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...glorification of the Negro now an accepted policy of your magazine? I had hoped that after the protest of one Southerner you might show some consideration for the sensibilities of our people by the discontinuance of your practice of referring to the colored man as "mister." I was deeply grieved, therefore, to find two new instances of this kind in your Sept. 7 issue. I refer to your entitlement of Robert Taylor on Page 6 and Walter Cohen on Page...
...Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...
...appears that an increase in the white blood corpuscles (disease germ eaters) takes place after prolonged fatigue; whereas the current clinical supposition had it that the increase was to be noted only on the approach of enemy disease germs. This discovery, if it be such, may lead doctors to refer occasional early diagnoses of incipient disease to mere overwork. The second "discovery" made during the tests is that the sugar contents of the blood under fatigue remains constant-an observation perhaps of some importance in studying cases of diabetes...
When friends tell you tall stories of their rough sea passage-how mountainous, star-blotting waves towered "50, 60, 100 feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...
...Epidemiological Report of the League of Nations Secretariat and state that "smallpox is less prevalent in the United States and Canada than ever before." The most recent of these reports available to us is that of May 15, which has recently arrived and to which I gather you refer. It reads in part: "The smallpox situation in the United States seems to have begun to improve: 3,412 cases were reported in 27 states during the four weeks ending March 28. ... It appears thus that the maximum incidence was reached two months earlier than in 1924. . . . Smallpox is less prevalent...