Without Refueling
Sirs:
In your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.--1 Kings 19: 8.
A forty day flight WITHOUT refueling is an ambitious program.
J. HIRAM GREENLEY Detroit, Mich.
Pennsylvania's Vare
Sirs: Your narrow-mindedness in the matter of Mr. VARE Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, shown on page 10 of the Jan. 7 issue, prompts me to end you herewith a page from the Congressional Record of Jan. 3, 1929, which includes a list of the United States Senators; and in alphabetical order appears the name of Senator Vare. . . . Your statement that Mr. VARE remained a Senator-suspect is not a fact, is untrue so far as developed facts appear, and has no place in on authentic account of this controversy. . . .
JOHN C. MACMAHON Maywood, Ill.
The credentials of Senator-elect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania were accepted by the U. S. Senate on March 4, 1927; but he has not yet been allowed to ake his seat, because of charges pending against him. These charges, as summed up last week in the report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois).-ED.
Canker Stand
TIME MAGAZINE
205 EAST 42 ST. NEW YORK N v COMMERCIAL APPEAL OF MEMPHIS IN FRONT PAGE FIRST COLUMN LEAD STORY TODAY CARRIES REPORT ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF PRESIDENT FRANK A. WELLER TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DYERS AND CLEANERS WHO ARE ASSEMBLED IN CONVENTION HERE THIS WEEK. THE APPEAL SAYS THAT MR. WELLER DECLARED THE RACKETEERS WITH WHOSE ACTIVITIES ONLY A VERY FEW MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRY HAD BEEN CONNECTED HAD BEEN THE CAUSE OF UNJUST AND UNFAVORABLE PUBLICITY TO THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY. HE RECOMMENDED TO THE CONVENTION THAT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DYERS AND CLEANERS OF WHICH HE IS PRESIDENT SHOULD DECLARE ITSELF AS UNALTERABLY OPPOSED TO THE INCLUSION IN ITS MEMBERSHIP OF ANY DRY CLEANER PLANT OWNER PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH THE ACTIVITIES OF THE RACKETEERS AND THE REFUSAL OF MEMBERSHIP FOR ALL TIME TO COME TO ANY OPERATOR WHO HAD THUS FAILED IN HIS DUTY TO SOCIETY. APPEAL FURTHER SAYS "THE ADDRESS DELIVERED AT A TIME WHEN THE AUDITORIUM WAS PACKED WITH DELEGATES RECEIVED INSTANT APPROVAL OF THE CONVENTION. MR. WELLER MAINTAINED THAT THE DRY CLEANING INDUSTRY HAD BEEN A VICTIM OF THE RACKETEER THROUGH NO FAULT OF THE MAJORITY OF THE DRY CLEANERS BUT HE FURTHER STATED THAT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRY TO ELIMINATE THE RACKETEERS." IN ONE OF YOUR ISSUES A FEW MONTHS AGO YOU GAVE THE STORY OF SCARFACE AL CAPONE'S CONNECTION WITH ONE PLANT SOME PUBLICITY WHICH REFLECTED SERIOUSLY ON THE INDUSTRY IN GENERAL. WILL YOU NOT IN FAIRNESS TO AN IMPORTANT SERVICE INDUSTRY DOING A BUSINESS OF SIX HUNDRED MILLION ANNUALLY AND SERVING ALL OF OUR PEOPLE PUBLISH THIS OFFICIAL ATTITUDE AND DEFINITE STAND OF THE INDUSTRY'S LEADER ON THIS CANKER WHICH HAS AFFECTED MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED INDUSTRIES IN ONE AMERICAN CITY.
PAUL C. TRIMBLE MANAGING DIRECTOR NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DYERS AND CLEANERS MEMPHIS, TENN.
FRANK A. WELLER YOUR SUBSCRIBER OF MANY YEARS HAD HIS PROGRAM OF ACTION AGAINST RACKETEERS IN THE CLEANING INDUSTRY ENTHUSIASTICALLY INDORSED BY THE THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED HERE YESTERDAY BY HIS UNANIMOUS REELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THIS ACTION INDICATES DEFINITELY POLICY OF TRADE ASSOCIATION TO COOPERATE WITH FORCES OF LAW AND ORDER TO ELIMINATE THE RACKETEER FROM AMERICA.
PAUL C. TRIMBLE MANAGING DIRECTOR NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DYERS AND CLEANERS MEMPHIS, TENN.
Ice Box
Sirs:
I have just finished reading my issue of TIME of Jan. 7--and when I say "my" I mean it. I enjoy TIME. It seems to be a part of me. I await its arrival with anxiety, but I have a gross complaint to make.
On several occasions you have either ignorantly, or "accidently on purpose" put the wrong words in the wrong place. Of all the times TIME has done this, the issue of Jan. 7 contains one of these "aops"--that is, a word, or words, used accidentally on purpose or ignorantly, and that word is "Ice Box."
In an article under "Business and Finance," referring to Chrysler Motors you say: "Balancing General Motors, Chrysler has everything except an Ice Box."
The words "Ice Box" used in this case are an "aop" of high magnitude. General Motors are spending millions yearly educating the people of the United States and almost all other countries in the world away from using any kind of icebox to their method of refrigeration. You could have called it an "ice plant" as it makes ice, but please don't call General Motors ice box manufacturers, because people with very little knowledge of General Motors know they do not make ice boxes.
. . . You wouldn't say Ford made buggies; it is as absurd to say that General Motors makes ice boxes.
A. C. STROMWELL
Fresno, Calif.
Modesty
Sirs:
You were a nice, clean magazine that could safely be given to clean boys & girls but your picture of a Zig in the Dec. 17 issue was in bad taste.
Not all are as sophisticated as you & some of us have still some of the old-fashioned virtue of modesty.
Such pictures do not add to your usefulness as a reference magazine in school work.
ALPHONSE J. MILLER
St. Mary's School Hilo, Hawaii
Again, Tycoon
Sirs:
It is too bad that those reformers who urge you to stop using the word "tycoon" shouldn't start by eliminating "love-nest" from the tabloids or breeding quilless porcupines. Trusting you cling to your verbal pet, I append the following in the style of comic-opera tycoon Gilbert (vide Patience, Act I):
If you want a recipe for that popular embolism,
Known to the world as a potent tycoon,
Take all the remarkable people in journalism,
Rattle them off to a popular tune: The pluck of Charles Lindbergh in flights aeronautical;
Genius of Morgan financing a deal; The ego of Duce, the premier despotical;
Suaveness of Whalen who looks so genteel.
The science of Edison, the octogenarian;
Wit of Will Rogers, who masticates gum;
The IT (sic) of Peggy, the humanitarian;
Action of Volstead prohibiting rum.
The dash of a cowboy like J. Warren Kerrigan--
Mergers of railroads per brothers Van Sweringen
Victor Emmanuel, eating spaghetti,
Snyder and Gray and Sacco-Vanzetti-- Raskob and Willebrandt-Charley Levine,
William Hale Thompson and poetess Stein! Take from these characters all that's ridiculous,
Get around libel but don't be meticulous,
Set them in type and print while they're prime,
And a potent tycoon is ready for TIME!
Chorus: Yes! yes! yes! yes! A potent tycoon is ready for TIME!
If you want a receipt for that marvelous disk again,
Don't worry much to discover the truth--
The money of motor kings reigning in Michigan,
Force of the baseballs as struck by Babe Ruth.
The lateness of Walker, exponent sartorial,
Effort of Scopes to buck Tennessee,
The temper of Borglum (Stone Mountain Memorial),
Preaching of Straton, the Baptist D. D.
The regal reward Zogu got in Albania,
Press interviews from the Queen of Rumania;
Alfred E. Smith with a plan for autonomy,
President Coolidge's slant on economy,
Fall and Doheny in oily details--
Herbert C. Hoover and Edward of Wales!
Take from these characters all that's ridiculous, Get around libel but don't be meticulous,
Set them in type and print while they're prime,
And a potent tycoon is ready for TIME!
Chorus: Yes! etc.
Long may TIME flourish, tycoonery rampant on every page.
EDWARD C. PARKER
Detroit, Mich.
To Subscriber Parker thanks for his poem based, though it is, upon a misconception of "tycoon" 's TIME-significance.
-ED.
Baruch's Plantation
Sirs:
Let me again congratulate you on the general excellence of your magazine. I was glad to note in your last issue that TIME really knows that there is a portion of the United States which lies South of the Potomac. A careful reading of your magazine for the last several years had left me with some doubt about this point.
There is, however, one error in your article on "Tycoons' Coast," and that is your statement that Bernard M. Baruch inherited his plantation at Georgetown, S. C., from his father, who was a surgeon on the Staff of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The facts are that Mr. Baruch's present holdings at Georgetown were acquired by purchase, and were acquired from numerous families who had owned these plantations for many years. The bulk of the plantation, "Hobcaw Barony," which consists of the tip of a peninsula lying between the Atlantic Ocean and Waccamaw River, upon which Mr. Baruch's house stands, was acquired from the late Harry Donaldson of Georgetown, S. C., some twenty years ago, and the other plantations were acquired by him from time to time subsequent to that date. . . .
WM. P. CONGDON
Augusta, Ga.
Tarpon
Sirs:
Am shocked at the following misstatement on page 14, Jan. 7 issue in connection with Florida fishing:
"Though the tarpon, greatest of southeastern game fish, is caught off Florida's west coast."
As I write this letter my eyes gaze fondly at a mounted tarpon which weighed 182 pounds when I brought it to gaff recently on Florida's east coast. Modesty forbids my saying more, but let your Editor read or consult what is now regarded as a textbook on Florida east coast fishing, Adventures With Rod and Harpoon Along the Florida Keys, written by that prince of sportsmen, H. Wendell Endicott.
R. H. HINKLEY
Dedham, Mass.
Also famed for tarpon is Pass Christian, Miss., where the annual Rodeo is held. --ED.
Shooting
Sirs:
I have read your article on page 9 of your issue of Jan. 7 on the subject of shooting in England.
I have an estate of some 900 acres at Ringwould, Kent, 6 miles from Dover. The only way to shoot partridges--I have no pheasants (they cost some $5 each to rear and put in the woods)--is by walking in line and shooting the birds as they rise from cover.
Pheasant shooting on the scale you quote is only the sport of the rich, say equivalent U. S. A. incomes of $45,000 per annum.
Of later years such shoots are generally hired from the owner by a syndicate of shooters, the owner retaining one or two guns.
I trust you will not mind my pointing this out to you but I feel the majority of hunters in England, are as sportsmanlike and work as hard for their birds as Americans do.
JOHN E. MONINS
St. Louis, Mo.