The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-17
THE EVENING PAPER LEADS.

writer in the March issue of The Worlds who ha
interesting penchant carrying Investigations ha
taken the task nquring readn
matter that is INDUCED in by community AS a
basis for his inquiries he took small village eastern
state and considerable portion of countr
which is devoted agriculture, and grazing. In ALL he
interviewed s4s families the of them being Of Amer
stock The district canvassed boasts churches
with three resident ministers and five schools with sever
teachers. educational community
can well be considered being above the average.
The district contains library of three thousand vol
which supported by small endowment and BY pri
subscriptions During the nnetysx patrons of
library 1901 which than 900
works of fction-an of than nine to each
patron ascertained that any considerable
of the people of the district make practice to pur-
books themselves that the circulation of the ii
represents the bulk of the the
people under the investigation The district
considered to be somewhat of the others Of its SIZE
but will be that few than fourth Of the
families reached by the library
But the special object of the investigation to deter
periodical literature absorb
ed by the residents of the country is what people read
that constitutes the rule by which their ntellec
and this light it is interesting note the
different and periodicals that went into the
of these 34s families In ALL there seventy
different periodicals. including daily weekly and week
ly and including technical and professional
publications. The periodicals divided into eight
classes: Newspapers, religious papers, agr
cultural magazines publications for and the home
humorous and advertising sheets that carry fiction
The kind Of newspapers that taken in the community
given nst consideration and is worth noting that
Of the dae the evening popular than their
morning contemporaries the comparative standing being
50 morning papers, 81 evening, trweeky 81 weekly
and 80 weekly.
The weekes of country sort-a few ed
toral bunch Of gossip cheap short story the
patent inside. In addition to these there
copies of Harpers weekly The Nation The Independent
and The Weeks Progress. There other weekly
found which described between Police
News and regular resulting in product that
contains too good qualities for it to be condemned and
many qualities for it commended" This
had circulation in the community of forty-three
copies making total of 365 copies of going
to 349 families.
In the community were found ten different religious
papers which total circulation of 1877 copies Tenn
mad only two publications represented and the
circulation the most of them
being gratuitous distribution There three agr
cultural papers found monthly
the three go to sxty-fve families.
publications are
wel-regulated family. The daily paper it
the chronicer of daily weekly of interest
gossip religious papers
because of UNCONVENTIONAL loyalty. But there is another
class of publication that index to the intellectual
standing of people. are magazines. Nine
Dollar Magazines" like Everybodys ETC.,
total circulation of sixy-nine copies. There hir
teen copies of eight magazines costing than dol
lar like Scribners Harper's, Reviews The
Worlds Work.
Thirteen periodicals devoted to
the total circulation 119 copies; of
these three devoted to fashions claim almost half
There twenty five copies Saturday Evening
Post The Youths Companion The American Boy.
a
In the district found periodicals cheap
cents annum. Not infrequenty
gratis They in fact advertising
in considerable of literary purpose
of securing cheap postage The reading
them is not bad but the are in MAN,
dsrepuabe being the of advertising
influence of this class of publications. invesga-
tor is pernicious. both morally and mentally These
periodicals had fysix subscribers in this community
whole number of periodicals taken this eighty
with combined circulation copies-an average
not quite two and nalf a family. .
Hardly than homes regularly re-
ceive the best Of the popular The conclusion
derived by the investigator as found
1t is that the constant magazine
the establishment of magazines is doing great
deal to reach the people country
communities A great opportunity for service
vast multitude which clearly by this
ing flood of good periodical literature"
CASSIE CHADWICK'S CONVICTION.
The fate of Chadwick shows what would have
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