A former U.S. merchant seaman writes of the "gratitude I owe to our harbor literature distribution committees."
He refers to the many times his need was met by the workers who brought literature aboard ships. And not only his need. Fellow seamen usually kept the Monitors, Sentinels, and Heralds in constant circulation, he says. One ship's radio operator habitually seized all Monitors in the bundle and took them to his quarters. Each day he would read one, beginning with the oldest, then put it in the recreation room.
At the first port of arrival the whole bundle would then vanish—taken by stevedores, ship workers, and port officials of other countries eager for literature from America.
