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We notice in TIME, March 16, in connection with Russia, Stalin and Roy Howard that "Stalin is the Russian word for steel."
Seriously we have always understood it was the Russian word for steal.
Will you check your information again and correct us if we are wrong.
CHELSEA BAILEY
Manager
The Union Central Life Insurance Co. Agency Zanesville, Ohio
His aptitude for cracking Capitalist safes before the 1917 Revolution was but one reason that his colleagues in the Bolshevist underground organization called tough, resilient Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili "Stalin" (Steel).—ED,
Chaldean Catholics
Sirs:
Your account of the arrival of Rev. Francis Thomay in Chicago (TIME, March 23) was TIME-worthy, but the statement that ''Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church in the U. S." may be subject to qualification.
At New Britain, Conn, is the Chaldean Mission attended by Rev. Sergius Sarmas, a Chaldean priest, resident of St. Thomas' Preparatory Seminary of Hartford.
Whether or not that mission has its own church I do not know, but in appreciation of your factual correctness I am sending this information for your files.
PAUL DAGGETT
Executive Secretary Cemetery Office The Diocese of St. Paul St. Paul, Minn.
New Britain's 2,000 Chaldean Catholics, whose mission was founded in 1917, hold services in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, have no definite plans for a church of their own.—ED.
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Sirs:
... I must take this occasion to observe that a great cross section of the American people read the very estimable publication TIME. I have heard from many Roman Catholics who saw the article in TIME who expressed a wish to do something toward the building of my church. I am told that Roman Catholics all over the country are very favorably disposed toward your magazine because of the fair manner in which you treat their religious news. Please accept my very best wishes for the continued success of your very interesting and valuable publication. May God bless you and the staff of TIME.
REV. FRANCIS THOMAY
Roman Catholic Chaldean Church Chicago, Ill.
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Pickers
Sirs:
In your March 23 issue, there appeared an article headed ''Program for Picker" which will undoubtedly create the impression among your readers that the cotton-producing South faces a chaotic labor problem due to the inventive genius of the Rust Brothers of Memphis, Term., who have invented a mechanical cotton picker.
This would be a fact if at this time there had been perfected a thoroughly practical cotton picker and production of same in the first season was sufficient to harvest an appreciable part of the cotton crop together with a distributing organization capable of throwing the machine on the market to skeptical farmers over night, but such is certainly not the case. . . .