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The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07
SHIPPING RULES WORK HARDSHIP
 SOUTH AMERICA

WASHINGTON.-Commercial re- lations between the United States and South America are in a serious condition because of the war.
 The lack of shipping has caused factured goods exported to Argen- tine, and the factories of that coun- try are unable to meet the demand. Some of the factories require raw materials that have formerly been obtained in the United States and have been compelled to shut down or greatly to curtail their forces.
 The entrance of the United States into the war marked the end of ex- tensive shipping between this coun- try and Argentina. Besides few steamships some sailing vessels still visit Argetine, according to con- sular advices, but they are so small that navigation is dangerous and they do not even approximate the demands of commerce. The most needed articles are heavy iron cast ings and coal.
 Argentine business men are great ly concerned because some of the vessels arriving at Buenos Aires have come in ballast, caused, they say, by the fact that they were sent away from the United States hur- riedly to get the cargoes of products in Argentina that are needed in this country. The United States has a credit of $6O,OOO,OOO in Buenos Aires which will be increased, according to this information, by $4O,OOO,OOO to be used as basis of exchange in trade. It is said this situation requires diplomatic arrangement and that this is one of the affairs to occupy the attention of Ambassador Naon, who has just returned to Washington after six months ab- sence
 Materials from Argentina sought by the United States and the other nations at war with Germany in [ clude beef, sheep, hides and wool, principally. According to official figures recently issued by the Ar genuine government there are 8O,- 0O0,000 sheep in the republic com pared with 43,OOO,OOO in 1914, the last in which figures are available. The wool clip last year was estimated at 140,000,00O kilos, valued at 0,00O,0OO. The total exports of Argentina last year aggregated about $175,OOO,OOO and the imports $19O, O,000,000. There were 3,OOO,OOO head of cattle exported, principally to the United States, England and France.
 To meet the situation caused by the lack of ships the Argentine government has decided to change several old warships to merchant vessels and to buy more ships where ever they can be found. This is another of the problems with which Ambassador Naon will deal.
 Similar conditions are reported from Chile. Exports from the 1 United States of manufactured goods have been virtually suspended ex- cept on limited number of articles. Complaint is made that large num- Der of vessels from the United States arrive at Chilean ports in ballast to bring nitrates to the United States. Urgent requests have been made to this country to permit those vessels to carry cargoes of needed commodities.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07
TOWNSHIP NOTES

Acting on the recommendations made by the Advisory Board, Town site Manager H. B. Joseph has ap- pointed Martin Nash, a special watchman in connection with the fire protection scheme. MT. Nash will assume his new duties early next week.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07
W|CKERSHAM WILL
 SPEAK TONIGHT

Immediately after the picture show at the Coliseum tonight, Judge James Wickersham, the Republican candidate for delegate to Congress
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07
SLANDERER GETS
 HEAVY SENTENCE

According to reports received re- gently from Ruby, Erik Johnson of that camp was found guilty of sland- ering business man of Ruby and drew down a sentence of 25O days in jail and fine of $500.
 Johnson was charged with hav- ing made statements of a scurrilous nature regarding a fellow townsman.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07

The newest fighting corps-The Potatriot. Join the ranks and spud the kaiser.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-07

If you believe in peace you will fight to get it.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-10
OOF<o, BOOKS, BOOKS DEMANDED BY OUR FIGHTING MEN
American Library Association Needs
Millions7of Dollars for Reading
Matter for Army and Navy

susges haye had to DO supplied 20
A nest this reading needs OF our poiygot
rny. for the motto of Library war
service ts. 'Give every man the book
lae neeifs when he wants H." - .
(. From The moment young man on
Yrs tina army right up to his tour OF
1uty tn tho trenches he IN never out OF
contact With books and reading. Books
are contasiors; men who nsver had
the :readins habit are acquiring Il by
the Fhgndreds Of thousands. To a
Surprisingly large PROPORTION Of our
soldiers the free circulating library is
q new ana unheard Of institution, and
there Ia something almost pathetic In
tnedr deDght and expressions Of APP
probation Of tho service which the
American Library Association, with its
hundreds Of uniformed librarians In
war service. stands ready at all times
to offer them,
The camp library 10 frequently tho
most popular gathering place. There
are no regulations and no restrictions.
Men may smoke. they may talk II they
Ike. although instinctively they recog-
nize that 1t Is no place for loud talk
ing. The books are for the most part
on open shelves. so the men can help
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BRINGING BOOKS TO HOSPITALS
CALLED A SERVICE OF MERCY

slipped a copy OF Tarkington's Penrod
on a shelf OF the bedsire table. On her
next visit she was hailed from down
the ward by the taciturn borrower.
SAY" he grinned, I'D like to choke
over this book. Got another one
like it?''
The nurse In charge also reported a
miraculous change in the mans condi-
ton ,aAd temperament.
Discoveries as to the reading taste
Of mon In the hospital have been made
BY the base hospital librarian which
might well provide a scientific basis
for caring for the reading needs OF
these men. II has been found that
in cases In the first week after an OPP
Grafton the majority of requests are
for short stories in large type. This
is accounted for by the fact that the
type does not tire the eye and a man
can read through page quickly, gain
ing Il cettain satisfaction thereby In
feeling he 10 towering lots Of territory.
Pictorial magazines are also popular.
As strength returns so returns the
desire for heavier reading. Typical OF
this second stage are books containing
favorite poems. the works OF favorite
authors and sometimes works OF q
moral or ethical nature.
In the final period OF convalescence
comes the desire for text and educa-
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tional books. The man from the ma
chino gun company wants machine
guns, the truck company corporal
wants a book on automobile repairing
and the artilleryman wants to brush
up on algebra and geometry.
Aided By the Rcd Crosa/
Books for the base hospital are cir
culated from the base hospital library,
which IL situated in a wing OF the con-
valescent house OF the American Red
Cross. Here the librarian has her ONCE
and also living quarters Comfortable
reading quarters are at hand for pa
tents who are well enough TO walk.
The greater part OF the librarians
work 10 to make personal visits to the
hospital wards to learr what tho men
who arc not fortunate enough to move
wish to read. Books are carried along
to be given out and books requested
are delivered later by an orderly 4
request box is placed In each ward
where special requests for books can
be placed.
II the book desired by n patient is
not In the base hospital library re-
quest Is sent to the central camp IL
brary, which forwards the book, or II
It 10 not in stock and is a work Of non
nction a request is forwarded to the
nearest public library.
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CAMP LIBRARIES
ARE BUSY PLACES

lions, that of a circulating library
headquarters and If q distributing sta
ton for branch libraries and a ref
eroncc and reading room for officers
and men, Two hundred comfortable
easy chairs contribute to make the
reading room one of tho most popular
places in camp, From early In the
morning until late at night there is a
constant procession of soldiers coming
to read or to draw books. In the
afternoon and evening generaily every
chair is occupied. with men sitting on
the floor and standing.
Smoking is not only permitted but
encouraged, providing the most notice
able difference between the main read
ing room of city library and that OF
a camp establishment. And hats are
worn. The traditional rule OF silence
requires no discipline 10 enforce.
inside the camp arc twelve Y. II.
| c A. huts, scattered about the three
square miles included In the canton
ment proper Each OF these, including
the one for negro soldiers, Is provided
with a branch library. just as every
Y. NJ. C. \. hut at every other camp
and cantonment is supplied with all
OF its books and library equipment by
the American Library Association. on
| the shelves OF the Y. NJ. G. A. branches
are on an average coo volumes. These
branches are gradually being enlarged.
Calls for special books are forwarded
to the main bbrary and filled there II
possible In case the book is not at
hand the request is forwarded to the
War Library Headquarters at Wash
! ington, or else the book is borrowed
from the library Of some nearby city
The rule is that whatever hook a
soldier wants to read, this side OF Ger
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That Is really the most striking
phepomenon about Library War Ser
vice. the eager, insistent demand OF
our soldiers and sailors-who are OF
course only average young Americans
In uniform-for books that Will help
them in the work that they are doing
help them to understand better what
they are fighting for. help them to
succeed in the civil life to which they
expect to return after the war Is over.
II Il to meet demands OF this kind for
books which must be bought, because,
no matter how generous the owners OF
private libraries may be, their book
shelves do not contain these special
and technical works, that the Amert-
can Library Association requires the
additional s3,5o0,0o0 which the Presl-
dent and the War Department have
authorized It to ask from the public.
Even should the war end tomorrow
library service must go on until the
last American soldier has been re-
turned to civil life. A part OF the Gov
| ernment's plan Is the establishment of
schools OF every kind and for every
sort Of trade and technical profession.
IN order better to At our soldiers to
become civilians again.
The reference and technical libraries
and to a large extent the text books
Of this "khah college" must be sup
piled by and through the American
Library Association. whose distinct
and definite contribution TO this war
is It's work in helping not only TO sus-
tain the morale but to stimulate the
ambition OF our fighting men nnd help
them to como back better educated
than when they donned the Khaki.
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themselves; II one wishes to take a
book out to read in barracks, or In
intervals OF duty, the simplest kind OF
a card receipt is taken by the librarian.
The soldiers reading Is about equally
divided between recreational and edu-
cational books. In dugouts at the
front, and even In the trenches, books
help them keep up their nerve and for
get the discomforts Of their immediate
surroundings. In the hospitals. where
the librarians are women, the little
rubber wheeled cart that brings books
right to the bedsides OF the III and
wounded men is the most welcome Wis
tor they have. In the long periods Of
sential.
Our fighting men are reading with
avidity books OF history. travel, seog-
raphy. biography; books about the war
and its causes; books that help them
master the manifold phases OF their
military duties. 1t is almost literally
true that whenever an American sbl-
der Is detailed to kitchen police he
looks for a book from which he can
learn how better to peel potatoes.
There are many military operations.
such as range finding. In which trtg-
Onometery and logariihns are Of great
service, and the Library War Service
supplies this class Of books also Re-
ports OF camp and field librarians are
full OF records OF men who have won
promotion, many OF them commits
slons. through the study Of the hun
dreds OF books on military science
furnished by Library War Service.
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AMERICAN FOYERS HELP
FRENCH WOMEN WORKERS.

A FRENCH girl writes In her bes'
~ English TO a Young Women'S
Christian Association worker
in this country:
81 cont know we'll your language
but l will try to tell you all what your
good countrymen are doing for Us.
While your brave soldiers fight with
ours and prove their heart. kind Amer
lean ladies' founded some foyers, where
war women can read and spend a
good time. am only coming her"
since a week, but ! am very happy 10
| find here so good persons.
II remain from IL to .. and some
times at 6. when have a lesson, for
we can learn English, singing and
drawing. II Is very pleasant. / listen
the piano. read or look at pictures
about the war. The whole apartment
is very nice and gay. the furniture
are made OF clear wood. and all seems
comfortable and pretty.
Everybody Is kind to us and NO
! feel ourselves In family. We also have
| our lunch and coffee, tea or chocolate.
At last. we arc the most happy, and
! should wish OF all my heart there are
many foyers for all young girls which
work and don't know how often spent
their time between tho hours of work p
II is among other purposes to cor
tinue this work. more important in
the readiustment and reconstruc''"n
period following the war than Gur!,.r-
the conflict itself. that the Young
| Women's Christian Association ask
! aid in the present campaign.
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'oTHING less than a service Of
mercy" Is one description
that has been given OF the

tNN IOTHING less than service or
N mercy" Is one description
that has been given OF the
work Of the American Library Associa-
ton in supplying books and magazines
10 patients in tho camp base hospital
More and moro DO the men In the
base hospital depend on the librarian
to ti1e them over the long hours they
mus lie In bed or, sit about n Bath
u obes lfntii the day OF discharge. In
tho surgical wards especially, where
men are confined TO bed weeks at a
time. tho visits OF the hospital librarian
with her fresh supply OF books and
'uaEazines are eagerly awaited, and II
y chance her cali IN a particular ward
r. lelayed a vigorous protest is made.
Asked to "Prescribe' Books.
Tho value OF carrying camp library
SERVICE TO those who are confined to the
4 hospital is recognized by members Of
Nc hospital staff. The librarian is
often asked by doctor or nurse 10
prescribe" for patient who is in need
~ the stimulation which can come
from a good book.
On one occasion. such a patient was
approached by the hospital librarian.
but her offer to leave a book met with
only short refusal. Nevertheless she
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HERE is nothing dormant about

HERE is nothing dormant about
camp library; It is as aS-
= gressive as an army corps-as
dynamic as war itself. The library at
Camp Funston--out on tho bottoms OF
the Kaw Rivers typical. II you can
visualize that you will have grasped
the spirit and the character Of any
cantonment library organization.
There Is building, Of course. but
It does not coincide with your old
idea Of a library. 1t Is merely the
headquarters and centre. the heart Of
an elaborate circulatory system that
extends at least thirteen miles in one
direction and Is prepared to nourish
the minds OF soldiers at twenty-eight
major branches and more than a hun
dred points and stations In and about
tho cantonment zone,
1t IL a plain wooden structure, con-
forming to the general type OF canton
ment building-a big. rough shack
beautifully adapted to its Job. The
site Is near the residential centre OF
tho camp and convenient to the trans
portation line. Thirty-six suoh library
camps from funds advanced by the
Carnegie Corporation.
Has 200 Easy Chairs.
These buildings cost about $4,000
each. The one at Camp Funston is 40
feet wide and 100 feet long. II con-
toins one large room lined with book
stacks which project from the walls
forming alcoves. Upon the shelves
are $1,000 books, about or approx
mately half the number totalled by the
entire camp system.
This building performs two func-
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American Library Association.

necessarily
goody books but he entertaining boo books
cheer and organization
IL had its
the and
books will be
greater institution Its of the
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man propaganda, the American as
ISOLATION stands ready to furnish him.
Inside the camp too. are the three
huts Of the X. OF c., one Of which also
Is for negro soldiera. Their libraries
are supplied by the American Library
Association as branches Of the central
camp library.
Also intCamp Funston are the two
hostess houses Of the Y. W. g. A., one
for whites, the other for negroes, each
of which contains n 200 book branch
of the central library. The selection of
volumes in the hostess houses is cal
culated mainly TO interest and enter
tain transient women visitors.
| At numerous points there are smaller
collections known as deposits, or sta
lions, Of perhaps only thirty or forty
volumes, sometimes selected only FOR
temporary use for 4 special purpose !:
and sometimes they comprise small
reference collections on a particular
subject for officers and men.
There are stations in the regimental
nfrmaries-thirteen altogether. There
are stations and deposits in the officers
quarters. such, for example. as a coll
| lection of engineering books for the
convenience of engineering officers; or
1t may be a collection OF books on au-
tomoblle engines and truck operation
and repairing for enlisted men engaged
in the study OF automobile mechanics.
There are often as many as fifteen
such collections scattered about the
camp at one time, and these, like the
branch libraries, are constantly being
supplemented or shifted.
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Only Part OF the Work.

Va t"t
Many large and busy city libraries
have slighter demands made upon their
circulatory systems than the Camp
Funston establishment; and this Is
only tho beginning Of the camp Ii
prary's work
The base hospital OF Camp Funston
Is at Fort Riley, the famous post that
lies between Junction City and Fun
ston. Here library stations are estab-
lished In slXty-siX Of tho ninety-five
wards--in every ward except those re-
served for contagious diseases-with
an average OF fifty books in each sta
tlon. Circulation Of books in hospitals
Is a part of the War Library Service
that Is becoming specialized under the
direction OF trained women librarians
who are selected and assigned by the
American Library Association TO this
oXacting service.
Daily automobile delivery Is made
from Camp Funston library to the base
hospital, so that any soldier who wants
particular book to read seldom has
long TO wait for II.
What assortment OF books does a
camp library contain7 What do the
men read?
Funston's 10000 volumes are divided
between fiction, non-hction and refer
ence books in about the same proper
ton as the city library. But while the
calls for fiction In an ordinary library
amount to 20 per cent. Of the total, In
camp libraries the demand for fiction
is less than so per cent. This ratio Is
partly accounted for by the fact that the
clientele OF the camp library Is almost
exclusively masculine, and not only
masculine but the type that Is anxious
for mprovement--the fighting type.
Demand Text Books.
And this is true not only at Funston
but at every one OF the war Libraries
maintained and operated by the Ameri
can Library Association. The demant
| for educational works text books ant
technical books OF all sorts--is aston
1 ishing.
In camps the proportion Of library
'users to population reaches an average
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
BUM KNEE KEEPS MARIAN
 OUT OF FLYING SERVICE

Recent letters from Angus Mahan, formerly a cottou buyer stationed here. now in France as member or Uncle Sam's flying contingent, state he has been in hospital several months with a bad knee. the result of an old football injury. He mas just been discharged from the nos pital but on account of the condi.ion of his knee he has been assigned to clerical work in the casualty depart ment Everett Cook. who was as sociated with MT Mahan here, ana who is also in France with the avia- tion detachment, is now actively en- gagged in military work, making flights over the German lines. MT. Mahan still has hopes that his knee will improve sufficiently that his su- nerior officers will permit him to re- enter the aerial service.
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
2l6 REGISTER FOR
 SERVICE IN ARMY
FORTY SIX WHITES AND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY BLACKS IN LEE COUNTY ARE ADDED TO MILITARY ROLLS.

Two hundred and sixteen young men who have reached the age of twenty-one years since June 5, 1917, registered in Lee county Wednesday for military service. Of this num- Der forty-six are whites and 0ne8 hun dred and seventy are colored. The registration was conducted at five places in the county. Marianna, Moro, Brickeys, Aubrey and Haynes.
 At Marianna 26 whites and SS blacks registered.
 At Moro the registration was Il whites and 26 blacks.
 At Brickeys. 2 whites and l6 blacks.
 At Aubrey whites and 35 lacks.
 At Haynes whites and ten blacks.
 Frank Jones, secretary of the local board. is busiIy engaged in listing the names of the new registrants and making records of their order mum bers. The list will be available for publication next week. The new reg istrants will be examined and after making out questionnaires they will he classified. It is understood those who are placed in class one will be called for service immediately arter class one in the old registration. and that those in class two will follow the old class two.
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
HuTcH,Ns VICTOR OVER
 JUDGE E. Q. ROBERTSON

Final returns from the democratic nrimary election held on Tuesday or last week show A. l.. Hutchins oi Augusta is victor over Judge E. D' Robertson of this city for chancellor The vote in Phillips county, sivins Hutchins a majority of S75 over ROD ertson. was the primary factor m Judge Robertson's defeat It nau been expected Judge Robertson wouiu carry Phillips county by reason os the close proximity of the two coun, ties and the fact that they are lu the same senatorial district, but the nolitical powers at Helena cast tneiI lot with Hutchins. The vote m the other counties was as follows:
 Lee-Robertson s4S; Hutchins ls4'
 st Francis-Robertson 97s; Hut chins 1908. rrs;s
 Cross-Robertson sS5; Hutchins' s2O. ,,...n
 Woodruff-Robertson 6o4; Hutcn' ins 1.045.
 Hutchins' majority over Roner.son' including the Phillips county 'o'e 10 I'll.