Letters

Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published tn TIME.

Shrewd

Sirs:

I enjoy your magazine TIME very much. I am 12 years old and live in Davenport, Iowa. I find in your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, that an item entitled "Shrewd," the second item under the head of "Miscellany," is sort of funny. It is about a man that cheats a store proprietor out of a lot of money on a telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality it cost $67.60. I live in Davenport, Iowa, and asked the rate for a call from here to Charleston, S. C., and found it to be $2.70 the first three minutes and .90 for each minute after. Three from 41 is 38; 38 times .90 is 34.20; plus 2.70 for the first three minutes equals $36.90. I live farther from South Carolina than the man at Union City, N. J., and it cost him more than nearly twice as much, so there is something wrong with your item. It may seem funny for a 12-year boy to write and criticize, but I am interested in your magazine and look over the news carefully. (Answer soon.)

RICHARD WILSON

Davenport, Iowa.

Not There

Sirs:

I am reported by your valued paper to have been at the matinee of The Jazz Singer. May I beg enough space to say that I was not there, nor have I seen the play?

S. PARKES CADMAN, D. D.

Central Congregational Church Brooklyn, N. Y.

Garrulous

Sirs:

I have discovered why you call your paper TIME--because it takes such a long time for you to get to the point. The inclosed clipping will illustrate. I could send you a similar cutting out of every column.

Why do you prefer going around Robin Hood's barn every trip instead of in the front door?

M. A. INGRAVE

El Paso, Tex.

The clip was Vol. VII, No. 4, p. 22, col. 2, par. 1.--ED.

QU1Z

Sirs:

. . . Your new Quiz column reminds me of the famous quotation: "When a better news magazine is published, TIME will publish it."

JOSEPH YSMACH

Schenectady, N. Y.

Sirs:

... I write to urge continuance of the Quiz column. It teaches caution and affords diverting group entertainment.

E. J. DEMSON

Cleveland, Ohio

Sirs:

The Quiz makes TIME twice as valuable to me. I find it is just what I need to fix in my mind quickly and permanently the information I have gleaned in my perusal of the magazine. I congratulate you on the innovation, and thank you for the additional help and pleasure it gives me.

ROSWELL B. WHIDDEN

Chicago, Ill.

Sirs:

. . . There are a goodly percentage of TIME readers, naturally inclined to solve puzzles, rebuses, who would gloat over your Quiz. Another big percentage, denied sufficient time in their educational years to get what the Quiz practically supplies, would be able positively to lift themselves by their boot straps. Yet it seems to me (a three-score-and-ten-year man, generally placed in the all-round category) somehow out of place or not dovetailing in with your plan and scope. . . .

HAL B. FULLERTON

Medford, Long Island, N. Y.

Suggestion

Sirs :

Instead of saying: "To the White House for conference went six members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture" and "among them was not Mr. Norris of Nebraska," why not say: "Six members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture went to the White House for conference, and Mr. Norris of Nebraska was not among them" ?

O. E. TURPIN

Omaha, Neb.

100%

Sirs:

"Bad business"--refusing to publish the Haldeman-Julius advertising, Luther Burbank, Infidel. No more TIME for me. I am for 100% free press.

VICTOR E. SOUTHWORTH

Crawford, Col.

TIME is 100% free press--in its news columns. Its advertising columns are for sale--to those advertisers who, in the opinion of TIME'S managers, are "best business" for TIME and its readers.--ED.

Medical Education

Sirs: . . . My reason for writing this letter is to commend you on the publishing of medical subjects that should be of interest to everyone, and to answer a letter written by Mrs. H. S. Lanpher of Providence, R. I., and published in TIME, March 1, objecting to the publishing oi medical topics.

The average person knows too little about medicine. If the world is ever to erase cancer, tuberculosis, etc., from its list of terrible diseases, it will come about only through education--education of the people by articles in magazines, newspapers, and shouted from the housetops and by any other method by which the terrible results of such diseases may be brought before the people. Perhaps the lady does not have any friend who is suffering from the ravages of such diseases. If she has not she should get down on her knees and thank God for being so kind to her. . . . There is no guarantee that she herself might not be a victim of such a disease sometime. . . .

W. J. HUTCHISON JR., D.D.S.

Ambridge, Pa.

Sirs:

As one of the humble Aesculapides I ought not to object to the letter of Mrs. H. S. Lanpher criticizing your "long and detailed description of diseases" as "unwholesome for family consumption." It is precisely such an attitude that facilitates the spread of disease, and is not that to our advantage?

C. L. BOBBINS

(Medical Student)

New Haven, Conn.

Negress

Sirs :

Monday, Feb. 22, I received a letter from your office containing a post card, which you asked that I sign and mail back to your office and you would mail back to me 20 issues of TIME for $2.00. When I mailed the card I did so in good faith, because I thought your paper or magazine was a good one.

Monday night after mailing you the card I was handed a copy of TIME, Feb. 8, and my attention was called to an article in this particular issue. The article in question was your mention of the Colored Woman who recently was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the U. S. [Violette N. Anderson of Chicago]. And in mentioning her sex you described her as a Negress.

So we are asking you to cancel our subscription as we do not care for a paper of any kind who call the Women of the Colored Race a "NEGRESS." We are also calling the attention of this article to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Again we are asking that you do not send us a copy of your paper, we do not want it.

D. C. CHISOLM

Wichita, Kan.