Evening star. [volume], May 15, 1936, Page B-19, Image 43

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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.
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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.
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