Roosevelt's Moley Sirs:

I note in TIME, Sept. 19, an account of next-President Roosevelt's junket to the West and the remark that "Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the 'brain trust' which supplies the Governor with economic data," was on the campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because of his unwelcome interest in some of the more putrid corners of that great city. (No criticism of Cleveland--it does not differ from other places of comparable population in respect to the criminal element.) What Mr. Moley and his associates found was incorporated in a famous report that proved to be one of the most complete and accurate reports of metropolitan criminal conditions ever compiled. . . . D. W. KAUFMAN

North Hollywood, Calif.

Wales at the Lido

Sirs:

After reading the account of the Prince of Wales's cruise, which appeared under Italy in your Aug. 22 number 1 begin to be a little doubtful. . . .

In the first place, Principessa Jane di San Faustino (born Miss Jane Campbell) never stays in a palace in Venice, but has had an apartment in the Excelsior-Palace Hotel. Lido, for many years, holding court in front of her capanna on the beach daily, where (even during the era of knee-length frocks) she has been a well-marked figure with her white hair and her long simple white gowns.

In the second place, the Princess, far from being an "old friend.'' had never met the Prince of Wales. She was ill on the day of Their Royal Highnesses' arrival, but, on being invited to dine at the Grand Hotel by Captain and Mrs. Alistair Mackintosh (Mrs. Mackintosh is another American, having been Miss Lela Emery of New York), she pulled herself together and went. The dinner was quite small, only eight covers. and took place informally on the terrace of the Grand Hotel, no one dressing, and none of the guests in the hotel apparently being aware of the presence of royalty.

After dinner the Prince went for a gondola ride with the younger members of the party and, later, returned to the Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this may be explained by the fact that it was after one o'clock when he arrived, and that the music at Chez Vous was fairly continuous so that, stopping king before two. his devotion was probably more accidental than anything else. That they went down to the beach later was not remarkable, as many people do so after dancing, for the cooling breezes, and the beach is patrolled all night long.

The implication that the Princess Jane was in any way annoyed is absurd as she never dances and. after a delightful dinner, with "the most charming young man she had ever met" her only interest was in seeing that the two Princes enjoyed themselves.

The next morning the two Princes, coming down to the beach for a swim before leaving, saw the Signora Kraus with her mother and asked her to join them for a swim which she did. As she is an excellent swimmer she rather outpaced both the Princes much to their amusement.

If I go into detail in this way it is because this young woman who has been living at the Lido the entire summer quietly and respectably with her mother has been very much upset by the notoriety arising from the incident. REBEKAH W. ELLIOT Venice, Italy

Down-at-Heel Perm

Sirs:

The University of Pennsylvania consists of many schools, which, for the most part, rank high in their respective fields.

Many TIME readers in the Alumni and student bodies (myself included), are extremely puzzled concerning your description of the University as "down-at-heel," which appeared in the Sept. 26 issue.

Please enlighten us.

Carvel Klee

Philadelphia. Pa.

Sirs:

Will you be good enough to publish your reasons for referring to the University of Pennsylvania as "Pennsylvania's big. down-at-heel

University" in your issue of Sept. 26. p. 31.

JNO. D. SINGLEY, M.D.

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Founded in 1740 as a charity school, later expanded by Benjamin Franklin. University of Pennsylvania is famed today for its schools of Business. Electrical Engineering, Fine Arts. Medicine.' By "down-at-heel'' TIME referred to Penn's needs which President Gates, upon taking office, set out to supply with a $20.000.000 endowment drive. TIME also had in mind that Penn. like Columbia, has lost through polyglot expansion the distinction it once shared among Eastern colleges with Harvard, Princeton. Yale.--ED. Morley & Hoover Sirs: Better, better and better gets "The March of Time." Last night's conversation between President Hoover and Christopher Morley was your highest high point for verisimilitude. For four years as telephone operator at the Saturday Review I heard Mr. Morley's voice almost every day and could not mistake it anywhere. Last night I could almost believe your actor was Mr. Morley himself. . . .

HENRIETTA FORCE

New York City

He was.--ED. Good Shot

Sirs:

In the Sept. 26 issue p. 26 under Cinema The Night of June 13 you neglected to mention that Clive Brook as John Curry purchased TIME at the newsstand. Think this should have gone under "good shots."

CARL B. MAYO

South Yarmouth, Mass.

Buried Among Ling

Sirs:

One of your enthusiastic rooters abroad is Miss Mazo de la Roche, formerly (before the success of her Jalna saga) of Ontario, Canada, but now of Devon, Sicily and surrounding points.

One of the firm, visiting her this summer to confer about her since-published Lark Ascending, showed her a copy of TIME, whereupon she subscribed, and we rarely receive a letter from her in which she does not make some reference to her latest copy.

We have just had a letter from her, written from Edinburgh, in which she says:

I read the last copy of TIME, which was forwarded to me, on the slope of a heather-clad mountain. When I had finished it I buried it among the ling. [Note: Not the edible cod-like fish, but another word for heather.] I wonder what will spring from that spot! Yours till time shall be no more.

F. M. CLOUTER

Little, Brown & Co. Boston, Mass.

Retort to Buck Wilson

Sirs:

With reference to the remarks made by Mr. George "Buck" Wilson to my letter published in your issue of Aug. 22, I do wish to state that Mr. Wilson has completely misunderstood the meaning of my letter.

I do insist to say that Commander Waters of the B. E. F. is a very good fellow, but he compares to H. E. Mussolini as a rabbit to a lion. . . .

Of course I believe that Commander Waters and some members of the B. E. F. have walked right up and into barrages, when in France.

Anyone wearing a uniform of a soldier, be he American, French. British, German or Italian, willing or unwilling, must obey the orders; he has no other choice and he is a hero.

But in Washington. Commander Waters and the members of the B. E. F. after the military display of Mr. Hurley, they all decided that the best thing was to disband and go back home in peace.

To further satisfy Mr. Wilson's curiosity I'll say that I am a soldier, an American and I have the privilege to say what I do think.

For twelve years I have been employed by American Bankers, so I do not have to go back to Venice to paddle a gondola.

GEORGE GAZZERA

Nev York Citv.

Stooge Sirs:

In issue of Sept. 26. in quotes you use plural of "stooge."' Just what is a stooge?

P. J. RULON

Cambridge, Mass.

"Stooge" (theatrical vernacular): a ridiculous character used as butt for a comedian's jokes & pranks.--ED. Hutchinson's Past

Sirs:

Having read the aeronautical article in the Sept. 26 issue I am disappointed in your use of the [New York] Evening Post's comment on Mr. Hutchinson's past. This paragraph is irrelevant, immaterial and decidedly unsportsmanlike, and the article would have been as readable and as informative with this comment omitted. I agree that the trip, especially with his family, was a foolish undertaking, and merits condemnation, but to rehash the past when a man is trying to rehabilitate himself is akin to striking him when he is down (and in more ways than one). Mr. Hutchinson may be the publicity seeker: he may even have beamed with delight over some of his notoriety: if so he has his reward. The Post's comment has certainly mingled his wine with wries however, and for you to reprint this seems a bit unTiMEly. His mistake in this case has no bearing on the one of the past [embezzling] and vice versa. What he needs now are sound advice and boosts, not blows which strike below the belt.

(REV.) FRANCIS J. PRYOR III

North Platte, Neb.

Good Ship Sirs:

Referring to TIME, Sept. 26, Aeronautics, and knowing its reputation for accuracy and fairness. I am writing in behalf of a good ship which cannot speak for itself--The American Nurse. I am sure that she would object to your "flew, by fits and starts, around the world last year." At best, your statement belittles. If asked for her record she might truthfully say: 1) I am the only airplane to have flown both major oceans nonstop. 2) From a beach in Japan I lifted from the sand and flew with a wing loading of 30 Ib. per sq. ft. The maximum theoretical limit for any airplane is 28 pounds per square foot. 3)1 hold the record of having flown farther over water than any other airplane. 4) I am the only airplane ever to have flown the Pacific nonstop. HUGH HERNDON, JR.

President, A. T. W. (Around The World) Corp. Cleveland, Ohio

The Bellanca monoplane Miss Veedol, flew around the world July 28-Oct. 18. 1931. Main delays were caused by a muddy field at Khabarovsk and the suspicious Japanese Government. Rechristened The American Nurse, the ship started for Rome from Floyd Bennett Field, was lost far at sea on a night when the moon was in eclipse.--ED.

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