Temple's I.Q..
Sirs:
I am not a psychologist, hut it is my impression that I.Q. is the ratio of menial age to physiological age. in which case your state- ment regarding Shirley Temple's I.Q. (TIME, April 27, p. 40) has no meaning. A 9-year-old may have almost any I.Q. What is meant, presumably, is that Shirley's mental age is 9 and her I.Q., therefore, about 130.
L. A. BEHR
Mt. Yernon, N. Y.
To eleven other vigilant amateur and professional psychologists who corrected TIME on Shirley Temple's intelligence quotient, apologies for a slip. TIME intended to say that Cinemactress Temple had a mental age of 9. Last year her I.Q. mental age 100--, during the film-chronological ageing of The Littlest Rebel, was 155.--ED.
EXAMPLE
Sirs:
Being a newspaperman, I naturally take an active interest in national affairs: therefore, it is always with extreme pleasure that I participate, whenever it is possible of my doing so, in any movement whose accepted plan will find nation-wide approval.
Some time ago, 1 wrote the National Broadcasting Co. with the suggestion that they play The Star Spangled Manner over their network several times daily as a contribution to patriotism. This. I felt, would be a salutary innovation on the part of broadcasters. Broadcasting companies of other nations include their national songs on programs daily. Attention is called to the fact that England signs off with God Save the King.
The other day welcome announcement was made to the public by NBC of its decision to act upon my suggestion, for which as an American citizen I join with my countrymen in expressing wholehearted approval. This action on the part of the National Broadcasting Co. is, I feel, more than a patriotic move: it is an EXAMPLE in patriotism. More than ever, it is needed now. My hope now, therefore, that other U'. S. broadcasting companies will rapidly fall in step.
RAE BEAMISH
Rochester, N. Y.
On April 19, National Broadcasting Company announced that henceforth it would play The Star Spangled Banner ''several times daily ... to let the world know that Uncle Sam has a national anthem." So far the performance has been limited to sustaining (noncommercial) programs with big bands, which play the anthem four times on Monday, thrice most of the rest of the week, once on Saturday. NBC does not credit Editor Beamish with the idea. Many people had suggested it before. According to NBC's publicity department, the organization has "sort of gone patriotic" and "wants to make people conscious of the election."--ED.
Thank You, Judge Sirs: Allow me to give three cheers, through your great magazine TIME, to Judge Sylvain Lazarus of the San Francisco Municipal Court for stirring up the Filipinos in the U. S. by his spicy utterance of their supposed savagery [TIME, April 13]. Judge Lazarus, who is now famous among us through the headlines and editorials of Filipino publications, as well as through your recent comment in TIME, must have applied his deep understanding of human nature when he proclaimed the Filipinos are ''scarcely more than savages." He knows his practical psychology and philosophy on human reactions. His surprising voice not only provoked educated and ambitious Filipinos, but also it has stimulated deeper thinking among those who are only racial and social-conscious.
He will be long remembered for reminding us of a terrible weakness which ought to be completely overcome. Any sort of crime does not pay. . . .
We Filipinos are tickled at being called "great lovers." Surely, we are proud of this heritage.
We love our women so much that we work ourselves to death to gain and keep their affections.
Possibly race-conscious Californians do not know it. Perhaps our white sisters of the jazz era only take it for granted and give us trouble.
Thence the hair-raising case brought before Judge Lazarus, who gave us a great lesson by lowering our social and educational standard less than we expected. Nevertheless, thank you.
Judge, for awakening us and the rest of the world to get rid of a weakness--undesirable Crime. Three cheers to you.
SYLVESTER SATURDAY
Editor the Filipino Poets League Washington, D. C.
Salem Cosmopolitans
Sirs: In your most illuminating story of the dedication of the 100,000th privy built in WestVirginia under the WPA in TIME. April 27. you refer to the "bumpkin Salem College students," who dumped corn cobs at the feet of the speaker.
The ''bumpkins" you speak of did not happen to be ''West Virginia hill billies" at all. but were of good Pennsylvania slock -- not "bumpkins," just college students with a sense of humor.
We, as students of Salem College, object to the "bumpkin" sobriquet. Salem is one of the most cosmopolitan small colleges in the I". S.
having representatives from nearly every state in the union, and has an enrollment of only 320. West Virginia's Senators, Rush D. Holt and Matthew M. Neely, and Representative Jennings Randolph are graduates of our institution.
Now to enlighten you on the nonfamous privy: It was of a snow-white hue and not orange and white as stated in TIME.
W. KERMIT HOLT Co-Publicity Director
Salem College
Salem, West Virginia
To Salem's 320 college cosmopolitans, more power. For the information of Co-Publicity Director Holt (no kin to West Virginia's Junior Senator), Senior Senator Neely spent four spring terms at Salem, was not graduated from Salem but from West Virginia University.--ED.
Buchmanites Abroad Sirs: CANADIAN TIME-READER ABROAD ACCOUSTOMED ACCURACY TIME NEWS AMAZED INADEQUACY OXFORD GROUP PRESENTATION YOUR ISSUE APRIL 20.
PAUL NANTON London
Sirs:
AS A CANADIAN IN LONDON WHO HAS BEEN AN ADMIRING READER OF TIME SINCE ITS INCEPTION AND FULLY APPRECIATING ITS TIMESQUE PRESENTATION OF WORLD NEWS, I AM BAFFLED BY THE CONSPICUOUS FAILURE TO EVALUATE THE WORK OF THE OXFORD GROUP IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 20. BUCHMAN AND THE OXFORD GROUP WILL WEATHER IT. WILL YOU? . . .
J. F. ERIC BENTLEY
London
AS TIME-READER IN ENGLAND, WOULD SUGGEST SETTING OF YOUR ARTICLE ON OXFORD GROUP SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT. WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS OXFORD GROUP IS DOING WHAT CHURCH OF CHRIST EXISTS EVERYWHERE TO DO, WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT--A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY MAN.
J. F. BROCK, M. D.
British Post Graduate Medical School London
Sirs:
MY CONFIDENCE INTEGRITY TIME RUDELY SHATTERED BY YOUR GROSSLY INADEQUATE ACCOUNT OXFORD GROUP
ISSUE APRIL ' 20. AS ENGLISH SUBSCRIBER KNOWING FACTS CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OXFORD GROUP'S INTERNATIONAL SCALE OPERATIONS EUROPE, I READ YOUR TINY PICTURE ITS WORK WITH AMAZEMENT.
HALLEN VINEY JR.
London
WLW's Dispenser
Sirs: Your opinion--pardon me, TIME, does not express opinions--your description of Boake Carter's "sinister British baritone" and "his freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his head" (TIME, April 13) agrees with mine to a T.
Many of us here in the American Colony of this city consider Paul Sullivan, WLW's news dispenser and commentator, the best on the air.
His "theme-song" type of broadcast (Fear, Hope, Hatred, etc.), which he employs upon occasion, packs an awful wallop. We deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway.
Could you spare the space to print a picture of, and a little information about this man Sullivan? He may not make news as does Boake Carter but, like TIME, he knows how to poignantly report it. W. E. HAYDEN JR.
Santa Marta, Colombia
Vincent Paul Sullivan is one of the few radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year.
His ambition: "To be the best gosh-darned news commentator in existence."--ED.
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