Born Southerner
Sirs:
Perhaps one Emily Boothe Radway, who writes in your issue of June 8 that Mrs. Roosevelt's party for wayward Negro girls was ''revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable" would be interested to know that the writer, who is superintendent of the National Training School for Girls (the institution for white and colored girls which was so signally honored by Mrs. Roosevelt), is also a Southern woman, a Georgian, descended from slave-owning ancestry.
She is surprised that anyone sufficiently up-to-date as to be a reader of TIME should cherish such an anachronism as the bit in Miss Radway's letter.
The writer respectfully suggests Godey's Lady's Book or The Southern Messenger, years 1860 to 1865, as reading which would be more to Miss Radway's taste.
A born Southerner, but aspiring Christian.
CARRIE WEAVER SMITH (M. D.)
Superintendent
National Training School for Girls Washington, D. C.
Degree for Distributor
Sirs:
REFERRING TO YOUR JUNE 29 ISSUE, P 45 NEBRASKA'S GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS AT ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHARTER DAY EXERCISES FEB. 15, 1935. HE SPOKE ON "THE INHERITANCE TAX," POINTING OUT THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS NECESSARY IF CIVILIZATION IS TO BE PRESERVED.
E. A. BURNETT
Chancellor
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb.
Some Days
Sirs:
I noticed your story [TIME, June 15] about Senator James D. Phelan giving $1 cigars to President Harding. When I lived in San Francisco in the old days I kept a cigar store and sold cigars to Jimmy Phelan (like we called him as a young man) and also his father. Jimmy bought $1 ones and his father, who had all the money, bought nickel cheroots. . . .
I said to the old man one day: "How is it you smoke nickel cigars and Jimmy smokes $1 ones?" The old man said: "Well, he has a rich father."
I. DEUTSCH
Portland, Ore.
Sirs:
Senator Phelan, according to your article under Art in TIME, June 15, was fond of $1 Havana cigars. This recalls to mind, I was collecting rent from Aron Cohen at his cigar store in Santa Cruz, where James Phelan Sr. had his summer home and where young Jimmie spent his summers under the parental roof.
Aron Cohen to James Phelan Sr.: I observe, Mr. Phelan, that you are always satisfied with a nickel cigar while your son Jimmie buys nothing less than dollar cigars. How is that?"
Mr. Phelan: "That is easily explained, Jimmie has a rich father and I have not." DUNCAN MCPHERSON
Santa Cruz, Calif.
Would any other oldtime California tobacconists care to enlarge the Phelan cigar legend?—ED. Mrs. Landon's Harp String