Show UNEASY ERA CALLS FOR READING I 1 ahe HE NATION S TOP librarian and dr george gallup the poll taker are at odds over the reading habits of the american people john stewart richards president of the american library on a tour of public and school libraries says that people are reading more these days and that they re going in for less fiction and more purposeful leadir a vet liet dr gallup found in one of his surveys that six out of 10 americans lack the stamina to complete a 25 or page story once a year not to mention the more seimons is books most tn irking people would like to believe that librarian richards is rigl I 1 A democracy depends on information formation ri and the wisdom that comes irom from information it b a p etty good bet that mr air richards is correct on one point at least that people who are ve reading books are turning to those that can serve a useful purpose the troubled tunes times create a need for answers to many questions |