Letters, Dec. 25, 1933

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Clay

Sirs:

For many years one of my most pleasant experiences has been the reading of TIME. ... In the past if anyone ever said to me in defense of an argument that they read it in TIME that settled the argument for me. However I must admit that in this last year at various times I have been surprised at articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared in it concerning Rev. Charles Coughlin. I will not attempt to defend him for he needs no defense. His magnificent loyalty and splendid principles are well known to the American people. For a publication like TIME to put the stamp of bigotry on itself and to openly sneer and condemn the cause for which Father Coughlin is so courageously working only identifies it with the same lack of principles held, I regret to say, by so many of our newspapers. The common people may well count the radio a blessing. Through it they have learned the Truth.

I shall never see a copy of TIME again without a regret that something that I respected so highly was after all such common clay. . . .

NELLIE WALKER

Hampton, Iowa

Abreast

Sirs:

Thought you might be interested in the part played by TIME in a recent accident.

On the night of Dec. 2, the gas heater in our home became unruly and gave off carbon monoxide fumes. At six-thirty I felt very ill and went upstairs where I became so ill that I could not stand. My wife came upstairs also and threw herself on the bed and called me twice. I was so far gone that I did not hear her come upstairs nor did I hear her call me. When she dragged herself to the bathroom door and announced that she too was so sick that she could hardly stand I realized that we were both being overcome by the poison. Luckily we were still able to open windows, doors and shut off the heater.

Unable to attract neighbors we spent a miserable evening out on the cold porch. Finally my wife who apparently was not as ill as I managed to reach the phone and telephoned a doctor. He soon came with a supply of Methylene Blue which is a newly discovered remedy for this poisoning heretofore unremediable. He had learned of this discovery through reading TIME, and admitted this to me since I also had read of this cure (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932).

Most persons who have gone through this experience suffer the rest of their lives from anemia and general weakness; even mental weaknesses have been reported, I have since learned. The Methylene Blue restores the red corpuscles which the poison breaks down, but knowledge of this would not have been available to me had not TIME made the announcement. Neither of us have any after-effects from our experience. The physician. Dr. G. Ralph Maxwell, should also be commended for keeping himself abreast of the times in this manner.

We are grateful, then, for your service.

KENNETH D. HUTCHINSON

West Virginia University Morgantown, W. Va.

Dean Hill's Bet

Sirs:

Don't fail to print, or advise me, the sequel to Dean Hill's wager re Corbus (Letters. TIME, Dec. 11). I want to know if he pays the bill for 23 TIME subscriptions and what his Comments are, unexpurgated.

THOS. G. STALEY