U. of C.'s Longworth
Sirs:
Your issue of April 20 gives a thumbnail sketch of the life of Nick Longworth and credits him with having attended Harvard and "conducting the college orchestra,'' but fails to mention the fact that he graduated from the College of Law, University of Cincinnati.
Although U. of C. is not a member of the "aristocracy of brains" it seems that the school that turned out men like "Uncle" Joe Cannon, William Howard Taft, Charles Gates Dawes, and Nicholas Longworth deserves to be mentioned when one of her favored sons passes on.
S. 0. MCLAUGHLIN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Tokyo's Stone
Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen--which resulted in a series of untoward occurrences. . . . There have been several cases of derailment, suicide, mysterious deaths . . . unaccountable accidents. The place was haunted by evil, prowling spirits of the nether world, so the religious Japanese claim. The stone from the tomb was the source of the 'bad luck,' an evil omen for more misfortunes to come. ... So the priests performed fantastic rites . . . the troublesome stone was removed amidst sighs of relief from the multitude." CHESTER P. HOLWAY
Champaign, 111.
Brisbane & Ford
Sirs:
Providing that Henry Ford was called upon to pay for the Brisbane column devoted to Henry Ford in all the papers using Brisbane's column on Monday, April 20, what would be the cost to Ford providing this was at advertising rates?
Also what would become of the world, particularly that part known as the United States of America in the event of the deaths of Brisbane and Ford?
ROBERT RUSSELL
Detroit, Mich.
Front-page advertising space is for sale in few U. S. daily newspapers. But the figure quoted by the New York American for front-page ads "if they could be bought" is $20 a line. For a front-page advertising column in the 200-odd newspapers which subscribe to the Brisbane colyum, the hypothetical total cost might be about $100,000.--ED. Buck Duke
Sirs: Your mention of Buck Duke (Duke's Mixture, Duke Power Co., Duke University) in TIME, April 27, brings to mind an incident frequently quoted in this section. A new Methodist minister in Durham met his Church's famous benefactor for the first time. Asked he. "Are you the Buck Duke who belongs to --he First Methodist Church?" Answered Buck, "No, I'm the Buck Duke the First Methodist Church belongs to." BERTRAM H. BROWN
Tarboro, N. C.
Sirs:
Since your periodical has given so much praise to James Buchanan Duke's gift of $40,000,000 to Trinity College of Durham in return for taking his name and two pages of eulogy to him in TIME of April 27, you owe it to your readers to give them the following additional information concerning Buck Duke:
On p. 350 of The Goose Step by Upton Sinclair we read: "Today he (Buck) boasts that he is worth 400 millions. . . . Assuming that his services in providing the world with tobacco were worth $100 a week it would have taken 154,000 years to earn his own share of this money. A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on his money-making methods contains the assertion that he 'persistently, continuously and consciously violated the law.' " I quote again: "This man who is worth $400,000,000 pays only $828 taxes in the State where he lives in a magnificent palace."
S. J. PRICE, PH. D.
Westbrook, Conn.
Sirs:
In regard to your long article on Duke Uni-versity in the April 27 issue of TIME, I would like to correct several errors. Instead of paying i$<:' for moving picture shows on the campus, we pay 251' and I would also like to point out that Mr. W. N. Reynolds is not President of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. but is chairman of the board. Otherwise the article was very satisfactory and I commend you most highly for it.
A. S. WHITE
Durham, N. C.
Hudging Towns
Sirs:
TIME boasts of its accuracy, but not entitled to boast is the Census Department on its figures for cities and towns of over too population. I selected 36 cities and towns from each State at random and noted how many times the figure zero appeared in the second column from the right. I found that in 30.2% of the cases the figure was zero. Examples: 101, 1003, 504, 10,007. Obviously Cornerville was trying to get ahead of Centerville: Waterville was trying to get into the 200 "class." The figure five also appears an abnormally large number of times.
FRED W. PARROTT
Newport, Tenn.
Exemplary Negroes
Sirs:
I am wondering why, in quoting the "sacred thirst" pledge of the Methodist Temperance
Board (TIME, March 30), you left out the first part of the pledge, as follows:
"Believing that the drinking of intoxicating liquor does our people great harm and no good, and that I should loyally stand by the Constitution of my country, and set a safe example before others. . . ."
And I am wondering also why you left out the fact that all of those hundreds of thousands of signatures in the South, prior to the announcement of the sending out of young men from the colleges, are the signatures of Negroes secured through the activity of the Methodist Temperance Board's Department of Colored Work.
WILLIAM H. ANDERSON General Secretary American Protestant Alliance New York City
Sapp & Wood
Sirs: The Florida Journal of the House of Representatives, of Thursday, April 9, 1931, among other things, announces as follows: "STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE SESSION OF 1931 -- -- -- Committee on Forestry--J. M. Sapp, Chairman; G. P. Wood, Vice-Chairman: -- --." A. R. CLONTS Stuart, Fla.
Pepper Game
Sirs:
... In describing a "pepper game" you state that they line up in a circle and pass the ball around (TIME, April 13). I have seen what were called "pepper games" in every class of baseball and the way these games were played was by one man getting a bat while one or more men with gloves stood some 20 feet away and threw the ball to the man with a bat, he tapped the ball to them. I once saw Walter Kimmick of the Bridgeport club of the Eastern League hit a ball in a "pepper game" 156 times before missing the ball. . . .
WILLIAM REEVES
University of Alabama University, Ala.
Six or Seven Dogs
Sirs:
Re the item headed "Wow" in your April 20 issue. Probably the foremost dog-barker today is Tom Corwin, who takes the part of the most famous movie dog in the "Rin-tin-tin Thrillers," presented each Thursday evening over the NBC Blue Network by Chappel Bros., Rockford, 111., dog food manufacturers.
Rin-tin-tin was a visitor in Chicago two or three weeks ago and made a personal appearance on the Thursday night broadcast. At no time was it possible to tell whether it was Rin or Corwin one was listening to.
Mr. Corwin was in our Chicago office a short time back and gave a sample of an imitation dogfight he had perfected for use in a future "Thriller." I swear to you that half the tenants of the world's largest Merchandise Mart came running, fully intending to witness the fight. Fully six or seven dogs of various breeds, ages and sizes were closely distinguishable in his imitation. . . .
HARRY MILLER
Chappel Bros. Inc. Rockford, 111.
Two Pictures
Sirs:
YOUR ADMINISTRATOR HINES PICTURED PAGE SIXTEEN APRIL 27 ISSUE IS MAJOR GENERAL JOHN L. HINES U. S. A. COMMANDING GENERAL PHILIPPINE DEPARTMENT
W. C. FARNUM First Lieut., A. C. U. S. A. Rantoul, 111.
Sirs:
With what pleasure did I realize my town would make TIME this week. Medford's Smiling Jimmy Henigan won the Boston Marathon on April 19 and the race is reported in TIME'S usual great style (TIME, April 27). But where did you get that picture of Canadian Runner Johnny Miles who came in tenth or thereabouts which you have labeled with the winner's name? How did that maple leaf on Johnny's shirt get by you? Your picture service can furnish you with a real picture of great little Henigan for your next week's issue and in the future you will not trifle with Meclford heroes. RUTH HAYES BINGHAM West Medford, Mass.
To TIME'S picture-getters, two thoroughgoing reprimands.--ED. Friend in Quilali
Sirs:
... I received a letter from a friend in Quilali, Nicaragua this week requesting me to send him information concerning the earthquake in Managua.
Needless to say, I am sending the information which I have found in TIME'S pages (TIME, April 13, 20).
CHARLES E. SPRAGG
Veterans of Foreign Wars New York City
Speed-Traps
Sirs: I am very much interested in your publicity campaign revealing to motorists the speed traps of the country (TIME, March 30; April 20) and I would like to nominate Willoughby, Ohio, as the capital of these progressive burgs. Willoughby is on the main ''Bootlegging" thoroughfare of the U. S. and yet I have never heard of a "holdup" of one of these commercial enterprises. On the other hand when a Chrysler car-- carrying three college youths who were hurrying back to their seat of learning after having overstayed their vacation because of a snow storm which made it impossible to travel--passed through the place, it was stopped, charged with exceeding the speed limit and each student was fined $10. Tourists traveling east or west must of necessity pass through this hamlet and I would suggest that they "pass right through" thereby demon- strating to merchants that a change in their policy of persecution would be to their advantage. C. G. ABBEY
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Sirs:
Put your spotlight of publicity on this town:
Marion, S. C. has a hawk-eyed cop who drives
a battered Ford and overhauls summer tourists
who go to and from Myrtle Beach, S. C., when
the speed limit is exceeded in the least.
When carried before the undertaker-Mayor, it is possible to have the $10 fine cut in half if you beg for an hour. . . .
TOM W. JOHNSON
Albemarle, N. C.
Faint
Sirs:
My family and I are ardent listeners of your weekly broadcast. ... As a testimonial you may use the following true fact:
On April 17, your realistic broadcast of a surgical operation caused havoc and considerable inconvenience in my home. When you enacted the scene of the operation on a young lady for a cancer and found that it was her heart instead, my daughter was about to faint but upon hearing that her mother had fainted quickly came to her senses. However my wife did not get over it for some time. It's just too real.
LEONARD C. HABAS
Glendale, N. Y.
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