Utterly Misrepresented

New York, N. Y.

August 19, 1925 TIME

The Weekly News-Magazine.

Sirs:

I have read with interest, a brief paragraph in your issue of July 13, Page 17. I graduated from the City Editor's desk into the ministry. I know every managing editor in New York City.

It would have been impossible to raise the money for Broadway Temple without the help of the newspapers, and I have rarely been mistreated or misquoted by them. I confess therefore that I was chagrined to read the paragraph in your issue in which you gave accredited place to some reporter's description of the band concert which we gave in the street following the Ground Breaking for the Broadway Temple. The two programs were in no way related. After treating the whole program as a joke, you completed the article by saying :

"There were refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear--all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid."

You utterly misrepresented the whole evening. No such thing as you state occurred. It seems to me that my standing deserved some investigation. Such occurences make all ministers afraid of the "Newspapers" and I have labored long to close this breach.

If I would put up such an entertainment in connection with the ground breaking for a four million dollar church, you can readily recognize that the people would not long have confidence in me. I cannot believe that such statements not founded on truth are consistent with the lively, interesting and effective periodical which you are publishing. The rest of the article is quite consistent, for when a Methodist Minister tries to get a hearing for the gospel, usually such periodicals as yours aid rather than hinder.

I am writing you frankly because I believe that you desire to occupy an intelligent position. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER

TIME owes Dr. Reisner an apology and herewith makes it. TIME thanks him for his patience, his courtesy.

To show how thoroughly Dr. Reisner has been misrepresented in the clerical as well as the lay press-- TIME quotes from last week's issue of the Christian Century: Methodist Ground-Breaking: New Style

Members of a Methodist church recently broke ground for a new edifice. There was a parade headed by a police band, moving pictures shown against a screen hung on the outside of the old church, and within the old building a continuous vaudeville show, including a donkey educated to pick numbers out of a hat, hot-dog and pop stands, while plenty of red lemonade added to the eclat of the occasion. The event took place in New York city, where the new four million dollar Broadway temple, under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Reisner is, according to the advertisements, to "put God on Broadway." --Ed.

Greater Detroit

Springfield, Mo. August 17, 1925

TIME The Weekly News-Magazine.

Sirs:

I can but "View with Alarm your statement in issue of August 17, Page 5, center column:

"Greater Detroit," a population of 51,500,000.

F. W. WRIGHT

Convinced

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. August 21, 1925

TIME The Weekly News-Magazine.

Sirs:

The review of the "Day of Atonement is quite excellent. I am sorry, though, that the reviewer allowed the "Anglo" to slip away from the "Catholic" when he describes the women in whose house Eli became a Christian. An Anglo-Catholic is quite another thing from a Roman Catholic, and that a Jewish novelist, such as Louis Golding, should see the difference, really should have been brought into the review.

Your explanation (issue of Aug. 17, Page 22) of how a Bishop can have the care of souls was quite surprising, coming from a secular journal as it did. Again am I convinced that you know your business.

E. SINCLAIR HERTELL

States Conditions

Aug. 18, 1925 Chicago, Ill.

TIME

The Weekly News-Magazine. Sirs:

I return herewith the Renewal Memorandum and marked by me "Not Wanted."

You are publishing a weekly magazine of newsclippings and advertisement. It is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability. In my opinion such a magazine will not be in demand by the public at a higher subscription rate than two dollars per annum and five cents per number. At such figure a large circulation might be worked up so as to justify good advertising rates and make TIME profitable to the publisher.

The makeup could be improved: the second page should be of the TIME publication announcement contents, etc. The third page, first and second column commence the reading matter; the advertising matter could occupy the third column and whole page ads. following.

Everyone almost nowadays reads a daily newspaper and for 2 cents in the big cities you get a wonderful complete volume.

The use I would make of TIME would be having well classified subjects for reference, and to be filed at the end of the year in a bound volume.

Under the above conditions I might later on wish to be a permanent subscriber. FRANK R. CHANDLER