"SmallTown Lawyer's Wife."

Sirs:

I enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King!"

ANNAH M. FLETCHER

Washington, D. C.

TIME certainly meant no depreciation of gracious Mrs. Coolidge. The distinction drawn was purely one in kind, not degree, of charm.--ED.

Chocolates

Sirs:

I am an original subscriber to TIME having read your magazine ever since the first copy was issued.

I also happen to be a manufacturer of chocolates and I feel compelled to call your attention to an article in the May 13 issue in the Miscellany column: "Chocolates "In Rochester. N. Y., one William Collins, 4. ate 90 chocolate-coated laxative pills, died in convulsions."

This item smacks of yellow journalism as one who did not read it carefully would infer that a four-year-old child had died in convulsions from eating chocolates. Careful reading of the article shows however that it was not in any sense candy but laxative pills that caused the convulsions.

It would have been much fairer for you to have headed this under its proper descriptive caption rather than taking a slam at chocolates. It is all right for you to be original in your headings but please don't stray from the truth.

E. F. GIBBS Treasurer

Samoset Chocolates Co.

Boston, Mass.

Let Chocolate-Maker Gibbs not worry, TiME-readers, alert, would not miss the point, so enticing is chocolate, laxative pills covered with it had best be kept out of the reach of babes.--ED.

Juries at 5 p.m.

Sirs: In your issue of May 6, page 18, you say regarding the trial of Mary Ware Dennett: ''John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0 'guilty.' "

Just to prove that human nature does not change, 1 quote from Pickwick Papers, chapter 34:

"If it is near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, --I say, I rather think --but don't let that influence you--I rather think the plaintiff's the man. And the verdict was unanimous for the plaintiff."

C. P. CONNOLLY East Orange, N. J.

Sirs: Lamb's Will--Lamb's Gift to a Race. Not least of the inestimable worth and service Doctor Daniel Smith Lamb rendered was his teaching of human anatomy at HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE at Washington, D. C. For 50 years he was mentor of Negro youth. His was a glorious contribution. I lament with many others his passing.

J. A. C. JACKSON, M. D. Charleston, S. C

Life Subscriptions

Sirs:

I should be interested to have you quote me a "life" subscription to TIME. I am 22 years old (23 years insurance age), and have an expectation of life of some 41 years more. I am considered a good risk. Based on your reduction of 40% for the second year subscription ($8 rate), your life subscription, following the geometric progression, would not be very expensive,--say, possibly $20. However, if you charge $60 for a "life" subscription, the interest on this money at 5% would net you $3 a year, which is probably not much, if any, less than the average publication cost per year per copy. While I may not desire to purchase a "life" subscription at the present time, I should appreciate a reply from you in this regard. It also occurs to me that it might be a good chance to increase your guaranteed circulation over a long period of time, if you can get some insurance man to go over the statistics with you and figure it out on a fair cost basis.

BIGELOW GREEN Boston, Mass.

Sirs:

I think you fail to appreciate the calibre of most of your subscribers. Has it ever occurred to you that some of them would prefer to take out a life subscription at $100 now than be bothered every year about renewing?

Think it over, TIME. Meanwhile here's my check for $8 for another two years.

GEORGE Germantown, Pa.

Sirs: If you ever give out Life Subscription Blanks please don't forget me, as yours is the only magazine of its type I have found I enjoy from cover to cover reading many things which are not only good for me but entertaining.

(Miss) DAGMAR EDWARDS Brooklyn, N. V.

Do other TIME subscribers want "life" subscriptions? If there is sufficient interest to warrant establishing a life subscription rate, it shall be done forthwith.--ED.

Sirs: I am sure that many close followers of your column Aeronautics, which discusses all important advances and developments in aviation, would be interested in an achievement you have heretofore overlooked. Marquis de Lafayette Junior High School, at Elizabeth, N. J., is pioneering in aeronautic education for boys and girls of Junior High School age.

Merwin Peake, an aviator of considerable experience, teaching Science at this school, inaugurated an Air Cadet Club, which soon became part of the school curriculum. Over 200 boys belong, and they are taught all phases of aviation from engine and construction to the theory of navigation. They do not fly, but instead, build plane models that do. A stiff test in theory and plane building must be passed before any of these boys may win his "wings."

Principal Edward R. O'Brien, an educator of vision, has fostered and encouraged the entire project.

This work has been so successful that it has been, recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, and Kinogram has taken cinema pictures of classroom work in aeronautics at this school and displayed them all over the country. Many schools are beginning to follow this lead in every state.

This new development which was started at Marquis de Lafayette Junior High School is not only of value as educational training and vocational guidance, but we believe it is one of the best ways of making United States properly air-minded.

HARRY H. RICHMA Elizabeth, N. J.

To Harry H. Richman, all thanks for a TiME-worthy report.--ED.

Limousines, Lunch

Sirs: I want to correct what seems to me the wrong impression, conveyed in your article "Airports" on p. 44 of TIME, April 29: "But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport and metropolis."

The Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

JULIUS KAHN, JR. District Passenger Agent Western Air Express, San Francisco, Calif.

"Dick" & "Rich"

Sirs: I note an error in the "Race of Glendons'' under Sport in your issue of May 6.

Two years ago Glendon Sr., was not Columbia's coach. He was assistant coach and it was his son "Rich" who was head coach.

Glendon coached crews never have raced each other in a dual meet until this year--as you have stated--but in the 1924 Olympic tryouts, Glendon Sr.'s Navy Officers' crew met and defeated "Rich's" midshipmen. Yale, in turn, beat the officers' "Grandfather Eight" by a few yards.

After his successes with the Navy crews of 1920, '21 and '22, "Dick" decided to retire and he assisted his son at Annapolis and later at Columbia, until "Rich" had gotten his '"coaching-legs." From late rowing results it is evident that "Rich" now has them.

SHERMAN R. CLARK U. S. S. Humphreys

Hatched, Matched, Dispatched

Sirs: As Original U. S. Buyer--then subscriber--now buyer--mailing this suggestion for what it may be worth to your headines--Milestones column: "Hatched"--Born "Matched"--Married "Dispatched"--Died or killed "Scratched"--Demoted "Patched"--Reconciled "Batched"--Divorced "Latched"--Impounded

R. BOCK St. Louis, Mo.

"Ahpah bohleh buot?"

Sirs:

Assuredly we here in the Hinterland feel amply compensated for our rustic, pastoral and sylvan solitude by having Roxy's strains of symphony on the dial while, unfolded on an easy porchchair we are viewing the flow of world events so amazingly well presented in dashing chiaroscuro by TIME.

It seems that once in the dim and distant past there lived a sage named Hesiodus, who, reflecting upon the vagaries of human nature, exclaimed: "The HALF is MORE than the WHOLE." If he was not thinking of Adam before Eve was born, he undoubtedly had in mind, with prophetic vision, the advent of TIME.

Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun/- is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,/-/- of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest--like buzzards over carrion--voil`a tout.

Let's look at this Young scheme. Germany offers 50. Allies ask 100. Young says G. will give 50 and the A will get 100. Who pays the difference? The I. B* * * from profits. Who pays the profits? The customers. Who are the customers? The bondbuyers. Who are the bondbuyers?

The American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates held in trust and plenty of innocent widows and orphans on whom the bank's allotment will be palmed off all over the United States.

So there you are. The proceeds to go at once to the creditor's coffers. If anyone suggested that America advance a few 109 dollars in the form of a loan to Germany, in order to enable her to pay off England and France so they can build a few more cruisers and submarines, to be used in an Anglo-French entente against the U. S. he'd be put on the rack.

In Singapore the coolie says, with a shrug: 'Ahpah bohlch buot?" In plain American: 'What's the use?" As the Saint-Simonistes claim: "Voil`a l'exploitation de I'homme par I'homme!"

A. STREIFF Consulting Engineer

Jackson, Mich.

Let Satirist Streiff suggest a means, other than cancellation, by which international debts might be settled without international bankers.--ED.

Big Corbett

Sirs:

When TIME errs, the world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot. . . .

ERNEST S. LELAND

Presbrey-Leland Studios Designers & Workers in Stone New York City

Architect Corbett. monumental at 6 ft. 3 in., overtops even Retired Fisticuffer James J. Corbett's 6 ft. 1 in.--ED.

Pacific Music

Sirs:

Reading TIME, April 29, Music, "Spring and Summer" brought pleased anticipation. Scanned May hurriedly, interested, restraining eagerness to skip to June. Astonished there to find no reference to San Francisco Summer Symphony where San Franciscans eager, vibrant, cool, 8,000 strong, will enjoy music of Molinari, Goossens, also Bruno Walter, Alfred Hertz, Rudolph Ganz and Ernest Bloch in city's great auditorium through generous aid to Symphony Association of San Francisco's music-minded supervisors.

Dismayed also at finding no reference to Philharmonic Society of San Mateo with lovely, wood-surrounded, awning-shaded outdoor auditorium where these fine conductors and San Francisco's country-leading orchestra ("The most sensitive and best drilled orchestra I have ever conducted") give eight Sunday afternoon concerts under California sunshine. . . .

Turned from TIME. Ruminated. Wondered whether Pacific Time was the little, neglected child of Father Time.

Jos. S. THOMPSON

San Francisco.

Let Reader Thompson read again TIME, April 29, page 48, col. 3, seventh paragraph, which said: ''On the Pacific Coast, 'music under the stars' will be heard in the Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Directors Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens."--ED.

Advts v. Poverty

Sirs:

Just a suggestion for ad writers. The sneer at old-fashionedness, or perhaps lack of the wherewith, in the advertisement of Hartmann trunks brings out in me a strongly antagonistic reaction. I wonder how many others feel inclined because of it, as I do, when they buy trunks, to get others than Hartmanns.

A. JAMES MCDONALD

Before buying a trunk like his grandaunt would have bought, let Subscriber McDonald reflect upon the theory that U. S. prosperity is best reflected in its scrapheap, there being a U. S. willingness to scrap the good for the better. As to the Hartmann advt "sneering at poverty," the same may be said for every advt, for every shopwindow.--ED.

* Owen D.Young.

/-General Electric Tycoon.

* *Agent.

/-/-Correct spelling J. Pierpont Morgan.

* * *lnternational Bank.