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Show American Legion Sponsor Literature Drive For Russia In all parts of the State people are now bringing their surplus books to the collection stations set up by the local posts of the American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary. July 8 was the opening open-ing day of the Classic Book Collection Col-lection for the rebuilding of 100 Russian Libraries that were destroyed de-stroyed by the Nazis. The drive is now on to help promote better understanding between the Soviet Sov-iet Union and the United States through the sending of American literature to Russia. Thousands are learning to speak English and are clamoring for an opportunity oppor-tunity to read what Americans have written. The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary in Roosevelt are organizing for this drive and they are providing for book repositories re-positories and collection stations in convenient places. Quotas of books have been set for the different dif-ferent communities with a goal of 600,000 books for the State of Utah. Our quota is 800 books. The request for these American Ameri-can books comes directly from the Soviet Union because of the heavy demand for English reading read-ing matter and throughout the United States, Russian Relief, Inc. has organized a campaign. In the State of Utah, the American Ameri-can Legion and the Legion Aux-ailiary Aux-ailiary are sponsoring the drive. 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 eigth months to a year for the few books that are available. On your shelves and in your basements there are scores of books no longer in use, which you could contribute to a very good cause - one that will help to create goodwill and friendship. Get these books out and drop them off at the nearest collection station. All that is asked is that they be in good condition- with unbroken bindings and that they represent literature of a permanent perma-nent value. They should be by American or English authors, not foreign translations. Children's and adult's classics and the better modern fictions arc desired. A partial list of the best authors auth-ors the LiC.Kj.i io tiyjng to send includes, Snakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Defoe, Swift, Shelley, Scott, Dickens, Thackery, Irving, Franklin, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Longfellow, Long-fellow, Harte, and a number of others. The welcomed modern authors are Dreiser, Lewis, Sinclair. Sin-clair. Hemingway, Steinbeck, Hersncy, Aldridge, Pearl Buck, Caldwell, Bromfield, DeKruif, and Priestley; also Galsworthy, Jack London, O'Henry, Twain, Shaw, Wells, Kipling, Conrad and Hardy. In addition there are many children's authors. War has destroyed large areas of the Soviet Union. It is gratifying gratify-ing that these people should not only be thinking of food, clothing, cloth-ing, and shelter, but that they also are desirous of re-establishing their cultural institutions. That they are internationally-minded internationally-minded enough to want to know more about us and our literature should cause us to respond whole-heartedly in supporting the American Legion Drive to send 600,000 books to the Soviet Union from the State of Utah. 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 AMERICANS HAVE THEM TO SEND. |