Too Much

Sirs: Although I sent you yesterday postcard renewal of my subscription I ask you now to cancel it. Pp. 41-48* of the issue which came today were too much for me. Will pick you up occasionally to see it you have reformed.

A. W. MILLER

Los Angeles, Calif.

Southern Christian

Sirs: I do not wish to continue my subscription of TIME. I am a Southerner and think the South more able to enforce law and order than those that condemn her. I am a Christian and think you are the reverse. I do not like your policy or your apparent principal.

CECILIA H. FULLER

Philadelphia, Pa,

Did Not Cancel

Sirs:

You have my name confused with someone who has ordered his subscription canceled because of your policy, "dictated" by the Vatican, the Ku Klux Klan, the Negroes, the Capitalists and the Labor Unions. I did not cancel my subscription.

In our office there are six TIME subscribers. One, an original subscriber, kept his find a secret. One, the assistant to the original subscriber, probably stole a copy from the original subscriber and got in on the secret. I subscribed to TIME because a friend told me I would like it. Promised to send me a copy. Sent it. Three in our office got tired of listening to me. Subscribed to TIME.

H. D. LINDSAY

Lindsay Bros., Inc.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Corn + Whiskey = Democrats ?

Sirs:

TIME, March 28, on p. 1, has made a grave error/- as to the effect of rain on Presidential aspirations. The old adage, honored from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, is: The more rain, the more corn; the more corn, the more whiskey; the more whiskey, the more Democrats.

Rain, lots of it, will bring sunshine to Al Smith--or shall it be Governor Ritchie?

FITZHUGH BURNS

St. Paul, Minn.

Guilty Feeling

Sirs :

It's a pleasure to send you renewal of my subscription by this mail. When I neglect some duty to slip off to a quiet place with TIME each week I feel like a small boy with the oldtime "Penny Dreadful" and enjoy it just as much. Incidentally I "keep posted."

C. F. MATTHEW

Norfolk, Va.

Yammerings

Sirs:

Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings.

But why waste printer's ink on such a shoveler of slops ?

JAMES ALLEN GEISSINGER, D.D.

Holliston Ave. M. E. Church

Pasadena, Calif.

All Read French

Sirs:

TIME is to be commended for its scrupulous observance of French orthography. Why not try a paragraph or a column in French ? Your subscribers all read French and would no doubt welcome such an addition.

MAURICE GALLAGHER

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa.

Mess Question

Sirs:

Recently, a discussion arose among several members of the mess, and we agreed to refer the matter to TIME for settlement.

The question being: Which is considered the centre of the Irak or Black Sea Oil District, Baku or Mosul? Which has figured most prominently in international discussion, and any information tending to prove that one or the other would be brought to mind when talking of the district and controversy in question.

I would appreciate this information sometime during the next two weeks, as we expect to sail at that time.

ENSIGN W. K. THOMPSON

U.S.S. Nitro

New York, N. Y.

The kingdom of Irak would come naturally to mind in any discussion of the Vilayet of Mosul over which its sovereignty is provisionally extended. Irak and Mosul are entirely inland, except for a small southeastern portion on the Persian Gulf, and therefore have no reference either to the Black Sea or to Baku, a port on the Caspian Sea.--ED.

Impressed

Sirs:

As a Wet Republican who has grown tired of the weekly homilies of Calvin Coolidge, I certainly was impressed and cheered by your statistical "election" of "Al" Smith (TIME, April 4). Yes, sir, I will vote for Smith in 1928--if the Democrats have enough horse-sense to nominate him.

HENRY C. COLLINS

Boston, Mass.

Crisp, Clean, Clear

Sirs:

TIME has become so indispensable that my entire week has been upset through not having received TIME, March 21.

HAROLD E. BERGER

Chicago, Ill.

Sirs:

I am enclosing, herewith, my subscription for two years to TIME; the subscription to begin when the present one shall end.

I take this opportunity to add that of all the magazines which I read, there is none so crisp, clean and clear as TIME.

HAROLD A. EPPSTON

Newark, N. J.

Sirs:

Never, since I first saw a copy of TIME have I dared to contemplate the dreariness of time without TIME. I expect it to come to me as regularly as light and darkness, summer and winter. . . .

SAMUEL PORTER

Rochester, N. Y.

Utterly Incorrect?

Sirs:

The attached clipping was in the Brooklyn Eagle, Monday, March 28th. Question and Answers by Dr. Cadman.*

BELLE FOWLER

Newark, N. J.

The clipping:

"Q.--Is the weekly paper TIME correct in its statement that you have indorsed Uldine Utley as the leader of an evangelistic movement here in New York?

A.--No; the statement is utterly incorrect. I have not indorsed Uldine Utley for the leader of an evangelistic movement. While TIME is a very brilliant weekly and I enjoy reading it, I wish it would make sure that these things are correct before it publishes them."

On Feb. 15, Dr. Cadman was chief speaker at a mass meeting in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at which it was announced that Uldine Utley would conduct a May to October revival in New York. Dr. Cadman voiced warm sympathy with the plan. In its report of the meeting, the New York Times said: man endorsed Miss Utley unqualifiedly, declared New York City, although it was not as wicked as some painted it, needed a revival, and recalled the Bible declaration that 'a little child shall lead them.' "

TIME can understand how Subscriber-Dr. Cadman might welcome a girl-evangelist to New York without technically "endorsing" her. But Dr. Cadman can also understand that when a religious leader of his magnitude associates himself with a particular evangelistic effort, the lay-public will regard his action as tantamount to "endorsement." If TIME should learn that the present President of the Federal Council of Churches does not wish his name associated with Utley-efforts, TIME, regretting its previous error, would promptly publish the fact.--ED.

Summarized

Sirs :

Do you really disagree ?

BEN B. LINDSEY

Juvenile Court

Denver, Col.

Judge Lindsey's message, received last week, was penciled across his pamphlet entitled Companionate Marriage, the doctrine and program of which TIME, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, summarized (TIME, Jan. 24, Feb. 28), receiving 23 subscription cancellations.--ED.

Publicity

Sirs:

In TIME, March 28, under the heading EDUCATION, an article headed "Two Aint's" is credited to Public School 58, Manhattan. The statement is absolutely false. Nothing of the kind has ever occurred in that school. Some paper published a statement of this kind in regard to a school of another borough of the city of New York. Your article misquotes the matter in attributing it to the wrong institution. I wish a formal retraction of your statement with as much publicity as you have given to the original. As the original was under the item of EDUCATION, will you be kind enough to publish the retraction under the same caption.

Public School 58, Manhattan, never asks one cent from any child for any purpose. They do welfare work to the extent of $800 a year. I inclose circular showing the activity of the Parents' Association of the school. It aims to be a real school community where parents and teachers work together for the best interests of each individual.

Miss MARTHA ABLER, PH.D.

P. S. No. 58, Manhattan

New York, N. Y.

To TIME'S EDUCATION writer a thoroughgoing rebuke for not knowing that 178th St. & Washington Ave., the address of the Public School No. 58, in question, is not in Manhattan, but in the Bronx. --ED.

Hebrew

Sirs:

In commenting upon the book of ECCLESIASTES which is found among the Wisdom Writings, whose authorship has been traditionally attributed to Solomon, you speak of "a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally means, 'wisdom.' "

The name is not "Koholeth" but "Koheleth" and does not mean "wisdom." It is derived from the root "kahal," which means to "call together," to "convoke," and the English meaning that is given to "Koheleth" is simply "preacher" from the idea that he addresses an assembly, or calls together a group of people. The Greek word, "Ecclesiastes," is simply a translation of the Hebrew word "Koheleth." The Hebrew word for "wisdom" is "hachmah."

RONALD J. TAMBLYN

Pittsburgh, Penn.

Luxury

Sirs:

I should rather miss a good dinner than an issue of TIME, but being a "Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak," though not "pimpled" (TIME. March 14), my income makes flve-dollar-a-year magazines luxuries.

However, bill me, and I'll send the check shortly.

HOMER F. DAVIS

Boys' Work Secretary, Y.M.C.A. Michigan City, Ind.

*TIME presented on these pages a series of eight question games, to be played or ignored at the reader's option.--ED.

/-TIME did not err, merely told that one Robert Marshall, tree experimenter, has noted that between 1825 and 1924 every drier-than-norrnal four years was followed (with two exceptions) by the defeat of the party in power.--ED.

*Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.--ED.

*Reference to review of Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry.