Chaluzim
Sirs:
"In 13 years moneyed Jews have turned Palestine from a dead land of herders to a well-irrigated industrial nation . . . " [TIME, May 4].
You are wrong. I hate to say it because most of the time you are right. It was not "moneyed Jews" who did it. It was mostly the financial sacrifices of poor Jews who did it. The swamps were drained not by "moneyed Jews" but by "chaluzim" (pioneers) Jewish boys and girls who willingly gave themselves to the job while "moneyed Jews" called Zionists all sorts of names or ridiculed them at best. The gangsters of Germany may have changed the attitude of some "moneyed Jews" toward Palestine, but the fact remains that "moneyed Jews" stood aloof and many of them still do.
As for the Legislative Council. Why not use the literacy test as a standard for representation? Can illiterates vote in this country? If that is done the Jews will have proper representation.
The "$3,100,000 Government surplus" of Palestine was created not by the Arabs, under whom Palestine became what you rightly call "a dead land." It was created by Jewish brains and Jewish brawn and Jewish sacrifice.
Nor has the British Government been partial to the Jews in Palestine. With taxes paid by Jews, Arabs were furnished schools and hospitals and other advantages, while the Jews had to finance their own schools and hospitals--in other words were doubly taxed.
OSCAR LEONARD
Harmon-on-Hudson, N. Y.
By "moneyed Jews," TIME meant to distinguish Palestine Jews as a class from Palestine Arabs, who are definitely not moneyed. Nevertheless, many a wealthy Jew, who made his money and home elsewhere, has given generously to the Zionist movement, among them: Felix Warburg ($50,000--$100,000 a year); the late Nathan Strauss ($2,000,000); Maurice Levin ($50,000); Israel Sieff ($250,000); Simon Marks ($250,000); also the late Baron de Rothschild ($20,000,000).--ED.
Sirs:
At the very outset, I should like to state that I expect neither a retraction from TIME, nor the shouldering of any responsibility for the inference created by TIME in its article on Palestine in the May 4 issue.
Even as a Zionist, I can see that neither the Arab nor the Jew will receive complete control of Palestine. However, I believe even the editors of TIME can understand that a legislative council composed of 13 Arabs, eight Jews and five Britons, while mathematically speaking, gives the Jew more representation than his present population warrants, certainly does not adequately protect the interests and investment of Jews in Palestine. Before the Jews began rehabilitating Palestine, the country was one uncivilized and barbarous; reeking with poverty, malaria, cholera and similar plagues. Through the activity of various Zionist organizations such as Hadassah, ZOA, Young Judaea etc.., hospitalization, afforestation, and the establishment of an economically stabilized government have been introduced into Palestine. Is it unfair and far-fetched for 'the Jew, who has spread his benefits equally, not only for himself, but for the Arab in Palestine, to request a substantial control in the governing agency of the country?
Your article creates an unfair impression that the primary interest of Jewish business men in Tel Aviv to quiet the rioting is an effort to protect the revenue from the Levant Fair. You may be assured that the first consideration of the Jew in Palestine, as the Jew everywhere else, is not business, but the fundamental principle of human right, defined as "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." The testimony of the past history of the Jewish people is evidence of this feeling.
EDWARD R. VAJDA
Attorney at Law
Atlanta, Ga.
If Jews are out to establish in Palestine the democratic human rights of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," a puzzled Arab might wonder why they turn their backs on the corollary democratic principle of proportional representation.
--ED.
Hardware Man's Mind
Sirs:
Boy! Does it tickle me to read your comeback at your critics, particularly the one in the Letters Department of TIME, May 4, under "Architect's Mind."
What the hell does he think the mind of an architect is, anyway? Something superior to that of the rest of us?
Most likely he meant it when he said, "Of course, it would be presumptuous to hold that (our) mind ... is in any way comparable to that of a magazine writer."
During my 30 years' business contact with them (hardware, plumbing and heating supplies), I have spoken to hundreds of them and on many subjects. While, of course, they can talk of tensile strength, rust-resisting properties, weight-supporting abilities etc., etc., I have not found very many of them much higher in thinking ability than their training would necessitate.
Anyway, what is he mad about? I read the article he refers to and can't find anything the matter with it. ...
WILLARD O. REINHART
Elizabeth, N. J.
Der Edle Ritter
Sirs:
On p. 22 of TIME, May 4, mention was made of both the German and Austrian celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the death of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Scant respect was shown to the hero thus honored in the description given of his physical appearance.
No mention was made of the fact that his noble qualities had inspired a popular song entitled Der Edle Rittcr (The Noble Knight), composed in his honor while he lived.
Having read an account of Eugene's interview with Louis XIV of France, this writer believes that Prince Eugene (after refusing to serve as an abbe in the church at the King's command), offered to serve in the French army in any humble capacity. When the king refused, he offered his services to Austria and later, as general of Austria's armies, became one of the most celebrated soldiers of history, surpassing all others in his record of battles won.
There was also a romance which this writer found in a volume devoted to a life history of Prince Eugene of Savoy, telling about a love which existed all his life in the heart of Eugene for a lovely woman. They met when both were quite young at the court of Louis XIV, and this beautiful girl fell in love with him at sight. Would she have been likely to fall in love with the "big nostriled face, crooked little frame, cold, dogged stare" of such a youth as was described in the article which appeared in TIME?
EUNICE D. MARTIN
Chicago, Ill.
Steep Water
Sirs:
In TIME, April 27, under Science, you report the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society and, in your item Explosives from Corn, there is a gross misstatement which reflects greatly on the ability of the many chemists in the corn products industry. The statement at fault is: "300,000,000 quarts of the 'steep water' which the corn starch industry throws away every year."
No "steep water" is thrown away. In the manufacture of starch, the corn is first "soaked" or "steeped" in a dilute sulphurous acid water for approximately 36 hours. This soaking removes the soluble mineral matter, gums, dextrins, sugars and proteins to make "steep water." The germ is next removed, and expressed for oil. Hull and fibre are then separated, leaving corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product -- corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4DEG-5DEG of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published.
Inositol has been produced by one company for a number of years.
W. R. FETZER, PH.D.
Chief Chemist, Union Starch & Refining Co.
Granite City, Ill.
Thomas at Stanford
Sirs:
Let me call your attention to a highly annoying error that appeared in the article "Peace Day" in the May 4 issue of your usually meticulous newsmagazine.
Norman Thomas spoke not at Stanford, as TIME reported, but at the University of California, where a crowd of 5,000 striking students cut their 11 o'clock classes to hear him and several student speakers. The demonstration was largest in the U. S. No Veterans of Future Wars paraded. Only song was All Hail with which all University meetings are closed. The many police present proved unnecessary as the strike was conducted along orderly parliamentary lines. Only through a misunderstanding due largely to the absence of President Robert G. Sproul was the demonstration held just off the campus instead of in the university gym. The overwhelming support that the occasion was given by a heretofore notoriously archconservative, socially unconscious, radical-baiting student body is highly significant.
SAMUEL A. SCHAAF
Berkeley, Calif.
Were Reader Schaaf's eyes sharper, they would have seen that TIME reported Norman Thomas as speaking at a "pre-Peace Day meeting" at Stanford, which observed Peace Day with a 48-hr. conference.
--ED.
Virgin's Greatest
Sirs:
Pissarro may be the greatest man from the Virgin Islands [TIME, March 16], but he has a close rival in Judah Benjamin (1811-84). My own candidate would be Sosthenes Behn.
T. P. CHANDLER JR.
Cambridge, Mass.
In addition to Painter Pissarro, International Telephone and Telegraph's Behn and the Confederacy's Secretary of War and State Benjamin, the only other famed Virgin Islanders TIME was able to discover were Secretary Ashley Totten of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the late, great Negro Boxer Peter Jackson.
--ED.
TIME In England
Sirs:
I believe that many readers of your "curt, clear, complete" newsmagazine have been misinformed regarding the sale of TIME in England. I believed and informed many friends that TIME was not sold in England. Now I wish to know from an authoritative source if the sale of TIME is prohibited in England and English domains. If the sale is prohibited I desire the correct information.
P. LESTER SCARDINO
Houston, Tex.
To subscribers in Great Britain go 1,608 copies of TIME each week. British newsstand sales average 900.--ED.
Virile Chant
Sirs:
Evil to him who evil thinks. Let readers Robinson and Pitfield (TIME, May 4) renovate their thinking, consider that ''We beat the -- -- --!" as TIME quoted the exclamation attributed to J. Duncan Spaeth, could be read "We beat the sons of Harvard!" Repeated, this makes a virile but proper chant of victory which any son of Princeton might intone vigorously but without vulgarity.
Yours for chaste exuberance.
HAROLD H. YOST
Berkeley, Calif.
Eddy's Protection
Sirs:
Nashville women did not mob Baritone Nelson Eddy (TIME, May 4). . . .
Mr. Eddy's manager--or press agent--wired the Nashville police for protection from the expected maddened females. Due to late spring, better attention at home or some unknown cause, women were able to control themselves without police aid, according to Nashville papers and local people who were there.
Could it be possible that TIME has been spoofed?
H. E. GHOLSONT
Clarksville, Tenn.
TIME was indeed spoofed by an astute press agent who, traveling with Mr. Eddy, fathered the same canard at Atlanta and Chattanooga.--ED.
Again, Svedberg
Sirs:
Regarding the communication by Allen D. Bliss (May 4), TIME, along with the International Who's Who and World Almanac need not stand corrected.
As a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and of the International Education Board during the years 1925-27, working under Professor Svedberg's immediate direction, and being privileged to count him among my intimate friends, I assure you that The Svedberg was christened "Theodor." This name still appears in the catalog of Upsala University, "The" being printed parenthetically (as TIME should have done). About 1906, Professor Svedberg's dislike for "Theodor" crystallized, and thereafter he became "The" in all his writings and to the scientific world in general. And to all who have had the good fortune to be associated with him in his laboratory, he will always be the Svedberg.
J. B. NICHOLS
Chemical Dept.
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc.
Wilmington, Del.
Blessed are the Irritating
Sirs:
As an ignorant man and a philosopher, I am amazed and distressed at the implication you draw from my review in the International Journal of Ethics of President Hutchins' book, No Friendly Voice (TIME, May 4).
Evidently in the foreign parts whose customs you reflect university presidents dismiss professors for candid divergence of opinions on policy. Not so in my nation, Middle West; and particularly not so in its capital, Chicago. It is most unjust to President Hutchins, this attribution to my review of temeratiousness. "Temerity" under Hutchins, Mr. Editor, would have to be made of more audacious stuff than my mild brand of candor. Not only has President Hutchins defended our right to say whatever we think, inside the law--common, civil, criminal--but he has taught his professors a new use of language ("dialectics," it is called), wherein and whereby "intellectual virtue" is distilled from irritation and counterirritation. Perhaps you do not know that the Illinois Legislature discourages our practice in education of the Marxist formula, revolution and counterrevolution. We ourselves have outgrown the Hegelian counterpart, thesis and antithesis. But intent as all of us professors are, with President Hutchins, upon prompt progress, we accept gratefully as a substitute superior to these foreign short-cuts to civilization this new formula, irritation and counterirritation.
None of us professors plays the game well--as yet. I even apologize for my first feeble efforts, especially since TIME misunderstands the rules and the purpose of the game. But I do so want to learn to do it well, for President Hutchins' sake and for the sake of educational progress. Several of us Chicago professors have formed a private club to practice the game on one another until we learn to perpetrate it publicly the way President Hutchins plays it and wants it played.
Meantime, please lay off us with false thoughts of temerity, which do but shame our first steps toward dialectics and might daunt President Hutchins' earnest endeavor to make us the kind of professors we all want to become.
Know for a simple fact, recorded here in justice and admiration, that Hutchins of Chicago would resign his presidency rather than let a single professor suffer from free speech within the law. Hutchins' constant and just complaint at professors is not their temerity but their timidity. In that spirit a new commandment, indeed, he has given us: "Blessed are the irritating, for they bedevil us out of bewilderment."
And another thing, fellow-editors: How much salary do you suppose a state legislator gets, above or below campaign expenses? The whole truth is, unless you have spoiled it, that I hoped to get enough salary raise out of helping Hutchins popularize dialectics to finance my campaign for re-election to the Senate of Illinois.
T. V. SMITH
University of Chicago
Chicago. Ill.
Hungary for the Hungry!
Sirs:
The League of Yellow Journalists, newly-formed organization at Harvard University, taking note of your article entitled "Four on Hearst" [TIME, April 27], wishes to make the following statement:
"The League gives its official approval to the true biography of Mr. William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans.' "
The League, in recognition of Mr. Hearst's great service to the cause of Americanism, has recently elected him as honorary president. He was notified of his election by telegram.
As to the League itself, it is an organization of college students founded for the following purposes:
1) Exploitation of patriotism. The League in its campaigns increases the circulation of yellow journals, and conducts active work of a patriotic kind, which is also financially beneficial.
2) Instigation of foreign wars. The League spreads propaganda designed to lead to war. In this category come war scare stories of the Japanese danger which may soon end civilization.
3) Publication of stolen letters and telegrams.
4) Manufacture of misleading propaganda. Clauses 3 and 4 are methods employed by the organization.
5) Political crusades against persons opposed to the League's aims and methods.
6) Support for all pension and bonus schemes. The League favors both the Townsend Plan and the bonus for future veterans.
7) Extermination of the red menace in colleges, prep schools and kindergartens. Under this clause, one of the most important of all, the League is waging an active fight to drive out Communism from America. In this section fall Americanism slogans and stories and drives for teachers' oath laws. The teachers' oath law is a step in such legislation; when the League ends, everyone will have to take an oath to the Constitution before every meal.
The League's membership is rapidly increasing at Harvard and plans are being made for chapters at other colleges.
Officers of the League are William A. Kirstein, Tampa, Fla., president; Rolf Kaltenborn, Brooklyn, N. Y., vice president; George F. Halla, Troy, N. Y., secretary; William C. Engert, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer.
Various committees to carry out the League's purposes are being organized and will soon be functioning.
Slogans of the League are "BUY AMERICAN" and "AMERICA FOR THE AMERICANS! TURKEY FOR THE TURKEYS! HUNGARY FOR THE HUNGRY!"
WILLIAM A. KIRSTEIN
President
The League of Yellow Journalists
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
H. V.'s Good Start
Sirs:
In your issue of May 4, under Sport, p. 57, describing the University of Texas relay team you say: "Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year. . . ."
This may be true concerning the last three named members but does not apply to their lead-off man H. V. Reeves. "H. V." spent his freshman and sophomore college years at Schreiner Institute, junior college in the hill country of Texas, trained under Schreiner's famed Coach "Bully" Gilstrap, distinguished himself athletically and academically, graduated in 1934. He entered the U. of T. that fall.
Give us credit for getting "H. V." off to a good start.
W. G. MARTIN
Dean
Schreiner Institute
Kerrville, Tex.
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