East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-22
PENDLETON PUBLIC
LIBRARY NEW BOOKS

Fourteen recent fiction successes
added to the shelves. FatasE
Bottome-Second Fiddle.
! Canfield-Understood Betsy.
/ ondelay-Christine
Connor-The Major.
Churchill - Dwelling Place oil
Light.
Doyle-His Last Bow.
Hall-Dormie One-and Other
Golf Stories.
Parker-The World for sale
Rinehart-Long Live the King.
Richmond-Red Peppers Patients
Rives-Long Lanes Turning.
Sinclair-King Coal.
Wells-The Soul of a Bishop.
Wescott-Heusy Burk.
POPULAR BOOKS ABOUT THE
WAR.
HOlmes-A Yankee in the Trench
eS.
This American boy did his bit
with a London cockney battalion in
the trenches; in No Man Land, and
with the tanks on the Somme, has
written a book to stir the heart. 1t
is a vivid picture of the life our ar
mics now face and the scenes of war
have not dulled the authors irrepres-
sible sense OF humor"
Peat-Private Peat.
THE book that rivals Empey's
over the Top 1t is more serious,
yet it reflects the indominatable hu-
NOR of the Tommy" and il is en-.
tertainingly written:
Two years on the western front,
through the horrors of Ypres, he is
back to tell us there are worse things
than war. He was there when the
Huns first used poisoned gas. He
knows fighting in the trenches, and
the hardships. and the triumphs, and
the humor of the common soldier,
and he knows how to tell about them
Neither fiction nor hearsay but the
actual experience of a private in the
ranks
"A book for anxious mothers and
fathers of American soldier boys"
Roosevelt-The Foes of Our own
Household.
"A characteristic arraignment of
commercial greed, industrial and So
cial injustice, socialism and chiefly
unpreparedness."
Colonel Roosevelt has taken each
phase of American life with its
problems apd has reviewed it in the
light of presentday conditions, to
show wherein We are to blame for
most of our problems, and how the
enemy in our ranks far surpasses In
deadly power to ruin us, the enemy
who is within our gates.
Patriotism Is the keynote of the
book. Colonel Roosevelt believes
that our ability to win the present
war lies in our ability to cope with
our Internal problems, or at least to
great extent. We have been selfish:
We have been foolish in our self
complacency. And now within our
own ranks there are those who would
serve our enemies by trying to prove
US wrong in having entered the
World-war; there are those who with
subtle reasoning have been able to
persuade their fellow-citizen that
Only the self-seeking of the few made
this war necessary for us-ColoneI
Roosevelt shows how these people
are like the serpent In Eden, seeking
to destroy"
The following quotations show the
force and point with which Colonel
Roosevelt speaks:
1T is not well for a nation to i'm
port its art and its literature: but it
is fatal for nation to import its
babies"
"Pawnbroker patriotism is poor
substitute for fighting patriotism"
The woman who Keeps the house
mas exactly the same right to a say
in a disposal of the money as the man
who earns the money"
"A man has no right TO the ttf,,ce
that do not belong to him: and this
country does not belong to the men
who will not defend her.
THE STORY HOUR.
Ihe Children's Story Hour which |
has been resumed at the request of
a number of parents, is proving quite
popular. For the present the hour
VIII be on Saturdays from 1890 to
1880 for children of the first to the
fourth grades, inclusive.