Condon High School - Review Yearbook (Condon, OR)

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05111121111 01131111111 3.1511511 $311001 I The County Library WILLIAM MARSHALL There 1s a growing need in this county for a county library. ' The DOD- ulation of this county is abeut3,960.'1 hat a county with such a population does not have a 11b1a1y seems extraordinary. The average book when bought 'at the book store costs about a dollar, certainly not any less. With the proposed county library plan people can get the current novels, period- . icals, and the 01d classics as well for around 10c to 50c a year depending on their property valuation. How this is done becomes at once apparent 011 studying the workings of the plan. The method for raising- the neces- sary funds is by public support, not private. This method is adopted be- cause a p11vate1y supp01ted library fails to 1each the public in a .way. a pub- licly supported one Would. The County Unit Plan for Library Service is as follows It is proposed to lay a blanket tax to cover the cost of: the maintainance and upkeep of the library. This tax will amount to one tenth of a 111111 011 every d0 11a1 0f assessable p1'0pe1ty. This means that the li- brary will cost one- -half cent on $50,011e cent on $100, fifty cents on. $5,- 000 of the assessed valuati 011 of the property, which is about eighty per cent of its value. This is less than half the subscription price of one good magazine, less than the price of two pounds of candy, one-fifth the price of the cheapest new hat. This tax is a fixed amount and can only be raised by the people s consent A tax provides a permanent fund for the library's support. The management of the library will be in the hands of a board of: directors appointed by the county court from all over the county. The board will have general supervision over the library and will provide for a location, hire a librarian,purc'has1e boOks, and do all the business which is in connection With the library. The main arguments for the County Unit Plan for library sel'vice are summed up as 1011011178: The chief argument is the example Of those coun- ties which have already adopted this plan. The iii 'st county to take advan- tage of the law passed at the 1911 sessi 011 of the Oregon Legislatme mak- ing 'it possible to or eate county libr aries in Oregon regardless of the popu1a- tion was Wasco. In 1912 The Dalles Public Library became the central library of the county s library system. A tax of .2 of a mill was levied to carry on the extension of the library through the county. That the results have been satisfactory is shown by a glance at the library rec01'.ds In 1911 the library circulated 27, 226 volumes, in 1918, seven years after, it circul- ated 60, 614, an increase of. 122 per cent.1n 1911 there were 1003 borrOw- ers from the central library at The Dalles, in 1918 there were 3, 666, an in- crease of 295 per cent. The number of volumes has increased from 3, 559 to 16,070, an increase of 295 per cent. Asrregards cost, it has been ex- t1e1nely small, for in 1918 it cost exactly 4 1- 2 cents for each resident in the county for the maintainance of the central libraly and county branch- $illfzi1tt annntg Eigh 511111111- tommuniti 33 1foraieu.lho-puhl 11 119111 fund is- 1' Th? cost 11! 1 small in 1611118 112111. 1101 Th? thesingle tax on m. 110 bear 1h? rust nargument against 1 1111 too high fur Mn ithis will nwan mun- Sambo's B Itleseven year 0ch $31 111011 mammy 'rau-c $1M mos' M'vrt' hnua 11.1.Sambo. doan .Vn- -a 111mm with that ulu m11111111131111 got a 11 1110mm to eat WM 31 1111311 craul mu nh MO! in nu 10-h! 1110 all can Irah 332132 '34

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; '- 05:13am emu; gigh-gsghmi , hw ig es, expert administrative and reference service, and the purchase, cata10g- mg, and mechanical preparation of 2,177 new books. Why! This is scarce- ly the price of a packet of gum. 'As to the benefits of the library, they are too numerous to mention. The people of the county itself say that it has r11 been the greatest blessing that ever came to Wasco county. It has provid- S ed a central library for the county seat,. a branch library for eachof the t four largest towns, traveling library for eleven smaller townstneighborr 51H hood libraries for isolated country districts, and school collections for each, ; .3; 0f 65 district schools. The system has provedit-o be efficient, economical, ' t i; anda community asset; It 'is the best plan ,becausexthe privatexlibraryzoniy. 15 :e; provides for iai'fewythe public library provides 'for everybody. .- t A permanent fund. is provided by taxation. The value. of this 'isteasj; ily apparent. The cost 0f 'b'OOkS is very high. compared with the low rate of taxation. The small town private library hasalways been :a failure F becausethesi-ngle tax oneach, resident is too high. There are net enough I :5 peopleft-o bear the ,cost. ' , , a H Theiargument against this...method is naturallxtthgat of taxation. Taxes ' - i.are' already too high for any--.m.ore to be addedon. ,If ,the.19,2v5 Fairigqes through thiswil-l mean more taxes. ' t i I t V, Sambds Birthday Celebration : Little seven year .old Sambo awoke with a 'startLihftI dean know'what ahis done now mammy icause ah's gettini whipped so'fhahd; pieahs .,lak iah gets whipped mos' every houah. i . WtWhy, Sambo, doan yo-all recolleet dis am yo birfday, hOney-ichile? I a ,. 1 . 2W 13 ? said-Ihi-s mammy with that slow SOuthern drawli which all peopleddelight in. tn 3 .1 iiYo mammy aiready got a'tmila'sses' cake baked and Seclesias'te's M'igini'a , .. ,. .muh'f Ann am a'clomin to eat wi'd'yb all and so am Harry Albrianfi Lih'CblIf'JOh'n- .H: t qwg'aiiii son. Yo bettah craWI out Oh Yo bed; n'igtg'ahf Up Wid tylo now-?sambo,- ' She i ' .,,q 73w? coaxed. , VAhs got yo' Iiewvjeans ready and if yo all' Will promise to be care- ? ' . 15:11:23 ful wid fun! YQ-all can ,weah 'yulmf, 4 , t, . - , .W .7 . k ' ' '2 ' ' . . i; . -i 3 ' 27:47 The promise was made and Sambo reluctantly-crawled out ofv-bed, c .t ,1 'f' jug; dressedhimself and then went into the kitchen to get himselfsomexbreak-- i . 5; 1:757 fast, after which he went outside and played with Harry Abr'am Lincoln JohnSOii until dinner time came, when thevold colored mammy called; ifSe- 9:; 01959381388 M'iginia Ann am'here Sambo, 'dinnahtiam ready-come. eat,-Hair:ry ' 4,; Abr am Lincoln Johnson Phelps bettah come eat now 'cause dinnah's get- ' ' i' . 0,5.032'11'; tin'rciolld. Hurry chilluns and wash yo black faces, icause de chicken pie - do sho smell good. ' ' agilliaim Glounhg Saigh $chw1v $852 3 5