Show I vJ 1 Talks 1 to o School 1 Patrons j V R i i J By Dy James H. H Moore Moore County Super- Super f F Hav Have y your r children acq a tho the habit reading of-reading good books I John Alfred Lano Langford said With r out the love of books the richest man Is poor but endowed with this treasure of tl treasures the poorest poorest poor- poor r est man Dan is rich He has wealth X fi can diminish riches rich rich- g wh which ch no power ower j 1 es which are always Increasing possessions possessions pos- pos r sessions Which the Ule more he scatters the more they accumulate friends r who never never desert him and pleasures which never clo cloy t e tj One Ope beautiful and r restful form of tre t 1 j re recreation creation Is reading reading reading-an an evening at e 1 least once each week should be v spent spent at home with all the family present conversing with each other 5 sand and reading good books and magazines maga- maga jj i I want In this talk not to sermonize sermonIze sermon- sermon v of oC acquiring the theT ize on n the benefits T reading habit but to help you In the selection of good books for your r f children children and for yourself In his booklet entitled Six years of Home Reading Prof J. J H H. Paul of the University of Utah has presented pret pre- pre t rented a classified list ot of at books for 7 7 each season of the year and for six It n years May I suggest that every parent secure one of these booklets Jv a 4 by the tho Deseret They are published i zt Book Dook company Salt Lake and may maybe maylo lo 1 be be obtained I from their thel book store or orthe the University of Utah Book store f Would you be interested In reading the titles of his list for spring of ther the r J- J first year Here they are Spring This Spring This is The Life 1 For Boy Scouts Campfire and B Beehive girls pr primary mary teachers Y young people not In high school and parents of the latter l' l y Camping for Boys Henry Wm Gibson Vacation Camping for Girls r J. J A. A Marks Marks' Being a Boy Doy Charles CharlesJ 0 J Dudley Warner Understand nd Betsey j-j- j Dorothea D roth a Canfield Poems of Action David R. R Porter 7 II For Scout masters Campfire If- If guardians Beekeepers pupils In high school and their parents grammar grade teachers and others others oth oth- ers era r Harpers Harper's Ind Indoor or Book for Boys J. J II Adams Ha Harpers Harper's pers Out Door Book nook for Boys Days J. J H. H Adams CampIng Camping Camp Camp- ing and Outing Activities T T. T H. H Cheley Choley Told by the Campfire Frank H. H Cheley Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Tho Wilderness Castaways Castaways Castaways Casta ways Dillon Wallace A A. Boy Boyan on a I I Farm Jacob Jacok Abbott Camping C with Henr Henry Frank H H. Cheley III For college people high school teachers public pubu officials and other l leaders ders Camp Life in th the Woods Wo d Wm H. H Gibson Camp Craft Warren H H. Mil MIl- ler ter Social Activities for Men en and Boys Dos Boys Meader bosley ley At Home In the Wat Water r George H. H Corean Coran Corsan Cor- Cor san ean an Wild Life in the tle George F. F Ruxton This is b but t a partial list You should have the booklet Speaking of books has your community community com com- a a. public library or school library Do you know If the books are read and appreciated Have you gone to the library for books to read Roosevelt My Myton 1 ton and Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne have hae free public libraries supported by by- taxation a and d Altonah Mountain Home Boneta Doneta and perhaps others have good school libraries My advice would be to tomake tomake tomake make u use e o of them What about your home library Do you ou Invest a few dollars each year in good books When yo you buy books do you make careful selections selections selections Perhaps one of the most carefully carefully carefully care care- fully selected private libraries In Duchesne county belongs to Mr 0 O. C C C. Lockhart president of the school board This is from Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson Emerson Emer Emer- son Consider what you have In the smallest chosen library A company compan of the wisest st and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries countries countries coun coun- tries in a thousand years have set la hi In best order the order the results of their learnIng learning learning learn learn- ing and wisdom The men themselves themselves themselves them them- selves were hid and inaccessible solitary solItary sol sol- Impatient of Interruption fenced b by etiquette but the thought which they did not net uncover to their bosom friends Is here written out ut m in transparent words to us the strangers strang strang- ers of another age |