Librarians Rally Behind Uplift Effort for Foreign Born
The American Library Association mobilizes a Books for Everybody program led by 4,000 librarians to aid the foreign born. Two million dollars will fund expanded libraries and translator book networks to teach American ideals, with focus on county, industrial, and public health libraries and access for the blind and maritime services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Library Association
Library
Friends of Libraries
Sytem
United States Merchant Marine
Coast Guard
Lighthouse Service
United States Public Health Service
More Books for Blind ALA Drives Braille Library Expansion
The American Library Association leads a push to provide Braille titles for 75 000 to 80 000 blind Americans. With fewer than 100 Braille titles, the association plans to print and distribute more works through its Enlarged Program. A fund of 2 million dollars will be raised by librarians and supporters, not via a public drive, to implement Books for Everybody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Library Association
United States
Orig Or Gore
Books for Everybody expands county libraries nationwide
The American Library Association promotes a nationwide Books for Everybody program modeled on California standards. It urges county libraries to extend central county stations to outposts via trucks and post offices, with branch libraries in communities, funded by librarians and friends of libraries. The plan seeks 2 million dollars to improve literacy and citizenship across 2,964 counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Library Association
California
Ohio
Maryland
Friends of Libraries
Books for Everybody Drives Library Campaign
The American Library Association shifts from war work to a nationwide library development push. With 4000 members and wide public support, it plans a $2,000,000 campaign to expand library systems and promote reading. Over 7,000,000 volumes were supplied to servicemen and vessel crews.
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American Library Association
United States
Cory
Ouré
Armenian Refugees Face Death by Starvation in Armenia
Miss Hermine Dekestan and Miss Adelaide S Dwight describe the dire crisis as more than a million Armenians and Syrians face starvation. Near East Relief works to save lives, with Erivan feeding one hot meal daily and reducing city deaths from about a thousand to twenty. Alexandropol refugees endure appalling conditions as fundraising drives nationwide.
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Alexaandropol
Russian
Armenia
Hermine Dekestan
Oberlin College
Adelaide S. Dwight
Miss Dwight
America
Migs Dakesian
Syria
Near East Relief
American Committee For Armenian and Syrian Relief
Erivan
Armenian Republic
Alexandropol
Boy Scouts in Young Armenia Help Refugee Boys
Near East Relief trains hundreds of Armenian boy refugees in Constantinople as Boy Scouts to restore moral sense and discipline. Orphaned by massacres, they once stole to survive. uniforms and guidance foster new citizenship. The appeal seeks funds to expand scout troops and aid.
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Constantinople
Relef
Near East Relief
Madison Avenue
New York City
Funda
Near East Relief Bracker Artwork Depicts Armenian Suffering
The piece by M. Leone Bracker shows the misery of Armenian women and children amid Western Asia crises. Officials say 1,250,000 adults and 250,000 orphans face starvation and exposure, with Near East Relief in New York as the sole aid organization hampered by funds.
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Near East
M. Leone Bracker
Armenia
Europe
America
Western
Asia
Belgium
France
Near East Relief
Madison Agente
New York
Bookmarks of every kind in Des Moines library
Public librarian For est B Spaulding notes odd bookmarks in circulation in Des Moines Iowa. Underdone bacon serves as a startling bookmark while hairpins, postcards and letters act as common keepsakes. He jokes about recovering a missing bathing suit left in a book by a beachgoer at Riverview Park.
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Forest B. Spaulding
Des Moines
Iowa
Spaulding
Riverview Park
Little Joe Demands Access At Birthday Party
A four year old boy with curly hair is excluded from a sister’s birthday party for girls. He protests by declaring he is “not much of a boy,” highlighting his wish to join the girls’ refreshments on the lawn.
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Joe
Sam’s Trial and the Ten Dollar Fee
Sam faced trial for stealing ten dollars and pleaded not guilty. Unable to hire counsel, Judge appointed Clarke who defended vigorously and Sam was acquitted. Outside the court Clarke pressed for a fee, noting limited state pay, and Sam proudly replied he still had the ten dollars.
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Sam
Guillty
Young Clarke
Clarke
Child prodigy Willy Ferrero Leads 100 piece Orchestra Abroad
Willy Ferrero, a 13 year old American born in Portland Maine to Italian parents, has conducted orchestras of 100 players in Paris Rome and London since age four. He met royalty including Emperor Nicholas, Queen Alexandra, Pope Benedict XV, and was awarded a gold medal by Italy’s minister of education in 1915 before Italy’s war declaration.
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Willy Ferrero
Grieg
Portland
Europe
Italy
Turin
Willy
Paris
Rome
Emperor Nicholas
London
Queen Alexandra
Marlborough House
Benedict XV
Augusteum
Marshal Foch Honors Lazare Hoche in French Revolutionary Legacy
The article recalls Marshal Foch expressing satisfaction at a victory and paying homage to Lazare Hoche, famed for escaping the guillotine to lead the army of the Sambre et Meuse. It notes Hoche's seven months of campaigning, a monument at Weissenthurm, and the idea that Foch embodies patriotism and victory for France.
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Marshal Foch
Lazare Hoche
Sambre-et-Meuse
Rhine
Weissenthurm
Hoche
Natives of Sarawark Preserve Traditions Under Wise Ruler
In the interior of Borneo the Sarawak natives are described as isolation preserved and governed by Brooke era policies. Strict game protection and wildlife care are said to shield birds beasts and insects for future generations. The rajah's policy reportedly favors traditional dress over European clothes, seen as beneficial to local happiness and order.
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Gars
Seana
Niger
Peepie
Hele
Sarawak
Ile
Burma
Sirawadi
Whit 'Rijahy- Sinscharlés ‘Brooke
Island 15
Stevensgoll
Good Work with Camera Captures Wild Life Journey
After a three year hunt with the camera in northwestern Canada H A Stewart and John Sennickson return via Peace River Alberta with thousands of photographic studies. Their negatives record moose beaver ptarmigan and other animals from Hudson's Hope to Fort Grahame, using ambush lenses and careful waiting to document shy wildlife.
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Laird River
Canada
H. A. Stewart
John Sennickson
Peace River
Alberta
Hudson's Hope
Forks
Findlay
Parsnip
Fort Grahame
Gleaning the Stuns and the Oregon Stump Decline
The coast hills of Oregon show a rapid drop in tall stumps once left 20 feet high as relics of vast forests. Now timber demand drives logging lower on trunks to save usable lumber, leaving only deep notches as records of past waste.
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Coast
Oregon
A Filipino Vassar for Orient Women Opens in Philippines
The Centro Escolar de Senoritas will establish a girls only university in the Philippines as part of its educational group. The move aims to extend universal opportunities of education to women of the Orient and mirrors traditions of American girls colleges.
Coquelin Reads 58 Plays From Repertoire On Table
The actor Coquelin writes down 58 plays he can perform and proves his mastery by reliably cueing from 16 chosen pieces, never missing a line or mistake in front of the Viscomte de Lovenjoul and friends.
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Coquelin
Mon Ami
Viscomte de Lovenjoul
Viscomte
Haphaggard
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Ferdinand Foch
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