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Show GERMAN BOOKS TO MAKE A BONFIRE Butte School Board Decides to Cremate All Teuton Works in Local Libraries. , BUTTE, May 1 The school board j has voted that "all German books in the school libraries shall be burned next j Saturday night following a "war chest" parade. Trustees of the public library are considering similar action, and all citizens will be invited to bring ! whatever additional German literary fuel thov can obtain. S. H. Clark of the University of Chi- cago, addressing the state convention of the four-minute men here, denounced (he plan to burn German books and do- i clafed it was a cheap way of showing patriotism. Professor Clark declared the works Of Goethe and other German authors 1 were masterpieces that aided education ; internationally, and that burning them was childish." He said that in Ger- j many today Shakespeare's works are being presented on the stage more fre- . queutly than in England or America. |