The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-03-18

up at JlllS SCSSlOl OF Jfc leGlSld-
ture. This gave the matter wide
publicity throughout the county as
Mr.. jennings talk as we'll as those
of Mr.. VIM +. Henry and Mr..
Herbert Killam were quite fully re
ported in the local papers.
Children's Book Week was cele-
brated by an attractive display at
the library of suggested books for
Christmas buying. Miss Croker,
of the Library staff, visited the
book stores in Everett, the Chill
dren's Book shop at Frederick and
Nelson's and The Bon Marche and
addressed the Parent-Teachers AS
sociation at the Lincoln School on
christmas Books Worth Buying.
The Pilgrim Tercentenary day
was celebrated by a story hour at
the library when two Pilgrim stor-
les were told by Mrs. |. p. Hewitt.
SO large number of children re-
sponded that many were turned
away as the auditorium was so full
that no more could hear the stories.
1t is to be hoped that with the in
crease in the library's book re-
sources the story hour may be con
tinued as part Of the regular
library activities.
The library is now giving instruc-
ton in how to use the library to
all of the Eighth grades in the city
schools. The librarian has gone
to each school and given a library
lesson to every Eighth A and to
some of the Eighth B grades. The
classes are then brought to the
library for two periods of two hours
each, the first time for a problem
in how to find books on the shelves
and the second for a reference prob
lem involving the use of the maya
zines and their indexes.
Several copies, each of care
fully selected reading list of books
for boys and girls from the Third
to the Eighth grades is being pur-
chased for our work with the school
children. In order to make this
possible as well as the purchase of
needed material for little children
and for adults, the Library Board
decided that the amount which had
been carried in the 1920 Budget for
extension service in the form of a
book wagon and an additional staff
member for the work with schools
and children must go for books
without which this extension ser
vice is impossible.
| wish to express my apprecia-
ton of Mrs. Hewitt's work in
charge of the story hour and of
the cooperation of the Eighth grade
Principals and Teachers in the Ii
brary work with the schools. With
cut the help of the teachers who
have come with the classes to the
library it would have been impossi-
BILE with our small staff to have
given the lessons to so large a
number of boys and girls.
| wish to thank the Library Board
for their helpful and active support
and the Library Staff for it's loyal
spirit of service.
LIBRARIAN.
GENERAL LIBRARY STATISTICS
Volumes in Library JAM. /,
Volumes add 192O...-...1, 500
" withdrawn ...... 26S 1852
1920 .....................,...........-...,13,579
Circulation for 1920
Adult OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. oO,96t
Juvenile 29,1
Total ..,,.-..--.....--..... 80,1
Number of new borrowers registered
during the year
Adult ,23S
Juvenile ..................-.... TAI
Total ..,...,...........,.,......,.........1,979
FINANCIAL REPORT
Expenditures
Books, including freight and
express ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,466.70
Periodicals and Newspapers 372.6S
Binding ............................. 209.80
Building equipment and re-
pairs, including furnace. 1,17111
Salaries ............................. 4,746.30
Fuel .............................. 447.42
Light .................--.......... 1874 10
Telephone ................................ $3.50
Insurance ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
Stationery, Printing and
Supplies ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 211.2O
Other Maintenance ............ Al Sc
$9,984.67
Book orders and binding out
standing .............................2 ,046. 43
$12,031.10
Receipts
Taxes Sc ,045.67
Fines, Rentals and Sundries 1892
$6,S2S. 20
Special appropriation for the
year ................................... 100000
S12,428.29
lombard ALIENS COURT
Topeka, Kan, March "a steady
bombardment of Governor Aliens
"can't-strike" court is maintained
by the State Federation of Labor,
which takes every opportunity to
expose its savagery against the