"Who Prop, In These Bad Days, My Mind?"

One of many "subscribers' reports" in this and other issues of The Countryman (A Quarterly Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work...") in which readers describe their current activities, especially those that bring balance during difficult times.

Bates mentions newspapers, the radio, a variety of books, and mushrooming.

In The Countryman (April, 1940, xxi, 1, pp. 30-31, attached).