Letters

Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They ire selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME.

Anagram

Sirs:

The reason why I have just subscribed to TIME for a year is briefly expressed in the following rather poor anagram:

With a MITE of TIME MET I much information.

CHARLES H. KILBOURNE

Bridgton, Me.

Motto

Sirs:

I wish to make a few remarks in regard to your magazine. It is one of the very best magazines I have ever read. It is up to date, is educational, instructive, clean and to the point, and nobody should be without it.

Every business man should have a copy of TIME on his desk where every person can see that there is one magazine that is not afraid to come out and say what it should say at the right time. Keep up the good work. Here is a little motto that use quite often: "You came in without knocking. Please go out the same way." This printed on a card and on the inside of the office door will be seen by everyone going out. They will ask what it means. Explain that it means one should not knock a good thing but boost, help it along.

CHARLES V. GALLAGHER

Westport, N. Y.

Face

Sirs:

In your Jan. 25 issue I read in the article entitled "Painleve Fils," "Mon cher Jean! You have a movie face." Can you put me in touch with M. Sti? I think I too have a movie face; I would like to know what M. Sti may think about it. Thanking you for your courtesy and with my highest expressions of regard for TIME.

PAULINE E. BLEY

Scarsdale, N. Y.

Try "care of Pathe Freres, Paris, France."?ED.

Noun

Sirs: See p. 40, col. 3, issue of Feb. 1, under head of "Humor." Please remember that the word "Jew" is always a noun, never an adjective. Jewish humor?not "Jew"' humor. AARON RICHE

Los Angeles. Calif.

Furnace

Sirs:

I wish to protest vehemently against the expression "Able Christus" which besmirches page 14 of your issue of Feb. 8.

I, for one, have endured your repetition and misuse of "able" and "famed" long enough! I shall not cancel my subscription, as so many of your disgusted readers seem to do. Instead, I shall insist that you send me every last one of the 21 copies which are due me on my present subscription. When I receive them I shall use them as waste paper, lighters for my pipe, wipers for my razor, etc.

No doubt one of the issues will contain the expression "the famed God of the noted Christian religion." I shall take great pleasure in lighting my FURNACE with that.

PAUL GREBBLE

The 20th Century Limited, en route.

The phrase "able Christus" was used in apposition to Anton Lang, the Oberammergau actor. No offense was intended.? ED.

"Stupid Ass"

Sirs:

Seeing an article in your News-Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 4, I am constrained to offer a reply to "G. Washington Assailed."

Rupert Hughes should have been taken bodily and thrown through the window if it was not more than ten stories high, although he said nothing derogatory to Washington. . . .

The most contemptible libel that I ever heard of Washington was that at the battle of Valley Forge he sneaked away into the woods out of danger to PRAY. Gen. Washington, like every other intelligent being, did his praying with his hands and feet. God respects no other prayer. We have no other access to GRACE.

Albion K. Parris is my highest idea of a HUMAN BEING. He gave the world that evidence by defending the character of a grand and noble man not present to defend himself. Granting that Washington danced three hours with the wife of his brother general, I have danced nearly an entire evening with the wife of another man who was sitting beside my wife in the hall, as they had never danced a step in their lives. I too often say D?N, when I mean no more than many others do when they pray. When Hughes repeated at Manhattan he proved himself a stupid ASS. The voice from the audience bore the earmarks of intelligence and the old lady showed her good judgment, and all others should have followed.

Mr Editor, I have received three of your magazines and find much of interest. Should you see best to publish the above, and will send me a copy by return mail, I will send my subscription and check for one year. Otherwise kindly return the above and I will trouble you no more.

G. A. TIBBETTS Bangor, Maine.

Tabasco

Sirs:

The New York Times and the Outlook were part of my fare from infancy up. I found the latter very satisfying under Lyman Abbott's editorship. Now I read TIME and the Living Age. During my short life I have had a fair opportunity to read and assimilate some of the best things in literature. I shall confess as well to a real liking for the so-called high-brow magazines, the Atlantic Monthly, Bookman, American Mercury and so on. Like dozens and hundreds of my sisters, I have belonged progressively to Browning, Shakespearean, Political Study and Theatre Clubs; but never, until I discovered it in TIME, did I realize that I am also a "gum-chewer."

I read the New York Daily News daily, except Sunday. I could not get interested in a copy of the Evening Journal to save my life, but find entertainment in the News, I like the comic strips, the sports and dramatic news and the editorials. It may carry at times features that irritate but one finds items that irritate in the World.

Still, devoted to the New York Times, I like a dash of tabasco with my bread and beans. Shall not we of that newly discovered mass at the bottom be allowed this condiment? We find that it aids digestion and lightens the cares that oppress us

(MRS.) SARAH SNOWDEN ROBINSON

Northport, Long Island, N. Y.

Higher

Sirs:

Far be it from this appreciative subscriber to captiously criticise misplaced comma or misspelled word, but I should like to call the attention of Mr. A. Collins, whose letter regarding Muller's catch is printed on p. 2 of your issue of Jan. 25, to the L. C. Smith Bldg. in Seattle, Wash., which rises 35 stories above the sidewalk and is topped by a seven-story sloping roof, many stories higher than the S. F. Telephone Bldg., "highest on the Pacific Coast."

CHARLES HAZLEHURST

Cumberland, Md.

Well Worth While

Sirs : ... I am a clergyman and I make frequent use of your magazine in sermon preparation. On the whole I find it stimulating. I confess that I like the way in which you distribute the half-tones through the entire magazine in a most liberal manner. And I find the little scraps of comment under the cuts helpful in that they whet curiosity. See TIME p. 7, issue Feb. 8: "World Judge Moore?Robust, unruffled." Or on p. 27 of the same issue: "George B. Cortelyou?Potent." Many periodicals come to my desk, but TIME is different from any of them. I like many things about it and find comparatively little to criticise. I have a suspicion that some of your readers are finical. But there must be a vast majority who feel that your periodical is well worth while.

CRITICUS CRITICORUM

Ladysmith, Wis.