Lest the reader think my adverse criticism of the commissioners too harsh, or not in keeping with the dignity of the gentlemen composing that 1906-7 commission, I shall here quote a few of the paragraphs it presents as basis for its recommendation. The reader will oblige by carefully noting the italics. They are mine, and, following the quotation, I shall comment on some of those italicized phrasings and statements: “Not only does the element of fiction constitute the (1) _propulsive force behind the expansion of second-class matter_, but it serves at the same time (2) _to undermine the main statutory check upon the commercial exploitation of the second class_. Being free to make up a periodical which contains nothing but fiction, publishers find ready at hand the very thing with which to interlard and _disguise the advertising matter_, for the sake of which the publication is really issued. This they could not do if the advertisement carrying text was required to be news matter or critical matter of a current nature. (3) _Deprive the mail-order journals of the right to cloak_ their advertising with fiction and require them to publish something in the nature of a newspaper or review with expensive news-gathering apparatus and an editorial staff and (4) the _mail-order advertising journal will completely disappear_. It lives only by reason of two things, the cheapness of its fiction, with which it cloaks its advertising, and the cheapness of the postal rate which that fiction cloak enables it to obtain. “The distinction between the fiction-carrying periodical and the nonfiction-carrying periodical (5) _is precisely the distinction between a periodical fulfilling the purposes of the act and the publication which, although periodical in its form, has no true periodicity in its essence_. “Another consequence of the expansive power of fiction is found in the confusion of the newspaper and magazine types and the unhealthy exaggeration of the modern newspaper, as shown especially in its Sunday editions. “The newspaper is rapidly being extended into the magazine field at the sacrifice both of the postal revenue and the (6) _true mission of the newspaper. The miscellaneous matter contained in the Sunday issue of a newspaper must of necessity lack the quality to make it socially and educationally valuable._” (Page 37.)