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To Harper's Bazaar and its able Editor, Mrs. Carmel Snow, TIME's apology for an inadvertent slight.—ED.
Rugged Countenance Sirs:
Thanks a lot for the good notice of my book, Cruise of the Conrad [TIME, April 12]. But the callow lad in the photograph, mixed up with the piece of rope and no shirt on, was not I but
Cadet Peter Henley, from New Zealand. Here with my homely and rugged countenance for your files, if you want it: doggone it, I've got a shirt.
ALAN VILLIERS Brooklyn, N. Y.
No Taggers
Sirs: Being a "pure Chillicothean," I must rear my provincial head in protest at your comment on Clyde Beatty's Ross County accent (TIME, March 29, p. 46). All day I have been going around pronouncing "tiger" to all my friends; according to report, there hasn't been a "tagger" in the lot. Where COULD Beatty have gotten his? We admit that we put a "y" in "cyow," and say "up town" to the Easterner's "down town" but it takes the Mills Brothers from up Miami County way to flatten out "tiger," and they get paid for it. ...
LOUISE S. BERGMAN Cincinnati, Ohio
Pure Chillicothe
Sirs:
In your issue of March 29 (p. 46) I note that Clyde speaks pure Raymond Chillicothe Beatty (a "was tiger is born a in Ohio 'tagger')." and My man, calls husband, a also tiger a a native of "tagger" Ohio, and and has a other college—what seem to me— speech idiosyncrasies. These are the occasion of much good-natured family, vowels banter. (e.g. They "begen" consist for chiefly begin, in "min" for substitutions of men, "limon"for lemon and "ind" for end). Is this "pure Chillicothe" or just sloppy enunciation? ; What are the general characteristics of this provincial parlance? My husband hopes he has found a defense against my raillery.
HELEN E. BENNER Mrs. Rol Benner Occidental College Los Angeles, Calif.
TIME did not intend "pure Chillicothe" to be taken as a formal linguistic classification. However, Reader Benner's ear has caught the chief characteristics of Chillicothe and Ohio River Valley speech.
Further light on sectional pronunciations in the U. S. will be shed next winter when Brown University's Hans Kurath publishes the first volume of his comprehensive Linguistic Atlas.— ED.
President's Tax Sirs: In a footnote on p. 13 of TIME, March 22, it is stated that the President's income tax on his $75,000 salary is $18,779.
However, in Article III, Section I of the Constitution there is a clause to the effect that "Judges . . . shall . . . receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Under this clause a Federal Judge, Evans, sought exemption from income tax payments, and in Evans v.