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Sirs: TIME, Nov. 8, p. 55:— "The Stevenson Plan went into effect in Malay States, Straits Settlements and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919" This statement is erroneous. The Stevenson Act became effective Nov. 1, 1922. . . . TIME, Nov. 8, p. 36 -"In their predicament U. S. rubber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief, etc." There is no predicament now. The British have relaxed their Restriction measure to such an extent that rubber prices will remain at an equitable average for some time. London stocks, once down to less than 6,000 tons, are over 40,000 tons. More rubber is afloat and in the hands of American manufacturers and brokers than for several years, and the rubber shortage, that a few months ago loomed as inescapable, apparently has been shoved off for several years. Our consumption this year will be lower than had been anticipated, through drastic curtailment in production forced by heavy conservation of tires by motorists (this has meant big increases in tire repair business). The number of tires to be retailed this year will actually be less than the number retailed in all of 1925, in spite of the fact that there are more than 4,000,000 more cars (using close to 20,000,000 tires including dual rear equipment on buses, etc.), than there were last year. RALPH C. BUSBY
Editor, India Rubber & Tire Review Akron, Ohio
As Schoolboys Know
Sirs:
I am inclosing herewith a clipping (saying that John Paul Jones said: "Don't give up the ship!") taken from TIME, Nov. 15. If the mistake is not apparent at once, I will give you the facts which any schoolboy or patriotic person knows without even consulting his memory.
In the War of 1812, the American Frigate Chesapeake met the British Shannon off Boston. In the course of the battle, Captain [James] Lawrence of the American Ship was mortally wounded, but called out to his men, "Don't give up the ship! Keep the guns going! Fight her till she sinks!" The dying command of Lawrence has become an American battlecry which will never be forgotten. . . .
J. G. ATKINS
Office of the Inspector of Machinery U. S. Navy
Quincy, Mass.
Subscriber Atkins is right. And on p. 40 appears another advertisement, with a picture of Capt. James Lawrence.—ED. Vulgarity
Sirs:
I do not know when our subscription to TIME ends but I do not wish another number mailed to me. The utter vulgarity of your article about a trial for murder in New Jersey puts you in the class of periodicals which I do not care to read.
F. S. H. HALL
(Mrs. Keppele Hall) New York, N. Y.
Brevity
Sirs:
As TIME appears to value brevity and conciseness, to esteem and pursue accuracy, please use preventive rather than preventative (TIME, Oct. 25, p. 18, line 5).
GERARD HALLOCK
Hallock School
Great Harrington, Mass.
Attention
Sirs:
I have continually boasted of TIME's fairness on matters touching various races, including Negroes. A number of my friends have subscribed to TIME on that account. In TIME, Nov. 8, p. 13, under NEGROES, do you think it the decent thing to do to refer to "hulking Negresses and little pickaninnies bestirred themselves" and "black paws ripped their clothing, tore at their hair" ?