Letters, Jan. 4, 1932

(3 of 3)

Congressman, and Fred Bucholz, Washington's jolly restaurateur (Occidental Hotel). In Washington's formal society, he has little part. Impartial observers rate him thus: a pretty good" Congressman, personally popular with his colleagues, active in House affairs, attentive to his district's wants. Neither profound nor brilliant he performed national service by his hard-hitting advocacy of Reapportionment. Though he is now serving his sixth term. 1 old title of "baby" handicaps him in advancing toward real leadership.—ED.

Colgate Beardists

CONTRARY TO YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME DECEMBER 21, REASON OF WITHDRAWAL OF WILLIAM FRANCIS CUTTEN FROM COLGATE UNIVERSITY BEARD-GROWING CONTEST WAS NOT THREAT OF HIS FATHER BUT OF A GIRL TO BREAK DATE. PRESIDENT GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN. NO ANTIBEARDIST. SPORTED A FULL BEARD WHILE PROMINENT MEMBER OF YALE '98 FOOTBALL TEAM. SURVEY OF COLGATE FACULTY REVEALS SEVEN BEARDISTS AND TWENTY-ONE MUSTACHERS AMONG ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS. PROMINENT BEARDISTS ARE WILLIAM HENRY CRAWSHAW, DONALD ANDERSON LAIRD, ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM, JOSEPH FRANK MCGREGORY. NO BEARDIST SINCE HIS COLLEGE DAYS, ACADIA-TRAINED PRESIDENT CUTTEN HAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF FIVE CLEAN-SHAVEN, EIGHT MUSTACHERS AND ONE BEARDIST. . . .

L. ROBERT OAKS

Hamilton, N. Y.

Tobacco Markets

Sirs: TIME is usually right in what it says: In Dec. 14 issue, you say that Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. This was true ten or 15 years ago, but there are in North Carolina at the present time two or three markets, viz. Wilson, Greenville and Winston-Salem which sell more tobacco than does Lexington. When Lexington was the largest tobacco market in the U. S., Kentucky was producing more tobacco than any other State. Now North Carolina produces more than Kentucky and Virginia, the third State in production, combined. , I am getting my information from some oi our State papers which make the claim that North Carolina has the largest tobacco market in the U. S., and produces more tobacco than any other state. This information is printed on the front page while the editorial page is devoted to a column "cussing out" the manufacturers of tobacco produced and sold in North Carolina and the inside of the paper is filled with enormous advertisements paid for by these manufacturers—all in the same day. But this hasn't anything to do with North Carolina having the largest tobacco market in the world. On the second thought, it should. W. G. Cox

Burlington, N. C.

Official Dec. 1 estimates of 1931 tobacco production (in thousands of pounds) for 18 commercial producing States are:

Kentucky 506,890 North Carolina 468,520 Tennessee 127,528 Virginia 106,27 South Carolina 70,070 Georgia 59,640 Pennsylvania 58,487 Ohio 53,622 Wisconsin 47,201 Maryland 31,540 Connecticut 29,295 Indiana 16,060 Massachusetts 10,184 Missouri 8,501 Florida 7,598 West Virginia 5,388 Minnesota 2,188 New York 1,170* U. S. Total 1,610,098 (000) In 1930, largest auctions were 1) Wilson, N. C.; 2) Lexington, Ky.; 3) Greenville, N. C—ED.

* Brother-in-law of Congressman McLeod. — ED. *"Baby" of the 72nd Congress is Fred Allan Hartley, Jr. of New Jersey (Republican), 28.