Letters: Aug. 1, 1927

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Sirs:

Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face on the part of the Cincinnatians who do not ordinarily use their main streets for that sort of sport.

Another diversion or dementia on the part of the visiting Elks was scattering confetti on the populace below from hotel windows, and when the 'fetti ran out, so the story runs, hundreds of pillows were ripped open and the feathers were strewn "all over Creation and a part of Cincinnati."

As a consequence of this playful dissipation, the attitude of many of the people of Cincinnati today, I gather, toward those Elks is something similar to the position formally taken by Elkdom in convention assembled, toward the Bolsheviki. They would stand as "blocking the path of these invaders" to the freedom of their city in the future.

JAMES C. MOFFET

Louisville, Ky.

There was no typographical error. Trap-shooting contests for Elks were held at Coney Island, a Cincinnati play park. ED.

^{*An error, Captain Coli has no wife. (His mother lives
in Marseilles.) -ED.}