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Sirs:

In your letter column--July 4--G. H. Greene and J. W. Vander refer to TIME's orange border as "red." It is orange, isn't it-- or am I color blind ? HARRIET INGERSOLL Saint Paul, Minn. The border is red. But the red ink is printed over yellow. Exposure to much dampness or sun light would fade it orange. How to say where orange ends, where red begins ? --ED. "Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down at the writing table and abused the stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further bears out my theory. The distinguished habitues of the Club doubtless call him "Dilly dow" for short. I can see him now in gorgeous yellow stockings with silver buckles on his shiny shoon. JOSEPH WILSON COCHRAN Pastor The American Church of Paris Paris, France Cramp v. Cunningham

Sirs:

I note with interest your article concerning Dr. Cunningham's oxygen treatment and the opinion of Director Cramp of the American Medical Association [TIME, July 4]. Having been a patient of Dr. Cunning ham's two years ago it fairly makes me boil to read the statement of Dr. Cramp.

I developed a severe case of diabetes. Starvation diet, injections of insulin be fore each tiny installment of food with a dark future and the sure to follow detrimental effects from the use of insulin.

Without hope I decided to disregard the advice of doctors of the type of Dr. Cramp and went to Dr. Cunningham with the results that in two weeks I was off insulin and on an increased diet and today am a healthy man eating what I want and am no exception to the rule.

For Dr. Cramp to say that Dr. Cunningham's statements are unsupported is, to say the least, misleading. Results count and I am only one of many who are alive today through Dr. Cunningham's treatment and we all feel that it is a shame that there are those who condemn without investigation, and thus discourage those with so-called hopeless diseases who might be cured or greatly benefited.

ARTHUR G. CHASE South Pasadena, Calif. In the Air

Sirs:

Flying over the newly inaugurated "ER Express" Air Route from Cincinnati to Louisville, was not a very tedious trip, as is the same journey by bus.

I did, however, read TIME while flying down, and found it just as enjoyable in the air, as on the ground.

Leaving Cincinnati at 7:45 (Eastern time) and arriving in Louisville at 7:40 p. m. (Central time) did not allow me much time for reading. However, what I did read, I enjoyed, as I always do. . . .

W. HOLZMAN Cincinnati, Ohio Coons

Sirs:

I have been a subscriber of "TIME" since the beginning of "TIME" and I dislike very much to enter the ranks of the disgruntled, for I have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls, Tex. Son Tries

Sirs:

Inclosed $8 to continue my subscription two years. TIME is indispensable to me, a clergyman. Each week my son ( 17 ) tries to get it first. I usually read RELIGION, SCIENCE, MISCELLANY, then begin at the front cover and go through. I prefer to do so at one sitting. It is exhilarating, giving me the sense of having seen the living, pulsating processes of history in the making.

Your opening paragraph under RELIGION is a gem this week (July 11). No denominational paper dares do what you do under that heading: tell all the truth. I wish you could double or treble the amount of space you give. Hypocrisy, cant, superstition are timid of facts. There is no fear for faith in truth.

I congratulate you in making so few mistakes. Your CINEMA reporter puts his own ending on Captain Salvation however, this week [TIME, July 11] I heartily favor the revision of the Calendar as suggested June 27 and in, a letter this week. It is about time the modern businessman broke away from the thralldom of medieval ecclesiasticism.

J. CALEB JUSTICE Minister Union Congregational Church Braintree, Mass. Calendar Reform

Sirs:

Noticing Subscriber Mitchell's letter in TIME, July 11, and instructions to "comment, pro and con," I am sending in my voice as an emphatic No.

Cotsworth-Eastman proposed calendar [TIME, June 27] would produce hopeless confusion in rearrangement of dates, would make obsolete all present dating machines and apparatus containing such. Another objection, important in eyes of hard-worked businessmen: would give them three (or two) days less summer vacation.

Let present calendar remain. JOHN D. HERSEY Bridgeport, Conn. Yoicksl

Sirs:

TIME has all the news fit to read. Its impersonality is subtle and fiendish, making even the doings of feminine literary porers fit to read. Without any party except that of a keen but clandestine liberalism, if that is a party, TIME has even its cover read, if that is a joke (look at your "she reigns but does not pour"). The review column is now a bit shaky; earlier reviews, where you savagely stuck to essentials, reported the story of each book, were better, conformed beautifully to TIME's policy. Actually, as a work of art (since you do go after the ice cream, as well as the meat), TIME rivaled the Otzy y Dyety of Turgeniev. I mean, of course, interest, impersonality, total absence of the conventional party feeling, added to arbitrarily ordered handling of human material. Your sense of the apropos could be improved; for, while that Balzac anecdote was new to me, who boast my knowledge of his works at least, still, right there you missed the more closely connected anecdote about Daudet's murdered son, a splendid young poet whose short life would have made a more picturesque footnote.

As to the letters you print ! It is worth being among them to reveal that they are infinitely better than Americana or the advertising section of the Saturday Evening Post. Of course one really doesn't care a hoot about your awful cover, or your late proposed checker column; or the other stock subjects ; your red-blooded American or Americanne makes the most naive spectacle of himself when he essays literature via his subscription to TIME. Therefore I and my friends, grateful, hon est, Long give a may it trio of wave! tremulant yoicks for TIME. N. STERN HART New York, N. Y. Top Head

In TIME, Aug. 16, 1926, you printed on the first page a picture of me, of which I should very much like to have the original, as a contribution to self complacency. as It a gave me contribution the to top self head com of Walter Scott, and the chin of Charles Dana Gibson, instead of a flat head and really George Harvey's chin which is what I really have. Have you got that original, or has the artist got it? Could I buy it, for how much? I should write direct to the artist, but cannot quite make his signature. A. BRISBANE New York Evening Journal New York, N. Y. Editor Brisbane's desire has been communicated to Artist S. J. Woolf, vacationing in Europe. Artist Woolf's prices range from $50 to $500 --ED.

U. S. Telephones

Can you not mention telephone service a la Scandanavia without pert remarks about ours [TIME, July 4] ? "Thank You" makes possible faster service Calls are no less accurately completed, as one hears the operator give the number to the called exchange. Opportunity for correction is there given. "Thank You" saves telephone users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that good and sufficient scientific reasons exist for our present types of telephones? Stationary and desk telephones are especially advantageous for long distance talking. Efficient long distance telephoning is far ahead in America. Telephone people are so busy giving us the best telephone service that the world affords--and constantly bettering that--that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash

Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume. K. DAHLBERG Coral Gables, Fla. Mention

Sirs: Your column of course always gets special attention by us in the business of education. The article on "Kudos in last issue [TIME, June 27] made us wish for a mention for we give honorary degrees also. . . .

C. PERCY POWELL (Original Subscriber) The Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, N. C. Kudos bestowed by the University of North Carolina last month: LL.D.'s on Federal Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte, N. C.; on State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen, and Alfred M. Scales, wealthy Greens boro, N. C., businessman; Sc. D. on Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute, Manhattan ; D. D. on Bishop Thomas C. Darst of the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Diocese.--ED. Omitted

Sirs: I wish to call to your attention a couple things you omitted in TIME, July 4. Under new presidents you mentioned our neighboring institution, Oberlin, but over looked the fact that Denison also has a new president, Dr. Avery A. Shaw. Also, under "Kudos" "honorary degrees" [TIME, June 27] you neglected to mention that Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a colored institution, had given our Honor able Mayor, William Hale Thompson, an honorary degree, by proxy. THOMAS N. PARKS Denison '28 Granville, Ohio

Will Suggest & Recommend

Sirs: Having received a few copies of TIME I am pleased to be able to say that I am favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. I gave TIME a rigid test but your news magazine stood it nobly. I purchased 14 newspapers -- a few of them being our local newspapers, the remainder of them, newspapers representing all the news types in New York City. I also read the last issues of Harper's, Forum and Critical Survey, in an effort to see just how much you eliminated in your process of condensation and just what your rejected material consisted of. After spending four hours, I came to the conclusion that TIME is a brilliant idea and that those who choose its material are certainly able writers. I am a university student, and have use for such "source" as TIME gives. I will suggest and recommend it to my fellow students. BURTON B. WIENER Paterson, N. J.

Four Counts

Sirs: ... I object to TIME, in its present policy and makeup, on four counts : 1) It is 11% in. long. 2) Nine-point type* is used in the text whereas brevier is highly preferable. 3) There are 48 pages to TIME. There are items of sufficient interest to fill out one more page, and 49 pages, being 7x7, would be especially lucky. 4) The page numbers in the advertising sections are at the bottom of the pages, though they are at the top of other pages. . . . H. LINCOLN HOUGHTON Singapore, S. S.

Phyllis Cleveland

Sirs: In TIME, June 20, p. 23, col. 1, under MILESTONES -you announce the engagement of Phyllis Cleveland of Boston. In a footnote below you say, "Not to be con fused with famed Phyllis Cleveland, co-star (with the Four Marx Brothers) in The Cocoanuts. This, however, is your mistake as the Phyllis Cleveland of Boston, who is to wed J. Ainsworth Morgan, is the Phyllis Cleveland of stage fame, who ap peared in The Cocoanuts. H. L. W. P. S. Your magazine, criticizing others, deserves to be criticized. Cleveland, Ohio

Barger v. Barger

Sirs: First I wish to inform you that I am not a subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension how people can get enjoyment out of a magazine that is so daring and does nothing but criticize the things that should receive encouragement. While your news items are interesting, they are written in such a way that they become cheap bits of gossip. Instead of calling your magazine TIME, I would suggest you call the paper Gossip. If I should read anything in your paper that would receive a kindly comment, I think I would drop dead. If you are contemplating giving anything a friendly and helpful comment, do let me know in advance as the shock would be too much. In this sordid world just filled with worries and cares, and where one tries his hardest to see only the good, of what use do you think your paper is with its cheap gossip and sarcasm ? (MRS.) GLADYS BARGER Boston, Mass.

*Correspondent Frank R. Kent.--ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)--ED. /-Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)--ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point.--ED.