The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1920-03-31
FOR BENEFIT
OF LIBRARY
EXCELLENT PICTURE AND MUSI-
CAL PROGRAM HAVE BEEN
ARRANGED FOR CAUSE.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT
AT PRINCESS THEATRE NEXT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

For the benefit of the Maryville
public library, a moving picture
show and entertainment will be given
at the Princess theatre Friday and
Saturday afternoons and nights of
this week. There will be a continuous
show from 10 in the morning until
the close of the theatre at night.
Lila Lee will appear in "The Heart
OF Youth" The affair is being given
under the auspices of the Tuesday
Club. in addition to the pictures
there daa1r will be special attractions both
Friday afternoon Birds orchestra
will render musical program assist
ed by local musicians. Friday night
the orchestra, assisted by the Ladies'
Quartet of the M. E. Church, Miss
Helen Goddard, soprano, and Mr..
Ray Sullinger, saxophone, will rem
der a program.
Saturday afternoon the children
will give musical program, and Sat
urday night living songs and living
pictures will be the feature with some
of Maryville's prettiest girls appear
ing.
Maryville's public library was es
tablished last fall through the liberal
support given it by citizens of the
town, contributions of books and mon
ey both having beer "~ceived. How
ever the money is s-,Jut exhausted
and the library is sorely in need of
funds. A public library is a public
benefit and the need for the contin-
uance of the library needs no argu-
ment. Everyone knows the value of
good books both in the hands of
young folks and older people. To date
however, the library has been sup
ported as sort of charity instiru-
ton, by donations, concerts, etc. A
thing that is worth as much to the
public welfare as a library is too i'm
portant an institution to go begging
for money. The public library is the
publlc's business and benefit, and
should be supported by public money.
Maryville's public library should be
supported through a tax levy and the
citizens of the town should appeal to
the city commission to make a special
levy for library purposes in its next
years budget which. will be made
out in few months. A small amount
added to the tax rate for library
purposes would not be felt to--any
great extent by any one, yet the ac
cumulated amounts would enable the
town 20 have sufficient income for
the maintenance of its library both in
in operation and in adding to it's
shelves new volumes and expanding
the usefulness of the institution to
the people of the town.
The public library is too big and
too important thing for twenty five
fifty or one hundred people to suu-
port. The same twenty five or fifty
or hundred people who are called up
on to support it are called upon to
support everything else that comes
along for public good and public |
benefit, and the library ought to be
made public institution in fact as
well as in name, and by the town
bearing the expense of the institution
it will be public institution in fact |
as well as in name.
The public library must be kept 60
ing and there must be Individual |
support until the public treasury |
comes to its relief, but now is the |
time to start the movement to get |
the public treasury to help carry the
burden, and by this effort and thru
the success of this effort, the library |
can be made a permanent institution
but without it, it cannot be made the |
great institution it should be unless
some benefactor endows it, and there !
is no report of there being any such
likelihood just at this time.