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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defect: Take issue of TIME, March 14, pp. 38 & 39, heading BOOKS and THE CREAM. "All the books here advertised are good." "No room in TIME for the second-rate." Yet under "Cream of this season's literature" you have as Fiction, Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis as the second book in the list. But on p. 38 under heading of "Bible Boar" you have a scathing criticism of the book in nearly four columns. . . . Such a book in any common use of the word is not "good" and should not be considered or advertised as "Cream." Such contradictions...
Subscriber Smith's point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
...will prophesy that by the year 1935 the Negro death rate will equal the birth rate and from then on the decrease toward extinction will be absolute. And this process will be greatly hastened by the Negro's northward migrations, by industrial competition and by being scattered all over the country...
...Johns Hopkins University, Charles K. Edmunds, to Shanghai reporters that during a recent visit to Canton he formally relinquished control of the historic Canton Christian College to the Nationalists. "I personally welcome the transfer," said Mr. Edmunds. "The Chinese attitude is wholesome, and the Nationalist movement, at any rate in Canton, [where it originated] is promising"; 3) announcement at New Haven, Conn., by the trustees of Yale-In-China that Dr. Edward H. Hume, President of this U. S.-financed Chinese college at Changsha, has resigned and will be replaced as soon as possible by a Chinese...
...industrialist, Henry Ford has made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...