Letters: Jul. 19, 1926

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For some time I have been troubled by repeated occurrences in your incomparable publication. To wit: is it Mr. Lloyd George, or simply Mr. George, who has achieved fame in Britain ? By those from the Island I am informed that I am correct : that it should be Lloyd George and not simply George. Kindly enlighten me. (I never had these doubts till TIME repeatedly referred to the man as Mr. George.)

TIME is excellent; may it continue its high standards. My praise is, that I have read it consistently almost, I believe, from its inception.

WM. McK. RUTTER

Philadelphia, Pa.

Mr. George's father was the late William George, one time Master of the Hope Street Unitarian School of Liverpool. His mother, née Lloyd, a resolute Baptist, influenced him after his father's death to accept her faith and habitually to link her name (his second given name) with his surname.

Diet

Sirs:

Now that I am fully intrenched in the TIME habit, I find that it is an indispensable part of my literary diet. As soon as my short term trial subscription expires, enter me for one year's subscription.

JOHN W. MARSHALL

Reeves-Marshall Grocery Co. Eufaula, Ala.

Splendid

Sirs:

I wonder if you are admirers of the New York World. If you are, we have one other joy in common.

Did you see the morning edition of the New York World on July 5th? On the front page appeared a picture, entitled "A Petting Party." It was a poor likeness of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York in a bathing suit, who was holding in his arms what appeared to be a small dog named Topsy.

I do not remember pictures of this type referring to the able Cleveland or to that great statesman, Woodrow Wilson.

I showed the picture of Governor Smith for whom I have always voted when given the opportunity, to a very good Republican, who remarked: "Splendid. It shows him in his true light."

ROGER M. GILDERSLEEVE

New York, N. Y.

Dollar Found

Sirs:

Apropos of Mr. Dickson H. Leavens' letter on p. 2 of TIME, July 5, don't take backwater on that English dollar.

Enclosed is a more or less unsatisfactory rubbing of a coin dated 1804. On the face it reads "Georgius III Dei Gratia Rex" and on the reverse "Bank of England, Five Shillings, Dollar, 1804."

CHAS. H. TAYLOR

Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.

TIME declared (April 26) : "If . . . George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, it doubtless bore a British stamp." Subscriber Leavens wrote: "I think you will not find any record of the British having coined dollars." — ED.