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Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...
...commercial careers of most of them are bounded on the one side by a graduation exercise and on the other by a wedding ring, or possibly a baby carriage. But those women workers whose activities are concerned with higher things than chocolate-dipping, bargain counters and the touch system, refer to their careers rather than to their jobs and are deeply concerned over any " discrimination" shown against the woman worker on account...
...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...
...most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that the flood of 1927, while a terribly regrettable incident, is really over and that there is not much use crying over spilled water. In Louisiana, the flood is still a very live issue; nor is there any tendency to refer to it in the past tense...
Sirs: . . . Would suggest that FOREIGN NEWS confine itself to less trivial items. Refer TIME, April 4, COMMONWEALTH. Largely the fact that Friend Peel opens a road house ia of no particular interest or influence to anybody; as a sign of changed times that the type of thing is already history...