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This is an error as the Vice President has no financial interest whatever in this corporation.
E. Ross BARTLEY
Secretary to the Vice President The Vice President's Chamber, Washington, D. C.
The televisionary Dawes is not Charles
G. of Evanston, Ill., but Charles C. of Winnetka, Ill.
Illegitimate Questions
Republique Francaise
Ministere
Des Travaux Publics
Office Francais
Du
Tourisme New York
Sirs:
In your issue of Nov. 12, page 18 in the
last two paragraphs of "Palm to Palm,'' under "France," you administer a gentle rebuke to this office for the wording of its announcement that "Any legitimate question . . . sent . . . in good faith . . . will receive . . . reply."
While it was not worded as well as it might have been, that announcement meant just that . . . Certain questions might be asked which would not be legitimate. For instance, "Where is this or that bordello located? Where can absinthe be obtained? How can I get some of those photographs I've heard so much about?" These would all be illegitimate questions, although possibly asked in good faith.
Even so maybe such questions should be replied to. Let us tell your readers that "The French Government's Office du Tourisme, at 4 East 52nd Street, Manhattan, will answer any questions regarding travel in France." Illegitimate questions, or legitimate questions asked in bad faith, will receive the sort of answers they deserve.
CLAYLAND TILDEN MORGAN
Director New York City
Has Monkey, Never Fubbed
Sirs: Will you permit me to comment on an article in the Jan. 7 issue of TIME under Medicine, namely: Monkey-&-Man Serum? Since the beginning of the world there have been men desirous of Fame; men that have used human beings as well as helpless animals as stepping stones under the name of one thing or another and Harvard's Aycock comes forth in his flare of would-be glory and "sticks monkeys to save babies'' and calls it Science. My father is a doctor and I have had some experience in hospital work; we have also had a very severe case of infantile paralysis in our family, which with correct treatment, the patient recovered and I may say not one animal was sacrificed in the recovery. Thousands of dollars are spent in this laboratory work, many animals have been tortured and I would like to know just what progress science has made where monkeys, guinea pigs, etc., have been sacrificed. I have had monkeys as pets, in fact, have one at the present time and may add never handled one with gloves or "fubbed" his face away. Why publish Harvard's Aycock picture? The monkeys should have had the valuable space— for it is they, after all, that are doing the suffering and giving their life—not Dr. Aycock. VIVIAN HORNE Norristown, Pa. End of Jerry
Sirs:
... It seems to me that TIME, which delightfully exploits the curious, might have mentioned the death of Jerry, the Judas-like ram of the Chicago stockyards who led millions of sheep to death.
O. K. BINYON Brookline, Mass.