Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-09
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SOME BOOKS
NOT WANTED
Certain Books Excluded
From Soldiers Camps
and Cantonments.

The public library, while still gath
ering books from the public for SOL
diers in training camps and canton
ments, is working in the closest CO.
operation and harmony with the
American Library association, and as
it has been found that among the
books collected were certain works
in camps at the present time, New
ton p. Baker, secretary of war, has
called the attention of librarians to
the fact that in former consignments
some books, deemed obnoxious in
war times, have escaped scrutiny.
The official index ex%purgatorius,
listing some Of the books which are
diers in training, is as follows:
Approaches to the Peace Settle
ment," E. G. Balch; prison Memories
Of an Anarchist Alexander Berk-
man; Americas Relation to the
Great War;" John W.. Burgess; "Eu-
ropean War of 1914" John w. Burg
ess: witness tin as,i p !. Testifiess Gapshaw
G.. Daniels; World War" Arthur G..
Daniels; "England's World Empire"
A. H. Granger: ENGLAND or Ger
many" Frank Harris; with the Ger
man Armies in the West" Sven He'd
in; "Germany's Fighting Machine"
E. F. Henderson,; why War;" Fred
eric G; Hove; Germany Term N.Y. MiS5udged.*
Way" Rufus NJ. Jones; How to Pro-
tect our Soldiers" W. S. Leake; REV
elation ofsan International Spy I. T.
T. Lincoln; Germany in Wartime"
NJ. E. Macauley; what Could Ger
many do for ~Ireland?" James K. Nc
CURE. .
Also "Emden," H. von Muecke;
terberg; Vampire Of the Continent"
H. Won Reventlow; "German-Ameri-
can Handbook" F. F. Sschrader; DO
ing Ny Bit for Ireland" Margaret
Skinnider; Conquest of War;" M. M.
Thomas, and others; Songs of Arma-
geddon,' George Sylvester Viereck,
and Worlds Crisis in the Light Of
Prophecy" anonymous. A
Previously the war department had
interdicteds the following books:
Free Speech and a Free Press
anonymous; What Germany Wants.
Edmund 0 Mach; "Ireland's Case"
Seumas McManus; "Open Letter to
Profteers," Scott Nearing. and 1.-The
Last Weapon" Theodore Wilson Will
son.
An official Of the A. l.. A. recently
ksaid:
There have been more than g.
00O, 900 books contributed thus far,
and it is of course entirely possible
that German propagandists have tried
to slip their work across to the SOL
diers and sailors through this means:
A very careful: watch is kept, however,
and the gift books are not placed in
camp Libraries without going through
a process of examination. and selec-
ton. So far we have no Information
that any Of the books named in the
war departments order have actually
reached the camp libraries, though
there have been instances in, which
pamphlets OF a. seditious or pacifst
nature have been surreptitiously plac-
ed on the open shelves Of the librar-
les"
In an order sent out on August 8
by DR.. Herbert Putnam, the librarian
of congress. IT. was stated:
1T has recently been brought to our
attention that pamphlets OF e. pacifst
character aregbeing sent to camp IL
braries. Please watch for them and
destroy them
The latest order was contained in
the form Of q circular letter which
was sent from the library wal service
headquarters in$Sthe library Of con.
gress to all camp libraries