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Halt! What Book Goes There?
Moses, Montrose J. | March 21, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the reading material being provided to the soldiers in the American Army. At the first call to the American people for books, there came a huge supply of miscellaneous animation, contributions which complicated the problem of the camp librarian. The A. L. A. sentry had to turn away copies of nearly every improper book in existence. He had to explain to the people that while the soldier was often eager for juvenile literature, the Elsie books were hardly suitable for the man being primed for the trenches. It is an important matter, this giving of books to the soldiers-more important than the public may at first think. The rudiments of education go hand in hand with the rudiments of gun practice.

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SOLDIERS; BOOKS & reading; UNITED States -- Armed Forces; LIBRARIES; LITERATURE; UNITED States
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