Letters, Oct. 15, 1934

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Reader Stites and the 20-odd others who wrote correcting TIME are in error. Following its return to the U. S. the Spirit of St. Louis' license was changed in Department of Commerce records from the experimental NX 211 to NR 211. Since the ship was already out of service, hanging in the Smithsonian Institution, there was no need to repaint the symbol on the wing and tail.—ED.

Maryland Campaign

Sirs:

Knowing the ease with which errors may creep into publications which go to press rapidly (i.e., newspapers and news-magazines), I hesitate to criticize minor discrepancies. But. . . .

On p. 23, col. 3 of the Sept. 24 issue you say that Maryland's Governor Ritchie was opposed by the Baltimore city machine in his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and that John Philip Hill won the Republican Senatorial nomination. Both statements are incorrect. The Democratic city machine is Ritchie's, so it would scarcely oppose him, while it did ardently support him. Republican Senatorial nomination went to Dr. Joseph Irwin France, not Colonel Hill. LOUIS J. O'DONNELL

The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore, Md.

Harvard to Ohio

Sirs:

On p. 11 of TIME, Sept. 17, in explaining the wide ranges from which Mr. Morgenthau's Brain Trust is chosen, you state that the geographic limits are Georgia and Minnesota and that the social extremes are Harvard and Ohio State. . . . I am curious to know why the two universities should be located at opposite ends of the social scale.

C. I. BRADFORD

Bloomfield, N. J.

Sirs:

. . . I'm not saying anything, mind you, but what the devil do you mean—socially?

ARTHUR M. SHAPIRO

Passaic, N. J.

Harvardman Franklin D. Roosevelt sets the social standard for college affiliations in Washington. TIME may have erred in placing Ohio State at the foot of a list which includes also Brookings Institution, Chicago, Columbia, Georgia, Lawrence, Minnesota, Princeton, Wesleyan. —ED.

Cohan's Gift Song

Sirs:

I was severely shocked to see in TIME. Sept. 24, a naive and entirely unnecessary attack upon George M. Cohan for the song "Night of Stars" which he wrote as his contribution to the show which was staged at Yankee Stadium to raise funds for German-Jewish refugees.

There was no thought in the mind of the United Jewish Appeal, and certainly none in that of George M. Cohan, to present a musical masterpiece. The words and music were the sincere expression of the emotions of a fine personality moved by the situation in Germany. It seems to me that TIME has displayed an unforgivable lack of good taste and sense of proportion in undertaking to evaluate this free- will offering to a philanthropic cause on the background of his long and successful professional record as a song composer. . . .

NATHAN BURKAN

Chairman

United Jewish Appeal

New York City

TIME made no "attack" on Songwriter Cohan. In reporting his "Night of Stars" as Music news, TIME viewed it squarely for its newsworth as the latest and least meritorious product of an eminent composer, a view unaffected by the fact that he wrote it for a cause and asked no pay. —ED.