Show BOOKS FOR DISABLED HEROES congress Can Cin gress appropriates for reading material for soldiers confined to hospitals disabled heroes of the world wai a are re not to be without good books to read while they are fighting to regain health in the hospitals of this country congress has appropriated in tho the ahll sundry bill the sum suin of for the purchase of books with the result that each of the disabled veterans will soon have three or tour four new books to read the american library association which still has charge of the libraries in the larger hospitals has beedem barr assed 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 disabled in hundreds of the smaller hospitals the appropriation by congress doer does not meun mean that either cither the services ot of the american library association or the fia american legion in this respect are to be dispensed with but that they are arc to be greatly augmented and reinforced |