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Not all reporters at Chairman Madden's first big press conference after the Supreme Court's favorable decision on the Wagner Act heard exactly alike. The New York Herald Tribune recorded his statement: "This means the solution of industrial peace. It will not be necessary henceforth to have strikes to establish the right of labor unions to recognition for collective bargaining." New York Times: "This [decision] means industrial peace." New York News: "This Supreme Court decision means industrial peace for America!"—ED.
To-Do
Sirs:
About the Duck Hill double-lynching report and picture [TIME, April 26]:
We of the South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those.
Didn't see a picture of the dead white man, shot in the back, cause of all the todo. Whyn't you print that? . . .
E. D. BARGE
Atlanta, Ga.
Mississippi Shudders
Sirs:
TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases.
Actually, the mob crowd was in number (using TIME'S estimate of 500) less than .00025 of the population of Mississippi. Fair-minded TIME-readers will suspect that a vast majority of the remaining .99975 shuddered at this ghastly thing, which is the truth.
It is no more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded.
L. HARDEE
Sandersville, Miss.
Credit to Brooks
Sirs:
Whoever credits "the old clothing company" [Hart Schaffner & Marx] referred to on p.
75 of the April 19 issue of TIME with being the "first in the trade to adopt an 'all-wool' policy (1900)" and "first with the camel's hair coat (1912)" is not, apparently very well-founded in the history of the ready-made clothing business.
Brooks Brothers, established nearly three quarters of a century prior to 1887 and, like Johnny Walker, "still going strong," has never within the memory of any living New Yorker, sold anything for wool which was not "all-wool."
Moreover I have on my desk a Brooks Brothers catalog, put out in the spring of 1908, with a photograph of a camel's hair ulster as part of its regular ready-made stock. I was sufficiently interested in the matter to try to verify my recollection that the material was indeed camel's hair and, with the co-operation of their Woolens Department, I ascertained that the piece-goods from which they were cut in those days came from Jaeger's, in Austria, were 100% pure camel's hair, and that Brooks Brothers were the only clothing manufacturers in this country at that time to whom Jaeger's sold goods in the piece.