Readers Swiped
Sirs:
"Publisher McDonald (Chattanooga Free Press) hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300)." (TIME, Sept. 7.)
TIME itself, rather than Mr. McDonald, seems to be guilty of circulation theft, having swiped, in the paragraph quoted above, 3,859 Sunday readers. The average net paid circulation of the Chattanooga Sunday Times for March 1936 (month before Sunday Free Press started publication) was 38,785; for August 1936, it was 40,159. . . .
ADOLPH SHELBY OCHS General Manager The Chattanooga Times Chattanooga, Tenn.
Timbers Shivered Sirs:
Well, shiver my timbers! The Lucky Strike ad appearing on the back of last week's TIME (Sept. 7), I mean.
Shown is a most comely lady looking out of a port hole. Now the lady is on the inside looking out. But her admiring sheik is on the outside looking in. All of which is, of course, not uncommon.
But the fellow couldn't really stand on thin air or the side of a liner no matter how boundless his affections! Yet he's doing it. . . .
But don't cancel my subscription! And by the bye, youse editors have never divulged what you do when some irate subscriber makes an ass of himself by canceling his subscription? . . .
GROVER C. HALL JR. Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, Ala.
When a TIME subscriber cancels his subscription, he is entitled to a refund calculated by deducting from the price of his subscription the number of copies he has received at 15¢ a copy. —ED.
Republican Journal Sirs:
YOUR SENSE OF FAIRNESS SHOULD CAUSE YOU TO WISH TO CORRECT A REFERENCE TO THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL IN THE SEPT. 7 ISSUE OF TIME YOU SAY JOURNAL THREE MONTHS AGO GOT OUT OF RECEIVERSHIP WITH THE HELP OF REPUBLICAN MONEY THE FACT IS THE PAPER GOT OUT OF RECEIVERSHIP OVER FOUR YEARS AGO RECENT PURCHASERS ARE LOCAL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. THE PAPER HAS BEEN TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE REPUBLICAN. NO OUTSIDE REPUBLICAN MONEY USED IN PURCHASE. . . .
R. H. CLAGETT General Manager Knoxville Journal Knoxville, Tenn.
North Carolina's Ney
Sirs: I received a letter dated Aug. 24 from Mr.
A. L. Childress, Chief Auditor, State of Tennessee, addressed to you at New York and in this copy of letter to you he sent extracts from Souvenirs sur la Revolution, I'Empire et la Restauration by General Rochechouert, Paris: 1892.
Mr. Childress stated that this General made it quite clear that Marshal Ney was actually executed under his own orders and in his presence. Also he stated that he would like to read more on the subject in future issues of TIME.
Since it was publicly announced 60 days ago both here and in Europe that I am preparing to exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church, here in North Carolina, in order to solve this 90-year-old mystery, my associates and I have received letters from Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all parts of the U. S., and among those writing was a son of a former President of the United States, a U. S. Senator, several college presidents and prominent authors as well as historians. Just thought you would be interested in knowing the type of people who are deeply interested in this subject.