Letters: Apr. 30, 1928

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"Poke in the Nose"

Sirs:

. . . Your excellent paper has been coming to my home for three years and my aunt and I have always enjoyed reading it. ... BUT—why in heaven's name did you print such an unpatriotic letter as that of Sidney Henderson of Chicago in regard to our excellent President's flight with Lindbergh? (TIME, April 9). In the first place, the letter was decidedly of a sarcastic tone; in the next place he dares to imply that Coolidge is lacking in moral courage and sportsmanship. I'd like to be near enough to Henderson to give him a poke in the nose! I'll bet Henderson has not taken an air-trip over to Paris more than fifty times(?). It gets under my skin to read a letter like Henderson has written and it riles me more to think you would print one like it. . . . Men like Coolidge and Lindbergh are not produced every day, but men like Henderson are born every minute.

Please do not think I am trying to pick a fight, I just want to condemn the general tone and contents of Henderson's letter as an unpatriotic utterance and say that there is no glory in patting a wife and mother on the back and saying: "Your son or husband died a hero." That does not bring them back. What good would it do for Coolidge to take a flight? He's not seeking publicity. He does not need it. He's known and loved throughout the world and I say this although I am a Democrat at heart. I'd vote for a Republican as fine as Coolidge any day.

Kindly do not clutter up your paper any more with letters like Henderson's. If you do not publish this so he can read it, please give me his address and I'll give him a piece of a woman's mind and you know what that will mean when a woman really gets her Irish temper up.

Nevertheless I wish you success.

CATHERINE M. WHITSITT

Bayside, N. Y.

No Dignity

Sirs:

I wish to reply to the letters in your magazine on April 9 and 23 suggesting that President Coolidge take a flight with Colonel Lindbergh. The writers of those letters were lacking in dignity. TIME also showed itself lacking in dignity to print them. You have no business to use your magazine as a medium for making personal suggestions to the President of the United States. I have no doubt that Colonel Lindbergh would be a safe pilot for any man, great or small; but that is no reason why President Coolidge should have his life made more difficult with continual nagging. . . .

I read TIME for the facts it gives me. ... GEORGE A. WATSON

Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Brand

Sirs:

Enclosed please find a release covering the circumstances which caused me to ask Secretary

Hoover to consider the vacancy of Secretary of Agriculture.

You wrote the nastiest article that was published on this subject [''Burnt Brand," TIME, March 26] and I wanted you to see just how far you were justified.

CHAS. BRAND Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.

Let Congressman Brand see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, this number of TIME, for an account of his release.—ED.

Grudge

Sirs: