Letters, Nov. 7, 1932

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The Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. and the Henry Field Co. are two distinctly different organizations here at Shenandoah, Iowa. The Henry Field Co. own and operate radio station KFNF, while the Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. own and operate radio station KMA. Mistakes of this nature are quite common among people not within a listening radio radius of Shenandoah, due to the fact that Shenandoah has more radio stations per capita than any other city in the U. S. Shenandoah has a population of 6,600.

Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was one of our leading speakers during our recent Seventh Annual Fall Jubilee, which brings to Shenandoah thousands and thousands of people who come to view the extensive horticultural and agricultural exhibits as well as to partake of the pancakes and "trimmings'" which are served complimentary to our radio visitors at this time. This annual affair was first staged in the fall of 1926 after I had won the Radio Digest Gold Cup award as the world's most popular radio announcer, with the largest vote ever polled in any previous contests.

. . . Incidentally, I was president of the American Association of Nurserymen in 1926—

EARL E. MAY

President & Manager Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. Shenandoah, Iowa

Rex's Fountains

Sirs:

In your issue of Oct. 10 under the subject of "S. S. Rex'' you quote Giulio Gatti-Casazza ". . . every piece of equipment on the S. S. Rex was made in Italy." There are two soda fountains manufactured by the Russ Soda Fountain of Cleveland, Ohio—one each installed in the two first-class bars on the S. S. Rex.

R. K. MERRITT

Russ Soda Fountain Co. Cleveland, Ohio

Self-Conscious

Sirs:

After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have. . . .

ED DAVIS

Boulder, Colo.

Burch, Bunch & Burden

Sirs:

Is there any way to call the attention of the authors of fiction to an obsession that often destroys the readability of their stories?

Similarity of names is confusing. Your review of William Faulkner's "Nigger in a Woodpile," (Oct. 17) shows three characters Lucas Burch Byron Bunch Miss Burden

whose names all begin with Bu and two end in ch, leaving but one letter different in the names of the latter. The first and last of the three have the first three letters, Bur, the same.

This is not a single instance. Similarity of names appears in at least one out of four books that I read. . . .

GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH

Austin, Texas