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Through our festival we have tried to sweeten the breaths of the Nation's millions of onion eaters by suggesting that they eat the sweetest onions in the world—North Texas Bermudas grown on North Texas' black, waxy soil.
Prior to July 1, visitors at the Texas Centennial Exposition at Dallas received no onions on their hamburgers. Through our efforts visitors may now have their onions on their hamburgers, and sweet onions, at that.
G. EDWARD BOLGER
President
Junior Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Farmersville, Tex.
Admirable
Sirs:
A most admirable article is the one under Medicine entitled "Great Pox" in the Oct. 26 issue of TIME. I hope that your newsmagazine can help to break down the antiquated and false modesty sort of resistance offered by the press and radio against disseminating knowledge regarding syphilis and venereal diseases. Dr. Parran is right.
Facts are facts whether they are medical or industrial and they should be so treated. Much education of the general public and high-school students in particular, is needed regarding sex matters and venereal diseases. Keep up the good work and perhaps something may ultimately be accomplished.
If our cattle or hogs were infected with what not, the Government, to stamp out the disease, would turn every farm upside down at what cost the Lord only knows.
Your popular discussion is splendid. I congratulate TIME for its courage.
DORSEY BRANNAN— Morgantown, W. Va.
Civilian Employe
Sirs:
Permit me to thank you for the publicity given my letter in the Oct. 19 issue of TIME relative to the eligibility of President Roosevelt for membership in the American Legion. Your comments on my letter definitely establish the fact that President Roosevelt is or has been a member of three American Legion Posts but passes lightly on his eligibility by stating: "every Legion post is the final judge of its members' eligibility." Section 2, Article IV of the Constitution of the American Legion, Department of Pennsylvania states: "Each Post shall be the judge of the qualifications of its members." This has always been construed to mean that the Post can qualify that its members must be former members of the Navy if a Naval Post, former Marines if a Marine Post, advertising men if in an Advertising Men's Post, etc., and also gives the Post the right to deny original membership to any ex-service man it does not want in its organization. It does not, however, give the Post the right to say who is or is not eligible for membership in the American Legion. That is clearly set forth in Article IV, section 1 of our National Constitution which states that, "Any person shall be eligible for membership in The American Legion who was regularly enlisted, drafted, or inducted or commissioned and who was accepted for and assigned to active duty in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States." The Constitution of the U. S. provides that the heads of the War and Navy Departments must be civilians and we think we properly identify Mr. Roosevelt as a former civilian employe of the Navy. . . . PAUL B. DAGUE
Past Dept. Vice-Commander Department of Pennsylvania The American Legion Downington, Pa.