Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-04-09

at which committee of the Palmer
library board met with the school
board. Mr.. j. ~ Hamilton being also
present by request Of both
boards. At this meeting the plan
proposed by the library board was
placed before the school board
The proposition OF the library trus-
tees in brief was as follows: The
school board should obligate the dis
tricts to take and care for the hooks
in good order, properly shelving and
cataloging them, attend to loan'ng
and recovering them. II being under
STOOD and expressed that the books
should be kept in the school building.
That thedistrictshould keep the IL
brary open for thepublic one day of
each week or more during all the
year, That the district should use
not less than five per cent OF the
present value of the books, or $25
per year for the purchase OF new
books. 1t being admitted by all that
the books were well worth 500 at
the present time.
1t is being also stipulated mat new
purchases of books should be made
by a committee consisting of mem
bers Of the school 6oard and the
superintendent of schools in con
junction with committee OF trus-
tees of the Palmer library.
The school board refused to accept
the library unlessthe gift was abso-
lutte in title and the books should be-
come the property of the district with
out conjunction with the trustees nan
ed by the donor.
The trustees OF the Palmer Library
having no authority to make gift
or the books the matter fell to the
ground for the time being.
II was then and later suggested thal
the decision could be submitted to
the voters OF the district at the com
ingelection. With that end In view
this explanation is made.
TIE whole matter resolves itself in
to this proposition. Here is tne
foundation OF library Tor the school
and general public of the city worth
now $500 this It Is proposed to give
the publicasfully as free gift could do
it except that the Palmer Library trui
ices would always have a watchFul
Supervision of It 10 see that the in
tent ,of the donor that 1t should be
used for the puOlicandcared aosproper-
ly was respected That in conjunction
with the school boardand superintend
ent OF schools only useful looks
should be purchased from year TO
year. 1t is the same as though a mar
should say to his friend here is alarm
now worth $1,000 | will give you the
use of it for YOU and your Ieirs ior-
ever, but | will not sell II to YOU
nor give you a title in fee simple
My only requirements from youis that
You use five per cent Of its present
worth annually to make the farm NOR
useful to you.
What will the annual out lay for
brooks at the lowest limit allowed in
the proposition of the Palmer Libra
ry trustees, cost the individual taxpay
er? The present assessed valuation
of the district is 81 1,136, 1921 90 to pro-
cure the $25.0O asked by the library
trustees would require that the rate
now levied should be increased to the
amount Of one -thousandth part
of a mill or in other words the levy
would be raised one five-thousandth
part OF one tenth OF one cent. II
one had that amount OF money in
gold it would require a good micro
scope to see it. The above figures
.,ere furnished by the county clerk,
and may be relied on as accurate.
e. d. SMITH.