"Mother, isn't it wonderful? Last week there were no leaves on the tree, but now the leaves and a nest and eggs in the nest." said Mary as she looked out the upstairs window. "How soon will there be little birds there? How long before the eggs hatch?"

"I don't know," said the mother. "Why don't you go to the library? They will have a book that will tell you more about it."

"They do have a book about eggs hatching," said Mary.

"Yes," said the mother, "and the library has books on almost everything."

"Where do they get all those books?" asked the child. "And who writes all of them?"

"The library is filled with books by generous people and by knowledge that others have set down over thousands of years."

"Isn't that wonderful?" said the child. "It's like a great big building. Like a bank, only instead of being filled with money, it's being filled with answers to all the questions that children have in school."

"Yes," said the mother, "and you don't have to have made a deposit to draw out the 'money'. Someone else has done it for you and all the community can go and use the books, freely."

Indeed, God's creative power is fully displayed in the springtime and the knowledge that the centuries of study has given mankind is wonderfully made available through our libraries. The child's awareness of what seemed like an endless supply of books from the library is too often forgotten by those out of school.

The availability of books for people throughout our nation is a part of the great work of responsible citizenship; and the seeking of good literature to feed the minds of our people instead of pulp printing of perverted passion is a great responsibility of citizenship today.

Along with Clean-Up Week in our communities to beautify our living conditions, needs to be a clean up of the patterns of sharing wisdom for our time. As the banks make their appeal for the proper use of money, so we also need direction for the proper use of knowledge.