On the March

Sirs:

After I read your list of commendatory letters Nov. 2 on the March of Time, I thought you might not mind hearing from me, who am one of your more regular letter-writers.

I have heard only four of your programs, and so you may say now that I am not a fair judge of their merit.

However, as a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for years and years and a violently enthusiastic adorer of TIME, I think I may say--fairly, at least--that the March of Time doesn't come up to the newsmagazine.

Of course, the program is pretty good. Your copy is good: "It's brief . . . every word counts," "Discover TIME," and your musical interludes are splendid. . . .

Of course, it may be that radio isn't a medium good enough for the superior article that TIME is. But the March of Time, unlike TIME, never contains phrases that make one roll on the floor with laughter at your smartness and delight in your boldness.

Of course, I know you will say the radio program is merely supplementary. I know that. But still, I insist, it is not the unique thing TIME is.

Perhaps you think I should have sent this to your radio promotion department; but I prefer to consider it a commendation for TIME, rather than a condemnation of the March of Time. . . .

M. ELIZABETH TOBIN

Portland, Ore.

Sirs:

Your March of Time is so excellent that one must seem a misanthrope to find fault, but there is one small part which in an intelligent organization of your high calibre seems to fall down. The Tasty Yeast Jesters, and Wheaties, etc., say, "I'm Pep," "I'm Vim," "I'm Vigor." Your: "It's, brief," etc., seems very reminiscent of that rather juvenile attempt to be "different." Please don't; it makes my backbone bristle.

MRS. WILLARD SPORLEDER

Calumet City, Ill.

Sirs:

We consider The March of Time the most interesting offering of the entire radio program. If you extend guest privileges for the broadcasting of same it would be a sincere pleasure to be present.

ISABEL L. WEBSTER

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sirs:

TIME graciously obliged a fellow-employe-subscriber-Timenthusiast with a pair of passes for TIME'S brilliant March of Time.

Can TIME repeat, re-oblige?

I. MAGEL

New York City

TIME, on request, will gladly send studio passes for March of Time broadcast.

Cut shows studio scene during recent broadcast.--ED.

Junior League & Gladstone Sirs:

. . . The Junior League Magazine poll [on Prohibition--TIME, Nov. 2] recalled to mind Gladstone's statement, that in the 50 years that he had been in public life, the leisured, cultivated and academic classes had been on the wrong side of the great movements. It is true, the few rich fought democracy, antislavery, abolition of chimney-sweeps and now Prohibition. 'Twas ever thus, but progress marches on, despite the favored classes, who are not usually suffering particularly from any great social wrong. . . .

E. TlLTON

Chairman Woman's National Committee for Education against Alcohol

Washington, D. C.

Knew de Bosis

Sirs:

I am moved by your story of de Bosis (TIME, Oct. 26).

I knew de Bosis and I can well envisage him flying to his death for a cause he espoused. He was of the quiet type that does things like that.

Italy's problems are matters for her own Nationals to solve. Of more importance to humanity at large is that youth continues willing to die gloriously, joyously, for its convictions.

German aviators buried with honors a gallant young enemy, Quentin Roosevelt, who crashed over their lines.

Italy honors the fearless spirit of youth by naming her National organization of boys after the youth Baltila, who is reputed to have opened fire on the enemy invading his native village with the only weapon at his command, a rock, while all about him stood helpless in the paralysis of fear. He gave his life to kindle the fighting spirit in his fellow townsmen and lives forever in the lives and activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost) to one who gave his life in an effort to destroy that order--yet the spirit of de Bosis will continue to soar even if his body has crashed to earth in the wreckage of Pegasus.

I last saw de Bosis some five years ago in his studio in the old wall of Rome. He had inherited the studio from Sir Moses Ezekiel, an American sculptor. Sir Moses, he told me, had been a second father to him after the death of his own sire, who was a well-known Italian poet.

Sir Moses, as a very young cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, had fought against the established order. In the Battle of New Market he had borne arms, a rifle rather taller than himself, against the flag that both North and South revere today. He had seen his young comrades die around him with the fine fearlessness of youth and with equal gallantry he would have died himself for the cause in which he believed. Today his masterpiece "Virginia Mourning Her Dead" broods over the "Hill" at V. M. I. ...

L. R. GlGNILLIAT

Culver Military Academy

Culver, Ind.

Last fortnight, aged 94, died Mrs. Eliza Clinedinst Crim, "Mother of the V. M. I. Cadets," friend of Sculptor Ezekiel who, during the Battle of New Market, carried a dying comrade into her house to be nursed. Her description of the battle:

"I saw the terrible shells explode, right in front of the line of cadets, as they charged down Shirley's Hill. The deadly fire cut gaps in their line, but they closed up and without faltering they moved to victory and to death."--ED.

Why O'Neill Was Fired

Sirs:

In the third column, p. 36, of your issue of Nov. 2, you repeat the old but inaccurate story of Eugene O'Neill's "dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hi-jinks."

Dismissal at Princeton is action taken by the Committee on Discipline. Mr. O'Neill was not dismissed. He was dropped from his class by action of the Committee on Examinations and Standing, for failure in the final examination of his freshman year.

V. LANSING COLLINS

Secretary

Princeton University

Princeton, N. J.

Wrong Maytag

Sirs:

Knowing your yearning for absolute accuracy, beg your permission to advise that you announced the death of the wrong Maytag in your Milestones department in your issue of Oct. 19. The item should have stated that Theodore Henry Maytag, age 67, had died and not Elmer Henry Maytag. Elmer Henry Maytag is a son of Frederick Louis Maytag, is president of the Maytag Co. here and very much alive in his late 40's. He is also a member, by appointment of the President, of the Unemployment Committee which is chairmanned by Mr. Gifford.

JAMES R. RHODES

President & Publisher News Printing Co.

Xewton, Iowa

The Mr. Looney

Sirs:

In a recent article (TIME, Oct. 12) concerning the opening of the new Ringling Art School, you referred to me as "a Mr. Looney."

What a pity it was for your ordinarily exact (even if at times flippant) magazine, if you had to use an article, not to have printed "The Mr. Looney."

Or better still, why not get accustomed to printing it

BEN EARL LOONEY

Sarasota, Fla.

Beer Sign

Sirs:

Let Florida match Manhattan's wholesome disregard for the Prohibition Law.

Sign displayed in front of a filling station just outside of Pensacola:

NEAR BEER FOR SALE HERE. REAL BEER FOR SALE NEAR HERE.

PHILIP MACK

Jacksonville, Fla.

Flying Bull

Sirs:

Two years ago last April a tri-motorcd Ford made a smart three-point landing at the little town of Schulenburg, Texas. Down the gang plank wabbled a pint-size pedigreed Holstein bull calf. The calf snorted at six brass bands, one railroad president, two college heads,14 mayors, and 22 Rotary and Kiwanis officials-- and strolled over to nibble grass at the feet of Governor Dan Moody.

The youngster's name, officially registered in the herd book of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, was Carnation Badger Aero Lone Star. His pedigree was three yards long. Popularity shortened his name to the "Flying Bull?" He was the gift of the Carnation Co., of "Contented Cows" fame, to Texas dairying; and his arrival by chartered plane (cash fare, Oconomowoc, Wis., to Schulenburg, Texas, $2,500) highspotted the opening of a new Carnation condensery at Schulenburg.

This leads up to a mild suggestion that Carnation was perhaps entitled to mention, as long as you were naming other evaporated-milk producers in your article on "Husbandry" (Oct. 26). as having aided the development of dairying in the South. . . .

CHAS. S. LEWIS JR. Erwin, Wasey & Co., Ltd. Chicago, Ill.

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