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Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...
...long ago [1912], there were about 25 automobiles in Tokyo and one poor airplane that managed to hop about three feet off the ground. Today there are more than 500.000 automobiles in Tokyo, and more than 10,000 airplanes will come to greet me, not to mention one thousand motorboats, all decorated...
...significance of this proposal lay in the fact that until then the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission had studiously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as a crime problem. How did Gov. Roosevelt get such a message? Was it meant for public use? Gov. Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value...
...your attention to the fact that the photoplay The Four Feathers was taken from the book by that name by A. E. W. Mason, and not written up to supplement the animal pictures which feature it, as is indicated in your review in this week's TIME. I mention this because I have always thought Mr. Mason deserved to be better known than he is, and while his plot may seem "silly" when put into the cinema, his book, although written for a less sophisticated decade, would perhaps find more favor with you. Present day readers might appreciate more...
Countered the Association Journal last week: "Smoking ... by women has no apparent influence over the functions of the genital system. . . . There is no mention [in expert research on the subject ] of tobacco heart in newborn children. . . . The morality of smoking by women is not a medical concern any more than the question as to whether or not they should go bareheaded into church...