Townsend's Pup
Sirs:
Indiana's sportsman Governor, Cliff Townsend, had a little airedale pup, which would put Kansas' climbing coon hound Rudd [TIME, April 12] to shame.
Governor Townsend's airedale, an excitable and ambitious dog, chased a 'possum into a corn field and up an apple tree. Undaunted, the airedale jumped up to a crotch in the tree, followed the 'possum out on a limb and leaped to the ground after the 'possum. A little out of wind, the dog scrambled up, chased the 'possum, caught him and brought him back to the Governor. . . .
TRISTRAM COFFIN
Director
State House News Bureau
State of Indiana
Indianapolis, Ind.
Berlin Skinner
Sirs:
I am having trouble to get my TIME, an old reader of six years or more. I am enclosing the address of the newsdealer on Potsdamer Platz who was skinning me alive with a charge of Reichsmark .90 a copy. Can't you make it hot for that guy, or is he immune with such robbery?
REINHOLD EBERLE
Berlin
Principally as a convenience to traveling subscribers, 4,000 copies of TIME are rushed to Europe each week, reaching British and usually French newsstands while the same issue is still on sale in New York City. In England, where the office of the European distributor is located, the price is everywhere 9d. (18¢). On the Continent a few shopkeepers charge what they can get, unfortunately are not subject to TIME'S regulation. European readers who wish may have TIME sent to them direct from the Circulation Office at 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. for $7 a year.— ED.
Hopper for Box
Sirs:
I have read with great interest your article on the opening of Great Lakes navigation under Business & Finance in TIME, April 26, but take exception to your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations have been installed since I left the Great Lakes region two years ago, this is also inaccurate. The hopper cars are run out on the dock a few at a time, and the ore dumped into the pockets by opening the hopper bottoms of the cars. The ore goes, whenever a freighter is ready for it, from the pockets into the hold via steel spouts hinged to the sides of the dock. Cardumpers such as you mention are, however, used to load coal into these same freighters at lower lake ports.
JAMES PICKANDS II
New Haven, Conn.
Madden's Words
Sirs:
In your issue of April 26, p. 15, you quote me as saying "'This,' he exulted, 'means the solution of industrial peace.'" What compensating advantage is there to you in reporting me as saying something which I did not say and which no adult literate person would say?
J. WARREN MADDEN
Chairman
National Labor Relations Board
Washington, D. C.