Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
Library Association &
| Committee in Drive
| For Supply of Books
Merchant Marine Orsaniza.
tons Plea for 10000 Vol
umes Has the Approval Of
President Hoover.

Prominent men and women Of the
city have been named on the WASH
ington committee of the American
Merchant Marine Library Association,
headed by Mrs Gibson Fahnestock as
chairman, which will open its cam
paign tomorrow to secure 10000 books
and magazines for this public library
of the high seas.
The book drive, as It were. will con-
tinue until January IS. The WASH
ington committee of the association
has secured the loan of spacious store
at 1864 Connecticut avenue northwest,
where donations of books and maya
zines will be received for this purpose.
The United States Shipping Board has
installed an exhibit dealing with the
merchant marine Of the country in the
headquarters.
President Herbert Hoover Is honor
ary president OF the American Mer-
chant Marine Library Association and
T. v. O'Connor, chairman of the United
States Shipping Board, is its honorary
vice president.
The washington committee Of the
association for 1890 has been organ
lied as follows: Chairman. Mrs Glib
son Fahnestock: vice chairman, Mrs.
Robert Whitney Imbrie; secretary, Miss
Dorothy Sollers;' ON the honorary COM
IulbJCC hIC MI. xkd Il. oCiAlCIe. 1sN6A
| Edward L. Buckley. Mr.. William Phelps
Emo, Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, retired;
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D..
Bishop of Washington; Representative
Florence Kahn Of California; Mr.. Frank
B. Moves, president of the Associated
Press: Mr.. T. v. O'Connor: Right Rev.
James H. Ryan, president of the Cath
Ollie University Of America; DR.. Abram
Simon and William Howard Taft, Chief
Justice of the United States.
The personnel of the active commit
tee includes Miss Elise H. Alexander,
Mrs. Sidney Cloman, Mrs. Charles Den
by, Mrs. Chiffon Doggett, Mrs. Edwin
st. John Greble, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
| Hobart, Miss Virginia Hunt, Miss Els
abeth Ellicott Poe, Miss Helen Louise
Sargent, Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes,
Mrs. John H. Storer, Mrs. Evelyn z. s.
Weems and Mrs. Vylla Poe Wilson.
President Hoover has commended the
work of the association in a letter to
Mrs. Henry Howard, president Of the
American Merchant Marine Library
Association. in which he declares: 1T
Is q pleasure to commend the work
Of the American Merchant Marine
Library Association. It Is admirable in
many ways: That 1t salvages for
further use books that otherwise would
be destroyed; that 1t brings instruction
and recreation TO men and boys who
otherwise would be denied a great
benefit and consolation; and that the
work Is done gratis in such a fine
spirit of service. congratulate you
and the association upon your steadily
growing usefulness in a most worth
while enterprise, and wish you all sue
cess in it's future"
During the campaign to secure the
10000 books and magazines which Is
the Washington quota for the year the
book shop at 1854 Connecticut avenue
northwest will be in charge of various
groups interested in the drive.
Not only fiction, but books Of history
biography, travel and technical works
are acceptable, and current magazines
of all kinds afford entertainment and
recreation for the men at sea. Wash
ingtonians are urged to look over theil
book shelves before January IS anc
send their spare volumes to this worthy
cause.