Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
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Y j 70 HUSTLE
Reor's 1ation Of Rresent'heth-
ods OF Circulation Necessary
to Bring Results
MUST GO TO THE people
In Larger Cities Of State Different
Method of Getting Books to Patrons
Needed to Bring Libraries to Re.
quirements and Their Opportunities
-Des Moines as an Illustration.
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Des Moines, May 6.-Accordfrg to
some expert librarians who are abreast
Of the march of events in the library
world and who are familiar with the
needs and necessities In Iowa, there
must be a reorganization of the lie
braries and a little hustle must be got
ten on things if the libraries are to fill
completely their field of usefulness. In
this day and age it is claimed
that it will not do for Ii
braries to wait for the people
to come to them. They must take the
books to the people. For the most part
the librarians are familiar with this
fact but the library trustees who are
business men and accustomed to pinch
ing their pennies till the Indian yells,
are accustomed to believe that librar-
les are built to see how econDmically
they canNbe run.
Recently in the city of Des Moines
the librarian sent up wall of anguish
because moving into the new library
on the river front the library has been
used nothing like as much as when it
was stuck away in an old store building
up at Eighth and Locust. 1t is learned
that fsome other cities of the state are
complaining of the same thing.
Trained librarians say that in the east
ern cities there is a completely organ
lied system of book distribution. Book
readers, and in those cities about ev-
erybody is a book reader, go to their
grocery store or their drug store and
leave list of two or three books that,
they want There@are two deliveries of
books in the morning and evening. It
is so easy to get library books in those
cities that everybody reads. In Des
Moines it is necessary to take a street
car, if you can't afford a carriage or an
automobile, and get transfer to some
other line in order to get to, the library
and do the same thing to go back
home again. To get book from the
Des Moines library is the work of q
couple of hours to say the best.
. i l y r.
State superintendent Riggs owns an
automobile that he purchased but re-
Gently. Professor Riggs is something
of philosopher and after he had
owned the machine a week some one
asked him how he liked it. His re-
sponse was: '"There are two classes
of people who buy autonobiles-mil-
lionaires and FOOLS"
Cecil Dixon for some sessions jour-
nal clerk in the senate, is preparing to
shake the dust Of Iowa off bis feet
and become a citizen of Michigan. He
is going to Detroit, which he will make
his home and where he will become
connected with a manufacturing con-
Germ. Mr.. Dixon is q young and ener-
getic man and an able one. He has
out a career in the manufac-
turing business and is going after it. 4
He would rather stay in Iowa and tho
made some good offers in this state,
was offered nothing as good as at De-
troit
Blindness no longer is bar to the
of osteopathy in Iowa. Under
an opinion handed down by Attorney
General Byers yesterday the state
board of medical examiners is directed
to examine persons who are blind and
If otherwise they are qualified to issue
certificates to them. In this holding
the attorney general is constrained to
differ with his predecessor, G. w Null
lan,. who held that blind applicant |
for scertificates- y to practice osteopathy |
could not be examined.
The law provides that persons ap-
pearing before the state board to take |
the examination for certificates must |
submit to several conditions. Among
them is this: ''Third, all examinations
shall be in writing" 1t was held by At
torney General Mullan that as blind
man could not write his. examination
papers he could not be given the exam
ination. The contrary view appeals to
Attorney General Byers.
Twenty three years ago Supreme
Judge Beck wrote an opinion in which
he first gave legal Endorsement to the
use of the typewriter in recording court !
Had not such a rule been
adopted and were the rule in force that
only seeing persons could practice os-
Leopathy, medicine and the law, those |
lignified professions would lose many
Of their most conspicuous lights.
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