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He screams that labor is pummeling small shareholders. Let him remember that the s.s. has too long loved laissez faire, too dutifully sent boyish proxies to do a man's job, too complacently made a religion of benignity.
The Autocrats of the Directors' Tables have traditionally got theirs. . . . Labor didn't sit on its tail—its mouth watering for he boss's yachts and first editions—and bamboozle itself that some day, somehow, a goose would automatically lay golden eggs. . . .
TOM PAYNE
Wilmette, Ill.
No Oversights
Sirs:
Just finished reading your write-up of the T.P. & W.R.R. affair in the Feb. 18 issue. A few things you overlook.
That railroad belongs to Mr. McNear. It is his property, just as your firm owns typewriters and office equipment. He can do what he likes with it. If he chooses to run a train that he owns on tracks that he owns—that is his business and not the business of anyone else.
When, those agitators ran their autos beside the train they were asking for trouble. They got it. They have only themselves to thank for it. There is no doubt that if the auto drivers could have drawn their guns more quickly, they would have fired. The train crew fired to protect themselves, and in doing that were perfectly justified. . . .
JOHN KELLOGG
Oak Park, Ill.
¶ And if TIME, annoyed by one of its critics, dropped a typewriter on him from the 29th floor and killed him . . .?—ED.
Unique Island
Sirs:
The article relative to King John of Kusaie Island in the Feb. 18 issue of TIME brings to mind the fact that those people are now governing themselves for the first time in 70 years or more.
On Jan. 9, I withdrew all Naval Military Government personnel from the island, after . . . the first election held in 35 years and the first in the history of the island in which woman suffrage was allowed. . . .
Kusaie is the only place in the world that I know of where the people are so honest you can allow the candidates to count the votes . . . and be sure of a square count.
JAMES T. WELSH
Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.
Former Naval Military
Government Officer
Kusaie Island
Steubenville, Ohio
Sacks & Doodles
Sirs:
. . . In TIME's Feb. 25 issue the art editor does a bang-up job of Hearst-style reporting. I refer to the article on the Chicago Art Institute and Manhattan Metropolitan Museum shows of drawings . . . in which your editor proceeds to dish out . . . "a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle of Raphael).". . . All very funny as reporting, but more accuracy and intelligent comparisons, rather than clever verbalisms, would be more fitting to TIME's reputation. . . .
DAVID GREEN
Altadena, Calif.
¶ Can TIME'S readers supply better comparisons? Gratefully received.—ED.
Of Ugliness & Henry Miller
Sirs: