The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-15
MORE THAN 700
BOOKS DONATED
First Day of the Kiwanis
Drive Is Prolific of
Success
MURDOCH LEADS LIST
PHYSICIANS Family Gives
1863 Volumes; Donations
Of Wide Variety

That Tulsans are searching their
7 u,r,rles and selecting generously
I. h,re,rom the volumes for which
+ NV have no further use and which
y s.y wish 10 donate TO the Tulsa
,rb1c library was shown by the re-
II ssi,. NJ the first day OF the Kiwanis
n .inbs campaign TO augment the
4 ,btrv's stock More than seven
sukred volumes have been received
:, csmpa.gn headquarters in the
n uome Building & Loan associations
,,fce IN the Kennedy building, and
I. r,ore were being delivered person
4 XIV and ln cars furnished by the
n yIvanIs club for collection.
X "Thfs Is surely gratifying" NJ. @
n sb-evsburv. chairman of the book
: ,,mpaien committee, enthusiastical-
i 10 declared Tuesday afternoon. at
n ,bows Tulsans are ready TO help the
'brsry II the present situatlon-the
n voeful lack ~ books there--is called
n N their attention. Although the
Fl HIvanls club started and is sponsor
II I,g this movement, we want all
"a sthsr civic organizations TO feel that
ls 10 their interest also to assist
n No without the cooperation Of
n o,her ORGANIZATIONS the movement
u will not be the success we expect II
II to be-"
" Members Of the Kiwanis club last
N week spoke at all other civic club
Il lndeons advising members of the
81 %lpppachng campaign and asking
n heir support in conducting Il. The
q pme or other speakers will appear
II this week before some OF the clubs
a snt reAind them of the drive and
n The necessity for It's success, II the
"A library is TO fulfil its mission.
y The telephone number at head
H,uarters is Cedar IS. Persons with
books 10 give may either call that
number and ask for tine car to come
n 10 their homes or they may deliver
he books personally II there are
cnly two or three volumes. However,
according 10 Frank II. Reed. presi-
tent Of the Kiwanis club, a car will
q tall for one book.
III As there are only $4,000 books In
4 he public library, the number col
lected during' the first day OF this
IA anpaign is one-eighteenth OF the
~ total contained in this institution.
M Reed, Shrewsbury and other Kiwa-
H mans expect TO obtain at least TO-
lOO books this week.
# Dr. II. ID. Murdoch and members
Al q his family led the first days list
N BY donating 1853 volumes. President
rank II. Reed gave 40 books; DR..
All T. ". Stallings, 81; Roger S. Sher-
nan, 40; Mrs. Frank A. Baker, 32;
Roy Starr, 81, and Mrs. A. w. Roth.
j. Many others donated one to ten
M vlmes.
II Included In Dr. Stalllngs' donation
ns set OF medical encyclopedia; !;
sherman's gift was a set of Amer
can encyclopedia; Reed gave the
n Delphian course of a dozen volumes,
complete set of lawbooks and a set
N Diapers "Self-Culture."
M The donations are of an extremely
vide variety, from a miniature
'olume Of DeQuincy's Confessions
Van Opium Eater" to n mammoth
webster dictionary of the bulk and
yfoolty Of 80 decades back, before
X lhe spirit Of efficiency and conden-
III auon had become so prevalent.
on one table was a set of Goethe's
WORKS and several other volumes
smaller sets Of foreign Language
oooks Among the volumes was
through the Looking Glass" by
william Makepeace Thackeray;
n me Marriage of William Ashe," by
AiS Humphrey Ward; Cicero, a dis
curse on "Old Age and Friend
sp; Life and Heroic Deeds of
Aomlral Dewey" THE United States
'he Great War" "Dere Mable, ,"
.ls wartime foohshness of i. Street
" ana delving down into one of the
ia nocEs OF books the investigator dug
w Black Beauty" the childhood
,aNl.e that caused youngsters 10
horses. WI" ""useu
,Dssing still further, the explorer
I.,lous 10 ascertain the class OF
sYoAs contained in Tulsa homes
vvsCoVered a set of "The Worlds
ranous Orations," OF which VIII.
In Jennings Bryan was editor-in-
sT,u, sps The wide variety included
burning Daylight" by Jack Lon
T Pollyanna Grows Up" by
s.-sanor sror II. Porter; Colonel Thorn.
,.Ass Secret" by c.. A. Henty. the
a'Ous writer of boys books; ma.
y,e s,,eI ana Art, by Ralph Waldo EN-
,,o.' and, its leaves stained yellow
M age, dampness and disuse, as
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