All of this usually discarded material can be, with profit, sent to the home reading box. The man in the office, who looks at and discards it, simply stamps or writes on it “34,” the symbol of the home reading box, or the number of its station in the inter-office postal system, and puts it in his “out” basket. On his next trip for distributing papers, the messenger takes the reading matter marked “34” from the “out” baskets, and deposits it in “34,” the home reading box. Another source of supply consists of the newspapers, magazines, or books bought by the members of the organization as they come to work. The average man in the management departments buys a paper or magazine as he comes to work. His daily paper is surely discarded, his magazine is often discarded, sometimes even a book is thrown aside as completed. These also go through the “out” basket to the home reading box. A cent or two a day for a morning paper is little or nothing to some members of the organization. A cent or two a day is a very important element in some working men’s budgets. Besides there is an enormous waste, if daily papers are thrown away after having been read by but one person. The Home Element. A home reading box which has no other source of supply than that mentioned is not to be despised, but many advantages of the movement are lost, of course, if it is so restricted. It is desirable and customary, therefore, to interest as large a number of homes as possible in the movement. There are, first, the homes from which reading matter comes. The first problem is to arouse interest in such homes. The conversation goes something like this: “Haven’t you some reading matter that you wish to get rid of, that we could have for the Home Reading Box Movement?” [Illustration: FIG. 2 This shows a typical collection of magazines ready to go to the Home Reading Box at the plant.] [Illustration: FIG. 3 This shows the passing of magazines from the wagon into the plant. The plant box is placed directly below the window, where, if no one is inside waiting to take the magazines, they may easily be dropped from the outside of the plant without disturbing any one in the plant.] “Just what do you want?” “Well, anything that is interesting, but especially magazines of recent date, with which you have finished.” “Oh, but we get hardly any magazines. Let me see. We do take the _Saturday Evening Post_, and my wife reads the _Home Journal_ and the _Woman’s Home Companion_, and I buy some of the weeklies and some of the monthlies.” “And you get trade catalogs and trade papers of various kinds besides?” “Oh, yes, we get some of those that pertain to our business.” “Well, what do you do with them all, when you have finished reading them?”