Letters, Oct. 12, 1936

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PHYSICAL: Not "tuckered out," as you say, was Overseer Tomlinson presiding 8:00 a. m. to 11:00 p. m. daily, but lithe, athletic, fiery, reading his motto—"I'm not tired, and I don't want to go home." Traveled 55,000 miles last year without taking a berth—received a birthday cake at this Assembly—71 candles.

HOLY ROLLERS: In this you erred. We were called that back in the days when the Ford was called a Tin Lizzie, and by the same token—they called them tin lizzies, and were happy to get one. Newspapers in the vicinity not once mentioned us that way—at least one daily newspaper brought out an entire edition dedicated to the Assembly. The Christian Herald didn't in making the story of Rev. Olazabal's work its leading feature in the August 1936 issue. Nor did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, in his letter to the General Overseer, and which was read before the Assembly. It really hurt when you said we were "throwing fits," there, until I turned the pages to your story of President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, who, you said, "croaked" right in front of President Roosevelt, all Harvard and the world's bigwigs, and I knew then it was just your way of saying things. So I don't hold it against you. . . .

HOMER A. TOMLINSON

Pastor, Overseer, N.Y.

Jamaica Tabernacle

Church of God

Jamaica, N.Y.

Sirs:

. . . You take a dig at Cleveland and the Tomlinson Church of God. . . . It might be interesting to you to know that Cleveland is one of the best managed cities in the South; that during these depression years when other municipalities were piling up debts Cleveland was consistently reducing her bonded indebtedness, and at the same time reducing taxes. No town or city can boast of better or more modern school buildings, the teachers are paid up in full and all departments of the city operate on a strictly cash basis.

The Church of God, with which I have no connection whatever, is an industrious, law-abiding, loyal, devout and highly spiritual people. They are not cluttering up court records with all sorts of crime, big or little. And they are not fomenting a lot of disturbance so characteristic of the intelligentsia of your larger and more enlightened centres of population.

Come down and see us some time.

W.B. PARKS

Cleveland, Texas.

Hidden Taxes

Sirs:

. . . You certainly lit into the GOP's "hidden" tax revelations with a vengeance (TIME, Sept. 14), perhaps scared them from exposing the matter further. It is bound to react against your own interests, for, in the course of listing the taxes on various household necessities, the Committee's Research Division would sooner or later have gotten round to tabulating the taxes on TIME, an essential brainfood that belongs in every American's market-basket. I have anticipated this move and now submit, after careful computation, a summary of the 1,793,000 "hidden" taxes included in the newsstand price of a single issue of TIME.

a) Federal, State, county and municipal taxes on income, gifts, real estate, personal property, motor licenses etc., plus surtax on income, paid by TIMEditor Henry Robinson Luce— approximate number of taxes: 75.