Bread v. Stone
Sirs:
As subscriber to TIME since its first number, I request a few lines' space to express dismay at the suggestion of a Reverend to collect $500,000 for the purpose of erecting a statue of Christ upon some mountain peak.
This today when children faint in schools for lack of food, teachers seek death from high places in desperation of the future and lone workers crawl starved into haystacks to die. Who may ask pence for a Stone while children cry for bread? WHO said: Feed my lambs, and again: Feed the hungry?
Let us call a moratorium on all monuments till a day come when it shall no more be said as once in Judea that: foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the son of man has not where to lay his head. Across these United States churches with their cushioned pews glow warmly while underfed thousands huddle in packing cases and on cold plazas.
Millions give, even their pence, but unless
I we act promptly, compellingly. disregarding politics, high finance or creeds, charity will be but
a millstone around our necks in "that day."
I am neither an atheist nor a communist, only a bewildered Christian and an ashamed capitalist.
ANNA JOHNSON KINGHAN Erwinna, Pa.
Vice President's Flag
Sirs:
More TIME-history about the Vice President's flag, as partly revealed in Dec. 26 issue, p. 2, col. i.
The present silk flag was gift of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, to replace one that had stood through man)' stormy administrations in vice presidential offices for approximately 60 years.
Original was gift of California silk manufacturers and, of course, made from product of California silk worms. No such pretense is made for present gorgeous emblem which San Francisco Chamber was glad to send on to take its turn as sentinel beside the Vice President's desk, relieving its brother that had become tattered & torn (actually) by merely standing still.
C. B. DODDS Chamber of Commerce San Francisco, Calif.
California's Johnson
Sirs:
The following readers of TIME would like to have you print a biographical sketch of Hiram W. Johnson, senior Senator from California.
ALLEN C. LATSON MEDFORD F. AITON J. C. REBHOLTZ H. CURRIE R. R. VEALE San Francisco, Calif.
Sirs:
The undersigned would appreciate a fair and comprehensive survey of the senatorial career of the Hon. Hiram Johnson, senior Senator from this State.
CYRUS E. ROSE EUGENE A. OSTAGGI E. R. GRANT F. P. FOOTE JAMES FERRARIO San Rafael, Calif.
The record of Senator Hiram Warren ("Hi") Johnson of California is as follows:
Bom: At Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 2, 1866.