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pushing a button. A stream that never stops till you turnoff a faucet.
My voice you want, tallm to you from a cage on your desk or wall.
Actions of yesterday, of people miles away, going on on a curtain hefove _
you. Stilled thoats singing to you from discs; distant throats singing to
you from nothing! ‘
Uncanny, daily magic-this, due to national advertising. Advertise-
ments have gian you flashlights, telephones, typewriters, automobiles.
cold creams, motion pictures. They have given you new eyes, new ears,
new hands, new feet, new“ faces, new emotions. They have urged such
wide use, so lowered prices, that ahos‘t wishes are autos, almost heg- ’l ‘
gars can ride. Tlnough advertisements you’ve laid down the shovel and
the hoe. You can huy a whole harvest ready-to-eat in cans. You’ve hung
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in this age ofamaflg short-cuts. i
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