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and complete access to uncesnored news, periodicals and books, the torch of liberty will certainly continue to burn . . . Education is perhaps the greatest single function of the State. This is not only true in providing elementary, high schools and colleges, but also for furnishing the adult population the f acUities to continue and supplement their knowledge and general information. The Libraries are the store houses to which the people can go to read or to withdraw the books of current interest for their pleasure and enlightenment. . . It is the duty of the localities to furnish the facilities to house the library. The locality must provide the home, and the State will assist in providing the books and also in other ways. . . The people of Rappahannock County, with the aid of certain private foundations, have fully met their part of this responsibility and Rappahannock now has a beautiful and commodious library building*. Later in his address Mr. Button expressed his fears of increasing encroachment of Gov, ernment in the affairs of State and warned against it.
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