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Again TIME errs. I, George Cleve Bullette, erstwhile employe of the Oklahoma Tax Commission and newspaperman by profession, many times have passed Ernie Marland's house in Oklahoma City, which he occupies rent free from the State of Oklahoma, and never have I seen the turf disturbed by the moleboard or shear of a plow. Alfalfa Bill Murray let his cow eat the grass on the lawn, thereby saving the State the expense of operating a gasoline mower, but he most certainly did not plow up the grass. . . .
I wonder if Haile Selassie really has a beard? . . .
GEORGE CLEVE BULLETTE
Muskogee, Okla.
It was the block-long, iron-fenced plot between Capitol and Mansion grounds which was ploughed up last spring and planted to Sudan grass, was being ploughed again last week to be planted to rye.—ED.
Well-Read
Sirs: .
TIME (Dec. 30) carried an announcement under Education of the Lewis Baker Warren scholarship fund recently bequeathed to Yale. In three days 20 inquiries came to my desk from 15 States.
Due to several life interests and annuities, the fund will not be available for award for some time. In acknowledging inquiries we have so advised interested school officers, parents and boys.
The States heard from thus far, if you are interested, are Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland,
Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont.
TIME and the ambitious but impecunious American youth are apparently well-read.
OGDEN D. MILLER
Scholarships and Loans
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
Well-Born Californian
Sirs:
Mr. A. Anderson of Minneapolis who took you to task for using the term "wellborn" displays ignorance of the term and his statements are libelous [TIME, Dec. 30]. . . .
Wealth has nothing to do with being ''well-born" and neither does it imply) that all '"well-born" people are necessarily prominent or honest.
For his benefit and an answer to his sarcastic comments I will for the first time stale that from proven records, such as deeds and wills, records and other authentic sources, I can trace my lineage on my maternal side to two kings of Italy, one of France, Charlemagne, Frederick the Great, the three Henrys of England as well as Wittoon the 1st, King Robert Bruce of Scotland.
My emigrant ancestor was a member of a Company of Gentlemen Adventurers who found Virginia to his liking and settled there in 1650. . . .
None of these men was of great wealth, in fact both my grandfathers were Methodist ministers (not of the modern variety).
Yet birth means nothing if the heir does not live up to his family traditions.
Mr. Anderson had better stick to his Poland Chinas.
FAIRFAX SPENCER
San Rafael, Calif.
Victoria like Edward
Sirs:
I am posting you a Sphere (London) with some pictures of the late Princess Victoria in it. You will notice the illustrated London newspaper weekly remarks, in two places, that Princess Victoria had had delicate health for years, as I wrote you last week. It has always been rumored in England that Princess Victoria was subject to fits, at long intervals.