Gore & Volstead
Sirs:
On p. 12 in your issue of Nov. 30 you showed a picture of Senator Gore, and a news story to the effect that he had said at a banquet in Ottawa "To hell with Mr. Volstead."
I wrote to the Senator, and received the following reply:
"This will acknowledge your note of inquiry of recent date. I had read the article in TIME with a good deal of amusement. I could not add surprise, as I have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead.'
"Very truly, "J. P. Gore"
... I stirred the preachers up with this story last Monday. Must I eat my words?
A. H. THOMPSON
Washington, D. C.
Hearst's Universal Service, which arranged the sales-tax-study junket, was TIME's source for the information that Senator Gore made a speech at a state dinner in Ottawa, in the course of which he rendered Four & 20 blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial that he rendered the last lines of the song, which ends: To Hell with Mr. Volstead And God save the King!—ED. Chandler, Ariz.
Sirs:
In your issue of Dec. 7 in the department of The Press you state that Mr. Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has among his many accomplishments the founding of Chandler, Ariz. This statement is in error, and credit for founding the unusually attractive little city of Chandler, Ariz., belongs to Dr. A. J. Chandler (unrelated to Harry Chandler of Los Angeles) who is the first citizen of that prosperous community.
Dr. Chandler . . . came to our Salt River Valley in 1887. He has been foremost in the development of the Valley, and founded Chandler in 1912.
Dr. Chandler owns and operates the luxurious San Marcos Hotel at Chandler, where he entertains each winter many of the country's notables, prominent among whom are:
Frank Lowden of Illinois.
Darwin Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co.
Owen D. Young of the General Electric Co.
John Galsworthy of London.
Cyrus Curtis of the Saturday Evening Post.
LEO M. MEEKER
President
The Arizona Bank Phoenix, Ariz.
Michigan's McLeod
Sirs: . . . Would appreciate a detailed account of the record of Congressman Clarence J. McLeod, of the 13th District of Michigan. HERMAN A. AUGUST W. F. CALDWELL H. G. CARON MURDOCK M. KERR, M.D. ROBERT Y. OGG FRANK A. POSSELIUS* Detroit, Mich.
The record of Representative Clarence John McLeod of the 13th Michigan District (in Detroit) is as follows:
Born: In Detroit July 3, 1895.
Start in life: Youngest member ever elected to Congress (the 66th) up to 1920.