Court of St. James

Sirs:

As a regular subscriber and admiring reader of TIME will you permit me to call your attention to an article on p. 67 of the Carnegie Maga zine for June entitled "Locating Ambassador Mellon," in which there appears a letter and a memorandum from Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, showing that the proper designation of the post held by Ambassador Mellon is the Court of St. James.

My reason for thus addressing you is that I have observed a practice in recent numbers of TIME of referring to this post as the Court of St. James's and you will note from Sir John Simon's statement that since December, 1913, that form has been abandoned.

SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH

The Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pa.

The British Court is officially at St. James's Palace (named after Eton College's hospital on the site which Henry VIII bought in 1532). Here men are received by George V at levees, ladies being presented at Buckingham Palace, where Their Majesties reside. Thus the Court of St. James's (Palace) is the form in common use. But Subscriber Church is quite right in his citation of the official ruling. Henceforth TIME will use the simpler form. Also for simplicity TIME will continue to call George V "King of England," rather than (officially) "of Great Britain . . . King."--ED. Eyes of Texas

Sirs: ... In Texas that tune is not "Working on the Railroad," except in the sense that "America" is ''God Save the King" and "The Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather--ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair-- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young men--keeping themselves well back in the shadows to avoid identification--serenaded the president with them one night. They harmonized : The eyes of Texas are upon you

All the livelong day; The eyes of Texas are upon you,

You cannot get away; Do not think you can escape them

From night till early in the dawn; The eyes of Texas are upon you Till Gabriel blows his horn. The president passed on to his fathers; the song lived. It became the University's favorite melody. It spread to become a sort of unofficial State song. Today it not only rallies football teams; it is played by bands when parades pass the Governor.

All Lone Star residents know "The Eyes of

Texas" when they hear it. Relatively few of them, probably, ever knew, until they heard the Convention, that the tune has another name in other States.

J. FRANK DAVIS

San Antonio, Texas Animated Annette Sirs: Yes, indeed! TIME does bring all things and the enclosed portion of your July 4 issue did in particular bring an appreciative smile to the visage of this individual, who has been TIME-captioned "Animated Annette.". . . You may be interested to learn that TIME'S article was in error in stating that the divorce was granted on grounds of infidelity. All allegations relative to infidelity on both sides were stricken from the complaints several weeks prior to the trial, and the divorce was granted on grounds of inhuman treatment. Perchance you may see fit to print this correction. I am today placing your name on the mailing list for Eye Opener and I trust that the subsequent creations of our new staff will provide a few hearty laughs for your leisure moments. May you find future Eye Openers less bawdy-- more subtly entertaining--and less neighborly to my ex-husband's washroom humor book. ANTOINETTE FAWCETT

Bob Edwards Publishing Corp. Minneapolis, Minn.

Menjou's Ex-Son

Sirs:

My client Mr. Adolphe Menjou has called my attention to an article appearing on p. 32 of your issue of June 27, in which mention is made of "Harold, 20, son of Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou."

As a matter of fact Harold Tinsley Menjou. the boy mentioned, is not a natural son of my client but is the natural son of a former divorced wife of Adolphe Menjou. The boy, Harold Tinsley, was adopted in Los Angeles in 1924. At the time of the divorce proceedings in 1926 the custody and control of the boy was given to his natural mother, and since that time the adoptive father has had no contact of any kind with the lad.

My client has asked that as a matter of fairness to him you publish this letter so that the true relationship of the parties may be known.

A. G. RlTTER

Los Angeles, Calif.

Commander Larabee

Sirs:

YOUR ARTICLE ISSUE JUNE 27 PAGE 47 ON COMMANDER LARABEE CORP IN ERROR STOP CONTROL OF STOCK IS INVESTED IN NATIONAL FOODS INC WHICH IS CONTROLLED BY S M ARCHER AND GUY A THOMAS STOP COMMANDER LARABEE IS NOT IN DEFAULT ON ITS NOTES OR BONDS STOP INTEREST PAYMENTS DUE JULY 1 WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF STOP COMPANY IS IN ACTIVE CONTROL IN EVERY WAY BY ITS CHAIRMAN GUY A THOMAS WHO IS PRESIDENT OF THE ACTIVE SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES STOP THE COMPANY HAS IN MIND TRANSFERRING ITS MILLING

CAPACITY TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ACCESSIBLE TO PROPER FIELDS OF DISTRIBUTION RATHER THAN HAVE CAPACITY IN SECTIONS GRADUALLY BECOMING OBSOLETE STOP WORKING ON ACQUISITION OF LARGE UNIT IN PACIFIC COAST COUNTRY

GUY A. THOMAS Chairman

Commander-Larabee Corp.

Chicago, Ill.

TIME was informed by a large statistical service that Commander-Larabee is controlled by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. The service bases this belief upon a letter to that effect written by President Archer to it in November 1931 and not amended by a subsequent letter. Commander-Larabee is not in default of interest although in January it went into technical default, being 25 days late.--ED. Potoroos by Acetylight Sirs:

I was interested to learn that the potoroo is considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet.

The favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill.

STANLEY E. FLANDERS Riverside, Calif.

Bull Durham & Admirers

Sirs:

Your most interesting account and genealogy of "Bull" Durham in TIME, July 4, under Animals does not take into account a story which has circulated in these parts since the advent of the "lugubrious-passioned buxom Holstein cow" into the tobacco advertisements. This mid-western story is that one of the old style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight hours gazing passionately across the fence at the handsome hero. Forthwith the farmer entered suit against the local advertising agency for damages. . . .

There has long been a story current in the Carolinas as to the reason for the fence beside which "Bull" Durham has stood alone for so many years. This legend is that the original "Bull" was offensive to the ladies of the Durham, N. C. Methodist Churches and through their Aid Societies they appealed to Mr. James Buchanan ["Buck"] Duke, the late benefactor of Duke University, and himself a devout Methodist, and Mr. Duke, like California Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax appeased the ladies by erecting a fence hiding the objections.

CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS

Indianapolis, Ind.

Sirs:

Reading your interesting account of Durham's bull, I was reminded of a characteristic of the animal to which you did not point. You will recognize that on the bull's side appears a more or less perfect map of the U. S.

The story as it reached me is that Durham & Co. imported this animal at a great cost from the Pampas, after search for a bull on whose side was a "perfect map of the United States."

The bull, it is said, died on the Durham & Co. lot soon after importation. But not before artists had copied his "map" to paste on the nation's billboards.

Could and would TIME verify this?

FRANK HUGHES Des Moines, Iowa

American Tobacco Co. recalls no actual model for Bull Durham. The U. S. map on his side was purely accidental. When noticed it was touched up to be more apparent. --ED.

Schwartz Children Congratulated

Sirs: Lack of time prevented my writing you, expressing my appreciation of your again placing "March of Time" on the air. I am glad now that I waited, as I want to answer Mr. William L. Schwartz, whose letter appeared in your issue of June 27. Mr. Schwartz, the contents of TIME guarantees to its publishers the loyal support of its subscribers, program or no program. The high-quality of its program, "March of Time," should draw subscribers from those who have not been familiar with the calibre of magazine it publishes. Laughs are rare these days, but I really laughed when I read that your interest in the program was only because it appealed to your children. I think you are to be congratulated on having children with such discriminating taste. More power to them. "March of Time," in the opinion of many, many people, is the finest program on the air, and while we regretted that the sponsors decided to discontinue the broadcast, we had no intention of penalizing the publishers by dis continuing our subscription, because it would prove a boomerang. The punishment would be ours. I too read many newspapers and magazines, but I have yet to find a magazine that gives the news of the world in such concise form. Broadcasting companies are not philanthropists, and the fact that the C. B. C. decided to use the program as a sustaining feature speaks for itself. The stations must have listen ers -- this is their stock in trade -- and to have listeners they must give worthwhile sustaining programs. We eagerly wait for Friday night, Sept. 9, at 8:30 o'clock. MIRIAM DARB

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Firebrand Eaton

Sirs:

In the July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June 6, 1930 at the age of 34.

Eaton was a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1923, although he caused more real anxiety among Michigan's faculty than any man who ever lived in Ann Arbor. He used to work on the Michigan Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow.

It was he who did most of the work on Plain Talk and made it a magazine considerably ahead of its time. He died of heart disease in St. Marks Hospital, New York.

RICHARD LARDNER TOBIN

New York

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