Letters: Feb. 23, 1925

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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME.

Valdosta

TIME

Titusville, Fla. Feb. 7, 1925.

New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

I have read your article in the Feb. f issue concerning the Memorial College in the prosperous town of Valdosta and find it interesting.

But where is Valdosta?

P. S. DAY.

Valdosta is in southeastern Georgia, about 150 miles from Titusville, Fla.-ED.

Travelers' Tales

Paris, France Jan. 24, 1925.

TIME

New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

You don't seem to care where you place the flora of Africa as to temperature or habitat. On page 8, Jan. 12, item Albert A'hunting, with mangroves and coconut palms on the high plains south of Nairobi and monkeys in juniper and olive trees in that section, you are telling us Travelers' Tales that set us, who are familiar with Africa, a-wondering. You ought to have that flight 'of fancy in the "View with Alarm" column.

JAMES P. PORTENS.

Looks Forward

Woodville, Miss. Feb. 5, 1925.

TIME

New York, N. Y.

As the Editor of The Woodville Republican, 100 years of age, and Mississippi's oldest newspaper, and, by the way, is, and has ever been an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party, I want to congratulate the management of TIME upon the excellence it has attained and the high standard it maintains. . . . I read it with interest each week and, as my subscribers often write me, "I look forward to its arrival with anticipated pleasure.

ROBERT LEWIS.

Congratulates

New York, N. Y. Feb. 16, 1925.

TIME

New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

In your issue of Feb. 9. 1925, you state "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in Virginia in 1868 by the American Missionary Association, became independent of missionary control under the ," Presidency of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong."

With your usual succinct, crisp and accurate strokes, you call attention to a fact which has been ignored so generally throughout recent months as to be a matter of comment among those who know the history of Negro education. I congratulate you. . . .

HENRY SMITH LEIPER.

Finland

TIME Washington, D. C.

New York, N. Y. Feb. 10, 1925

Gentlemen:

In the issue of Feb. 2, in a footnote (page 28) are several statements giving information about Finland that I know are not quite correct.

You state, for instance, that Finland has seven languages when the fact is that Finland, has only two official languages, Finnish and Swedish; 88% of the population speaking Finnish and 12% Swedish. No other languages are used in general, although most educated Finns speak one or two of the great Western European languages and some 40,000 out of a population of three and one-third millions speak Russian besides Finnish.