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Show EDITORIALS J Visit Your Library Next Week Let it not be said of Springville that 60 percent of its adult population did not read a book last year despite the ' fact that this is the percent for which the nation is credited. Next week is National Library Week and as a means of stimulating more interest in reading, a special invitation is extended townspeople to visit the library and see what its shelves have to offer. Actually it isn't fair for some people to pay their money- to keep the library filled with books, warm and lighted for the benefit" of a few, but that is what is going on and will continue to go on unless every taxpayer takes advantage of what his money is buying in the public library. Nothing one reads, so the scientists say, escapes the filing cells of the brain. Everything goes into the storehouse, ready for memory to call it out a fact when it is needed for discussion, dis-cussion, a colorful antidote to enrich conversation. The more one reads, the more one has to draw from. Some complain, that the many distractions of our newly complex modern living interfere with reading. Of course there are distractions but they will never engage ALL the leisure time of any man who has once learned to treasure the joys of reading. This hunger for reading is bred deep in us all. If it is dulled temporarily by other delights, the need is still there. It provides the satisfaction of mature living which can be matched by no other experience. Reading' is adsorbing; it is exciting; it is vital. In short there are hidden riches awaiting everyone who responds to the message of reading. Begin now enjoying these riches by visiting the library during Library Li-brary Week. You'll find it a friendly place to spend a few leisure hours. Take home a book and we promise you'll find time somehow to read it. |