Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-10

good literature. Many of them are
getting an education between the in
tervals of fighting, and they viii
come home better men than ever be-
fore.
Already something like 100000
books of a 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 aeroplanes and automobiles. and
they must have the latest informa-
ton. A mountaineer recently asked
for a book on how to lay pipe and
make joints of lead and another man
wanted one on shoe repairing. Take
day and asked for n book on auto
mobiles. He was handed one giving
the latest Instructions for running
a Ford. He gave it back in disgust,
saying: Look here. pardner, l nave
taken apart and reassemhled LOW
Fords in my lifetime. l want SOMA, sU1
the librarian. and he went back ana
brought out the very latest thing IN
automobile literature, hook copy,
righted in 1913. "That's the ticket
replied the mule driver. "Giddap!
The next call was for book on the
of color and the applicant
was one Of the expert men OF the
Camoufiage Corps. Said he. 81 want
book that goes to the fundamentals
of this color business, and when l get
it TIL make one of these big BABIES
here he pointed to a monster SleBe
for Fritz to ma tnan =,
negro in a coal bin at midnight.
Similar demands come from the chem
lists who are working on gases. from
a.. OF h,N
nels and mines. from the electricians
Of the Signal Corps and from the
scores of other scientific divisions OF
the Army. These technical works cost
from 81 to IS apiece and your money
will enable the library association TO
buy them.
or the $780, 900 asked more than
SIS, 900 will be handled by women.
This is the $15,000,008 for the Y. W.
C. A. and the $3.50t.800 which goes to
the Salvation Army. The commander
of the Salvation Army is Evangeiine
Booth. the man who organized Its first
troops. fifty-three years ago. and who
has established its camps in sixty
three different countries all over the
globe. The Salvation Army has $4,000
members and adherents doing active
service for the allies. 1t Is operating
more than 500 hostels, naval and mill
tary homes. reading rooms and rest
rooms, and it has more than 500 Off.
GERS connected with Ats dugouts and
huts. 1t has its own ambulances and
enlisted with it are forty chaplains.
serving under government appoint
ment The Salvationists look out for
the troops at home as we'll as abroad.
They are doing a great work at small
cost
The Y. w. c. A. is one of the most
important branches of the Joint stock
corporation In which you will invest
your money in this drive. 1t would
Is doing. 1t goes on in the United
States. and in France. Belgium and
Russia. 1t has eighty-flve nurses in
active service at the front, and sew
enty Of it's graduates in canteen cook
cry are now serving in France. In New
York city alone the organization has
a membership of $4,000 girls. 1t has
hostess houses at all the camps Of
this country. and some of these are
colored hostess houses, run by colored
women for the colored troops. The
war work council aims to do every
ing done for the white girl. There are
thirty-two colored secretaries and
most of them are college graduates.
This association of women is doing
much for the girls engaged in war
work. We have tens OF thousands of
women making 1nunltlOnS, ana all are
more or less helped by the Y. w. G. A.
The association has clubs connected
with the war industries employing
girls. and these have cafeterias, rec
reation halls gymnasiums and school,
rooms. Some of them have classes of
girls learning French with view to
working abroad; they also have
classes of bookkeeping and stenog-
raphy for those wishing to do war
work at home.
The Y. w. c. A. Is a great moral
force. 1t has a bureau of social mo-
rality which has given more than