Pain-on-the-Right

Sirs:

In your article on appendicitis in the Sept. 14 issue of TIME you state "appendicitis should be suspected if a person . . . has a sharp pain . . . a few inches to the right of and a little below the navel."

The medical profession is trying to eradicate the idea that this is an early symptom of appendicitis. If you will refer to any recent authority on the subject you will find that the pain of appendicitis starts in the epigastrium, which is in the midline and above the navel. That is the time when the patient should see his physician and the laity should know that it is an early symptom and by this avoid the often disastrous and frequent self-administrated cathartic. . . .

J. P. WOLFF, M. D. Oklahoma City, Okla.

General Harbord & Jesus

Sirs:

Your Sept. 14 issue of TIME, p. 15:

Under picture of Major General Harbord is written ''. . . called Jesus Christ a failure." Adjoining column quotes General Harbord as follows: "A large number of honest but misguided people believe it possible to bring about that permanent peace which has been the dream of all ages but which the Prince of Peace himself failed to achieve 2,000 years ago. . . ."

Isn't TIME'S comment under the picture misleading, if not a bit unfair? I quite disagree with the General as above quoted, but think TIME should not make it worse.

Did TIME ever notice how "in peace prepare for war" statements usually come from Army and Navy leaders?

HARRY W. GAMBLE

Selma, Ala. Sirs: On p. 15 of your issue of Sept. 14 Major General Harbord is quoted as having "called Jesus a failure." What General Harbord actually said was that "the Prince of Peace himself failed to achieve (peace) 2,000 years ago." This is quite different from saying that Christ was a failure, which I do not believe was the General's meaning. However, that is not the point which I have in mind. The point is this: that General Harbord, though learned as a soldier and philosopher, has by implication misrepresented in the above quotation Christ's mission on earth as a Peacemaker. Our Lord made this unequivocably clear when He said "think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, etc." This does not signify that He came to sow discord or that he countenanced war, but rather that He foresaw through his intimate knowledge of human nature that armed conflicts among men would remain inevitable as long as there continued to be standards of right and wrong. However, He did bring Peace into the world, but it was an entirely different kind of peace-- a Peace the world had never known before. -'Peace I leave with you. my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you;" the Peace of God which passeth all understanding. It was Christ's mission to deliver this new kind of Peace unto the world, not the kind that professional soldiers talk about; and, as millions have testified and will continue to testify. He most assuredly did not fail to accomplish it. BROOKE PAYNE

University, Va.

Sirs:

. . . Whether you believe in Christianity or not, your knowledge of history should tell you that some of the bloodiest wars have been fought over religion and Christianity itself. The Bible itself prophesies there will be wars and rumors of wars, and while you may be alarmed at the words of an exMarine, please do not forget that the pacifist was much in disfavor when our country was in need of soldiers but let him have his day today and in the future you may be glad that men will take up arms in defense of their country as they did in 1917. Disarmament conferences and treaties may help to retard major conflicts but I still believe another war will be fought and I fear for the intensity of such a war.

Is there any reason why out of four million ex-service men there should not be large numbers of them playing the role of politics as well as they played the role of soldier? We who fought under General Harbord will not forget Chateau-Thierry and we who knows General Harbord today know that the General Harbord who is the business executive of today is the same General Harbord who was the soldier executive of 1918.

HERSCHEL B. KING

American Legion Elmira, N. Y.

Sirs:

Is Kansas a typical State? Do the achievements in its public life of members of the American Legion justify General Harbord's belief that the Legion is following in the footsteps of the G.A.R.?

These Legionnaires hold public offices in Kansas: Gov. Harry H. Woodring; Judge George T. McDermott, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Judge W. A. Smith, Kansas Supreme Court; Congressman William P. Lambertson, First District; Congressman Harold McGugin, Third District; Congressman Clifford Hope, Seventh District; and Roland Boynton, Attorney General. Kansas, because of the influx of Union veterans of the Civil War, became known as "the Soldiers' State." Veterans of the World War find apparently the same friendly interest of the State's people.

General Harbord, by the way, is a Kansan. a graduate of Kansas State. The Kansas soldiers' maximum bonus, $816, is the largest paid by any State.

LESLIE E. EDMONDS

Wichita, Kan.

Wood v. Don

Sirs:

TIME, usually with more of an eagle-eye than the much-mentioned newshawk, this week [Sept. 14] neglected, in its account of the Harmsworth races at Detroit, several items of peculiarly TIME-worthy interest. . . .

The first heat, scheduled for Saturday, September 5, was called off at the request of Garfield A. (''Gar") Wood on account of rough water, though Kaye Don, the English challenger, with his less stable boat, was willing to race. . . .

Sunday the postponed heat was run off. . . . During the excitement as Don crossed the finish line, a young woman fell into the water from the Detroit Yacht Club pier, and was rescued, and two men fell from the scaffolding of a newly-constructed building which was serving as a grandstand. . . .

Monday, the second heat took place. . . . Just before the start of the heat, a city-inspected dock loaded with spectators collapsed, pitching 100 people into the water, and resulting in the death of a 3-year-old child. Shortly after, a limb of a tree, supporting 20 men and boys, cracked and fell to the ground. . . .

. . . Wood's alibi for his first false start was that his watch and that of his mechanic had stopped within a minute of the start, and that they had thrown them overboard! Nevertheless, the feeling that he had won by foul play where he knew he could not win by fair, persisted. Don was too honest even to suspect such a trick, and was an easy victim. It was suggested on many sides that the Trophy should be exhibited in the Yacht Club this year, covered with a black cloth. Kaye Don proved himself a thorough sportsman when he refused to defend himself or to accuse or criticize Wood. He has made a most unusual impression by his personality and by his handling of a very difficult situation on the Detroit public, and a campaign is on foot to present him with a testimonial of some sort. The English press has been kind, and in almost every case has stated that the American public should not be indicted for the behavior of its representative. ... A Detroit manufacturer has declared that he will furnish Don with an English boat, powered with Rolls-Royce engines, under the Harmsworth rules that a driver must represent the country of his citizenship in a boat of local manufacture. This gesture, if carried out, will help to re-establish American sportsmanship after the blow dealt it by Gar Wood. JOHN PRENTIS WOOD

(no relative of Gar's) Detroit, Mich.

"Benedict Arnold Racing Club" Sirs:

Have I the right understanding?

I read in several of the Detroit newspapers that some of America's leading motor magnates, industrialists and sportsmen admirers of Kaye Don are forming a syndicate, financing it with American money to see that Kaye Don has a boat to enter in the Harmsworth race in 1932. Boat to race under British Flag and to try to take cup from the U. S.

If this is correct I should suggest when the syndicate incorporates they select the name of "The Benedict Arnold Racing Club."

Benedict Arnold lost everyone's respect at home and abroad from betraying his country. Personally I doubt if a syndicate thus formed and entering a Benedict Arnold racing boat could find a 100% British subject that would race it.

I will wager Kaye Don wouldn't. And if there should be such a thing as they won the race, I know there would be no royal welcome on their return to England.

TOM H. ROBERTSON, M. D.

Member Sons American Revolution Detroit Yacht Club Detroit, Mich.

Ambisextrous Scooter Sirs:

Misapprehension, borne of a lack of familiarity with recent developments in the cycling industry, is evidently responsible for your story headed "Ole Swimmin' Hole," in the Sept. 7 issue of TIME.

The so-called "girl's bicycle," in the illustration of the three small naked boys, is actually a "scooter bike," a small vehicle developed and marketed for children from five to ten years old of either sex. . . .

CARLETON B. BECKWITH

Cycle Trades of America Bristol, Conn.

Frog & Sandpiper

Sirs:

Under heading "Frogs eat Duck," TIME, Aug. 31, I would like to tell you about the big bull frog I found on the sandy shore of Half Moon Pond in New Hampshire.

I had never seen such a large frog in my life. Every minute or so he would raise his front leg to his mouth as if wiping his chin. Opening his mouth I pulled out a full grown Sandpiper nearly all swallowed.

N. H. HAYES

Wakefield, Mass.

Crazy, Lazy, Hazy

Sirs: Reading in your September 21 issue of the choice of a middle churchman (I have always heard broad churchman) for Bishop Coadjutor of Connecticut made me wonder if you had ever heard the definition an English clergyman gave a troubled parishioner who wanted to distinguish the terms High Church--Low Church-- Broad Church. It ran--"High and Crazy, Low and Lazy, Broad and Hazy." ESTHER BINGHAM CONEY Watseka, Ill.

Aristocrat Sirs:

Leaving Chicago for the West Friday morning, Sept. 18 was Burlington's luxurious Aristocrat (de luxe express train). Seated in the rear of its club car were ten men, three women. Not killing but devouring TIME, just out, were seven men, one woman. Caught out, many of your subscribers can't await TIME until they get home. F. F. McCAMMON

Denver, Col.

Parents Editrix

Sirs:

In your issue of TIME under date of Aug. 31 you referred to the Editor of The Parents' Magazine as "Miss Clara Savage Littledale."

The Parents' Magazine is not edited by an old maid, but by a happily married woman and a progressive mother of two children, a girl and a boy, aged eight and four, respectively. Mrs. Littledale runs an efficient home of her own and at the same time edits The Parents' Magazine, which is aiding mothers and fathers in more than 200,000 other homes in the rearing of about half a million children.

GEORGE J. HECHT President

The Parents' Magazine

New York City

Last week Parents' celebrated its fifth birthday, was congratulated by child-loving Parent Herbert Hoover.--ED. Goat's Cream

Sirs:

In your issue of Sept. 21 under the caption "Landing Gandhi" occurs the following sentence: "Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the. . . ."

It is my understanding that cream does not rise on goat's milk and on that account the milk is exceptionally rich.

ESTHER CHALLACOMBE

Hillsboro, Ill.

It is true that goat's milk, much richer than cow's milk, has small fat globules more evenly distributed throughout its 84.14% of water. But some of the cream, taking longer than cow's cream, will rise to be skimmed. The rest of the butterfat can be obtained by use of a mechanical separator.--ED.

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