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Congratulations on your plain-spoken and strictly TIME-worthy Havelock Ellis article (TIME. March 9). We will stop publishing our sexeducational magazine as useless if you continue along these lines.
EDWARD L. KEATING
Editor
Married Happiness Magazine
Mount Morris, Ill.
Father & Son
Sirs:
Regarding the bonus:
My father as a boy of 18 enlisted for and served nine months in the middle of the Civil War. He came out entirely unharmed in any way. From the time when a pension was granted to all veterans until his death he received from the Government about $3,000. After his death my stepmother, 23 years younger than he, received her widow's pension of $30 a month, a total of almost $3,000 more. About $6,000 for nine months of service!
I served for about four months as a first lieutenant in the World War. I suppose that I may expect my co-veterans to demand in due course that I be paid about $2,700 for my adventure.
Meanwhile my taxes, of course, are still helping to pay the Government for my father's pension.
GUSTAVUS SWIFT PAINE
New York City
Educators' Bartenders
Sirs:
Frankly delighted at mention of my name in TIME, March 9, nevertheless I must blushingly decline any reputation for acumen, as evidenced by my purported action in adding two extra bartenders for the convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, held in the St. Louis Auditorium in February.
My knowledge of bartenders is nonprofessional, or perhaps it might be described as semiprofessional. I am no hand at guessing how many drink dispensers are required for a given event. Just so there is one conveniently at hand for my own personal needs I am satisfied.
It is true that the concessionaire who operates in the St. Louis Auditorium did a bigger restaurant business during the National Education Association Convention than the American Legion Convention but this business included food as well as drink. Any extra help that he put on for the N. E. A. gathering was employed, it was my observation, in dispensing chocolate malted milks, orange flips, lemonades, root beer and other such concoctions.
Would appreciate your printing this explanation. I value the friendship of bartenders but do not wish to be anathema to superintendents.
JAMES E. DARST
Manager
The Municipal Auditorium and Community Center
St. Louis, Mo.
Sirs:
... As to liquor consumption at the auditorium bar, you fail to mention there were several hundred commercial exhibits on the same floor level, with over a thousand salesmen representing many firms selling school supplies and equipment. I was constantly mingling with schoolmen and failed to notice at anytime a colleague with symptoms of indulgence. At least the outward manifestation was not comparable to the American Legion convention you mention. . . .
HARRY DAVIDSON
Superintendent
Cannelton City Schools
Cannelton, Ind.
If schoolmen let salesmen do all the hard-drinking at the St. Louis auditorium bar during the N. E. A. convention, TIME stands corrected. — ED.
Credit for Competence
Sirs: