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FATHER BYRNE'S LECTURE TO CLUB DE RECREIO.
Father Byrne, S.J., gave on Fri day evening most interesting address at the Club de Recreio on. the subject of "Libraries; aims and ideals."
Opening his address the speaker
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CHURCH'S ATTITUDE TO SEX.
DOING MORE HARM THAN
GOOD."
Speaking at a meeting of the Hereford Diocesan Assceintion for Preventive and Rescue Work, the Bishop of Hereford said there was a tesl need for healthy literature dealing with sex questions, which were now provoking so much healthy discussion. On the ques- tion of education of the public in the matter of sex, he said that by its attitude towards sex the Church had been doing almost more harm than good. If the family life of this country was not safeguarded lationship between the sexen then the future was not very promising.
said that he was happy to see that waiting at the Post Office, and also by the maintenance of the right re-
that the Club de Recreio, still in its infancy, it, like the baby in a famous soap advertisement, stretch- ing out its hands with the "he won't be happy till he gets it" look, but stretching them out for books. "I only hope that the books, when secured will have all the beautify ing qualities promised by the ven- dor of the soap, and its fragrance. are told," the lecturer continued, "that a librarian of the Edinburgh University, an
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books, asked the lecturer in Chemistry, Professor Simpson, to weed out the books no longer need- ed in his department and that the professor simply replied "Take every text book that is more than ten years old and put it down in the cellar." Many of our modern libraries would have very empty shelves if the ten years test were applied to their contents, and they would be still emptier if the test of ideals were employed. It is, therefore, of first importance to examine the aims and ideals which induce vs to found a library.
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Dr. J. R. Rees (director of the -Poste Restante Correspondence. Tavistock Square Clinic, London), a prominent London medical pay- James Bugt, H. H. Bristow, H. J. Ryne, Bang-Du-Heas, G. Bardelet,chologist, said the wrong use of the word "sin" had done a great deal N. Bercovitz, J. W. Blick, Mrs. M.
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were dealing with sich people. The Cooper, J. W. O. Davidson, C. T. Delancy. J. W. Glayn, Hun Gin, trouble was either no instruction Bertin Honig, W. E. de Jager, F. regarding sex, or wrong instruc tion. Dr. Rees criticised the Press for the attitude of enppression which he said it held towards there matters, except when it came "stunting."
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The utilitarian aspect of a libr. ary was curiously educed by some writers in their examination of caitses of failure and success in the grent war. They pointed out that, in 1941, in eight large towns with a joint nopulation of over two mil- tions. Germany spent £20,000 on public libraries, roughly 3d per head in the same year, in thirteen large towns, the British expendice Lurch ture was £150,000, ar about sid mer head. On the other hand the Ger- man Army expenditure Was £43.000.000 while the British was only £27.000.000. Whether these figures prove much or prove little,
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Shanghai.
Swatow. Nanning. Canton.
Chungking. Haiphong.
We should commend to library com- mittees a work of the distinguish- ed American Librarian Mr. Wil
Books" He writes: "Every age of licence in the world's literature has dubbed its crities old fogies, and committed literary crimes in the hame of liberty... When we buy a book for the nublic library we say in effect:" This is a book fit to read. "I can only urge real courage in dealing with the ques tion"
it would be futile to examine.liam, Bishop, called "Back to When Roumanis entered the war it was remarked: "Roumanis does no count one way or another; only a small percentage of its po- mulation can read, guns are no use to the ignorant." At any rate the Pren bisiness man is at one with the statistician in his appreciation of libraries, as the Carnegic foun- dations show. In 1918. Sir Alex- ander Parker, then Lord Mayor of Manchester, annealed in these words to his fellow citizens:-~
You are going to establish a li brary. You must have your ideals. You must choose between books
In Manchester we are a little-which will be of permanent value behind some other big cities, notab- Iv Glasgow, in the formation of a Commercial Library, I do not think I need say to you how neces-' Pary in these times, such a library is. We have learned that if we are to hold our position in the world, both of enmmerce and ef science, i will be necessary to lay a good foundation both in theory and in praction... Only this yERT A very strong denutation came before the Library Committee, represent- ing, the Chamber of Caminergo, Fosga ging us to minke the provision."
on your shelves, and books of mere ly passing interest. You are not thereby debarred from getting the best seller in the world of fiction, nor are you called upon to stock your library so that Rip Van Winckle awakening to conscious. ness would find nothing new! Your science section would be a strange world to him. But it does mean that in your club the library plays a very different role from your bil | liard table and your tennis courts, They are intended for pure relaxa tion, the books in your library should improve your minds, should ennolle your conduct even when they make you laugh
Hong Kong's Need for a Public
Library,
There is no really good library accessible to the public in Hong Konk This is a misfortune; but
Reawakening After War. During the war they was inevit- able dislocation of red there was a shattering too of many an ideal. When, at last, peace came, the nations affected began to take stock. They realised that brains are bet ter thin brawn. The position was well, nut by the Canadian Minister for Education: "The new era calls it is still more unfortunate that for volunteers to serve in the mak- ing of the greater Canada. Eduen- tion must play the chief part. The public library is the promoter of popular education." We are tem nted to add. "should be the promo ter, for often it is not."-
I need not linger over the useful. ness of a library, it is evident: I should just like to add the interest- ing action of the newly-formed state of Czecho-Slovakia. At the very first National Council the Government passed a library law. The Act, dafed July 22, 1020. in compulsory. Every city town and even villages of 400 inhabitants had to establish a library. The outside rime limit was this year, 1999, when the whole country should be covered with libraries. A tax of abort 19 to 25 rents a head was to be levied. nrcording to the population of the district.
no one seems to worry about it. If our supply of sugar were running short, or ten were getting tearce or billiard balls were no longer pro- curable, much public interest and even anxiety would be aroused and the papers would be eagerly stun- ned for the daily record of the rise or fall of the saccarose barometer, but apart from a few "old book. worn" grumblers no one worries about the supply of books!
I believe that some Hong Konger wants to standardise the word Kaloonatics. We believe Kowloon to be very much alive and to be.
You very sane in its activities. are certainly sane in wanting to have a good library attached to your Club. By force of cireumal- ances, even if our public library was the best equipped in the East, many must depend on their Club Library to supply their wants. Their wants are surely to become effective members of the district in The Fayotian monarch Osman which they live. Whether their dvas, who has been identified with voice be heard in the deliberations Rameses II. 1300-1936 B.C., placed of the Kowloon Residents' Associa
war hie library the incrintion tion, or whether their influence be "The Dispensary of the Soul." the influence of a silently flowing infortunately poisonous drugs may stream but a stream that does flow, food thair way into spend clean chat a good-library-will. and, without due precautions, may be one of the most important at the very injurious to the ignorant els in fitting them for their tank.
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