Barracuda
Sirs:
Come now! Not even TIME is qualified to report accurately the feelings of an obscure barracuda confronted by the beaming face of Franklin Delano Roosevelt [TIME, May 16].
JULES Z. WILLING
Saranac Lake, N. Y.
District of Columbia
Sirs:
You have published an article in which you prominently described our steamer District of Columbia as an "ancient sidewheeler."
The District of Columbia is a modern, steam, screw propelled vessel, length overall 305 ft. 6 in., completed in 1925, and one of the newest and most up-to-date passenger vessels plying inland waters of the U....