Letters to the Editor

FLIES ACROSS CENTRAL AMERICA

Dear Sid: Many things bring Dartmouth to my mind, but several recently which I would like to talk to you about. This being impossible I will write them.

First, that Central American trip I took by airplane last year was a wonder and I greatly appreciated your telegram giving the names of Dartmouth men along the line. Unfortunately, however, the United Fruit Co. operates on the east coast and we flew mostly on the west coast, so I did not see one of the Dartmouth men although I met men who knew them at San Jose, Costa Rica. I am enclosing a few photos we took on the trip for your interest. They are labeled on the back so you may get a little idea of the beauty of some of that unheralded part of our continent. I can strongly recommend a tourist trip down that way any time. The air lines are well established with scheduled planes three times a week from Brownsville, Texas, to Panama.

Lawrence McKinley Gould, 2d, in command of the Byrd Expedition, is a personal friend of mine and if you have an open date for a perfectly wonderful lecture some time this year I can highly and without reservation recommend his talk on the experiences of his dog sled trip 400 miles south of Little America. That was the only piece of old-time exploring done on the expedition and his story is fascinating, illustrated profusely with slides and movies. He has a wonderful "outsider's" opinion of Dartmouth and am sure you could get him if you want him to come.

The supplement to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE interested me greatly and I commend your effort to present it to the alumni.

As for me I'm still doing post graduate work in otolaryngology at the University of Michigan. Will be here two more years and then expect to practice in the vicinity of New York. Then I'll get to Hanover oftener, which is one of the chief reasons I'm going back East.

1285 Ferdon Road, Ann Arbor, Mich.

WHY SLIGHT LAWRENCE?

Dear Sid: In perusing the most recent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I noticed the publication of a list of Dartmouth clubs located through- out the United States. But much to my cha- grin I failed to find the Dartmouth Club of Lawrence under the heading of clubs in Massachusetts. So, as a matter of civic pride, I wish to take this occasion to inform you that we have a Dartmouth club in that ill- fated textile city, the Queen City of the Merrimac.

This club numbers over fifty members and is growing as fast as Bill McCarter is losing his hair. Atty. C. J. Mahoney 'OO is the president, Dr. A. Chesley 'OO is vice-president, and Walter A. Sidley '09 is secretary and treasurer. Now that I have made known the existence of the Lawrence Dartmouth Club I shall apply myself to the arduous tasks which are assigned to business school robots and endeavor to discover the ways and means of acquiring "filthy lucre."

Harvard Business School,Cambridge, Massachusetts.

BOOKS WANTED

Probably every alumnus of Dartmouth has at least a few worthwhile books with which he could part because he has finished with them or because he needs the space which they occupy for new books.

Because Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas, is struggling to become selfmaintaining, its library must depend upon the donations of generous friends for additional books. The students at Commonwealth do industrial work for four hours a day for their maintenance, and the rest of the time they attend classes and study the best books available. The reception of a good book is a gala occasion upon the campus.

We thought that perhaps the alumni of Dartmouth might care to add new volumes to our library, as nowhere would the books that you can spare be more intelligently and repeatedly read and more deeply appreciated than at Commonwealth.

Most sincerely,

DEAD VOLCANOES In active days they destroyed Guatemala's capital

A STEAMING VOLCANO Cone in El Salvador

ON THE ROAD TO SAN JOSE Bridge over stream in rich Costa Rica country