Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — LIBRARY WAR FUND WEEK [ARTICLE]

LIBRARY WAR FUND WEEK

RENSSELAER ASKED TO RAISE S2OO AND COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED. At a special meeting of the public library board on Friday,, plans were made for the Library War Fund campaign, the week of September 24. The war department has asked the American Library Association to undertake to furnish library service to all soldiers and sailors, and the plans contemplate libraries for the 55 encampments in this country; for men in transport in trains and ships; for training camps, rest billets and the trenches in France; and for hospitals both here and abroad. Libraries for all ships in naval service are also proposed. A fund of a million dollars is necessary. Indiana’s quota is $125,000. Marion township and Rensselaer are asked to give S2OO, one dollar for each twentieth person or 5 per cent of the population. One dollar will buy a book and keep it repaired and in circulation for one year. Every donor will have his name written in a book for each dollar that he gives. In this way the soldier may see a name from home. It is monotony and not bullets that the soldiers dread, and the tedious homesick days of inactivity that will be made more cheerful by books and magazines. College boys will be able to continue their studies, and technical men can keep up with the developments in their work. The demand is for a high class of technical, informative, and inspirational reading. Authors are foregoing their royalties and buying arrangements lave been perfected that will make a dollar go as far as a dollar and a half expended individually. The following committee has been appointed to assist the board and the ibrarian. Mrs. G. E. Murray, Mrs. Delos Thompson, Mrs. Edd Randle, Mrs. Howard Mills, Mrs. Wood Spitler, Mrs. E. M. Graham, Miss Rose Luers, Martin Sauser, Moses Leopold, I. N. Warren, H. W. Jackson, Worth McCarthy, Chauncey Wood, Stewart Learning. They and all people interested in books for soldiers are requested to meet Monday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p. m., at th eßed Cross headquarters. ORA T. ROSS, Chairman.