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

Positive Proof

TIME Winnipeg, Canada

New York, N. Y. Nov. 26, 1924

Gentlemen:

Am very much interested in your article on Peter Veregin, in your Nov. 17 issue, Page 17. To me, this is a positive proof of the authenticity and correctness of your news, as your article on the death of Peter Veregin was more interesting, contained more facts and was nearer correct in detail than any of the newspapers right here in Winnipeg. Thought you might be interested in this fact.

We have an elevator at Veregin and I have been there personally; and we also have a Douk buying grain for us there, who has told me many interesting incidents about Peter.

Are you going to get out those cards this year to your subscribers giving them an opportunity of sending TIME as a Christmas present? Hope you do.

F. PEAVEY HEFFELFINGER. Yes, TIME Christmas subscription cards are being distributed. Let Subscriber Heffelfinger note well the advertisement on Page 21, this issue.--ED.

Rude Escort

TIME, New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y. Nov. 25, 1924

Gentlemen:

In view of the fact that I have never read a single item in your publication TIME, the following incident may interest you.

Last week, I attended a performance of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. Directly in front of me sat a middle-aged gentleman with his wife, both faultlessly attired in evening clothes. From his general appearance, I should promptly classify him to be a man of culture and education.

At the drop of the curtain on the first act, I was surprised to see him calmly pick up a fresh copy of TIME and start in with the very first paragraph; he read during the intermission that ensued, without once stopping. This he repeated at the close of the second and third acts; and I found my curiosity so aroused that I leaned over to see each time what he was reading and how far he had gotten in the magazine. Before the end of the play he had gone half way through tl magazine, his companion quietly passing the time surveying the audience.

M. M. SWAYNE.

Perverted

TIME Boston, Mass.

New York, N. Y. Nov. 24, 1924 Gentlemen:

"Having perused well the chronicle of the week," and having fortified himself with a dose from Webster, the Instructor in Journalism "views with alarm" the accession of his favorite weekly to the conspiracy to pervert the small adjective "due" to the rank of a conjunction (TIME, p. 10, col. 3, Nov. 24, 1924). How can he keep his students from this barbarous usage when his best ally deserts him?

CHAS. F. ROBINSON. Subscriber Robinson is agitated not without cause. TIME'S sentence read : "Due to the strike's tremendous unpopularity, it was believed that the strikers were utterly defeated."--ED.

Praise Indeed

TIME Boise, Idaho

New York, N. Y. Nov. 19, 1924

Gentlemen:

"As it must to all men," (TIME, Nov. 10, Page 24, Col. 2 and Nov. 17, Page 4, Col. 2) or to your readers in any event, comes the irresistible impulse to tell you of my delight with TIME.

All the news one needs, served in such a delectable style that the imbibition imparts to your reader a mental cocktail which thrills until the next issue arrives.

And I tell all my friends.

EDW. S. CHADWICK.

Little Fishes

TIME Milwaukee, Wis.

New York, N. Y. Nov. 14, 1924

Gentlemen:

Ever since I received my first copy of TIME the world has been mine oyster, with lemon juice, catsup and pepper on the side. And every week I find three or four pearls. "Of Yesteryear," in the issue of Nov. 10, was the biggest and most valuable of the many I have found thus far.

But on occasions the oyster becomes a cocktail, and the succulent natural juices of the mollusk are dissolved by the relish. I refer to the sentence in "Deep Briny" (P. 18, col. 2) in your issue of Nov. 10, in which you described how a sounding lead was lowered six and a quarter miles into the Pacific Ocean and "dangled clear of the bottom, far, far down in the absolute dark of the cold sea; and little fishes, strange little monsters with radiolight spots, wandered around it in the deep." May I direct your attention to the fact that little fishes, or big ones for that matter, cannot live in the ocean at that depth? The temperature of the water is approximately 32DEG, or 3 1/2DEG above the freezing point of salt water; and the pressure is more than 2 1/2 tons per sq. in.

C. H. DuCloe.

'One"

Delaware, Ohio Nov. 22, 1924

TIME

New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

For some months, I have been promising myself to write you a personal protest against one of your editorial idiosyncrasies, only to find today, in reading the last issue of TIME, that either you yourselves have become aware of its inane offensiveness, or else some one else has effectively protested along this same line.

I refer to your former custom of referring to people as "one Joseph Smith" or "one Abigail Jones." Regardless of how insignificant a person may be so far as public news is concerned, the fact remains that each person so named is an individual personality and as such is entitled to respect.

I am a booster for TIME and have been the direct means of adding several names to your list of subscribers. But this one weakness I detested, and I am glad you are at last to abandon it.

R. A. Swink.

Subscriber Swink is in error; the practice has not been abandoned. The editors employ the epithet "one" to distinguish between comparatively unknown persons and great or famed persons whose activities are frequently chronicled in TIME.--ED.

Dean Inge

TIME New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. Nov. 22, 1924 Gentlemen: Apropos to the statement in line 2, column 2, p. 20 of TIME, Nov. 24, 1924, I submit that Dean Inge delivered the Beddock Lectures on this Seminary [General Theological Seminary (P.E.)] in 1906. In his Preface to the published volume (Longmans) he says: "The month which I spent in the United States will always be one of my happiest recollections."

H. M. Denslow

On line 2, col. 2, page 20 appeared the statement "but he [Dean Inge] has never seen the U.S."--:ED.