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I am in receipt of an appeal that I renew my subscription which will expire in September. I am instead writing to cancel it, and wish to tell you how glad I am that the time is so near when your whiskey-soaked, cigaret-smoked, sensuous and so often sensual magazine will be no longer polluting my mailbox.
TIME is in many ways an exceedingly able and clever magazine, but so also is the devil exceedingly able and clever, and he must be very grateful for the exceedingly efficient service which you gratuitously give him. I shall miss many features of your magazine, but can readily forego them for the sake of avoiding the stench of debasing animalism which so mars your otherwise beautiful journal.
EARLE V. PIERCE
Pastor
Lake Harriet Baptist Church Minneapolis, Minn.
Sirs:
... I blush with shame when I find your editors appealing to the cheap and shoddy, to the sensational. I would not expect any more from a cheap vulgar magazine than to run nude pictures . . . but from a paper that you expect ministers and decent clubs and high-school teachers and Sunday-school teachers to read, you should be more careful, for we cannot endorse vulgarity under the name of art or nudist colonies. . . . My prayers are for you, that you may be guided always by the hand of the Unseen in producing the worthwhile, the clean, the helpful and the kind of magazine that Jesus would read if he were among us.
ROBERT M. HARDEE Pastor
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Cullowhee, N. C.
* Named for Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 19th (1877-81) President of the U. S.—ED.