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I have read many common magazines, but I want to say of yours, that "TIME is fine and will keep the reader prime." Your paper is my choice of all, but it is wonderful how you can endure so many complaining, grouchy letters.
EDDIE KIRBY
Joker,† W. Va.
Quantity, not Quality
Sirs :
I have been interested in reading the letters exchanged through your pages by vehement supporters of Ohio and West Virginia. In the interest of fair play, although an Ohioan I wish to take exception to the letter of George Zweiger (TIME, Feb. 28) in which he referred to West Virginia as "Ohio's coal bin." While a good Ohioan, still I perceive many of our state's shortcomings. We do everything fairly well but nothing exceptionally well. For instance, statistics show that there are more colleges of learning in Ohio than in any state of the Union, or for that matter in the world.** I believe the number is 50. West Virginia has 9. Yet what college or University in Ohio has the national ranking of West Virginia in scholarship or athletics? For the past ten years, West Virginia's football team has been rated among the best ten teams in the country. In 1919 and 1920 they drubbed Princeton, Colgate, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh and Washington-Jefferson, (this the heydey of the great Rodgers) and later in 1923 and 1924, under Dr. Spears, they went through two seasons undefeated. Match this, Ohio.
H. H. MILLS
Cleveland, Ohio
Fable
Sirs:
. . . Every week I read LETTERS with interest, and have a great laugh at all the advice you get without the asking. . . .
Do you recall the fable about the old man, the boy and the donkey? They were walking along a roadside when a passerby said, "It's too bad to have that little boy walking, so he was put on the donkey. Soon another passerby exclaimed that he considered it atrocious that an able-bodied boy should ride and let an old man walk. So the old man was ensconced on the beast with the boy. A short distance further on a passerby said quite indignantly that it was cruel for the poor animal to have such a load. So the man and the boy got down and carried the donkey, and as they were crossing a stream, they lost balance and all fell in and were drowned.
MRS. O. G. FISHER
Chicago, Ill.
Indifferent
Sirs:
I have just read your account of the recent "blood and eggs riot" on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 21, 1927. Were you there? If it were not for my Harvard indifference, I would tell you to cancel my subscription to your damned magazine.
Sincerely yours,
HARVARD '27
Cambridge, Mass.
FROM WGY
From WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., at 10:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, each Thursday night are broadcast fifteen questions based on news of the week and specially prepared for WGY by TIME. Also are broadcast the fifteen answers. The U. S. public is invited to "play the game"—i. e. to cry out the correct answers before the broadcaster does. There follow comments from members of the U. S. public.
Useless Question
Sirs:
We listened in on WGY last night and got most of it. The music confuses one and is of no advantage that I can see. Most of the questions are of value. The one about the color of Sealyhams* is useless, it seems to me.