Letters: Jul. 22, 1929

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Comdr., U. S. Navy. Retired Norfolk, Va. Australia's Robertson Sirs: . . . You should afford a little space to telling your readers something about one of our big men. MacPherson Robertson is Australia's biggest commercial product. He is the man who was asked by the Prime Minister of Australia and Sir Douglas Mawson to give some financial assistance in order that an Antarctic Expedition, o be led by Mawson, could be made possible.— Mac Robertson's response was practical and apid, for in a few hours he gave £10,000 sterling, ind all the chocolate, cocoa and confectionery leeded by the Expedition. Mac. Robertson is the Confectionery King of Australia. He is a man who has had six months' schooling only. iis first working plant was a nail can and a small pannikin. He has never had any assistance from outside capital, and, starting at he lowest rung of the commercial ladder, he las pushed his way to the very top until to-day has a group of twenty odd factories, covering over 35 acres of ground, employing over 3,000 lumans, and paying out half a million sterling innually in wages. He contributes between £17,000 and £20,000 annually to hospitals and other public institutions. A few months ago a combination of business men tried to purchase his establishment and offered two and one half million pounds sterling (£2,500,000), but Mac. Robertson refused to join the ranks of the unemployed. . . . ... I am not in any way connected with the Mac. Robertson Organization, being the Victorian Manager of The Dictaphone Company. . . . E. V. E. NEILL

South Yarra, S. E. i.

To Subscriber Neill, all thanks for a TIME-worthy report. — ED. Baylor, Too Sirs:

... It was listed that Hillsdale, Michigan College gave the LL. D. degree to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt.

Baylor University (1845), Texas' oldest Baptist school, at Waco, also gave Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt the LL. D. degree. . . .

GRACE VESTAL-LEUSCHNER

Belville, Tex.

Non-Stop Motors

Sirs:

I wish to call your attention to an error in the second sentence of the first paragraph of "Roosevelt's Record" on p. 44 of TIME for July i, in regard to non-stop runs of motored vehicles.

The motorships Augustus of the N. G. I.,t Saturnia and Vulcania of the Cosulich Line have all run over 200 hours without stopping on their trips between New York and Naples, Italy. . . .

L. S. ARMSTRONG

Penn Yan, N. Y.