War libraries and allied studies . Upper: © Committee on Public 1 nformation Lower: © International Film Service 27. Upper: From cotton fields to khaki. Colored stevedores, forwhom their Chaplain solicited A. L. A. books Lower: American Sailors in the reading room of one of their clubs in England. i < IE |q Ed xo oa on CO U 3 a P p *a w cdu 33 a 33 s - oj - ca x H i W t 2: o «3 THE WORK OVERSEAS 69 been circulated, an 18-year-old Michigan boy wasjeered at by his corporal, who with a sneer said, Oh,youll be going along with the bunch before the lad replied, Thats all right, corp
War libraries and allied studies . Upper: © Committee on Public 1 nformation Lower: © International Film Service 27. Upper: From cotton fields to khaki. Colored stevedores, forwhom their Chaplain solicited A. L. A. books Lower: American Sailors in the reading room of one of their clubs in England. i < IE |q Ed xo oa on CO U 3 a P p *a w cdu 33 a 33 s - oj - ca x H i W t 2: o «3 THE WORK OVERSEAS 69 been circulated, an 18-year-old Michigan boy wasjeered at by his corporal, who with a sneer said, Oh,youll be going along with the bunch before the lad replied, Thats all right, corporal,but Ive a mother, four sisters and a sweetheart backhome, and Im proud of it. Believe me, Im goingback to them just as clean as I came out. An officer wrote in to the American Library Associa-tion Headquarters recently on behalf of i,35q negrosoldiers, comprising a stevedore regiment of the Na-tional Army, stationed at a certain overseas making a request for from ybo to 1,000 books, hewas speaking for the other officers of the regiment,all of whom are white: Astounding as the statement may sound to you,a whole lot of reading matter is needed in this outfitto cut down venereal diseases. I do not refer totreatises on these diseases, because we do not wantbooks of this sort. We
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