But there is more to the Library of Congress for the American dream than merely the wise public money. The library of Congress could not have become appropriation of what it is today, with all the generous aid of Congress without such a citizen as Dr. Herbert Puttnam at the directing head of it. He and his staff have devoted their lives to making the four milling and more books and pamphlets serve the public to a degree that cannot be approached by any similar great institution in the old world. There is the public that uses these facilities. As one looks down on the general reading room, which alone contains ten thousand volumes that may be read without even the asking, one sees the seats filled with silent readers, rich and poor, black and white, the executive and the laborer, the general and the private, the noted scholar and the school boy all reading at their own library provided by their own democracy.