Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-24

for the working out of arrangements I for the reception and entertainment | here of delegates who will come to Putnam during the second week of l May to attend the annual state con- vention of the organization. The ac-- l credited delegates will number about 1 l20 but the visitors will be far in ex- l cess of that number. Arrangements 1 have already been made with the | city's four hotels to care fer a ma
 iority of the delegates.
 1 The tentative program for the con- 1 Vention includes the comforting here Sunday afternoon, May II. of the third 1 degree upon a large class of candi- l dates in Owls hall. This function is | expected to attract many visiting knights from all parts of eastern Connecticut as well as distant parts
 As many of the convention officials and delegates will have arrived here by Sunday May Il, the council has arranged to entertain them during 1 Monday, when they will be taken for
 a motor tour over what is historic ground. A visit to the Wolf Den, thepce through the beautiful Wood .stoclls and into equally attractive
 Thompson will be made This will in
 
 tour. local knights who are familiar
 with the history of this locality and
 many other facts concerning it going
 along to keep the visitors informed.
 Monday evening, May 12 the grand
 concert and ball. always a big feature
 Ef each ye9iy convention of the
 Knights of Columbus, will be held in Union hall, which will be handsomely
 decorated Following a solemn high mass at St. Marys church. where all the con- } vention members and many other wis | itfng knights will attend service, the z convention sessions will be opened 1T the Empire theatre Tuesday morning j May 13, The business of the .conven- . tion will include the submitting of the { annual reports of state officers, which
 reports will cover the most remark 9 ably successful and active year of the : orders history in Connecticut where . it was founded; election of state off
 cers and the transaction of the uSua amount of business done at such con : Ventions.
 s After adjournment of the conven. r ton, a banquet will be served in Elks = hall.
 The delegates will begin leaving
 Putnam on late trains Tuesday after 1 noon.
 CargiIl council which conferred tn v second degree on a class of candidates 1 Sunday, hopes the first state conven = tion of the Knights of Columbus eve . held in this city Wil% be one of thu : most notably successful in years. f Members Of the board of directors O = Putnam's public library were not slov V l to challenge the published suggestion , that all is not as it should be insofa : as careful selection of books for tn
 1 library is concerned and as pertain
 to the safeguarding of the pubIi = against getting, through the institu d tion, at least temporary possession o z books of questionable moral tone. ;. Discussing on Saturday the pub . ished criticisms of the library by '1 Il Patron" a member of the board o
 directors of the institution said tha y the board always invited suggestion e as to new books or library manage = ment or direction and the board hat e in fact. published requests that sue u suggestions be submitted. Not soli = tary response came to this public in n yitation.
 n As to there being books of question : able standard, this director refers t
 the fact that comparatively recent il the books at the library were inspect < ed by Mrs. Belle HoIcomb Johnson
 connected with the state library 8 a Hartford. Mrs. Johnson did not re I ject a single volume. Other review ,s and inspections of the library files di ., not result in even one book being re D jected in all of 1917 and 1918.
 The books, the member of the boar
 says, that are purchased for the Put
 nam public library are selected frol ,+ the American Library associatio ,- book list. from the literary lists pull ", lished in the book review depart ,It ments of the Boston Transcript an is the New York Times and from th IS IS lists of books purchased for the Ne ,s Haven public library.
 5 The expert review of the Putnal ,a liFary's books by Mrs. Belle Holcon : Johnson not only did not result in an e suggestions whatever that volume ip there should be rejected, but, on Il rm m other hand. did elicit from her a ~ enthusiastic statement as to the e1 r- cellence Of this lfbrary's collection {
 books on history and travel, WhiC
 collection she described as very sl a perior. Mrs. Johson did remark tn; le these books should be read more tha ek the library records show to be u 'f case
 Il, The fundamental object of librs Id ry is education this director sa ID Saturday. Some may criticise worl III on spirituaiism or hundred oth
 SupJecLS III WHICH they OO not ndppt r. to be interested. They do not res ey sI1ch works. are not Interested ca them. or disagree with the writers no are opposed to the teachings or the at ries: sic-they wish to consign the ne to oblivion! Ii does rot occur to SUI O. people, evidently. that there may
 hundreds of others who are interest of in such subjects; interested in the Is, for any one of hundred reasons