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...have always since early youth been an inveterate newspaper and magazine reader, but on attaining the age of understanding definite needs and capacities, dropped all such reading matter, and now depend on TIME to keep me a citizen of the world. I also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...
...subscribe to Good Housekeeping I can get a cookbook free, which is at least sensible although of course I have a cook book ! But what do you suppose I can get with the solemn Literary Digest? They offer me, perhaps as an antidote, the "complete works of O'Henry in one volume!" ("Free! Completely free...
Suppose adolescents were expected by the world to regard the mechanism and the mysteries of sex exactly as they regard the mechanism and the mysteries of a radio set? Suppose little Johnny, who is allowed to revel in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest, should have thrust into his hands a magazine which explained his sex impulses with the commonplaceness of a mechanic expounding the ignition of a Ford? Would the result be completely good? Can the little boy who is a "radio bug"± be assumed to grow up quite naturally into an adolescent "sex bug," equally without necessity...
...interpreted in terms of the joints of machinery lay puritanically before the reader on one page. On an-other the seldom depicted organs of the male and female were similarly diagramed and explained. Drawings with nondescript. people in them much like those used in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest were employed to give "human interest" to the explanation of what are, after all, "mechanical" if "living" organisms...
...know enough of the American press to say whether there is any periodical at all over there, daily or weekly, which gives as competent a digest of the general news as Nature does of scientific happenings...