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... In referring [TIME, June 24], to the annual recurrence of infantile paralysis your statement regarding North Carolina would permit of a literal interpretation that the disease was State-wide in its coverage. To citizens of western North Carolina this statement, as well as like items in the daily press, is the subject of much concern. Were it true—we'd take it and like it. But, since it so happens that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this area is below the average, and there are absolutely no indications of a spread, it would appear only right that you follow up your last story with a statement showing the true state of affairs, and thus relieve us of an appearance of epidemic which cannot but harm us as we enter what should be our best tourist season in many years. . . .
G. O. SHEPHERD
Asheville, N. C.
Asheville is many miles away from Wake, Harnett and Johnston Counties where North Carolina's epidemic of infantile paralysis is most concentrated. But let not North Carolinians deceive themselves concerning the seriousness of the epidemic, which has affected 61 of the State's 100 Counties and spread into Virginia. Since May 1, 297 cases have been reported in North Carolina, of whom 18 died. To combat the epidemic North Carolina's State epidemiologist. Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox, has advised against children attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium, has gone from Georgia to help Epidemiologist Knox. as have Drs. Warren Palmer Dearing and Alexander Gordon Gilliam, infantile paralysis experts of the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. James Payton Leake. best U. S. P. H. S. expert, was to be there this week.—ED.
Heartwarming
Sirs:
To you & your critic who reviewed Deep Dark River (TIME, July 1) my hearty thanks. It was an inspiriting and heartwarming experience to find the book handled with generosity and a sympathetic understanding both of the story itself and the meaning of the story. You pointed out the very things I had hoped would be noticed. I deeply appreciate your kindness.
ROBERT RYLEE
Stevens Point, Wis.
Westernmost
Sirs:
... In TIME, June 17 some distant places in the far North are mentioned where TIME finds its way to remote subscribers. TIME also finds its way to isolated subscribers in the far West.
Four times a year out in the Pacific Ocean, near the 180th Meridian, TIME goes regularly to Midway Island, when the little cable ship Dickinson journeys there with supplies for the cable station.
Mr. Perry, the cable superintendent at Midway Island, is a consistent reader of TIME. Regularly once a week he takes out one of the accumulated issues of TIME and reads it through—a ritual from which he never deviates.
When 43 navy seaplanes recently flew from Pearl Harbor to Midway Island, a late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean.
A. W. JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.
Devil's Helper
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