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...CRIME'S OWN PRIMER...
...less valuable than the programs of Iowa, of Pittsburgh. It begins at nine o'clock in the morning with wake-up exercises, and follows them with a music lesson, nature study, travel, lives of great men, books to read, current events. Five minutes are allotted to an agricultural primer of poultry, crops, dairying, horticulture, live stock...
Significance. Tens, hundreds of thousands of men and women will press this book to their bosoms with thanksgiving. Its morals, its figures of Vice and Virtue, could not be made clearer if they were printed in the block capitals and bright colors of a primer. The readers are practically certain to live purer, finer, braver lives afterwards, as are the millions, too unenlightened to buy the book, who will see it at the cinema...
...wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...
...badly the Navy wanted the passage of this bill was evident from a report made only two days earlier to the House Subcommittee on Naval Appropriations by Secretary Wilbur. This report was a veritable primer, explaining fully for the lay mind the fundamentals of sea power. Mr. Wilbur explained the nature and uses of the several kinds of naval vessels, showing how the power of a fleet is dependent on a proper number of all types, and then explained what the 5-5-3 naval ratio really means: that by the allotment of tonnage the American fleet would be stronger...