Show russian beok bed drive gets little response here mrs A C hatch head of the russian book drive being made by the legion auxiliary in connection with the american legion states that they regret to announce that the book drive so far as parowan carowan is concerned has been a flop up to now in fact she reports that up to tuesday of this week only one book had been turned in against a quota of set for the community the ones in charge of the drive therefore are asking that each family in town contribute at least one book to the drive to help meet the quota in order to help pick out books which can be accepted during the drive which commenced on july 8 the committee has received a partial list of authors chos works both fiction and nonfiction non fiction are desired books which are commonly regarded as classics most popular of modern authors are dreiser lewis sinclair hern hemingway steinbeck hershey aldridge pearl buck cald caldwell well bromfield dekruif DeK ruff priestley also galsworthy jack london ohenry twain shaw wells kipling conrad and hardy the classics sought by the russians are those familiar to all high school and college students they include the works of such writers as shakespeare chaucer milton defoe swift fielding sterne burns goldsmith wordsworth coleridge bacon shelley keates scott dickens thackery eliot tennyson browning butler hardy wilde stevenson washington irving franklin cooper hawthorne poe melville whitman longfellow beecher stowe harte etc russia needs one million books in english to restock the libraries pillaged by the nazis and to meet the demands of the many russians eager to learn leam about the united states mrs eulala T orton will accept these books at the library we must have our quota by july 27 paro pare wan failed yet please hold up the record now american legion auxiliary |