Letters: Sep. 20, 1926

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Subscriber Lee's researches have enlightened his own perplexity: TIME employed "cyclone" in its familiar U.S. usage, the distinction between tornado and cyclone being of degree, not nature.—ED.

Address

Sirs:

In the Aug. 16 issue of TIME, under the heading SCIENCE, there is a most interesting article concerning Dr. Voronoff and the manner of his grafting sex organs, etc.

I would indeed deem it a favor should you inform me the mailing address of Dr. Voronoff, as I would very much like to ask him a question in reference to the above.

M. E. GOODWIN

Rochester, N. Y.

Dr. Avenue Bugeaud, Voronoff's Paris. — address ED. is 40, Meaning

Sirs:

In the issue of TIME, Aug. 16, under heading, Hygienic, Moral, the following: "At the city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well pondered order last week: 'For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons.'

If not asking too much, will you please give me your idea of the meaning of this order and why they restricted males from dancing ?

GEORGE H. BROOKS

The Mutual Building and Loan Association Baton Rouge, La.

The decree is understood to form part of the Mantua Fascist campaign for the conservation of vital energy.—ED.

"Hinky-Dink"

Sirs:

In TIME, Aug. 23, your review of Edna Ferber's Show Boat.

Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice.

For TIME'S information and possible future use in its very interesting and unique presentation of news, . . . you should know that Coughlin and McKenna were contemporary political bosses, keepers of large saloons of the lowest type where one quart schooners of beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5¢, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete.

WALLACE D. CHACE

United States Fleet Base Force, Train Squadron One U.S.S. Antares, Flag Ship Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.

Recalls

Sirs:

.... During the past year, I recall with special satisfaction among other things your treatment of the Scope's Trial, your weekly resume of the complicated political situation in France, your account of the Ferguson campaign in Texas, the Frank (killer) Norris episode and your fictitious, but essentially truthlike and delightful Helen Wills' Diary.

W. F. BARBER

President

The American National Bank Lawton, Okla.

Did Not Lie

Sirs:

Replying to the letter of Alfred Cottle [TIME, Aug. 30] concerning lies, I wish to state that as far as I know, TIME did not lie when speaking of Fords as "road bugs."