Letters, Feb. 17, 1936

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Theodore & Franklin

Sirs: Right "slab dab" on the first page of TIME, Jan. 27, you ask the question, as to where the late "Teddy Roosevelt" would have stood on the "New Deal" well I am quite sure that he would stand just where, The President is standing, or something so near like it, that no one could tell them apart.

True the N.R.A. and The A.A.A. were thrown out by the Supreme Court, but like many great men, and things they gave most abundantly of themselves, to the American People, while they lived.

And any one who may have been under the impression that they were voting for "Dear Teddy" when they were voting for Franklin D, well they were not far of the real course.

I see more real joy and happiness among our people under the President, than I have for many years previous, and so if the Pres. and his ideas are to blame well give me more of the same.

You just show me any body that is entirely perfect and I will show you, an Angel floating in the stratusphere, with a golden harp, and a pair of silver wings and an old fashioned night shirt. JOHN V. CAFFREY Denver, Colo.

Sirs: What would Theodore Roosevelt say regarding the New Deal? He would slap Franklin on the back and say, "You are doing bully, Franklin. You know my old gang has changed since I was here and it will take a Roosevelt to clean up after twelve years of Mellon reign. Take my old Big Stick and go after them. You can do it!" JOHN W. SECREST Oklahoma City, Okla.

Small Rugged Person

Sirs: I won a scholarship at "Miss Spence's School for Girls" [TIME, Feb. 3] and was educated there from 1910-17. After graduating I went back to teach Latin, English and History, thereby paying for my tuition at "swankless" Barnard.

You may be interested in the following facts:

1) Miss Spence was the daughter of Scotch working people. Wealthy New York families started a school for her because she had been so able a governess to their children.

2) The school had the following objectives: good character, good manners, good English. Mathematics and Science might be and were weak but sloppy consciences, courtesies and uncivilized speaking, reading or writing were promptly disciplined or the culprit was dismissed.

3) No one ever mentioned the drawing room. The mark of a "gentlewoman" was consideration of others. Being late for an engagement was "ill-bred, vulgar, irresponsible or ostentatious."

4) Once a week "the resident pupils" were taken on field trips, also any day girls whose parents approved. Among the places visited and reported on were: Ellis Island, Washington Market, churches, banks, skyscrapers, the Juvenile Court, City Hall, The National Biscuit Co. plants, a silk stocking factory, the Botanical Gardens, the Henry Street Settlement, a large hotel kitchen.

5) Every year a three-or four-day visit was paid to Miss Berry's School in Georgia and those interested were taken to the Pine Mountain School in Kentucky.