Show War Book Drive Sets New Record v Approximately books have been gathered and shipped to American service men all over the United according to L. H. university who has been in charge of the university book A Of the books sent to the were fiction and the balance were This leaves a shortage of nonfiction books of which books on travel and biography are especially Service men particularly want to read books on travel in order to learn about the places where they may be Kirkpatrick It is the soldiers who are already stationed in remote places that are far from city entertainment who are badly in need of reading The book drive was more successful this year than last Kirkpatrick although there were fewer books a large majority of the books turned in were more useful than those of last Fifteen per cent of the books collected had to be considerably less than the previous Some people still contribute books which are damaged or are in the same class as Rover The university collected as many books as some eastern cities with a population of Kirkpatrick The library will continue to accept books for the soldiers just as long as the war In addition to handing in books at the it is possible to buy war stamps and Red Cross memberships Members of Alpha Lambda freshman women's scholastic are selling war stamps in the noisy room of the |