Southern Womanhood
Sirs:
I have just read your article "Black's White". . . in your issue of Jan. 24. There is decided distortion of the truth and misrepresentation of fact in the first paragraph referring to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox Greene of Greensboro, Ala. . . .
Mrs. Greene was returning to her car. parked on one of the main residence streets of Greensboro, about 7 o'clock Saturday evening. Jan. 15. She entered her car. started her motor and was alarmed when she heard the back door open. She turned and saw a young Negro entering her car, holding a pistol on her. "Take me home." he ordered. The Negro had been drinking. Mrs. Greene offered him her purse and the car if he would just let her out. "That's not what I want," was his reply. With the pistol held to the back of her head, he ordered her to keep her eyes to the front and drive where he directed. . . .
He . . . directed her to a side street and made her drive into a grove back of the high school. There he told her to stop the car which she did. As he was climbing from the back seat over into the front she opened the door and tried to escape. She screamed frantically and he grabbed her by the throat and choked her. . . . Evidently the Negro thought her screams had been heard. He turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped on the running board of her car and threatened to kill her if she didn't stop. In utter desperation she took a four-foot embankment, almost overturning the car but ridding it of her assailant. ... So much for the facts which you pass over with the words "charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap. . . ."
Blood hounds were brought from Meridian. Miss, and they immediately picked up the trail which led to the vestibule of the high school, from there to a Negro woman's house and finally to another Negro house where a crap game was in progress. The dogs made straight for a drunken Negro who was dozing in a corner. . . .
You stated that "Planter Greene" is a cousin of Representative Hobbs of Alabama. This is the most accurate statement in the article. He is Congressman Hobbs's brother-in-law. . . .
MRS. SARAH MORGAN PERRIN Selma. Ala.
To Mrs. Perrin, niece of Alabama's late, longtime U. S. Senator John Tyler Morgan, TIME'S thanks for reporting an incident far graver than the U. S. press realized.--ED.
Colored People's White
Sirs: . . . Fredericksburg residents are against the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill as we have not Civil forgotten War'' that and we the were the Carpetbag "Cockpit of Reconstruction that followed. . . .
WILLIAM JEFFRIES CHEWNING JR., O.C.
Curator The National Battlefield Museum Fredericksburg. Ya.
Sirs: ... I am shocked as a Northern man at your cover of Jan. 24. ... I am not sure of my figures, but anyone who has been south of the Mason & Dixon line can realize the overwhelming predominance of the black population and the necessity of having some form of law to which they will respond. . . .
CHARLES ROLLINSON LAMB Cresskill, N. J.
The 16 Southern States and the District of Columbia contain 9,361,577 Negroes. But only in Mississippi do blacks outnumber whites. -- ED.
Sirs: ... I fail to see how the appearance of such a cover on an issue of your publication at a time when the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill is be fore the U. S. Senate can be taken other than a deliberate attack on the Southern opposition to the bill. . . .
BERT H. JONES McComb, Miss.
TIME lobbies no cause, never has, never will. -- ED.
Sirs: . Looks to us like a thrust at the South. . . .
S. E. TUCKER Thomasville, N. C.
Sirs: Your issue of Jan. 24 moves me profoundly to send you a word of gratitude. Your clarion call to the conscience of the nation on the evil of lynching is as potent as any sermon on goodwill. . . .
JANE CLARK HILL Cheyney, Pa.
Original Ideas
Sirs: Clark Alvord of Eldorado Canyon, Nev., oldtime prospector and desert rat, whose recent death was noted in your issue of Jan. 24 because of the fact that Miss Marion Davies had been made residuary legatee of his estate, was a man of original ideas. When I first met him, some 20 years ago, he tried to sell me a group of undeveloped mining claims he owned. They did not impress me favorably, but to humor him I asked the price. He scratched his head and pondered. "Well," he said finally, "I've held those claims for 20 years and I figure my time ought to be worth $2.000 a year; so that would make the claims worth $40,000."
R. T. WALKER Leadville, Colo.
Who Was First?
Sirs:
TIME for Jan. 24 states that the Bureau of Air Commerce grounded the Lockheed 14H aircraft one day after such planes were grounded by Northwest Airlines.
For your information may I state that the accident took place at approximately 3:05 p. m. on the afternoon of Jan. 10, 1938 and that the Bureau of Air Commerce inspector, Mr. A. D. Niemeyer, sent a telegram to Northwest Airlines at 3:59 p. m. on Jan. 11, 1938 from Bozeman, Mont., grounding such planes until further notice. That evening, a confirmation order was sent to the airline company from the Washington office, confirming the action of Inspector Niemeyer. . . .
DANIEL C. ROPER Secretary of Commerce
Washington, D. C.
Northwest Airlines say that later in the afternoon of Jan. 10 it ordered out of the air a Lockheed 14H, at 10 a. m. next day released a general order grounding all 14Hs. But TIME regards the question as of slightly less consequence than it seems to be regarded by Northwest Airlines and Reader Roper.--ED.
Refreshing
Sirs:
The article in this week's TIME (Feb. 7) is not only very gratefully received by all of us at the Air-Track company, but it has proved a most refreshing experience for us.
You would be amazed, as we are, at the weird descriptions of this instrument landing system that appear in our clippings. You'd never think that radio could do such wonderful things.
But TIME'S account was accurate to a gnat's heel. You didn't even slip up on any of the neat little phrases that the publicity man naively inserted in the copy.
CHARLES E. PLANCK The Air-Track Manufacturing Corp.
Washington, D. C.
Fair Play
Sirs: You have got us wrong about Grey Owl (TIME, Jan. 3). The B. B. C. holds no brief for or against fox hunting. We asked Grey Owl to leave out his attack on hunting: we should, equally, have asked a hunting man not to attack those people who, like Grey Owl, object to blood sports. This is simply in the interest of fair play. . . .
STEPHEN JALLENTS The British Broadcasting Corp.
London Out of Step Sirs: ... In the article [TIME, Jan. 24] dealing with the conference between President Roosevelt and the representatives of Big Business and Labor, there appeared a photograph of five gentlemen leaving the White House [New Dealer Adolf Berle, Philip Murray, C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Industrialist Owen D. Young and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont] . I noticed in this photograph that all the gentle men pictured there were in step except the one on the extreme right hand side, Mr.
Lamont. . . .
FRANK HUNGERFORD Memphis, Tenn.
No? Noy? No-ee? Sirs: TIME, Jan. 24, distresses friends of Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee, not Noy or No). . . .
I well recall when, more than 20 years ago, Israel Noe preached at St. Stephen's Church, Ridgeway, S. C., while still a theological student at Sewanee, and in the midst of his sermon he made strange facial gyrations for several seconds.
After service he told that a fly had got into his mouth. . . .
CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS Indianapolis, Ind.
Eliminator Sirs: TIME'S article (Nov. 29) on the elimination of nicotine from cigarets was most interesting and leads me to believe that my new patented invention might be even more interesting to your readers as it is also an eliminator in that it eliminates objectionable parts of radio programs by reducing the volume 95% or to a whisper by simply pressing a specially designed switch from any remote distance up to 16 ft. from the radio. The pri mary use, of course, is to eliminate the undesired commercials, but it is also desirable for conversation or telephoning. . . .
"Hush-Tone," as it is called, is a self-winding reel equipped with a special switch and other gadgets and is easily installed by connection to a certain speaker wire. In a short time a few thousand reels will be assembled and ready for distribution. . . .
HARRY K. TODD Radio Reel Co.
Tacoma, Wash.
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