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Each of these States has its crops and weather statisticians who report almost daily to Washington the crop and weather conditions in those States. The President could have got in ten minutes, without cost, from his Secretary of Agriculture more information about crops and weather conditions than he got in his ten-days foolish frolic through the West at a cost to the taxpayers of thousands of dollars. Expense seems to count for little with this Administration.
I have looked in vain to discover what additional information has been evolved from these presidential and gubernatorial gabfests. Can you aid me?
To me they seem the heights of absurdity and nonsense.
C. B. ROLLINS Columbia, Mo.
Sirs:
. . . Inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt was out here two years ago to end all droughts, how did we happen to draw another one this year? One explanation is that in 1934 he was giving the Lord a chance to handle the situation without government interference. The Lord didn't make good, and so Mr. Roosevelt took the job over which is why "everything is going to be all right."
But as between this superman, and the Kansan who, according to New Dealish Washington, doesn't know the difference between international affairs and the plow business. Minnesota, one of the pivotal States, will choose the man who "stared at the carpet, pondered a full five minutes." . . .
GEORGE N. BRIGGS St. Paul, Minn.
Fastest Gin
Sirs:
Last Christmas a Captain of the U. S. A. Engineers Corps, who came down here to build the Nicaraguan Canal, but got married instead, sent me a year's subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising.
A short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed.
I climbed a telegraph pole, ran a foot race with the police, jumped off the dock, and woke up aboard a river boat 100 miles from home.
Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics.
After many years of Spanish, my English may be a bit dubious and probably is, as the only other English-speaking person here is a Jamaica Negro with an Oxford accent, which mixes me worse than the gin.
J. C. KENNEDY San Carlos, Nicaragua
More Mistakes Sirs:
Is it possible that your cinema critic could have been mistaken in stating that Victor More made his screen debut in Swing Time (TIME, Sept. 7)?
We believe that Victor More has appeared in at least two other film productions as early as 1930. They were: Dangerous Nan McGrew and Heads Up. . . .
TOBIAS MOODY LOWELL MOORE A. G. GIACOBAZZI Havre, Mont.
TIME indeed erred. Cinemactor More also appeared in Romance in the Rain, Gift of Gab.—ED.
Resentment v. Reflection
Sirs: