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WINNETKA TALK July 24, 1926 LIBRARIES ON WHEELS "What will you have today," politely inquires the man at the door as he dis- plays his wares, "some nice fresh novels, a good thick biography, a few flavory short stories or a tender piece of verse," Fer this, according to the American Library association, is the latest house- hold convenience--the public library on wheels bringing its service to your door. To the ranks of milkmen, ice- men, etc, has been added in many places the bookman, and now house- mental food as their groceries. The bookman drives a special truck that is virtually a sectional bookcase on wheels. In-it he carries a selection of books whith he has made after learning his "route" and the desires of the people he meets. If he doesn't have a volume wanted he takes his patron's order and mails the book at once or brings it to him on the next trip. > Although originated in 1905 in Wash- ington county, Maryland, book trucks have not been employed to any ex- tent until recent years. Now with a survey of library service conducted by regularly as the library association which reveals that forty-five per cent of the popula- tion of the United States and Canada is without access to libraries--the figure running up to eighty-three per cent for rural residents--librarians are turn- ing to the book truck as one of the chief means by which the country's store of books may be mobilized and placed within the convenience of all. The service rendered varies with conditions in the communities where the book truck travels. In Greenville, S. C, it goes mostly to workers in the cotton mills on the edge of the city. From Hibbing, Minn. a truck travels holders in those parts may have their Hupmobile Six 2 Passenger Coupe Happy union of sur- passing beauty with the practical and efficient. For the woman who wants a car for her very own -- smart elegance, good taste, grace, and superlative ease and safety in handling. For of Special Interest Velvety Duco finish--green below, with black upper body. Double bead with gold stripe. Seat 47 inches wide--ample for three per- sons. Ramble seat for two additional pas- ble, if you need all the storage space. Rea r window can be lowered for ehummi- ness and ventilation. . Upholstery in hand - crushed leather, or velour, as you choose. ks for golf bag door at side and for rear ear-vison body, with special ear- vision y, with special vision-ven- Hating windshield. Oil filter, gasoline filter, s| issi the man who daily drives his car in business as relent- lessly as he drives himself, the time-proven Hupmobile appetite for punishment,and the finest six-cylinder per- formance brought down from high-cost levels. See Sedan, five-passenger, $2345. Berline, $2445. 3 with rumble seat, $2345. Roadster, with rumble seat, $2045. senger, $1945. Touring. seven-passenger, gauge, lock, auto- "matic windshield cleaner, rear view mirror, rear signal light, snubbers; four-wheel brakes and balloon tires of course. Hupmobile Six Sedan, five-passenger, four-door, $1385. Coupe, two- hrumb] % $1385. Touring, five-passenger, $1325. Equipment includes 30 x 5.25 balloon tires, four-wheel brakes. All fo. b. oit, plus revenue tax. withr prices Hupmobile Eight Sedan, Coupe, two- ger, Touring, five-pas- $2045. All prices f. = b. it, plus - revenue tax. this car and ask yourself here you would look for ce Dog In ul sarang wne y - by and you can be sure here he its equal. kind of a used car that is most satisface tory in the long run, Hanson Motor Co. 557 Chestnut Street Winnetka Phone Winn. 330 out to small mining towns, while St. Louis, Mo., maintains a truck which visits the playgrounds of the city with books for school children. The widest use for the "motorized library," however, is in the rural dis- tricts. Logansport, Elkhart and Rochester are three of five Indiana towns which send books into the country. Similar work is done by Portland, Ore., Durham, S. C., Clarkes- dale, Miss., and several other cities. Birmingham, Ala., Harrisburg, Pa, Detroit, Mich., and other large centers have individual problems in county li- brary extensions which they have worked out by means of the book truck. The public libraries of Evans- ton, Ill, and Dayton, Ohio, also em- ploy book trucks to make more con- venient the resources of their shelves. Where a community is sparsely popu- lated, as in the rural districts, book deposits are left at country stores or other centrally located points. Recently the Iowa Library associa- tion has equipped a book truck and started it on a tour of the state to demonstrate the service. It is hoped eventually to have such a truck in every county. Country wide apprecia- tion of the need is indicated by a group of representative farm women who recently met in Chicago to define the greatest needs of farm women. Of thirty-nine wants, "more libraries" headed the list. The latest model in trucks will be shown at the American library asso- ciation's exhibition at the Sesqui-Cen- tennial exposition in Philadelphia, which has been assembled in connec- tion with the association's celebration of its fifteenth anniversary. The jubi- lee will be held October 4-9 in Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Librarians from the forty-eight states and Canadian provinces and many foreign visitors will meet to discuss ways and means for the extension and development of library service. BR ( 2g Everything Good Everything Guaranteed Let Us Serve You VIC. J. KILLIAN Plumbing Contractor 840 Center Street WINNETKA Phone Winnetka 1260 bh & 2