| Show BIG LIBRARY WILLBE WILL MILL BE BUILT AI AT FT FT DOUGLAS 0 I Miss Marv Mary E. E Downey State i Organizer Tells TeIs of Extensive Extensive Extensive Ex- Ex Plans S Members of the Twentieth Infantry a ar arto to have a nc new library at nt Ft Ft Dou f This will wi be bo a a. structure feet Ceet with shelving seven feet teet high and a reading room feet teet the building containing from Cram to part o oj which numbering numbering about volumes I Ion ii is ison on the wa way This wn was announced yesterday b by Miss U Mary Elizabeth Elzabeth Downey state stale library organizer organizer or oro for Cor Utah This addition additon to the present library will wi bo be built bui on one ono end of the tho post Y M C. C A. A A building said Miss Downey describing de do- 1 scribing the new structure In addition to these books boks on the road addIton there j are thousands of at ohmes coming here Five hundred from Cram Ya Washington D. D C C. C 0 through h Herbert Putnam Putnam in char charge e of ot the war library work for Cor our soldiers 1000 from San Francisco Frncisco then 1000 from Cram Provo th lh the B. B n Y university and the pub pub- lIe lic library at that point donating most 1 liberally nn f from Crom y T Mantl Manti fant from tram Og- Og Og- Og o u VV y Hum Lu U-fIO U orner Olner pOInts will wi be heard herd from as well Besides books the te Burleson cent 1 mailing maing privilege I ia is being asked to he be adjusted to permit all al current magazines ma at Salt Lake City being sent to Ft Douglas Dougls If IC the subscribers to the periodicals so desire Never fear eal but that reading matter mater I is welcome to the soldiers Anything cl else e I Is the tho rankest German propaganda In Intended In- In ten tended ed to break hrek down our aid and assistance assist anco ance offered the boys bos Hero Here Is an extract from a letter extract leter re received received re- re by W. W V C C. Hayward of Salt Sal Lake Laka from Crom his hi cousin r Lieutenant William Morgan Mor Mor- gan n. n who Is In France SOLDIERS SOlDIERS ALL READ If l you want to do something which will wl help a lot tell tel everyone everone you OU know and everyone one you OU dont don't know to put a cent 1 stamp on their ma magazines and put them in the tho mall mail mal box If It you ou could see seo how these men stand around the mall mail room rom waiting for tho the magazines mal you would realize how many dollars dollars' worth of oC pleasure a stamp can give You see zeo eo the evenings are long as It I Is dark cark at 30 and they love to read Sometime a they read even cn the tho advertisements when there tere Is nothing else The TheY Y M. M C. C A A. A is doing a great Seat work acre nere lere They put these magazines on their tables and many a time have I sat st down with wih the men to look over Life and d Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- uday Evening Post Post Try Tl to get people to send the tho more expensive magazines These men will wi read good stu if J they goo can cn only get It Such books a ai a l ItA A Man Without a Country Countr Is devoured uy them alL aiL Most of or them thor are arc young boys bos and It Is wonderful to talk with wih them for they have a fine Cne spirit siri They must have hav books book and magazines to read red for tor it I is b absolutely essential to a soldier to havo have mental relaxation Miss Is Downey tells of or the district distrct library libra libra- ry 17 r meetings sho h has attended recently in which enthusiasm Is shown show dl discussing cussing Ft Ft Douglas Douglas' Doulas' Doulas ne need d of oC books and kindred topics topic DISTRICT MEETINGS I 1 have Just returned from tam a a district meeting meeting- at Cedar City said Miss Iss Downe Downey Downey Dow Dow- ne ney where two thirty attended persons the te meeting and one girl for or instance rode twenty miles mUes on horseback drove e forty miles by automobile and then drove twenty miles by team tem to get there dovo Some older persons drove miles to attend the tho to gathering They showed mies in In- In terest In the d discussion of oC such things as a reports of at various libraries represented represent represent- e ed ed progress In I library work work- In Utah the new newest t books hooks people are reading library work In schools selection of at school books for tor reading outside of ot actual stud study purposes pur pur- poses reform work a a round table of li it- it problems l- l Remember when St St. St George got Its first frt books book for Its Is library Georgc years ears ago hot the Is people sent to t Salt Lake gallons of or 00 glons mo molasses s. s as the they had no money mone with which to pay for tor books book That was mentioned men men- wih toned at our district meeting Next t we week k the district meeting will v wi be held at Ephraim and Fiday Friday of this week Tremonton votes on Incorporating te the town tov and also on taxing tho the town to pay pa for establishing a a free ree public library or both of at which I am assured aured will pass wl pas It U Is i such sc places as a these that boost the tat boost sending of at books boks to Ft Douglas Miss ns Downey mentioned further that mentone furter the post pst library will wi soon have the Ne New o international Encyclopedia sent from front Washington D. D C C. by Her Herbert rt Putnam and also alo six wall wail maps the present map bein ben so EO fingered by inquiring arrivals Inquiring that t It Is dimmed In places |
