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Review Editor. Received the Review and wish to thank you. I am a married man with children. The information in your magazine has helped me to solve many things for mysel! and others -Mr. R. P, California

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Review Editor:

I have just finished reading the February issue of the Review from cover to cover, non-stop, as I always do. And as always I got a charge out of it. I am a man 48 years old, and when I compare the fearful, furtive, hush-hush state of things in my youth to the present I am grateful to have lived long enough to have seen a magazine like yours come into being in the U. S., to see it distribute openly. freely and unmolested. I am enclosing a check to help your work along Wish I could make it more

Your Texas correspondent, Mr. R L. touches on a subject which gets me steamed up If I sound irate I hope R. L. won't take it personally I do not mean it that way. Too many people want everything they read to be predigested and simplified. Just because one has not had much formal education doesn't mean a man has to stay at the same level o! reading and thinking ability as when he quit school. Lincoln did not have

a hell of a lot of formal education as a kid. But he wanted to learn and learn he did. Very few things in this world are simple and easy. 1 takes fairly complicated thinking and writing to deal with complicated subjects. If a reader has to do some mental sweating to get at the meaning of an article which may be a bit "over his head". he is bound to profit by it even if, in the end, he disagrees with the author. He will find that he is a clearer. better thinker for having grappled with something that was at first difficult. I think the reader owes it to himself to make the effort to understand. Every time he makes such an effort his own mind expands. A lot of people believe if they think too deeply they will wind up in a lot of confusion a mental muddle. Well. better an honest confusion than false certainty. And what may seem nothing but confusion this month may mean solid ground under your jeet next month, or the month after. -Mr. L A., Maryland

Review Editor:

Ward Sumner is to be com. mended for his courageous article The Problem of Hypocrisy" (April issue) I feel it is one of the most i:nportan! yet to appear in the Re-

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