Show jf BOYS IN HOSPITAlS WANT HOME HOM PAPERS it I I 1 1 r. r By y United Pre Pres 1 LONDON rONDON Sept 9 More More home newspapers Is the appeal continually made to the library committee tee of the l t American merl an Red Cross by American soldiers sol- sol Idlers diers j in hospitals in Great Britain J The library committee is at present furnishing matter I reading for fog more than men a month both in hospitals hospitals hos hos- I and in camps The committee has its headquarters in a building at 1 14 Pall Mall fall East London where it I I. keeps Jeeps on hand at all times about books and a large of magazines and nd newspapers newspapers 7 The bool books s are either gifts or are purchased pur chased in London In its purchases the committee restricts itself almost entirely to to cheap popular edl editions ions costing from fifteen to thirty cents a volume Our reason for doing this j 1 says a committee report Is that ve we e g get t most for our money in this way books inevitably get hard usage fi ivand some of them used in the hos- hos hosI I t must be destroyed almost st im- im im-I im m m lately owing to the danger of f in in- in l. l r. r Altogether the te life lite II of tf those I books Pooks is exceed exceedingly short and anIl cheap It l editions bound in paper or light cloth ar are arc un undoubtedly the most serviceable 1 t x and economical I Il I x l e We Wc y have made no attempt to imA unc im- im I c A port I hooks from America because we i. i that that at the present time ton ton- r r. e is needed in more essential j A As to the class of reading matter mat mat- 1 ter Selected el we e leave it mainly to the dem of the men and they ask aski i principally for fiction and light fiction Sat a. a at that Where re we are supplying more Inure or orles leis le s permanent libra libraries es for hospital o l staffs or for Americal naval stations v. v try to give an around all tone tofie to the collection of or books including classic class class- ic iCI es essays ays poetry biography and scientific works but still for the greater part fiction The IThe magazines and newspapers r must of necessity come from Americo It is our experience that this class of S literature gives greater satisfaction to toJ J the men than books boots Their cry is con con- for more of the home news- news I papers rs |