South Shore Jews

Sirs:

In your issue dated Nov. 25, p. 56, in the lower right hand corner, there is the following: SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB

(Many a Jew)

As a subscriber to your paper and a member of the Jewish faith I am interested in knowing the significance of the statement, "Many a Jew."

ALBERT E. KAYE

Longview, Wash.

As everyone knows, Jews are discriminated against in many a leading U. S. country club. Knowing this not to be the case at the famed South Shore club, TIME mentioned it as of incidental news-interest. --ED.

Greek Cinema

Sirs: You have been making a lot of printers' errors --the Greeks have the real lowdown on how to spell American names to produce the right pronunciation: FOZ MOTBITON NIOTS --Fox Movietone News KOLNTOTIN --The last name of Mr. Samuel Goldwyn MPILLT NTOB --Billie Dove AL TZOLSON --Al Jolson.

MANFRED GOTTFRIED

Athens, Greece

Buglers

Sirs:

Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted to.

During several trips to Paris, the writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a loud blast upon his nasal appendage (regularly called "bugle" in the United States).

This habit or custom is very impressive, because it always occurs when perfect quiet otherwise prevails. The one able to blow the loudest blast is always rewarded by grateful smiles and looks of indulgence from his countrymen.

One wonders if contests ever occur between those possessed of unusual ability in this regard, and if the successful one receives a prize or a decoration in honor of the memorable occasion.

It must be admitted that Americans are vastly outdistanced and outclassed by the French in this branch (breach) of etiquette.

JOHN J. FOSTER

Del Rio, Texas.

Pennsylvania's Reed

Sirs:

As public-spirited Pennsylvanians and firm constituents of Senator David A. Reed, we would feel highly grateful if you would present a brief biography of him and a resume of his legislative program. J. C. LENIE A. V. SIEGEL A. H. FULTON FRANCIS P. BUTLER ROSCOE E. BETTS

Pittsburgh, Pa.

The record of Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania is as follows:

Born: Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 21, 1880.

Start in life: Practicing law under the watchful eye of the late great Philander Chase Knox.

Career: Born into a good family of social standing and abundant means, he was educated at expensive private schools. At 15 he started a juvenile newspaper of which his father, James H. Reed, bought every copy as a method of suppression. Sent to Princeton, he once ran away, hoboed his way to Washington, returned to his studies chastened by the experience. Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend of the Reed family, helped guide his career. His law practice dealt chiefly with corporations and public utilities--interests closely allied with those of Andrew William Mellon.

Interested in affairs military, he attended two Plattsburg training camps (1915-1916). When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow.

In Congress: He was elected to the Senate in 1922 for a full six-year term. Last year he was reelected. He voted for Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928), Flood Control (1928), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Reapportionment (1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He voted against the Soldier Bonus (1923). He votes Dry, serves no liquor in his own home, takes a drink out when offered. Legislative Hobbies: Tariff and tax protection for Pennsylvania industries; military affairs; immigration.

He has led the fight in the Senate for higher tariff rates for Pennsylvania's wares. Thwarted by the Progressive Republican-Democratic coalition, he testily predicted the Tariff Bill's death. He is ever active to lower surtax rates on large incomes, to reduce the corporation tax. In general his fiscal policy is identical with that of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, his great and good friend, whom he has repeatedly defended against attacks by Senators Couzens of Michigan and Walsh of Montana.

As chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, he works industriously for the development and efficient maintenance of the Army. He helped expose graft in the Veterans Bureau which sent its director, Charles Forbes, to the penitentiary. War veterans, however, are suspicious of him because of his vote against the Bonus.

An ardent advocate of restrictive immigration, he led the fight for the 1924 law and again, this year, secured the adoption of National Origins over the objection of President Hoover.

Thin, lean, wiry, of medium stature, he carries his head thrust forward, his shoulders stooped. His face is long and deeply lined, giving him an appearance of age beyond his years. Thin brown hair is slicked flat across his head. In his unsmiling eyes there is a melancholy light. He walks very rapidly, swinging his arms, with an air of great preoccupation. His suits are generally soft and grey, cut in an expensive, conservative style. When he speaks on the Senate floor, he grips the sides of his desk and leans forward, every muscle taut. In his words there is a vibrant intensity. Well-informed, though often sophistical, he argues in a quiet conversational tone, with no attempt at oratory. In his serious, unsmiling delivery there is a suggestion of the school-teacher lecturing ignorant pupils, which gives many Senators private offense.

A certain superciliousness marks his manner, as if he were ever mindful of his social and economic superiority. Once he referred to his Pennsylvania constituents as "dunderheads" and on another occasion pleaded at Princeton for more of "our kind of people" in politics.

Married, the father of a son and a daughter, he lives in an apartment in Pittsburgh, is now building a fine large house in Washington on S street, not far from the old Hoover home. He smokes cigarets rather than cigars, is known as "The Senate's worst golfer," rarely attends his Episcopal church. His diversions: boating, fishing, hunting. Last summer he and Senator Phipps of Colorado spent weekends "roughing it" in a speedboat down the Potomac.

Impartial observers rate him thus: An instinctive aristocrat, frankly and ably representing Pennsylvania's Big Business, a sincere and industrious legislator, ultra-conservative in his economic and political views. Without sham, he makes no appeal to the "common people," never attempts to identify himself falsely with them. Possessed of brains and courage, he is a vigorous Republican partisan who, because of political necessity, has stooped to such unpleasant tasks as defending even to the point of a filibuster, his colleague, Senator-Suspect William Scott Vare, whom he personally abhors. He is today the junior leader of the Old Guard. President Hoover appointed him a delegate to the five-power naval parley in London next month. His term expires March 4, 1935--ED.

That Heflin

Sirs:

Your reports on Congressmen are a service nowhere duplicated in American life. The people's men will now have to go about their business very carefully knowing that your microscopic-telescopic lens may at any moment be swivelled in their direction. Three thousand congratulations to all of us! The one I'm waiting for is that Heflin of Alabama. I wish I lived there so I could get four neighbors and ask you to "do" him. . . .

HARRY SIMPSON

Chicago, Ill.

Five registered voters of Alabama already have requested the Heflin record. It, and many another requested record, will be published in good time. The rule: one record every third issue.--ED.

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