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Gore he was supported by the Supreme Court, which held that this same exemption applied to the President. In Article II, Section I, there is a similar clause which states that the "President shall . . . receive ... a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected." Will you please explain the grounds for your item on the President's income tax?
EUGENE SHELLEY Collegeville, Pa.
Section 22 of the Revenue Act of 1932 taxes the Federal salaries of Presidents and judges. As a result of Evans v. Gore, however, Federal judges appointed before 1932 are not taxed on salaries received from the Government.—ED.
No Jimplecute
Sirs:
No Jimplecute, please [TIME, April 12].
The "cute" would be fatal to a serious word and "jimple" is simply senseless.
The strength and virility of the American language comes quite as much from the aptness of its native words as from the readiness with which we adopt them. Our best Americanisms, i.e. those most vivid and descriptive, indicate their meaning without definition. Roughneck, for instance, or cloudburst or talented (the English tore their hair over that one, but they use it now) or spellbinder. . . .
ELIZABETH HUGHES Tulsa, Okla.
Sirs:
I'hooey to "the American genius for making his language" with such a word as "Jimplecute."
JOHN S. R. JAMES Dallas, Tex.
"Jimplecute?"—NO!
Emphatically, A. PARKS New Haven, Conn.
Magazines to Sea
Sirs:
Lucky are the people ashore who, when their work is done, can seek recreation in a restful change. Lucky are they who have the movies, the theater, the fights, the hockey games and other amusements to take their minds off the troubles of the business day. I speak not of them. I do, however, raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below to our rooms or to fo'c'sles bare and uninviting. Were it not for the books and magazines placed aboard by the American Merchant Marine Library Association we would indeed be in a bad way.
Many times the writer has stood in the wing of the bridge with his oilskins drawn tightly about him, held securely by a "body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable quarters.
TIME keeps many a seaman from being left in the lurch about what the world is doing, and FORTUNE is so damned fascinating that the educational articles are fed to us with the sugar coated pill of entertainment. An easy pill for all hands to swallow.