Mumford Stimulates Dartmouth

Sirs:

CONGRATULATIONS ON EXCELLENT PRESENTATION LEWIS MUMFORD'S THE CULTURE OF

CITIES [TIME, APRIL 18]. IT is BRIGHT

FEATHER IN YOUR CAP. AS FOR DARTMOUTH, MUMFORD IS STILL ASSOCIATED WITH ART DEPARTMENT AS VISITING LECTURER. BECAUSE OF WORK ON CITIES HIS STIMULATING VISITS HAVE BEEN FAR LESS FREQUENT THAN WE LIKE.

CHURCHILL LATHROP Chairman Department of Art Dartmouth College Hanover, N. H.

No Inequity

Sirs:

Your article, "Substantial and Punitive" under Business (TIME, April 18), compares Richard Whitney with John Mahoney, indicating that the former was sentenced five to ten years for stealing millions, and the latter 30 to 60 years for a mere $60.

Is your comparison fair; or are there further facts in the Mahoney case which might explain the apparent inequity?

H. BOYARSKY

Oakland, Calif.

No "mere" robbery was John Mahoney's second offense, for which he got a mandatory sentence of 30 to 60 years under the Baumes Law. He led a gang of young bandits in a Manhattan holdup, shot two people, almost killed one. Had the man died, John Mahoney would have gone to the electric chair. If Richard Whitney should commit another felony, using a gun, he would get what John Mahoney got.--ED.

British Precedent

Sirs:

I doubt the aptness of your phrase "almost unprecedented" for Commander Bower's boxed ear at the hand of Mr. Shinwell in the House of Commons (TIME, April 18). On the contrary, I think you will find such conduct backed by several centuries of stanchest British precedent. . . .

RICHARD M. DAVIS

Denver, Colo.

Fights in the House of Commons have been almost unprecedented in the 20th Century. Reader Davis is thinking of earlier days, when fights were so frequent that, to keep angry partisans out of each other's reach, two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons, two swords' lengths (about 6 ft.) apart. When the present building was erected (1840-50), the lines were replaced by strips of red carpet. To this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House.--ED.

Unemployed

Sirs:

Just a few questions regarding TIME of April 18.

Under Fiscal, you mention "after relief rolls climbed from 17,314,000 in January to 18,502,000. . . ." Can those figures be right? I thought there were only some 11,000,000 unemployed in the whole nation. . . .

THOMAS B. SMOTHER JR.

Fort Hamilton, N. Y.

Relief rolls include not only unemployed but those who are not able to work.--ED.

Living Ghost Hoover

Sirs:

What living ghost now writes Herbert Hoover's speeches? Who did formerly? What significance in the change?

His San Francisco speech of last Friday opens with a neat little essay that begins and ends with a reference to the "7,200 miles" separating California from Europe. Orchids to the writer, but who is he?

JOHN V. ERG

Los Angeles, Calif.

Herbert Hoover writes his own speeches, always has. Reason their tone has changed for the better: Smart Hoover friends, like sharp-eyed Sacramento Publicist Ben Allen, argued him into using his private manner in public. --ED.

Parapsychologist

Sirs:

Perhaps a few words regarding the phenomenal rise of prejudiced emotional opposition to the results of Dr. Rhine and other experimenters in the field of parapsychology may be in order at this time, following the article in TIME, April 11.

If Rhine is right, the implications are immediate that much that has been taught by the orthodox psychologist is bunk. . . .

The orthodox psychologists maintain . a unique position as being the exponents of a shaky, very materialistic psychology, based on the already discarded concepts of the physicist and the biologist. Their position is now almost untenable, due to the confirmation of Rhine's findings at Columbia, the University of Colorado, N. Y. U., Harvard, Bonn University, Groningen, and Fordham.

For this reason, such men as Rogosin [TIME, April 11] are becoming desperate. . . . The attacks against the commercial ESP cards, based on the fact that a careless printer used too much ink causing warp, invalidate none of the Duke University experiments where the old hand-stamped cards were used. . . .

Truly Rogosin did stick his neck out. . . . CLIFFORD A. PAIGE

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Information

Sirs:

TIME may be "curt, clear" but in two instances in the April 11 issue it is not complete.

After reading pages 50 and 51, I want to know what, if any, is the toll on the overseas highway to Key West; what caused the Miami municipal airport fire.

R. J. BOYLAN

East St. Louis, 111.

1) $1 for each car, 25-c- for each passenger besides the driver. 2) Cause unknown.--ED.

Little Wooden Pegs

Sirs:

In the article on War in Spain TIME, April 18, is a prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them.

W. P. VAN WAGENEN Rush, N. Y.

Ham Poet

Sirs :

Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need for it.

You also called Poet Eberhart "wet behind the ears," which means that he is young and docs not think and plan sufficiently. This is impossible as Eberhart spent about seven years writing this book, therefore it must be thought and planned sufficiently. . . .

DAVID E. MOORE

Southborough, Mass.

TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet."--ED.

Miss Winsloe Alive

Sirs: Is there any reason why, because the recently deceased wife of the Austrian actor, Oscar Homolka,* happened to be a Baroness Hatvany, TIME should leap to the conclusion that it must be the former wife of Baron Ludwig Hatvany, better known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany in 1930 or 1931, and in this country in 1932. . . .

Miss Winsloe was alive and well the last time her friends here heard from her, which was less than a month ago. She lives in Munich, not in London. She has been married once to Baron Ludwig Hatvany who lives in Budapest. She was divorced from him twelve years ago. . . .

DOROTHY THOMPSON

New York City

P. S. Your Research Department has spring fever.

Not spring fever but sheer stupidity beset TIME'S checker. To Playwright and Novelist Christa Winsloe, deep apologies for inexcusably confusing her with another onetime Baroness Hatvany. To Journalist Thompson, all thanks for setting the record straight. --ED.

Morley on Maps

Sirs:

Pleased by your story (April 18) of the world map used by Eagle Pencil Co. which omitted El Salvador.

Have you ever noticed that the World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Roslyn Heights, N. Y. The World Almanac's Editor Eastman Irvine promises no immediate change, although he hopes a brand-new Almanac cover will celebrate next year's World's Fair. He disclaims intentions of accuracy for his map, says it should be considered no more than a trade-mark.--ED.

*For further news of Actor Homolka, see

theatre, p. 24.

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