BACK ISSUES

Braving the risk of an accusation of nagging its readers, The Review repeats a request already made several times on this page. It is addressed to all those who possess early numbers of our bulletin, but who have no desire to maintain a permanent file.

Our distributable supply of the first issues, particularly Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (July, August and September, 1938), was exhausted many months ago. There also is a scarcity of Vol. II, No. 1 (January, 1939). We have a waiting list of a good many university, state and public libraries which lack those numbers and we feel that such repositories should receive special consideration because of the far-reaching services they perform.

The Superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, sent to us this month a series of duplicate issues found inn his file. Requested numbers were transferred immediately to Cornell University, which had priority on the waiting list. We are aware that it is Indian-giving, but we should welcome similar returns from other parks, monuments and individuals in all cases which duplicate or unwanted early issues are available.

TRADE

In the East it is "trade last"; in the Deepest South it is "last-go trade". Both mean: "You report something good on me, because I've just heard a Number Oner on you". It is a handy device for the compliment-starved, and The Review, ever human, has recourse to it this month as a result of a commendatory note on John I. Neasmith which arrived by telegram:

"ARTICLE BY NEASMITH IM JUST AN IDLE SUMMER CAMP IS EXCELLENT. DESIRE PLACE IDEA EXPRESSED BEFORE 4,200 CAMP DIRECTOR READERS OF CAMPING WORLD MAGAZINE. CAN YOU GIVE PERMISSION FOR REPRINTING WITH FULL CREDIT? WANT. TO INCLUDE IN CURRENT ISSUE. WIRE REPLY.

L. NOEL BOOTH, EDITOR."

Editor Booth had telegraphic reference to Mr. Neasmith's article in last month's Review. It now is incumbent upon Mr. Neasmith to extend his external auditory apparatus to maximum length to pick up a "last-go" for The Review.

ACHIEVEMENT

One of The Review's visitors this month was a modest gentleman who is destined to add materially to the miscellaneous contributions which the Service has made to America's knowledge of itself. He was Joseph S. Hall, Columbia University English Fellow and Service Collaborator.

In his luggage Mr. Hall had some 140 double-disc aluminum or acetate recordings of the speech of about 100 older residents of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All were made from June of last year up to the first few days of this month. There are interviews, anecdotes, kitchen and moonshine recipes, bear hunts, superstitions, square dances and songs and ballads. Aside from its great values in the somewhat technical field of linguistics, Mr. Hall's collection offers a precious by-product which should be of lasting importance in the interesting study of Southern Appalachian folklore.

H. R. A.

OUR BOUQUET CORNER

I desire to take this occasion to compliment you upon the excellent article which appears in the last issue of The Regional Review by Roy Edgar Appleman, headed "The Star Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry."

Each one of our members, I am certain, would be very much interested if he could read this article concerning the origin of the National Anthem. Our Society celebrated the 125th anniversary of the writing of the poem last September, so that the time is appropriate for the article referred to. Would it be possible for you to mail a copy to the membership of the General Society of the War of 1812? . . .

May I again express the sentiment that the work [of the National Park Service] is of distinct and immeasurable value to the public welfare.

MILO FREDERICK McALPIN,
Secretary General,
General Society
of the War of 1812.

New York City.

[The Review plans to reissue Mr. Appleman' s article.]

ANOTHER FLOWER

Recently my attention was called to the article in The Regional Review published by you in June, 1939, entitled "Stolen Waters --- in Tennessee." This article is by Harry S. Ladd. . .

I have been very much struck by the presentation of the subject I live on Lookout Mountain, and have lived here in Chattanooga all my life. The way Mr. Ladd handles what might easily be handled in a very dry way is most unusual and effective.

I ran across this article when securing data to support a presentation of an application for a radio station in Chattanooga. . . .

JOHN A. CHAMBLISS,
Sizer, Chambliss
& Kefauver.

Chattanooga.

THANK YOU

Region One of the National Park Service deserves high praise for its scholarly and attractive magazine, The Regional Review. You are making a real contribution to history, both from the scholarly and the popular standpoint.

LESTER J. CAPPON,
Archivist,
University of Virginia.

Charlottesville.

GET ALONG LITTLE DOGGEREL

Your editorial on telepathic transmission of kitchen doggerel has been duly noted. Such matter is transmitted over the private telegraph wires of various corporations during lulls in business. It is disseminated with the speed of light and, believe me, that's fast.

H. C. DIETZER,
Project Superintendent,
Magnolia State Park.

Ocean Springs,
Mississippi.

[Professor Michelson's determination of the velocity of light is 299,853,000 meters a second, a good racking gait, but The Review doubts that even backyard poesy is amenable to the laws of physics.]