THE crisis in reading comprehension in this country among our younger population, particularly of school age, cries out for a solution. The Department of Education has come up with a Catch-Up Friday program for reinforcing the need to focus on reading; we hope not just for comprehension but for inculcating a lifelong reading habit by showing the joy of reading and the expansion of intellect and perspective that human beings need to meet their potential. And reading is the best way.