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Show LIBRARIANS JOIN FIGHT ON UNREST i American Library Association Inaugurates In-augurates Nation-wide "Books for Everybody!" Movement. WILL AID FOREIGN BORN. Social Problems Can Be Solved by Teaching American Ideals and Traditions. Tlio spirit of unrest that hns heen sweeping the country Indicates thai the foreign born, who hnve flocked to the United States from every corner of the gloho have not been given the proper help and encouragement, In the opinion of the 4,000 librarians who make up the American Library Association Associ-ation and who arc now enlisted In n "Hooks for Everybody" movement. The effort Is a concerted movement to carry out the Enlarged Program which the association has adopted. There are approximately fifteen millions mil-lions of foreign born In the United .States and of this number six millions do not read or speak the English Ian-guugu. Ian-guugu. One phase of the Enlarged Program will be to bring the publisher and translator together with the view of furnishing the proper books In sufficient suf-ficient numbers to carry the message of American Idcnlt and traditions to this vast army of uninformed pco pie. They have been largely dependent upon tlie foreign press for their written writ-ten niessnges. Many men who live with their fingers on the pulse of current cur-rent events aro firmly convinced that a sound foundation In Americanism can be easily built among the foreign born If the proper literature Is placed within their reach in a language they can understand. No Drive to Be Held. In order to carry out the Enlarged Program two million dollars will be required. This money will not be 'sought through the medium of a campaign cam-paign or an Intensive drive, but will ho obtained tlirough the Individual efforts ef-forts of the librarians, library trustees and friends of libraries. Tho American Amer-ican Library Association will bend every effort to bring about tho na-tlon-wido adoption of each of the cardinal points In tho Program, which Includes the extension of the county library li-brary sytem and the establishment of more Industrial and business libraries. 1 It now has In operation book service to the United States Merchant Marine, I Coast Quard, Lighthouse Service and hospitals of the United States Public Health Service. The needs of the 75,000 blind persons In the United States will be cared for. At present j tho number of books available Is woe-' woe-' fully Inadequate. This will be reme-I reme-I died and the Joys of good literature will be brought Into lives that are j darkened by a veil which will never I bo raised by any other method. Not all the work of Americanization lies In the great centers of population. Great sections of the country where Industry In-dustry Is carried on by foreign workers work-ers do not know public library service. There are Important mining state where less than a score of libraries exist. One ulnlng state has but two public libraries. |