Excerpt from News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 21: Nos; 1 4, January October, 1926 For a long while I have doubted that librarians have a money sense. Of course, I knew they were never intended as hoarders; but I was skeptical whether they could be getters, when getting means the realization of their dreams. But Samuel H. Ranck in his illustrated story of how American cities spend their in comes Shattered the orthodox arguments against evolution: if the need be. Great enough the power will develop. Accord ing to this chart, which was prepared by Miss Marjorie. E. Nind of the Grand Rapids Public Library, was expounded by Mr Ranck before the Council, and may be found in the Library Journal of January 15, 248 American cities have shown great restraint in feeding their public libraries. In 1903 they spent nine teen cents per person for their public book service. That sum gradually, very gradu ally, rose during the years until in 1923 it reached forty-three cents. By way of contrast the schools started at mounted rapidly to in 1919, when a practically perpendicular ascent began which in 1923 touched the figure of Between these poor man, rich man ratings come the other purposes for which cities raise money - none in the sack cloth of the library, none in the royal purple of the school: recreation, charities and hospitals, highways, pro tection to persons and property. In terms of the purchasing power of money the increase in library support has been about 05, despite the unprecedented twenty year development of this institution of informal instruction and recreation. That chart deserves study and presentation to boards and tax levying bodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.