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H. O. GAVIN
Seattle, Wash.
Poor Hound
Sirs:
May I in one breath praise and rebuke Mr. Peter Vischer, of Polo, for his comment in your magazine on the errors of the advertising gentry (TIME, July 1).
In the late full page, advertising whiskey, in which the fine old sportsman "knew good whiskey because he knew good hunters and hounds" . . . the poor hound, may I remind Mr. Vischer, was not an Irish setter, as he stoutly insists. That would have been sad . . . but bearable. The dog, alas, was a poor, unfortunate English setter, so badly drawn by the artist that every point of this noble animal was overlooked.
Please ask Mr. Edwards to go back to his fishing quietly, and Mr. Vischer to stick to the horse, which he knows so well. But do let the "dawg folks" do the ribald laughing at that unfortunate advertisement. For we know the English setter, Laverack strain, even in caricature.
GRETCHEN LEE
Bennett, Neb.
Raised Eyebrows
Sirs:
In TIME, July 1 under "The Congress" you state: "This news raised Committee eyebrows to about the same extent as would have occurred if Mr. Mitchell had revealed that the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776 at Philadelphia. It had all been hashed out by Comptroller General McCarl, was an old story." You imply that the fact that the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776 is an old story. It seems to me a poor example to use, for your writer surely knows that the Declaration was not signed on July 4, 1776, but about a month later. Or am I wrong? . . .
HENRY S. JOHNSON
New Haven, Conn.
Reader Johnson is right. Although the Continental Congress adopted the resolution of Independence on July 2, 1776 and passed the Declaration two days later, it was not actually signed until August 2.
—ED.
$150 Chance
Sirs:
Reading your item "One Way Ticket" (TIME, July 1) referring to "100% Nichols," of the 1st National Bank of Englewood, Chicago . . . his Bank Statement appeared on the financial page of Sunday's Chicago [June 30] Tribune.
In this statement he lists among items under heading ''non-Liquid Assets" the following:
Loaned to a customer $150.00
Bank building, land, furniture & fixtures 10.00
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank .10
With total assets over 7 million, he took a chance and loaned $150 to somebody!
R. G. ROBERTS
Chicago, Ill.
Banker John M. ("100%") Nichols is now 102% liquid: his statement also showed liquid assets of $6,426,836 against deposits of $6,277,587.—ED.
Longest Ride
Sirs:
Under Transport in your issue of June 17, headed "Skinflints' Slugs" you boost New York subways, 25 mi. for 5¢, as the world's biggest rail-travel bargain. For the past ten years Glasgow, Scotland has had a 26½ mi. street car ride for 4¢. And fixed, near the exit, on every car of the Glasgow system, than which there is none better in Scotland, is a little red box where passengers may deposit their fares for the shorter 10 rides should they wish to alight before the conductor has had time to collect. . . .
GEO. HAINING
Glendale, Calif.
Below Average
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