Vacation Money Sirs: It is my understanding that the President of the United States receives an allowance of $25,000 a year for traveling expenses. Would you be good enough to tell me whether the trip to Hawaii that President Roosevelt is now making is to be paid for out of this allowance, and if so does he pay so much per mile or does he pay the traveling expenses of the Houston and the accompanying vessels or vessel? . . .

E. W. T. GRAY JR.

Nutley, N. J.

Sirs: Who pays the expenses of the vacation? G. H. GARDNER Albany, N. Y.

President Roosevelt's vacation trip costs taxpayers ' nothing. The U. S. S. Houston and New Orleans would be making routine practice cruises on Navy funds somewhere else if not to Hawaii. Only extra expense caused by the Presidential party is for food. That is defrayed by the President, out of his own pocket, at $1.50 a day for each member of his party, the price paid by every officer in the wardroom mess. The $25,000 White House travel fund will come into use when the President lands at Portland, starts back across the continent to Washington by special train.-ED.

TIME'S Strike Map

Sirs: Your map (TIME, July 16) illustrating the San Francisco longshoremen strike was both interesting and instructive. Like previous TIME maps, it had a uniqueness which I associate with TIME alone. Imagine my surprise when I saw what I am sure must have been an identical map in yesterday morning's edition of the Philadelphia Record. Further, I caught a glimpse of the same map in the Camden paper which Record's publisher also publishes. . . . So far as I could tell the source was not given. . . .

PHILIP S. HALL Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs: I think the Chicago Tribune should give you some credit for this map from your current issue.

DOUGLAS BOYD Highland Park, Ill.

The newspaper maps, legends and all, were faithful copies of the map drawn for TIME by Cartographer Richard Edes Harrison. While credit would have been appreciated, TIME is complimented by the imitation.-ED.

Honest Inquiry Sirs: When my father was a cub reporter, his first assignment was to beard the testy superintendent of a city hospital to ask if it were true that a patient had recently been put to death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry--and with perhaps as little tact--I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which would fit the character of a monster of sensuality. . . . EDWIN HYDE LAMBERT Prescott, Ariz.

Reader Lambert errs. The late Capt. Roehm lost the upper part of his nose in an early battle of the War. TIME never has "doctored" a news photograph, never will.-ED.

Grateful Giddy Gazette Sirs: Thanks for the excellent write-up of the National Amateur Press Association which appears on p. 53 of your July 16 issue. It is accurate in every detail and this is the first time in 59 years of existence that such a thing has happened to us! EDNA HYDE MCDONALD Editor The Giddy Gazette New York City Sirs: I was interested in your account of the respective conventions of the National Amateur Press Association and the United Amateur Press Association of America (TIME, July 16), but there are several items which need correction. . . . First of all, the UAPAA was not "upstart," and did not organize under the name of Amateur Press Association of America. Although the NAPA had been formed 19 years before, the group of boys who organized the United Amateur Press Association knew nothing of its existence. At that time the National had become a staid and conservative body, with adults, well past the period of youth, predominating. In strict contrast was the United, whose founder, William H. Greenfield, was only 15 years of age at the time. . . . The UAPAA has a much larger membership than the NAPA, and even with dues half as much, they have come through the year with a balance of $50 instead of a deficit. . . .

JACK SMITH Director of Publicity UAPAA Portland, Ore.

Peppermint Press Sirs: The Press would be interested in knowing from TIME more concerning price paid and net investment of Woodyard brothers in their weekly newspapers [TIME, July 9] What percentage of net investment came in the 1934 dividends? The writer's experience has been that every daily newsman at some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry in Marion County. The peppermint so scented the press ink fountains that the odor continued through the editions for several days. . . .

SHELDON F. SACKETT Managing Editor The Oregon Statesman Salem, Ore.

Net investment of Woodyard Publications of West Virginia and of New York is $395,000, an average cost of approximately $16.500 per weekly newspaper. Average price paid in Long Island: $10,000. The Brothers Woodyard bought county seat weeklies for as little as $2,900. as much as $29,000 (Fayetteville, W. Va. Tribune). All prices were without receivables. Six months' earnings by Woodyard Publications were a little more than nearly 15% per annum. -ED.

Cinemaddict v. Boycott Sirs: ... As a movie fan of more than eight years standing, let me enter my protest against the protesters. When the Catholic league condemns a picture such as Little Man, What Now? because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity.

JAMES WHITSETT Reidsville. N. C.

. . . My tastes regarding movies do not differ very much from those of the self-appointed censors, but I, unlike these reformers, feel that people with more exotic tastes than myself have a right to see such shows as they desire. As far as my personal tastes are concerned. . . I feel that there have been entirely too many "sex" shows; but I like to see one once in a while. . . . I have no objection to forbidding certain movies to be seen by minors. But in the case of censoring movies for adults, questions of personal liberty --and of minority rights--are involved. I take the matter personally. I feel that absolutely no one has the right to say what movies I--or anyone over 21--may or may not see. . . . JOHN DEVLIN New York City

Father's Sacrifice

Sirs:

... In your account of the Reverend John F. O'Hara's appointment to the presidency of the University of Notre Dame [TIME, July 16], you are guilty of a serious misstatement. To accuse Father O'Hara of being disinterested in "his university's famed football team in action" is to belie TIME'S boast of accuracy. True, Notre Dame's new president has seen only a very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit of self-sacrifice that characterizes the man. The real reason for his nonattendance has been that during football games the campus at Notre Dame is always quite barren of students and Father O'Hara has found this to be an ideal time to clear up many difficulties for troubled youths who would hesitate otherwise to approach him in the presence of others. Far from being disinterested Father O'Hara is probably the man most interested in Notre Dame's gridiron activities. . . . In this same account TIME overlooked one of Father O'Hara's most noteworthy achievements --the publication of his daily Religious Bulletin, mimeographed on a single page. . . . In this publication is shown Father O'Hara's ability to discuss a great variety of subjects, and what is more, to discuss them sanely in the face of hasty, radical opinions. The circulation of this little paper runs well into the thousands, with readers in nearly every State in the union, and many in other countries

EDWARD J. O'BRIEN Notre Dame '34 Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sirs: . . . No ordinary swimmer is the new president, but the envy of many a husky young athlete, as he takes his daily swim in the University's St. Joe lake. To Notre Dame men, old and young, the new president embodies their ideal of a fine balance between mind and body

J. J. GREELEY New York City

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