(4 of 5)
Sirs: I think you may be interested in knowing of the further progress of the 10% pamphlet we made reprinting FORTUNE'S now famous article of the international munition business, "Arms and the Men." Because this pamphlet is sold at cost, it is not available at bookstores (who would have to add their markup, charge about 16(!). "Arms and the Men" can be had only by sending io(' to Garden 'City, and the only notice that it can so be had appeared in the correspondence column of TIME, yet it is selling faster than Anthony Adverse. Our first printing of 2,500 copies was gone two days after our letter appeared in TIME. We quickly printed 10,000 more, and even these were not enough, because up until today 10,075 people have sent their dimes to Garden City for individual pamphlets and 89 other individuals and organizations have taken 6,411 copies. Total sales to date: 16,486 copies—and a number of schools and other institutions are now considering using quantities of "Arms and the Men." We have just printed 25,000 more copies, and it looks as if we might sell 100,000, which was our purpose in producing the pamphlet at cost, rather than to do it as a more expensively produced and less widely distributed $1 book. This response is unique in our experience, and not only shows how remarkably large a group of people read the correspondence column of TIME and how carefully they read it, but also how alert is their interest in a subject of importance. DANIEL LONGWELL
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. Garden City, N. Y.
Sirs:
I have just finished reading two articles in the May issue of Scribner's Magazine, "Why America Will Go to War" and "How to Keep Out of the Next War," by Messrs Grattan and Stoddard. The amazing response and reaction to your article concerning the munition manufacturers [TIME, March 5] prompts me to ask if it would be possible for you to give publicity to these two splendid articles. I believe you would be doing this nation a great service and perhaps be instrumental in keeping these United States out of the next conflagration which seems inevitable, if you could arouse your 450,0 readers to sufficient interest that they, would demand reprints of these two clear, concise, unbiased articles. CHRIS. A. HORN
Schenectady, N. Y..
Author C. Hartley Grattan predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. — ED. Haul Sirs:
A good bait: May 7, p. 16 on passage of the Fleet from the Pacific to the Atlantic: of warships ... streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal."
Please publish the haul.
T. A. CLARK
Lt. Col. U. S. Army
Chicago, 111. None. — ED. Shameful, Shameless
Sirs:
The picture of Samuel Insull on the outside page of TIME [May 14] is shameful, and worse, shameless.
Guilty or not guilty, the poor old man is entitled to some consideration and even that you denied him.