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The article focuses on the increasing interest among the people in becoming the millionth person to perform anything. The millionth automobile accident victim in the U.S. has already been buried. The 1 millionth visitor to the Library of Congress may not have been playing to be the millionth man to do anything. Unlike the modern times, the standards of former times was to be first.

Presents views on the insufficiency credit given to public libraries by U.S. local government. Inclusion of the library in tax deduction; Doubt in the appreciation of the public for services of the library; Number of people have become readers as of 1934.