Letters, Aug. 15, 1932

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We all appreciate so much the article in TIME in the July n issue, entitled "The L. A. to pasture." The Bureau of Aeronautics has carried on with rigid airships not only because we believe that they will be of great value in time of war but especially because we feel sure that they will be of great value to the country commercially. Our opinion is based on knowledge and experience, and it is therefore very gratifying to have the support of such a magazine as TIME, in efforts which we believe will serve the country. We receive so many knocks, due largely to ignorance and lack of understanding, that it is most gratifying to know that the long and efficient service of the Los Angeles is appreciated.

W. A. MOFFETT Rear Admiral, USN Chief of Bureau Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics Washington, D. C.

Maconians Flayed

Sirs:

Mr. John L. Morris, Manager, Chamber of Commerce, Macon, Ga. has a letter in your July 25 issue in which he advises that the Macon delegation waved no flags on the occasion of their visits to the plant in which the new Navy airship Macon is being built, in fact states that Maconians are no flag-wavers.

I am curious to know why he states this with so much apparent relish. Out & out pacifists might rejoice in refraining from waving the American flag, and if this is Macon's attitude, why name a fighting airship of the U. S. Navy after her?

M. K. VAN DUZOR Vicksburg, Miss.

Mrs. Boole

Sirs:

I am amazed to see in the columns of your very readable magazine reference in the July 18 number to the President of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union as "crafty old Mrs. Ella Boole." Mrs. Boole is respected and admired by thousands for her statesmanlike leadership and wholehearted devotion to a great cause and the use of such disrespectful terms will only merit the contempt and disgust of decent people for the one who uses it.

IDA E. DAVIS Rochester, N. H.

Sirs:

You earn this week the thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand.

The Drys should thank you for saying "crafty," acknowledging a mental process too subtle for your analysis. Every Dry will hope TIME'S clever penmen may live long enough to master the method and secret of Mrs. Boole. That craft has been good journalistic policy and may be again. Your attitude toward Mrs. Boole's policies and projects will always give her an advantage over you; for she is not working for her own profit or advantage.

JOHN MCCARTHY St. Louis Conference M. E. Church, South Kerrville, Tex.

"Old" to TIME is Mrs. Boole, aged 74. As a dextrous political strategist, she is "crafty" in the same sense as the late great Briand, Postmaster General Brown, Democratic Chairman Farley, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Mayor Walker, New Hampshire's Senator Moses, Calvin Coolidge.—ED. Debt Challenge, (Cont'd) Sirs:

Allow me to second Mr. Webb's challenge and enter for the record these three exquisite paragraphs by Walter Lippmann: