Letters, Feb. 12, 1934

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J. HAMILTON LEWIS U. S. Senate Washington, D. C.

Guilder, Dollar, Tical

Sirs:

Assuming that your letter page supplement is to be published weekly, how is the traveler, who must necessarily be a newsstand buyer, to obtain copies without a weekly letter to I. Van Meter?

Until further notice, all issues of the Letters Supplement will be sent, as published, to each & every TIME-reader requesting any issue. Address I. Van Meter, editorial secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd Street, New York City.—ED.

May I call your attention to another way in which TIME can be of great service to the traveling public?

During the past four years I have visited most of the tropical countries of the world and have, of course, been out of touch with important world news during the long sea voyages, except for the small amount which trickles in over the wireless.

What a blessing, on arriving in Bangkok, Mombasa, Sydney, Cape Town, Singapore to find a copy or two of TIME and to feel that one knows the important happenings of the world, at least up to March (even though it is April).

This feeling being shared by many fellow passengers, the small supply at the news agencies is quickly depleted.

Why not send a larger supply to foreign countries?

Dealers should now know that even back copies are eagerly sought and that a guilder in Java, a dollar in the Malay States, or a tical in Siam, is a price which would be gladly doubled.

J. E. RICHMOND La Crosse, Wis.

Black Star

Sirs:

What is the significance of the small black star always in the lower left corner of the front cover of your magazine?

ARTHUR W. SMITH New Haven, Conn.

The star appears only on copies of TIME containing liquor advertisements, warns the Circulation Department that such copies must not be shipped to newsstands in Dry States. But copies sent direct to subscribers may now contain liquor advertisements no matter what State they enter.— ED.

WOW!

S i r s :

On p. 23 of the issue of TIME of date Jan. 22 under Medicine, top of second column, you list aspart &#quot;b&#quot;of Federal Cold Treatment No. I "swab throat with a mixture of one part iodine and five parts glycerine." Will you please advise the strength of the iodine to go into the mixture? I mixed some according to the printed directions and swabbed the throat, and WOW! The iodine must have been awfully strong—or else—. I may try again after I hear from you

CHARLES A. BRINTON

Morton, Pa.

If Reader Brinton used ordinary tincture of iodine (7% strength) even in a 2-to-I dilution, his throat must indeed be sensitive.—ED.

Swine Sirs:

No relatives of mine were among Milestones of Jan. 29, p. 41, and I suppose none of yours. And as far as I am concerned I hope to God none shall ever be. But where is your sense of propriety and decency? Do you suppose it savors the least of uncommon common sense or smartness to list the passing of a swine by gorging with the death, etc. of such an eminent list of men and women? Sprinkle your pages with more of brains and less of nonsense.

REV. ALFRED GILBERG Helena, Mont.