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In decrying Nazi activities in the U. S. and agitating for a boycott of German goods and services, Lawyer Untermyer is acting not as lawyer, not as U. S. citizen, not as religionist, but as a Jew outraged by persecutions of fellow Jews. Chancellor Hitler's pogroms are conducted not on religious grounds but on racial grounds (as a mask for underlying economic reasons). In labeling Lawyer Untermyer "Jew" in contrast to "German" for Ambassador Luther, TIME was strictly, significantly accurate. TIME did not thereby intend affront to Jewish sensibilities or express sympathy with the Nazi cause.
In TIME'S impartial eye. all races, creeds and colors receive the same objective inspection, analysis, description. TIME is impatient of supersensitive members of any group who suspect and complain that it does otherwise.—ED.
Negro Dailies Sirs:
In your issue of Nov. 13, you refer to the Daily Citizen as the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper and the Atlanta World as the first U. S. Negro daily. It might interest you to know that the first Negro daily newspaper was the Cairo Gazette (III) which was first issued April 23, 1882 and continued regularly for six months. Perhaps the second attempt to publish a Negro daily was the Columbus Messenger, at Columbus, Ga., in 1888.
Negro dailies have been published for short periods in Washington, D. C.; Richmond, Va.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Chicago, 111.; Baltimore, Md.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.
GEORGE W. GORE JR.
Nashville, Tenn.
The Atlanta World is the first Negro paper to be published continuously since its founding as a daily (February 1932).
-ED.
Ward's Blocked Kick Sirs:
TIME is mistaken. In your summary last Friday of college football you credited Willis Ward of Michigan with blocking Illinois' place kick for the point after touchdown (TIME, Nov. 13). The kick was low and so wide that it barely reached the corner of the end zone. More important in that game was the five-yard penalty on Illinois which placed the ball on its one-yard line in Michigan's possession with
15 seconds of the first half to play. Followed Everhardus' touchdown run. . . .
WILFRID SMITH
Chicago, Ill.
TIME, though it relied on three eye-witness accounts, erred. The kick blocked by Negro Ward was the first punt of the game.—ED.
Unbeaten Nebraska
Sirs:
TIME is always so fair and democratic in its news items that we are certain you will not be offended at this attempt of constructive criticism, and we are sure recognition of the Big Six Conference football teams, namely Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas State and Iowa State, will be appreciated by your many readers in the Corn Belt.
We are prompted to write because of omission —unintentional, of course—of reference to any of the Big Six Teams in your article on football, under the Sports section of the Nov. 13 issue of TIME. You might very well have included the Nebraska Cornhuskers in your "Humpty-Dumpty" list of undefeated football teams this season.