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Show LIBRARIES AND NEWSPAPERS Tho League of Library Commltteos which has been holding a convention at Cblcugo tho past week has been considering tho matter of dropping nowspapcrs from library reading rooms, on tho ground that newspapers newspap-ers aro so accesslblo to all that thoy nro not essential to libraries. Tho committees seems llkoly to recommend recom-mend that tho libraries discontinue taking them. If thoy do it thero would bo a big protest. In tho rending room In a argo library, tho nowspapor section Is what draws tho crowd. Men will hnng around for an hour waiting for their turn to rend a favorite Journal, Compared with a library mngazlno room, tho nowspnper section seems far moro valuable as a popular educator. edu-cator. The magazine readers spend their tlmo over trifling fiction or paddod articles written to go with certain pictures. Tho nowspnpor Is read to learn about real things that actually happen. An hour 3pent in looking over the Journals from near and distant cities Is a broadening oxperlenco. Ono gots tho points of view of other states, mmunltles, and sections of social To. Tho moro newspapers a man reads, ho moro ho sees that thero aro two sides to every argument. Tho very best newspaper must bo ono sided, If It Is to present its points of vlow with any forco and enthusiasm. Only by learning whnt thoy think on tho other sldo of tho dobato, ovor ln tho next state, or across tho country, will ono seo the wliolo truth. Publishers havo always been divided divid-ed as to whether It Is a buslnoss nd-vantago nd-vantago to furnish newspapers to libraries. Somo say It reduces tho salo of tholr Journals, whllo others regard It as excollcnt advertising. But tho public will sooner seo tho books and mazaglncs thrown out ot tho reading rooniB boforo it pormlts tho aowspapers to go. |