The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-30

roes in these books are good ones TO
initiate, and there is no danger of
going astray if we do initiate them. So
why not have a Catholic library at
tached to our Sunday SCHOOL, 1t. may
not be costly one, but let us have
| one. OF course, in a larger or richer
community they can have better one
than we can, but we can start small
| one, and in a few years it will have
| grown larger. ! believe we can Use
a subscription of % cents or 30 cents
/ per member of the church and turn the
money over to the priest. who would
gladly help us in our good work, if we
Will only help ourselves. The trouble
is we want the priest to do to it all,
but in this work it will take all of us
to make it a success. The priest vii!
purchase the best books that he can
get for the money, and we will have a
work started that will~live many years
after we are gone. If we can only get
few books to start with, we can add
to them by a monthly collection of 10
cents of % cents dues. 1t is not like
giving away % cents. You have only
invested the money in books, and you
can go to your library and get a book
each month that would cost you dol
lar at the book store, and ii may be
book that would cost S. all for % cents
decay: it will grow larger each year, |
and before you know it will have a col
lection of the best books in the world, |
for we have the best writer's right in |
our own church; and after our young
folks. and the old ones, too, have read
all of the books in our libary they will
be too wise to read the cheap novel.
and they will know that the % cents
they spent in starting the library was
the best investment they ever made.
| know that our good priest would
take a hand in. this work and help US
along. A little help from each Catholic
Will make a good library, and the first
book you read will repay you for your
money and trouble. Return the book
to the library and get another, where,
If you had bought a cheap book you
would throw it away, or if you kept it,
you could not get another for it in eH-
change at the book store. So, why not
have a lot of good books that you can
go and get for less than you pay for a |
poor book at the store. {
| believe library club could be con- !
lucted on a social line in some places !
which would bring our Catholics to-
,ether more than they are now. Say S
hat a few of our young folks would j
lave d library meeting at one of their Il
ZONES once week, or once a. month,
nd entertain those who belong to the !:
Tub, and invite few who do not be- il
1ng to the club. This will encourage g
hem to join after they have found out %
hat a pleasant evening your folks "
ad. They will want TO get hand in
ne work and will help you along with T
he cause. h
do not know of grander field than is
lis to work in for our young ladies. W
would furnish at least one or two
'enings of good entertainment each h
onth for their brother, or some other II
Tls brother or even a friend, who
herwise would spend the evening on 81
lie street or somewhere else where he il,
ould not hear nor learn near so much ~
,od as he would at the reading club. 81
1 believe that the good derived from a,
is kind of entertainment would even g.,
more than we would expect. Our
Jung men and women would get ac- in
tainted at these clubs. Yes, and some 49,
them would choose a life partner W.
pm the club, instead of miX-marry- =.
9, which has caused so much trouble ~ ~
d lost lots of good members from &c
2 church If this work should hap Is
v and there Tras not roo,,, =, The do
mo IN entertain Thorn u-bv thor, tbera an
uld be enough to rent a room some
ere that would be large enough to,
eOmmOdate them. but for a small Ma
/ prefer the home. for that la
the best place on earth to spend a ma
asant evening, and any mother or Th
her would gladly give at least one Nj
two nights in the month to enter Jol
n their son or daughter. cit,
While I realize this is a very crude
line of such movement, I think it
yht be the cause of a more fertile r
in taking it up and making it a sue the
5, D. H. GUERIN. frol