During the last week this newspaper has received more mail on a single topic than any time since before the war. It is all about the second "Radcliffe Mother" letter, urging an 18-year old draft, published on this editorial page January 30. That letter and the reaction to its sets up a little lesson in how the press gets news and how readers accept that news. It is not a particularly funny story.

The CRIMSON printed the first "Radcliffe Mother" letter in its Dartmouth Game issue last fall. Headed 'RADCLIFFE MOTHER RAPS RACY 'POON,' it was written by two editorial board members when a three-inch hole developed in an editorial page at one in the morning. This letter (as did a review above it) commented on a spread of reasonably dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable results. The morning it appeared a woman, claiming she was the "Radcliffe Mother," phoned the Cambridge police and suggested they ban the magazine. The police promptly complied without bothering to check the authorship of the original letter, setting off a month of litigation which eventually wound up in the fining of the Lampoon.

Last week's letter had a different subject, and different results. It ran as follows;