Prophetic Early

Sirs:

In your Dec. 14 issue, p. 17, I find the following quotation, purporting to be from a speech made before the Southern Society of New York by Virginia's Senator Carter Glass: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.' "

It makes a rather interesting and apt story except for one thing. I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities.

With the above exception, I concur very heartily in the rest of the quotations from the Senator's speech. . . .

FERDINAND PHINIZY

Augusta, Ga.

Senator Glass confesses that he got his Confederate heroes mixed. For General Jubal A. Early, read Colonel Lawrence Marye.--ED.

Tutoring at Princeton Sirs: I want to call your attention to an inaccuracy in your account of tutoring as it exists in Princeton. . . .

I believe it is true that Princeton University, a few years ago, abandoned its custom of posting lists of conditioned students on public bulletin boards. Inasmuch as no member of my staff had ever made use of these lists, the action in no way affected us. I understand that the primary reason for this action was that an individual, in no way connected with me, had copied these lists, and had solicited the parents of the boys by personal letters, informing them that their sons should be tutored. Our own advertising has always been limited to two methods. We have made public announcements from time to time in University publications, and we have sent indiscriminately schedules of reviews to all members, good and bad alike, of the classes taking the subjects reviewed. I also wish to mention, without detailed comment, the fact that your statement concerning the tutoring of upperclassmen is incorrect. . . .

JOHN GALE HUN

Headmaster The Hun School Princeton, N. J.

TIME erred in implying that Princeton's rule against posting failures was directed against the Hun tutoring school, still maintains that Hun covers far more underclass than upperclass courses.--ED.

Tutoring at Harvard

Sirs:

This is to notify you that Parker-Cramer Tutors, situated at 2 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, Mass., have consulted me with reference to a libel, which was printed in your magazine under Education headed "Councilors & Tutors" on p. 44 of the Dec. 14 issue.

Parker-Cramer has never advertised nor practised a "Pay as you Pass" system, or a sliding scale rate.

On behalf of Parker-Cramer, I demand immediate retraction with reference to the libelous statements that were printed in this article about them. . . .

IRENE E. GOLDBARG

Boston, Mass.

Rechecking through another Harvard source, TIME finds that Parker-Cramer, as now corporately constituted, has never advertised a pay-as-you-pass system. In the same story, TIME also erred in saying that Manter Hall School had been enjoined by the University from selling lecture notes.--ED.

Green Bay's Exception

Sirs:

Your Sport department, Dec. 14 issue, p. 57. "The Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green Bay, Wis. (pop. 45,000) a U. S. sporting institution."

We take exception. We appreciate the article, the tribute to our Packers and the publicity it means but where, may I ask, did you get your information about Green Bay?

True we are in the center of a rich dairy section but the volume of business and payrolls of one large creamery and several small ones does not equal that of just one of the many manufacturing enterprises here. . . .

J. C. FOGARTY

Green Bay, Wis.

All credit to Green Bay's paper industry (Northern, Hoberg, Fort Howard mills), which employs 2,000 of the city's 13,000 workers. Cheese processing is Green Bay's second industry.--ED.

Pretty Good Premonition

Sirs:

Why all the surprise about the abdication of Edward VIII?

Most readers of TIME had a pretty good premonition of it some time ago when TIME reported a farewell conversation between the King and the Duchess of York and quoted the King as referring to her as "the future Queen of England." I don't recall the exact occasion but it was either at a departure of Edward from London on a long trip or the departure of the Duchess of York from London with her husband and Edward bidding them goodby.

After reading the article I thought of writing to you and calling attention to a possible

SCOOP, but I thought hundreds of other readers would do so and therefore passed it up. During the past few months, however, I have been taking bets on the matter and naturally have won, all based on the remark of Edward VIII as published in the TIME article.

JOHN T. MUELLER

Cleveland, Ohio

Reader Mueller has been lucky. It is true that Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, began teasing the present Queen Elizabeth by calling her "Queen Elizabeth" directly after she married the Duke of York in 1923. TIME reported the practice May 9, 1932. For years a few people in England took half-seriously the report that Edward might decide never to come to the throne, but available evidence indicates that nobody expected Edward to become King and then make such a mess as to render abdication his cleanest way out.--ED.

Albany Opposition

Sirs:

In the issue of TIME, Dec. 7, on p. 36, under the main head Transport, subhead "Ambitious Albany," appears an article with which we in Albany are very pleased, with the exception of the statement appearing on p. 38--that Albany civic groups favor the proposed Albany-St. Lawrence project.

On the contrary, Albany civic groups are strenuously opposed to the St. Lawrence project. On behalf of Albany businessmen, I was in attendance at the session of the International Joint Commission held in Albany, and put the Albany Chamber of Commerce on record as opposed. Among the reasons which I assigned were that facilities in this vicinity were ample to take care of all present transportation. . . .

WILLIAM E. FlTZSIMMONS President Albany Chamber of Commerce Albany, N. Y.

Well-Worn Phrase

Sirs:

In TIME, Dec. 14, Letters column, you credit the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," to my beloved boss, James Aloysius Farley, and call it the best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign.

All due credit to Boss Jim for first public utterance of this crack. As for myself, those were my first and exact words upon hearing the election returns. Only witness, another boss, my wife. . . .

J. DAN DUNAWAY

North Carolina Federation of Post Office Clerks Asheville, N. C.

Sirs:

It was I, not Jim Farley, who originated the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont". On election night, as returns flashed in to indicate a Roosevelt landslide, I wrote out the crack, marked it "col and 1/2 8 pt. bold face," handed it to the linotyper. It was printed in the paper of Nov. 4 and the copy for the remark, as I can prove, was stamped about 10:20 p. m. Nov. 3. JULIUS MILTON WESTHEIMER

The Dartmouth Hanover, N. H.

Sirs:

I sent a telegram to President Roosevelt at the White House immediately after the news came over the radio that New Hampshire had deserted the Landon Column: "Congratulations on your election again, also on Mr. Farley's prediction, 'As Maine goes so goes Vermont.' " I meant by Mr. Farley's prediction that he had conceded Maine and Vermont to the Republicans. My modesty forbids my allowing anyone else to take credit.

If you wish to verify this I believe you could do so by getting in touch with the President's secretary.

R. E. COLBY

Los Angeles, Calif.

Sirs:

. . . The Philadelphia Record editorial department conducted an office pool in which members guessed the number of electoral votes. Closest and victor was Rewriteman Warren MacAllen who gave Landon only Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley.

ROBERT M. BOWMAN

Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs:

Having seen in the Dec. 14 issue of TIME that you attribute the well-worn phrase, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont," to Gen. Farley, I thought you might be interested in my own experience with the words.

Near midnight on Nov. 3, I disgustedly turned off my radio and sat down to write my weekly column called "Hangovers" for my weekly country newspaper. The first words I set down were "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." I realized immediately that the wisecrack was so obvious that it was scarcely worth printing, but I let it ride because I could think of nothing better.

Early the next morning as I came downtown the first man I saw shouted to me "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Still resolute, I went to press early Wednesday, printed the already hackneyed phrase.

Thus judging from the percentage here in Blandinsville (pop. 1,000), no less than 219,999 other Americans joined General Farley in thinking up the most obvious mot of 1936 out of their own fertile but stereotyped brains. And you will probably get letters from all of them.

ROBERT H. TREGO

Editor

Blandinsville Star-Gazette

Blandinsville, Ill.

With the Star-Gazette's Trego, TIME now agrees that the origin of the campaign's wittiest crack was spontaneous, National. To all who thought they were the first to think of it, let there be blanket credit.--ED.

Weiss's Pandas

Sirs:

On p. 55 of the Dec. 7 issue TIME errs in reporting Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt as first white men to shoot a giant panda in Western China. In 1908 my father, Fritz Weiss, now retired German Minister, then consul in China, shot two giant pandas. Both are on exhibition in the museum of natural history in Berlin.

ALICE W. RAINES

Washington, D. C.

According to the Berlin Museum's records, Consul Weiss did not shoot his pandas but bought them from a Chinese. For news of the first giant panda ever taken alive, see p. 25. --ED.

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