Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-16
MARCH, z, BUSIEST
MONTH IN HISTORY
Of PUBLIC LIBRARY
More Than $4,000 Volumes Cir
culated in All Branches; 125
New Borrowers Registered.

The month of March was the busi-
est in the history of the Great Falls
public library-19,921 volumes were
circulated: 1927 from the adult de-
partment, 1886 from the children's
room and the 1858 from the schools
a gain of 1,8O volumes over March oi
last year.
+: The per cent of fiction was 50, the
daily average 737, from all depart
iments.
One hundred twenty-five new bor-
rowers registered and "a old borrow
ers reregistered.
| Cooperating with the work being
done by Miss Olive Reitmann in the art
department of the public schools, there
is on display in the children's depart
ment of the public library an exhibi-
| ton of some of the works of modern
illustrators.
| The library has just added what
and Where Is God?" written by Rich
ard LaRue Swain, Ph. D., who recent
1y lectured in Great Falls. In a letter
to DR.. Swain. Lyman Abbott, promi-
nent editor, says: You have demon
strated in this work that it is possible
to put the profoundest spiritual truths
in forms understandable by the COM
4 "Ou nlluO uudCCuSLOMCu " ulcLdUuyS-
/ ical discussions. Your book will do a
great deal Of good in clearing away
sCme segi-paganisms from the popular
interpretations of Christian faith, and
friend and companion to many who
commencing faith in a personal God as
have been either repelled from it by a
false supernaturalism or attracted
from it by a false rationalism"
The seventh volume of Harper
Brothers Americanization series has
been added to the public library. It is
The Immigrant Press and Its Con-
troll by Robert e. Park Here is the
first attempt to explain foreign Ian
guage newspapers with an understand
ing Of the needs they feel for their
subscribers. By reviewing the success
or failure or various attempts to con-
thor illustrates graphically the immi-
tor illustrates graphically the immi-
grant forces that have perpetuated
them, and that must be completely un-
derstood before we can begin to solve
the Americanization problem.
James F. Chamberlain's "Geog-
rapby-Physical, Economic and Re
gional,'' which has been added to the
Great Falls public library, was writ
ten in the belief that the future history
of our country is to be inseparably
connected with that of the rest of the
world. No longer can our national life
be one of isolation. even if we 50 de-
sired. Mr.. Chamberlain's Geography
is fully humanized and many points
which are presented in the ordinary
course in physical geography are omit
ted by him. The student is led to
study geographic forms and processes,
not as things and conditions apart from
human affairs but rather in their re-
lations to the life of man. Economic
geography is presented because of it's
very practical value to men and women
in every walk of life. A comprehen-
sive view Of industrial and commercial
conditions as applied to the world are
given.
The library has added 'Plum Pud-
ding-Of Divers Ingredients, Discreet
ly Blended and Seasoned" Thus has
Christopher Morley titled his new vol
ume, in which he has occupied himself
with books in particular, but also with
divers other ingredients such as city
and suburban incidents, women, dogs,
children, tadpoles, and so on. His
reputation as an American humorist
grows with cheerful healthiness.