Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME.

Bryan's Picture

The State of Colorado TIME Executive Chamber

New York, N. Y. Denver, Colo. Gentlemen: Nov. 25, 1924

I desire to enter my protest against the publication of the picture of William Jennings Bryan in your issue of this week. If it were used apart from the critical articles that you publish from The New York World, no one would know whose picture it was.

The publication of this picture I consider as a despicable attack upon a man who, while you may differ from him vitally, does not deserve this sort of treatment at your hands. You received the picture from some other source but this does not excuse its publication by you.

This letter is not intended as a defense of Mr. Bryan's policies or his attitude _ in the recent election, but it is a plea for fair play on the part of your journal.

WM. E. SWEET.

The picture (TIME, Nov. 17) was one of the latest photographs of the Great Commoner. It is believed by others than Subscriber-Governor Sweet to be a good likeness.--ED.

Stuff

TIME Minneapolis, Minn. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: I quote from TIME of Nov. 24: Who suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota.* "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois 7. Who writes this "stuff" for you? If this is a specimen of his sport news, better eliminate all of it. The phrases used are entirely unjustifiable. I want to repeat that my subscription to TIME is canceled. C. J. RATZLAFF. That the Gophers did "wound" Red Grange, did "crash" him, did "heap upon him" no eye-witness will deny. Football is a rough game, but a casualty does not necessarily denote "dirty play."--ED. Undignified?

TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Cokedale, Colo. Dec. 1, 1924

As a reader of TIME since its 18th issue and as subscription representative may I enter my protest against your admitting such advertisements as carried on the next to the last page of Vol. IV, No. 21. Let Mac-Fadden and his publications take such copy. Cure-alls are beneath the dignity of TIME. (Mrs.) S. C. BABSON The advertisement in question was that of the Whole Grain Wheat Co. of Chicago. TIME'S Advertising Manager (who thoroughly investigates the merits of each prospective advertiser) is not in sympathy with Subscriber Babson.--ED. Little Fishes

TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen : New York, N, Y. Dec. 6, 1924

TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: As you may understand from what fol- lows, I have a deep regard for your paper. In your issue dated Dec. 8, I was especially interested by a letter from Subscriber DuCloe regarding the existence of little fishes 6 1/4 miles below the surface of the sea. He points out that this is impossible because the temperature of the water there is only about 32DEG and the pressure 2 1/2 tons per sq. in. He might have added to these common-sense objections the impossibility of obtaining food. Irrefutable as these reasons may seem, they are not conclusive. Fishes are known to exist five miles down, where the temperature is about the same and the pressure almost as great. For a popular explanation of how these miracles are possible, one has only to refer to the chapter on "Cave and Deep-Sea Life" in Professor Richard Swan Lull's Organic Evolution (Macmillan, 1920). I fear that some of your readers may have been led by your publication of Subscriber DuCloe's letter into discounting some of Nature's true miracles. It would seem clear that the statements in the article did not exceed the bounds of Nature. W. W. LOUGHBERRY.

*The italics are the ex-subscriber's.