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Mr. Bakeless refers to an item which related how John Carter, newspaperman, had addressed an open letter to President Coolidge. TIME holds that it is inappropriate for newsgatherers, far less assistant literary editors, to address open letters to the President of the U. S. Fully acquainted with Journalist Carter's record, TIME did not dwell upon those portions of it from which he might be expected to have learned who may appropriately address open letters to the President of the U. S. Would Managing Editor Bakeless, himself the author of two volumes on international politics (Economic Causes of Modern War, The Origin of the Next War), himself a student of history at Williams College and Harvard University, consider himself a proper person to address open letters to the President of the U. S.? — ED.
Victim Helped
Sirs:
I have just read the letter of C. R. Crane, R. F. D. Box 24, Wagoner, Okla. [TIME, May 16]. Will you ask him if he will accept a continuance of TIME from me? I like TIME and believe if I were hit by his apparent misfortune I'd be pleased to have it come to me even then, however hard I was hit.
Let me know.
GEO. E. MORGAN
Cleveland, Ohio
Sirs:
I am enclosing my cheque for $5 for which please send TIME for one year to ex-subscriber Crane, with my compliments.
The attached clipping will explain this action.
ARTHUR M. ROSENBLOOM
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sirs:
Just renew the subscription of "Victim" C. R. Crane, Wagoner, Okla. Cheque herewith for five dollars.
FRANCIS WRIGHT CLINTON
The Danbury Hat Co., New York, N. Y.
The letter of Subscriber Morgan arrived first.—ED.
Victim Defended
Sirs:
Was an [effort] made to amuse readers of TIME'S issue of May 16, by publishing the misspelt letter of Mr. C. R. Crane of Wagoner, Okla., a farmer and flood victim, same being a cancellation of his subscription to TIME and so irrelevant to readers ?
. . . Your action was mean and lacking in sportsmanship. You owe Mr. Crane an apology.
A. GIBBON
Monroe, La.
TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself—spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings.—ED.
No More Woolf ?
Sirs: . . . May we have more Woolf covers ?
PAUL A. LAY
Dayton, Ohio
Artist Woolf has gone to Paris, Vienna, Brussels. There will be no Woolf covers until the artist re-enters the U. S. But there will be covers.—ED