Show BOOKS FOR DISABLED HEROES C Congress Appropriates for Reading Material for Soldiers C Confined to Hospitals Disabled heroes of the World war are not to be without good books to read while they are ore fighting to regain health In ill the hospitals ot of this coun coun- try Congress has appropriated In the civil sundry bill the sum of ot for tor the purchase of ot b books with the result that each of ot the 2 disabled veterans will soon have three or four new books to read read The American Library association which still has charge of ot the libraries In the larger hospitals has been em eni embarrassed bya by a shortage of funds and up to this tills time posts of the American Legion have e taken over oyer the duty 01 bt supplying books to the disabled In hundreds of the smaller hospitals The appropriation by congress does not mean meun that either the services of the American Library association or the American Legion In In- Inthis this tIlls respect are to tobe tobe tobe be dispensed with but that they are arc areto areto to be greatly augmented and reinforced rein reIn- forced |