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Show "PLEASE SEND US SOME BOOKS" "Please send .us some books. We haven't any books at all, and thouch we are regulars we pet Just as lonesome lone-some as the National Guurds." Thus wrote a private soldier to a public llbrarlun in one of the eastern states, and It Is Just as pertinent now ns It was two months a?o wfien It was written. The "book drive" now on In the state of Utah during the week of March 18th to the 2.rth should result In a splendid collection for the boys in the line us well us the sailors on the seas. Mow about the books you had Christmas Christ-mas and read with so much enjoy-iiient? enjoy-iiient? Wouldn't you rather have them In the trenches than on your shelves? Won't you see what you have that perhaps per-haps your by would like to read over there adve;,,'ure stories, sea tales, good detective stories, travel, blof-rnphy blof-rnphy you know whut the boys would like. Tuke them to your nearest library or send them by parcel post to the Salt Lake Public Library and they will be promptly shipped to headquarters for distribution to the cantonments In this country, to the sailors on the ships, aud to the army camps abroad. |