Am very much interested in your article on Peter Veregih, in your Nov. 17 issue, l'age 17. To me, this is a positive proof of the authenticity and correctness of your news, as your article on the death of Peter Veregin was more interesting, contained more facts and was nearer correct in detail than any of the newspapers right here in Winnipeg. Thought you might be interested in this fact. We have an elevator at Veregin and I have been there personally; and we also have a Douk buying grain for us there, who has told me many interesting incidents about

Peter.

Are you going to get out those cards this year to your subscribers giving them an opportunity of sending TIME as a Christmas present? Hope you do.

F. PEAVEY HEFFELFINGER.

Yes, TIME Christmas subscription cards are being distributed. Let Subscriber Heffelfinger note well the advertisement on Page 21, this issue.-ED.

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Ever since I received my first copy TIME the world has been mine oyster, lemon juice, catsup and pepper on the And every week I find three or four e "Of Yesteryear," in the issue of N. was the biggest and most valuable of many I have found thus far.

But on occasions the oyster becomes cocktail, and the succulent natural juiT the mollusk are dissolved by the relish refer to the sentence in "Deep Briny 18, col. 2) in your issue of Nov. 10, in wh you described how a sounding lead was ered six and a quarter miles into the Pas Ocean and "dangled clear of the bottor far down in the absolute dark of the co and little fishes, strange little monsters radiolight spots, wandered around it deep.' May I direct your attention to fact that little fishes, or big ones for matter, cannot live in the ocean at depth? The temperature of the water is proximately 32°, or 3% above the freez point of salt water; and the pressure is a than 21⁄2 tons per sq. in.

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In view of the fact that I have never read a single item in your publication TIME, the following incident may interest you.

Last week, I attended a performance of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Directly in front of me sat a middle-aged gentleman with his wife, both faultlessly attired in evening clothes. From his general appearance, should promptly classify him to be a man of culture and education.

At the drop of the curtain on the first act, I was surprised to see him calmly pick up a fresh copy of TIME and start in with the very first paragraph; he read during the intermission that ensued, without once stopping. This he repeated at the close of the second and third acts; and I found my curiosity so aroused that I leaned over to see each time what he was reading and how far he had gotten in the magazine. Before the end of the play he had gone half way through the magazine, his companion quietly passing the time surveying the audience.

"Having perused well the chronicle of the week," and having fortified himself with a dose from Webster, the Instructor in Journalism "views with alarm" the accession of his favorite weekly to the conspiracy to pervert the small adjective "due" to the rank of a conjunction (TIME, p. 10, col. 3, Nov. 24, 1924). How can he keep his students from this barbarous usage when his best ally deserts him?

CHAS. F. ROBINSON.

Subscriber Robinson is agitated not without cause. TIME's sentence read: "Due to the strike's tremendous unpopularity, it was believed that the strikers were utterly defeated."-ED.

For some months, I have been premal myself to write you a personal protest a one of your editorial idiosyncrasies, find today, in reading the last issue of T that either you yourselves have become of its inane offensiveness, or else some else has effectively protested along this s line.

I refer to your former custom of refer to people as "one Joseph Smith" or "a Abigail Jones." Regardless of how ins cant a person may be so far as public s is concerned, the fact remains that each son so named is an individual personality as such is entitled to respect.

am a booster for TIME and have her direct means of adding several mat your list of subscribers. But this one ness I detested, and I am glad you last to abandon it.

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