Letters: Dec. 5, 1927

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Sirs:

I have received a number of circulars from you regarding TIME. In one of them entitled The Newsmagazine Idea there is printed a list of 18 subjects of which it is said "TIME gives you the news." I do not find Labor listed. Do you endeavor to give the news regarding Labor? If so, I might consider the advisability of subscribing to TIME.

JULIAN PIERCE

Librarian,

American Federation of Labor

Washington, D.C.

TIME treats Labor news as part of NATIONAL AFFAIRS. For recent Labor news in TIME let Librarian Pierce see issues of Oct. 17 & 24, containing accounts of the A. F. of L. Convention at Los Angeles.—ED.

"Logic Baird"

Sirs: I suppose you can now return the photo of J. L. Baird**; that I sent you last June (and you published in TIME, Sept. 19, page 24), as you promised in your letter of July 6.

By the way, it may interest you to know that Mr. Baird's middle name is LOGIE— John Logie Baird. This I learned in a letter I received from him the other day. Someday when he comes into his own, has his hair cut and is placed on a pedestal—by reason of his discoveries in NOCTOVISION— he may be known as Logie Baird, after the manner of Rudyard Kipling, Woodrow Wilson and many other notables who had the good sense, after getting firmly fixt in the limelight, to discard their first Christian names. Somehow I never think I knew a fellow intimately until I ascertain what the second initial in his name stands for—mine is Cunninghame. It so often explains so much about who he is—his mother's side of the house, which usually (if he amounts to anything) is the better one.

Speaking of NOCTOVISION, in his letter of Sept. 29, Logie says: "I quite agree that NOCTOVISION has greater potentialities than TELEVISION, both in peace and war." So hereafter I shall hook up J. L. B with VOCTOVISION rather than TELEVISION, which latter others appear to be as busily working out as this bushy-headed Scotsman.

The Experimenter Publishing Company, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York, has issued "ALL ABOUT TELEVISION," an illustrated 110-page pamphlet by H. Winfield Secor and Joseph H. Kraus, the second chapter of which is devoted to Baird's discoveries. Someday I tope to see John Logie Baird's picture on he front page of TIME—when he does something deserving such fame.

JAMES C. MOFFET

Louisville, Ky.