Letters: Apr. 19, 1926

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

Best Sermons

Sirs : For the last two years you have been good enough to give notice that the annual book of "Best Sermons" was in preparation, and the news in your pages brought me many interesting and valuable sermons. I shall be grateful if you will insert the notices again that the volume for 1926 is well under way and will not be closed until the first of June. It is open to sermons of all kinds by men of all communions — Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. Only exclusiveness is excluded. Wishing TIME every blessing, JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

Memorial Church of St. Paul Overbrook, Phila.

Difficult

Sirs:

It would, I think, be almost dishonest — certainly most ungracious — if I didn't let you know what an amazingly fine job I think you have been doing with TIME. I set aside this last weekend to clean up a lot of work that had accumulated at my home. I started to look over an accumulation of magazines that had piled up, looking mostly for reviews of books and plays. Then I picked up the March 22 issue of TIME, read it through, did the same with the issue of the 29th and April 5. This is a rather difficult letter for me to write, because I've felt on so many occasions out of sympathy with many of the ideas and attitudes of your paper. But it's only fair, I am sure, on my part to let you know that I think it's the best of its kind in existence. HORACE B. LIVERIGHT

New York, N.Y.

Introduction

Sirs:

. . . and most of all, I enjoy your personal glimpses. For instance, after reading your sketch of Mr. Volstead [TiME, March 29, NATIONAL AFFAIRS] I felt that I had met the man and learned just the things that I most wanted to know about him.

J.J. LOWREY

Indian Head, Md.

Dentist

Sirs:

Your medical section reporter seems to have no knowledge of the dental profession (report on Chicago Dental Society meeting) [TIME, Feb. 8]. "D.D.S." means "Doctor of Dental Surgery" and is never accompanied by the title Mr. No dental student looks forward to being a specialist called a dental hygienist — unless a medical student looks forward to being a trained nurse. A dental hygienist is a young lady having a special one-year course in the proper cleansing of the oral cavity and its contents — otherwise known as the mouth, gums and teeth. FREDERICK H. HOEFFER, D.D.S.

Reading, Pa.

Let Dentist Hoeffer reread the item. It contains none of the implications he asserts. Many a dental student, male and female, has curtailed his full studies to become a professional of lesser (though allied) rank than a dentist. Some have progressed to become stomatologists. — ED. "Famed" Praised

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