Article October 12, 1940 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Building Our Mental Fortress

with contributions from J. L. Newland, Will H. Houghton

[From the Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio]

Among the many advantages arising from the wide dissemination of news and information by newspapers and radio broadcasts, is one disadvantage—a real peril, in fact—the cultivation of a mind that makes no discrimination or choice of material received. It is a form of mass consumption of information dulling and weakening the power of wholesome choice. It is . . . unwise to cram the mind . . . with bulk rather than selected elements.

The agencies of communication and information have multiplied so that the ears and eyes of humanity are crowded daily. It is essential that the mind learn to select what it needs for good health and understanding, and to reject the worthless or the questionable. Otherwise society will become the victim of mass false reports mixed with mere grains of truth.

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