Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME.
Gall
Sirs:
A. Blaustein's gall deserves recognition, and we favor a mimeographed supplement to contain his neighborhood news.
WILL C. MATTHEWS Omaha, Neb.
Subscriber Blaustein wished a special column of New York news.— ED.
"Forgotten Things"
Sirs:
I just want old to say that you ought to have listed old Rutgers with her Cap to and Skull among the colleges with senior honor societies in [TIME, May 31, EDUCATION]. I'm not a Rutgers man myself, having schooled where lots of others did in the university of hard knocks. So of course I'm not intimate with Cap and Skull. But that lets me write you what those modest boys wouldn't be able to—that right here in New Brunswick is one of the dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college is one of the finest societies going. It had its Tap Day on the 25th and elected, among others, "Les" Hanf, next year's football captain, and George Schutzendorf, one of the best track athletes in the East . Perhaps you've forgotten about things since you moved way out west there to Cleveland.. . . .
GEORGE BREITHART New Brunswick, N. J.
TIME made no effort to list all senior honor societies in U. S. colleges, has not "forgotten" Rutgers College ,nor any other. —ED.
Insult, Disloyalty
Sirs:
I have regularly read TIME ever since its first number and have always found it able and interesting and wholly free from the vulgarity and scandal and bad taste which is so common in the daily papers. I have influenced two of my clubs and many of my friends to become subscribers so I trust you will bear with me if I venture quite strongly to criticize the disloyalty and bad taste which led you to so grossly insult the President of the United States by publishing in your issue of May 31st a scurrilous article doubtless untruthful respecting his domestic relations, which you reprinted from the New Yorker under the title of "Les Majeste. I feel as many others of your readers do, to my knowledge, that such discreditable rubbish is a distinct reflection upon the good taste of your subscribers as well as yourself and is an act of disloyalty which it is our duty to resent. The article seems to me to be the quality of the stuff which is characteristic of a yellow journal but entirely out of character for your magazine and its editors.
Some of your subscribers as well as myself feel greatly that our respect for you would be greatly increased if you were to promptly and conspicuously publish a suitable apology for this breach of propriety on your part. Your failure to do so would I am confident injure TIME far more than TIME or its editors have by this article injured our great President whose personal and recent bereavement certainly should have called for sympathy rather than abuse.
Many of your friends will watch your next issue of TIME for the apology which we believe you will realize is fairly due not only to your subscribers but as well to the President himself.
F. P. BELLAMY Brooklyn, N. Y.