The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-05-05
VE.YOU GIVEN
YOUR BOOK YET?
YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY WILL
SEND IT FOR YOU AND THE
SOLDIERS NEED 1T.

In asking IOr DOCKS 10 SEM 10 Tue
boys at the front those in charge Of
the work do not expect any valuable
library to be despoiled in the eager
ness of those at home to add to the
pleasure and comfort of these "over
there" But they think it would be
just as well to use little care and
discretion in the selection, and not
turn an act that ought to brim with
thoughtful sympathy into a mere
housekeeping.
Says a writer in the New York
World
Ruskin's Letter to Young Girls"
Directions for Neddlework" and
How Women Love" are coming in
galore.
John Foster Carr Director of books
for the soldiers, says the boys will
never learn Lina's Beauty secrets. He
admits they may be helpful, but he
says they are too exciting for trench
life. He proposes that many bomb
might be over looked while Sammie
was learning how TO remove freckles,
or even animpending afraid might
escape notice in the charm of pre-
scription for whitening the elbows.
The Government, Mr. Carr says, can't
take chance on it.
A little woman hurried up to the
book stacks yesterday with bundle
carefully stuck away in her knitting
bag.
"Here are two books that have been
In my family for years. she said,
"but II you need any books for the
soldiers l am glad to contribute them
When the books we're unwrapped
they were found to be and old Family
Bible and one equally yellowed with
age, entitled Care and Feeding of
Children
Lest this should discourage re,
cruiting 1t might be we'll to say that
there are plenty of Nick Carriers "and
Diamond Dicks" and sherlock IIol-
mes" going over, and Mr.. Carr is
wedding out all the books on etiquette
and Latin grammars. He says:
Love, adventure, and travel are
always good, and we are getting them
in great numbers They serve TO take
the boys minds off the hardships for
the moment But the big call is COM
Ing for classics Shakespeare and the
Bible are in demand. When you stop
10 think that $4,000 of our boys have
cut off college education to enlist
you can understand why they want
Dickens, Thackeray, and other stan
lard authors. Dickens seems to be a
favorite in the hospitals and o. Henry
in the trenches"
Theodore Roosevelt, who perhaps
knows as well as any other man what
sort of books soldiers like to read,
sent check the other day, with
orders that as many copies as possible
Mutual Friend and the "Antiquary.
A Wall Street banker sent in a
first edition of Whittier the other day.
II was a volume of great value, and
the board, as usual in such cases, ask
ed that they might the edition and
buy others less expensive to send in
its place. please don't" the giver
said. II will forward you check to
buy as many as many others as you
may want; that will be easily done,
But this one volume was sacrifice,
and should like to feel that it goes
directly into the hands of one of the
boys "over there, because | feel that
he will prize it as l do"
A Boy Scout came up to the stacks
with his arms full of books. Here's
some bully ones, he said. ''They be-
long to our Outing Club but we'll send
them over. Finger printed and worn,
the volumes showed signs of being
best thrillers if out of date as best
sellers. Treasure Island" Henty, and
Cooper. Somewhere overseas some
lads are going to be carried back to
the days when they were few years
younger and live in dream adventure
instead of real ones.
From The Literary Digest.
Have you sent your book yet? How
many good books have you at home
that you are no longer using? Doesn't
your conscience hurt you because you
haven't given them to the boys who
need them so much? Can't you be as
generous as the little Cordele mes
senser boy who gave an armful of his
best Boy Scout books? Send them to
your Public Library today. Don't for.
get it. The Library asked for 1000
books and only received $50 some of
which are so badly worn out that they
cannot he used. Give A Book.