Letters Supplement
Sirs:
With the receipt of my second number of TIME'S Letters Supplement I must send you immediately my compliments and express my appreciation of being on its mailing list.
. . . The letters in the issue that reaches me each Friday are my first item of perusal and your Letters Supplement is, therefore, most welcome.
W. P. BARBA
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sirs:
I would be very pleased to have my name placed on the mailing list of TIME'S Letters Supplement. I have heard so many complimentary remarks in regard to this Supplement that I regret that I was not quick enough in my request to receive the first issues and if it is possible to make this request retroactive I would be more than obliged.
THOMAS CARROLL
Villanova, Pa.
A limited number of Nos. i and 2 of the Letters Supplement are available and will be sent to readers in the order that their requests are received.—ED.
Sirs:
I would like 20 copies of TIME'S Letters Supplement No. 2. Will you kindly refer the order to the proper authority with the request that they be sent to me with the bill.
Which brings up the thought that the Supplement ought to have a separate charge: let me suggest 5¢ per copy. I think there are great possibilities for useful circulation in the Supplement. It may have unique personality of its own, which would make advisable a definite reference for each letter to its source causation. And again I urge that it be permitted to be selfsupporting.
HERBERT JAXVRIN BROWNE
Long-Range Weather Forecast Service
Washington, D. C.
Until further notice, copies of the Letters Supplement (an overflow of comment, controversy, correction and information) will be sent free to all who ask. For extra copies the charge will be 5¢each, plus postage. Address I. Van Meter, Editorial Secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York City. The Letters Supplement mailing list to date: 2,687.—ED.
Sirs:
. . . Do I detect in your Letters Supplement a very, very sly move indeed? Having become one of the most influential publications in the U. S., are you now beginning to feel the need of an editorial page, and inventing an "overflow of comment, correction, controversy, and information" in which, by careful selection and arrangement of the letters printed, you can guide readers' thoughts? I had always valued TIME precisely because of its pristine lack of bias. Don't tell me that now, swelled with the sense of power which your more than 450,000 readers give you, you are planning to Arnold public opinion." . . .
Far better were it for you to continue the finer service of feeding to the public that clearly, cleanly assimilated store of fact from which the sinews of opinion are freely fashioned in free minds. ... I have seen but one copy of the Letters Supplement and that one, it seemed to me, inferentially "flayed'' the President for forbidding you to simulate his voice in ''The March of TIME.''
I shall watch subsequent issues with closest care and not hesitate to excoriate you if my sorry suspicion proves correct. . . .
J. Y. SANDERSON
Newport News, Va.