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The Brooklyn Citizen has made no effort to obtain circulation—transient at most—by premiums, promotion contests, cooking schools or carrier boys. Such circulation is not helpful to advertisers.
The efforts of the Brooklyn Citizen are directed to the sale of the paper on its merits. Its circulation of 40,000 represents a larger purchasing power than 100,000 circulation obtained by promotion methods, such as referred to above.
The Brooklyn Citizen, in conclusion, is as much a home-owned paper as either the Eagle or the Times-Standard Union. It has the advantage over both in the continuity of its homeownership. Unlike the Eagle and the Times-Standard Union, it has never undergone any change in its ownership from the day it was first published. The owners of the Brooklyn Citizen are not only residents of Brooklyn but natives, which is more than can be said for the owner of the Thnes-Standard Union or the owners of the Eagle, all of whom hailed originally from upState.
SOLON BARBANELL
Editor
The Citizen
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rumanians & Popcorn
Sirs:
I refer to TIME'S Foreign News of your April 22, in spe to those concerning Rumania.
The age you are giving my country, it is rather a matter of interpretation. Applying the same method of reasoning what age would you give to the United States of North America?
As to "Baby Fascist" Filipescu may I inform you that he does not need any self-advertising. He is the son of a famous Rumanian statesman— Nicholas Filipescu—who by the way killed in a duel a political adversary, and served a term in prison for it.
Unfortunately those few Rumanians who choose the duel as a means to ''satisfy their honor" do not shoot with popcorn. Two years ago a Capt. Dimancescu,* now an officer in the King's Guards Regiment fought a duel with a civilian from eight in the morning till six in the afternoon. There were 15 florette encounters and five sabre, before the poor civilian was put out of fight with the muscles of both hands cut to the bone.
It is unlawful to fight a duel in Rumania, though the unwritten code of the Army requires that officers should defend their honor with sword or gun. After they do it, to satisfy the law, they go to jail.
DACUS VIATOR
Pittsburgh, Pa.
*Ioan Dimancescu of the 2nd Royal Guard Regiment, Bucarest, against a bank clerk Tebeica.