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Lieutenant MacArthur was not a military observer at all nor at the battle of Mukden. The American observer of that name was his father, Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, and that fine old Civil War Veteran did not charge with the Japanese soldiers on that occasion. Lieut. Douglas MacArthur was on duty at San Francisco when that battle was fought and the whole statement is erroneous.
2) "He was graduated first in his class ami First Captain of the Cadet Corps, which is all you can do at West Point, a record matching those of John Joseph Pershing and Charles Pelot Summerall."
Cadet MacArthur did graduate first in his class but why drag in Summerall who graduated No. 20 and Pershing who graduated No. 30 in his class!
W. Winans
Washington, D. C.
TIME divides the points with Reader Winans. 1) Lieutenant MacArthur was aide-de-camp to his father at Mukden, performed as TIME said. 2) TIME'S error.
—ED.
Rogers' Reading
Sirs:
On March 24 I attended a theatre in Wooster and saw Will Rogers reading TIME in Life Begins at 40. Has anyone else noticed it?
M. SHEPPARD
Shreve, Ohio
Many another noticed, reported.—ED.
Credit
Sirs:
Credit where credit is due.
From an obscure item in your Miscellany department I concocted a fiction story which recently sold to Detective Fiction, a Munsey weekly publication.
The check received for the yarn, if handed to Roy Larsen. would keep me in good standing with your circulation department for some years to come. Hence reading TIME is a damn good investment for a writer.
Here's for a bigger and better Miscellany column—and thanks.
JACK BEATER
Fort Myers, Fla.
Color Snapshots
Sirs:
In your March 18 issue of TIME you published an article regarding our product — Dufaycolor film, and while we received many favorable comments and much publicity from this article there are several discrepancies which have proved quite embarrassing.
1) The statement was made that we were now ready to supply paper prints, whereas in the interview we stated that we expect to be able to supply paper prints in the near future, which you will realize is quite different when viewed 'from the reader's standpoint.
2) In using the name of Defender Photo Supply Co. you listed them as a subsidiary of Du Pont Film Manufacturing Corp. ... Defender Photo Supply Co. is an independent company having no connection with any other photographic manufacturing company. . . .
WALTER H. CARSON
Vice President Dufaycolor, Inc. New York City
1) TIME said '"soon." not "now."
2) Apologies.—ED.
Adam to Sapp
Sirs:
In the March 11 issue of TIME under Miscellany, I noticed an article about Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger of Columbus, Ohio, claiming descent from Adam.