Sirs:
Better omit foreign words from TIME unless you get them correct.
A week or so ago the Holland Dutchmen raked you over the coals for misinterpreting one of their words.
Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions.
However, TIME IS THE GREATEST magazine of its class.
ERNEST H. HAGEMANN
Rutherford, N.J.
TIME may be said to have "flunked" in nearly every famed language, ancient or modern. Also, it has, on occasion, used nearly every famed language with great eclat. Therefore, far from omitting for eign words, TIME will persist toward perfection. --ED.
Trackless Cincinnati
Sirs:
In your issue of July 29, p. 29, in a note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati.
Please to be informed there is no race track in operation in Cincinnati or in Hamilton County of which Cincinnati is the county seat. Latonia race track is not far from Cincinnati, but it is located in Kentuck, in which state, I understand, betting on race horses is not illegal.
Will you kindly make the necessary correction in your publication, and oblige.
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Mayor
City of Cincinnati
Office of the Mayor
TIME hereby obliges.--ED.
NEWSCASTING?
Sirs:
Some few weeks ago we noticed an article in the New York Sun using the word NEWSCASTING. This appealed to us as a most appropriate expression, so that we were led to refer to our 10-Minute Radio News Service talks on Mexico under that term. We have since learned that you created that word in referring to the broadcasting of news and desire to congratulate you on your originality. We would be pleased to know if you have any objection to our use of the expression in so describing our radio news service.
H. T. OLIVER
Mexican News Digest New York City Digester Oliver's request, both flattering and courteous, must be refused because NEWSCASTING (now given from 65 stations throughout the U. S.) is copyrighted by TIME, Inc. -- ED.
Gulled
Sirs:
Through inadvertency, I had not written you sooner concerning an extraordinary report in your July 1 issue reading that blood had been transfused from a dead person into a live one. Unless there happens to be a recent procedure unbeknown to the medical world at large, it seems rather incredible how this could be done since the motivating power, the heart, has ceased to propel the blood through the circulation Of course, it may be stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary clinical means, but these beats, probably more correctly termed contractions, prove to be too feeble to pump the blood through the body. The fact resolves itself, that there was not any appreciable amount of blood transfused to have any significance upon the outcome in question, or that the person was not dead, or that the correspondent is considering the readers of TIME as individuals possessing a high gullibility coefficient.
F.G. KAJIS, M.D.
New York City
Not TiME-readers but TIME was, to some degree, gullibility-guilty. Amazing progress_ continues to be made in blood transfusions; for example, young children have had new blood entirely substituted for their own. -- ED.
Governor Gardner
Sirs:
An alumnus of the University of North Carolina, seeing the reference in your July 29 issue to North Carolina's Governor O. Max Gardner, wrote me about setting you straight. The point in error was that Max Gardner played football at State College. You were right; he did. But the alumnus is also right; Governor Max also played football at the University. Your error, then, was one of omission.
J. MARYON SAUNDERS
Alumni Secretary
University of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Reasons
Sirs:
The writer for two or three years has been taking your publication, the object being to get a condensed survey of the world news without bias.
He knows that the addition or the loss of a single subscriber is of little moment to any paper and yet if the loss of any considerable number of persons for the same reason occurs, there is a natural desire to know what that reason may be.
The writer has no knowledge of what the sentiments of others may be, but he is now requesting that you discontinue the paper with the approaching expiration of his subscription.
The reason for this discontinuance is:
1) The facts are no longer given us without some slurring, insinuating or facetious remarks that show some particular bias.
2) The publication as an advertisement of the Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" page which was intended to raise a religious question in the late election, while you were professing to decry any such issue.
3) Your attitude toward certain cinema pictures and books tending to demoralize marital relationship.
WILLIAM BISHOP
Morrisville, Pa.
Died Without Embarrassment
Sirs:
Nat Will--not Willis!
Nat Wills, famous tramp comedian, maker of many matrimonial mistakes, died of carbon monoxide poisoning under his car in his garage not much more than ten years ago. He left a rich legacy of laughs to those who viewed and enjoyed him in vaudeville. If he had lived to learn how short-lived is fame he might have died with embarrassment to see his name misspelled in ordinarily meticulous TIME.
Have missed TIME several times on this three-month trip on account of its being (so I've been told by newsstand myrmidons) nonreturnable! Fine for the advertising department but bad for circulation! . . .
WALTER MANN
New York City
Every newsdealer who knows his busi ness knows that TIME is returnable. Let travelling subscribers so inform the ignorant, adding that newsstand sales in 1929 double those of 1928.--ED.
Week's Chuckle
Sirs:
Your classification of General Bullard as a gave "retired me the cigaret best chuckle endorser" of the (page week. 48, To July 15) think that a few years ago General Bullard was one of the highest officers in the A. E. F., and now his chief claim to distinction is that he didn't reach for a sweet.
Had the Lucky Strike people begun their series of testimonial ads earlier, no doubt they could now claim the credit for the successful termination of the War; an honor now attributed largely to the Marines and the Y.M.C.A.
R.L. HILL
Scottsbluff, Neb.
Honest & Clean
Sirs:
The greatest thrill I ever got from one man's action, in recent years, was when that young man, Charles Lindbergh, jumped into his little airship, all by his lonesome, and actually did fly across the Atlantic.
Soon afterwards, I had the privilege of entertaining him and his party as my personal guests at my hotel, the New St. Charles, here in Pierre, South Dakota. He remained over nite and was with us about 18 hours. The next morning after his arrival, I took him in my own car out to the flying field, and thus had considerable personal contact with him. We had refused any pay whatever for the entertainment of him and his associates, including quite a few high priced segars, and I wish to state that Mr. Lindbergh, as well as his associates, was very appreciative and fine in all of his manner and actions.
He is not given to palaver or cant but seemed to me to be as honest and clean minded a young man as I have ever met and I would wager that he washes his feet oftener than does Alva Remin (TIME, July 22).
CHAS. L. HYDE
Pierre, S. Dak.
Lindbergh Ravings
Colonel father-in-law's Lindbergh Miami was Beach twice my home guest during in the my past winter. He has every attribute I wish for in my own son. Not his Atlantic flight, his only deeds, generous donations, appreciative gestures conclusion. or Just attributes of day-in love and brought day-out me to contact this with the man Lindbergh did.
Perhaps we shall "hear the last of the hysterical ravings over Charles Lindbergh" when American ideals are lower and American men and women less sensible of the finest and best in human behavior.
CHARLES W. BEECHING
Meredith, N.H.
Wilkes-Barre Airport
Sirs:
I am one of the original subscribers to TIME--the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With the opening of the new port here pilots now feel safe.
The Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Airport covers an area of 127 acres. It lies three miles north of the centre of business activity between the Sullivan Trail and the Susquehanna River thus accommodating land or sea planes and Amphibians. Our $40,000 brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships--two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane.
Fliers will find us happy to receive them.
EDWARD L. LEWITH
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
West Riding's Woolens
Sirs:
"The West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against ... the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool . . . imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No won der Senator Harrison weeps over the situation." TIME, July 22.
Is it possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club?
JAMES E. REYNOLDS
Ventura, Calif.
Sirs:
Can it be possible that Senator Smoot was correctly quoted in your issue of July 22. ?
WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting of Con men.
HAROLD THORNE
Idaho Springs, Col.
Utah's Smoot, no great wit, was joking. A onetime woolman, he knows West Riding woolens.--ED.