Letters, Jan. 9, 1933

Bread v. Stone

Sirs:

As subscriber to TIME since its first number, I request a few lines' space to express dismay at the suggestion of a Reverend to collect $500,000 for the purpose of erecting a statue of Christ upon some mountain peak.

This today when children faint in schools for lack of food, teachers seek death from high places in desperation of the future and lone workers crawl starved into haystacks to die. Who may ask pence for a Stone while children cry for bread? WHO said: Feed my lambs, and again: Feed...

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