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TIME erred in reporting that Nominee Bryan met Nominee McKinley in 1896. Nominee McKinley stuck to his famed front porch at Canton, Ohio throughout the campaign.—ED.
Publicity Sufferers
Sirs:
Last week your radio program gave this section of the country some very unfavorable publicity on the forest fire situation. While there were a few fires in isolated areas, most of them under control, one would have gotten the impression that the whole northeastern Minnesota was in flames. We have received quite a number of letters from prospective visitors canceling their trips to this section of the State because of the sensational newspaper headlines and the radio programs exaggerating the fires in this part of the country. . . .
I do not know of any resorts in the entire northeastern Minnesota, that were harmed by the fires, but I believe all of them suffered through the untrue and exaggerated publicity that was given the fires.
We, here at Ely, did not have any fires within 50 miles of our resorts that gave us any concern whatever. The few small spot fires that burned probably an acre or two of land were put out by the Forest Service Rangers before we had heard or knew of them.
RAY HOEFLER
Secretary
Ely Commercial Club, Ely, Minn.
Ancient Sniffer
Sirs:
"Garlic breath" (TIME, Aug. 17) reminds me of an interesting bit in the saga of Saint Olaf. Just before the battle of Stiklestad the King advised a good woman who lived hard by to make her house ready to receive the wounded.
Among other details of how a field hospital was run in the year 1030, the saga tells that she cooked a pot of onion soup and made those patients that had body wounds swallow some of it, so that by sniffing at the orifice she could determine whether or not she had to deal with a "hollow" wound.
GEORGE D. CURTIS
Lakeside, Calif.
Honey
Sirs:
When bestowing kudos on your head writers don't pass up the guy who produced "Baby Beeper" (TIME, Aug. 17).
It's a honey.
LEN DUGGAN
West Springfield, Mass.
Fantastic
Sirs:
After reading the erroneous statements in the metropolitan sensational press about the behavior of people at the Rainey Bethea hanging, for his fiendish assault on and murder of one of Kentucky's loveliest gentlewomen, I had looked forward to receiving TIME in the belief that at least one publication outside of the county in which the rapist-killer was executed, would tell the story accurately.
In your second paragraph [TIME, Aug. 24] you say Sheriff Florence Thompson was appointed by Governor Chandler, to succeed her husband after his death. In Kentucky, vacancies caused by the death, resignation or removal of county officials are filled by appointment by the county judge. Daviess County's Judge James Wilson appointed Mrs. Thompson sheriff.
As to the merrymakers on the street, the crowd yipping for the Negro at 5 o'clock, the alleged scramble for the death hood, the people of Owensboro are asking why the cameras that were busy recording all activity about the scaffold and on it, can give the thrill-writers nothing with which to back up their fantastic yarns.
LAWRENCE W. HAGER Publisher
Messenger and Inquirer
Owensboro, Ky.