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FEEL that it's an act of common decency, wrung
from a busy man, and no matter hew busy you may
be, I guess you'd better read it.
Fer years THE LITERARY DIGEST was nothing te
me. I had tee much reading matter, and tee many ways te
spend my money.
I thought THE DIGEST was simply one of the multitude
of magazines, and the family has half a dozen, or mere, lying
areuna me neuse ail tne time.
Seme fate get after me a month
or se age and began te hand me
one knock after another.
The first one that made a dent,
I think, was at the meeting of the
ledge. An argument arose ever Soviet
Russia's interest in the Washington
Arms Conference. I couldn't held up
my end; the ether man knew mere than I did, and made the
fact plain te several members who were listening. I remarked,
net very pleasantly, "Yeu seem te knew mere than the news
papers." My ill nature brought only a cheerful laugh. "Oh,
yes," he said, "THE LITERARY DIGEST explained the
whole thing last week." Of course I hadn't seen it
Coming in en the train a day or two later, my seat com
panion asked me what I thought of the great plan te make
Manhattan Island and the City of New
Yerk six miles longer and te construct
the most wonderful model city in the
world en this new land. "Never heard
of it. Pipe dream 1" I replied. "Oh, no;
Congress has passed the bill, and the
President has signed it Plans are al
ready being drawn. The article in last
DIGEST describing it reads like 'The
hid my discomfiture with a polite, "Is
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week's LITERARY
Arabian Nights.'" I
that sol"
At the dinner table, yesterday, two of the children began
discussing the question why great quantities of corn must be
burned as fuel in America, while millions are starving in Russia,
China, Armenia, and elsewhere.
It seemed strange te hear them
quote -fact after fact, and opinions
of this or that authority which I
hadn't read anywhere. I began te
be afraid they would ask me some
question I couldn't answer. At
length I stepped them short by saying, "That will de new;
where did you hear all that, anyhow?" And this is what I
get in reply, "Why father! That is our high school topic from
THE LITERARY DIGEST this week." I had forgotten reading
in a letter some time age that THE DIGEST is used as a text
in several thousand high schools throughout the United States.
Hareld Belt Wright, the Auther, Tells the Reasen:
"Te attempt te gain anything like a clear view of the
world's activities through the fogs of prejudice and the clouds
of self-interest that hang always about the local newspaper
is a hopeless task. Fer one who would leek with unob
structed vision upon the moving world-forces that make for
or against the welfare of human kind, The Literary Digest
is a mountain peak in a clear sky.
"Because The Literary Digest gives me an unclouded
view of the world's doings, because it places me in an
atmosphere above prejudice and local self-interest, because
it separates for me the' grain of the world's thought from
the chaff of idle words, and cleans it from the dirt of
sensationalism, I appreciate and enjoy it. It is a Godsend
te all who feel that they have work te de that requires
clear thinking." '-HAROLD BELL WRIGHT, Auther of "The
Shepherd of the Hill " ""'len of tbe 0ld HeUae tC'
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Wife is fend of visiting and
has a geed many friends among
nice people. Lately they have
been talking a let about canning
and drying fruits and vegetables,
and about new methods of home
economy. I heard her telling somebody
ever the 'phone the ether day about a
wonderful substitute for eggs in making cakes. Then I
heard a little exclamation of dismay and a few broken
sentences of embarrassment before she hung up the receiver.
In a minute the trouble was all up te me: "Mrs. Page
says I mustn't use that egg powder, because it hasn't any
egg in it at all. She says I ought te read the article in
my LITERARY DIGEST this week telling all about such
tilings. 'My LITERARY DIGEST! She seemed te take
for granted that we have THE DIGEST. I was ashamed
te tell her we haven't. Everybody seems te have it except
us." Of course, I couldn't, admit such a thing. At the same
time, I couldn't deny having seen THE LITERARY DIGEST
in most of the nice homes we had visited.
Election day I started early from the house te vote. My
neighbor was getting out his new car. It was a beauty. "I
thought you couldn't decide which make te get," I remarked.
"Hew did ,you settle the matter?"
"Why, yes, it did seem like a deadlock
between my wife and me, but the ad
vertisement of this car in last week's
LITERARY DIGEST was se convincing,
we agreed, as seen as we read it, that
this was our choice. It's getting te be
rather a habit with us, you knew,
te find answers te things in THE
DIGEST." The matter-of-course tone in which he spoke, made
me wonder what he would say if he knew I didn't read
THE LITERARY DIGEST.
Last Sunday morning the dominie mentioned a request
made by some church member that the pastor would "net
preach about disarmament, as the subject had been worn thread
bare." Then he began te ask questions and tell facts that showed
a wider sweep of the subject than his hearers had ever dreamed
of. I declare, if he quoted THE LITERARY DIGEST once, he
must have quoted it half a dozen times.
Is the answer te everything in THE LITERARY DIGEST!
This was getting en my nerves. The next morning at the
office I noticed THE DIGEST en my partner's desk with his
personal mail. In the most casual manner I asked him te let
me take a leek at it. I didn't mean te start anything !
"De you mean te say you don't read THE LITERARY
DIGEST!" he exclaimed.
"Why, is there anything surprizing about that? I don't
pretend te read every magazine that's published," I said,
rather nettled.
ThejjterarxEtest
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
(Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary)
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New Yerk
'Tis a
Mark of
Distinction te
Be a Reader of
The Literary
Digest
The
Digest Habit
Saves Werry,
Time, and
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He came back at me strong. That's just ft; you try te
read tee many magazines, and tee many newspapers, no doubt.
Yeu might better spend less time with
some of them rather than miss reading
THE LITERARY DIGEST. Yeu
simply can't get en, nor held your own
anywhere without it. I knew I couldn't
It's the only magazine in the country that
keeps you informed, fully and rightly
informed, I mean, free from all editorial
bias, en the big live matters of disarmament, and business, and
every ether vital topic. Surely ! leek it ever and see for yourself."
I retired te my own office and sat down, face te face with
the magazine that had been challenging me everywhere I went
during the past month. An hour was gene before I knew it
I was surprized, startled, thrilled. The world seemed bigger te
me, and closer. Things that had puzzled me became clearer.'
My mind seemed te be opening. I had
thought of THE LITERARY DIGEST
simply as one of a multitude of mag
azines which did net concern me. Here
it was, new, revealed as THE ONE
which I had been really needing all
this time. I certainly had been missing
a geed thing.
Well, I hurriedly sent off my check
for the $4.00 which would bring THE
LITERARY DIGEST te my home for a whole year. Thank
goodness, that's done! Of course, the joke is en me. It was
my own fault. I might have enjoyed THE DIGEST long age.
New, as an act of neighborliness, I'm making this confession;
and I'm telling you, also,- -you who haven't been reading THE
DIGEST, if you new sign and mail an order for it, as I did
(when I woke up), you can call it a geed day's work.
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