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Gathered in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House for a ceremonial banquet to Librarian Roden were the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, 250 other citizens. Librarian Roden bashfully received a volume of testimonial letters from 175 of his colleagues throughout the world. Said President Hutchins: "We have met tonight to honor one of the great educators of the Middle West. ... The Chicago Public Library was one of the first to realize its educational as distinguished from its storage functions...
...pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...
Laborite C. Roden Buxton objected: "This is spending too much money on other people...
Answered Privy Seal Thomas: "These colonies are within the Empire, therefore they are British. I protest against their being called 'other people' by anybody in the British House of Commons." Objector Roden, squelched, sat down...
Carl Bismarck Roden, librarian of Chicago Public Library...