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Show THETKOVO lIERMTHURSDAY, DECEMBER : .;TOE PROVO ; 1UER7LD . Consolidation of THE PROVO HERADtBallyTni"nT"THE-1NTE" MOUNTAIN HERALD (Weekly.) ' A n R- PUBLISHED BY THE 1IERALD PUBLISHINGCOMPANY Center Street. ' r BAKER A LAJlSONpOWNERSi-' BOTH PHONES - ' Provo, Utah its second clase mall .Entered matter June 8, 1911, at tho t PoatoWce, Provo, Utah, under the act "of March 3, 189.- - The first regular PLACED . A remarkable growth in public 11 braries In Utah In five years is indi-cate- -- Travels Via -R- sor-How- I M d has-hel- sixty-secon- fl -- d session of the by statistics compiled by Profes a few Congress .DriggsJ-'ecretary-r : of with no busiriessTof anyrimpartance-ijemeetings," of state the: Recess for yond receiving - communications from the White the library system work of board in education Utah. ? is now agreed by both houses that a House, and it Congress ' Public libraries have increased recess shall 'be taken from December 21 until Wed neday, JamiaYy 3. Pending the taking of this recess it is only fair from four to sixteen in five years with to. assume that no business of importance will be transacted. It is four more being prepared for formal school libraries equally fair ta assume that no business of importance will be tran- opening. Twenty-tware as used public libraries, thus mak sacted in the week following the holidays Past experience proves that thirty-eiga of total libraries ing month so far as practical results are concerned December is to the reading public, When in Congress. The idea that Congress is in session and doing, business the four new libraries are completed more the state will oXJanuary,-idiiriag the opeing-week- s firing have forty-twthat are - -- - or less of an illusion,- open to the public. There has been for sometime a growing sentiment against the This is a record for five years which n rcontnraantc-o- f swhtasiTOTne"ttrbe'-iere-preteftSpassed by any state in the Union and In no disposition unnecessarily to can- be equalled by few.- v rhasten the proceedings W Five years ago there were public or Senate, to insist that legislation shall be reduced to a cold business libraries only in the cities and towns basis; the necessity for ample consideration of all measures, for the of Salt LakevOgden, Provo and Brig-haCity. Since then public libraries widest latitude in debate, for extended, calm and careful deliberation, have been opened In Eureka, Cedar everywhere recognized among thoughtful people but 'the present City, Garland, Tooele, Vernal, Eph' method of procedure in the American Congress does not make for raim, Panguitch, Lehl, Murray, Forest any of these. It simply promotes the frittering away of time at the Dale, Bluff and Elsinore. Libraries beginning of a session and a scandalous haste in the disposition oft are now being prepared in Manti, St - I 21, 19H. - - . :. o ht that-20H4h-- s or o quarteFisKOhtrsligsl - - , m ; - Geprgeprice and Rlchftold and in ; x. business at its close. -- , ..' St. George they will be Manti and Why a holiday recess immediately after assembling? The ready within a short time. representatives and senators have, in the main, just arrived in Wash Under the state law towns which ington from their homes. Tlie inference is that the recess is intended have school libraries Are permitted to - to give them an opportunity to return to their homes,. As a matter open them to jthe'pttblic and twenty-tw- o of fact, few of them do return. The winter home of a large number towns of the state' have done this. of representatives and senators are in the capital. The only known reason for the holiday recess is that it is tustoniaryrand this is pre- '"Christmas Gifts that never the reason why time is generally and shamefully wasted in.the cisely grow bid. Provo Tea & China Co. session. of L. months and weeks every X ealy Fine line of Staple and Fancy Gro As a rule, little criticism, of congressional methods of ''killing is warm ceries at Sutherland Bros. the session well time" is heard 'until the advancedjfuntil thafthe discovered weather is approaching and it is principal supply THE BUSY. CORNER bills and other really important matterhave been neglected. Then and-th- en in Beebe e is Lumber Co. carry full such haste there both is country-widthere protest, inmd the "nouseTaToften rto leave "Seftojjsolsn XOTcerning public the efficiency and safety- - the American legislative system.. But phi Hardwall and Finishing Plas the time for cnticisjn and protest along this line it at the beginning, ter. not the close jAUhe session If there is to be reformation in this there certainly ouglit to be, it should be inaugurated ONE BEST BUYA WANT- particular-ari- d AD IN THE HERALD. rather than vainly' pressed for recognition at the finish. at ' it is on Excursion Tick account of Christmas and New Years. Selling dates December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, and January 1st. " ; Return limit Januray 8th. -- thfr-sfa- .' Spend the holidays with the folks and travel via rt of Up WW ne fflemiah s ma M - Kiss Me " " 2 4' Sweet Eileen Good-by- e, T Featured bs PAUL GILMORE in - Brace-n- - .lit--ll- p Tells of you finale 'i L Sol 1 Time diers march in?, has passed and gweet Ei Sweet Ei - bye... bye... ' leen, sweet : IX- i V m - fife and k the dram, day, 1,1 leen, Home, sweet rj , i ' II i Flags .M f kome." 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