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Show CLEAN LITERATURE In many of the states west of the Mississippi the cowboy and prospector prospect-or still ride their bronchos and burros, bur-ros, live lives of romance, adventure and exploration the basis of western open air literature. The western literary product includes in-cludes moving pictures, action stories cowboy songs and frontier ballads, and thousands of story, verse and song writers supply the world with this material that is read by millions Two years ago Col. E. Hofer, of Salem, Oregon, a life-long newspaper man and publisher, established a western literary monthly, The Lariat to encourage western writers, set higher standards, and fight degenerate degener-ate products. In its third year, it is followed by The Lariat Story Magazne, published publish-ed by Real Adventures Publishing Co. New York, and the North-west I Writers bureau at (Salem, Oregon, making a market for literary pro-' ducts of the open air and adventure stories in popular magazines. j While thrilling wth the romance of a new and robust civilzation, west-1 ern writers as a class turn out clean vital, wholesome literature singularly singular-ly free from all taint of degeneracy, j |