Phi for Psi

Sirs:

... I am taking this opportunity to inform you of a mistake that was made in your write-up of the British Amateur Golf Tournament at Frestwick [TIME, June 4].

Lawson Little, the Stanford junior, is a member of Chi Psi and not Chi Phi as you reported it. This mistake is of interest to the outside world only when coupled with the fact that another Walker Cup youth, Johnny Fischer, is a Chi Psi from Michigan, and when the two are paired with Rodney Bliss, Chi Psi, Cornell '33, you have three of America's best golfers. . . .

ROBERT E. WALSH Chi Psi, University of Chicago '32 Chicago, 111.

Sirs ... As well call an Alabama Democrat a Republican, or, to bring it home to you, a New York Republican a Democrat, as call a (Godfearing Chi Psi a Chi Phi. If you correct mistakes, correct this one. If not please don't make it again, or if you do, make it in an account of our brother Charley Mitchell. . . . REV. R. M. LAUGHLIX

Ruffin, N. C.

Sirs:

Phi on you.

... I never heard of the Chi Phi Fraternity. . . .

COL. CYRUS A. DOLPH

U. S. Army Retired University Club Portland, Ore.

For misprinting Phi for Psi, TIME offers apologies where due.--ED. Appreciative Moderator Sirs: I appreciate very much your interesting comments in TIME [June 4] in re the 146th General Assembly which several friends had forwarded, not knowing that I began TIME with Volume 1, No. 1. WILLIAM CHALMERS COVERT

Moderator The Presbyterian Church in the United

States of America Philadelphia, Pa.

Presbyterian Hymners

Sirs:

... As a son of a United Presbyterian theological seminary professor . . . and as a one-time United Presbyterian choir singer whose bass has often swung through hymns, limped through Psalms, I know that TIME (June 13, p. 35) made an unTiMEly error when it said the United Presbyterian Church "admits no hymns."

United Presbyterians at one time joined no lodges, played no church organs, sang no hymns. Now. among other things, they do all three. At least five years ago . . . "The Psalter was replaced in most United Presbyterian pews by

"The Psalter-Hymnal." U.P.'s have their choice of droning through often unmusical Psalm music or singing more spirited hymn music. . . .

WILBUR H. BALDINGER

Butler, Pa.

New Jersey's Bacharach

Sirs:

The undersigned being weekly readers of TIME desire that you publish a report of the record of Isaac Bacharach, Congressman of the Second Congressional District of New Jersey. . . .

WALTER E. BEYER WILBUR C. BISHOP ELWOOD F. KIRKMAN SAMUEL S. SHUTTLEWORTH DAVID FORD

Atlantic City, N. J.

. . . We. the undersigned, readers of TIME, believe that an inimitable TIME resume of the public life and record of Mr. Bacharach would be of general interest to your readers. SEYMOUR DE BEER PAUL HIMMELREICH EDWARD I. FEINBERG CHARLES D. AKE

Atlantic City, N. J.

The record of Representative Isaac

("Ike") Bacharach of New Jersey is as follows:

Born: In Philadelphia, Jan. 5, 1870. Start hi life: Retail clothier. Career: When he was 11, his family moved to the New Jersey coast, becoming the first Jews to colonize Atlantic City. There, after graduating from the high school, he joined his father in the family clothing business. Expanding as "the playground of America" expanded. Brothers Isaac, Harry & Benjamin spread into real estate, lumber and banking. Later Isaac and Harry went in for politics. Isaac was elected to the City Council in 1907. Harry was elected Mayor in 1911. In 1914, after two years in the State Legislature, Isaac was elected Republican Representative from the Second (Atlantic City) New Jersey District. A trainload of friends took him down to Washington, where his legislative headquarters have been ever since. In Congress: He soon got himself appointed to the potent Ways & Means Committee. There, with Texas' Democratic Garner and Ohio's Republican Longworth, the famed Congressional triumvirate of "Ike, Jack & Nick" was formed. They played poker and politics together. In 1925 it was "Ike" Bacharach who swung the Pennsylvania Republicans to Longworth, made his friend Speaker of the House. A master at compromise and conciliation, he mediated the bill to lend veterans up to 50% of the face value of their adjusted service certificates, spared President Hoover the defeat of an overridden veto on the proposal for payment in full. He voted for: Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930). Hoover moratorium (1931), sales tax (1932). beer (1932-33), Repeal (1932-33), tax increases (1932), Economy Act (1933), NIRA (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1933), overriding veto on veterans' compensation (1934). He voted against: full payment of the Bonus (1932-34), Philippine independence (1932). AAA (1934), cotton control (1934), Dies silver bill (1934), tax bill (1934), stock exchange regulation (1934). With a reputation for clever off-the-floor work, he rarely makes long appearances in the House, fidgets nervously when he does. No Congressional voice is heard less often than his in the House well. In the 72nd Congress, second session, he introduced only three bills: one for private relief for a constituent, one to expand certain RFC loan powers, one to survey a New Jersey creek. Legislative hobbies: high tariffs, low taxes for business. During the Hoover Administration he practically ran the Ways & Means Committee (taxes & tariffs), although Oregon's Hawley was chairman. Today as the No. 2 G. O. P. committeeman, his influence is greater among his colleagues than that of the senior Republican member, Massachusetts' Treadway. As a Ways & Means Committeeman, "Ike" Bacharach has no time for other important House committee posts. In appearance he is formidable--bristling grey mustache: lowering, thick salt-&-pepper eyebrows; wiry white hair. His clothes are well-tailored, neatly fit his medium build. He has a gruff sense of humor. In the Longworth days, capital society used to see him frequently. Now his social life is confined mostly to his Congressional colleagues, particularly his friend Vice President Garner. A bachelor, he lives when in Washington at the Mayflower Hotel. Outside Congress: Belonging not only to the first Jewish family but to the First Family of Atlantic City, "Ike" Bacharach owns a comfortable seaside house there, divides his time at home between his Bacharach Real Estate Co. ("Brigantine Beach'' development) and his Atlantic City Lumber Co. Brother Benjamin is now retired. Brother Harry was drafted back into the mayor's office in 1930 after the scandals of the Ruffu regime. Until a few years ago, each of the Brothers Bacharach was president of an Atlantic City bank. All are still financially well-off. Chief among their civic interests is the children's hospital built in memory of their mother. Unambitious at 64, Isaac Bacharach is rated by impartial observers thus: an Old Guardsman of the best school, a born behind-the-scenes fixer, "one of the dozen men who really count in the House." His term expires Jan. 3, 1935.--ED. Bit of a Titter Sirs:

Until 4 p.m. June 16 I credited TIME with almost paper infallibility but at that hour I read your story about Lord Lonsdale (p. 19, TIME, June 18). You could have knocked me over with debrett when I saw that you referred to Lonsdale as His Grace! My word but won't there be a bit of a titter in ducal circles when that reaches the Old Country, what!

PERCY. WAXMAN

New York City

Bug Business

Sirs:

Under Science (TIME, June 11) you have given publicity to a type of business which from a scientific point of view is quite unwarranted. The "bug v. bug" method of control has a very strong appeal to the grower who must forever spray, fumigate and in other ways protect his source of income from the ravages of his insect guests.

. . . Under the present capable leadership, biological control workers "play down" the ''bug v. bug" idea lest a legitimate scientific activity acquire a ''cure-all" reputation and subsequently suffer the disrepute that such remedies are heir to.

The desperate grower usually is sold quantities of the "beneficial" insect by the safe line that it "won't do any harm, may do some good and is comparatively cheap." Hippodamia convergens (ladybird beetle) is a case in point. For years, by the hundreds and thousands, they have been scooped up from their hibernating quarters in the shrubs at high altitudes and sold to vegetable growers in the hot lowlands. Scientific investigations have failed to show that the release of this ladybird beetle in any aphis-infested field ever resulted in an effective reduction of the aphis population in that field. Often the liberation, if made at a propitious time, is followed by a marked reduction in the abundance of the pest. This reduction is in all probability due to the operation of natural factors already present. To the superficial observer, however, Hippodamia gets the credit. Thus quackery enters the picture as in the case of the "bogus bug business."

Incidentally, Hippodamia may be fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis but it is not likely to find them on any vegetables during the spring and summer, for aphis usually at that time give birth to living young. . . .

Only once in a while do we stage a play that clicks. Nature furnishes the villain and directs the action. We can only set the stage and place thereon the heroine, provided of course one exists and can be found.

Next month Harold Compere, at the insistent demand of the citrus growers of southern California, sets out on an extended exploration of South America on an almost hopeless quest for such a heroine. Thus we search the Seven Seas. One lucky find, however, will pay for years of fruitless search.

STANLEY E. FLANDERS

Associate in Experiment Station Division of Entomology and Parasitology College of Agriculture University of California Berkeley, Calif.

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