The Press: Millions of Followers

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In its issue of July 14, TIME described in some detail the July number of Physical Culture Magazine, spoke of Editor Bernarr Macfadden as "the Nation's best-known body-worshipper," possessed of an apostolic zeal for "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice."

It now appears that Physical Culture and Editor Macfadden are not without friends. Writes a citizen of Washington, D. C.: "On page 24 of your issue of July 14, there is an article about Bernarr Macfadden that is very unfair. . . . He has millions of followers in the country.

"In my own case, for example, will say that I was about to 'be given up with pneumonia when I took up the Macfadden system of obtaining health. I weighed 89 Ibs. After following it for years I weighed nearly 200 when I dropped it and recently I became too heavy and took up his exercises and diet while he was in Washington and have lost 36 Ibs. and never felt 'better in my life. This is a brief testimony which could be repeated by thousands of people."