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Show MUST MAINTAIN PIIBLIC LIBRARY Mr. Cnrnegle Will Provide Funds BBH For Structure If Citizens Will H Provide Maintenance HBB HBH BHl Citizens generally In Logan nre taking a keen Interest In tho mntter HHfl of a public library and nro watching HHj with much concern tho movements HHfl looking toward this .end. Snmo .of BBfl those most active nro posltlvo in HHfl their statements that Mr. Carncglo H ! will glvo us n library If wo will H j maintain it. Tho only obstacle, It M would seem then, is whether tho tax- H ' payers nro willing to carry an addl- tional library tax to their nlready heavy burden of taxation. For a H $2.',000 library a 12500 maintenanco M fund Is required. This enn bo mot H ' with a ono mill tax and by such a jH tax, for every J40 .now paid in taxes, H $1 a year would bo added. From this It can plainly bo seen that the avor- H ago citizen would bo required to pay not more thnn a dollar for tho up- keep and maintenanco of a public IflH rending room that would bo a credit M to the city. H With tho reduction in taxation in 1914 on account of tbo end of tho M sewer tax it need not lead to an In- BBJ crease in taxation. Tbo following BBJ towns now have, or aro providing M free public libraries: Salt Lako, Og- M den, Provo, Drlgham, Tooele, Mantl, M Cedar, Eureka, Itlchncld, Richmond, H Garland and St. George. From the abovo ono can readily seo that Lo- gan would simply bo following tbo M examplo of many of tho smaller clt- les of tho stato In this matter. The M library Is to bo a book placo for all fl trades, occupations, nnd undortak- M ings, giving information to tho farm- H or, carpenter blacksmith, banker, dentist and merchant. ' As all tax H payors would contrlbuto to tho InstI- H tutlon, It Is plain that the public II- H brary Is but a co-opcrativo way of buying books. From tho presont H pulso or the people, it Is questionable H if thero uro nny citizens who would H object to assisting in providing n H placo for tbo boys, girls, men nnd U women to Rccuro n good reading H |