Insulted

Northfield, Vt., Jan. 3, 1925. TIME,

New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:

Deliberately, with exactness, the editors of TIME make choice of their words, their phrases. Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords--I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles. They are worthy of better bedfellows than literary trash, comic-strips, chewing gum.

JOHN E. MAZUZAN.

Misled

Gouverneur, N. Y.

Jan. 3, 1925. TIME,

New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:

On page 5 of the Dec. 29 issue of TIME, under the head of Prohibition, you tell how much the enforcement of prohibition costs the Government annually. You say nothing, however, about the moneys received as fines and from sale of seized cars which, I believe, are more than the amount expended.

I feel, that in fairness to the friends of prohibition, you should publish also the amount received in fines and from sale of seized cars as the mere statement as to expenditure without anything being said about returns is misleading, to say the least.

CARLTON J. FRAZIER.

TIME in its issue of Nov. 3 pointed out that the moneys received in fines totaled $12,800,000 in four years. The amount expended in this period was $50,130,000.--ED.

Shocked

Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 3, 1925.

TIME,

New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

At Christmas my son and two daughters received subscriptions to TIME, with the paterenal admonition to study well your style , and diction. In their very first copy (Dec. 29, P. 4, col. 4) you tell them, "this data was." ,

O TEMPUS! O grammaticus!

CHAS. W. SCOVEL.