Letters: Apr. 26, 1926

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FREDERICK L. GATES

New York, N. Y.

"Go West!"

Sirs:

In TIME, April 19, p. 21, col. 2:

"As it moved through the world last week. Death came to a flowering spot in Southern California where an old man lay who had kept gardens for many years."

Luther Burbank's home and gardens are at Santa Rosa, about 40 miles north of San Francisco Bay.

TIME should move its publication office farther west. Lincoln, Nebraska, a centre of intelligence and safe information, would be a good place.

A. E. SHELDON

Lincoln, Neb.

Kaiser's Feelings

Sirs:

Are you afraid to hurt the ex-Kaiser's feelings? No other reason available for your suppression of the news re his attempt to trick the Germans out of 300 million marks per year. . . .

N. W. FISHER

Orlando, Fla.

Princeton Unique

Sirs :

I note in TIME of April 12, p.18, the statement that Princeton and Bates are the only colleges, according to the records of the Modern Language Association, which do not give courses in American Literature. I desire to correct that error so far as Bates is concerned.

At the present time, Bates is offering a semester course in American Literature. In this course, which I am conducting, are 110 students. We began with John Smith as the earliest writer of note and are proceeding in our consideration, chronologically, to the modern writers. . . .

The mistake doubtless arose because of the fact that there was no course in American Literature offered at Bates last year. . . .

WARD BROWNING

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation

Bates College

Lewiston, Me.

Loathes World

Sirs:

I have read with interest Mr. Withrow Morse's criticism of your paper appearing in the current issue. It would seem that Mr. Morse and I are kindred spirits in regard to the modern world; for apparently he loathes it as ardently as I do.

My impressions of the paper are, however, in many respects the direct opposite of his. It seems to me that it is the great things in the current news that you bring out with unrivaled clearness; and you not only do this but you give a concise background of current situations—a thing which other news magazines do only rarely ; or, in the cases where you do not do this, you give references to past numbers of the magazine, where the elements of the background can be readily collected. It is only by understanding the earlier stages of a situation that the situation Itself can be well understood; and to have in mind all these settings, ready to apply to each item of current news, requires a power of memory which few possess.

His strictures on your English style, however, I think are amply justified. . . .

JOHN ALLEN SWEET JR.

Farmington, Me.

Undeserved

Sirs:

. . . In reading TlME for April 5, I found on p. 10, col. 2, a certain statement concerning the education of Raymond T. Maker. In that statement it reads: "and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University," comparing it with the University of Nevada. I realize that there are colleges and universities in California which overestimate themselves, but I think that Stanford does not deserve that adjective applied to it.

FLORENCE STANTON