Letters, Oct. 12, 1936

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With TIME'S increased interest in and use of good news photographs, the flow of incoming pictures reached such proportions that an organization was necessary to handle it. TIME, therefore, established a subsidiary, Pictures Inc., a commercial photo agency to garner world-wide photographs for the use of TIME, FORTUNE and others who may wish to buy.—ED.

Race News

Sirs:

TIME has my highest admiration as the one news source which is both dependable and unafraid to print the news even when it treads on Jewish toes. We who are descendants of Anglo-Saxon stock which founded this country have a right to the whole news, not half the news, of this race which has already made New York the largest Jewish city in the world and has gained an important foothold in many of our other big cities.

Ask Mr. A. A. Brin who criticizes (TIME, Sept. 28) your publicizing of the Goldblatt venture if the facts do not explain why those who complain about race prejudice are always Jewish, never Swedish, German, French or Italian.

PAUL H. DUDLEY

Bakersfield, Calif.

Brown's Politics

Sirs:

Anent Providence Journal, Bulletin Publisher Sevellon Brown's protest in the Sept. 21 TIME, many a Rhode Island patron of these two great newspapers will wonder just what a "Republican publisher" is, if Mr. Brown is not one. No more "arch-Republican" publications can be imagined. The Journal (morning) and the Bulletin (evening) are among the leading extremely anti-New Deal, anti-Democratic newspapers in the nation today and it is commonly held here in Rhode Island that the almost complete coverage of the State by these two dailies is worth many thousands of votes to the Republican Party. Unfortunately, the Democratic organs in Providence and Pawtucket are of no importance and thus Mr. Brown's two papers have the field to themselves.

GEORGE C. LYON

West Warwick, R. I,

Death Dollars

Sirs:

Anent "Business of Death" under Religion (TIME, Sept. 28), have a heart, TIME, and don't class all of us parsons with the undertakers, florists, monument men, casketeers, and crematists who make such a soft living out of death. I'll wager that from the time of Paul, who earned his own bread in the street of the sailmakers, down through the time of Chaucer's poor parson who would rather give both of his offerings and income to his poor parishoners than collect their tithes, to this present day there have always been clergy who have felt that their services in the time of death were not for sale, and have consistently returned all funeral "fees." I would be glad to send you an assorted collection of such checks that I have returned, only I have returned them.

Nor does the fact that, when they find they can't pay me, the relatives of about one third of those I bury deem it unnecessary to thank me for my services by word or note alter my idea that it is the first duty of the ministry to bury the dead. For this, among other things, we constitute a ministry, and for this, among other things, we draw our monthly salaries

I know the undertakers do love a big show but some of them string right along with us parsons when it comes to giving a decent burial to some poor unknown.

(Rev.) H. N. TRAGITT JR.

Rector

St. James' Parish