The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-10

Spanish, for there are thousands of Mexicans. We need books in Yiddish, Polish, German, Scandinavian French, Italian and Russian.
 We need also textbooks fromI the simplest to the most complex. Thou sands of our. men are not able to write, and many have yet to learn English. The boys want books that are helpful. The war makes one serious and the soldiers are hungry for good literature Many of them are getting an education between the intervals of fighting, and they will come home bet ter men than ever before.
 Already something like 100000 books | of technical and educational nature have been bought and these are up-to- | date and the best of their kind. Many | of the men are working with air fplanes and automobiles, and they must have the latest information. A noun | taineer recently asked for book pn how to lay pipe and make joints of lead, 1 and another man wanted one on shoe repairing. Take a nsuleteer who came 1 in the other day and asked for a book on automobiles. He was handed one giving the latest instructions for run ming a Ford. He gave it back in dis gust, saying: Look here, pardner, have taken apart and reassembled 1900 Fords in my lifetime. I want something fresh" "One second, replied the li- brarian, and he went back and brought out the very latest thing in automobile literature, Il book copyrighted in 1918. That's the ticket" replied the mule Ldriver. "Giddap!'
 l. The next call was for a book on the psychology. of color and the applicant was one of the expert men of the camouflage corps Said he, q want a book that goes to the Fundamentals of this color business, and when I get it I'll make one of these big babies'- here he pointed to a monster siege gun" harder fer Fritz to find than g negro in a coal bin at midnight" Sim liar demands come fpom the chemists who are working on gases from the Igeologists who advise as to tunnels anC mines, from the electricians of the sig. nal corps and from the scores of. other scientific divisions of the army. Vhest technical works cost from $4 to 5! apiece and your money will enable tn library association to buy them.
 Of the $170,O00OOO asked more than SIS, OOo,OO0 will be handled by women. Thi. is the $15.o00,000 for the Y w. c. A. ant the $3,5O0,0c0 which goes to the Salvation Army. The commander of the Salvation
  of Gen. William Booth, the man who or gani8ed it's first troops, 5 years ago, ant who has established it's camps in 63 diff ferent countries all over the globe. Tn Salvation Army has 5000 members an, adherents doing active service for the al lies. It is operating more than 300 hotels naval and military homes, reading room and rest rooms, and it has more thai 800 officers connected with it's dugout and huts. It has it's own ambulance and enlisted with it are 40 chaplains serving under government appointment The Salvationists look out for the troop at home as well as abroad They ar
 doing great work at small cost
 The Y. W. c. A. is one of the most i'm | portant branches of the joint stock corpo | ration in which you will invest you | money in this drive. It would take col | umns to describe the work it is doins It goes on in the United States, and i
 France, Belgium and Russia. It has $ nurses in active service at the front, an 70 of it's graduates in canteen cookery ar now serving in France. In New Tor city alone the organization has mem | bership of 15p00 girls. It has hostes houses at all he camps of this country
 and some of7these are colored hostes | houses, run by colored women for tn
 colored troops. The war work counc II l diiiiS tO 0o CNCty lH1iS IOT the cO1OTc
 girl that is being done for the whit girl. There are g colored secretaries an
 most of them are college graduates This association of women is doin
 much for the girls engaged in war worl We have tens of thousands of wome
 making .munitions, and all are more c
 less helped by the Y. w c. A. The a.
 sociation has ,clubs connected with tn
 war industries employing girls, and thes
 have cafeterias, recreation halls, gym
 nasiums and school-rooms. Some of ther
 have classes of girls learning Frenc with view to working abroad; the
 also have classes of bookkeeping an
 stenography for those wishing to do wa work at home
 The Y. W. c. "A. is a great moral fore It has a bureau of social morality whic
 has given more than 200O lectures, wit
 a total attendance of a. third of a mi lion. It watches the morality of the gir about the encampments and it has wa service clubs connected with all the grea factories.
 It has established clubs. for the wal
 working women of France. and throug ', it the universities and colleges of tn