The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-01

many other cities are performing sim
liar services. In Alexandria, Ia,
grammar school has been opened in
the evening for classes in French and
History. In Chattanooga, the Board
of Education is attempting to supply
the educational material necessary for
the 300 men enrolled in classes in
camp, many of whom can neither read
nor write. Three hundred fifty arith-
metcs sent to the War Recreation
Board b. the American oBok Com
pany of Cincinnati are being put into
excellent use at camp.
The University of South Carolina at
Columbia is giving courses in French,
History. Mathematics and Topography
at a nominal rate. Saturday night lee
lures are being given at the base hos
pital at Camp Cody by teachers from
Deming High School. This school will
be open evenings for classes in
French, Spanish, Mathematics,
Science and History The educational
work for the men at Fort Bliss has
been taken over by the president of
the University of Texas, who has as
signed five university instructors and
three volunteers to the work, the army
providing transportation to the camp
for the instructors Two thousand
men were enrolled in the classes. At
Macon, Ga, en- educational course.
has been arranged giving high school
and college credits.
The men at the Navy Yard, through
the courtesy of organizations in Phil
adelrhia, are having instruction in au-
tomobile mechanics, electricity. type
writing and surveying, as well as in
academic subjects. The Universities
of Wisconsin and California are send
ing instructors to the nearby camps.
Closely allied to the educational
work at the camps and in the com
munities is the movement which has
spread rapidly through all the camp
cities to collect books and magazines
for the men in camp for use at the Y.
NJ. c. A. recreation huts, the base hos
pitfalls, the barracks and in many in
stances in the khaki clubs in the COM
munities. In all of this work the city
libraries have been most helpful in
acting as clearing houses and in sort
ing and grading the books before they
are sent to camp. The libraries of a
number of cities are throwing open
their facilities to the soldiers on Sun
day afternoon and in the eve ,ings
when the men are in town. Many of
them have established branch librar-
les at the camps.
Many interesting plans have been
devised for collecting the books and
arousing the interest of the commune
ties in the project. In FL Paso the
Boy Scouts helped in collecting the
books which were catalogued by the
public library in units of one hundred
At Nogales, Ariz., boxes were placed
in various parts of the city we're con-
tributions might be made regularly
Atlanta and one or two other cities
made use of laundry wagons which
gathered up the books as they made
their collections. The hotels were
asked to gather up the magazines left
by their guests. Through the school
children Of Augusta, circulars telling
of the movement and providing read
ing matter for the soldiers, reached
the homes of the city. The Girl Scouts
were active in helpuing to gather the
material. The local committee of
Dayton secured a large collection of
technical and mechanical magazines
through advertising agencies. The
public library of Washington under
took the task of supplying with books
and magazines all nearby camps. SOL
diers' clubs. rest rooms and detached
guard stations. Moving picture films
were used as a medium of appeal for
reading matter.