score. There was a very general tendency for delivery dates to lengthen as addresses moved west from our mailing point in Meriden, Connecticut; but Independence, Kansas was consistently two days ahead of Topeka; and Los Angeles appeared to be at least a day farther west than San Francisco. Subscribers in or near urban centers tended to beat their country kin to the mag. Chicago gets good service; but over the line in Wisconsin the going seems pretty slow. Generally, you have nothing to complain about if your magazine arrives on Tuesday or Wednesday (or, in California, even Thursday or Friday). To all who helped in the survey, many thanks. We regret the erratic service, but there isn’t anything we can do about it, except Flash! sell the post office to private industry?
A year or so ago, in a widely quoted speech, much of it perversely irrelevant, Senator William Fulbright wisely observed that “insofar as a nation is content to practice its doctrines within its own frontiers, that nation, however repugnant its ideology, is one with which we have no proper quarrel.” Thus, even though it is clearly within our power to do something about it, we do not interfere with, say Papa Doc in Haiti, or whoever it is currently in charge of carnage in Nigeria. But there are nations in the world which do very much desire to practice their doctrines outside their own frontiers, and our interest in those doctrines is accordingly other than abstract.
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