Situation Wanted

Sirs:

I am very curious to know if Mr. Paul C. Smyth's "Situation Wanted" ad in your Aug. 8 issue brought results.

Did he actually land a job and if so what kind?...

SAMUEL H. BERGER

Clare, Mich.

> By Aug. 19 Paul Smyth had received 16 offers of a job. By Oct. 1 he had investigated the best bets, had accepted the offer of an Arkansas plantation owner, wrote TIME as follows:

Sirs:

...Here in Arkansas I have found an opportunity to put most of my varied knowledge and experience to work--trying to fill a combination of requirements ranging (alphabetically) from accounting to Xenophon.

In short, I am to be, if we both can stand the strain necessary to adjustment, the "alter ego" of a human dynamo....

Presently I am teaching his hens how to lay more eggs, promoting and installing a "quick-freezing" plant, making myself generally useful around the plantation and its office, and attempting to design a refinement for his alfalfa dehydrator. Twelve to 15 hours a day. seven days a week, each packed to the utmost with interesting activity....

It is difficult for me to express my gratitude to you for having cast me in the role of Alice in this Wonderland, but certainly I no longer doubt the existence of Americans--even in our land of planned scarcities--since, through your generosity, I met Robert B. Snowdcn Jr. here on his Arkansas plantation.

PAUL C. SMYTH

Horseshoe Plantation

Hughes, Ark.

> Heartened by the response to Paul Smyth's letter, TIME herewith offers, as a temporary experiment, to print one such "want ad" letter a week, for the next few weeks. Conditions: 1) all such letters must be accompanied by at least two letters of reference from businessmen, clergymen, etc. of the writer's acquaintance; 2) TIME reserves to itself the right to choose which, if any, letters it will print: 3) prospective employers must satisfy themselves of each applicant's merits.--ED.

Sirs

Sirs:

Why nothing but "Sirs" for salutations in "Letters"? Some must be received that are rather interesting. Anyhow, I still think you're gentlemen....

IRVIL N. HOWARD

Chicago, Ill.

> Reader Howard's surmise (about the salutations) is correct. A recent letter, for instance, began "Dear Buttercup."--ED.

Rooseveltiana

Sirs:

I submit the following to your collection of Rooseveltiana: "The Hymn of Hate according to the Economic Royalists."

Communists and Fascists they matter not,

A blow for a blow or a shot for a shot,

We love them not, we hate them not,

From early morn till evening late

We have, but one and only hate.

We love as one, we hate as one,

We have one joe and one alone: ROOSEVELT.

ALEX MURDOCK

Redlands, Calif.

> Greatly disappointed by the Roosevelt jokes, near-jokes and alleged jokes sent in by TIME'S readers, TIME has been forced to the conclusion that the Roosevelt story is a different kettle of fish from the old Ford story. There was always an implicit affection or admiration in the Tin Lizzie jokes: but there is nearly always an undercurrent of hatred in the stories about Franklin Roosevelt. Unwilling to foster that feeling, TIME herewith declares a moratorium on such Rooseveltiana.--ED.

Ohio's Bulkley

Sirs:

We the undersigned, voters of Ohio, hereby request you to publish one of your thumbnail biographies [of] our U. S. Senator Robert J. Bulkley, now a candidate for reelection....

R. D. WAUGH

A. J. KUEHN, M.D.

W. P. CARR

OTTO HOHLY

C. A. FOOTE

Toledo, Ohio

> The record of Ohio's Senator Robert

Johns Bulkley is as follows:

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1880.

Career: Robert Johns (not "Bob" but "Roy") Bulkley has more hair and more money than most Senators. Scion of a well-heeled pioneer family--Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard--he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a protege of Virginia's Carter Glass, who picked him as his House lieutenant in the fight for the Federal Reserve Act. During the campaign young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked of for the 1932 Presidential nomination. His boom died without an echo, but he had accumulated enough momentum for a full Senate term in 1932.

In the Senate, "the U. S.'s most exclusive club," Clubman Bulkley, jovial, substantial, friendly, fits easily and well. But Senator Bulkley has not fulfilled his youthful Congressional promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests of Roosevelt liberalism, Reorganization and the Supreme Court Bill, which Bulkley defended over a nation-wide radio hookup. For this service he received a brief Presidential endorsement in his primary campaign: Franklin Roosevelt spoke of him as "toiling."

Toiling and conscientious "Roy" Bulkley is. He works as hard as any man in the Senate. If he wavers on some national issues, that, his friends maintain, is because his mind moves deliberately, not because he is a trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing gum.--ED.

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