A Worthy Cause For Thanksgiving

As this is the season of the year when all mankind wish to do something for their fellows, a time for thanksgiving. May we again ask the citizens of Ann Arbor to assist us in swelling the number of books in the hospital libraries. Surely here is a good opportunity to help those who have been more unfortunate than you have and cannot help themselves. Books are a blessing to men and when put into a permanent library at the hospitals will prove a help and a blessing to many generations of hospital patients. Book cases have been provided by the hospital authorities at both hospitals and the many empty shelves stand as a monument to your neglected opportunities. Every home has a few books which have been read and will never be used again, especially good books of fiction. Why not go through your libraries and give all such books to the hospital committee who will divide them. between the two hospitals. Stamp them and put them in reach of the hospital patients. Three years of effort along different channels, earnest appeals from the pulpits and through the press of our city, to whose generous courtesy we owe much, has yielded barely 500 books, where as a low estimate of our needs would be 2,500 to 3,000. And this is a cause every one says is worthy and ought to be pushed. The committee supplies many hundreds of magazines to the patients during the year. We wish them as fresh and new as possible. If you are through with last month's magazines and periodicals why not give them to the committee by sending or leaving them at some of the places given below? Why allow them to get old when each one will give cheer and help to while away and brighten a little of some poor fellow's time?
 

The bookstores have kindly agreed to sell the committee books at cost, so anyone who has not books to give may give money and the committee will buy the books.

Newberry hall is centrally located and convenient to all and is headquarters for hospital books, magazines and money, and is the city address of the committee. If more convenient for you please acquire the habit of taking your books and magazines to your church and leave in the vestibule and the committee will get them there regularly and take them to the hospitals. Or if more convenient for you, you can leave them at Goodyear's drug store on Main street, Calkins' drug store on Statestreet, or Secretary Wade's office on the campus.

If not convenient for you to deposit your contributions of books, magazines or money in any of the above places, please write or phone your address to the Hospital and Visiting committee at Newberry hall and they will call at your home at their earliest convenience. We earnestly plead with you to help us in this work.

MISS FLORENCE REAMER,

MR. GUY M.DUNNING,

Chairman of Committee.