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Show Newspapers Lead All Other Literature as Reading Read-ing Matter in United States By DEAN WILLIAM S. GRAY, University of Chicago. The United States is becoming a nation of newspaper "fans," and newspapers, magazines and motiin pictures, rather than books, have made it so. I look forward to the library as the school of the future, so far iu adult education is concerned, in spite of the fact that there ate still 5,000,000 illiterates in the United Stat. It is by means of the public library and newspapers that many adults are continuing their caseation. Books hnvj taken a back shelf in the matter of popular reading material in America. Newspapers Mire t?t Lb i'jlerest, magazines hold second place and books third. |