New Nose

Sirs:

Bravo! Father TIME for your ''calling" William J. Edwards' concealment of true facts or else his ignorance on the Soviet supplying Italy-war materials (TIME. Oct. 7).

My sense of smell is most sensitive where right or wrong is concerned and so I'll add an appreciative nose to your newsstand count of circulation by contributing a subscription to replace William J. Edwards. I suggest he subscribe to some fairy tale publications.

Give this subscription [check for $5 enclosed] to some worthwhile hospital or charitable organization.

ROBERT H. ROTHSCHILD

Birmingham, Ala.

To fulfill Reader Rothschild's request, TIME let a member of the staff, blindfolded, stick a pin in a U. S. map. The pin pierced the name of Paducah. Ky. TIME then asked Paducah's most eminent citizen, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, to nominate a beneficiary in his town. Result: To Paducah's Riverside Hospital, one year's subscription to TIME. To Reader Rothschild, hearty thanks.--ED.

Tennessean Memories Sirs:

A faint nostalgia assails me as I read comments in Press anent Nashville's Tennessean (TIME, Oct. 21). . . . I, as a member of the original staff, am too weak to resist adding a few episodes.

Luke Lea had vast political and other ambitions those days of 1906-1907. A thorough Southerner, member of an exalted Dixie family, rich, and venerated in his native Nashville, he made the initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent was too mildly Southern to fit in well in Nashville. Those were still the Damned Yankee days. . . .

The Tennessean entered the morning newspaper field against the Nashville American-- nearly a century old and an Institution there. We of the newly-born Tennessean never knew the connection, but nevertheless our Tennessean presses (they were secondhand) mysteriously developed sanded bearings and delivery of the newly-born newspaper child was delayed unaccountably. We Northerners weren't any too popular either.

I remember the Southern Turf very well-- but the most popular drink emporium in Nashville in my days was Luigart's--across from our Vine street building, where most of us had our own cedar beer mugs kept on ice. . . .

It was on the Tennessean . . . that (Iraniland Rice first rose to full power. He had worked . . . with Suter in a publishing business in Washington. He joined the Tennessean under contract to produce daily one lull editorial column feature (mostly verse) called "Tennessee-Uns" and to handle sports. He wrote nearly a full column of sports verse and views daily. The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair. And no wonder, considering his daily output. . . .

It should also be recalled that it was shortly after Senator Carmack's assumption of the editorship of the Tennessean that he was assasinated on the streets of Nashville because of a long-existing feud with Governor Malcolm Patterson.

And ultimately, the Tennessean absorbed its archrival, the American. PERRY ARNOLD

United Press Assn. New York City

To Unipresser Arnold thanks for lively footnotes--ED.

Debacle's Disciple

Sirs:

Does politically-alert TIME feel in its own heart that Publisher Frank Knox is presidentially possible [TIME, Oct. 14]? Its recital of his life's work to date reads like that of any other tycoon of the street who has learned how to make money and employ it wisely. A reader of the Chicago Daily News ever since Candidate Knox took it over, and long before. I have never known it to profess a political creed other than standpat, high-tariffed, hands-off Republicanism, the creed of the American debacle.

So Publisher Knox stands for social, justice and collective bargaining, but not as the New Deal understands them. What does that mean? Every ward-heeler who has ever run for office has campaigned for the Rights of Man: not until the Roosevelt years have such banalities become meaningful, articulate law.

Collective bargaining without the teeth of the Wagner Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round.

EDMUND A. STEPHAN

Omaha, Neb.

Sirs:

Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today.

BLAKE ROBERTS Wilmette, Ill. Names

Sirs:

Negrophiles are constantly poking fun at the names of Negro organizations in the stories of Octavus Roy Cohen, Harris Dickson, Roark Bradford et al., saying such names are gross burlesque. Following are the names of some Negro societies in Mississippi, transcribed from the records of charters of incorporation in the office of Secretary of State Walker Wood at Jackson.

The Brotherly Love Continue Undertakers and Sons of America.

The Connubial Anti-Matrimonial Society.

The Nuptial Tie Union.

Co-operative Too Utter Utterly Utter Marriage Aid Association.

Grand Tabernacle Independent Order of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity.

Grand Fountain of Grand United Order of True Reformers of the State of Mississippi.

Supreme Lodge of the United Reformers of America, Asia and Africa.

The Supreme Division of Men and Women of the City of Refuge.

Supreme Lodge of the Grand Arch Temple of the Brothers and Sisters of America.

Independent Order of the Sons and Daughters of Jackson, of Mississippi and America.

Independent Pole Bearers of Australia.

The Grand Court of the Independent Order of Calanthe, under the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court Annexed to the Supreme Ledge Knights of Pythias, Colored, of North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

The Negro suffers much injustice at the hands of white men in the deep South, and even more at the hands of the professional organizers of his own race who take advantage of the love of regalia and high-sounding titles and prey on him.

MARSHALL WINGFIELD

Pastor

First Christian Church Amory, Miss.

Other Five

Sirs:

In TIME, Oct. 14, you say of the Chicago Daily News, ". . . one of the nation's half-dozen great papers." Will TIME please publish the complete list of six and state reasons?

ELEANOR C.A. Southern Corning, N. Y. Sirs: . . . .For my information, will you kindly vise the other five? THOMAS C. WINTER Grand Rapids, Mich. Let TIME readers choose their own other five from the following list: Atlanta Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas News, Detroit News, Kansas City Star, Los

Angeles Times, Memphis Commercial Appeal, New York Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.--ED.

Map Pleasure

Sirs:

May I express my pleasure in once more finding Richard Harrison's ''news maps" in TIME, after what I feared might be a permanent absence? I rate them as one of the most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue to put the news on the map for us.

DONALD L. CHERRY

Stanford University, Calif. Vantage Point

TIME, Oct. 14 issue, " 'Skipper' Roosevelt took in the whole show from the Houston's No. 2 barbette, etc."

If TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position?

It would not be necessary for TIME to join the Navy in order to learn that a barbette is the stationary armored platform upon which a turret revolves, and therefore would be a most unlikely place that the President or anyone else would choose to view anything. . . .

ROY D. WOODALL

Photographer, First Class, U. S. N. V. S. S. Henderson Pearl Harbor, T. H.

TIME sprinkled its salt askew. The President's vantage point was a special platform on the superstructure in front of No. 2 turret.--ED.

Ripsnorter

Sirs:

... I wish to respectfully point out a slight error (slight, my foot, a very grave error), in reporting the American Legion parade. On p. 15, Oct. 7 issue I quote: "The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat." Since when did a ripsnortin' Wyoming cowpuncher resemble a Nebraskan cowhand?

Unable to obtain an honest-to-God "lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied.

D. K. REIMERS

Moose, Wyo.

Sober Dr. Condon

Sirs:

TIME, Oct. 7, by an unfortunate, and I am sure unintentional implication, casts grave slur at my close friend and respected mentor, Dr. John F. "Jafsie" Condon. Passage follows: "Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie") Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. . . ." The article and passage quoted continues to enumerate other incidents in citation of "individual and public drunkenness."

Several of my friends inferred from the way this paragraph was written that Jafsie was drinking if not drunk in Jack Dempsey's "saloon" that night after the fight. Such is far from fact.

... Dr. Condon never touches liquor, to

my knowledge never even takes beer. He is

known for this abstention, which is a natural

part of his lifelong determination to preserve

a vigorous physique. . . . Dr. Condon happened to go to Dempsey's that night to ask Jack to appear at an Elk's benefit. He wasn't even at the fight.

LESTER LOCKWOOD

City Island, N. Y.

Dr. Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann.--ED.

Tender Mr. Hoover

Sirs:

... I cast you out utterly in your recent report of Herbert Hoover. . . . You say that "he is capable of at least one passion, that of anger ... he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges . . ." (TIME, Oct. 14).

Could the magnanimous and constructive engineer who dealt with Huns be given to anger? Could the one man who went between all the loosed war dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations--could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak of an angry Lincoln or an angry Christ himself as an angry Hoover. . . .

M. BURK

Stamford, Conn.

Devil's Due

Sirs:

In the wrathful wallops that indignant clergymen administered upon President Roosevelt, quoted in TIME, Oct. 28, there appears one serious error. The Rev. Robert I. Wilson protests: "Your Administration . . . has undermined confidence with its failure to keep a single campaign promise." That is acutely wrong: The President solemnly promised to restore the liquor traffic. He has kept that promise. Why can't you give the poor devil his due?

WILLIAM E. JOHNSON

McDonough, N. Y.

Snaggle-Toothed Fish

Sirs:

In TIME, Oct. 21, appears a picture of Hamilton Fish Jr. with a missing upper right lateral incisor tooth, which if replaced by good dentistry would improve his appearance 100% and save him from being dubbed "snaggle-toothed."

Louis BUFF, D.D.S.

Rochester, N. Y.

Elk Hound for Police Dog

Sirs:

On p. 17 of your Oct. 17 issue there is a moderately good picture of what appears to be a very good Norwegian Elk Hound which is called a "police dog." ... It is such inaccuracies which cause doubt of the reliability of other "facts."

ANDREW P. KELLOGG

Schenectady, N. Y.

TIME forgives fact-loving Reader Kelogg his slip: There was no 1935 issue of TIME dated Oct. 17.--ED.

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