Evening star. [volume], January 15, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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. LIBRARY REPORT
EVOKES PROTEST
► Jacobs Committee’s Own
Statistics Disprove Find
ings, Official Says.
One of the generalizations reached
bv the Jacobs Fiscal Relations Com
mittee that the District Free Public
Library system is "used less” by the
public than those of 15 comparable
cities today drew a protest from Dr.
George F. Bowerman. librarian.
, He showed from statistics used by
the committee itself that registered
borrowers of the District actually used
more books than the average, per reg
istered borrower, in the other 15 cities.
In other respects, Dr. Bowerman
found the committee statistics sup
ported requests made by the Board of
Library Trustees and the librarian for
expansion of the library plant, its
equipment and personnel.
Scope of Report.
The committee reported that the
total number of volumes, the total
circulation, the personnel, the total of
registered borrowers and the number
of branches and subbranches of the
system here are lower than the average
for the other cities. Dr. Bowerman
explained that the trustees and the
librarian repeatedly have pointed out
that persons residing in fully half of
the area of the District have no
branch libraries convenient to their
homes.
Statistics found in section 13 of the
fiscal report (page 118) show the fol
lowing, as of 1935:
Average
other 15
Basis of comparison. D. C. cities.
Number of volumes (in
thousands) _ . 473 761
Total circulation (in
thousands)_ . _ 2.724 3.662
Total registered borrow- •
ers (in thousands). . 119 172
Number of employes
tfull-tlme eoulvalent) 207 270
Number of employes per
10.000 population_ 3.5 <.3
Number of employes per
l.ooo.ooo-volume cir
culation __— 76.1 67.2
Number of volumes per
thousand population_ 796 1.260
Book circulation:
Per capita __ 4 6 6.5
Per registered borrower 23.0 22.4
Per employe .. __ 13.157 15.204
Registered borrowers, per
cent of population reg
istered _ 20.0 29.2
Number of branches and
subbranches _ 9 28.5
The report said: "The District
library system is smaller, used less
and manned with fewer employes than
one typical of other cities.”
This comment, particularly the
phrase suggesting that the local Pub
lic Library is “used less” by the public.
Dr. Bowerman said "sounds like a
•lurring one.” He added:
“It is unfair since the very compar
ative table shows that the registered
borrowers of the local Public Library
actually borrow more books per regis
tered borrower than the average of
the other 15 cities with which the
comparison is made (23 volumes here
compared with the average of 22.4 vol
umes in the 15 other cities). This
•hows that Washingtonians have a
bigger appetite for public library
books than do the average readers In
these 15 other cities.
Number of Branches.
“The mast striking comparison in
this table is that of the number of
branch libraries in Washington as
compared with these other cities with
which the local Public Library is com
pared. According to this table Wash
ington has nine branches and* sub
branches as compared with an aver
age of 28.5 in the 15 other cities.
This, of course, means that the local
library system has too few agencies
to give service to the people of Wash
ington.
"The library trustees and librarian
have many times pointed out that the
people residing in fully half the area
of the District have no branch li
braries convenient to their homes—
that the library practically does not
exist for them. If there is any
justification for the use of the phrase
‘used less’ it is because this half of
the population—and especially the
children—does not have any public
library facilities that it can use.
“The table also shows that the local
Public Library’s book stock, actual
and per capita, the number of its
registered borrowers and its book cir
culation, actual and per capita, the
number of library employes, actual
and per capita, are all smaller than
the average of the 15 other cities with
which the comparisons are made.
“All of this means that the Dis
trict’s library system has too few
agencies for service to all the people,
that it has too few books (and too
little money with which to buy books)
and too few employes to give ade
quate library service. These are the
reasons why the library is ‘used less’
and not any lack of need or desire
on the part of Washingtonians for
books and library service.”
TWO SEEK CADETSHIPS
O. C. Foote, Jr., and E. F. Harding,
Jr., Presidential Appointees.
Two Washingtonians are among
candidates designated for the March
2 entrance examinations for admission
to the United States Military Academy
at West Point, the War Department
announced today.
They are Ovid Clemmons Foote, jr„
5112 Connecticut avenue, and Edwin
Forrest Harding, Jr., 3007 Albemarle
street. Both were designated as presi
dential appointments from the United
States at large.. They will take the
examination July 1.
Edison Will Join Little Cabinet
At Sacrifice of Business Plans
——— A - - -
He Had Planned to Re
tire to Private Life,
Aide Asserts.
By the Associated Press.
WEST ORANGE. N. J„ January 15.
—A keen sense of duty to his country,
inherited from- his famous inventor
father, led Charles Edison to Wash
ington and his new post as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy today despite a
strong personal desire to quit public
life.
‘‘He had made up his mind to de
vote his entire time to his private
interests and had planned to retire as
State director of the National Emer
gency Council,” an aide said. “Then
President Roosevelt asked him to call
at the White House. When he left,
he was Assistant Secretary of the
Navy. He just couldn’t say *no.‘ ”
That Edison wished to remain In
New Jersey so he could direct the
Edison industries was shown in previ
ous actions. He withdrew as assistant
Federal housing administrator after a
brief term in Washington to become
State N. E. C. director and about a
year ago he declined to run for the
United States Senate. He said then
he preferred to stay here.
“He feels that since he hasn't the
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Auto Strike to Be Topic.
Current aspects of the automobile
Industry strike will be discussed by
Benedict Wolf, secretary of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board, before
the Woman’s Trade Union League at
8 o'clock tonight at the Y. W. C. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets.
— -•
Belgium will encourage collective
wage agreements.
Democratic Luncheon Today.
The Democratic League of Colum
bia was to have Its weekly luncheon
meeting today at 1:30 p.m. at the
Burlington Hotel, with Frederick Tay
lor Wilson, historian and lecturer, as
Its guest speaker. Arthur Clarendon
Smith, president of the league, was
to preside.
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