Time Made

Sirs:

Election results known midnight (E. S. T.) Nov. S Accurately reported, written, printed, mailed, transported, received 9 a. in. (E. S. T.) Nov. it. Elapsed time. 57 hours. Congratulations on a fine job of "making TIME."

W. D. CONOYER Toledo, Ohio

TIME's election returns contained one error--reporting New Jersey's Barbour trailing for the Senate. Mr. Barbour conceded Democrat Percy Stewart's victory at noon Wednesday, discovered Thursday evening when complete unofficial returns had come in that he had won.--ED.

Presidential Talk

Sirs:

Why does not TIMI: suggest that the President of the U. S. give a 15-minute radio talk once a month on ''United States History of the Past Month"?

He certainly owes this much to the public and the public should know the vital changes being made.

B. L. KNIGHT. M. D. Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The U. S. Constitution provides that ; the President ". . . shall from time to time give to the Congress information on the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary. ..." By custom, the President reads his message on the state of the Union at the start of each session of Congress.--ED. Humorist

Sirs:

In TIME. Nov. 7. you wrote as follows: "In New Hampshire, on the other hand, Humorist Corey Ford is the mainstay of an ineffectual Crusader contingent. If Wet" Fred Brown beats weasling Wet-drinking George Higgins Moses out of his Senate seat, etc."

In TIME. the current week (if you are up on your toes) you ought to be writing somewhat as follows: "In New Hampshire. Wet Fred Brown beats weasling Wet-drinking George Higgins Moses out. of his Senate seat, etc."

As one Humorist to another. I just wondered what you would call "effectual."

HUMORIST COREY FORD Freedom, N. H.

TIME said: "If Wet Fred Brown beat? weaseling. Wet-drinking George Higgins Moses out of his Senate seat, it will not be due very largely to Crusader support." Last week Senator-reject Moses explained his defeat thus: "Even a cursory examination [of election returns] shows that in certain sections there were defections from me that cannot be explained upon any theory other than that of concerted treachery."--ED.

Batting Average

Sirs:

I have just gone through an intimacy with I IMF. which 1 think even the editors can hardly match: I have read consecutively every issue from July 1929 to date.

I was, as you might gue.-s, writing a book dealing with these years (specifically with the thoughts and feelings Of people during the Depression) and have, of course, made full and special acknowledgment of my debt to the magazine. But I wanted, in addition, to tell you directly how well TIME, which is so prompt and bright in presenting events, stands up after years have passed. Of perhaps a thousand items which I noted from newspapers and other magazines, only one which I thought would be Fn Inn; was not: it is a pretty good battin" average. . . .

GILBERT SELDES New York Evening Journal New York City

Omitted by TIME was Senator Bingham's round-robin telegram last March to the 48 Governors asking if they had yet observed any starvation in their States. Of the 40 replies received by the Senator from Connecticut, only Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot's was in the affirmative --ED.

"Somebody Else"

Sirs:

In the Oct. 9 issue of the New Yorker you nave an advertisement with the heading. "Scooped Lions'' and a portion of a lyric which you credit to the late Bert Williams.

I beg to call your attention to the fact that while Mr. Williams was the singer of the lines quoted, which by the way, were from a son" entitled, "Somebody Else, "Not Me," I happened to have written the number.

It is not a matter of much importance one way or the other. I feel, however, that Mr Williams being no longer with us while I am

II very much alive I am entitled to whatever credit you have to spare.

BALLARD MACDONALD New York City

Democratic Coffers

Sirs:

Under National Affairs, pp. 10 & 11 TIME Oct. 31, you say regarding Democratic deficit. In honest expectation of a Brown Derby victory in 1928 Chairman Raskob had pifed up a huge party deficit." . . . "The present Democratic | campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope of victory" If the hope is realized just what process will be used to make up this deficit--who will pay it--and why?

ROBERT S. CARROLL Bucyrtis, Ohio

Lean a fortnight ago. the Democratic coffers will rapidly be filled by "gifts" from citizens seeking remunerative or honorary assignments.--ED. Title

Sirs:

In your Nov. 7 issue on p. 21 I find the statement that Mr. Torsten Kreuger "had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general." This is not correct. Mr. Kreuger has never held any rank in the Swedish diplomatic or consular service. He held the honorary title of Consul General of Poland in Stockholm, which title, according to newspaper reports, he has now relinquished. May I ask for a correction?

OLOF H. LAMM Consul General of Sweden New York City

Cornerstone

Sirs:

Thursday noon of this week we are to seal the box which is to be placed in the cornerstone of our new half-million-dollar Gothic Church Sunday morning. Nov. 13, and which perhaps will not be opened for a century or more.

Considering TIME The Newsmagazine of our day. we would like to include a copy of it in this box. . . .

MADELEIXE DREIER Secretary Second Presbyterian Church Newark, N. J.

Sealed in the cornerstone is the Nov. 7 issue of TIME. Cover picture: Common Citizens.--ED.

No Pony

Sirs:

Sprightly and interesting is TIME'S story (TIME. Nov. 7) on the transfer of active management in the Curtis Publishing Co. from Cyrus H. K. Curtis to Saterepost Editor Lorimer. Like Philadelphians, the national publishing fraternity hardly will express surprise.

TIME, always readable because it points up the news with human interest, should know that not all Curtis employes call George Horace Lorimer "The Boss." Surely without his consent, likely enough without his knowledge-- obviously because (he second vowel in his middle name is readily slurred to make the word sound like "horse"--for years Mr. Lorimer has passed to many a Curtisman as "Pony." As with the "Gimlet-Eye" by which Marines tagged General Smedley Butler, probably no lack of respect is implied; certain it is that George Horace Lorimer, huge, robust, dynamic, is mentally and physically no pony.

G. B. HUGHES New York City

Opper, Brisbane & Ideas

Sirs:

May 1 have the privilege of making a slight correction in your article on campaign cartoons in the issue of TIME for Oct. 24? On p. 25 you say, referring to me, "For .so years Arthur Brisbane has contributed political ideas for the Opper pencil." While this statement contains a basis nf fact it is at the same time very misleading. Mr. Brisbane, an old friend of mine for many years anil a man of almost infinite fertility of 'thought, has occasionally proposed political ideas for me to draw, always with the clear under-standing that I should draw only such of them as I chose and should handle them as seemed best to me. In this way 1 have utilized many ideas, either wholly or in part, that he has suggested, and have been glad to get them, because his ideas are almost without exception interesting and make good pictures. For example Mr. Brisbane suggested a good many of my "Willie and His Papa" cartoons of years ago and he proposed my present feature of " 'Erbie and 'Is Playmates'' and suggested three or four of the 40 or more ideas I have drawn for it. But I have never in my whole career as a maker of comic pictures and cartoons depended on anybody except myself, as Mr. Brisbane would attest if he were asked.

FREDERICK BURR OPPER New Rochelle, N. Y.

Doctors & Prostitutes

Sirs:

It is amusing to read in your issue of Oct. 31, p. 21, review of the picture Faithless, that "she has become a prostitute to get money for the doctor." To many this might seem tragic, and so it would be in real life--but in real life one who takes an interest in the economics of medicine even beyond what is forced on him by his practice can assure you that the necessity for medical care need be the last of all excuses for becoming a prostitute. Not only are there free clinics, used by those in financial distress, and often, alas, by those who have the lack of grace to take a handout anywhere and at any time, but also very few ethical physicians would refuse medical care to a needy one where society made no such provision. But, of course, in the movies all things are possible.

MORRIS MYERS. M. D Flushing, N. Y. Navy's Chung-hoon

Sirs:

I wish to call your attention to a statement made in TIME Oct. 31. You said that the best kicking back was a "tall swarthy Chinese named Gordon Chung-hoon.''

Chung-hoon is NOT a Chinese. He is a full-blooded Hawaiian. . . .

B. DAUBIN Annapolis, Md.

Grandpas & Dogs

Sirs:

Will the following help silence some of the pessimists who just can't see any future for anything?

QUO VAUIS? My grandpa notes the world's worn cogs And says, "We're going to the dogs!" His grandpa in his house of logs Said things were going to the dogs. His grandpa in the, Flemish bogs Said things were going to the dogs. His grandpa in his hairy togs Said things were going to the dogs. But this is what I wish to state The dogs have had an awful wait.

B. V. IMBRIE Pittsburgh. Pa.

Babies & Dogs

Sirs:

Will you kindly inform your readers how many millions of dogs there are in the U. S.? Also make a suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with babies during the coining winter? I know that breeding dogs for profit is a highly commercialized, if somewhat disgusting, branch of our economic system, and that we must not step too harshly upon the dog industry: but it does seem as if something could be proposed at this opportune time to at least mitigate the do" nuisance.

WILLIAM MILL BUTLER Beachwood, N. J.

In 1926 there were 7,000,000 dogs in the U. S. TIME proposes no "plan."--ED.

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