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Some time ago you published an article on the economic condition of many of the Southern tenant farmers, especially the Negroes. You told how one Negro had obtained a judgment against his landlord for unlawful interest charges, and how the latter stood to pay considerable damages [TIME, June 13]. You also pointed out the possible widespread significance of this judgment.
I have noticed no follow-up story on this matter, and wonder if this unjust condition is being duly righted, or whether the powers that be have managed to squash the upstart and his fearless judge.
J. H. VAN DOREN
Detroit, Mich.
When Negro Tenant Farmer Less Taylor won a judgment against his landlord, J. W. Copeland, the case was appealed, is still pending. No other such suits in Mississippi have been reported.—ED. Clock
Sirs: M. Zimmer's clock (TIME, Aug. 29) is indeed a wonder, if, as appears from the cut on p. 26, it will run for 26,000 years upside down. Perhaps this is an example of American showmanship—perhaps TIME is trying to test the credulity of its readers.
CLINTON GARDNER Weld, Me.
For adding one more upside-down item to an already topsy-turvy world, a waggled finger at TIME'S printer.— ED.
Floy Floy
Sirs:
I am grateful to Mr. Lamale of Wabash, Ind. for clearing up the Floy Floy business. Imagine trying to sleep in an overnight cabin with a community house 20 ft. in back of you where dancing went on from seven to twelve with music from a victrola and 15 records, one of them Flat Foot Floogie. The words from that distance sounded as if somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn the real words! Utter exhaustion kept me from further investigation ! My relief knew no bounds when I read the lucid (?) explanation in TIME last week.
My life long thanks !
West Medford, Mass.
World's Fair
Sirs:
To Reader Robert Douglas, worried about comfort stations (TIME, Aug. 29), at "the 1939 World's Fair," a slap on the wrist from the West. By the 1939 World's Fair did he mean the San Francisco Fair or the New York Fair? (TIME, in parentheses, assumes he meant the latter.)
Whichever he meant, San Francisco Bay people wish it known that "the 1939 World's Fair" is ambiguous, and, further, that the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair will have plenty of free toilets. There also will be pay toilets enough for the fastidious.
The Board of Management of the western World's Fair long ago determined that there would be no T.T. (Toilet Trouble) at this Exposition. No concessionaires will be in the comfort station business to the discomfort of the visitors.
PAUL CONANT
Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco, Calif.
Steel Scarecrow
Sirs: