The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-01
AMERICANS OPEN LIBRARY FRANCE
Devastated R c zion s Committee Gives 5000 Books and Picks Li- bTaTianS.
By ALTCE LA<GEEIlZR tutcrnaticnal News Service stan Cor
 respondent

] Ta-.a. Dec. l. little bit of ! America has just been presented to Paris in the form of a new library. organized, equipped and directed according to the most modern American methods
 The equipment, including 5000 new books. was donated by -He A American Comumittee for the Devastated Re gIonss which will administer and di- rect the three French librarians for 3 year After that time the French @lli manage lt wholly themselves Every year two or three French v-onl- en will be sent to America for library training.
 T1lle- 2 Little suburb of Paris, is in a modest. cheerful building. close be- side the school and an old municipal pIbraTy- With its fresh coat of paint. indirect lighting system and plants and flowers, it makes one think of the branch or suaL-LOwu libraries m America l. will be run on much the same lines as those which were so successful during the war
 every arrOudi~semeuC or ward. For the most part these collections are luddled into small. dark Glugy rooms. poorly lighted and almost al- ways without reading rooms for the public The crowds of people form lines at the entrance to wait for the books to be handed out to them. little paper-DacNed novels. which, 2eLore the war, could be bought for 20 or -5 cents per EolumDe- cost five or six times that price now. One must now get his literature at the municipal library. even if 1t is mot up taut neatly menaeo9- and tnere are so few copies of the newest Lre~a ture that ono is often obliged to wait for the books {" STOW old and rnEs-s be-
 
 -tThe new American library is only 2 sample" said A-oa-=-Gor Harr.rIz. in his Ed6d-e-S on The opening UiElr. I've hope the French people win like 1dz Of distributing hooka.-
 Incidentally. the a5ourto0 of Amer Lrau library IuallDGE in France opens a new career Je French women. who have need of amy new and pleasant employment they can 6ud-
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 "Al~o.' he conrnusa in "a rrnlne- . tive sort ot way .-lere.~ r1a women ] for man aoins back home after de- -ea- is sheer. rank poison to a. E0- man They may have flown L--L in Washington, with r.a~ and supner=. l and dinners, and movements of var tous kinds. The home town papers have chronicled their doinEs. per 
 For them to drop lt au and go back to Main street to meet the pity tuE looks of the home folks t- noun Ing short of poison. Sa tt they cat. DerSuaGe John or Tom ur E.U to stay ,u Washington they do So You know
 And he helEel a sigh. He will stay -u Washington
 Tho casualties among -la oh tim .Vs in -La House were not so uGrler- CE= Es in the Senate The most con- 7--r-ou= member O- cLe famous ur,-- 1Fe -- The lower chamber is Frank W To-GaL'. nr TEo1i-- E.--r-lczn leader. who has been -f wears El the
 Er1--au'- friends say he could rars 5-az .- tho House had he va--aE 10. as his constituency probably would have returned him wear after wear
 TE-~ year however. he ae-.-eG 10 -Ea Senate and was defeated n-- Sen a-.- John 2. Ne-E--UEr Democrat He picked r-e wrong year -. run.
 EaE never can tell when 10 do what lE this game" ~-=EeE tho phil -~"u r-nal Lame Duck Look at -Ta-#-.l. He might have been elect \ -a the Sana-e any wear in the Iasl E u- -- the next -f. but this year