Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — LIBRARY WAR FUND WEEK [ARTICLE]

LIBRARY WAR FUND WEEK

The board of the public library is conducting a campaign this week to aid the library war fund. A meeting of committees was held Monday and the district plan adopted. A drive will be made on Thursday, led by the following captains: Precinct No. 1, Mrs. W. I. Spitler and Worth McCarthy; No. 2. Mrs. C. H. Mills and H. W. Jackson; No. 3, Miss Rose Luers and Mrs. G. E. Murray; No. 4, C. R. Dean and Martin Sauser. 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 fifty-five 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 $1,000,000 is necessary. Indiana’s quota is $125,000. Marion township and Rensselaer are asked to give S2OO. $1 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 $1 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 readin r.

Authors are foregoing their royalties aiM buying arrangements have been perfected that will make sl< gb as far as $1.50 expended individually.