Not for Preparation

Sirs:

Sending subscription for two years means that I find you interesting, instructive, not indispensable. . . .

MISCELLANY is good, RELIGION mediocre, BOOKS tolerable, NATIONAL AFFAIRS great, but I wouldn't take your TIME to prepare for eternity.

FLOYD H. ADAMS

Pastor, Lincoln Square Baptist Church Worcester, Mass.

Ill-Advised

Sirs: Yes, I know what TIME is--and I abhor it. I never subscribed; it was sent to me by an ill-advised female relative. WALTER LOWRIE

The Rectory, St. Paul's Roma, Italia

P. B. K. T. B.

Sirs:

On page 17, of TIME, Jan. 3, there appears an item headed "P. B. K. T. B.," dealing with the establishment of the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau at this university. . . .

In the first place, the Bureau is not a "new departure" as it is referred to in your item. It was organized four years ago, substantially in the form that it has today. In the second, place, the item makes the following statement:

"From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a 'key,' would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER JR.

In charge of Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau Cambridge, Mass.

Ten Bigger

Sirs: Newsstand Buyer James Chester Pope's letter amuses me. ... If I were to say what I think of his Big Ten, TIME could not publish my letter if it would, and I wish Mr. Pope could see if possible a list of ten men who actually possess elements of greatness. ... I would name:

Clarence Darrow, Judge Ben Lindsey, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, Rupert Hughes, William Allen White, John Dewey, Alexander Meiklejohn and Loredo Taft. . . .

J. E. DAHL

Mobridge, S. D.

Proper

Sirs: TIME is unusual. In your Jan. 10 issue, under heading of "Elk City, Okla.," p. 4, col. 3, you refer to Letter Carriers, which is the proper designation of the men of Uncle Sam who deliver the U.S. mail. Invariably, the Press and the Public refer to them as mailmen or postmen, which is highly improper. . . . Frank Crane . . . recently eulogized the Letter Carrier and referred to them as mailmen rather than Letter Carriers. . . . A mighty small thing, yet I believe every Letter Carrier appreciates being referred to as a Letter Carrier. Thanks to TIME for setting a precedent. BURT RITCHEY St. Louis, Mo.

With Meals

Sirs -- I have not received TIME, Jan. 3, 1927. Can scarcely exist without it as it helps me to digest my food. I'm a professional woman and eat at restaurants, hotels, etc.

TIME entertains and educates me as I wait for my order and as I eat. ELEANOR J. RIDGWAY

Ypsilanti, Mich.

Sirs:

TIME, sophisticated, with no inferiority complex, has been my frequent luncheon companion; its morbid MISCELLANY (TiMB, Jan. 3, p. 20) discourages such hospitality.

ERNEST C. WILSON

Cleveland, Ohio.

Sacramento Snook

Sirs:

We have a Snook in our town and he is wondrous wise. He, Frank S. Snook, has just been appointed Chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Snook immediately canceled 3,000 special badges issued to favored motorists, which are supposed to make them immune from arrest. Then he issued orders that "arrests shall be made in a decent, manly fashion, without abuse and without insulting-language or attitude, which occasionally has caused resentment."

PERCY A. POTTER

Sacramento, Calif.

Pons Asinorum

Sirs:

You say [TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition.

ANSON S. THACHER

Yale College

New Haven, Conn.

Bishop

Sirs:

In TIME, Jan. 17, under PEOPLE, subheading "Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes," there is an inaccuracy. A Methodist bishop does not preside over a diocese; he presides over conferences, several of which are presided over by the same bishop, these being designated an area. . . .

Constantly a reader, I continue not to subscribe since TIME is in every library I frequent.

G. E. MCCRACKEN

Lafayette College

Easton, Pa.

People

Sirs:

In your issue of Jan. 10, 1927, under PEOPLE, p. 28, David Belasco might also have told his interviewer:

"Several days after my accident, a speaker on the program of Radio Broadcast Station WHAP of Manhattan (anti-Catholic, anti-non-Christian Jew, and 'Auntie Most Everything') informed its select coterie of listeners-in of my misfortune and intimated that it was only the expected retribution for the number of 'questionable' productions of mine on Broadway (Lulu Belle, etc.). News of this will undoubtedly be a great aid to my rapid recovery."

WM. H. GALBRAITH, Lt., U. S. N.

Columbia University New York, N. Y.

Gelatine

Sirs:

I am enclosing subscription card to extend my subscription for two years.

While I know you get many letters, telling you how good TIME is, if you are like ourselves, who appreciate being told that we have the best gelatine in the world, then I can tell you how much real pleasure and information I get from reading your magazine.

J. E. KNOX

Knox Gelatine Johnstown, N. Y.

TIME appreciates.--ED.