Researcher Winecoff
Sirs:
I am glad to see you "on the job," as usual, in giving, Dec. 7, an abstract of my article 'Out of Bounds" in American Game, describing the embarrassing overabundance of deer in Pennsylvania. But I fear the Governor and the Pennsylvania Game Commission will not "confirm" the promotion you give me in your article. I am by no means "Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner," but merely the humble research scientist to the Commission.
DR. THOS. E. WINECOFF
Harrisburg, Pa.
In the 13-day deer season ended last week in Pennsylvania 41 hunters were killed, ten by their own guns; seven others died of heart attack. Deer bagged: 54,000. --ED.
Suggestion for Senator Fess
Sirs:
I have had a suggestion offered some time ago that might be of value to Senator Fess in his search for funds with which to build his home (TIME, Sept. 14).
About two years ago while seeking an opening for placing a loan application in a local bank I asked a Mr. Mackey, New Accounts manager, which banker was in the best humor for an approach. In determining from me the exact purpose of my mission Mackey asked if I would submit collateral and my answer was that I had, for the benefit of the business concerned, some building & loan shares. He most graciously advised me that, in his opinion, anyone who would keep their cash in building & loan and then impose upon their banker for commercial loans should have their account removed from the commercial bank. And Mackey was right. Three percent is usually much better than 6% or 7% if the money at 3% is available and it usually is when placed with your own banker.
J. H. HATCH
Union Wire Rope Corp. Tulsa, Okla.
Lady Heath's Memory
Sirs:
A little error of yours--several of them on p. 34 of your Nov. 23 issue.
My name was Mary, Lady Heath as T divorced Sir James Heath in 1930.
My first husband would be 56 now if alive. Sir James Heath is just 80.
Will you be so very kind as to contradict the "faulty memory" you attribute to me, please.
S. MARY WILLIAMS
Fort Worth, Texas
Unless many newsmen all made the same mistake, Newsstand-Buyer Mary Williams' memory errs again. On her third marriage last month, to George Anthony Reginald Williams. 33, the aviatrix was widely quoted: "My first husband. Elliott-Lynn, was 76 when we were married, and my second. Sir James Heath, was 56." Sir James, whom she married in 1927 will not be 80 until Jan. 26.--ED.
Pairs
Sirs:
Kindly explain what you mean by a "pair" referring to p. 13, Nov. 16 issue where you speak of absent Congressmen whose vote can be canceled out therewith.
VICTOR SLAGEN
Philadelphia, Pa.
A legislative pair is a gentleman's agreement between two members, who if present would vote on opposite sides, to withhold their votes if one or the other is absent. A and B are paired. A is absent. B will not vote. But C, on B's side, is also absent but unpaired. B arranges to transfer his pair with A to C and then is free to vote, while the uncast votes of A and C cancel themselves out in the total.--ED.
Long-Ranger
Sirs:
You give in the issue of Dec. 14, col. 1, p. 4, Letters, the better part of a column on the severe drought in the South Atlantic Seaboard States. It in fact extended from Maryland to Alabama and South Central Florida. The breaking of the drought, then, should be news, and the forecast of the breaking of the drought should also be news. I enclose you the opening page of the Nov. 30 Bulletin of the Long Range Weather Forecast Service containing the definite forecast of the rains which would break the drought with the reason therefor. The rains came in great volume over this whole area Dec. 3 and 4, and 8 and 9.
Two years ago this coming January, 1 forecast that precipitation on the Pacific Coast for the season July 1 to June 30, 1931--32, would be well above the normal, with especial emphasis on deep snows in the mountains to meet the needs of irrigation and the public service corporations. This forecast also is being fulfilled in a marked degree. . .
HERBERT JANVRIN BROWNE
Long Range Weather Forecast Service Washington, D. C.
Forecast Long-Ranger Browne on Nov. 30: "With the air and water temperatures over the Azorean cold water area tending to equalize the great barrier of high pressures, which has acted like a mountain range in causing the heavy precipitation of this month in the Mississippi Valley and Great Plains, has moved to the eastward and precipitation will be ... in sufficient volume to relieve the drought . . ."--ED.
Kingsport Tax Plan
Sirs:
The writer feels that many TIME readers, especially those interested in governmental and tax affairs, will be interested in a step recently taken by the up & coming little city of Kingsport. Tenn. I refer to the adoption of a new tax plan devised by G. D. Black, city treasurer and recorder. Under the "Black Plan" municipal taxes may be prepaid in monthly installments, and the city pays to the taxpayer 6% interest on every dollar paid before the date on which taxes fall due; also delinquent taxes may be paid on the installment plan. Under this new system, if a taxpayer has $100 in taxes falling due on Nov. 1, 1932, he can begin paying $10 per month on Jan. 1, 1932, and the first of each successive month thereafter. When the wintry blasts of November arrive, his taxes are paid; and he receives from the city a check for the interest on his advance payments.
. . . As for the taxpayer, it relieves him of the burden of paying his taxes in a lump sum at a time of the year when so many other things are calling to his pocketbook. Moreover, the interest which the taxpayer receives on his prepaid taxes encourages him to support the plan. As for the city, the plan provides it with revenue for current expenses, and relieves it of the burden of borrowing any great amount of money in anticipation of the payment of taxes. . . .
JOE L. BALDWIN
Washington, D. C.
Prayer for Mice
Sirs:
The following are some juvenile interpretations of prayers:
A friend of mine told me that she prayed for mice every night as a child, for she always said:
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Listen to a little child. Pity mice and plicity. . . .
She always wondered what "plicity" was, and why she should pray for mice anyway.
A housemother at Smith College, the widow of an admiral in the U. S. Navy, tells the story of her son who lisped the Lord's Prayer in this manner: "Our Father who art in Heaven, Admiral be Thy name."
I myself asked: "Give us this day our daily breath." I remember the shock to my childish sensibilities when I discovered that I had made a mistake in addressing the Almighty. . . .
LOUISE HOVDE MORTENSEN
Des Moines, Iowa
Rotterdam's Kindler
Sirs:
By stamping Conductor Kindler (TIME, Nov. 16, p. m) as a German (Herr Dr.) an error has been committed, I believe.
He may be, directly or remotely, of German parentage, but the City of Rotterdam, Holland, will claim him for all times as one of her sons. He lived there till he was 20 years or so and received his first musical education at the Music School there, which was then situated on the Nieuwe Markt. Every morning about 9 o'clock he could be seen getting off the streetcar at the Beursplein, carrying his cello and walking the short distance to the school. Don't you try and rob Holland of one of its Darlings.
F. SPRUYTENBURG
Battle Creek, Mich.
Born in Rotterdam, Conductor Kindler won fame with Berlin's Opera Orchestra, also taught at Berlin's Scharwenka Conservatory, now conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D. C.--ED.
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