Letters, Apr. 12, 1937

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Since his election in 1934, Judge Gitelman has indeed given birth to many ideas and innovations with respect to the law's relation to motorists. Another of his notions is that taxicab companies should provide double-chauffeured cabs, one driver to take a tipsy motorist home, the other to take his car.—ED.

Harper's Millions Sirs: It is very unfortunate that TIME, a magazine that is presumed by so many people to be a source of fact, on p. 24 of its March 22 issue, should add so much fuel to that utterly erroneous idea that the remark "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" had to do with the American difficulties with the Barbary Pirates about 1803. From any good U. S. history, one can establish that this utterance is ascribed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when he was Minister to France about 1796, and referred to the levy being made upon American shipping and seamen by the French Republic, contrary to all treaties.

G. B. KUEBLER

Wausau, Wis.

Reader Kuebler is guilty of a careless misconstruction. TIME'S words were: "President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' " Ambassador Pinckney was not the author of this phrase. The spokesman appears to have been Representative Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina on the occasion of a dinner given by Congress to John Marshall, just returned from France, at Philadelphia in June, 1798.—ED.

Amana Sirs: Communistic experiments did not stop at Indiana's New Harmony (TIME. March 22, p. 91), for Iowa's Amanas (East, West, North, South, and Big and Little) cover thousands of acres of most fertile Iowa soil, an artificial lake, and fill hundreds of unpainted frame houses, shops and barns, near Cedar Rapids.

Like Oneida, this Midwestern community has changed, for recently a capitalistic form of management was inaugurated, and wise are its directors, among them a learned M. D. whose studies took him to the best European clinics, and whose library would do justice to a more widely famed specialist. . . .

Old stone ovens continue to bake the sweetest bread, and after a meal in one of Amana's several large kitchens the guest is enthusiastic to meet the fine German-speaking Frauen and Fräulein who are responsible.

The people are well and happy, now adapting themselves to electricity which they postponed connecting until after Christmas in order to use up the large supply of candles poured in the community.

CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS

Indianapolis, Ind.

Of all the religio-communist societies which dotted the U. S. in the early 19th Century, only the Amana colony, in the Iowa River Valley 18 mi. southwest of Cedar Rapids, remained nourishing in the 20th. In 1932 Amana modified its communal way of life, adopted a form of co-operative capitalism.

Spiritual descendants of old German Pietists were the members of the "Community of True Inspiration" who, hounded from their homeland, settled at Ebenezer, N. Y. in 1843. Outgrowing this home, the community trekked westward to Amana, where it acquired 26.000 acres of good farmland. The colonists built seven villages of unpainted German-style houses.