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Show BOOKS FOR DISABLED HEROES Congress Appropriates' $100,000 for Reading Material for Soldiers Confined tc Hospitals. Disabled heroes of the World war ate not to bo without good books to read while they are lighting to regain health In the hospitals of this country. coun-try. Congress has appropriated In tho civil sundry hill tho sum of $100,000 for the purchase of books, with the result that each of the 23,000 disabled veterans, will soon hnc three or four new books to tend. The American Library association, which still has chaigo of the libraries In the larger hospitals, has been embarrassed em-barrassed by a shortage of funds, nnd up to this time pohts of the American Legion have taken over the duty ol supplying hooks to the dlsnbled In hundreds of the smaller hospitals. The appropriation by cougiess does not mean that either the services of the American Library association or the American Legion In this respect lire to he dispensed with, hut that they nro to be greatly augmented nnd rein-f rein-f oi ceil. |