Show P r- r rS J S LIBRARIANS JOIN FIGHT ON UNREST American Library Association InY In Inaugurates In- In Y r- r wide Nation-wide Books for Everybody Movement WILL AID FOREIGN BORN t. Social Problems Can Be Solved by Teaching American Ideals r- r and Traditions The spirit of ot unrest that has hai been weeping the be country Indicates that the foreign born who have hae ha e flocked to I Ithe the he United States from every corner of r the globe ll have te not been ghen given the proper help and encouragement In n the opinion of the librarians who I make up the American Library Association anon an and Who are now enlisted in a Books for Everybody movement A The effort Is a n concerted movement Afa fa r to carry out the Enlarged Program which the association has hns adopted There are approximately fifteen millions mil roil lions Jons of foreign born in the United States and of ot this number six millions do not read or speak the English lan Ian r wage guage One phase of ot the Enlarged Program will be to bring the publisher and aDd translator together with the view of ot furnishing the proper books in suf sufficient t I numbers to carry the message of ot American ideals and traditions to this vast army of ot uninformed people peo peo- Co- Co y pie They hat have hae e been largely largI dependent a. a upon the foreign press for tor their writ arlt t written ten messages Many Jinny men who livet live t with their fingers on the pulse of current curr current cur cur- r rent nt events are firmly convinced that thata Y a sound toun foundation In to Americanism can an be easily built among the foreign born bom If It the proper literature le Is placed within their heir reach in a n language they thel t can understand No Drive to Be Held A In order to carr carry out the tile Enlarged Program two million dollars will be required This money will not be besought besought 6 M sought through the medium of a campaign cam cam- l 4 paten or an Intensive drive but will willbe willbe be obtained through the individual efforts efforts ef ef- j forts of the librarians library trustees and friends of libraries The Amerlean AmerIcan AmerIcan Amer- Amer Ican lean Library Association will bend every effort to bring about the nationwide nationwide na na- A tion wide tion-wide adoption of each of the cardinal points In the Program which Includes the extension of the count county library II- II and the establishment of ot more Industrial and business libraries r It It now has lias in operation book service to the United States Merchant Marine Coast Guild Guard Lighthouse Service and hospitals of the United States Public Health Service The needs of the blind persons In the United States will be bo cared for At present E i the number of ot books bools available Is woe woe- woefully fully inadequate This will be remedied remedied remedied reme reme- died and the Joys of good literature will Ill be brought In Into to lives lItes that tha tare are darkened by a n veil eil which will never ne be he raised it bj by any other oilier method r Not ot nil all the work of Americanization lies in the great centers of ot population ar Great sections of the country where In Industry In Is carried on hv hy foreign workers workers work work- c ers era do not know public library service tV There are Important mining states 1 where here less than a score core of libraries exist t. t One mining state has but twe tw tw libraries public pU |