THE LIBRARY SPEAKS
September 21, 1938
li.L. iOod Morning, ladies and gentlemen~ Again we open the doors of
the Rei'erence Room Of' The Air to give you a variety 01' l'acts and
figures gleaned from the books in your public library. Robert
Crawford has been been gathering information about the library
which is of interest to him. First thing this morning lIm going
to let him sum up the material he has discovered.
R. C. 15,828 people have cards at the library. They borrowed f'or home use
last year 254,203 books . The total book count at the end or 1937
was 53,393 volumes of books. In addition the library has thousands
of unbound magazines, pamphlets, and government documents. The
l ' brary is really a school without age limits, a university without
entrance examinations •
•L. Speaking of schools, here are some very interesting statistics on the school situation in Bau Claire. 5270 students enrolled in the city schools this month. Saint
atrick1s school reports an enroll­ ment of 804, Sacred Heart School of 282 . The Model School of the state Teacher! i College has an attendance of 180 and the college itself reports 600 registered for the new school year. The night school for adults opens very soon, too,
R. C. Bau Claire offers
•L. Tomorrow the
innumere..b~e
educatlon~
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believe. educe..ti.onal. oPl?ortuniti.es •
and good will tour of the Vlisconsin Chapter Of The National Aeronautic Association visits Eau Claire . R. C. Is this the same tour that was postponed from last week?
.L. Yes, three pilots from Eau Claire started out last week and returned.
r. Ward and
~r.
Hurd fly Piper Cub light planes and Mr. Hamilton
a Cessna
to the
fields where the tour stops and everyone is invited to inspect the
planes and have a good time. The tour began at
Ii onday,
anitowoc at 10 A.M.
going from there to Milwaukee f'or luncheon, then to Waukesha,
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and to Racine for the night. Yesterday the schedule included
Janesville, Madison, and Lake Delton. Today the party will visit
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Appleton, and spend
t"B:l:=f~;tUi- tonigh t
in
Wausau. Tomorrow forenoon the planes will arrive here and remain
for lunch, after which the tour will proceed to lisconsin Dells
where the group will di sband.
~~ng
the prominent pilots in this year's tour are Mr. Howard
~oreYl
chairman of the state of Wisconsin aeronautical
co~ssion
and Mr. steve Wittman of Oshkosh. Mr. Wittman won third place in
the Thompson Trophy race at Cleveland.
It should be fun to see the planes.
If you can leave this studio long enough to get out to the airI
port, we'll see you because here's one librarian who
Isn't there a book yet by Howard Hughes
Douglas Corrigan?
Not yet, but Anne Morrow Lindbergh has a new book called, Listen!
The
ind, which is about her husband's famous flight to Paris. It
will be ready for the public next month. The outstanding literary
gem
of all books on famous flights is North To The Orient by Mrs.
Lindbergh. She says there is a .fundamental magic of' flying. "It is
a 'magic which one experiences standing in front of' serene Madonnas
or listening to cool chorales, or even reading one of those clear
passsages in a book - so clear and so illuminating that one feela
the
v~iter
haa given the reader a glass-bottomed bucket with which
to look through the ruffled surface of life far down to that still
permanent world below•• .• • and if flying, like a glass-bottomed
bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which
pe~rs
down
to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain
magic. It
Edward Alexander Powell has been every¥vhere and done everything.
books are as interesting as the titles; Beyond The
utmost Purple Rim, Yonder Lies Adventure, The Map That Is Half
Unrolled, By Camel And Car To The Peacock Throne, His latest book
is called Aerial Odyssey which is an account or flying over Central
and South America.
Claudia Cranston flew 25,00 miles by clipper sbips over South
America, Central
describes in Sky Gypsey.
R,O. The commeroial and pleasure field or aviation is interesting but
the military phase makes one almost wich that planes had never
been invented. Tennyson
wrote prophetio words long ago:
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
aw a vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be;
Saw the heavens rill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales,
Heard
the heavens fill with Shouting, and there rain1d a ghastly
dew
From
the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue.
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.L. I wonder how Tennyson would have relt could he have seen the great
bombing planes being amassed in Europe today. This brings us to
our big reference question of today. One listener to this program
called me Saturday night and said something like this, "I listen
to the news broadcasts on the radio ruld read the headlines in the
newspapers, but I dont't know what
about, do you? I
con£essed that it was a Muddle, but set to work to get the answers
to the questions which she asked me. In the rest of the time I
have left this morning, I'll try to present the story of Czecho­
slovakia as I have found it in books and magazines.
Czechoslovakia is an independent repub11c 1n Central Europe. The name
1 e combination o£ the names o£ the two major peoples £ornrl.ng the
present republic. The Slovaks, formerly part o£ Hungary and the Czechs,
who, were at one time e. part of the Bohemian Kingdom, but through
betrayal were absorbed by the Austrian Einpire . Though the Uzechs
emained under Austrian rule for almost two hundred years, they managed
to keep their nationality alive. The World War :furnished them the
~portunity
which they were seeking to be freed from Austria. The
r epublic was proclaimed by the CzechoslovRKs on Oct. 18, 1918 and was
gi ven its present-eelUi8.fiFl8e frontiers by the peace treaties of
VerSailles, St. Germain, and Trianon, and by the decision of' the
Conference of Ambassadors on the question of Teschen in JUly 1920.
The republic is bounded on the west by Germany, North by Poland,
E at by Roumania, South by HUIl8ary and Austria. Its area is 54,244
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square miles. 'Pke- elu:il8.6!eR-i!!-19~4-w6.s-14:J~~g.,e~6 The West-East
l engbh is 594 miles and the width varies from 175 miles to less than
45 miles.
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The population of the repUblic at the 1930 census was 14,729,536.
This was divided into 66 .. 9% Czecho-slevaks, 22 3;& Germans, 4.8%
agyars,
3. 8% Ruthenes, 1.S% Jews, and .6% Poles .
Prague, the capital has a population of 848,823 and is the largest
01 ty in the nation•
. bout 40% of the population is engaged in agriculture, 34% in
1ndustvy, and 11% in commerce. The remainder of the population is
engaged in government serVices, professions and other fields.
The elevations and climate combine to make Czechoslovakia one of the
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richest forest lands of Europe.Ovel half' of the forest areas arj10vered
with conifers , the rest mixed woodlands, mostly deciduous trees.
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