Father Walsh & TIME

Sir: My attention has just been called to the published correspondence between Rev. Edmund A America, Walsh and headed TIME in the " Misleading the April 12 Public.'' issue ot This correspondence concerning the Russian religious situation seems to indicate a gross disregard and distortion on TIME'S part, of the real facts concerning the Soviet Governments policy TIME and readers record like to believe they are getting accurate and unbiased news reports. So I wonder if you would care to justify your handling of matter. ROBERT F. MILLER

Pawtucket, R. I.

Father Walsh ... has convicted TIME of indecency and breach of trust in the unprivileged publication of a blasphemous Soviet cartoon; of a deliberate and unethical suppression and distortion of the documentary evidence on religious persecution in Russia which he courteously submitted, at your request, for the March Si issue of this magazine.

Please discontinue my subscription to TIME.

JOHN J. O'CONNOR Washington, D. C.

Sirs -

impression Unless given you in correct your the article false on and Russia distorted in March 31 issue in which you state that t cartoons, murders etc. are of a period seven years previous I intend to campaign vigorously to have . . . friends stop their subscription to The 'students of this school are having Fr. Walsh's article read to them in English classes. I have previously boosted TIME as eminently not fair in have to religious turn about matters. face I and hope that I denounce it t shall those to whom I have previously recommended it. . . . . REV. JOSEPH A. LUTHER, S. J.

St. Ignatius College Chicago, 111.

Sirs: College. please TIME'S discontinue brilliance sending cannot TIME to gild Canisius suppression or blind us to the slurs on things Catholic. R. EICHHORN, S. J. President

Canisius College

Buffalo, N. Y.

A pamphlet mailed by Father Walsh to 30,000 U. S. priests was mailed by one of these to TIME. Doubtless other copies were similarly circulated among laymen. TIME upholds the right of Father Walsh to write anything he pleases in defense of his Church and against Soviet Russia. But feeling sure that many a TiME-reader would see or hear of the pamphlet, TIME sought to set the facts straight and clear, without in any sense condoning the acts of the Soviet.

TIME did not ask Father Walsh for general information about Russia, asked him two specific questions: i) What was the date of the cartoon which he described as unfit for public reproduction, but of which he mailed out 30,000 copies in a size larger than his pamphlet and in full color? What were the dates of the more ferocious Russian atrocities described in his pamphlet?

The replies of Father Walsh confirmee TIME'S belief that all his most exciting material dated back seven years or more_ The pamphlet contains 188 instances ot priests atrociously murdered prior to the summer of 1923, and one instance of a priest shot in Russia since then. The more recent persecutions described by Father Walsh are, however cruel and reprehensible, milder in character. He speaks ot 43 clerics "emprisoned" and of two who "died." He does not charge that any of these were killed--and this was TIME's major point: namely that the period ot savage Russian atrocities has passed. In his telegram to TIME Father Walsh admitted this fact, when he agreed that in Russia the anti-religious activities of the Government have "passed from legal brutality to brutal legality."

TIME is satisfied that Father Walsh and his Church have just grievances against Soviet Russia. But, however much it may sympathize with, any outcry, TIME'S sole function is to tie record of facts as straight as it can. If the Soviet again reverts to savageries, TIME can be counted on to record them. Not only so, but TIME will continue to record trustworthy reports of any sort of religious persecution.--ED.

Practicing for Weyler Sir: Your report on General Weyler's sickness (TIME April 14) was, of course, excellent, iou missed', however, one thing which it seems to me could be sufficient to throw the choleric old (92 not 91, years old) general into a fit ot rage that might carry him to -his grave, although that "double pneumonia, with some complications" could do him nothing to pay attention to. When Primo de Rivera's body was carried to Spain, just a few days after Weyler found him self sound and hale again, the people of old Madrid were surprised at seeing how well soldiers marched in funeral procession. J discovered that during Weyler's sickness they were rehearsing a funeral march, expecting to make use of it any day--they used it, on the other hand, for Weyler's foe, Primo de Rivera. J. MENENDEZ

New York City Cordials & Beverages

"on March ? I wrote Charles H. Tuttle, U. S. District Attorney, New York City, . . -

TIME '. . . read with interest . . . liquor store . . . Cordials and Beverages, 201 East 44th St." On March 22 wrote U. S. District Attorney Tuttle: "... Complaint . . . referred . . . Federal Prohibition Administrator . . . investigation . . . report . . . this office . . . whether . . .violation . . . exists." On March 27 wrote U. S. Attorney Tuttle, " . . . advise . . . evidence . . . showing sale . . . premises 201 East 44th Street. . . . March 12, 1936 . . . collected now . . . possession . . . this office. . . . Case . . . tried . . . regular order. Rochester, N. Y.

For an account of Cordials & Beverage's present condition, see National Affairs.-- ED.

Imperator Lewis

Sirs:

In your issue of March 31, on p. 60, you refer to AMORC, the Rosicrucian Order of North America, and for some peculiar reason you speak of me and comment on my religion and my previous business activities. I do not know why my religion or my previous business affairs should be of any interest in connection with a comment on this organization, but since you thought they were of importance, you should have stated them correctly.

Your comment says that I was at one time a "Jewish salesman." I am not a Jew or a Hebrew and never was. I am a descendant of Sir Robert Lewis of Wales and of an old American family. All of my relatives, including my mother and father, still live in New York and all of them are of the Christian religion. As a very young child I was raised in the Methodist church under Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who was pastor of the church on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street. I was a member of his choir for many years, as was my brother. There is no jew in my past life that warrants the assumption that I am Jewish, and I do not consider that it was necessary to make this comment. Neither was I ever a salesman of any kind. At the time of my election to the chief executive position of AMORC, I was president of the New York Institute for Encyclical Research and was editor of a magazine. . . .

I hope that you will correct this misstatement out of fairness to all concerned. There are many Jews in our organization and I have only the highest regard for them and for all other denominations and religions.

H. SPENCER LEWIS

Imperator

The Rosicrucian Order San Jose, Calif.

To Imperator Lewis, apology for printing misinformation obtained from one of his former associates.--ED.

Grateful Mormon

Sirs:

I read TIME religiously. Your interesting resume of the Mormon Centenary in April 7 issue was profoundly impressing and gratifying to me, because of its unbiased and impartial survey of Mormonism in its true light. Inasmuch as I am of the opinion that the Mormon people have been misunderstood, your unprejudiced account was received as an added source of appreciation. May I congratulate the author of the mentioned article on having written the most accurate and impartial account of the Mormons which I have read in any of the national magazines. This gratitude--from an ardent reader of TIME, and a Mormon.

F. HENRY HENROID

Cambridge, Mass.

"Cornell of the West"

Sirs: Noted that you referred to Stanford University as the "Cornell of the West" in your recent article about David Starr Jordan (TIME, March 17). I wish to take exception to that title. . . . Stanford resembles no institutions in this country or any other. It is far more advanced than many and so hopelessly outclasses Cornell that it is unfair to Stanford to be called a counterpart of that school. With due respect to Cornell graduates, there are few who can go to the far corners of the earth and be considered outstanding because of their college, and that is the case of Stanford men. It is sufficient recommendation to say you are a "Son of the Stanford Red" to have yourself respected any where as a person who amounts to something. Outside of this country, few people have heard of Cornell or care much about it. I am not saying this because President Hoover is a Stanford man but that fact gave him a powerful recommendation and aided him greatly in reaching his present position. ...

It is time that the impression the bast i that Far-Western schools are merely a flock cow colleges populated by a bunch of ignorant hayseeds who can do nothing but play football. . . .

WILLIAM K. CURTICE

San Francisco, Calif.

Stanford, whose first president was Cornell's David Starr Jordan, was once proud to call itself "Cornell of the West."

TIME used the phrase historically, reserves the right so to use it again.--ED.

Pabst & Kraft

Sirs'.

I was very much surprised to read an article in the March 10 issue of TIME, under the heading of Medicine, which conveyed a very definite mis- impression as to who was the discoverer of the process by which whey and cheese may be recombined to form a very palatable and health cheese product.

This article obviously leaves the impression with the reader that this idea and the Price's by which it is carried out were discovered by Mr. Kraft of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation and developed under his direction at Rutgers University.

The facts of the case are that the product of this type which the Kraft-Phenix Corporation is manufacturing, known as Velveeta, is made under a license issued by the Pabst Corporation of Milwaukee, who are the owners of the existing patent covering this process.

The existence of this patent in itself should convey to you absolute proof as to who originated the idea and the process, but aside from that it is well known throughout the food industry that Mr. Fred Pabst first conceived this idea and worked it out in his own laboratories in Milwaukee. . . .

GEORGE ENZINGER

Milwaukee, Wis.

To Pabst Corp. due credit for the process by which whey cheese is made and for which Kraft-Phenix holds a Pabst-issued license (but pays no royalties). It is also true, however, that Kraft's Velveeta differs from Pabstett in being made from powdered whey instead of concen- trated whey, this difference being a Kraft elaboration of the Pabst process.--ED.

Rin Tin Tin

Sirs:

Rin Tin Tin originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them. . . .

RAYMOND D. COBLE

Camp Hill, Pa.

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