Smith v. Hatton Sirs; TIME erred in stating (Sept. 19, 1927) that Dr. A. R. Hatton "had declined the deanship of the University of Detroit." The University of Detroit, a catholic institution did not offer him the deanship but the municipal College of the City of Detroit through the Board of Education did. Before Dr. Hatton declined, Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit, wanting no staunch advocate of the city manager system on the city payrolls, vigorously assailed the appointment and threatened to veto it. HAROLD E. ROE Detroit, Mich.

Plutarch Jr. Sirs: ... I consider the department of LETTERS the best thing in the magazine. This department individualizes the oddities of people and serves to remind me that the people among whom I live have their counterparts in other parts of the world. Prom my point of view this department might be extended a little without losing its flavor. . . .

I get an unmitigated wallop off of such letters as the Alphabetical Englishman Dillington-Dowse -- or whatever his name was --and the gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched.

Meantime I hope you will not allow my subscription to lapse without any specific order to stop the same. I hereby authorize you to draw on me whenever I am as far in arrears as you consider seemly. I intend to keep TIME, the rest of my life. E. S. EVANS, M. D. Grinnell, Iowa

"Beautiful Isle" Sirs: When I was a little girl my poor mother many an evening sang me "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," the song which you report Cardinal O'Connell of Boston denounces [TIME, Oct. 17]. She would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please It do is not not let it vulgar. It be driven out of memory. ELSIE D. COOPER Baltimore, Md.

Guerillas & Gorillas Sirs: Your footnote to the effect that guerillas at Telpaneca are "not to be confused with gorillas, huge apes" is just another insult to intelligent readers which so disgusts a very great number and makes them regret that TIME, which might be so very, very good, is so very, very amateurish and rotten. VERY SORRY SUBSCRIBER Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich.

Tully's Reply Sirs: A letter appeared in a recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all-- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that. . .

The word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth.

As for the "elephant cage," I once heard a farmer describe how a dog went up a tree when wolves were after it. Another farmer said, "Dogs don't climb trees." "Well, this one did," replied the farmer, "it had to."

Old Cameron did have an elephant cage. The natives in the south paid many a dime to see the elephant that was so dangerous it had to be kept in a cage.

As for the territory traversed by the circus, will the gentleman explain why the John Robinson shows played the south year after year when eastern territory might have brought more money in to the box office? Ringling's and other shows may go by logic. The smaller shows often go by a blind sentiment. Are there not shows that travel up and down the Pacific Coast year after year?

In conclusion, I will say that three old time circus men--one, the greatest short-change artist in the country--read every line of Circus Parade before I took it to my publisher.

There is, in America, a hatred of realism which amounts to a blindness. There is enough realism with any circus to keep a Zola busy a life time.

I have no quarrel with those gentlemen who wish to keep the circus pure. Any little carnival company can boast or be ashamed of types as rough as those in Circus Parade. Every honest reader of a sheet like The Billboard will admit that he has met them. JIM TULLY Hollywood, Calif.

A Bishop's Critique Sirs: I thought you might be interested in the enclosed P. C.* received the other day from my friend the Right Rev. Llewelyn Henry Gwynne, Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan. I had sent him a copy of TIME, [Aug. 29], containing the account of the Christian Unity Conference at Lausanne, to attend which he had come over specially. He and Bishop Brent were respectively "Bishops at the Front" to the British and American Forces during the War. LAURENCE C. MILLER Brynview, Bishopston, Swansea.

Said Bishop Gwynne: Thank you for sending me that interesting account of the Unity Conference which I read with pleasure. I thought the magazine excellent. (Signed) L. H. GWYNNE National Club, 12, Queen Anne's Gate, London, S.W.I.

Highly Pleased Sirs : I was highly pleased with your treatment of the Gary school strike situation. [TIME, Oct. 10.] It was just to the colored people and even more than just to the whites. Especially well done was the bit of artistry in portraying the Gary (white) politicians. Better-class Garyites deplore the strike. In their sight the whole business is very unfortunate. They are reasonable, and appreciate the necessity for the school board's original action. Moreover, such an outburst of poor taste should never have occurred for the simple enough reason the Gary whites and blacks have rubbed elbows long enough, both in work and in school, to have become thoroughly used to each of other. Your hint toward the implication of the parents is well taken. (Not all Gary parents are better class or "nice".) The children themselves are hardly capable of such a well directed demonstration. Undoubtedly, narrower minds than theirs hatched the scheme. The boys and girls embraced it because it gave them a holiday.

My interest in all this arises from the fact that I myself am an Emerson graduate, one of my brothers has been graduated from the school, and a second is still in it. The last mentioned followed the herd struck too, but not with his parents' consent. M. THURSTON WARD West Lafayette, Ind. P. S. Be sure and give Purdue all credit due for its performance against dear old 'Arvard.*

Good v. Bad

Sirs : Thank you for the copy of TIME. I find after looking it over that it isn't The Paper for me. . . . I want to find one that points out both good and bad business. I wonder if such a magazine exists some times. Do you know of any Editor who is sufficiently intelligent and far enough advanced to be able to tell good work from bad, who endeavors to list both kinds that are done in the United States and other countries ? A classified page of good and bad business. Something like classified advertising ? It seems to me a paper like that would be worth something. It wouldn't need any commenting it would be plain and wholesome and one could look it over and tell which was in advance. That sounds a little like a jest but why not a magazine like that ? Thank you again for all courtesy. You may please not send TIME any more until I subscribe. MARY E. ANDERSON Wheeler, W. Virginia.

Detective

Sirs: Why spoil your interesting publication with anything so disagreeable as a criticism of the President's having a protector for their son John ? In view of the fact that Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge gave up one of their sons soon after they moved into the White House, one would almost think that it might be wise to protect, if necessary, the one remaining son. . . . HARYOT HOLT DAY New York, N. Y.

TIME did not criticize John Coolidge's having a private detective. TIME, Oct. 17, reported the Nation as having so criticized, quoting the Nation's query: "Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen or a veterinary for his wife's great aunt's pet poodle Trixie?"-- ED.

Shovels Sirs: May I ask that your editorial department take the same care in checking the following statements that they might well have taken in checking the statement in your first footnote, third column, page 14, TIME, Sept. 26.

Seventy-seven Bucyrus Steam Shovels handled the dry excavation of the Panama Canal until 1907, when 24 shovels were purchased from the Marion Steam Shovel Co. ; no other shovels for canal construction were purchased after this.

The Panama Canal Record published the yardage records, for all shovels, weekly during the construction of the Panama Canal. The daily output record, the weekly output record, and the monthly output record for the entire construction of the canal were all held by Bucyrus shovels.

F. O. WYSE Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis. In a footnote, TIME, Sept. 26, said: "It has been said that 'Marion built the Panama Canal because these [the Marion Steam Shovel Co.'s] shovels were used extensively. . . ." To Bucyrus shovels all credit for their part. It must also be said that "South Milwaukee built the Panama Canal" -- ED.

"Be Just" Sirs : "Be just, be fair, be merciful" -- it is not too late even now to put on the front page cover of TIME the picture of Colonel Charles Lindbergh. Let your friends and readers see that even TIME has human attributes, and like woman, the inalienable right to change her mind. J. MONTROSE EDREHI Pensacola, Fla.

Ice Cream Sirs : TIME is as popular here as ice-cream. Students in politics and history particularly find it essential. D. DeLancey, winner of National Current Events prize,* attributes his success largely to perusal of TIME. QUADRANGLE CLUB Princeton, N. J.

Clean Tulsa Sirs: Taking issue with Wm. H. Thomson of Princeton, N. J. (TIME, Sept. 26), relative to Baltimore having "by far the best paved and the cleanest streets," we beg to demur. Tulsa, a city of 150,000 population, has 190 miles of asphalt paved streets covering practically the entire city, and these streets are kept CLEAN. But, aside from that, we claim this is the cleanest city in North America, for the reason natural gas is the only fuel used for all industrial, business and residence purposes, the result of which is, there is no smoke nor soot on the outside-- no ashes nor dust on the inside. While Baltimore claims clean streets only, we cover the entire subject of cleanliness, and this feature together with a winter climate absolutely ideal, makes it easy to live here. WILLIAM H. BAGLEY Tulsa, Okla.

"H.P."

Sirs: . . .Retiring National Commander Howard P. Savage of the American Legion is known as "High-Power" rather than "Rail-Splitter"--this having a three-fold significance: his electrical business connections, his "go-get-'em" achievements, and his first two initials. I like TIME very much. Am glad you've dropped the "as everyone knows." Also that Miss (or Mrs.) Robinn has ceased to write--or you no longer use her letters. Her narrow bigotry was "too much." R. A. WELDON . Chicago, Ill.

Travel Dept? Sirs: Broadening, travel is an educational factor for which there is no substitute. Interesting, it commands the attention of all who rebel at fixity ; of those who move periodically. Worthwhile, it grows apace. Alert, efficient, TIME might wish to call for one hundred years ; add Travel to present departments. FREDERICK BLACK Director of Advertising Matson Navigation Co. San Francisco, Calif.

There is no room for a Travel Dept. at present. -- ED.

*Post card.-- ED.

*Subscriber Ward refers to the drubbing which the Harvard football eleven received at the hands of Purdue a fortnight ago. --ED

*$750 and medal bestowed by the New York Times.--ED.