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I am not fortunate enough to be a subscriber to TIME; I would that I were. However, while in an oculist's office Fate put your magazine into my hands again, of May 4, 1931, this time: Mrs. M. V. Roquelaine of Baltimore, Md. commented upon the unusual cruelty of the person or persons who strung up that dog. Your answer to her query as to whether the perpetrator was not to be brought to punishment was: "If and when Cincinnati's fiend ... is apprehended and punished, TIME will tell."
Permit me to give the solution of the mystery to TIME: A railroad telegraph operator, retired on account of failing eyesight, owned a couple of collies. His home is near the two great westbound main lines of the B & O and Big Four (beyond these tracks flows the Ohio River). One day a train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered it. ... MRS. EDITH JUDKINS KNAUL
Cincinnati, Ohio
—£—de Bosis out of Gas Sirs: I love you, because you are so impertinent, and scalding, and just at the right time and place. I started reading you in Rome where I have had a residence for the past 25 years, and have kept up the good work until now. Let me add that I send every number to friends back there, who eat them alive.
N.B.: In your number of Oct. 26 on p. 18 you speak of Dr. Lauro de Bosis, and his flight over Rome. In the following number I looked for another contribution regarding the same person. Perhaps you are not aware that Dr. de Bosis lost his life on the return flight to France. No gas was the cause, and his plane dropped into the sea somewhere near Corsica. He was known to the writer. 'Twas a big pity that he became an anti-Fascista, as his career had great promises. He will be mourned for many years.
ST. JOHN EDOUARD
Pasadena, Calif.
Aye for Aye, Toot for Toot
Sirs:
Most people are afraid of a "dripping Wet'' candidate, not that "Prohibition that does not prohibit" is desirable but history indicates that "dripping Wet officials" and all kinds of graft and immorality go hand in hand and in their Mutual Admiration Society, "reciprocity" is their password and their slogan is "An aye for an aye and a toot for a toot."
T. LESLIE CULLOM
Kerrville, Texas
Asleep on the Deep
Sirs:
On p. 66, TIME. Xov. 9. under Miscellany you say "In Staunton. Ya.. Arthur Fournier fell asleep on a bus. dreamed he was asleep on the deep. Still asleep, he leaped to his feet, cried:
'She's sinking! Jump for your lives!' No fool to remain aboard a sinking ship, Arthur Fournier jumped through the window, was killed."
_ If "still asleep" when he jumped and "was killed" how do you know what he was dreaming? However your surmise, if such, is good. On the other hand it appears that Arthur Fournier was a "fool." It is not always wise to jump from a. sinking ship and seldom wise to jump through a window.
CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS
Indianapolis, Ind.
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