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Regardless of Dr. Hooton's scientific approach, the public will find the implications clear: that criminals and prisoners are a debased lot; they were born that way; there is little hope for them. Advocates of the Mad-Dog school of penology finally have contemporary textbook backing.
DONALD CLEMMER Senior Sociologist Illinois State Penitentiary Joliet, Ill.
Dies
Sirs:
Your choice of a word to rhyme with "Dies" appears to me a little awkward. May I suggest "Lies" ?
D. P. DUDLEY Buchanan, Va.
Hitler's Dummheit
Sirs:
Herr Hitler is surely in need of a few scholarly advisers to save him from faux pas and Dummheiten [stupidities]. Unwittingly he has conferred royal titles on every last German Jew by his decree that all males must take the name Israel and all females the name Sarah.
He probably overlooked the fact that "Sarah" means "Princess" and "Israel" means "Prince of God" in Hebrew. But what else could one expect from one of his social background? . . .
JAMES B. THOMAS Winter Park, Fla.
TIME'S Index
Sirs:
A SUBSCRIBER'S SALUTE. TIME'S INDEX [TIME, FEB. 13] APPEARS TO BE GREATEST SINGLE AID TO BUSINESS FORECASTING DEVELOPED TO DATE. PLEASE SEND COLLECT DETAILED INDEX INFORMATION. RECORD AND PRINCIPLES USED.
ROY B. EDDY Des Moines, Iowa
Sirs:
. . . I believe that your Index fills a need for an easily grasped statistical description of business conditions.
DAVID L. KAPLAN New York City
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EUGENE W. SLOAN Chief Division of Savings Bonds Treasury Department Washington, D. C.
Sirs:
. . . Your Index is of particular interest to me since I have for a number of years made a study of bank figures in attempting to analyze the business trend. I should like to congratulate you on this valuable addition to your Business & Finance section of TIME.
A. E. BORNEMAN Advertising Manager Kidder, Peabody & Co. New York City
Sirs:
. . . As an observer of the changing business scene, I shall welcome into my home another index to supplement and affirm—or disaffirm—other series. . . .
RUDOLPH H. SJOGREN Worcester, Mass.
Sirs:
. . . I am particularly interested in your choice of Townsend-Skinner & Co. as a service company. Will TIME'S Index illustrate the Skinner theory ?
LAWRENCE W. HEINLE Toledo, Ohio
¶ The Skinner Theory is based on the fact that, before a car is bought, a truckload of goods is shipped, a bridge built, money usually changes hands. Working from weekly bank statements, Mr. Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness—i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed for his own weekly service to clients.—ED.
Jesse James's Horse
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