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Time to Redouble
“This, in my opinion, is the time to redouble our efforts to make our educational system operate more effectively than ever in the process of enlightening our judgments.
To be specific, we need to buttress our library system, particularly in the rural areas. When people are burning books in other parts of the world, we ought to be distributing them with greater vigor; for books are among our best allies in the fight to make democracy work.”
—(From an address by Dr. J. W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education, before a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago.)