| Show Sow Wt tint make our habits and then the aa set ' reap habit sow a habit reap character make ua SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 12 1933 Page One Let’s Make Week K OF Y TRIES TO HELP MEMBERS LOVE BOOKS Real Festival Of Good-Wi- ll this is the time when we need books as we never needed them before in our Own lives or in the ufe of our coLritry ' We are not going back to what we had we are going forward into unknown country Whatever life will be it will be different Whatever we have we will have more time to spend Whatever we need we will need most of all the power to find our places in tha world as it will be and to use ‘our new leisure People are reading now not so much to use their leisure as to find out how to use it That’s where we needs books They will help us get our bearings and invest our time New ’books and old books we need both books In the library need Children In the school most of all in the home —their own books to grow up on and to grow up with They need them because they need joy and there is no way of buying joy so cheaply as to buy the right book for a reading child Give children this birthright of joy lay the foundation of a love of reading and build shelf by shelf year by year the home library that does so much to bring parents and children together and help them to understand one another Where they read together thew grow up together Many forces are acting now to pull families apart but when parents and children have grown up together like this they may later be miles and miles apart and the bond will still hold See that children grow up with books about them m4see that the thhm r - Popkca-iegrgw- s fwpritrtjf delight of lending owtnirg-nhiff- - ' It is always with a Rewind fresh amazement that I hear a mother say her child doesn’t like to read And it is with an intense pity I hear the good wordsr “My child won’t read ’ hooks Just trashy things" to doesn’t like child Perhaps your read because you haven’t linked up his current interest with books about it And perhaps yours too prefers "trash” because he hasn’t had the opportunity of making friends with good books And by “good" books I do not necessarily mean the musty old volumes of Scott Dickens etc although they should hold a place in a child's heart at some time in his life Personally 1 think the best books that have ever been written for children are being written today I shall try In the scant space to suggest at least some of the many excellent books for children which will be on display during Book week in your local bookstore library and par- clubs Take your child with you to these displays and observe the topics and books which him in interest draw ' Stress the American Idea There are nonfiction books to meet j (CootlnixS is pass Elsbt) n ' (Copyright 1933 v-- Joyce and Ruth had always been tovers of books They would study hard from all their books and they took more care of them than the other children did One night Joyce and Ruth were studying at Joyce’s home They had a very hard lesson to study They studied and studied but neither seemed able to get the right answer All 1st once Ruth threw her book down as hard as she could upon the table The back of the book broke “Why Ruth!” said Joyce “don’t you know you should never’give up?” “I don’t care” said Ruth “I’m not going to study all night” She closed her books aald good night to Joyce and went home Joyce studied carefully a little longer “At last" she said “I have the answer It certainly does pay to be patient and not get angry” Tha next morning Ruth felt better and she was not so angry Joyce told Ruth she 'had solved the prob- Cervantes Shakespeare Longfellow Tennyson Gray Do you know: 8 What Is the capital of Florida? 7 Who is the hero of Dumas’ "The Three Musketeers"? S What does the expression "to lend a hand” mean? 9 Who invented the miner’s safety lamp? 10 What name is given to an account of a route followed fv a traveler? What is Jetsam? 12 Who was the first American to win the Nobel prize for literature? 13 Who wrote “Of Human Bondage"? 14 When is Lae tare Sunday? 15 Who composed the "Kreutzer Sonata”? King Features Syndicate Inc) - Friend That WiU Pay TEST Match correctly: ‘God’ has given you one face and you make yourselves another” ‘‘Her eyes are homes of silent prayer" 2' ‘ 3 "The paths of glory lead but to the grave” 4 "Trust no future howe’er pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead” 5 "An honest man’s word Is as good as his bond” s Joyce Shows Knighthood of Youth knowing what fun and knowledge come from books is always eager to open the door of Bookland to its member! One method is our Knighthood office bookshelf on which are kept all sorts of delightful books and magazines for our members to read These books are of varied appeal There are a number of dandy boys’ books about adventures or airplanes or Boy Scouts or how to make things there are books especially for girls and there are books for little folks Knighthood members may take these books home to read and thus get the full benefit from them I Or they may read here In the offloe browsing about as suits their fancy The photographer caughtf Page Sterling Alexander just as he was enjoying “A Dog of Flanders” a world famous book that has delighted children for years THE KNOWLEDGE afrt-sflann- This is the time of year when all roads lead to book week Year by year as these seven beautiful days roll around the multitude gladly celebrating grows steadily greater Teachers librarians clubwomen social and philanthropic organizations churches lawmakers editors— indeed all who know the joy of reading — come joining the celebration For there is something about the joy of reading that makes one determined to pass it on to others Book week has become a festival of good will Every year it is the first stir of the spirit that in six more weeks will be the Christmas spirit Let us make celebration in this year a seven-dawhich every man or woman With a cause to be grateful to a book shall help to show others what books can do for them Let us build everywhere new shelves that we may lay up treasure upon them MAY LAMBERTON BECKER Book Editor of Scholastic Tii& This Message For Mother or Father to Read- - M lem ' “I guess I should not have been so Impatient" said Ruth She paid the fine for breaking the book and said “I will never again use book so roughly They have been good to me and I will ba good to them" DOROTHY NEWTON 1J Mona ' |
