Letters: Oct. 5, 1983

1924* A few weeks ago you called me a Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge.

UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif.

The charge that TIME supported Candidate Coolidge (or any other candidate) during the campaign seems to the editors to be baseless.—ED.

1925 Is the glorification of the Negro now an accepted policy of your magazine? I had hoped that after the protest of one Southerner you might show some consideration for the sensibilities of our people by the discontinuance of your practice of referring to the colored man as "mister." I was deeply grieved, therefore, to find two new instances in your Sept. 7 issue.

This practice, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course.

BARLOW HENDERSON Aiken, S.C.

It is not TIME'S desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles.—ED.

1926 I am growing old but duties require me to keep in touch with momentous issues of the world. TIME for two years has spared my feeble eyes much labor among papers and magazines in sifting for me the gold from the sand. But how cruelly you have betrayed my trust in you with your flippant sarcasm!

In your article on the sincere religious words of the Bishop Brown, why must you show your irreverence, your sacrilegious snippery by appending to it in parenthesis, "Applesauce?"

Gentlemen, may the Lord deal gently with you and forgive you.

SILAS R. CLINTON Columbus, Ohio

The word within the parenthesis was NOT "Applesauce." Let Subscriber Clinton look again. The word was "applause."—ED.

1927 Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe.

I have some very good friends in the banana business and I would not care to say something about their business which is not true.

K.K.ROCKNE Notre Dame, Ind.

1928 Says Grace Gordon Cox, of Boston, under LETTERS in the Jan. 9 issue of TIME:

". . . There will never be a man on your staff big enough to 'stand in Lindy's shoes.' "

Why not give Robert Emmet Sherwood a job? JOHN H. O'HARA New York City

Robert Emmet Sherwood's feet fill size 13 shoes. He is author of The Road to Rome, highly successful comedy.—ED.

1929 I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state. It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them.

For instance, you