The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-07-25
Weekly War News Digest
Soldiers In Field and Camp &c,
Many Book.
Stories Of Activities and Conditions Throughout the United State
and the Battle Fronts from Washington, d. c.

Soldiers In Field and Camp &c,
Many Books.
The War Service Committee Of
the American Library Association re-
ports that 435, 900 books were ship
ped to American soldiers in France
up to July 1. The books went in
tonnage space granted at the request
Of General Pershing on the decks Of
transports, where they were used by
the men on the voyage and repacked
for use in France: in naval vessels
for naval bases abroad; and in Red
Cross tonnage for the hospitals in
France and England.
A total of more than $500, 900
books have been supplied by the
American Library Association to the
camps and stations in the United
States and overseas. Approximate
ly 100000 of these books were pur-
chased, the others having come as
gifts from the American people thru
the public libraries Of the country.
Nearly 40 library buildings have
been erected, and 600 camps in
America, alone, have received collec-
tions CT books.
Two hundred librarians, including
leaders in their profession in this
country, are giving their time to Ii
brary War Service. Most of these
are serving as camp librarians, as
sistants, and organizers in the field :
others are in dispatch Offices for the
shipment of books to France.
Army Vocational School Opened for
Blinded Fighters.
Returning blinded soldiers, sailors,
and marines are being received now
for vocational instruction and rehab-
ilitation at Hospital Training School,
General Hospital No. z, the former
home Of Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, at
Baltimore, Md. The hospital is out
fitted to accommodate $50 men and
has large recreation fields and an ex-
tensive acreage in gardens.
Col. James Borley, Of the Surgeon
Generals Office in charge of the re-
education of the blind, has announ-
ced the appointment of o. II. Bur-
rift, of the Pennsylvania Institute
for the Instruction of the Blind, as
the educational director of this Army
hospital training school, with Miss
Jenny A. Turner, formerly designer
for the Massachusetts Commission
for the Blind, as a reconstruction
aide. Miss Turner has been working
with the returned wounded soldiers
at the Walter Reed Hospital, Wash
ington.
The blinded soldiers from overseas
will be discharged from the hospital
after they have been taught a prac-
teal self-supporting trade. have been
put in good physical condition. and
taught to read standard printing in
raised type. The men will be sent
to their own home communities and
placed in the trades for which they
have been trained. Red Cross work
ers will watch after their welfare.
Cooperating with the. Army Medi-
cal Department, the Red Cross Insti-
tute for the Blind is now making a
national survey of industries open to
blinded soldiers. Instructions will
be made to conform with prepare
lions for these industries. The Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education
is arranging a plan for the economic
and social supervision of all wounded
and manned soldiers.
Wilson Gives Reason for
Labor Mobilization.
Secretary OF Labor Wilson makes
this explanation of the general mob
ilization of labor for war industries,
recruiting for which is to begin Aug
ust | under direction of the United
States Employment Service:
beginning with common labor,