Show COOK FOR RUSSIA NOW UNDERWAY in all parts of the state people are row r ow bringing their surplus books to c pl lection stations set up by the local posts of the american legion and the legion auxiliary july 8 was the opening day or of the classic book col diction for the rebuilding building re of russian rusian libraries that were destroyed by the nazis the drive is now on to help promote better understanding between the soviet union and the united states through the sending of american literature to russia thousands of russians Russian sare are learning to speak english and are clamoring for an opportunity to read what americans have written the american legion and legion auxiliary in morgan are organizing for this drive and they are providing for book repositories and collection stations in convenient places quotas af it books have been set for the different communities with a goal of books for the state of utah our quota is books the request for these american books comes directly from the soviet union because of the heavy demand for english reading matter and throughout the united states russian relief inc has organized a campaign how great is the desire for english language literature is apparent from the fact that in the existing russian libraries there is a waiting list of from eight months to a year for the few books that are available A partial list of the best authors the legion is trying to send includes shakespeare chaucer milton defoe swift shelley scott dickens thackery eliot tennyson browning butler hardy wilde stevenson washington irving franklin cooper hawthorne poe melville whitman longfellow hartle harte and a number of others the welcomed modern authors are Dr dreiser elser lewis sinclair hemingway Stein steinbeck beek hershey aldridge dridge AI pearl duck buck caldwell bromfield dekruif and also galsworthy jack london ohenry twain shaw wells kipling conrad and hardy in addition there are many childrens authors war has destroyed large areas of the soviet union it is gratifying that these people should not only be thinking of food clothing and shelter but that they also are desirous of re est ab lishing their cultural institutions bring in your books and be sure to paste into them the bookplates which are being provided so that the libraries in russia will know who the donors have been THE RUSSIANS NEED BOOKS WE AMERI AMERICANS CANIS HAVE THEM TO SEND |