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VOLUME 44 APRIL, 1933
President's Page ...... -59
The Librarian's Book Review By K DOROTHYFERGUSON ...... 61
Some Thoughts on Book Reviewing By MARGARETJACKSON ...... 62
Across the Secretary's Desk . . 64 GROUP ACTIVITIES
Civic-Social ...... 70 Our Membership Campa~gn. . 65 Classification ...... 72
List of New Members . . . . . 66 Commercial Technical , . 72 Insurance ...... 73 Snips and Snipes...... 68 Museum...... 73 Local Activities ...... 69 Newspaper...... 73
Events and Publicat~ons...... 74
Digest of Business Books ...... 77
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APRIL, 1933
Volume 24 +*+ Number 3
PRESIDENT'S PAGE NE of the first letters that I received on becoming President last summer, was a fine, constructive, cheering note from K. Dorothy Ferguson, of 0San Francisco. Most of us who have attended S. L. A. Conventions in recent years remember her friendliness and humor, her good, practical contribu- tions to any subject under discussion. Her letter to me reflected alI three of these characteristics, because, in addition to being friendly and funny, she added, "Are we any nearer to having a permanent Book Review Conlmittee in S. L. A.? It is a thing for which I have been pleading - year after year." And she went on to esplain why our Associatioll should and how it could further this project. How right she is that special librarians are pecul~arlyfitted to sponsor book re- views. Because each of us knows a few subjects thoroughly, we can more easily judge the relative values of books in our special fields. Surely we can claim to know our source material more intimately than general librarians. And though we have for a long time exchanged opinions informally with each other, it is obvious that we need machinery for recording these opinions, that they may actually guide people in the selection of new books. So I welcomed Miss Ferguson's suggestion that this work should head up under the Groups in our Association and wrote to each chairman. There was a general expression of interest, approval and willingness to make. this their major project of the year. As usually happens, the person responsible for a good idea has to take it in hand, work out plans and become a Chairman. The definite steps taken so far have been these: last November Miss Fcrguson started work with the Group chairmen who in turn got a few people to agree to report regularly on thc new, significant books issued in their respective fields. Each comment received by the Group chairman is to be checked hy several others so that a consensus of opinion is reached. Reviews will then either be issued in bulletin form to members of the Group, or held till the end of the year when a list of recommended books may be issued, or they may appear from time to time in SPECIALLIBRARIES. Plans are still in the making and suggestions from each of you will be so welcome. Did you notice that Marion Mead's section in the last issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES reported this work well under way in the Commercial Technical Group? A~ldin a characteristically efficient way, Laura Woodward and the Insurance Group already have a sufficient number 'of reviews submitted by their members to make possible the issuing of their first bulletin on Insurance books. Naturally the Financial review work is thriving since that is Miss Ferguson's own group, and pet.'So we are really off to a fine start, and I hope to hear that all the Groups can report progress soon. Think how fine it will be when we have at Headquarters and in the possession of the Groups, a basic list of the best books on a11 important subjects, together with recommendations on new books, regularly contributed. Such lists will be in great 60 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933 demand. My one great desire in this Book Review number of the Magazine is to arouse every member of S. L. A. to contribute to this work of book reviewing and to profit by it. If you accept the responsibility for furnishing a review, you will find that you make a much more intelligent study of a book, at the same time checking up on others in your library on the same subject, with the result of much wiser book selection in these days of reduced budgets. I hope very much that our reviews will surely avoid the hackneyed form that simply indicates contents and method of treatment, but will instead be real appraisals of books and contain reliable advice to purchasers I had a long talk the other day about S. L. A. with a writer who contributes regularly to the more important business magazines. I-Ie knows the subjects that interest business men and understands their needs, and so I asked him how our Association could begin to tell our story to the world. 14-e members of S L. A, know that there will be new spec~allibraries formed only as we are able to explain and illustrate the value of this application of library service. Business will have urgent need for this in the nest few years. So that S. L. A. and what it stands for must be understood by the world. I asked this writer for his opinion as to what we might do effectively, inexpensively and soon. His reply was that we should sponsor lists of books, opinions of books. He believes that business men are in the mood to buy small collections of books to help them solve their everyday problems, but that they need advice as to which are best for their purpose and why. Surely, we special librarians are equipped to supply such lists and advice. If, - no, when, - we begin to work out this educational program for S. L. A., we shall ceriainly look to the functioning. Book Review committees of our Groups for help. Will you all be ready?
Ideas for a Weary World PECIAL librarians will certainly wish to read a pamphlet just issued by Doane Eaton's Company, S 445 West 41 Street (New York) entitled "Ideas for a Weary World," price $1.00. They will read it with amusement but probably to good purpose, too. The author styles himself an Injore~alion Cosnselor but his methods and sources are those of any efficient reference librarian. The real purpose ol h~s"Ideas for a Weary World" is to cornmercialixe the value of library and information work and to make sources of information available to everybody anywhere. He is trying to foster a series of directories of sources of information to be made by associations,.'one to a subject, produced in quan- tities at small cost and broadcast to the world. There are many other ideas therein and certainly mixed up with so many personalities and so much "ballyhoo" that you may miss the worthwhile points Perhaps librarians are too restrained in the kind of publicity they release. If so, we must be wdl~ng to learn and here is a chance to get an outsider's viewpoint toward our job. Mr. Eaton IS sure that we need better business methods and a commercial viewpoint toward the worth of our informational services. Can ~t be that we need a touch of Barnurn, too? - R. B. R. April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES
The Librarian's Book Review
By K. DOROTHY FERGUSON, Librarian Bank of Italy, San Francisco 0 BUY or not to buy, that's the question - which these days confronts not only librarians, but business men, executives, and the great class of serious Treaders, who sooner or later have to consider the purchase of books. What aids are now available for the selection of books? Some professions have their literature fairly well reviewed such as law or engineering for which you wilt find very inclusive and authoritative book reviews. But it is the general student of economics, finance, and agriculture, who is left prey to the unscrupulous reviewer. I will not review for you the indexes and the well known lists of periodic literature, but let us consider rather the various types of book reviews. There is the very short review, containing beside the author, title, and date, merely a phrase, which amounts to barely more than a secondary title, with publisher and price. Or, there is the preju- diced review, one written with the main purpose of selling books - giving a summary of some of the popular phases of the contents. But how often do we find a comparative review- this surely should form the main character of the librarian's book review. By what other qualities should the librarian's review be distinguished? 1. It should give an insight of the contents so that the books under review will stand out clearly from others on the subject. 2. It should offer comparison with others in the same field. 3. It should enable us to decide whether the book studied is essential or replaces others already covering the subject; whether it supplements those already in use, and must be added to the collection, or whether it should only be bought by those librarians desiring all on the subject. 4. The review should consider if possible whether the book will endure, or whether the interest of the subject will be only short lived. 5. Finally, the reviewer should be quite frank in condemning a book which does not come up to the standard required of professional literature. We have all had experience with books which have been written on popular sub- jects by those who are not students, or by those who have hastily thrown together previous magazine articles so as to catch sales while popularity and interest in a subject is at its height. These books should be promptly condemned because al- though the title may be catchy, and the author's reputation sufficient to make one presume that the books are authoritative and worth purchasing, these books are soon dead material on our shelves. Why should the various professions expect to look to the special librarian for such reviews? We have by hard work and a wonderful interpretation of the word sewice, ac- customed the professional men and women to look to us as to those trained by study and experience in the knowledge of source material and also in the knowledge of useful contacts whereby information not in printed form can be made available. These same professional men are now expecting us to answer that other query - "What is the best book on my subject?" Surely this should be as much a part of our daily work as to be able to locate through indexes any given piece of information. But how many of us stand ready to come forth and give this inforn~ationwith a 62 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933 feeling of sureness? I fear very few. And it is because of my own feeling of incompe- tency in this matter that I have so strongly urged that we undertake the work of fearless and honest book reviewing. Our own members need such reviews. Many are not in the big book publishing centers where books are easily examined. Many are removed from those larger and longer established libraries that have a more affluent budget and who therefore buy more freely. Too many of us lack the facilities for ex- amining and comparing the new material in our fields. So to individuals as well as to the profession, these book reviews will be a much needed service, and for our Associa- tion one of the best advertisements we can give it. I look forward to the time when publishers of the more serious magazines will turn to S. L. A, and its various Groups for authoritative reviews instead of being con- tent with the log-rolling or high pressure sales variety, both of doubtful value for future and continuous selling.
Some Thoughts on Book Reviewing
By MARGARET JACKSON, Librarian Hoyt Library, Kingston, Penn. DO NOT believe that I know anything about book reviewing which all your group who went to library school did not learn there. Perhaps experience counts I here-some of us may know theories that we do not mentally grasp hard enough to apply. In all my teaching of book reviewing I have centered what I had to say on two things learned from Mr. Dana: Books which make men happier, wiser, and of more use to their fellow men are the best books after all. Unless a book meets one of these demands, it seems to me useless for a librarian to review it. We have or should have nothing to do with books which do not make men of more use to their fellow men and, to some extent, each one of us is his brother's keeper. What the busy reader wishes to know about a book is: What the book is about? Authority of the author? Whether for the student or general reader? What part of the field it covers? How it compares with others on the same subject? I have learned too that a criterion to be used in reviewing a book may be found in "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." And that stands for re- viewer these days, as well as for author. Carl Van Doren has said that immental books are perhaps more dangerous than the so-called immoral ones. Is a book immental, or immoral, or both which takes individual selfishness or sensuality, or coarseness as typical of life to-day? Is the post-war generation bearing false witnessagainst itself in print whilst, in life, sacrifice, cleanliness and beauty still prevail? From "The Writing of Fiction" by Edith Wharton I have personally found much help, and also from the chapter in Virginia Woolf's delightful "Second Common Reader" -How Should One Read a Book? April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 63 EDITORIAL BOARD Editor, FLORENCEBRADLEY Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Advertising Manager, GERTRUDED. PETERKIN American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Department Editors Editors of Group Psga MARGARETBOHSELL ETHELBAXTER American Bankers' Association Metropolitan Life Insurance Company IN.* CLEMENT Many G. LACY Municipal Administration, Princeton Library U. 5. Bureau Agricultural Economics JOSEPEF. KWAPIL Philadelphia Public Ledger MARIANC. MANLEY EUGENIARAYMOND Cincinnati Art Museum Business Branch, Newark Public Library GERALDINERAMMER EYILIEMUESER Engineering Societies Library Hardware Mutual Casualty Company
The Convention-Why Go? MAGINE, if you can, a brilliant sunny morning - March 4th. Miss Cavanaugh I received us in the Board room of the Standard Statistics Company - a room with dark panelled walls and casement windows that seemed to add lustre and ele- gance to an occasion, for this was not an ordinary day, nor an ordinary meeting. It was the beginning of the Bank Holiday and the meeting was called to discuss ways and means of carrying our S. L. A. through the year. Each member who came in through the doorway carried the morning paper with its headlines - and we won- dered ! When the President and Secretary started the business of the day we could not but sense the importance of each item - and were impressed once again by the time and thought these officers of ours put into the affairs of S. L. A. What a hard year it has been for them to administer things in a large \tay, with ever diminishing finances. How little the rest of us can do, except to gi~them full appreciation, gratitude and moral support. Our only means of expressing this latter is, of course, the Convention. Can we not all begin or end our vacations late this year, going via Chicago to what- ever Port of Fancy our vacation plans may point? There are so many reasons for going to Chicago's Century of Progress that we sacrifice nothing, even if we have to steal from a vacation in order to spend October 16-18th with our S. L. A. EDITOR 64 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
Across the Secretary's Desk N EXECUTIVE BOARD meeting was held the meetings. The Advisory Council and Execu- A in New York on Saturday morning, March tive Board numbers 36 In all; at the March meet- 4th, in the attractive Directors' roam of the ing 19 were present. The Secretary's part in the Standard Statistics Co. It was the fateful morning Board consists in sending notices, preparing the when the bank moratorium was declared in New calendar, recording the proceedings and preparing York. The sum total of the individual cash assets the minutes of the meeting. . at that moment was only a few dollars - and the Many pol~ciesare discussed and determined members from out-of-town wondered if they could by the Board. Actions result~ngfrom such de- get home again. termination may be carried out by certain com- Around a long table were gathered the Execu- mittees, or groups or through the Secretary's tive Board and the Advisory Council (which is office. Plans are now being made for the annual composed of all local chapter presidents, chair- Convention to be held in Chicago during tlie men of groups and of committees), twenty-one Century of Progress World's Fair. At the invita- persons in all. You who always attend our annual tion of the American Library Association we are Conventions would not have to be introduced to meeting with them this year so that our members the officers of the Association. And those who may avail themselves of those meetings. Our read SPECI,\LLI~RARIES must feel that you know Association will convene for only three days, Mary Louise Alexander, president, Adeline hl. Monday-Wednesday, October 16-18. A. L. A. Macrum and Sophia J. Lamn~ers,vice-presidents, begins the previous Saturday and extends to the Angus Fletcher and Mr. Frederick Robertson following Saturday. We likewise wish every mem- who continue as members this year, and Mr. ber to have time to enjoy the World's Fair itself. Herbert Brigham elected as a new member this Committees will soon be at work planning an year. Miss Woodward, the treasurer, was absent. attractive program for the meetings. CONGRESS Advisory Council members who joined in the HOTEL is S. L. A.'s headquarters during the discussions this month were Mrs. Fertig, vice- Convention. If you have any ideas for a conven- president of the Pittsburgh Chapter; Marion tion, please pass them along to me and they will Mead, president of Illinois Chapter; Mr. Red- be used. stone, president of Boston Cl~apter;,MissGreen- A Business Library Textbook based on tlie best wood, president of New York Chapter, and the practices of our special libraries secured through a Commercial-Technical and Financial Groups Methods Clinic is being evolved, and within a were represented as well. The Editor and Adver- year may be a reality. tising Manager of SPECIALLIBRARIES and six A membership campaign is all set to be carried committee chairmen completed your Associa- forward by loyal members. You shall read of that tion's representation. Those who were not able in another column. REDECCA B. RANKIN, to attend received minutes of the discussions at Sccrefary
An Opportunity ORD has come from 0. E. K~essling,of the Bureau of Mines, that about two hundred sets w bound, of "Mineral Resources of the United States," 1919 to 1927, have been placed at his disposal for distribution. These sets, of a market value of about twenty-five dollars each, were origi- nally intended for oficlal use, but have now been made available for outsiders. Mr. Kiessling, who wishes to distribute them in a manner most useful to the publlc, feels that technical and engineering l~brarieswhich have either incomplete sets of this reference work or no copies at all should be given priority in claiming them. There are also, in addit~onto the sets mentioned above, a supply of odd volumes for the same years, requests for which will be entertained but not handled until the sets have bees dispensed. Requests will be handled on a "first come, first served" basis, and the privilege IS reserved of withdrawing the volumes from distribution at any time. All applications, for sets or for single volumes, should be sent directly to 0.G. Kiessling, Chief Economist, Division of Mmeral Statistics, Rureau of Mines, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. - R. B. R. Apil, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 65
Our Membership Campaign Program, 1933 By MARIAN C. MANLEY, Chairman
ITH S. L. A, as with the national govern- ter wth the high record until the next conven- w ment, local governments and individual t~on,when it may retain ~tsposition or yield to businesses, the question of Income for the year ia another chapter. vital. To "consolidate our position" as quickly While the first list shows the chapters grouped and effectively as pss~ble,a special membership in the order of their percentage gain in member- dr~veis planned for the spring. The goal is the ship, the list of members ranged in the order of greatest possible increase in Active membership percentage of Active members or their equiva- for each chapter. In order to score our local lent shows changes. In this list Montreal, our associations, let one Institutional membership be most recently organ~zed chapter, through its counted as three Active, and five Associate mem- many Institut~onal members, has the unique berships as one Act~vemembership, thus giving a distinction of the equivalent of an active mem- fair common denominator for membership stand- bersh~pof 142 percent of ~tsmembers by indi- ing. Each Membership Committee member will vidual count. True to form, Pittsburgh is found be supplied with the lists of their respective chap- well toward the head if we line up our locals, in ter members showing their status by dues. the order of their rank, expressed in percentages As a recognition of the work of khe chapters in of Active members (or equivalents) compared to this field, a banner will be awarded to the chapter total memberships: showing the greatest percentage of gain in active memberships in 1933 over 1932. The present A cflve Total Members or holder of the record IS Milwaukee, which showed a garn of 94% in Active memberships over 1931. Name Members Epuivalenfr 17 The table by rank provides food for thought: Montreal ... 12 Pittsburgh .... 41 41 RANKIN ORDEROF INCREASEIN ACTIVEMEM- Illinois ...... 73 67 BER~(OR EQUIVALENTS) Milwaukee ... 34 31 1931 1932 Change ?& New York.. .. 368 296 Milwaukee...... 16 31 15 94 Michigan.. ... 56 41 Cincinnati ...... 11 19 8 72 Baltimore...... 23 16 Pittsburgh ...... 26 41 15 57 San Francisco . . 67 46 So. California ...... 17 24 7 41 Cleveland ..... 36 2 1 Michigan...... 35 41 6 17 Cincmnati . 32 41 Cleveland...... 19 21 2 10 Boston ...... 196 84 Baltimore ...... 15 16 1 6 So. California . 57 24 Illinois ...... 65 67 2 3 San Frar~cisco ...... 47 46 -1 -2 As Miss Alexander said in the November issue New York ...... 319 296 -23 -7 of SPECIALLIBRARIES, I.... most of us give the time we do to S. L. A. because we enjoy doing it Boston ...... 95 84 -11 -11 and because it helps us personally. ... A The June issue of SPECIALLIBRAKIES will give chance to work on common problems and keep in the standing of the various chapters in this con- touch with others who are accomplrshing things, nection. Since the banner will not be awarded cannot but make us more effective in our own until the October meetmg with the dues as re- jobs." Weknow this and we know that we need corded up to October lst, chapters will have an not feel hesitant in offering the opportunity to opportunity between June and October to ad- others. To fully share in the work of the Asso- vance their standing. Additional Institutional ciation, we must do so. Let us all do what wecan members are particularly effective in this con- as individuals to foster this professional devel- nection. The banner will be held by that chap- opment. Wanted! HE University Library of the University of California is anxious to secure copies of the "In- T.dustr~alArts Index" for 1916 and 1917. Any one who has copies for sale, or who can suggest a possible source of supply, is asked to communicate with Harold L. Leupp, Librarian SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
New Members-January 1st to March 20th, 1933 INSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATE E. I. DU PONTDE NEMOURS& CO. HELENJ. ADELMAN The R. & H. Chemicals Department 254 Barrett Street Niagara Falls, N. Y. Brooklyn, New York Mr. Marvm S. Carr, Ln. JOHNBECAN FITCHPUBLISHING CO., INC. New York Times 138 Pearl Street New York City New York City DORABmNBAUM E. C. Olsen, Exec. Vice-Pres 191 S. Second Street UNIVERSITYOF CALWORNIALIBR~RY Brooklyn, New York Berkeley, California THOMASBRACKBN RICHARDS. WORMSER New York Times 22 West 48th Street New York City New York City HELENGRANT CUSBING 339 East 58th Street ACTIVE New York City DOROTHEADAWSON MARYE. FURBECK Board of Education Publlc Affairs Information Service Detroit, Michimn New York City MRS. H. E. FOOTE IRENEHALE HEWES U. S. Bureau of Mines 1605 W. Allegheny Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MR. L. H. Fox JULIAIDESON, Ln. New York Public Library Houston Public Library New York City Houston, Tewas JOHNGOETZ, Library MARGARETLEE KEITH New York Evening Poet Nap, California New York City MILLICENTLEIJPBR LEONAHAWWR Universlty of Pittsburgh High School Library P~ttsburgh,Pennsylvania Harnmond, Indiana HELGALENDB, Ln ELSAJ. JAECK Amer~canFoundation for the Blind 14-40 South 59th Street New York City Milwaukee, Wisconsin MR. WAVEL. NOGGLE WALLACEJONES University of Illinois New York Times Urbana, Illinois New York City EDITHM. PEELPS RICHARDKENDRICK H. W. Wilson Company 725 Lombard Street New York City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MARIONRAWLS BERTHAK. KRAUSS Art Institute 4022 Cromwell Avenue Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California RALPHJ. SHOEMAKER ANTOINETTELESLIE Public Ledger Library 1623 Summer Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania HAZELM. SKELHORNE JOHNA. MCCARTHY Bureau of Public Administration Philadelphia Record Library University of Virginia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania HARRIETV. V. VANWYCK MRS. DOROTHYMcNnm American Ass'n for Adult Education Public Library New York City Cincinnati, Ohio April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES MRS. ETHELC. MARTIN,Library of MRS. GRACEWATKINS Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University Library Cambridge, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts WILLIAMA. MATHEWSON JOHNR. WESTWOOD,~RD 170 Hicks Street 340 North 52nd Street Brooklyn, New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania DOROTHYT. MBRROW WILDASUTER Kirstein Business Library 820 Corinthian Avenue Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MRS. EDITHG. NEWELL MARIANATHURBER 1101 N. Cayuga Street 1226 East Norman Avenue Ithaca, New York Stevens Point, Wisconsin LOUISE REID EILEENTWOMEY 611 West 110th Street 438 West 116th Street New York City New York, New York CLAREA. ROBESON RALPHULVBLING Sheppard Library Chief of Extension Department Boston, Massachusetts Detroit Public Library ALEXANDERM. RONALD Detroit, Michigan 14 Hobart Road MILDREDE. WBITTEMORE Newton Centre, Maasachusetts Boston University, College of Liberal Arts GERALD~NBSCANNELL Boston, Massachusetts Boston Public Library GRACEWINTON Boston, Massachusetts 16715 Edinborough Avenue EDITHB. SKINNER Detroit, Michigan Free Library of Philadelphia HENRYT. PARRATTO Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Public Ledger HARRlBT W. STEWART Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mercy Hospital HELENETHORPE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Public Library CHARLESSTOLBEPG Detroit, Michigan New York Sun HELENTURNBULL New York City 1870 Wyoming Avenue HARRIETTSWIFI Washington, D. C. Boston Public Library Boston, Massachusetts SUBSCRIBERS MRS. CARYENINATOYASSINI Medical College Library AERONAUTICALRESEARCH INST. Cincinnati, Ohio Tokyp Imperial University HELENTULLIS Komaba, Tokyo, Japan University of Cincinnati AMERICANASS'N OF MUSEUMS Cincinnati, Ohio 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue VIRGINIATURRELL Washington, D. C. 169 Elm Avenue FENN-NASHLIBRARY Mt. Vernon, New York 2200 Prospect Avenue MISS M. P. VINAL Cleveland, Ohio Remington Rand, Inc. LIBRARY~HWL Boston, Massachusetts Hampton Institute W. FREDWARRINGTON Hampton, Virginia Philadelphia Record Libnry LIBRARYOF THE MINISTRYOF RAILWAYS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nanking, China SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
SNIPS and SNIPES Highhghls and lowdowns. . . . Our Executive from Toronto to visit New York special libraries Board, including such out-of-towners as Marion and Colunlbia Library students' dexended Mead - who drove from Chicago in two days - Morningside Heights for their semi-annual p~l- Adeline M. Macrum, pro lent of Albany, Mrs. grimage. . . . Municipal Reference Library Fertig, acting head of the Pittsburgh Chapter, Notes, Rebecca Rankin's brain child, became a Mr. Redstone of Boston and Mr. Brigham of monthly instead of a weekly publication. . . . Providence, met in state in the Directors' Room of the Standard Statisttcs Company on March 4, Sonety nole. . . . The Business Branch of the 1933 Snooping about abit, we learned that Newark Public Library announces the engage- several interesting things are in the woiks: For ment of its staff member, Mildred Clapp to Mr. instance, three manuals will soon be ready to tell Ralph Turner, Engineer. . . . troubled chairmen - a local chapter by Thomas Touchi. . . . Margaret Hatch, librarian of the Cowles Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Branch in How to run a group by Alta B. Claflin San Francisco, pleads guilty for herself and the a convention by Eleanor Cava- California Chapter to President Alexander's naugh recent charge of "notor~ousinarticulateness" on I the part of the S. L. A. membership. But Miss , . And the Publications Committee wdl pub- Hatch makes noble amends: "I do want you to lish Mildred Pressman's "Annual index to cur- know that the San Francisco group appreciates rent literature dealing with casualty insurance" SPECIALLIBRARIES. . . . The national officers which the National Bureau of Casualty and really should know how much their work is felt Surety Underwriters has issued for the last five here It is reflected In local activities." . . . years. . . Marian (Betsy Ross) Manley plans a membership campaign which you just read about PoerryDeparlmenf. . . . CharlotteNoyesfrom ~f you d~dn'tskip. . . N. Y. S. L A. President her DuPont Library sent out some overdue Josephine Greenwood is going to gather statistics notices recently. In return she received from a on unemployment among N. Y. Specials. . . . chemist this pleasant improvisation on that old The best thmg we turned up in our prying was familiar theme - " Never even saw the book": that plans are on foot for a one-day Regional Conference on June 17th, at Briarcliff Manor. I have not stolen from your place this book- As our hero, Bert Lahr says, "Some fun!" De- Nor swip6d, nor in other manner took; tails later. . . . Nay, I have never seen the blasted thing, Know not its color, whether blue or ping. K. D. F. fells all . . . K. Dorothy Ferguson In fact your book I do not even covet, writes to the curious "Tell them 'K' is only I have a private, prs'n'l copy ovet. included for euphony. D. F. sounded bad." . . . As the only other K. D. F. we know, what do Space grabbers. . . . It's impossible to keep you say, Miss Frankenstein? . . . the Newspaper Group from figuring prominently in this Department, what with Mr. Kwapil Snippels. . . . Pittsburgh Chapter has nearly stirring-things-up and Marie Anne Walker play- con~pletedits Union List of Periodicals and re- ing stump-the-leader. On February 23rd, the ports a busy year under its acting president, Mrs. N. Y. S. L. A. had a meetmg at which Mr. Angus Fertig late of Buda Pest, and now librarian of the Fletcher was the speaker. He pointed out the technical library at the Westinghouse Company. antiquity of the newspaper library, the first men- . . . S. L. A. has joined the American Association tion of which appears in Ben Jonson's descrip- of Adult Education. . . . The Chase Bank Li- tion "its several rolls and files of news by the brary received a unique gift the other day from alphabet and all put up under their heads." . . . the senior director of the bank, the Hon. Henry The March meeting of the New York Association W. Cannon: eight scrapbooks of financial clip- was newspaper night, and Dr. John H. Finley of pings from newspapers dating from 1866 to 1905. the New York Times was the speaker of the Yes, panics and depressions are well represented evening. Rarely has the libranan been called so . . . Library school students are afoot again. many pleasant things in a few moments. Dr. Those from McGill Library School came down Finley - we quote unblushingly - named us April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 69 "Representatives of the Cosmos," "Enoch's quake. '' Excuse me, Miss, but lemme ask ja, ain't Pillar," and the "Delphic Oracle!" . . . they doin' nothin' to try and stop these here earthquakes? . . . Current events. . . . The Librarian-who-gets- about-abit was telling her Sunday School class of Conventton comment . . . Headquarters - Sam Higginbotham who went to India to start Congress Hotel; dates - October 16th-18th. Our Assoc~ationis extending a cordial invl- model farms. "Higginbotham's a long name; you . . . just remember 'Sam.'" tation to ASLIB, our British confreres, to attend Small boy whose father sells bonds if and when, Convent~onat the Century of Progress. . . . If " What'd she say Sam's name was? Insull?" they come, they will see at least one familiar object. The "Royal Scot," most famous of Lon- Scopes. . . . Mary Cox went to Atlantic don, Midland & Scottish Railway expresses, is City for a short vacation and Margaret Withing- going to be at the Fair in person. . . . And ton returned to California from a long one. . . . speaking of railroads, we read in Billboard that Advertising Manager Gertrude Peterkin says the Illinois Central Railroad is offering an easy there's noticeably more advertising on hand for purchase plan to Chicago. A small down payment, SPECIALLIBRARIES. (If you're anywhere near the rest of the ticket price, living and inc~dental expenses to be paid at the convenience of the New Jersey around Easter time, drop in and see her In the play she's putting on - " Brarabas." purchaser. . . If you're drivmg to Chicago, it She's understudying the Angel Gabriel. . won't be the Century of Progress' fault if you get . . lost. They're erecting 5,000 slgns on the principal Bank Holiday is libelous and a misnomer accord- highways near Chicago to point the way. ing to Mary Parker and other bank librarians...... Mary Louise Alexander will remember Mcmbershrp census. . . . Cincinnati chapter, March 4th, for a while, at least. In addition to the take a bow. You were the first group to complete general excitement of the inauguration and the your census returns New York and Chicago may bank holiday, she held an Executive Board take bows, too (but not such deep ones), for com- Meeting and moved her library. . . . ing in second and third. . . . Omniscient. . . . Newspaper dealer to his They nerer would be missed. . . . The people librarian-customer, after the California earth- who never work but always "go to business." . . .
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
EWS from the Locals continues to come in meeting of the Ohio Library Association. She N suggest~ngsuch busy and active programs extends us all such a cordial invitation that it is that we find it difficult to make selections of news unfortul~atewe cannot give her a surprise party. items for these pages. It is too bad that we could Instead we hope to have a full report next month not all tune in 011 such an occasion as BOSTON'S as they are going to discuss the effect oi the de- March meeting when Boswell F. Phelps talked on pression on libraries. "Business Without a Fly Wheel." But we can all respond to this request of George W. Lee: "A Beatrice Bradley writes that: The CLEVE- former special librarian, who was with us in Bos- LAND Chapter, at the invitation of the News- ton bul now is at SfafeHospilal, Osawatomie, Kan- sas, would appreciate books for 1he grounng library paper Group, held a dinner meeting at the Cleve- land News Auditorrum, February 24th. Mr. Earl there, iracludlng 'children's books for those of Ien- Martin, editor of the Cleceland News, gave an in- year-old mentality'; also piclurc fiueebs, etc. Mr. formal talk on "What a Newspaper Executive G. W. Lee will be glad lo forward them for a 'book Expects of his Library." The speaker made an shower.' " *** interestmg picture of the organization and opera- tion of a newspaper, displaying photographs and Eleanor S. Wilby writes that the CINCIN- clippings in the course of his dixuss~onto give NATI Chapter is in charge of arrangements for an idea of the type of material which a newspaper the SPECIALLIBRARIES luncheon at the April library must have readily accessible. 70 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933 The MILWAUKEE Chapter has been very been a source of much insp~rationthis year w~th practical minded, visiting the libraries of the their frequent luncheon and dinner meetlngs various members and planning programs that And so when Marie-Anne Walker of the New would apply as directly as possiblc to library in- York Times and Chairman of the Group invited terests. They have delayed the publication of a our chapter to her own home so-to-speak, we Union List of Periodicals because so many libra- gratefully accepted and set a date in March. It ries found it necessary to discontinue magazme was a very delightful evening with Miss Walker subscriptions temporarily. introducing the associate edilor, Dr. John H. Finley, who spoke entertainingly of his own ex- periences as a special librarian; and Mr. Charles Esther Fawcett of PITTSBURGH indicates McD. Puckette, assistant to the vice president, that they, too, have had their difficulties with who discussed the possibilrties of publishing a magazine subscriptions, whrch they are trying to miniature New York Times for use in Ilbraries. counteract by a Duplicate Magazine Exchange The sample copies were on rag paper and pro- L~st.Suggestions for final disposal and routing of voked a spirited d1scus6ion. Mr. Kwapil of the magazines in large companies will be appreciated. Phrhdclphia Public Ledger then gave a short his *** tory of the work of newspaper l~brariesthrough- out the country, and the meeting adjourned to The NEW YORK Association has had its let the 106 members who attended the meeting usual busy year, but we give only the following make a tour of the plant of the great New York high spots from Josephine Greenwood's interest- Times. Is there any newspaper in all the world ingaccount: Last fall we met at Stevens Institute that can mean more to librarians than this great of Technology. Enid Hawkins, librarian, gave in institution? detail the organization she has devised for what *** amounts to one-man supervision of a three-story SAN FRANCISCO'S Bulletin announced no building, accomplished in a large measure by just meeting for the month of March because all em- the right appeal to the student body of the Insti- phasis of work had to be put upon the April tute. "Books - the Best of 1932" were outlined meeting of the California Library Association at by Margaret Jackson, librarian of the Hoyt Li- Berkeley with a special libraries exhibit prepared brary at Icingston, Pennsylvania, in January. by Mrs. Caya, and Mr. Cowles taking part in As always, her listeners gained much from her "The Challenge of the Tmes" -a symposium. selection, charming analysis and comment. The proceeds of th~smeetmg were turned over to the City Unemployment Committee. In February SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has been initi- our usual joint meeting with the New York Li- ated into all the mysteries of modern bookbmding brary Club was held at the State Chamber of by a visit to the plant of the Pacific Library Commerce Milton J. Ferguson, President of the Binding Co. which from all accounts is revolu- Club, invited as guest speakers, Dr. Will Howe of tionizing the book binding industry. All Califor- Scribners' and Mr. Mark Sullivan, who told of nia hbrarlans enjoy listening to the pres~dentof pleasant evenings at the White House, talking this bindery because of his former amiation over the preparation of "Our Times." with the Training School of the Los Angeles The Newspaper Group of our chapter has Public Library.
GROUP ACTIVITIES CIVIC-SOCIAL in 1926 and edited by David Lawrence from that Editor: In. Clement day until date of suspension. The Princelon Alumni Weekly says: "Many tributes to Mr. ECONOMY? Lawrence and his work have appeared in the press UTTING Knowledge to Work" has long of the nation." The editor hopes to resume pub- "Pbeen the motto of our organization. It is lication at a later date and the members of this distressing to those of us who have toiled under group surely wish him an early realization of this this slogan to face giving up two valuable aids hope. in our work- The Unifed Strifes Datly and the Statc Law Index. The former suspended publica- How many times are you asked: "What do tion with the March 6th issue. It was established they do In other states?" To which you answer April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 71
with great satisfaction, "Let's see what the EMERGENCY EXCHANGES FOR Slnle Law Index tells us? We have this set from UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF, 1925-"-(How you have sighed for earlier vol- Econonlists are advocating the exchange ot umes!) Then what do you think of the follow~ng goods produced by and for the unemployecl as a announcement? "The appropriation for the last means of alleviating unemployn~ent, and ex- biennium was cut to an amount which will make changes have already been organized in 29 it impossible to publish the current volume of states. Development of exchanges may be initi- the valuable aid to better legislation, although ated by groups of the unemployed, as in Seattle the text has been prepared" Do you not feet . . . (Washington), or by a relief organization as in hke exclaiming "Something must be donel" Dayton. The growth of the movement has been But what! greatest in the far west, LOS Angcles County alone having over eighty exchanges. The Natural Note. - Before we could get the above into Development Association, Inc , with Iieadquar- print the Unikd Slaks Daily appeared on our ters in Salt Lake City, has branches in several desk with the announcement that "a composite states, and includes within its production and issue will be published hereafter for every six exchange units, factory and farm products, and days of government action." The issue is dated professional and commercial services. There are March 6th-18th. We extend congratulations. well organized exchanges throughout the mid- west, and exchanges are beginning to appear in' Alas, another item has to be chronicled. The various eastern towns and cities March 15th issue of the Muntcipd Reference Thc printed material available on this subject Library Notes announces that beginning with ranges from a detailed plan for a nation-wide that number it will be a monthly publication, exchange syatem described by Professor Frank "published in the middle of the month on D. Graham in his book, "The Abolition of Un- Wednesday - the usual day of issuance." This employment," to pamphlets, bulletins and forms ia too much. Why not banish !he dcp~esn'onl being used by active exchange organizations. Two very good articles surveying the history of In the meantime the National Municipal the movement and describing existing exchanges League comes forward with a plan for the forma- are: "People Without Money" by Joanna C. tion of " Ciltsens councilsfor conslruclive economy." Colcord, which appeared in the New Outlook lor We quote: "The Citizens' Council idea grew out December, 1932, and of wh~chreprints may be of informal conferences in New York, Chicago secured from the Russell Sage Foundation and Washington, following the Citizens Confer- (New York); and "Self-help Among the Unem- ence on the Crisis in Education, called by Presi- ployed - The Return to Barter" in Information dent Hoover in January. This movement is not, Scnnce (105 East 22d Street, New York) for however, concerned with any particular service. January 28, 1933. It is an attempt to bring into existence Councils Bibliographies giving references to material ort of local organizations interested in all of the specific projects, as well as to theoretical discus- services, in good government and in real econ- sions and general surveys, have been prepared by omy." The proverbial silver lining is not hard to the Library of the Bureau of Agriculture, Wash- find. If we lose some things there is a possibihty ington, D. C., and by the Industrial Relations of some gain. Mun~cipalitiescannot suddenly Section of Princeton University. A list of barter become great welfare agencies without officials exchanges has been made by the Emergency understanding more keenly problems that have Exchange Association, Inc. (52 Vanderbilt perplexed welfare workers these many years, and Avenue, New York). This organization is promot- social workers cannot fail to gain from this ing exchanges throughout the New York area, closer contact with civic leaders. Perhaps more and is acting as a national clearing house of in- thinking and more action will result. formation on developments. Other sources of information are: In line with constructive economy, shall we Mr. Hector Lam, Marketing Service Division, attempt to know more about our own Group? Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Do you know a librarian working in our field who Washington, D. C. has not been economical enough to ally herself President Arthur Morgan, Midwest Exchange, with S. L. A? There is economy of effort in organ- Inc., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. ization. Tell her how S. L. A. has helped you. The Survey (112 East 19th St., New York) has The Newspaper Group has given us a good ex- contained several good articles on barter ex- ample. Let us follow! changes, and includes news items on this 6 79 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933 subject in a regular department, "Unern- cality. It calls for a new group of divisions to be ployment and Community Action." used with the geographic and period divisions now provided by the Dewey D. C. in classes 930-999. The new group would be-a Subject div~siongroup and would be a secondary classification, the Geo- CLASSIFICATION AND INDEXING graphic division being the basic or primary clas- Editor: Emilie Muerer sification. The Period divisions would then h- CLASSIFICATION - HERE AND THERE come a tertiary classification and could be applied to each Subject division as desired. E reprint an interestmg reference to the w D. C. which appeared In last February's issue of The Library Associnfton Record (v. 3, p. The Classification of Library and Information 57): The following new feature, Mrs. Dewey Fdes developed for the Taylor Soc~etyby P. E. tells us, IS in course of development, and it is Henderson is an interesting example of a new hoped that it may soon be completed for publica- business classification. It uses the alphabet for ~ts tion, i.e, a plan by which libraries of any country main divisions; expansion being provided by the may give first place to their own country in those use of numbers in decimal sequence to express subjects on which locality has a specially im- form or specific subdivrsions. pxtant bear~ng- religion, language and litera- The classification has four main sections A - ture, history and travel. The idea originated with General, B - Business, D -Administration and W~lllamAlanson Borden, who was engaged in M - Management. In A we find subjects not library work in India, 1910-13, and who entered spec~ficallyrelated to busmess or to the manage- into collaborat~on with the editor of D. C. to ment of enterprises, as encyclopedias, dictionaries, mould his idea into such form as would permit of history, natural science, etc.; B, includes Bank- its incorporation in D. C., which has been adopted ing, Foreign trade, Insurance, Transportation and on every continent and in many countries and Public utilities; D, Scientific management, In- which, being used more than all other systems dustrial relations, Business finance, Inspection! combined, is obviously the vehicle by which this Planning, etc.; and M, Plant equipment, Produc- idea of Mr. Borden's, probably his greatest con- tion, Accounting, Personnel management and tr~butionto the library science of the world, can Purchasing. Thus we have B, Business; BK Com- be most effectively conveyed to the world-wide mercial; BKT Transportation; BKT6 Aerial range of libraries for whose benefit it was de- transportation and BKTb02 a handbookon aerial signed. The principal features of the plan had transportation. been agreed upon between Mr. Borden and the editor before Mr. Borden's death in November, A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTCLZISSIRICATION 1931, by which the determination of minor details Another classification that has come to our was thrown on the shoulders of D. C. editor, who notice recently is a decimal classification scheme will endeavour to settle them with a view to the for municipal government material by Frederick greatest advantage of the greatest number. MacMillan, secretary of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities (Madison, Wis.). The clasaifica- tion is limited in scope confining itself to govern- The New Decimal Classification for "Litera- ment material, the notation ranging from 100 to ture" and for "History and Travel" by Thomas 900. S. Dabagh and published in the Wdson Bdlctin for February, 1933, offers a solution to the prob- lem of arranging literature by form in libraries The librarian, Etheldred Abbot, of the Ryerson using the Dewey D. C. The New D. C. suggests Library, Chicago Art Institute has available at a reversing the language and form number putting nominal fee, reprints of the article "A Photo- the latter first, thus the Dewey D. C. 821 English graph and Lantern Slide Catalog in the Making," poetry becomes 812 and 831 German poetry, published in the Library Journal of November 15, would be 813 The new notation fits in and re- 1932. sembles the Dewey D. C, notation so that no con- fusion need result. The suggestions made in reference to History COMMERCI AL-TECHNICAL and Travcl arc not so simple. The criticism of the Dewey D. C. 000 class is the separate sequences Editor: Miriam ZabriJtis Tr~rtravel and history materials, and the failure to The following are comments from our Book prov~dea general class for each country and lo- Review Committee: April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES "THE AhiER1c.4~RAILROADS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM PROBLEM" Editor. Eugenia Raymond This is the title under whxh the Brookings Institution has announced the work of Dr. IIE Fogp Art Museum Library recently ac- Harold G. Moulton and his research staff. Tquired a reserve photograph study room, in The price will be $3.00 The original report which the slide files and catalogs are kept This came from the National Transportation Com- mittee and is still being distributed on request space was made available when the Naumberg from the Committee on Public Relations of the rooms were moved into their new quarters. Eastern Railroad, 143 Liberty Street, New York City. Editor~alsand digests of the report Etheldred Abbot, librdriarl of the Art Institute are to be found in Annalist, February 17, 1933, of Chicago, is serving on the S. L. A and A. L.A. pp. 251-8, 261. 286; Trafic World, February Committees which are attempting to bring the 18, 1933, pp 311-312; Xarlway Age, February work of the library before the pubhc. 18, 1933, pp. 234, 247-250. "The points made comprise probably the most complete range of Mary B. Day, librarian of the Museum of critical diagnosis wh~chthe railways have ever Science and Indusiry, is one of a committee of had from an unprejudiced outside authority." Regarding the separate, supplementary report five which has been preparing the Chicago Li- ~adeby Alfred E. Smith, Trafic World says: brary Club directoly of libraries in and near Chi- Former Governor Smith adds zest to the cago. The directory will include over 500 libraries. findings by his separate concurring opinion in wh~ch,with cjfaracteristic vigor, he states his The 1932 exhibition of F~ftyBooks of the Year, own opinions selected by the American Institute of Graph~c Arts, attracted considerable attent~onrecently at INSURANCE the Cincinnati Art Museum. The librarian gave Editor: Geraldine Rarnrnw gallery talks on the books and their printers, and NNOUNCEMENT - A book review com- attempts urere made to bring interested readers A mittee lor the Insurance Group has been into the library to see additional examples of fine appointed, with Abbie Glover as chairman, as- printing. sisted by Edith Flagg and Geraldine Rammer. The Brooklyn Museum Library has received This committee's recommendations will be 4,687 carefully chosen pleces of illustrative mate- mimeographed as a Bulletin under an attractive r~alfor its lending picture file. These are the col- heading and distributed soon after April 1st. It la lection of the late Kate Mann Franklin, artist, anticipated that such a Bulletin may list approxi- lecturer and teacher The material represents the mately fifteen Items under each division of insur- accumulat~onof many yearsand is especially rich ance- fire, life, surety and casualty. Has any in color and des~gn.This Museum also received one any suggestions? from the executors of the estate of thelate Colonel WANTED- If YOU have a copy of Dunham's Michael Friedsam, President of B Altman S: "The Business of Insurance" which you wish to Company, 595 books on art. His art collection sell, please communicaie with the editor of this was one of the best known in Greater New York column. and, upon its dispersal, went to the Metropolltan PLANS- Mildred Pressman is chairman of a Museum of Art and to the Brooklyn Museum. committee which is working. on subject headings for an Insurance library. This is such a vital part NEWSPAPER of every insurance librarian's work that each Editor: Joseph F. Kwapil member of the Group should assist the committee HE Philadelphia Chapter's Newspaper in every way possible. TGroup of S. L. A, was officially organized at the Blue Lantern Tea Room, February 16, 1933. Some statistics showing the use of the library of The followmg officers were elected: Chairman, the Insurance Society of Nee York and a three- Frank Donohoe, Evening Bulletin, Vice-Chair- page list of additions to thelibrary aregiven in the man, Paul Foster, Inquirer, Secretary-Treasurer, Society's News Letter for January - " The Insur- Ralph Shoemaker, Publlc Ledger; Ilospital~ty, ance Society of New York might have continued as Mrs Marie Cassidy, Evening Bulletin; Member- some kind o/ organizhtion -just what we do no1 ship, F. Heaton Shoemaker, Public Ledger; know - but it never would have held the preeminent Board of Execut~ves,Joseph F. Kwapil, Public posthon it now holds if tt had nol been for Ihe steady Ledger; Fred Warrington, Record, Mrs Helen dcvelopmenl of lhe Lfbrary from lhat nrghl over Wells, Evening Bulletin; Frank Donohoc, Eve- Ihirly years ago, when lhe first box of books was un- ning Bulletin; and Paul Foster, Inquirer. packed and put on the shelves, rtght down lo the IL was unan~mously agreed to meet jo~ntly firesent day." with thespecial LibrariesCounc~lof Philadelphia. SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS Editor: Margaret Bonnell
HE Council on Foreign Relations has issued The Internat~onalCity Managers' Association, Ta "Foreign Affairs Bibl~ography,"by W. I.. 923 East 60 Street, Chicago, is the series of Langer and Hamilton Flsh Armstrong. It 1s a twenty articles covering the more significant selectcd and annotated list of some 7,000 books events and developn~entsin 1932 in the various published in the post-war period covering the fields of municipal administration. whole field of current international relations- An art~cleon counc~l-managerdevelopments history, politics, economics, finance, interna- points out that more than one fifth of all our t~onal lab and diplomacy, as well as related c~tles,w~th ten thousand or more population, now subjects such as civihzat~onsand race conflicts, operate under the council-manager plan. This population and immigration problems, colonial article also traces the growth of the manager problems, propaganda, modern warfare and plan, cities defeatmg proposals to adopt the plan, d~sarmament In addit~onto these more general court decmons, legislation, and the county-mall- phases, sections are devoted to all parts of the ager plan. The greater portlon of the Yearbook world, region by region and country by country. is devoted to the 1932 conference proceedtngs The entries, which are classified under about of the International City Managers' Associa- 300 headings, give, in addition to full deta~lsas to tion. One of the most important sessions was on author, pubhsher and number of pages, a brief the Technology of Retrenchment, and the note des~griedto indicate the nature of the book, Yearbook contains valuable papers under this its relative value and when poss~blethe quallfica- heading. Price $2 00. tions of the aulhor. In the Preface the authors *** acknowledge the help of one of our members: A 200-year calendar made by the Ace Manu- "In the work of classijicaBon and checking of titles facturing Co., 280 Plane Street, Newark, N. J., we haw recezvcd invaluable aid from Ruth Savord, meets very efficiently one of Miss Manley's ihe lrbrarran of the Coitnczl whose expert knowledge reference problems at the Business Branch. It and unliring effort made lighter the burden oj refers back 132 years and to any future date organiemg so much material." except that of the end of the depression, for Standards of Unemployment Insurance by 68 years, with any full month visible. Price55.00. Paul H. Douglas (Social Service Monographs No. 11 19 of the University of Chicago Press) is an out- SPECIALLIBRARIES is referred to in a footnote line of what a properly managed system of unem- to the chapter on "Scientific (Technical) Ltbra- ployment insurance would do and what features ries" in a publication of the British Library such a system should have. A particularly useful Association, "The Year's Work in Librarianship, reference feature is the inclus~onin appendices 1931." The chapter has been reprmted in pam- of the texts of the Wisconsin Unemployment phlet form and may be obtained from the author, Compensation Act, the Interstate Commission H. P. Spratt of The Science Museum Library on Unemployment Insurance, the Ohio Unem- (London). ployment Insurance Commission bill, and the *** American Federation of Labor's report on Un- "Unemployment Rehef in the United States employment insurance. and Canada" is the title of a 12-page bibliography * * * issued by the Russell Sage Foundation Library "Unemployment Insurance" is the title of a in December. The material is supplementary to ~amphletby an authority, Mary B. Gilson of Bulletin No 109. References to public works Industrial Relations Counselors. The first half projects and to unemployment insurance, as explains the Brit~shscheme. The remainder is methods of alleviating unemployment, have been given over to the situat~onin the United States, omitted. Price 20 cents. discussing reports of the Interstate Commission, . the Ohio commission, bills proposed before The first annual edition of the "League Year- several State legislatures in 1933, and the opposi- book," a fully documented description of the tion to such legislation. organization of the League of Nations, the * * * International Labour Office and the World Court One of the most important features of the and of their activities during the past year, is " 1933 City Manager Yearbook" published by available from the World Peace Foundation, 40 April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 75 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. This a complete reference for titles, interest and publication is not issued by the League of Nations maturity dates. and therefore is not due to global subscribers. *** frice $3.50. Early life insurance official statistics for Massa- *** chusetts are reproduced in the append~cesof a "The Heat Treatment and Annealing of book published by the American Conservat~on Aluminum and Its Alloys," by N. F. Budgen, IS Co, of Chicago, entitled "Elieur Wright: B~ble a comprehenswe monograph and the first of Life Insurance." Price $5.00. published on the subject. It is obtainable from * The Sherwood Press, Inc., Box 2617, Lakewood "Morale: the Mental Hygiene of Unemploy- Branch, Cleveland, Ohio. Price $7.50. ment," prepared for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 450 Seventh Avenue, New York Librarians who are budding up or maintaining City, by Dr. George K. Pratt, is recommended by files of state documents w~llwelcome a " Directory social workers as an excellent pamphlet. Chart of State Exchanges" which has been *** completed by Mrs. Mary E. Frankhauser, Volunle two of the new Chemical Patents In- Librarian of The Michigan State Library. The dex, published by the Chem~cal Catalog Co., chart represents very exhaustive and careful work contains C, D and E of the subject Index, noL in gathering and verifying information showing A and B as stated in the note which appeared in the sources from which publications of varlous our December issue. A and B of the subjects are states can be obtained. H. W. Wilson Co. Price included with the index of names In volume one. $1.25. *** *** The Solar-Sturges Manufacturing Company at In the Quarterly Journal of Economics for Melrose Park, Illuiois, has developed a cwpera- November, Paul T. Homan of Cornell summarizes tive sales library for its salesmen Each salesman the proposals for economic planning and the contrrbutes $5 00 a year in semi-annual instal- literature. This summary covers fourteen of the ments. The company contributes an equal sum. recent publications dealing with planning in- A library committee of two salesmen and a cluding the Swope plan, and the ideas of Stuart representative from the main office selects the Chase, Dean Donham and others. books Only one book is sent to a man at a time. With it a form is mailed stating the date the book will "Guarantee of Industry," by the American be due for return. 'Usually this IS two weeks. On Bankers Association Commission of Commerce some of the longer books it is three weeks. The and Marine, is the Kent plan for recovery, which library contains books on selling, psychology, proposes that the R. F. C. be utilized to carry out health, credits, advertising, public speaking, etc , its operation. The individual banks would canvass but no ficlion. their irtdustrial clrents for information on how *** much money they would need to resume opera- A timely report of the National Industrial tions on a 1927 scale, how many workers would Conference Roard - "The Availability of Bank be employed, how much raw material be pur- Credit " -gives statistical information from chased and the quantity and character of the more than 3,500 sources on the extent to wh~ch increased production. This informat~onwould be individual American industries have been af- ccdrdinated by the Federal Reserve Banks as a fected by the drastic liquidation of bank credit basis for loans to be made. during the last three years. Two other recent titles are "Essentials of a Program of Unemploy- "Foreign Dollar Bonds, 1933," by Albert W. ment Reserves" and "Taxation of Motor Veh~cle Kimber, of White, Weld 8: Company, 40 Wall Transportation." *** Street, New York City, presents the important part~cularsand provisions of issue of all foreign "A New Plan for Unemployment Reserves" bonds payable in United States dollars heretofore is a recent report of the Employment Stabiliza- sold in the American market and still outstanding tion Research Institute, by Alvin H. Hansen and on January 1, 1933, arranged alphabetically and Merrill G. Murray. In 1928-29 Professor Hansen indexed. Method of sinking fund operation has spent a year in Europe investigating the causes received particular attention. Note is made of of economic instability and the economic conse- defaults, "negative mortgage clause," income quences of unemployment insurance. Merrill G. tax and transfer tax. The index is equivalent to Murray tested how various plans of unemploy- 76 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933 ment insurance would work under conditions In P~ccard)and the subject of the only editorial in Minnesota industr~es, and to what extent the a recent issue of Publrc Servzce NC~US,the employ- reserves would w~thstandthe strain of prolonged ees' magazine of the Public Service Corporation and severe unemployment like the present. of New Jersey C~rculat~onand reference work in Bryce M. Stewart of lndustr~al Relations 1932 showed an increase over 1931, the prewous Counselors was employed to uncover the provi- busiest year-more than 8,000 books and sions of various European plans which experience 86,000 periodicals circulated, and 1,200 reference has demonstrated to be inadv~sableor to merit questions. adoption Professor Hansen does not believe that *** unemployment insurance is an unnmed good, but Computation of approximate costs to individ- reaches the conclus~onthat under modern condi- ual firms of a system of unemployment benefits tions it is necessary. Univers~tyof Mmnesota for the~rown employees is presented in "A Study Press, 50 cents paper, $1.00 cloth. of Labor Turnover in 14 Ohlo Business Concerns * * In Relation to the Cost of a Hypothetical System Blast Fnrnace and Steel Plaal begins in the of Unemployment Benefits," by the Bureau of January Issue its 16th annual review of iron and Business Research of the Ohio State University. Price 50 cents. steel literature, a classified list of the more *a* important books, serials and trade publications of the year, prepared by E H McClelland, Tech- "Employee Handbooks" is the subject of a nology Librar~an of the Carnegie Library of recent report by the Policyholders' Service Pittsburgh. Bureau, Metropolitan L~feInsurance Co., also * * the D~rector of Social Insurance Research The "Union List of Period~cals"of the N. Y. prepared a recent "Memorandum" for the Joint S. L. A. IS c~tedas an example of what may be Legislative Committee on Unemployment of the accomplished by listing holdtngs of periodicals State of New York, wh~chproposes a plan for by groups smaller or more specialized than the paying unemployment benefits and training la~ge,well-stocked libraries of the country, by workers during a period of unemployment. These Karl Brown in The Llbrary Journal for January pamphlets may be had on application to the 1. A description of the file started in 1922 by company. *** the Special Libraries Council of Phdadelphia, which is in charge of Edith B. Skinner, is also "Store Door Delwery" is the title of a 30-page gwen. annotated list of references prepared in January *** by the Library of the Bureau of Ra~lrayEco- , "A Survey of a Retail Trading Area" in nomics, Washington, D. C. The list is chronolog- Illmois is published as No. 44 of the Bureau of ically arranged and goes back to 1912. Business Research, University of Illinois. The * purpose of the study is to ~llustratemethod and "Democratic Influences in Industry" is a procedure as well as results which may be ob- document of 100 pages, comprising the best tained from such a survey. Another bullet~n- single analysis of employer-employee joint "Costs of Tosnsh~pand County Government in ownership, control and management of industry Illinois" - is an attempt to prov~deinformation available. It appears as the Proceedings of first upon wh~chto base judgments as to the relative annual conference of the Industrial Experi- merits of certain types and forms of local gov- menters Associated, amhated with the Bureau of ernment units. Personnel Admmistration, 420 Lexington Avenue, *** New York. Price $1.00. Fznancial Bncjs 1s a new magazine digesting the *** current literature of business and finance. It is "Manufacturing Market Statistics," recently published in Bogota, N. J., by Daniel J. Lyons prepared by the Bureau of Foreign and Domest~c Subscription $3.00 a year, four months $1.00. Commerce with the special cdperation of the *** Census Bureau, presents in compact, readily The Academy ol World Economics, in Wash- usable form the Census of Manufactures data ington, D. C., has published as a pamphlet under for all industries showing such market indicators the title "Gold; a World Problem," addresses as number of plants, workers, wages and salaries, given at the Institute of Public Affairs held last horsepower of equipment, material cosL and value July by the Univers~tyof Virginia. of output, by states, cities of 10,000 population * * and over, and major industrial areas. Alma Mrtchrll's Public Service Library was A prominent feature of the new study is a front page news (along with Prof. Auguste plant-location section showing for the first time April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 77 on the basis of the 1920 Census of Manufactures The hledical College of Virginia in Richmond the location by state and county of more than has a new library building Among the collec- 200,000 manufnctr~rmgconcerns representing a t~on's20,000 volumes are 543 sets of bound market for $36,000,000,000 worth of materials, journals, a few of them complete for nearly a classed In 326 prlntary rndustry groups., hundred years and many of then1 out of print. I** The library is also collecting and housing en- "The Coniplete Bankruptcy Law of the gravings, prints, portraits, photographs, letters, United States (including amendment of Fcbroary ~nstrurnents and other articles having special 11, 1932)" may be obtained as an 80-page significance in the health-servlce fields. The pamphlet from the American Bankruptcy Re- staff 1s headed by Dr E C. L, hl~ller as view, 11 West 42nd Street, New York City. drecting librarian and Florence hIcRae, li- *** brarian. The Mechanical Catalog, published by the *I* American Soc~etyof Mechanical Engineers, all1 Encyclopedia Britannica articles and illustra- carry in the 1933-34 edition a new "index to tions in each special field of the arts and sclences Rlanufacturers of Industrial Equipment, Ma- are betng gathered together into a series of all- terials and Supplies" which will include man- inclus~vevolumes so that they can be more con- ulacturers 871th only one or a few products. These veniently read or used as handbooks. Two of companies have not appeared In the past because these books are now ready - one on "Chinese their smgle or few products did not warrant them Art," the other on " Paintmg." Obtamable at in purchasing the traditronal minimum space of $2 50 each from 342 SIadison Avenue, New York one page. City.
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Dahlberg, Arthur. Jobs, machines & capitalism. "Th~sisintended as a som~lesludstoind~cnte tire typc ~f Information needed In n p~lbllcemployment ofiicc re- MacmiUan, 1932. $3.00. garding d! indualnee " M. H S Hayes Pcrs Jour.. Oct. "The dlaanoxis on wllich h~spronosed remedy rests '32,p. 187. 625 n.ords. emphasizes our failure to nlakc increased productivity s See also - Yanag. Rev., Nov. '32, p 350. 220 words bcncfit for all " Borron's. April 18. '12. p. 18 480 words "Dnhlbcrg goes to tlie very roots al our systen~of economy. More tmpartnnt still, for the la,man, he has Fraser, C. E. Analyzing our industries. McGraw- dcveloped a flow slrcct Ilrat slrows clcarl, Iiow raw ma- Hill, 1932. $5.00. tcrmls. labor energy. fin~ahedproducts and purchasing "i3clicv1ng that lltndamealnl information about 111c LO power arc related to one another." Pad Ind. h1o11, set-up or leadhg lndustrics and a thorough understandm~ 4prl1 '32, p 34. 450 words of problems and trends arc nmcssary to successful finnn- "This hook IS lllcly to mnk us the most ~ntelllacnt c~ala~ralysis and b~lsrncumanasement, the authors hare suidy of uhnt 1s tlrc matlcl wit11 11s cvohcd by tlic current undertaken to examine crihcally and constructively a depression Tlrc autllor, trained engineer, economist and scrtes of unportant industries, analyzing the trends and sociologist, lmparunlly analyzes thc results of a capitalls- future possibil~tiesof each:' Barren's, July 25. '32. p. 18 tic economic system and sliows why, allhougl~this system 185 words. 18 the best that ofiers, things bavcgone tenrpordyawry." "For one who ha8 not followed the troubled course of Facd Indusl?rrr. Sov '32. p 380 315 uords. our major lndustr~csduring the past ten years nnd expects See also: Jlnnng Rw . Ocl. '32, p 318 100 aords; to sell ideas in these fields, the book is inval~tablc . tllc N. Y. Her. Trtlr.. Sov 6. '33, p. 14 iOO words. style 15 similar to that of the Hamard reports, libcrnlly find sunplementcd with char18 nnd graphs." Class & IihsI. DeSchweinitz, D. How workers jobs. Uni- Mark,, Oct '32, p. 46. 250 worde versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. $2.50. "Of unuaual intcrest 13 the complete treatment of "The study br~ngstogether the results of an invcsliga- lndustrlal groups which have bcen but sketchily outlined tion Into the mcthdda by which some 3,000liosiery work- in previous Ilterature." ,Ifog. Woll St., AUS.6, '31, P 480. crz in Phtladelphia obtained their jobs " H M D~amnnd. 400 words. .4rnff. Econ. Rcu. Sept. '32, 0. SIB 600 words "When so meat d~flerencesofoplnlon eust in the minds "Written primadly for the benefit of employment of economists, ~nvestorsand busmeas men. RII to present burcau offic~als,vocational counselors, personnel officers, status and future prospects of important industnes, the and other persons who nrc interested In developing better book furnishes a renl contnbotlon to the study of a held oreanlzatlon method8 whereby the worker rnlght get In rn ~hlchthcre has been n marked searclty of information touch wlth hle)ob." Ltb. Ball, d Indttsl Rcl. Couns., Int., presmttd in concise, non-technical (om." H,A, hIathe\\s. July '32, p. 25. 300 words. Afanap. Rtv., Dcc. '32, p. 384. 500 words. 78 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
Graves, L. M. Great deoression & beyond, and frankly takes the rGle of Its champ~onagainst the rookm mire Economic ~eriice,1932. $2.00. swarm of critics n.11~hnve assa~ledit " Mag II'aII 51. .IUB "" " 4Rn' ir'O words' ".\fter d~scussingbrlefly the business cycle and the "It Is a concise, log~caland reasonable c~~ositlonof tile general im~llcationsof previous depressions, the author tllal Indlvldual progress and lndlvidual traces the owin of the current business I)rcakdown In the llappincss best tlndcr private tllan govern- over-expansion of the world's industrial system " .Ifanas mcnlnl control dnd opcrauon lndllstries Tile Is Rtv , Oct. '32, p 319 225 words discussion of tile pllascs is ~nrtlcularlytimely I)ecau= ~t evidenlly takes Into aCCO1lnt In 'itllntlon which markably clcar, hut the last scctlon of rl~ebook, d~scusa~ng tllOse chanses '' C. the future, 1s not so clcar IIe thinls the creditor countr~cs have llecn brougllt On by ''Ie current mncr, J~fl*~R~IL Dee. '3% P. 380. 850 words. ElloUld,,t.lth tlleir principal dchlors, form economic "The d~scuss~onIS of a general nature. The electr~c unions' wny In wlllcli lhis can Ire power ~ndustryIS treated In somewhat more detail. how- Snr BIIS Dec '32. p 54. 100 words . ever " hlargaret Reynolds. dlrd-Wcsl. Banker. May '32, Grayson, T. J. Leaders & periods of American p 13 80 words. "'hfen. Money, and Mergers.' IS In a way a nilsnon~cr. finance. Wiley, 1932. $4.00. The book cons~dersall thew th~ngs,but it noes to tile root "Tl~ough one may feel that the author's appra~sals of the subject and treats primar~lyof indlvlduallam varris sometimes depart from sound ltlstor~calfacts, one mu51 aovernment ou*nershlp." h'at. Bus, Oct. '32, p. 52. 200 co~icludethat he has done 111s work well and certaln parts words of 11even brllhantly. Relyingas hedoes, for the most part. upon secondary sources listed In a b~bhographywh~ch Mills, F. C. Economic tendencies in the Unlted falls to Include same of the more recent scholarly treatises, accurate annlysls becomes d~Ecult."Account. Rcr.. Dec States. National Bureau of Economic Research, '32. p. 317.925 words. 1932. $5.00. "The main purpose has been to show how our prlvate "The new measurements nnd factual mater~alpre- finance developed from the lirm bas18 of public finance sented In th~svolunte mnkc It invaluable as a reference which first arose In tl~chrnin of Alexander Ham~lton,and aork, and tlmr mtcrprctatlon sl~ouldprove stlmulatlng then to describe the gradual evolunon of hmertcnn bus- to all who are tntcrcacd tn the course of recent cconomlc nc5s enterprise throug11 the century and a lialf just past " events " Burron's. Dcc 5. '32, p. 18. 200 words. llanag Rev., Oct '31, P 318. 185 words "Here 1s an dl-round study of importance and accuracy See alsa - Amer. Econ Rcv , Dec. '32, P. 317. 925 that w~llbe one of the best lndlces of our changing clvlllza- worda: Barron's. June 27. '32. p. 19. 225 words. Llon In years to come " M E Hare. Cred~l&Fin. Manog . 'Jan. '33. p 28. 210 worda. Harwood, E. C. Cause & control of the business " Bridgea tltespan between the prevlous atudy. 'Recent cycle. Financial Publishing Company, 1932. Econom~cChanges In the Unlted States,' pubhhd by $2.00. the commlttee early In 1929 and the report whlch the commlttee intends to publlsh In the future when the "4dvance comment on this book with m amb~t~ousa Me has been dietmctly favorable, but to the writer it present ecnnomic cycle will have run its course. . . . The appears to be merely another of the numerous eBorts to bmk appeals equally to the buslnem man and to the solve the economlc puzzle as to the genesis and cure of student because of the easy readable atyle, In wh~ch~t IS written " Dun's Jan. 21. '33. p 29. 300 words. deprcealons by financial legerdemun, wh~leIgnoring the Rsu., "Analyzes, by means of hitherto unpuhlial~dmeasure- funaamental factors of excessive land values communally ments, these and other changes in the volume and char- created and vic~oustax systems wh~chleave an undue acter of product~on,prices, manufacturing costa, cap~tal pronortlon of these values In pnvate pockets while bur- dening and strangling the economic actlv~tiesof the supply and otllcr elements of the economlc structure durlng the pre-war and post-war periods." Manag. RN world." Corn. & Fin , Nov. 9. '32, p. 1342. 115 words . Dec. '32, p. 64. 375 worda. "The cntlre theory is explatnd unpretcnt~ouslyin a small volume whlch makes at~mulatingreading for the man who Is Interested In the relatlonsl~~pbctween banking Mogensen, A. H.Motion &time study. McGraw- nnd money polley and tile phenomena of ~nflat~onand Hill, 1932. $2.50. dcflatlon." Dun's REI~.,Jan. 21, '33, p. 29. 100 words. "Though thls volume deals entirely with the methods "Mr. Harwood has Included an 'index of rnflation' of studying the motions and minutes necessary to carry on which Is deslgned to portray the degree of ~nflat~onemst- production processes wit11 view to reduclng their coats. ing at any time This Index has been tested over the ~nst 11 has a pecul~arInterest and mewmge for all des~gneraand few years and accurately revealed the underly~ngsltua- marketers of Industrial equipment " Class & Indusl. tlon throughout the latter part of the boom and the pres Mark., Dec. '32. P. 38. 325 words ent depression!' Bonk Yon., Dee. '32, p. 760. 150 words. "Students of motlon study and managers who w1s11to learn what this method of analysis can do to reduce costs Hoxie, G. L. Men, money &mergers. Macmillan, will find In thla book a greater wealth of uaable and prac- 1932, $2.00. tical material than has been brought tonetl~eron this "This bookseta foritxlf the task of lnylngdown funda- S~blectto my knowledge In any other bmk now In print." mental principles with regard to the devclopment of H. P. Dutton. Fad and Indusl. M~MI.,Dec. '32, p. 20. lcaderahlp, progresa, and economlc organization . . . It 275 words. deals with generalittes and unventiable assumptions. "A full explanation ol each of the five general methods It lays down sweeplng l~~stor~calstatements and mi- of measurement: process chart, clock, stop watch. motlon nlodcal propos~tlonsw111cl1 it does not endeavor to prove study. and micromotion study In addlllon to the thmry even if It could." John Bauer. A mcr. Econ. Rev. Dee. '32. of these methods, he citm actual adaptations wliicl~ p. 741. 1.075 words have been made In Industry, and devotes the latter part "The book has an air of propaganda lacauae the author of the book to the use of motmn plcturw in thla work." drma 111sIllustrative factnlargely from the power industry N A. C. A. Bull.. Dee. 1, '32. p. 566. 160 worda. April, 1933 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 79
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Nysirom, P. H. Fashion merchandising. Ronald, Seligman, E. A. A. Price cutting and price main- 1932. $4.00. tenance. Harper, 1932. $6.00. "For anyone entering the fashion merchandising field. "Valuable chlefly ns a source of information concerning thla splendidly organized presentation of the subject Is the nrobable best means of c~rcumventingthe legal invaluable and those who are famlllar wlth most of the scruples of judges rather than as a convlnung demanstra- atem deecribed will find the clear analyaia helpful durlng tlon of the economic deslrablllty of price muntenancc." thls period of rrnluation of store activities." BUN. Nal L W. Cooper. Amn. Eron. Rn,, Dec. '31, p. 730. 1,200 Rel. Dry Goods Asm., Aug. '32, p. 581. 500 words words. "Emphaairen the Individual viewpoint of the aubject "An cconomlc study, authoril~livcand Irnp3rtla1, of almont entirely. . . . Th~sbook !a a manual, the purpow rcsale-price mnintenance and price cutting related there- of which in to guide atudenta and uecutlves ~n the proper to.".Leonn Kohn. Indusl. Arls Ind.. 4pri1 '32, p. ill. method of merdmndlslng to the faahion cycle " Ralph GO words Cassady, Jr. Jour. ofBus., Unlv Chlugo. Oct. '32. P. 406. "A discussion of the hstor~caland legal developments 800 words. in resale-pr~cemaintenance. . . . Tile atatus of remle- "Many marketing experts conalder this book to be one prlce maintenance in foreign coulltrles is also considered " of the ktyet written on the modern apphcation of Yanar RN., Jan. '33, P. 29.450 words. pycholow to buslueaa. It can be unreservedly recom- mended for study by all interested in marketing and es- Taussig, F. W. American business leaders. Mac- pecially by those mncerned wlth the problems of present- day retailing!' Jour. Relad., Oct. '32, p. 93 525 words. millan, 1932. $4.00. "Dexrlbes the nnous methods of styling and the in- "New light was thrown on the problems of economrc fluences behind style. A further influence - and the most mesuallty - I e , the differences in the earnings of mdi- ~mportont-in, of course, what the public wante. Con- viduals engaged In different occupations " lour Bur alderable spaa has been devoted to methods of analyzing Educ.. Dec '32, p. 25. 325 worda. mnsumer demand." Ynch. Man. Aug. '32, p. 64. 300 "An investigation of the soual orlglna of our buslnm words. leaders, and as to whether the proportlon 01 each aocial "Untll a book on fashion is wrlttenfrom the standpoint claw among bus~nessexecutives 1s the eatne, less, or greater of theatoremanager, this bookmll be useful in glving him than the proportlon of that class lo the population at practical and theoreuul lnformallon on the subject." large." Manag. Mdh., Nov. '32, p. 626. 550 words Synd. Swe Mnch . Nov '32, p. 38 235 words. "It will intereal Lhose who have been or arc without "The purpoez la to auggest lines along which differential ad in fighting their say to success, to Lnow that 60 per advantages in the field of fashion merchandlainn may be cent of these cxecut~vesrealved no help, financlnl or legitimately created and promoted." Ttrl. World. Aug. othemlse. when they started to earn thelr llvelihmd " '32, p. 102 150 words. N. A. C. A Bull., Feb. 1. '33, p. 892. 175 words. 80 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1933
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