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Sirs: It is not that I consider it criminal for a Jew to be rich or "moneyed," as you might put it. I am, in fact, so broad-minded that even rich Gentiles are all right with me. Unlike them, I find no especially negative connotation in the wealth-designating adjective when applied to a member of my race. But "this rich old Jew," Léon Blum (TIME, May 18) just isn't rich, my dear TIMEditors, and I happen to know it. You might have known it, too, if you took more pains checking up on certain legends circulated by your fellow newsmongers, commentators and what have you! M. Blum was, not is, rich. So, please, stop passing on the— MAURICE WINOGRAD
New York City
Since he recently lost the major portion of his inherited fortune in an attempt to save his three brothers' silk business. France's Socialist Premier Leon Blum is indeed no longer "rich." will not be so designated by TIME in future.—ED. "We Have the Farm" Sirs:
In your issue of June 8, you made the erroneous statement that the World's Largest Spinach Farm was located at Carrizo Springs, Tex. . . .
In your issue of June 22 you printed a letter from Mr. Fred LeCrone, Zavala County Agent, "correcting" the information. LeCrone says that the farm is "north of Crystal City." It is, about 25 miles. It is 20 miles south of Uvalde, the home of John N. Garner, too. It is also 47 miles east of Eagle Pass, an important town on the Mexican border, and 5° miles west of Pearsall, the home of the Winter Garden Fair, all of which locates this 4,000-acre spinach farm at La Pryor, Tex.
However, let's forget it. Others may have the publicity; we have the farm. Incidentally, this farm supports one person for each seven acres of spinach.
W. D. CORNETT
La Pryor, Tex.