


123, | MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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"We will not fail! TI would lose something of my trust in the justice of 
ighty God if I doubted the ultimate triumph of our Righteous Cause. In the 
th of the Puritans, in the valor of the Cavaliers, in the endurance of the 
riots from Concord to Yorktown through bleeding marches and starving days, in 
unspeakable agony of Belgium, in the splendid and unconqueratle courage of 
france, in the daring and the suffering of Italy, in the grim and uncomplaining 
sacrifices of Great Britain and her Colonials from the four quarters of the globe, 
in memory of the women and children of the Lusitania and the crews of peaceful 
herchantmen done to death by the assassins of the sea, in punishment of the 
lawlessness of the German government and the perfidy of her broken promises, in 
vindication of our right to order our ways as we choose, and in loyalty to the 
sovereignty of man above the usurpations of royal pretenders, let us take 
heart to strike in the full measure of our strength, to the limit 
9f our energies and resources, as becomes the sons of men whose 
ni me and fame we bear." (Hon. Clarence Ousley, Assistant Secretary of 
iculture. Address to the New England Society of St. Louis, at St. Louis, Mo., 
21, 1917.) 
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THE WAR LIBRARY. 
The Library War Service fund now exceeds a million and a half, 
phe + is being applied rapidly to the purchase of books for the camp libraries 
but even with the generous discounts allowed by the publishers the demands of 
the cantonment libraries far exceed the supply of books. All those who wish to 
u chase books outright for the libraries or who can spare from their own lib- 
aries technical books, French readers and dictionaries and good novels are 
urged to give them. Members of the Bureau living in Washington may bring their 
books to the Bureau library or to the Library of the Department of Agriculture, 
hence they will be forwarded to those in charge of the work. 
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SPECIFIC REQUESTS FOR BOOKS AND READING MATTER. 
f A request has recently been received from the commanding officer 
# the 20th Engineers, which is in camp at the American University, for reading 
na tter for men, especially for recent periodicals, These may be brought to the 
Yepartment Library: a truck from the camp will call for them once a week untal 
urther notice. 
The hospitals in Washington are finding light weight scrapbooks very 
eful in entertaining the sick and convalescent soldiers who are too weak to 
1d anything so heavy as a magazine. A number of blank books for this purpose 
ve been made up for the Department book committee: these with suggestions for 
‘illing will be supplied by the Library of the Department to those who care to 
ake them, Apply to Miss Mary G. Lacy, uibrary, Department of Agriculture. 
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