Letters, Aug. 27, 1934

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"This will be my last regular contribution to The Nation. The explanation is simple enough. For reasons which they deem sufficient, my employers, the editors and publishers of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, have entered an order to cease and desist. The reasoning by which this decision was reached was, in my opinion, faulty, and based largely on misapprehension. Nevertheless, they were acting strictly within their rights. It will be whispered that interests which I have treated none too tenderly here have finally succeeded in getting my scalp. Indeed, I can already hear the chuckles of the publishers' lobby. Don't believe a word of it. The objections which prompted this decision have been a subject of discussion among us for years, and I have been permitted to continue this long solely because of the paper's consideration for my feelings. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'I have seen that tried often enough to know. As a matter of fact, common honesty forces me to confess that over a period of twenty years (come June 14) no reporter in America has had better treatment from his employers. . . . We may never meet again in The Nation, but rest assured, ultimately we shall all be reunited in hell. So long, and good luck." ED.

Hindenburg's Prostate

Sirs:

1 am referring to your article on von Hindenburg, issue of Aug. 13, p. 17, in which you state that he died of kidney trouble and an atrophied (shrunken) prostate gland. I believe the "nemesis of most men past middle age" to which you refer is a hypertrophied (enlarged) prostate gland.

A. J. PODBOY, M. D.

Harrisburg, Pa.

To Dr. Podboy, and to the 15 other doctors and medical students who wrote TIME, thanks. TIME erred in its description of the cause of von Hindenburg's death.ED.

Cowboy Gassaway

Sirs: