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Sirs: No "pink-faced graduate of Amherst College" (TIME, June 22), Quebec's new Premier J. Adelard Godbout is a B.Sc. of École d'Agriculture de Ste. Anne in Quebec and a former graduate student (1919—22) at Massachusetts State College. Ours is, according to their historians, the daughter of Amherst College and we, as New Englanders, may well be proud of that, but the two schools are separated by the length of the village of Amherst and a number of other differences.
WILLIAM L. DORAN
Secretary
Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College Amherst, Mass.
Ingersoll's Ingersolls
Sirs:
Striking proof that TIME'S advertising and news staffs are well-isolated from each other is furnished by the bad slip under Business, TIME, June 15, p. 66. The E. Ingraham Co. does not manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made the dollar famous." The watches were manufactured for the Ingersoll brothers by Waterbury Clock Co. During the post-War depression the Ingersolls became over-extended on short-term loans, their partnership went through bankruptcy and the Waterbury company took over their business. Now both watches and clocks are marketed under the Ingersoll name. . . .
PHILIP SALISBURY
New York City
Very Nice Story
Sirs:
May I take this occasion to thank you sincerely for the very nice story [''Publishing Church"] of the annual meeting at The Mother Church in Boston, carried in TIME, June 22. The data is well-selected and comprehensive. I am sure that this story will create a profound and widespread appreciation in all parts of the world.
WILLIAM WALLACE PORTER
Christian Science Committee on Publication New York City
Sirs:
It is not my custom nor inclination to remonstrate with periodical editors upon the policies of their magazines but I cannot overlook one of the articles in TIME, June 22. I refer to the one entitled "Publishing Church."
Merely from a selfish standpoint, one wonders at TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries. . . .
At the expiration of our present subscription, please consider that we do not wish to renew TIME subscription.
HELEN BUTLER BLANDING
Syracuse, N. Y.
Rich Blum