Tyler v. Lincoln

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Let students of rhetoric reread Subscriber McDonald's letter. His one sentence contains 118 words grammatically arranged. — ED.

Cringe

Sirs: Don't you honestly think it rather silly to call "so mild liberal as Heywood Broun "pinkish?" And why, pray, should he not "omit tact?" Fancy the amazing, and disgusting phenomenon of a tactful Heywood Broun! And how about that stupid line in the same article (May 14, p. 26) parenthetically labelling the Nation "small but earnestly liberal weekly." Small? Can it be that you measure the greatness of a periodical by its subscription list? How TIME must cringe before the Saturday Evening Post! If TIME could produce just once a number as great as the least of the Nation's fifty-two during the past year, what an achieve ment that would be. . . .

RALPH F. WELD

Middletown, Conn.

Solve

Sirs:

Kindly indicate the solution of this problem. "The one-man Thompson machine gun weighs ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions." (TIME, May 14.) Let x equal weight of other weapon. x-100%x=10. Solve for x.

E. P. LYON

University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, Minn.

Subscriber-Dean Lyon's question has been posed by 48 fellow-subscribers, but by none so neatly. "100%" is, of course, absurd. But the Thompson gun is much lighter. — ED.

Rolls-Royce

Sirs:

As a regular subscriber may I get you to settle a disputed question for me? Just write on this sheet below the name of the most expensive automobile of American make and perhaps the two leading European cars. . . .

B. E. THOM

Port Arthur, Tex.

The most expensive automobile is the Rolls-Royce (Lonsdale Model) $19,885. Other expensive cars are the Isotta-Fraschini (Italy) $17,800; the Hispano-Suiza (France) $20,000. — ED.

Rockefeller Caption

Sirs:

I very much regret the incomplete caption which you have placed under the cover-page picture of Mr. Rockefeller in TIME of May 21. This read alone gives a most unfavorable and unjust impression of what Mr. Rockefeller is alleged to have stated on the subject of money. . . . On the cover you have "I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can. . . ." while on page 34 Mr. Rockefeller's remark is stated:

"I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can."

You should, I think, have made your quotation carry the words "fairly and honestly."

I have no special brief for Mr. Rockefeller Sr., whom I have had the pleasure of meeting but once, but for whose constructive contribution to American life both through industry and philanthropy, in spite of some mistakes from a public point of view, which he may have made in the early conduct of his business, I have a great respect. Far more important is the general principle involved, namely, that of seeing that a right impression is given by every newspaper and magazine of the real purport of a public man's remarks.

ANSON PHELPS STOKES

Washington, D. C.

TIME'S captions are often elliptical.— ED.