Harris County Public Library Scrapbook (1941-1948)

Kids Real Workers In Victory Book Drive Small Fry Really Going to Town, But Thou¬ sands More Volumes Are Needed. If there's any real work to be done, leave it to the small fry. That’s the concensus of opin¬ ion around town, after watching Houston youngsters work like bea¬ vers in the victory book campaign, now in its final week. For the children of Houston have done more to aid in the local drive for books for servicemen than anybody else, according to Mrs. Malcolm B. Whitehead, chair¬ man of the campaign steering committee. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Cub Sdouts and grammar school young¬ sters have been bustling around with businesslike efficiency, well aware of the importance of this wartime job of collecting reading material for our fighting forces, о о о IFive Gather 1000 Books. Last Monday five very small 3 Girl Scouts begged off from ■j school at 11 o’clock and loaded more than 1000 books into the A. W. V. S. stationwagon. They were Bobbie Ann Brewer, Betty Wal¬ lace, Virginia Feldts, Katharine McCoy and Esther Kornegay. Their own Scout troop alone turned in 457 books. Youngsters in the Heights area | collected and turned in more than ! 1400 volumes. J At one collection center, three I little colored boys were helping (load books into the stationwagon. (They were offered payment for | their intensive work. о о о | Little Boys Refuse Pay. Said the littlest one, just barely I able to see armful of volumes he was carry ling: “No, ma’am. These is for the soldiers. We couldn’t take a I cent!” The campaign in Houston has [fallen far short of expectations, |Mrs. Whitehead said. Book own¬ ers have been much too reluctant |to part with their newer and nost suitable literary possessions, lowever, she pointed out, the - - — - — quality of the books in the 1943 drive has been remarkably good. “At the beginning of the drive, we had set a goal of 45,000 books,” he said. “But so far only a little over 13,000 have actually been col¬ lected.” “People who own books really haven’t done their part. Perhaps they don’t realize how desperately important it is for our fighting forces to have the relaxation that is offered by reading. And the only way we can get reading ma¬ terial to them is through such means as this drive.” о о о Smaller Books Welcome. Particularly welcome are the pocketbooks, or small-sized pa¬ per-backed volumes of popular novels, mystery stories, Westerns and the like. One would-be con¬ tributor phoned to say: “I feel cheap bringing those little paper- covered books.” “But they’re just the kind we want,” declared Mrs. Whitehead, “as well as regular editions of modern literature.” * It’s the attic cleaner-outers that! have given the most trouble ini the campaign — those who bring in| ancient primers, frayed editions of j the Book of Knowledge dated 1899, 1 and old numbers of magazines, о о о Magazines Not Wanted. Magazines aren’t wanted — nor are newspapers. One man announced that he had four large boxes of reading ma¬ terial for the drive. Elated the A. V. W. S. workers went to pyck over the staeeerine up this treasure trove- ТЬеУ found umes he was carry? four b°xes filled with filthy news¬ papers dated 1937 and 1938— and the rats had read them first. “Give us good books for our sol¬ diers, sailors and marines,” pleads Mrs. Whitehead. “Not old Rex Beach novels with half the pages gone.” Technical books, joke books, books of anecdotes, cartoons and group games are acceptable as well c. K. D. A. R. S. J. \Y. Daily Sun 3-5-43 Reviewer Club Hears Mrs. J. A. Dinwiddie The Reviewer club met Wednes¬ day at Goose Creek branch li¬ brary and heard Mrs. James A. Dinwiddie review “Get Thee Be¬ hind Me” by Hartzell Spence. Mrs. Frank W. Jones will review Ellen Proctor’s “Turning Leaves” at the March 17 meeting. Attending were Mesdames Mil- ton Hilbert and Harry E. Bovay, Jr., guests, J. J. Savelli, Scott, M. H. Singleton, Smith, J. R. Barsalou, Jr., Clark, Charles M. Boyer, Stewart, R. W. Clark, A C. Leder- er, Jr., and Jones. ... — BUY WAR BONDS & STAMPS Library News Help our soldier boys by giv¬ ing them good reading material, drop a little donation in one of the jars in some of the business houses over town. The money will be used to buy good books. Bring in all the good books and 25c vest pocket mystery and Western novels to the Harris County Library at the corner of Vince and Broadway, or leave them at any of the stores where money jars are and they will be picked up Saturday evening, March 6. -Shank you. Cjcc^l Ethel Burnett, , '^3 Librarian. as current best sellers or other popular fiction. But they must be in good physical condition. “The Book You Would Like to Read Yourself Is a Good Book to Give” continues to be the cam¬ paign slogan, and thousands more are needed to put over Houston’s campaign before it closes next Monday. Daily San 3-4-43 Given Your Victory Book? Tri-Cities Stores Collect Them How about that Victory book contribution on to our fighting men who like to read good books? i hat volume you give may wind up in the hands of a son, br jther, or friend of yours, or your neighbor, so dust off the best volumes you have, fiction and technical, published since 1935 and send them along to the soldiers. Baytown, Pelly and Goose Creek retail merchants are coop¬ erating in the collection drive in the^ east end of Harris county. Volumes may be left at any store and they will be turned over to the USO authorities which will handle distribution to the fightin- fionts of the world where our sol- dicrx are stationed. The books may lie left at any store in Baytown, and the Bav- towr Chamber ,-.f Commerce of- ficmls will see that they are col- ecled and turned over to the col¬ lection agency. R. W. Long, pres¬ ident. ot the Baytown trade group Is in charge of the drive in that community. . T°Ur, collection depots have been set up in Polly, one at Dunn’s Grocery on Pecan Street, another at the W. C. Williams grocery on Pruett Street, another at the Goodluck Store on Main Street, and one downtown store, the Mir¬ acle Store, also on Main Street, according to Miss Susanna Stern, Polly branch librarian, who is di¬ recting the Pelly drive under aus¬ pices of the Pelly Civic club. Abe Rosenzwcig, chairman of the retail merchants committee of the Goose Creek Chamber of Commerce, is heading the Goose Creek drive being conducted by the retail merchants. Rosenzweig today set an elab¬ orate collection booth in front of his store on West Texas Avenue. Ho said books may be left at any store— and will then be part of a city-wide collection. Anyone with a number of books may have- them called for by telephoning either the library or the Goose Creek Chamber of Commerce. The drive will be climaxed Sat¬ urday when Jack Stoltz will di¬ rect the work of Boy Scouts In a house to house canvass for ad¬ ditional volumes. BOOK WEEK has been set for March 1-6 so let this week be a record for Humble in the Victory Book campaign In many places parties luncheons and club activities have been given over to the campaign, but we feel that Humble is mak¬ ing a creditable showing in just giving and will continue to do so. Remember the slogan “'ANY BOOK YOU REALLY WANT Dany Sun 3-5-43 Book Collection To Be Saturday Tri-Cities Merchants Join to Aid Campaign The Tri-Cities wide Victory book drive will be climaxed here Saturday when the Boy Scouts, under the direction of Jack Stoltz, make a house to house canvass f jr volume contributions. Meanwhile liberies, attics, store¬ houses, and corner book ' shelves were being dusted off and ran¬ sacked for suitable 'contributions to serve as leisure time reading for our fighting men in their far- flung out posts of the world. • A Goose Creek Chamber of Commerce committee, headed by Abe Rosenzweig, had carried on an extensive campaign to secure books and merchants on both Pel¬ ly and Baytown also were active. Mr. Rosenzweig’s committee had personally invited civic clubs and miinsters of the various churches to take note of the collection in their meeting and several minis¬ ters will urge contributions Sun¬ day. Hi also had invited Dr. N. S. Holland, superintendent of schools to assist by announcing the cam¬ paign in the various schools. Pelly civic club will continue its book drive into next week, and the Footlights Club of tire Robert E. Lee high school will present an entertainment Thursday night in the city hall auditorium. Miss Gene Pope, dramatics in- _ structor at the school, will direct* _ the presentation of a combined style show and brief skits to fill in an hour’s entertainment. The price of admission will be the con¬ tribution of one good book to the Victory book drive. The book to give is the one you want tok keep, advised Miss Susanna Stern, han¬ dling publicity for the Pelly sec¬ tion. ’ _ BUY WAR BONDS St STAMPS ,TO KEEP IS A GOOD ONE TO GIVE‘J. All books and con-j tributions will go to Armv Camps, Naval and Coast Guard stations, Merchant Marine li¬ braries and U.S.O. centers all over,the world. ^Is yours in yet? TuM&lzA d — шш»г»!гшкш1и1нг!гнш<:» Harris County Library, Cor. Vine And Broadway Fifty books were added to the Library this month. We are getting a few new ones. Visit the library and get a good book to read for education or pleas¬ ure. Have you turned in your books or donation for the soldiers? $21.40 in cash has been collected’ and 62 good books and 56 small vest pocket size Mystery and novels, only books that could be used in Libraries have been counted, those collected from the attics can not be used. Mrs. H. J. Burnett, Librarian.