(5 of 6)
The policy of the Boy Scouts of America in connection with this subject has been endorsed from time to time by the highest Army Officials. As a matter of fact General Pershing in addressing the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, some years ago, said, "I would not introduce military training into the program of the Boy Scouts of America, if I could". . . .
Sincerely and cordially yours,
JAMES E. WEST
Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America New York, N. Y.
Let Mr. West look on p. 7. Henceforth Boy Scouts will be mentioned in a special section of NATIONAL AFFAIRS called BOY SCOUTS.—ED.
Toothache
Sirs:
How could a man after boarding the 5:08 P. M. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists ?
One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing gum.
On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME and upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station two hours distant. Toothache had vanished.
VAN CAMPEN HEILNER* Spring Lake Beach, N. J.
"Rowdy Roisterer"
Sirs:
It is an insult to the distinguished memories of two great men to publish the fact that Edward Holton James of Boston is their nephew [TIME, Aug. 22]. Imagine philosophical William James parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical nephew," Edward James, is related to his uncles. To decent Boston he seems more like a descendant of that other villain, Jesse James, the bandit.
RICHARDSON PETTIT Marblehead, Mass.
Muller Rebuked
Sirs:
Your correspondent in Milwaukee, John Muller, who praised you for not printing Lindbergh's picture on the front cover and who prophesied so blithely that one or more Junkers' planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling, must now feel like the blatant tactless ass that he gives every appearance of being.
I would feel silly to allow myself to be annoyed by the mutterings of a dolt like this, except for the fact that he reflects an odious and rather ill-deserved light on Germans in general (of whom I am not one). I have lived several years in European countries, including Germany, and I have never noticed that there were more thickheads per capita in Germany than elsewhere, although misguided—† like this Muller are likely to give this impression.
The mystery to me is how such a—† ever comes in contact with or interests himself in a moderately intellectual magazine such as TIME.
W. H. PARKINSON Janesville, Wis.
Plow
Sirs: