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Committee Proposes Course i Limited to Students From Latin America. >7 thr Associated Presi RICHMOND. Va.. May 15.—The Committee on Library Co-operation with Latin America proposed here today that an additional American Library Association annual scholar ship, limited to Latin American stu dents, be created. The association's ^ counsel took the suggestion under ad visement. It was presented to the body, In convention here, by Mary Helen McCrea, librarian of the Lewis and Clark High School, Spokane, Wash. I The morning session also elected I Elihu Root to the Library Association Council. The former Secretary of War and State under the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administra tions has been a trustee of the New York Public Library for 20 years. "* Last night the delegates heard Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, advo cate the taxing of wealth to provide free library facilities. He said 45, 000,000 Americans now lack such fa cilities. Urges Equalization Fund. Dr. Graham urged the creation of an equalization fund to extend public libraries into areas where illiteracy Is high. There is, he said, an "un equal opportunity for children today, considering the great libraries in cen ters of population and the absence Of libraries in rural areas.” Other high lights of the A. L. A.’s ' fourth-day session were an explana tion of the British interlending library •ystem, whereby every Briton can se cure desired books, and a plea by R. D. W. Connor, Washington, national; archivist, that librarians stimulate the Interest of Americans in the priceless documents housed in the National Capital. "Ideas let loose by old manuscripts broke down the feudal system and led to new discoveries." Dr. Graham said. "The modem library is the treasure house of old books and the creative center for the wrriting of new books, out of which have come modem 'aclence, industrialization and democ racy.” Country-wide, State-wide and Na tion-wide library organizations must be established. Dr. Graham declared, "if farmers and workers are to have the facts with which to check the generalizations made by demagogues. “With a free school, free church, free press and free library, you cannot j have a dictatorship.” In discussing the rural South in par ticular, Dr. Graham said a race is v now in progress "between the boll weevil and the public library, between farm tenantry and social regenera tl An With the National Central Library In London serving as a corner stone, the whole resources of Great Britain are placed at the disposal of readers through interlending of books, Lionel R. McColvin. London, honorary secre tary of the British Library Association, aaid. England has established the princi . pie, McColvin said, that "the individ ual reader, no matter where he liyes or what he wants, has a right to draw Upon the whole resources of the na tion. • • * We have devised the ma chinery by which to serve him, and this achievement opens up an entirely new horizon to the more serious reader.” Racing Drivers Protected. Woman motor cycle racers in Eng land are wearing vlsored crash hel * tnets. -+ CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance, 8-40 Club of the American _ Legion, Broadmoor Hotel, 10 p.m. Meeting Bar Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dance, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, La Fayette Hotel, 10 p.m. Carr! nartv Pi Th*tn Pi Frotomitu La Fayette Hotel, 8 pm. Birthday party. Ohio GirUf Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenue, 8:15 p.m. Alumni smoker, Virginia Military Zbstltute, Army and Navy Club, • p.m. Card party, Sodality Union, WUlard Hotel, 8 pm. Dinner and fair, Hamlin M. E. Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets, 9 p.m. Meeting, Shepherds of Bethlehem, N Washington Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Sigma XI Fraternity, Uni versity Club, 6:30 p.m. Dance, Georgetown University Sen ior Prom, Wardman Park Hotel, JO p.m. Dance. Georgia State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting and buffet supper. Order Of Alhambra, WUlard Hotel, 8 pm. t- Dinner, Panhellenlc Association, * Mayflower Hotel 7 p.m. Dinner, Kappa Beta Pi, EpsUon -hhapter, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm. Tea dance, Georgetown University Senior ClasV, Wardman Park Hotel, A pm. Meeting, Biological Society, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Dance, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, Broadmoor Hotel, 10 pm. Card party, Anacostia Citizens’ Association, Masonic Hall, Fourteenth and U streets southeast, 8 pm. —1— Luncheon, Guidance and Personnel Association of the District of Colum bia, Hay-Adams House, 1 pm. 4-PC. 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