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Sirs:

Will you please be kind enough to send TIME magazine to Frank W. Blair, 1716 W. Boston Boulevard, Detroit ? Mr. Blair is the President of the Union Trust Company.

Nearly every week, I find something in the business department of TIME which I missed in the daily newspapers. Frequently, when I refer these items to Mr. Blair, I am impressed with the value of your publication, by reason of the fact that he, too, missed them in his daily reading, and he is a very careful reader.

Two or three times since the establishment of your magazine, I have felt impelled to write and congratulate you on the place you fill in my reading life. These letters always have been, frankly, applause for your initiative and for the maintenance of your ideals. The more I read TIME, the better I like it and even at the risk of dangerous repetition, I again salute you!

HOMER GUCK

Union Trust Co., Detroit, Mich.

Oyster

Sirs:

Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find:

The eldest oyster winked his eye And shook his heavy head; Meaning to say he DID NOT CHOOSE To leave the oyster bed. I ask:

1) Is there any doubt about what the oyster meant ?

2) Was that oyster from Vermont ?

ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK

St. Louis, Mo.

Little Dog Said

Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon— But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared it away all right." L. V. LA TASTE

Dallas, Texas.

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