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Show RETURN TO BOOKS National Library Week will be celebrated throughout the country from April 12 through April 18. It is a week of promotion to encourage citizens to take advantage of the facilities of public and private libraries to broaden their knowledge. In our modern day of modern communications, read-fog read-fog for information, knowledge, or entertainment is falling by the wayside. National cartoonist Walt Keeley, author of "Pogo" has summed it up in a statement befitting the theme of National Library Week, "Wake Up and Read." "In these days when more of us run than read, and when what we know exceeds what we understand, let me urge a return to the book. "The book remains that small, handy instrument called call-ed a key. We can all carry it and with it we can unlock most of the doors to the unimaginable beauties that lie somewhere beyond the TV set, to the east of the movies, and to the west of the moonshine that flows from too many media of communication. "Best of all the book is not a fleeting fancy. It is steady. It remains ready for reference, for reassurance, and paradoxically for the comfort of companionship as well as the luxury of solitude. I am for it." Walt Keely |