Cricket Delivery
Sirs:
Re: TIME, issue of May 7, p. 72, last column-Bug in an Ear."
"...Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician supped his forceps into her aural canal drew out an object. ... The laboratory reported that it was ... the skeleton of a cricket.
I hope that he used the otologists forceps, and not his obstetrical forceps.
You meant to say otologist, not obstetrician, did you not?
Although many an obstetrician would gladly deliver anything for a fee, these days, even the skeleton of a cricket. MARIO A. CASTALLO, M. D.
P. S. Did you ever see an obstetrical forceps? Germantown, Pa.
Dr. Edwards, an obstetrician, used otological forceps. He undertook the case on emergency call from the White Plains police department. He had received no fee up to last week, may collect $1 or $2 from the city. — ED. Neglectful Wives
Sirs: While the papers played up Mrs. Roosevelt's speech at the recent newspapermen's meeting TIME in its report on that meeting (TIME May 7) made no mention of it at all Good for TIME. "Most women know all there is to be known about cakes and pies and children," said Mrs. Roosevelt. "What they want is the real facts about all phases of life today." I strenuously disagree. It seems to me that modern women who go in for "all phases of life day must necessarily neglect the care of their children and the management of their homes. I think it is no reflection on the feminine mind to assert that it doesn't logically absorb facts about government and economics. If women would spend more time in the study of running a home and less in trying to learn all about world affairs, I think we would have a better country.
I wonder if most other women don't agree with me. M. B. CLARKE
Englewood, N. J.
Orchid
Sirs:
Allow me to compliment you on the able way
TIME has covered the consecration of the Most
Reverend William D. O'Brien as Titular Bishop
Calinda and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago in
your issue of May 7.
Discussing this article with one of the priests in our office today, he maintains that the article was written by a priest, while the writer maintains that the article was written by one of your able editorial staff.
Layman or priest, whoever did the job rates an orchid.
HUGH J. BLAKELEY
Director of Advertising Extension Magazine Chicago, Ill.
The story was written by a member of TIME'S staff, which includes no priest. To Adman Blakeley, thanks.—ED. Socialist Clergy Sirs: In your issue April 30, p. 48, in your description of "Fred" Shorter you state "had, like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist."
Several of us have discussed this statement, and it has occasioned varied reactions.
We depend on your paper to report news only, yet this seems to indicate a serious leaning on the part of the paper to the extreme left. If the quotation is so, the last national election did not show any trend of anybody toward Socialism but away from it.