New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
More Scrapbooks
Needed to Cheer
Wounded Soldiers
eff You Can't Make Books,
Send Us the Stories and
Pictures,'' Advises Head
of Camp Service Bureau

Scrapbooks have proved popular di-
version in the hospitals, where conva-
lescent soldiers frequently lack energy
to cultivate a more active pastime.
Miss Ruth Campbell, head of the Scrap
book Department of the War Camp
Community Service, in talking with a
Tribune" reporter, said:
"Since you printed our story about
the need for scrapbooks which we sent
you some time ago. we have been food
ed with matcrial-jokes cartoons, pict-
ures, etc. Every mail bearing the
wherewithal to make the books brought
letters, too, from the boys begging for
more and saying how much, they ent
joyed them. -
~ sent several dozen to France re-
Gently, and last week / had letter
from a wounded lieutenant in Base
Hospital 80, in which he said, 4 felt
just like a kid when i got NY first
read the whole twelve hours Of day
light, every day in the week. but he can
look at pictures, laugh over jolly bit
OF humor. and digest short bit of in
teresting writing .s
kipIing Started Movement
at was no less a person than Rud-
yard klpling." Miss Campbell said,
who started the scrapbook campaign in
England. In this country much of the
work has been turned over to children,
and fear that childs work in this
particular bit of cheer for the soldiers
is not practical. 1t takes a mature
mind to select the pictures and mate
rial which Will appeal to a grown man.
Then, too, many of our bows are for
eigners, and their tastes must be taken
into account in fashoning the scrap
book
I'VE need many more books, and /
am sure there are people who throw
away weekly enough material to make
several who would be willing to
make the books, or send the material
to our department.
"The materials for he oks cost very
little. Three double sheeta of thick
manila paper, cut 90 inch IS by ID, each
creased in the middle, make a book If
six pages, II inches by Ia. The brown
cardboard, timber enough for folding,
costs 10 cents sheet Especial price, (.
When cut 20 inches by IA, it makes
two covers. The mucilage made at
home is so inexpensive that enough
for all the scrapboohs that could be
made during summer can be bought
for seven cents.
Pictures Always Popular
"In making the book remember above
al! that no scrap-book can be too at
tractive for the wounded men. Choose
material interesting to grown man
pictures Of actresses, cartoons by
Briggs, Tad, Fontaine Fox, McManus
and Willie Hill Sprinkle few pic
lures OF a more serious nature through
the book-sportng scenes and views
OF interest, all of which can be found
in the Sunday pictorial sections of
newspapers and in magazines.
Don't crowd your book with too
much printed matter Use the caption
under pictures, few good Jokes. bits
oi clever writing always rather short
it is well to keep in mind that the
scrapbook fans in our hospitals are
divided INTO two classes those too i'll
TO concentrate on reading and those
who cannot read English or have nf
taste for books.
".rhe American Library Association
35 West Fifteenth Street. is a]wavs
In need of well-cditcd scrapbooks. and
they will sec to their distribution.
jokes, pictures, etc, from those who
haven't the time or inclination to
make the. books themselves, can al.
ways be sent to me (Ruth CampbelD
scrapbook Department, War Camp
Community Service, 1b East Fortieth
Street. All material should bc sent
In envelopes. so that 1t can be easily
classified and forwarded. And the
more material and books the merrier
1t will be for our conyalexcsnt hcroesID