Howe Bushman--Bloodhound

Sirs:

If people committed suicide because the cover pictures on TIME did not look anything like the people they chose to represent, I would have abundant cause to put a long, shiny poniard in my heart after seeing what was supposed to be a picture of Secretary Woodin on the front of the issue of March 20. It is my opinion that the man who made that picture began it as a picture of L. M. Howe, changed it to an Australian Bushman and ended up with a Bloodhound.

JOHN LIMOND HART

Legation of the United States of America Teheran, Persia

Dutch Bombers' Accuracy Sirs:

In this immediate Oriental territory are many daily newspapers from several nationalities including American (Bangkok, Siam), hence news from various angles.

Because TIME arrives six weeks late it is of interest only because it is "curt, clear, complete" and accurate. For these virtues TIME is of value, also on constant test. Our latest test: TIME'S account of De Zeven Provincien, runaway Netherland India battleship, Feb. 20. We were satisfied. The account was TIMEly.

There was but a minor error which in behalf of our Dutch friends, especially several pilot friends, members of the bombing squadron at the above mentioned affair, we wish to rectify. We refer to the bombing account which tended to impress that the bombers' marksmanship was a bit poor. The fact is but one small 50 Kilo (110. 25 Ib.) bomb was dropped--a direct hit-- the finish.

E. C. APPOLD

G. E. X-Ray Corp.

JOHN EARLY

Socony Vacuum Corp. Bandoeng, Java

Matrimony & Alimony

Sirs:

I have read your article, "Mistresses & Matrimony" in the issue of May 15 with some interest and not a little wonder. It is easy enough for New York State to give its judges "wide discretion" to "modify alimony payments.'' Perhaps the legislators who passed the law will soon pass another law making it possible for women to earn a living after their husbands have left them and their children without support. It has always been difficult for women to find adequate jobs open to them in a man's world. It is considerably more difficult in the past three years. . . .

ERNESTINE CLYDE MANNERS

Allentown, Pa.

Sirs:

. . . While I do not favor "a vengeful exwife" keeping her husband in jail rather than accept an alimony cut, I do sympathize with the case of a woman whose husband, whether or not it is his fault, has ceased to pay her the income agreed upon when they separated.

What is the woman to do? She is. in all probability, quite helpless. Those who are sufficiently well-off to afford a divorce usually are. She has been taught that some man will take care of her for the rest of her days. She has neither the initiative nor the ability to get or hold a job. Hers is a sad awakening. The only thing she can do is blame another one of our well-established American institutions. . . . SEWELL CRANE

New York City

Sirs:

More power to those New Yorkers with guts enough to buck the greatest lobby in the world-- Our Wives (ex-or not)! I'd like someone to

step up and tell me why in the--* a man

should have to support some -- --* woman who has done nothing but make his life

-- * and give him nothing but a pain in the neck! Boy, and how they can do that!

Congratulations to TIME for giving the men a break, and I hope to -- -- * my own State puts through some legislation of the same kind!

G. T. OVERMAN

St. Louis, Mo.

Sirs:

Your article . . . started a friendly controversy around our fireside the other night.

My wife's position was something like this. She said that when a man married a woman he signified an intention of being responsible for her the rest of their natural lives. If unhappiness causes them to separate, the law requires that he support her unless some gross act of hers has caused the separation. It was my wife's opinion that alimony curtailment was much harder on the woman, who had grown to expect it, than diminished income was to the man. She viewed with some alarm the prerogative of judges in this State to scale down alimony payments, believing that for some men it would simply mean reducing the wife's income in the same manner that they would cut their cook's pay, and with the Depression to use as an excuse in both cases.

It was my contention that the marriage contract should not be considered by Church and State as a perpetual meal ticket, and that were I a woman separated from her husband I would prefer to live without his assistance if possible. I could not understand why women took it as a matter of course that they were to be supported by men with whom they no longer share their lives. And while admitting the possibility of ex-husbands' reducing their separated wives' allowances from convenience rather than necessity, I thoroughly deplored the legal precedent which had kept 130 men in a New York City jail because they were unable to maintain irate wives.

My own wife, from whom I hope I am never divorced, and I went to bed leaving the debate undecided. . . .

FREDERIC T. HOPE

Buffalo, N. Y.

East Side Turmoil Sirs:

I wish to congratulate you on the splendid article contained in your issue of May 8 in reference to the Jewish dietary laws. It was one of the most accurate as well as informative articles on this subject that I have ever read.

Said article is especially apropos at this time in view of a recent decision in the Magistrate's Court of New York City in reference to the violation of the kosher food laws by Jacob Branfman & Son, one of the largest, if not the largest of the kosher delicatessen manufacturers. . . .

It may surprise you to know that practically no mention has been made of this decision in any of the English newspapers, whereas the subject has occupied considerable space since the handing down of the decision, in the entire Yiddish press. As a matter of fact, this information threw the citizens of the East Side of New York City into a turmoil in view of the fact that most of the persons in that vicinity had in the past eaten the products of this company, and according to the Jewish dietary laws, there is a grave question as to whether the dishes that were used while eating these products would continue to be kosher. . . . HARRY SAND

Brooklyn, N. Y. Amazed Parisian, Prompted Londoner

Sirs:

I was amazed to receive your issue of the 24th on the morning of the 29th. As no five-day boat arrived during that time, I am unable to draw my conclusions. . . . Accept my congratulations for your promptness.

NORMAN D. FORSTER

Paris

Sirs:

The letter from Ray D. Ulrey of Los Angeles published in your issue of April 24 has prompted me to write you of an even better record [than that of covering the Akron disaster] which I think TIME has made. The issue containing this letter was received by me on April 27, delivered at my house in the suburbs of London.

GERALD BAER

London

Readers Forster & Baer may thank the U. S. Post Office department, which received the issue on April 19 in Chicago, sped it to a fast boat. Sailing dates do not permit this schedule every week.--ED.

Jews in Heidelberg

Sirs:

In the new university building in Heidelberg there is (or was) a tablet bearing the names of the men who, at the suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor.

Do you happen to know whether the Nazis have removed or defaced this tablet or removed from it the names of Jews? They could no doubt try to excuse its removal on the grounds that the former government of Baden should not have accepted a gift to which so many Jews had contributed and that the building is in the newer style (a halfhearted, weak attempt, to be sure) of which the Nazis do not approve. No doubt they would charge the above-named Jews with promoting "Kulturbolschewismus."

THEODORE MCCLINTOCK

Boston, Mass.

Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market."--ED.

Credit: Captain Furer Sirs:

TIME will be interested in a correction to its story under Army & Navy in the May 1 issue.

Submarine F-4 sank in the open ocean off Honolulu with all hands in March 1915, and was finally located in 304 ft. of water. Lieut.-Commander (now Captain) J. A. Furer. U. S. N., was placed in charge of the salvage operations, and designed all the equipment used for the work. He invented the submersible pontoons which were used in the final operations of bringing this submarine to the surface. The identical pontoons built for this job were also used on the S-51 and the 54, and the technique developed in raising the F-4 was used throughout the raising of the S-51 and the 54.

The F-4 was brought up from a depth of 304 ft., the S-51 from 165 ft., and the S-4 from 100 ft. The F-4 was the first submarine ever raised from the open ocean, and no other ship of any kind has before or since been raised from such a depth. TIME errs, therefore, in saying, "There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea."

The raising of the S-51 and the 5-4 were splendid examples of salvage work accomplished under great difficulties, but the officers in charge of this work had the advantage of the pioneer work done by Captain Furer under even greater difficulties as to depth of water and limited facilities, and in the face of general opinion that the job could not be done. . . .

CLIFTOX TOAL

Winston Salem, X. C.

Honest Dressed Poulterers

Sirs:

I respectfully call your attention to an article in your publication under date of May 8 in which reference is made to an ''amazing crime ring" in control of the poultry trade in New York City.

The article referred to does not in any manner specify or distinguish the live poultry industry from the dressed poultry, so that many of your readers, not familiar with the subject, after reading the article referred to would naturally conclude the entire poultry industry to be infested with graft and racketeering. The dressed poultry industry has no connection whatever with the live poultry trade, and is a distinct and separate line of business.

The figures available for the month of March show receipts on the New York market of 21,000,000 Ib. of dressed poultry, as compared with 17,000,000 Ib. of live poultry.

In the article referred to the statement is made that 90% of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews. No doubt this item referred to live poultry, which is consumed largely by the kosher, or Jewish trade. This, however, is not in line with the statistics available, as it is estimated that not more than 75% of the live poultry received on the New York market is consumed by the Jewish people.

If at any future time you have occasion to refer to the poultry industry you would confer a favor upon the dealers in dressed poultry if you would make it clear that the dressed poultry industry is free from racketeering and graft, and is conducted on strictly legitimate lines.

N. C. DURHAM

President

New York Dressed Poultry & Game Trade Association New York City

Expert Sorting

Sirs:

Will you, who know everything--or can obtain the information--please tell me whether the great card experts, Culbertson, Work, Sims, etc., play their cards without sorting them into suits? I have several times heard it stated as a fact, but the informer could not give his authority and I doubt it.

K. B. ROGERS

Trenton, N. J.

Experts Culbertson, Work & Sims sort their cards into suits, do not arrange the suits in order.--ED.

Gambusia in Greece

Sirs:

Speaking of gambusia (TIME, May 1 under Italy) did you know that this useful little minnow was first imported into Greece from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks to their energetic measures, malaria has practically been stamped out in the environs of the School, and propaganda spread by graduates scattered over the country has brought like relief to many previously infested regions,

Founded by practical missionary Dr. John Henry House in 1902, with ten orphans for pupils and a native farmer-teacher for faculty, the American Farm School has grown to 300 acres of cultivated farmland worked by some 150 farmer-students aged 13 to 18, under the direction of a faculty of 17. including five of its own graduates. Two of these native instructors benefited by four years of additional training in engineering and husbandry at Princeton and Cornell respectively, on scholarships raised by Princeton classmates of the present director of the School, engineer son of the founder, Charles L. House, Princeton 1909.

Soundly managed, the American Farm School has even in depression times paid 70% to 75% of its operating expenses out of operating income from the sale of farm products, live stock, water supply, and electric power, plus students' fees. The remainder comes about half from income of invested funds and the rest in the form of annual contributions from friends in Greece and America. Cholera carried off $1,500 worth of pigs last year, and the unprecedented drought this spring probably means the loss of the year's crop. But the School survives such calamities as it has survived revolutions, wars, political crises and earthquakes, and has never had a deficit.

In addition to its services in curbing malaria, the School has checkmated phylloxera, destroyer of countless vineyards, by the importation from California of resistant grape stock on which native vines have been grafted to grow a variety immune to the blight.

Scant rainfall has been met with American dry farming methods yielding a 25% crop increase on the School's acreage in normal years. Cross breeding with imported strains has improved the native ''scrub'' live stock.

Appreciative of the School's services the Greek government provided in 1931 by Act of Parliament for the training of 200 scholarship boys in the next eight years. Through the School's rural extension work all Greece benefits by the introduction of American methods. The American Farm School exerts an influence far beyond its immediate environs, for the economic stability of paramount importance to present day Greece and to the peace of the Balkans.

The address of the New York office is: No. 17 East 42nd Street.

L. HOLLIXGSWORTH WOOD Treasurer

American Farm School Xew York City

-Profanity deleted.--ED.

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