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Mail Tribune 100, March 18, 1918 Saturday Mar 17, 2018 at 2:09 PM Mar 17, 2018 at 2:09 PM March 18, 1918 BOOKS WANTED FOR U.S. TROOPS AT THE FRONT For the first time in history a sustained effort is being made to supply a great national army with the intellectual stimulus of good reading; to offer our men profitable and interesting ways of spending their leisure hours; to make sure that, however army life may harden and toughen them, it shall not coarsen them. This effort is being directed by the library was service of the American Library association, and one feature of it is the nation-wide campaign for two million books for the use of our men here and in France, which is scheduled for the week of March 18. They Boy Scouts have agreed to help by collecting the books which cannot be brought to the library. Suggestions in regard to the books: Select the books you enjoyed, but will never read again. Choose some you would like to keep. Others will like them, too. Men like adventure, western stories, detective stories, biography, travel, history and poetry of all kinds. War books, military manuals and up-to-date technical books are in great demand. A letter received by the public library from Washington this morning states the General Pershing wants fifty tons of reading matter every month. that means at least 100,000 books per month. FOOD CAMPAIGN RESULTS IN SAVING AT CENTRAL POINT A careful estimate of the food sales in Central Point for the month of February shows a saving of 17,000 pounds of flour and 4500 pounds of sugar as a result of the food conservation movement. The meat dealers have experienced a 33 1/3 decrease in the sales of beef and poprk. It is believed that approximately 2000 persons buy practically all of their food in Central Point. This means that each person has saved 8.5 pounds of wheat flour; 2.3 pounds of sugar and one-third of the meat formerly used. The saving in sugar is less in proportion on account of the fact that there are a less number of sugar substitutes. If the saving for tyhe whole nation is as greatas it is here in the Rogue river valley, it will total something like 850,000,000 pounds of flour and 230,000,000 pounds of sugar for the month of February. There are only a few “food slackers” reported; the people who have only moderate patriotism and pro-German appetites are becoming scarce. For more stories like this, check out “The Archive,” a weekly podcast series at mailtribune.com/podcasts