Men of the Year
Sirs:
Considerable speculation exists in this snow-bound college town concerning the identity of TIME'S 1933 Man of the Year. Current betting runs as follows:
Hitler-6-to-5
Roosevelt-3-to-2
Some Jap or Russian-10-to-1
Dark horse leaping into prominence in the last six weeks of the year-20-to-1
This is perhaps off the record: but I will be interested in seeing what confirmation, if any, the event accords.
CHARLES CASSIL REYNARD
Hiram. Ohio
What Man-of-the-Year bets are other readers making?--ED.
Dollar Reports
Sirs: Congratulations to the Editors of TIME! Welcome to your temperate and painstaking reports of this year's all-important monetary developments, when even the leading metropolitan dailies have apparently forsaken the respectable tradition of impartiality in their news columns, to propagandize for what they choose to call a sound dollar. Of particular social value are your candid, intelligible, impartial discussions of this difficult subject, when so many we read are drivel and buncombe. Congratulations!
ROBERT V. HORTON
New York City
For last week's monetary news, see p. 7.--ED.
Vermont Footnote
Sirs:
On P. 47 of your issue of Oct. 30, there appears the story of the receivership of the National Life Insurance Company of the U. S. A.
Unlike most publications giving this news, you took occasion to effectively explain in a footnote that the National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier, Vt., was in no way involved in this receivership.
We already have evidence of the far-reaching effect of your considerable comment, and wish to express appreciation for the protection which you gave the National Life (of Vermont) through your explanatory note.
This incident confirms the impression I had previously formed, and expressed, of the completeness and thoroughness which characterize the information appearing in your magazine.
FRED A. ROWLAND
President
National Life Insurance Co. Montpelier, Vt.
Mink for $150
Sirs: TIME Nov. 13 outlines Fur Trade and Fur Farming Industry briefly, clearly. TIME does err in one particular, the price of select breeding mink. $300 a pair for breeding mink is reminiscent of the promotion days of fur farming when silver foxes sold for $5,000 a pair, frequently earning large dividends on the enormous investment. Today's prices of breeding stock based on fur value. Fur farmers today glad to get half the prices quoted by TIME for select Alaska, Quebec, Labrador mink. ROY D. HARMAN
Virginia Silver Fox Farms Christiansburg, Va.
Jew & German
Sirs:
In your publication of the 13th, I see a caption under an illustration, on p. 10, under National Affairs, with photo of the Hon. Samuel Untermyer, reading "Jew Untermyer."
This rather raw exhibition impels me to say to you that it is beyond comprehension in these times, in this stage of human instability, that you should display so little tact, to say the least, as to flaunt your anti-semitic tendencies before the eyes of your readers.
... To all appearances, your magazine is subsidized in the main, by the fanatics who have now self-imposed themselves in Germany.
HARRY C. NEUBERGER
New York City
Sirs: You certainly have succeeded in your endeavor to foster a subtle propaganda for the of race hatred in the ranks of your readers, as shown by the title under the picture of Mr. Samuel Untermyer, on p. 10 of your issue of Nov. 13.
Brave, my dear editor, for having shown the underlying current of your policy to aid and abet the movement to overthrow our blessed institutions, yes, to undermine the very roots of our government.
You have indeed done well. The "Jew Untermyer" will no doubt help you in showing you the right way to retain the patronage of our American people who believe in the principles as expounded by the founders of our country. Mr. Untermyer may be "shaggy-maned" as you say, but I venture to say that the Editor of TIME Inc. is "shabby-brained." . . . SOFIA M. LOEBINGER
President
Philanthropia Inc. New York City
Sirs:
. . . Since the recent pogroms and reprisals in Germany you have described Jews by injecting a vein which the Jews might well be proud of, but by comparison tends to be made damning. I refer in particular to your Nov. 10 issue which captions a photo of Samuel Untermyer as "Jew Untermyer" and one of Luther as "German Luther." Certainly you are aware that being a Jew is a creed not a nationality. Why not "Protestant Luther'' or whatever his creed may be? Have we not suffered sufficient bigotry without having so unbiased a publication as yours add wood to the already too long burning fire?
There is no doubt that your usage of the term Jew is correct: however, this can also be made venomous when used synonymously as the photos referred to. I trust that you will in the future make all descriptions of Jews by their nationalities and when necessary describe members of my faith as "Hebrew" rather than "Jew." Your over-conscientiousness is not taken as an affront, but rather your desire to please your readers.
Yes, I am going to renew my subscription to one of the best publications it has been my pleasure to read in our generation. LEE GERTNER
New York City
Sirs: I have had my attention called, from a number of directions, to your publication of the 13th instant, in which appears a caption, under an illustration on p. 10, under the heading National Affairs, with a photograph, such caption reading "Jew Untermyer."
I have had a number of similar squibs or observations from the issues of this paper called to my attention, showing a distinct anti-Semitic tendency.
May I ask whether this is a deliberate part of the policy of your paper, or whether it is one of those things that is likely to occur in a publication without intent? In order that we may know how to deal with it in connection with the boycott, I would like to have an expression of the views of your paper on this whole subject. It seems to me incredible that in this 20th Century a publication of wide circulation such as yours should have anti-Semitic tendencies, which I believe is contrary to the spirit of Americanism and will offend the sense of propriety of non-Jews as well as Jews.
SAMUEL UNTERMYER
New York City
In decrying Nazi activities in the U. S. and agitating for a boycott of German goods and services, Lawyer Untermyer is acting not as lawyer, not as U. S. citizen, not as religionist, but as a Jew outraged by persecutions of fellow Jews. Chancellor Hitler's pogroms are conducted not on religious grounds but on racial grounds (as a mask for underlying economic reasons). In labeling Lawyer Untermyer "Jew" in contrast to "German" for Ambassador Luther, TIME was strictly, significantly accurate. TIME did not thereby intend affront to Jewish sensibilities or express sympathy with the Nazi cause.
In TIME'S impartial eye. all races, creeds and colors receive the same objective inspection, analysis, description. TIME is impatient of supersensitive members of any group who suspect and complain that it does otherwise.--ED.
Negro Dailies Sirs:
In your issue of Nov. 13, you refer to the Daily Citizen as the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper and the Atlanta World as the first U. S. Negro daily. It might interest you to know that the first Negro daily newspaper was the Cairo Gazette (III) which was first issued April 23, 1882 and continued regularly for six months. Perhaps the second attempt to publish a Negro daily was the Columbus Messenger, at Columbus, Ga., in 1888.
Negro dailies have been published for short periods in Washington, D. C.; Richmond, Va.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Chicago, 111.; Baltimore, Md.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.
GEORGE W. GORE JR.
Nashville, Tenn.
The Atlanta World is the first Negro paper to be published continuously since its founding as a daily (February 1932).
-ED.
Ward's Blocked Kick Sirs:
TIME is mistaken. In your summary last Friday of college football you credited Willis Ward of Michigan with blocking Illinois' place kick for the point after touchdown (TIME, Nov. 13). The kick was low and so wide that it barely reached the corner of the end zone. More important in that game was the five-yard penalty on Illinois which placed the ball on its one-yard line in Michigan's possession with
15 seconds of the first half to play. Followed Everhardus' touchdown run. . . .
WILFRID SMITH
Chicago, Ill.
TIME, though it relied on three eye-witness accounts, erred. The kick blocked by Negro Ward was the first punt of the game.--ED.
Unbeaten Nebraska
Sirs:
TIME is always so fair and democratic in its news items that we are certain you will not be offended at this attempt of constructive criticism, and we are sure recognition of the Big Six Conference football teams, namely Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas State and Iowa State, will be appreciated by your many readers in the Corn Belt.
We are prompted to write because of omission --unintentional, of course--of reference to any of the Big Six Teams in your article on football, under the Sports section of the Nov. 13 issue of TIME. You might very well have included the Nebraska Cornhuskers in your "Humpty-Dumpty" list of undefeated football teams this season.
When Nebraska defeated Kansas Saturday, Nov. 11, by a score of 12-to-0, it won its third consecutive Big Six Conference championship title. Coach Dana X. Bible has developed the Cornhuskers to the point where it is generally recognized as one of the outstanding football teams of the country. . . .
W. S. WHITTEN
Secretary
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Lincoln, Neb.
Sirs:
. . . The Cornhusker football team ... is undefeated and untied so far this season; has only been scored upon once this fall: have won the Big Six Championship; . . . and if able to defeat Pittsburgh and Iowa Universities, the next two foes, should certainly be one of the logical teams to be invited to play in the Rose Bowl Tournament. . . .
PHIL L. SIDLES
Lincoln, Neb.
TIME limited itself to discussion of the six most conspicuous Humpty Dumpties of the season, intended no slight to other undefeated teams, which at that time included: Centenary, Duke, Louisiana State, Minnesota. St. Thomas, Nebraska, Oregon State. Oregon, Davis-Elkins, Duquesne, Mississippi, Ursinus. For reports of Nebraska, able champion of the Big Six Conference, see TIME. Nov. 20 and p. 33 this issue. Last week's score: Pittsburgh 6. Nebraska O--ED.
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