Cheap

Sirs:

I note that you have published the interview that Senator Caraway gave on his return from Europe. But did you miss the story of his crawfished admission that he was conversing through his chapeau ?

The Paris Post of the Legion called him for saying that American graves were being dishonored, "reviled" was the word he used -- "he had no information himself -- he hadn't seen a single grave," but he did shoot his mouth off for the front pages. A fine fellow, this Caraway, who for a little of the front page would pour salt on a wound already open.

The French as a nation are immeasurably respectful to death. Even the German graves' are cared for and tended and the irresponsible utterance by an ignorant Senator unfortunately gets one-tenth the notice in its retraction that it did in its accusation -- a fact upon which Caraway would be cheap enough to count.

THOMAS C. C. RYAN

Pedlar & Ryan, Inc. New York, N. Y.

Honorary

Sirs:

TIME (Oct. 4, page 12, column 1) makes the following statement, "After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, et cetera."

Neither Cadet Summerall nor any other person has ever received his Phi Beta Kappa Key from West Point for the very excellent reason that no Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa has ever existed at West Point.

Charles Pelot Summerall was elected to honorary membership in the Phi Beta Kappa by Hobart College in 1921.

W. S. RODMAN

Secretary of the Beta of Virginia of the Phi Beta Kappa University, Va.

Artistic Home

Sirs:

During a visit which I made this morning to General Emilio Aguinaldo in his artistic home in Kawit, Province of Cavite, Philippines, one of the first things that came to my notice was a late copy of TIME on the desk in his library.

General Aguinaldo is a warm supporter of Governor General Leonard Wood and his able administration, and because of this wise course Aguinaldo will not only enhance the respect in which he is held by the American people but he will very effectually offset the attacks made upon the Governor General by self-seeking politicos.

SUMNER E. W. KITTELLE Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy Commandant 16th Naval District, Philippine Islands

Cavite, P. I.

Nation's Newspaper

Sirs:

In TIME, Sept. 27, you printed a footnote in which you described LA PRENSA of Buenos Aires, "the paper of the working classes."

While LA PRENSA has been so described by others before you, the phrase is far from giving an accurate summing up of this great newspaper. LA PRENSA, as a matter of fact, is not "the paper of the working classes," but is the paper of the Argentine nation. Strictly independent and always quick to defend any class that might be subjected to injustice, LA PRENSA has been characterized by the high sense of responsibility of its editors. LA PRENSA is as a matter of fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading of any number, with its four or five pages of cabled news, its careful editorial expressions, its articles written by many of the world's leading literati, scientists and statesmen, would show that it cannot be the newspaper of a class, but can only be the newspaper of an entire nation. J. B. POWERS

Exclusive North American Representative of LA PRENSA of Buenos Aires, Argen. New York, N. Y.

Any Old Thing

Sirs:

.... We subscribers razz each other but it does little or no good. You are the ones to be reproved: you should look over the letters and not publish just any old thing that comes in. I read two about cannibalism while I was waiting for dinner at the construction camp. A cat had an argument with a skunk under the cookhouse, the men compared notes on various odors they had experienced, and, to cap the climax, there was roast pork on the table. Needless to say I did not partake. Please be more careful about what you print in the future.

I save my old copies of TIME for samples, but I shall burn this one (Sept. 27). R. G. LEONARD

Palos Verdes Estate, Calif.

Catgut

Sirs:

Your mention of meat packers selling catgut [TIME, Oct. 11,] horrifies me. I know that U. S. meat packers utilize every bit of the animals they slaughter and now I am certain that the skinned little carcasses I see hanging from hooks in Los Angeles meat markets are the bodies of cats, not of rabbits as the butchers claim. I feel like never eating meat again.

SABINA (MRS. H. J.) THOMAS

Los Angeles, Calif.

Let Subscriber Thomas continue carnivorous. Catgut, a word derived from kit, that is fiddle, is never made from the intestines of cats. Catgut, for surgical sutures, tennis rackets or stringed musical instruments, is made almost exclusively from the intestines of sheep, occasionally from those of horses, mules or asses.--ED. t --Yap Sirs:

Seems like about evry so ofen sum Yap gets his back up at you and decides you kicked him in the shins too hard.

Now this guy M. R. McAdoo [TIME, Sept. 27] has got himself all hot at nothing and wangs away at your beezer and says he will have the law on you.

He tells you he don't exercise no good taste. I'll say he ain't nothing but bad taste. He is plum out of order and from the time he took his pen in hand he was drippin wet.

I sure would like a job for you socking some of the yaps that every now in then take it upon themselves to tell you what a terrible bust you and your paper is. Maybe your paper is bust, what difference does that make your getting by arnt you.

ERNEST CAVE

Box 431 Watertown, S. D.

Royalty

Sirs:

In your interesting magazine TIME you make a mistake to treat as a "fable" the story of Princess Astrid of Sweden's good cooking. It is a well known fact that the handsome Astrid cooks well and often, it is interesting because it illustrates how what appeals to one race has no sense in the eyes of another race. The Swedish princesses are all educated very thoroughly, they are far and away superior as housewives to princesses of other races because the Swedish national sentiment insists that its high born girls (royalties and aristocrats) should go through the mill like ordinary girls. Astrid and her sisters learnt cooking at the Cooking Institute in Stockholm along with other girls, and often cook special dishes for their parents in the kitchen of their pretty home in Djmfleder, a suburb of Stockholm. They are admired by all Swedes for this, but Spaniards (for instance) would never dream of boasting that Spanish princesses were good cooks. Princess Ingrid (16 years old, the only daughter of the Crown Prince of Sweden and granddaughter [through her late mother] of the English Duke of Connaught) goes to school in Stockholm with about 100 other girls, she walks through the streets every morning with her satchel to her school, the only thing special about it is that her governess always escorts her to and from school and back home to her father's palace. . . .

It is interesting to notice that Princess Astrid will be the first handsome Queen of the Belgians, all the others (especially the first Queen Louise, daughter of Louis Philippe of France) have been very plain women indeed. The present Queen Elizabeth is attractive because of her intelligent expression, but her features are decidedly plain. .

ANONYMOUS

Boston, Mass.

The Cream . . .

Sirs:

. . . And why, pray, does your Book Editor fail to include in "The Cream of this season's literature" such notable work as the poems by late lamented Amy Lowell, which he reviewed so cordially? Why omit The Story of Philosophy by amiable Will Durant, and Galsworthy's Silver Spoon (surely, Galsworthy is not "second rate, inconsequential"!)? I have found your directory most helpful but the lacunae in it are absurd. . . .

(MRS.) BESS WINTER

St. Louis, Mo.

Let Subscriber Winter read again the explanatory note heading THE CREAM: "Not all the good books are here advertised . . ." THE CREAM is paid advertising as well as an editorial book directory.