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But let no ordinary traveler strike off alone into China's bandit-infested hinterlands; and all travelers know that the only well-guarded railways in China proper are the short line connecting Nanking, the new capital, with the seaport of Shanghai, and the slightly longer one connecting Peiping (formerly Peking) with the seaport of Tientsin.
TIME will continue to report at decent intervals baby-eating and other newsworthy aspects of the ghastly, unparalleled famine which continues to ravage certain Chinese provinces (see map), a famine so titanic that the Red Cross, despairing, has ceased to give aid. At least 8,000.000 people have already died. Sole agency of succor is the American Board of Famine Relief, 205 East 42nd St., Manhattan.
The famine area is remote from "show places" of interest to travelers, who will see no babies eaten; but in the streets of Native Shanghai (not International Shanghai) there were picked up last year, according to the Shanghai Benevolent Society's official report, the corpses of 28,620 yellow babes.—ED. Again, Norfolk
Sirs:
Whether the article on Bernard Norfolk [England's Premier Duke who recently came of age] is true or untrue, I think it is horrid to publish such a thing. In this case, it is completely untrue. The Duke of Norfolk failed to get into Oxford because of his varied and incomplete education (although not by nurse and private tutors as TIME says). He is one of the most intelligent boys I know and I know no boy so well equipped to carry out the tremendous responsibilities with which he has been left.
It seems to me a great pity for a paper to write so scathingly of people.
CAROLYN C. MAXWELL
London, England
Spa
Sirs:
. . . There were 235,000 people who died of cardiac troubles last year in the U. S., and there must have been many times that number who suffered from these troubles who, I believe, could either be cured or relieved by such institutions as that we are endeavoring to build at Saratoga (TIME, March 3). I have been informed that more people die of cardiac diseases yearly than from cancer, pneumonia and tuberculosis combined. I do not say that Saratoga, when completed as a spa and health resort, could by itself cure or relieve any large proportion of these sufferers, but it could be of service to thousands. I do not like to see a stone put in the path of those who are endeavoring to accomplish what I think will be a great boon to the chronically ill, and at a cost that is not comparable with what is going to be spent upon new prisons for our criminals.
BERNARD M. BARUCH
New York City
Wrong Munroe
Sirs:
As the wife of "Author Kirk Munroe," I wish to call your attention to a gross error in your issue of March 3.
Your story under Aeronautics, captioned "Stop Thief," is worse than misleading, it is little short of cruel.
Kirk Munroe has been for several years seriously ill, and in a sanitarium in Florida. Some of his friends know this, but many others do not. These friends are scattered throughout the north, especially in New York City and New England (outside of Florida).
The boat in question was owned by a man whose name happens to be Munroe, but there is not the slightest relationship or connection with Kirk Munroe.