents' Magazine" New York City
Hard-boiled Publisher Hecht is secretary of New York City's Welfare Council.-- ED.
Sows, Hens, etc. Sirs:
I quote from your issue of Jan. 7, page 16: ''Two sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings.
BETHEL MELLOR
Lemoore, Calif.
TIME'S description of the new Irish Free State currency must stand corrected, in the light of subsequent dispatches, on two points: 1) Subscriber Mellor is correct about the salmon; 2) The "cow"' is a bull.--ED.
Tubmen Sirs: Shrugged cynically, Diogenes, tub-dwelling, lantern-toting tycoon. The cause: TIME'S in sinuation that a strictly residential tub ever figured in a decidedly out of character bathing episode. Glared Archimedes. "Eureka, but they have forgotten," sighed the scientific Syracusan with a gravity more than specific. H. E. PICKETT Oilman Country School, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.
TIME (Jan. 21), in telling about Circusman John Ringling's purchase of the tub in which Jean Paul Marat was assas sinated by Charlotte Corday, mentioned Tubmen Diogenes and Earl Carroll, omitted Archimedes.
While tubbing, one day, Archimedes discovered the law of specific gravity, was so excited that he ran through the streets without his clothing and shouted: "Eureka [I have found it]." Archimedes was also famed for his remark: "Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth." Archimedes was only a spasmodic tub-dweller as compared with Diogenes, who lived in a tub to fortify himself against the weather. One day, Alexander the Great came upon Tubman Diogenes and said: "What can I do for you, my good man?" Diogenes replied: "You can get out of my light." Then Alexander said: "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."--ED.
Blameless N. G. Sirs:
In your account of the action of certain citizens of this state [Mississippi] in dealing with one Charlie Shepherd, you state that this Negro was turned over to the National Guardsmen by his captor, and leave the inference that this Detachment either turned the Negro over to the mob or allowed him to be taken away from them by the mob. You have done the National Guard of this State a great injustice by this erroneous statement, and I feel sure you will be willing to make the necessary corrections.
The Negro's captor did not turn him over to the National Guardsmen, and no member of the National Guard ever came in contact with Shepherd.
W. S. SHIPMAN
Capt. 155th Inf. Miss. N. G. Jackson, Miss.
"Royal Bull"
Sirs: In the Jan. 14 issue of TIME, the General Council National Association of Real Estate Boards of Chicago essays to define the "real meaning" of the term Realtor. . . . But the origin and significance, the etymology of the word is not given. This contribution to philology was furnished recently by a San Francisco newspaperman visiting in Los Angeles and "writing up the town" for his paper. He was astonished, he reported, to see so many "Realtor" signs and began to speculate on the etymology of the word. Like most Californians he had some knowledge of Spanish, and observing the word to be made up of two well known root words in that language, --"real" and "tor," he concluded he had discovered its true etymological significance. In Spanish "real" means royal and "tor" is bull, so Realtor, he thought, meant "throwing the royal bull," which seems to me to be quite reasonable. FRANKLIN M'Coy
Hondo, Calif.
Why throwing?--ED.
Fierce-Arrow Sirs:
The new Fierce-Arrow is a Straight Eight [TIME, Jan. 7] and not a Six. Its wheel-bases are 133 inches and 143 inches. And $2,875 to $8,200 is the price range.
I have no doubt that, in the interests of accuracy, as well as TIME'S own, you will want to print this correction.
H. S. BISHOP
Advertising Counsel New York, N. Y.
Hudson Prices
Sirs:
Please make the following corrections on Page 43 of your Jan. 7 issue of TIME, in regard to prices on Hudson Motor Cars.
Under "Wheelbase of 116" to 120"," you list the Hudson at $1325.00.
Under "Wheelbase of 126" to 130"," you list Hudson at $1450.00. Both of these listings should be left out.
Under "Wheelbase of 131" and over" you should list Hudson sport sedan at $1850.00, f.o.b. Detroit, which is a 139" wheelbase.
Under "Wheelbase of 121" to 125"," you list Hudson at $1175.00. This ... is correct.
R. T. NIXON
Hudson Motor Car Co. Detroit, Mich.