Letters, Jan. 3, 1938

"What of it?"

Sirs: TIME of Dec. 6 tells us how a certain Orthodox priest mended the leak in his church roof with so many rolls of paper & tar. But what of it? Three years ago, while we were collecting (& am still collecting for the matter of that) enough to re-roof our 12th-Century church, our roof began to leak so badly that something had to be done about it. The leads with the ages were worn paper-thin and were full of holes. I went up on the roof & covered the whole...

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