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...have read with interest, a brief paragraph in your issue of July 13, Page 17. I graduated from the City Editor's desk into the ministry. I know every managing editor in New York City...
...would have been impossible to raise the money for Broadway Temple without the help of the newspapers, and I have rarely been mistreated or misquoted by them. I confess therefore that I was chagrined to read the paragraph in your issue in which you gave accredited place to some reporter's description of the band concert which we gave in the street following the Ground Breaking for the Broadway Temple. The two programs were in no way related. After treating the whole program as a joke, you completed the article by saying...
...Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph for all his bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled...
...have been a reader of your paper since the early numbers and have been recommending it to my friends, but your issue of June 1 has a paragraph that you ought to be ashame...
...hope this may prove to be the work of some raw reporter and that you are gentlemen enough to apologize for it. I notice you do not "Point with Pride" to this paragraph...