Publisher's Letter, Jul. 30, 1956

DearTIME-Reader:

WHETHER the news spins off high— speed presses in Chicago or creaks off a missionary's Mimeograph in an African jungle, it is as essential to the mind and spirit of men everywhere as food is to their stomachs.

All over the world doughty little publications are informing their communities of the life around them, in many cases converting the illiterate to literacy in the process. One such journal turned up on my desk this week: Issue No. 259 of the Loma Weekly, a Mimeographed paper that serves the natives of the mud-hut village of Wozi (estimated population: 250) in the dense, equatorial...

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