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Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of the Court of Appeals is the son of Albert Cardozo who was made a judge of the New York Supreme Court after William M. ("Boss") Tweed gained control of Tammany Hall in 1863. With Judges George C. Barnard and Abijah Ingraham. Judge Albert Cardozo formed the judicial triumvirate behind the Tweed throne. Unlike his father, Judge Benjamin Cardozo has kept his office aloof from politics, earned this tribute from President Henry U. Sims of the American Bar Association on the occasion last year of his 60th birthday: "Probably no one has contributed so much as Chief Judge Cardozo, unless it be Dean Roscoe Pound, toward clarifying for the legal world the function of the judge in shaping and developing the Law.'' Said Nicholas Murray Butler: "Judge Cardozo is one of the chief ornaments of present day American life and thought. The elevation of his mind and spirit . . . makes a character which stands out each year with increasing brilliance against the background of contemporary life and thought."—ED. Cotton Crop Figures Sirs:
In reading your article entitled "Husbandry" on p. 11 of your issue of the 17th instant, I find that you give the estimate by the Department of Agriculture of the 1931 cotton crop as 15,685,000 bales and the average yield per acre as 85 pounds.
May I point out to you that these figures are incorrect inasmuch as the Department, in their estimate of August 8, placed the crop at 15,584,000 bales and the yield per acre, 185.8 pounds.
Knowing the great popularity of your magazine and the large number of readers who obtain their information from it, I thought you would be interested in having your attention called to the error.
GEORGE R. SIEDENBURG
Chairman
Committee on Information & Statistics New York Cotton Exchange New York City
Inverness Open Sirs:
YOUR ISSUE AUGUST TWENTY FOURTH PAGE THIRTY NINE STATING INVERNESS CLUB CLOSED INACCURATE CLUB IS OPEN ENTIRE GREENS FORCE WORKING CLUBS FINANCIAL POSITION GOOD PLEASE CORRECT . . .
H. W. FRASER
President Inverness Toledo, Ohio
Akron Pigeons
Sirs:
It was with considerable interest and amusement that I read in a recent issue of TIME that Mrs. Hoover was to release 48 half-starved pigeons that had been denied shore-leave for 30 days at the christening of the Akron. (TIME, Aug. 10.)
However, to date I have not been able to determine from the various accounts of this event that I have read just what the conduct of these pigeons was. Did they fly merrily on their way or did they pick the first convenient perch to spend the balance of the day? Also, how many of them found their ways home? . . .
C. B. GRESHAM Huntsville, Texas
Of the 48 hungry pigeons, 46 flew merrily, reached their home (four miles away) within ten minutes after Mrs. Hoover released them. The other two. apparently confused in the cavernous dirigible dock, got home next morning.— ED.
Bull's Bathtubs
Sirs: