Bachelor Sons

Sirs:

TIME errs. The Duke of Gloucester is not George V's sole remaining bachelor son unless newsworthy TIME is keeping the marriage of the Prince of Wales, the world's No. 1 bachelor, a deep dark secret [TIME, Aug. 12]. The marriage of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David would probably be more newsworthy and of greater international significance than the prayerful hope that the Duke of Gloucester and Juliana may some day see their way clear to the altar. Shall I renew my subscription next month?

WILLIAM B. JONES

Augusta, Ga.

Sealed Lips

Sirs:

I am the widow of Dr. William E. Sealock who was ousted from the Municipal University of Omaha presidency June 27 by the Regents at a closed meeting, when he was out of the city on university business by direction of the Regents [TIME, July 22].

In TIME, August 5, you published a letter over the name of James E. Davidson (chairman of the Board of Regents and president of the Nebraska Power Co.) denying that he discussed any public utility subject with any member of the University faculty.

On July 5 (two days before my husband took his life) he wrote to Senator George W. Norris a letter in which he gave his version of this matter. On July 17, I sent Mr. Davidson a copy of this letter and asked him to give it to the press in the interest of fair play. Mr. Davidson ignored me and remained silent.

Mr. Davidson pleads his cause through your columns. I trust you will accord me a corresponding privilege, and will publish this, my request, that Mr. Davidson give the Senator Norris letter to the press, thus permitting my dead husband to speak in a controversy which must otherwise remain one-sided, because his lips are sealed by death.

MRS. W. E. SEALOCK

Omaha, Neb.

Distortion

Sirs:

We, down on Cape Cod, are proud to have TIME notice our Chatham mural, by Mrs. Wight, but we do wish you might have done a little better by our names. Dr. Worthing is distorted to Northing; and the inimitable Heman Harding, of whom Cape Cod is passionately proud, has to be recognized as Herman. The pictures of Mrs. Harding and Miss Virginia are fine.

T. W. SWIFT

Yarmouth Port, Mass.

Apologies to touchy Cape Codders.--ED.

Splendid Portrayal

Sirs:

Orchids to Alice Stallknecht Wight for her splendid portrayal of Cape Cod life in her portrait The Last Supper [TIME, Aug. 5]. Looks like a bad night for sailors to visit Chatham's First Congregational Church on Wednesday night. Speaking of sailors, since when have Coast Guard warrant boatswains been exemplified with the title of captain? My only objection. Suggest you read up on naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members of the Coast Guard all look as if they have been stuffed with "brown bread, baked beans, coffee?''

J. E. MADAGEY

Lieut, (j.g.) U.S.C.G.

U. S. Coast Guard

Treasury Department

Seattle, Wash.

Smug Ignorance

Sirs:

About a year ago most of us vaguely remembered a region called Abyssinia and colored yellow on the maps of Africa; we suspected it was independent; and, if in a bold mood, might surmise it to be a kingdom. But that was just about all we could remember when Mussolini disrupted the complacency of our smug ignorance.

Lately we have gleaned bits of wisdom and know now, for example, that Addis Ababa is not one of those trick names which stuck in our minds to plague us for having read the Arabian Nights but is a real place--the capital of Abyssinia. But lately there has come a disturbing element with this new knowledge. Now that Abyssinia is getting into the news, we are finding out that it isn't Abyssinia at all but Ethiopia --or so the newspapers call it--and now our weekly news bible TIME has joined this heresy. And so, as self-appointed spokesman, I ask: how come?

LOYAL CLARKE

Pasadena, Calif.

Ethiopia (from the Greek) & Abyssinia (from the Arabic) have been used synonymously for centuries. But the correct name, which Emperor Haile Selassie & his people use, is Ethiopia. In 1926 the U. S. officially adopted the term Ethiopia; Great Britain and France also recognize Ethiopia as the official name.--ED.

Base for Bowl

Sirs:

. . . In TIME, Aug. 5 a problem already a month solved is recreated. Namely, that of space on which to engrave the name of this year's winner of the Davis Cup. Early in July the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association was informed of the receipt from Mr. Davis, of a base for the bowl with diameter approximately three feet and standing almost a foot high, to care for additional inscriptions until 1965. Announced only after months of thought, discussions, conferences, consultations as to its form and design, TIME should have been cognizant of its existence. It might also be well to know that besides the name of the winning nation, there is annually engraved upon the bowl, or one of its accessories, the details of the Challenge Round and the names of all the challenging nations. . . .

WILLIAM ROSENBERG

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec

The Davis "Cup" now has three parts: the cup itself, designed and made by Shreve, Crump & Low of Boston; the tray, made by Black, Starr & Frost; the base, made by Tiffany. The base, to which Reader Rosenberg refers, is of French walnut with 15 silver panels, each big enough to contain two years' inscriptions.--ED.

Eddy & Swedenborg

Sirs:

Donald Merrell (TIME, July 29) indicates that Mary Baker Eddy had considerable contact in her childhood with the teachings of Swedenborg. . . . There is no evidence in the files of The Mother Church indicating that Mrs. Eddy ever attended a Swedenborgian or New Church Sunday School. . . .

WILLIAM WALLACE PORTER

Christian Science Committee on Publication

New York City

Sirs:

It would be difficult to find in the writings of any two religious leaders greater differences in premise and conclusion than in those of Swedenborg and Mrs. Eddy. . . . The claim that this daughter of an almost fanatical member of the Congregational Church was sent to Sunday School at a Swedenborgian church, or even that there was such a church in either of the tiny New Hampshire villages where she grew to womanhood, is as ridiculous as it is untrue. . . .

JOHN V. DITTEMORE

New York City

Vertichords

Sirs:

In your article on "Keyboards" (TIME, Aug. 5) you give the cost of the Vertichord $295 to $445. Should have been $395 to $445, f. o. b. factory. I believe such honorable merchants as John Wanamaker (New York & Philadelphia), Lyon & Healy (Chicago), and Sherman, Clay & Co. (San Francisco), and others who sell Vertichord pianos will appreciate a correction. Vertichord is a trade name. There are other makes of the new vertical piano types which sell as low as $295--but not Vertichords.

ROY E. WAITE

Editor

Piano Trade Magazine

Chicago, Ill.

1-to-1

Sirs:

Being a Sports fan, I am naturally attracted to most articles dealing with sports, especially if the article is headed something like this: "1-to-1" [TIME, July 29]. And more especially, if that heading is found in your Religion column. It was only natural that my curiosity was aroused Behold my surprise when I discovered the name of my onetime prexy and admonisher! I refer to Dr. J. Oliver Buswell Jr., who with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Too bad. that the Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen--suspension. Then our personal feud would have stood: 1-to-1. You see, Dr. Buswell had me suspended, without even giving me a hearing (he was in a hurry to catch a train) just because they discovered I smoked a pipe in my own apartment, while attending Wheaton College, Ill.

GEORGE C. NIELSON

New York City

Glorious Statue

Sirs:

Certainly enjoyed your article on the Piccirilli brothers [TIME, July 29]. Wish you had told the world where to find the glorious statue of President Monroe. It's in the proper spot at Ash Lawn, Monroe's old home, next door to Jefferson's beloved Monticello at Charlottesville. Va. Every one should see this statue; it's an inspiration and more beautifully placed than any of the Piccirilli works you mention. It's at home --in the midst of Monroe's own beautiful boxwood garden.

A. H. HUNT

Cleveland, O.

"We Miners"

Sirs:

In your article on silver entitled "Smart Silver" in your issue of July 29 I wish you would add one more item to the list of five results which you have quoted as the result of the Administration's effort to improve conditions. You quote the present price of silver with the idea of characterizing it as exorbitant.' I wish to say that for the 20 years preceding the Depression the average price received for silver by its producers averaged .7909-c-.

We miners are very grateful to, the Administration in its efforts to improve conditions and the result of this one effort in regard to silver has been the means of not only preventing a very widespread shutting down of mines but also has led to the re-employment of many thousands of men and so far as our district is concerned all the efficient able-bodied men are working, so we are all very grateful to Roosevelt. . . .

WALTER FITCH

Eureka, Utah

Contributing Factor

Sirs:

I take exception to the following statement in [TIME, Aug. 5]: "More humbly Dr. Conley pointed to osteopathy's great current weakness. The cult started with the single theory that all disease was caused by malposition of bones, and could be cured by manipulation of joints. . . ."

. . . As an old-school osteopath, whose privilege it was to study under Dr. Andrew Taylor Still himself, and enjoy the benefit of close acquaintance with him, I know that the founder of the American School of Osteopathy would never have tolerated the above statement. Dr Still taught and wrote that he had made his first discoveries during the Civil War in which he served in the medical corps. These discoveries led him into a careful study of the structural relations of bones, joints and adjoining soft tissue. His studies over a period of years were not made known to his colleagues until 1874 when he announced what he had found to be an "important contributing factor in disease."

TIME, please note contributing factor. Neither Dr. Still nor present day osteopaths would allow to pass unnoticed the reference you (or Dr. Conley) make to the effect that our therapy is a cult (fanatical), with a single theory that all disease has its origin in malposition of joints. No such statement is warranted by the facts. Osteopaths have training comparable to other four-year college courses. A graduate of our colleges would not be subject to obsessions or fanatical ideas.

We know that disease does not necessarily originate in maladjustments, but we know with equal certainty that structural derangements are a predisposing factor in disease, and that the osteopathic treatment of many diseases and afflictions is effective because it corrects conditions of circulation in nerve and muscle tissue. . . .

WM. H. RICHARDSON, D.O.

New York City

Sirs:

Permit me to express appreciation for myself and for my professional associates of the comprehensive article in last week's issue of TIME [Aug. 5] in which you dealt with the national convention of the American Osteopathic Association held at Cleveland. In a letter to all Osteopathic physicians who live in the Metropolitan district attention is being called to TIME and particularly to the issue now on the newsstands. . . .

HELEN M. DUNNING, D.O.

Public Relations Committee

Osteopathic Society

New York City

Deplorable Business

Sirs:

It is with regret that I read Mr. Frank Crowninshield's answer to the press in reference to the caricature of the Japanese Emperor which Vanity Fair published in the August edition [TIME, August 12].

A kindly apology on the part of Mr. Crowninshield would have obviated precipitating the whole affair into front-page news. Caricature can be vastly amusing--but when it stoops "to the level of bad taste and positive vulgarity it is a pretty deplorable business. How does Mr. Crowninshield suppose the Roman Catholic people of our country would feel if the Japanese displayed a comic strip of His Holiness the Pope as a vaudeville crooner? I daresay they would resent it--and quite properly, too.

When Mr. Crowninshield allowed Mr. William Cropper's caricature to be published, he struck not only at an Emperor but at a tradition. The following quotations from Mr. Crowninshield's answer to the press do little to gloss over an ugly situation.

"It is innocent sort of stuff," he said. "Some of our best Americans appear on the same page. I doubt very much if there will be a protest and I think things have been very much exaggerated. It is a case of becoming excited about nothing."

I beg to point out to him that the Japanese people do not get excited. Becoming excited is a characteristic in which they are particularly lacking. That they are deeply disturbed is true, because they are deeply hurt by so grave a display of bad taste. Mr. Crowninshield's reference to some of our best Americans who appear on the same page with the caricature of the Japanese Emperor simply adds comedy to insult. If Mr. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Huey Long are numbered among our best Americans, I find it frankly funny. That they are conspicuous Americans is beyond doubt, but that they have much claim to tradition or culture is questionable. . . .

CONSTANCE BEAUDCLEY DE HAVEN

New York City

Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair last week made public a letter he had written Ambassador Hirosi Saito of Japan. Said he: "I am sorry that the drawing gave offense. . . ."

"Have M-m-m-mercy!"

Sirs:

It was probably not the filth, as Miss Evans of Wichita, Kans. suggested, but the extreme wordiness of Mr. Wolfe which the English butler feared [TIME, July 29]. If the butler had conversed with Mr. Wolfe, a flood, deluge, inundation, avalanche, onrush, inrush of words would have descended upon him, got in his bone and marrow, (and hair) ; in the adytum of his soul, in the conduits of his blood, and would have caused him to moan, groan, scream, shriek, and cry out, and paw the dark visage of the earth.

Please, Mr. Wolfe, in the words of Eugene's brother, Luke (Of Time and the River), I b-b-b-beg, I b-b-b-beseech, I e-e-e-entreat, have the g-g-g-g-g-g-g-goodness, have the k-k-k-kind-ness, have the m-m-m-mercy, for my sake, for all our sakes. for God's sake, not to use all the words of your marvelous vocabulary in each and every sentence.

LILLIE MAE FINNEGAN

Dallas, Tex.

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