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.
TIME, New York, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa. Mar. 18, 1925
Gentlemen:
Until your number of Mar. 16 was received and read, it had been my intention to renew my subscription to TIME, as I had previously entertained a good opinion of the paper and felt a moderate pride in being an Original Subscriber. The short article headed "Failure" on Page 16 of the above issue has entirely changed my feeling toward TIME, however.
I happen to be a more or less humble employe oi the Company referred to in that article and cannot but resent the gratuitous (?) "knock" which you have given it. The only charitable explanation I can think of for your publishing it is that you have fallen a victim to the same malicious propaganda that has been noticed in other directions. At any rate, if the contents of your weekly are to be judged by the material contained in the article referred to, my confidence in anything that TIME may publish has been shattered.
H. S. TYRRELL.
Ex-Subscriber Tyrrell is employed by the Victor Talking Machine Co. The item in question described how the Company had discontinued sponsoring radio concerts by Lucrezia Bori, John McCormack, Frances Alda, etc., had replaced these famed artists on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr.— ED.
"Baleful Charge'
TIME, New York, N. Y.
Pasadena, Calif. Mar. 11, 1925
Gentlemen:
I wish to state my disapproval of the aspersions you cast upon the life-principles of "George Sherwood Eddy, famed preacher," in TIME, Feb. 23. In the same breath with which you accredit Mr. Eddy with having "in almost every land exhorted for peace, brotherhood," you fling at him the baleful charge: "He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions." Is your method of procedure in matters concerning religion constructive or destructive? If the latter, as these words seem to imply, you would in my opinion, do well to omit the column on RELIGION from your publication.
EMMA L. LERCH.
"Bullies" was doubtless an unfortunate word; it was intended to convey an impression of the moral strenuousness for which Mr. Eddy is justly famous. "Jolts" would have been better—or "prods," "pounds," "lambasts," "whacks," "scourges," "belts."—ED.
Airedales
TIME, New York, N. Y.
Terrell, Tex. Mar. 5, 1925
Gentlemen:
Tn the Feb. 23 issue of TIME, you give an account of a dog show and speak of Pointer vs. Airedale. Could you please tell me where and when the name of Airedale was given to this 'breed of dogs? In the Standard Dictionary, there is a whole page given illustrating the various breeds of dogs, but the Airedale is not among them. The word is not found in the Dictionary, nor could I find it in Webster's. I would like to know if this is not a new breed of dogs and I would like to know how they came by this name. If it is not troubling you too much, I would thank you for this information.