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Show LIBRARY TAKEN TO FARMS BY WAGON There are some few thlnps that aro rli-nled tho farmer's famliy, simply hecauso he lives out In the country and gets his mall out of a R. F. D.I mall box, rather than from a uniformed uni-formed postman. One of the most lamentable of tbsse Is the public library And tho public library Is perhaps one of tho things that the boy and girl on the farm nerd more than anything else. The public library conimslslon of; Indiana Is trying to take their libraries li-braries Into tho country' and have fit- j td up six 'traveling libraries" which travel through the country with an assortment of books for farm folk. The first of these wagons was put Into operation at I'lalnfleld In 1913. Since that tlnv five others have be-K'in be-K'in to tako ih- books from the town libraries Into the eountry Thirteen counties In the statf are covered by ( library systems with stations estaD- llshed In local communities of the county. In all there arc 3J0 of the 1.000 township units served from the town centers. This service covers moro than two-thirds of the population popula-tion of the statu and one-third of the purely rural population. While Indiana has done much to iH develop the traveling library sm and to ImproNe Its sorO'-'- It c I claim credit for being flr.st to gH I idea. Rural delivery- service -H ,town libraries tart-'l In H;igcr9t0j I Md , where the hook wagOBS been serving Washington ountT I I 20 years |