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Forgive me for protesting as loudly as my healthy lungs will permit against the suggestion of D. H. Edwards [TIME, May 27] that advertising men should leave fishing alone and "stick to polo. . . ."
Unfortunately these boys are just as bad on polo as they are on fishing; worse, because fishing is a sleepy sort of sport indulged in by genteel old philosophers who like to go off into the woods by themselves, while polo is probably the most public, most brilliant and most spectacular game you can play.
There was a recent color page advertisement put out on behalf of a promising young manufacturer we might as well call Ford, by one of the biggest agencies in the country, that had the most incredible mistakes so far as the polo background was concerned: the noble steed shown was some curious kind of saddle horse, the tack might have come as a premium for Spratt's dog food, the helmet was an invention of the artist, the sideboards had posts on the inside of the field, and so forth and so on.
At that it wasn't much worse than the recent whiskey advertisement in which that old sportsman was telling how he knew good whiskey because he knew good hunters and good hounds—and the hound, if you please, was an Irish setter.
Please ask Mr. Edwards to go back to his fishing quietly and if he wants to make any more suggestions to advertisers, let him encourage them to stick to pretty girls. . . .
PETER VISCHER
Editor Polo New York City
First Baby
Sirs:
Under the heading Transport in TIME, June 17 appears a headline "Baby Clipper," beneath which is a description of the demonstration flights with the new twin-engined Sikorsky S-43.
. . . The term "Baby Clipper" was first used in news stories on May 3 describing the new Fairchild high-speed amphibian, fastest single-engine amphibian transport in the world.
While the Sikorsky 543 is an extremely interesting and valuable airplane it seems to me that—since it carries 16 persons, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 19,000 Ib. and two engines, while the Fairchild carries 10 people, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 9,600 Ib. and only one engine—it should more rightly have been called by you a Mid-Clipper or Youthful Clipper, just to keep the distinction clear. . . .
At any rate, the term "Baby Clipper" was applied first to the Fairchild amphibian when the first of a fleet of six for Pan American Airways was announced. [It was designed . . . to meet special operating requirements which exist along certain river routes. CHARLES H. GALE
Fairchild Aviation Corp. New York City
Doctors & Oaths
Sirs:
Re: TIME, June 17—Medicine. "Upon graduating from medical school each & every doctor must swear the Oath of Hippocrates."
The administering of the Oath of Hippocrates to our class graduating in medicine was not a part of the ceremony of the June 1923 convocation of Johns Hopkins University.
It would be of interest to ascertain just how many modern medical schools depend upon the actual administering of this oath in place of teaching ideals by precept.
THOMAS H. SUTHERLAND, M. D.
Licentiate in Law
Associate Counsel in Legal Medicine Marion, Ohio