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Show MILLIONS OF BOOKS READ BY SOLDIERS Demand Showy a Big Increase, Now That tho righting Has , Ceased. PAULS fee. US. (T?y tho Associated Press.) U'i th moie reading time nil their hands than ever before, now that tho fighting has stopped, the American expeditionary expedi-tionary force which required a million books a month, will dovour literature at a much more staggering figure. The book shelves of every Y. M. C'. A. hut are polished pol-ished daily by the constant return of books read and the ta king out of new books, and the difficulty is in supplying rapidly enough, according to Burton Slev-1 Slev-1 enson. head of the- American Library as- 1 solution. I "What the soldiers like best in the way of reading is reported, back to Mr. Stevenson Stev-enson through the Y. M. "'. A., the Ped ! L'roH and the other organizations among which the books nf the American Library ass'ii-ia linn are d ist rihut ed, as veil as through letters straight from tiie soldiers thf nisei ves. His for oca st of what they are going to want as cabled buck to tho United States the other day in the following follow-ing order of bO"ks: "Need Im media My ivw) each elementary, elemen-tary, advanced arithmetics, geometries, trigonometries, chemist ry books, physic?, agriculture, stock breeding, forestry, business busi-ness methods. accounting. commerce, banking, law, architecture. Two hundred each bookkeepijiR-, ronltry raising. lie-quests- poming in show tremendous demand de-mand for technical, educational honks. Ke-orga Ke-orga ni 7 ng warehouses to expedite distribution." dis-tribution." Fiction continues to be read by the army, iu spite of its more serious trend of mind, at the rate of hundreds of thousands thou-sands of volumes a month. Mr. Slevpnson said. Kipling and Service are ft ill tiie favorite poets of the American soldiers. Among the requests that came in during the past week were two for ordinary primers or A B C books, from American horn men t ho are finding their first opportunity op-portunity to study their own language in a foreign country. Mr. Stevenson beiieves that the need for su'di educational books, in the months after peae y declarer ;,r.-f.-ire t' e men can go h;i-k to their own country. t ill be tremendous. The A nierie;f n I .: hra r- a sso. irt f Ion !s v.r or.ini7.ed in Waive that an,- soldier i who niakec a request for a parthq-lar book j from any ramp is apt 'd 'ind It in ' hand-- almost tvonr qui-ik;y than !e v ou.d he able to p-o-'uro it in t'-e United States. T'-e association beat its own records t.'-e e-t her da i;owever, when t wo hnpu ,,f hooks er.? delivered by nirplane lo aviation avia-tion cam;"?. ' |