(4 of 6)
You give the price of gold as $20.67183462 per five ounces. This is certainly a bad mistake since the price of gold is $20.67-plus per troy ounce and this of course is for pure gold. The settling price for gold by smelters is frequently considerably less due to the fact that pure gold does not exist in nature. . . .
H. A. WAGNER President
American Association of Engineers
Chicago, Ill.
Fosdicks
Sirs: "Pop" Frank S. Fosdick benign, sage, well-loved father of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick—"Timalysed" in your issue of Oct. 6, was for years (28) principal of Hasten Park High School {Continued on p. 12) in Buffalo. He showed many an adolescent striveling the way to learn, to live, to attain. . . . Never was "Pop" Fosdick, Superintendent of the Buffalo Schools, as you state erroneously on p. 71. N. B. I believe his father held the office of Superintendent of Schools for a time.
Thousands in Buffalo, and wherever Masten graduates are, are glad he was their principal, not a more distant superintendent.
Masten Park is now the Fosdick-Masten High School of Buffalo in memory of this remarkable father at whose feet thousands of youngsters sat, inspired, as now do thousands at the feet of his remarkable son.
IRVIN H. HIMMELE
Buffalo, N. Y.
TIME erred. Dr. Fosdick's father's father was onetime Superintendent of Schools in Buffalo.—ED.
Two Jurists
Sirs:
On p. 17 of your Oct. 6 issue you build for me a reputation based on the record of Hon. Wallace McCamant of Portland, Ore. I know that both he and I would feel more comfortable resting on our own foundations.
KENNETH MACKINTOSH
Washington, D. C.
Kenneth Mackintosh was born in Seattle in 1875, graduated from Stanford University in the same class ('95) with Herbert Clark Hoover. In 1918 he was named as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Washington, became its chief justice in 1927. An active Republican, he was nominated for the Senate in 1928, was defeated by Democratic Senator Clarence C. Dill. In 1929 he resigned from the bench to accept appointment by President Hoover as a National Law Enforcement Commissioner.
Wallace McCamant was born at Hollidaysburg, Pa. in 1867, graduated from Lafayette College, removed to Portland, Ore. where he practiced law. For 23 years he served as master in chancery for the U. S. District Court. For 17 months he was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon. An active Republican, he attended as a delegate the National Conventions of 1896, 1900, 1920. At the last he began a political feud with Senator Hiram Johnson by nominating Calvin Coolidge for the Vice Presidency. In 1925 President Coolidge nominated him for the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the Senate refused to confirm the nomination.
These two were inextricably confused by TIME when reporting Law Enforcement Commissioner Mackintosh's plea that the Commission "go to the guts of this whole Prohibition Question." TIME, having reprimanded its National Affairs Editor, gladly returns each Jurist to his own foundation, with apologies.—ED.
Again, Wilshire
Sirs: