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The accurate scientific reporting of TIME and of the lay press deserves the congratulations and thanks of both the public and the medical profession. For in these days of depression and low income, and of high cost of medical publications, many scientists and physicians have learned to rely upon the accurate scientific reports of such publications as TIME for keeping abreast of advances in science and medicine. In this manner you are rendering a signal service to the public, to science and to medicine. I hope that you will not permit yourself to be deterred from continuing to render such service by any biased or unenlightened criticism, or any self-interested attempts of censorship by individuals or groups.
EMANUEL M. JOSEPHSON, M.D.
New York City
Sirs:
You are surely off your trolley in your reply to Dr. Langdon's letter (TIME, Aug. 12).
Public hopes will "rise or fall" on what they read in TIME and not on what Dr. Josephson et al., write for scientific publications.
You have acquired an amazing public acceptance and the responsibility is yours.
RAYMOND D. MILLER, M. D.
Veterans' Home of California Napa County, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . There is hardly an active member of the Fourth Estate who has missed stubbing his toe or bruising his knuckles upon ethical bugaboos of medicine and science. The reporter is most likely to be damned if he does report and doubly damned if he doesn't. This is a rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q. Hut since I have few reporter or editorial acquaintances who have escaped such visitations, I gather that it is a perennial problem, not only to the trades of journalism, but to all allied or competitive industries of public entertainment.
By enforcing competent standards of reporting and presenting the products thereof in a direct and forthright manner, regardless of the cobweb strands and musty rituals of the learned professions, TIME deserves wholehearted congratulations.
CHARLES MORROW WILSON
Newfane, Vt.
Venable v. Joe T.
Sirs:
I read with amusement the letter of J. Rosser Venable regarding Joe T. Robinson's coming fight (?) for relection as was published in TIME, Aug. 12. Doubtless this letter has a political tinge of which TIME is unaware. J. Rosser Venable, though defeated in past years for Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Arkansas, has announced that he intends to be a candidate for Robinson's Senate seat in the coming elections (1936). Well will over-zealous J. Rosser Yenable realize after this election that Joe T.'s name still draws votes in Arkansas.
HAROLD RUSSELL JR.
Hot Springs, Ark.
Sirs: