Letters, Dec. 30, 1935

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It is certainly remarkable that Schoolmen Webb and Taft were both: Prohibitionists, believers in a strong Classical education, users of homely illustrations; but the former antedating the latter by some 20 years.

MORGAN CARTLEDGE WILLIAMS

Louisville, Ky.

"Greatest Living Painter"

Sirs:

Your article in TIME, Dec. 2, is one of the cheapest pieces of publicity that ever could have been written about the greatest living portrait painter in America, Howard Chandler Christy. It looks like the work of a rewrite man who wants to be smart and plays on the reputations of noted men who are really accomplishing things for America and American Art. Forgetful is he of the fine spirit that Mr. Christy has shown in his work for the Red Cross, in the Will Rogers Memorial when he skips over this fact with a scanty line to make his cheap allusions to the two very fine women who have made these posters possible.

Furthermore, please warn your reporters to use cleaner methods in their interviews and give our Art an opportunity to live, against the paid publicity that French Art has been receiving. Foisting these foreign modernistic brainteasers upon our gullible public is doing much to hold back American Art. . . .

MICHAEL M. EXCEL

"For American Art"

The American Artists Professional League

New York City

Princeton Also Booed

Sirs:

There is a serious inaccuracy in your account of the Yale-Princeton football game (TIME, Dec. 9). In speaking of the childish stunt of tearing down the goal posts long before the game was over, you say, these actions "were roundly booed from the Yale stands."

To one sitting on the Princeton side of the field it seemed that the booing was just as hearty from that side as from the other. . . .

R. P. McCLENAHAN

Parlin, N. J.

A., B. & C.

Sirs:

As a Georgian, was very much interested in the very readable article "Game of Polio," p. 13 of TIME, Dec. 9. However, you erred in describing Warm Springs, Ga., in the first sentence of the article as "... a jerkwater Georgia town on the Southern Railroad." Irrespective of whether or not the term "jerkwater" is apropos, the town is served by two railroads, namely, the Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad and the Southern Railway, as shown by the map reproduced on the same page of TIME. The Birmingham-Manchester line of the A. B. & C. Railroad, is the railroad shown on the map, directly across the highway from the "Polio Pools." . . .

JAMES T. MATHIS

Supt. Relief Dept.

Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad Atlanta, Ga.

Presidential Plymouth

Sirs:

. . On several occasions I have seen photographs of our President at the wheel of a 1930 Plymouth touring car taken at Warm Springs. Has he traded in the Plymouth for a used Ford which he had rebuilt? Also please enlighten me as to what make of cars he owns in Hyde Park. . .

H. EDWIN MEEKS

Meriden, Conn.