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Show BOOKS FOR DISABLED HEROES Congress Appropriates $100,000 for Reading Material fo. Soldiers Confined tc Hospitals. Disabled heroes of the World war are not to be without g d books to read while they are fight. u; to regain health in the hospitals t.i this country. coun-try. Congress has appropr ated in the civil sundry bill the sum of $100,000 for the purchase of books, with the result that each of the 23.000 disabled veterans will soon have three or four new books to read. The American Library association, which still has charge of the libraries in the larger hospitals, has been embarrassed em-barrassed by a shortage of funds, and up to this time posts of the American Legion have taken over the duty of supplying books to the disabled in j hundreds of the smaller hospitals. The appropriation by congress does not mean that either the services of the American Library association or the American Legion in this respect are to ' be dispensed with, but that they are to be greatly augmented and reinforced. |