Briton Hadden

Sirs:

I would be pleased to receive a copy of the memorial to Briton Hadden. I want it for the boys in whose hands I can place it--the story of a boy in our own age who, to use Dr. Fosdick's phrase, was ''carried outside himself by something greater than himself to which he gave himself."

NORMAN W. LYON New York City

Sirs:

We all sympathize with you in the loss of Briton Hadden. But we all sincerely hope that some of his "stroke of genius" remains in your organization to carry it ever forward to greater achievements.

RALPH G. SAXE

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Stony Point, N. Y.

Sirs:

I cannot refrain from writing to you to express my sympathy and real feeling of personal loss in the death of Mr. Briton Hadden. I had not heard of it until I received my copy of TIME today and the news came as a great shock.

I am almost an "original subscriber" and have followed your fortunes with the greatest interest. If I had to choose between TIME and the several other magazines that I take, I would retain TIME for it has made itself absolutely indispensable to me. And this in spite of the fact that it irritates me intensely at times. Mr. Hadden, aided of course by his able coadjutors, has built up a great publication. He will be missed, but TIME is now on such a firm foundation that it will go on just the same.

I have appreciated the letters I have received from him--evidently dictated personally--when I have had difficulties with changing my mailing address or had occasion to write perhaps critically on other subjects.

I am sure that every real subscriber to TIME feels as I do.

RICHARD D. Micou Lieutenant (SC) U. S. Navy

U. S. S. Patoka,

New York, N. Y.

Sirs:

The death of the Editor, Briton Hadden, seemed almost a personal loss. I certainly want you to put my name down for one of the books which you intend to publish about him.

(Mrs. F. M.) ALICE H. WHITE Chicago,ILL.

Sirs:

I have been a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for over two years. From the very first I've felt that TIME and its aim--"to keep intelligent men and women well-informed"--must be the creation of a genius. If Briton Hadden was that genius, my sincere condolences upon his death.

JOHN B. LORENZ

Wauwatosa, Wis.

Sirs:

I surrender the inclosed note from the late Briton Hadden in response to the notice printed in TIME but with an additional feeling of a great personal loss to that already experienced by readers of TIME everywhere.

I attach to this note a significance of magnitude as showing Mr. Hadden's tolerant attitude with regard to criticism. I had written TIME a caustic letter in regard to an item about Mr. Levine's evolutions in his lone flight from Paris to London. This note was his courteous reply.

If, after all others have been supplied, there is still a copy left of the book you propose to have privately printed, in that case may I have one?

JAMES E. NELSON

Rochester, N. Y.

Sirs:

I am one of TIME'S admirers and I want to be among the thousands of others who express their regrets at the death of Briton Hadden.

I would like to be among those to receive a copy of the book about him.

LELAND F. LELAND

Editor and Manager The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.

Coolidge Rose

Sirs:

I read in TIME March 11, page 10, first column, fourth paragraph, that Mr. Coolidge without rising from his seat, reached up and gave President Hoover a congratulatory squeeze. This was immediately after the oath of office.

However, a photograph published by the New York Times which is herewith enclosed, shows Mr. Coolidge standing, on the occasion cited. A friend of mine who saw the movie reproduction, states that Mr. Coolidge stood on this occasion.

As I have a trial subscription to TIME, I am interested to know how accurate your account is, particularly as I was surprised to read that Mr. Coolidge did not rise from his seat on such an important occasion.

W. E. MERRIMAN Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

From where he sat at the inaugural TIME'S correspondent would have taken oath that Mr. Coolidge shook without rising. The photographic record proves otherwise. To TIME'S correspondent a reprimand for not posting himself better and to Mr. Coolidge a full sincere apology. --ED.

Flirt

Sirs:

Congratulations! At last I have discovered the facts about something I have wanted to know for lo! these many moons--and it remained for TIME to bring me the info.

I refer to the Floor Plans of the White House, its description and history, which appears in your issue of March 4.

Some time ago, the Ladies Home Journal published a series of articles by the White House housekeeper, telling me everything but what I really wanted to know--and that was just where the President's electric horse did its galloping, and other such trivialities. George Horace Lorimer overlooked a bet there.

This article of yours gives the desired information and it is, in a brief readable form, definite data of genuine human interest, with touches of humor here and there which make the whole world kin, e'en tho they dwell in marble halls.

I have been flirting with TIME ever since it began, buying an issue now and again, but-having necessarily to read a great many trade papers to keep up with my clients' accounts--I have missed many issues because I felt I could not read quite everything. But now I guess I'll have to put TIME on the "Must" list. . . .

C. HARRY KIMS C. Harry Nims Co., Detroit, Mich.

Hierarchy Flayed

Sirs:

Permit me to compliment you on your write up headed: "Education" in the March 4 issue. However, you should have included the Lutherans, and certain organizations of ''big business" objecting to the creation of a Department of Education with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet as well as the Roman Catholics.

In order to properly, and exactly, place the blame instead of saying; "Roman Catholics, however, have feared Federal interference with parochial schools and it has been their influence largely, etc.,". You should have said that it was the opposition coming from the Catholic Hierarchy, who are fundamentally opposed to all public schools, that is largely responsible for keeping "Education in a bureau under legislative lock and key."

The rank and file of the Roman Catholics, if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy, are just as much in favor of a Secretary of Education as are non-Catholics of all shades and colors of belief or no belief at all.

I am a member of the Catholic Church, and, in years gone by I have heard the public schools denounced as "Godless Schools" numberless times by priests who threatened their parishioners with refusal of the sacraments if their children were not sent to the parochial school.

The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me in this matter as I am in favor of the creation of a Department of Education with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet.

J. T. SANDERS

Practical Plumber, Steam and Gas Fitter,

Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Mrs. Christie Flayed

Sirs:

Shame on you for publishing the letter of a jealous sister obviously intended to embarrass a splendid brother! Shame, shame, TIME, for causing that fine young man pain just at this time when his approaching marriage with Miss Morrow should be an occasion of joy to everyone, most of all his closest relations. Never have I seen a more selfish exhibition than that letter from one whom life has evidently passed by, in criticism of persons who are to bestow good things upon her brother. Mrs. Christie reminds me strongly of Cinderella's sisters and I do not for one minute suppose that if she belonged to the "1% of the people who own 59% of the wealth" she would ever write as she has written. I cannot believe, moreover, that the man who was the father of Hero Lindbergh would have maintained his vindictive attitude if he could have seen how generous people were to his son after his son had demonstrated his essential nobility. That nobility and Mrs. Christie's meanness are incongruous.

(Mrs.) MARTHA KENSTROKE

Brooklyn, X. Y.

Mrs. Eva A. Lindbergh Christie is not the sister of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh but his half-sister. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Lafond Lindbergh, died in 1898. Her sister, Mrs. Lillian B. Lindbergh Roberts of Minneapolis, is dead also. In her letter (TIME, March 18) Mrs. Christie made no reference to her celebrated halfbrother. She simply thanked TIME "for recalling to the public the attitude of Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (my father) upon banking law."--ED.

Ought Into Want

Sirs:

A TIME addict for some time, I am interested in reactions of other fortunates.

Particularly significant to me is the invariable statement of many other readers that they "always read it from cover to cover."

Other publications are scanned for feature items, but I question the holding of reader interest from Alpha to Omega.

Thanks for making what we ought to read what we want to read.

HARRY G. CAMPBELL Vice President

Devlin & Bennett, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Post-Dispatch

Sirs:

TIME does an injustice to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in crediting to its morning contemporary, the Globe-Democrat, the campaign for a presidential retreat, as is done in the footnote of "Takings and Leavings" on page 11 of your issue of March 11. I trust you will find it possible in some fashion to undo this unintentional slight.

DWIGHT S. PERRIX

Asst. Managing Editor St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo.

To the able Post-Dispatch all apologies for a most lamentable tongue-slip.--ED.

Westinghouse

Sirs:

I am sure that you will be interested in the enclosed story from the March issue of The Westinghouse Magazine. It is with pride that I notice TIME to be the only magazine of general interest selected as an advertising medium for Westinghouse. You are to be congratulated.

R. W. KELLER

Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. East Pittsburgh, Pa.

Subscriber Keller enclosed a typographically smart page with the headline Telling the World and beginning:

"Westinghouse starts 1929 with a well balanced advertising campaign in hundreds of publications. Never before has Westinghouse planned so broad, so extensive an effort to sell Westinghouse as a mammoth institution, as a company which does marvels with electricity, as a maker of electrical products of unequaled quality, as a leader of electrical industry--the industry which has made possible modern life."-- ED.