Slighted Anchorage
Sirs:
In the March 11 issue of your fine magazine, on p. 30, appeared a map of Alaska depicting to the tourist the main cities and points of interest of the Territory. May I call your attention to the fact Anchorage, which ranks third in population of the Alaskan cities, is conspicuous by its absence. . . .
I fully realize that TIME does not prepare the copy appearing in its advertisements. However, I do believe that you are vitally interested that only authentic and dependable matter appears in your advertising as well as in your articles. . . . I may say that TIME has a large number of readers in Anchorage and I believe that, each of them has noticed and resented this evident slight. . . .
I thank you for anything you may do to correct this omission.
PHILIP LAING
Publicity Chairman Anchorage Booster Club Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
. . . Over 20 airplanes base here the year around, we have two large canneries, large government railroad offices and shops, wonderful climate and scenery. . . .
WILLIAM STOLT
Proprietor
Bill's Electric Shop & Supply Anchorage, Alaska
. . . Anchorage is ... the headquarters of the Alaska Railroad and the Alaska Telegraph System and is a very important air base for southwestern and interior Alaska. . . .
EUGENE C. SMITH
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
. . . The rich Willow Creek gold mines, bituminous coal fields and Matanuska Valley agricultural district are all located within 50 miles of Anchorage. . . .
D. W. METZDORF
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
. . . More air traffic starts and stops in Anchorage than any place in the world.
Really and truly, "THE NERVE CENTRE OF ALASKA."
S. BEBERS
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
. . . It also has the farthest north broadcasting station - KFQD. . . .
SIDONIA M. GILL
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
I can't seem to understand why you should put all of the smaller towns on this map of Alaska. . . . ARNOLD MARTINS
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
. . . This, us Anchorageites deem a great injustice. . . .
JOHN C. F. ANDRESEN
Anchorage, Alaska
Sirs:
... It has all the hunter and fisherman could ask for in the immediate vicinity. . . .
VIC. GILL
Anchorage, Alaska
To TIME'S 77 subscribers in Anchorage (pop. 2,227) the advertiser makes the following explanation for the regrettable omission: "In the Anchorage neighborhood the map space is particularly small and there was not room for city names along with Mt. McKinley and Columbia Glacier. To keep the map clear, and also on the theory that tourists traveling to Columbia Glacier, Seward, Mt. McKinley and Fairbanks would be bound to visit Anchorage, the name of Anchorage had to be sacrificed."-ED.
Peace Poll
Sirs:
Your note on the Peace Ballot in TIME of March 18 is highly misleading. . . .
It is not a "straw ballot." Everyone in England and Wales is being asked to answer. Every family in Dulwich, for instance, is being visited, and worried for a reply. Percentage polls run up as high as 98% of all the people over 18-- better than any election ever got. My guess is that about 55% of all English & Welsh citizens will have voted in the end, on the average of the whole country. . . .
I feel sure you will put on record this disclaimer. The Peace Ballot is not political. It is not pacifist. It is not a straw vote. It does not ask for unilateral reduction of the Empire's forces. . . .
J. WARD DAW JR.
Hon. Secretary & Hon. Organizer National Peace Declaration East Dulwich, England Up to last week more than 6,000,000 votes had been cast in Britain's Peace Poll. Results thus far tabulated:
1) Should Great Britain remain a Member of the League of Nations? Yes--5,737,800. No--169,000.
2) Are you in favour of an all-round reduction of armaments by international agreement? Yes--5,410,790. No--431,-740.
3) Are you in favour of an all-round abolition of national military and naval aircraft by international agreement? Yes--4,918,350. No--875,880.
4) Should the manufacture and sale of armaments for private profit be prohibited by international agreement? Yes--5.386,-490. No--400,410.
5) Do you consider that if a nation insists on attacking another the other nations should combine to compel it to stop by
(a) economic and non-military measures? Yes--5,141,290. No--325,850.
(b) if necessary, military measures? Yes--3,472,700. No--1,213,540.--ED.
Long Religion Sirs:
Fine write-up on Huey in TIME, April 1. But 1) what is his religion and 2) does he work at it much?
FOREST R. ADAMS
Hornell, N. Y.
1) Baptist.
2) No.--ED.
Eton Bottom-Starvers
Sirs:
In TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week."
"Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family, of which I was the youngest. After all these years I occasionally dream of the terrible things which might have happened to me if I had appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with which to "purr" or kick the shins of the nonconformist. Even a neat patch was regarded with suspicion, its purpose being adequately covered by the cast-off coat of an older and bigger brother. . . .
. . : Or perhaps I am out of date and in the past 50 years the Eton jacket has sprouted a tail. The latter seems improbable. Things do not sprout so quickly as this in England.
ERNEST HARRISON
Halcyon, Calif.
Doubting Twins
Sirs:
My father says that TIME is always right. My brother Harry and I are not so sure. We are twins and eleven years old and know our baseball. The Giants have not the "same lineup" this year [TIME, April 15]. We should say not! How about Dick Bartell? We don't see how you could overlook a shortstop like him. Also Boston has much better teams than you say. You may know your politics and things, but you're not so hot on baseball.
Q. A. SHAW MCKEAN JR. HARRY McKEAN
Pride's Crossing, Mass.
To the Twins McKean, great-grandsons of the late great Art Collector Quincy Adams Shaw, all credit for knowing their baseball.--ED.
Arkansas' Dean
Sirs :
. . . You will probably receive a lot of letters correcting your statement that Dizzy Dean was born in Oklahoma [TIME, April 15]. Everyone around here knows that he was born in Arkansas According to the father of the Dean boys, the event took place in a little town called Lucas; he was a little hazy as to the exact time and place since, evidently, at that time, the arrival of a child was scarcely an event of sufficient importance to take up much room in his memory.
So you will probably receive letters claiming the Dizzy one for Arkansas, although why we should want to be attached to that buffoon is more than I can understand. Man's conceit takes strange forms. . . .
I would like to add a word of praise for your miscellany column to that given it by Jack Beater, who claims he wrote and sold a short story suggested by one of the items. I, too, have written a story suggested by that column, but I have had absolutely no success in selling it. ...
JOHN W. SHAW
Little Rock, Ark.
In his autobiographical note in Who's Who in Baseball Jerome Herman Dean names Holdenville, Okla. as his birthplace. But according to J. Roy Stockton in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean gives various birthplaces and birth dates to various interviewers "so their bosses won't bawl 'em out for gettin' the same story."--ED.
Sirs:
The boorishness displayed on p. 52 of your
April 15 issue is inexcusable in TIME.
Semiliterate or no, the Brothers Dean are
gentlemen, and as such would be unable to
approach the degree of swinish ignorance displayed by your commentator.
TOM WALSH
Macon, Ill.
Clear-Sighted Sizing Up
Sirs:
I have just seen the third issue of the March of Time and I feel that I must tell you at once that I think it is remarkable. I wish that each and every high school student in the land could see it, especially the munitions and Huey Long sequences and I shall certainly see that they are urged to do so in the next issue of Scholastic. It also occurs to me that Scholastic should definitely allot space to the March of Time, that we should not lose this opportunity to heartily recommend this exceptionally clear-sighted sizing up of what's going on in this world to the youth of the land. . . .
ERNESTINE TAGGARD
Scholastic New York City
For Scholastic's hearty approval, hearty :hanks. The March of Time is now a well-:stablished feature in about 1,000 U. S. theatres. It must make its way into at east 3,000 more theatres before it is accessible to "each and every high school student in the land."--ED.
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