Letters, Aug. 27, 1934

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Is it true that TIME is going to put out a newsreel? If so, I wish to register two requests: 1) As a theatre manager to get the earliest possible announcement of your reel so I can have the opportunity to be one of the first to show it. 2) As a cameraman (I have 35 mm. B. & H.) to show you some of my films and be on your list to cover assignments in this territory.

Here's hoping the movie news is true.

R. A. KISSACK JR.

Manager

Newsreel Theatre

Minneapolis, Minn.

TIME is experimenting with a new kind of pictorial reporting of the news. Results may soon be announced. Meanwhile, TIME welcomes communications from cameramen, amateur or professional.ED.

Father Johns

Sirs:

In your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper?

I refer to George S. Johns, fighting editor, grand old man among American journalists. Thirty-five years "Editor of the Editorial Page" of the Post-Dispatch and at present very much alive and enjoying the position of associate editor of that paper.

Pardon me for asking the question because I am his eldest son.

GEO. McD. JOHNS

Sappington, Mo.

TIME is glad to pay belated tribute to able Father George Sibley Johns. Short, genial, brilliant Editor Johns, now 76, still turns out an occasional editorial for the Post-Dispatch. He joined forces with the elder Pulitzer when, as editor of an opposition paper, he conducted a vigorous editorial campaign to aid Pulitzer's suit against his partner, Charles H. Jones. He went to the Post-Dispatch in 1883, served as dramatic critic, city editor, managing editor, editor of the editorial page. ED.

Hellish Reunion

Sirs:

Your splendid story about the Post-Dispatch in your Aug. 13 issue will be gratefully received by many St. Louisans who will be proud to see that paper get a measure of the national recognition to which it is entitled.

However, I should like to draw the attention of the writer of this story to an interesting detail which he has apparently overlooked. He says, ". . . Paul Y. Anderson, who uses The Nation to blister his conservative adversaries."

Paul Anderson announced several months ago in The Nation that he would be obliged, for reasons which he did not fully explain, to discontinue his articles in that journal. . . .

RICHARD C. RIPPIN

St. Louis, Mo.

Reader Rippin is right. Paul Y. Anderson's valedictory appeared in The Nation for June 13. There he said, in part: