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Bulletin No. 10
.MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Lansing, Michigan
1919

MICHIGAN WAR RECORDS

Plan for organizing county war history committees to collect
and preserve the historical records of Michigan
counties, and to make a permanent record of
the participation of the citizens of
Michigan in the Great War.

Bulletin No. 10
MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Lansing, Michigan
1919

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION
A State Department of History and Archives
Members
Gov. Albert E. Sleeper, ex officio
WilUam L. Jenks, M. A., Detroit, President
Rt. Rev. Mgr. F. A. O'Brien, LL. D., Kalamazoo, Vice-President
William L. Clements, B. S., Bay City
Augustus C. Carton, East Tawas
Claude H. Van Tyne, Ph. D., Ann Arbor
Clarence M. Burton, M. A., Detroit

George N. Fuller, Ph. D., Secretary
Cooperating with the
MICHIGAN WAR PREPAREDNESS BOARD
Members
Gov. Albert E. Sleeper, Chairman
Coleman C. Vaughan, Secretary of State
Frank E. Gorman, State Treasurer
Oramel B. Fuller, Auditor General
Alex. J. Groesbeck, Attorney General
Thomas E. Johnson, Superintendent Public Instruction

Col. Roy C. Vandercook, Secretarij

MICHIGAN WAR RECORDS
The Michigan Historical Commission and the Michigan War
Preparedness Board request your help in gathering the following
records to be used in preparing the official volume or volumes
of "The History of Michigan in the Great War."
Purpose
1. To make an accurate, complete and permanent record of
the activities of the citizens of Michigan in the Great War.
2. To insure the full and fair treatment of the counties, cities
and villages of Michigan in the official State history of
the war.
3. To preserve for the use of schools, writers and citizens for
local use the local records of the Great War, — records
which will be as interesting and valuable to future
citizens as are the records of the Civil War or the
Revolution to citizens of today.
Important
1. "Tell us about the Great War. That will be a universal
plea of tomorrow. Men and women feeling its results
will seek to know its origin, growth and consummation.
The story must be ready, — accurate, rich in detail,
unbiased and living."
2. "Every man and woman who has lived the War can help
to save its records." (3)

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3. Saving these records is not a matter of elegant leisure, or
historical inclination. It is a matter of patriotism, of
civic pride, of personal pride in one's share in the common
good.
4. The story of the war cannot be fully told from official
records. These furnish the skeleton. The human muscle,
sinew, nerve and tissue of the' war must be built from the
stories of service flags, from the records of the com
munities. Letters, diaries, newspapers, posters, window-
cards, etc., tell the story in human terms.
5. It is our privilege to impress the significance of these bits
of history and the importance of preserving them. It
is your privilege to help, and without your help little
can be done. Now
1. Immediate action is imperative. Other States are acting
with zeal. Several States, including Wisconsin, Minne
sota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, — all the States sur
rounding us, — are well under way.
2. Some of the States began active organization of the work
in their local communities at the beginning of the war.
The Michigan Historical Commission called attention
to the need of this work and to possible methods in 1917,
through its quarterly publication. The Michigan History
Magazine, and some response has been made.
What Have You Done?
1. Some have told us, and we are using their suggestions in
this announcement.
2. Will you not be kind enough to tell us specifically and in
as much detail as you can what you have done or are
planning to do in this line?

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3. We should like to know your experience, the obstacles met,
how overcome, your ways and means, and any con
structive idea that may help others, that we may bring
it to their attention.
To Whom to Report
1. The collecting of the three classes of records, numbered
1, 2 and 3, below is in care of the Michigan War Pre
paredness Board. Reports on these materials should be
made to that Board.
2. The collecting of the records of the civilian activities related
to the war is in charge of the Michigan Historical Com
mission. It is the purpose of the Commission to make
a complete collection of all records that will show what
the men, women and children of Michigan have been
doing and thinking with reference to the war or as a
result of the war. Reports of progress in collecting these
materials should be made to the Historical Commission.
Records Should Be Made
1. Personal military service
2. Personal naval service
3. Personal aviation service
4. Letters, diaries, etc., of men and wome'i in war service
or civilian service related to the war
5. Pictures, posters, museum materials
6. Official civilian war service organizaiio.is
7. War relief organizations
8. Federal administration in the county.
9. State administration in the county
10. County, town, city, and village government
11. Public utilities corporations
12. Political organizations and public meetings

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13. Schools, librariei3, churches
14. Fraternal and patriotic organizations
15. Clubs, — of business men, professional men, farmers,
women, children
16. Newspapers, periodicals, war literature
17. Stores, banks, factories, mills, mines
18. Transportation and express companies
19. Postoffice, telegraph and telephone offices
Remarks
Records in classes 1, 2 and 3, are cared for, as explained above
by the Michigan War Preparedness Board.
4. Collect diaries, letters from soldiers in camp . or at the
front, war correspondence of citizens, all manuscript
accounts of the participation of Michigan men, women
and children in the war. Much of this has been pub
lished in the newspapers, but the originals will have
far greater interest for posterity. The ordinary library
methods of caring for manuscripts, — card system,
envelope or scrap book — will answer. Consult your
public librarian. Accurate copies should be made if
originals cannot be obtained. Soldiers and sailors and
their relatives and friends should be requested to furnish
these materials as a public service. Place and date of
each letter should be obtained if not given in letter, and
noted on attached shp of paper.
5. Display of pictorial and museum materials will stimulate
public interest in the collecting. A complete collection
would make possible a pictorial history of the county's
war activities. In such a collection should be pictures
showing

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Individual soldiers and sailors Local boards and committees
EnUsting scenes Public meetings
Draft scenes War relief work
Entraining of troops Loan and W. S. S. drives
Camp scenes Parades and celebrations
Military and naval equipment Industrial scenes
Army and navy scenes War gardening
Bands and orchestras School scenes
Home defense scenes Enemy activities
Civilians in war work Etc., etc.
Each print should be carefully dated and labelled and furnished
with an explanatory note.
Moving picture films should be added.
Kodak views by amateurs as well as pictures by professional
photographers should be gathered. Newspaper editors,
business men, club women, executive heads of all the
county war activities should be enlisted to make the
work a success.
Related museum materials exist in abundance, such as
Cartoons
Posters and placards
Post-cardsSketches and drawings
Paintings Maps
Objects of allied, native and enemy origin should be gathered,
such as Service flags
Pennants and banners
Flags of the nations
Military and naval equipment
Trophies and souvenirs
Medals
Buttons, pms and badges
Local war service devices

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6. Much interest attaches to the work of the official civilian
war service organizations, such as
County War Board
County Council of Defense
Recruiting office
Draft Board
The Red Cross
Loan and W. S. S. committees
Food and Fuel Administration
Employment Bureau
All correspondence and records of these organizations should be
gathered, together with a summarizing report by each
executive head. A directory of these organizations
giving names and addresses of officers, leading workers
and members, would serve as a record and also be of
value to those gathering materials.
7. Special interest attaches to the work of the less official
war relief organizations, such as
Young Men's Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Associa'tion
Knights of Columbus
Catholic Women's War Relief
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Salvation Army
'Special war relief agencies
The same remarks apply to these organizations as to those
in class 6.
8. Federal administration in the county covers
The Drafts
Liberty Loans
War Savings Stamps campaigns
Food and fuel conservation

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Four Minute Men's work
Regulation of railroads, telegraphs, telephones,
express companies, industrial plants, power
plants, alien enemy property, and pertinent
court decisions.
Acts of volunteer agencies cooperating with the
Government.
The originals of some of these records, being Government
property, may not_ be obtainable, but accurate copies
should be made as far as possible.
9. Same remarks apply to State as to National administration.
10. County and municipal records, while officially preserved,
are not always complete in official collections; especially
printed materials, such as reports, hand-bills, proclama
tions and other materials of interest growing out of
official action. Copies of all such materials pertaining
to the war should be procured and preserved. ~
11. Announcements, notices and orders relating to the war,
made by public utilities corporations such as gas and
lighting plants, power plants, bus and street car lines,
etc., all corporations of pubhc service acting under
municipal franchise.
12. Manuscript reports of discussions and resolutions of
political, social, labor, business, professional and other
pubUc meetings held in the county, for war purposes
should be secured if possible together with the news
paper reports.
13. Schools, libraries and churches
a. (1) Records showing war service of the schools and the
effect of the war upon the schools.

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(2) Records of war service of students, faculty and
alumni in Liberty Loans, War Savings Stamps
campaigns. Red Cross, War Camp Community
service, public speaking, etc.
(3) Records of meetings of school boards and teachers,
showing changes in policy, courses, texts, or
teaching staff, such as elimination of German,
introduction of military training, Americaniza
tion, vocational rehabilitation.
(4) Records of teachers' associations.
b. Records of local work of the American Library
Association, and of the local public library in
supplying books to the camps, in furnishing war
information and propaganda to citizens, in
cooperating with war service organizations, in
gathering local war literature such as books and
pamphlets, magazine and newspaper articles,
music and poetry, etc., written by citizens of the
county on war themes.
14. Records of fraternal and patriotic organizations such as —
Lodges and beneficiary societies
The Grand Army of the Republic
Woman's Relief Corps
Daughters of the American Revolution
Loyalty League
15. Records of clubs, such as —
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Rotary Club
GrangeFarmers' Club
Gleaners
Women's Club

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Literary Club
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
16. A complete newspaper file is of course the most complete
single record of all the county's war activities. Such
files of all local newspapers should be in the Pubhc
Library. If not complete, they should be completed
as early as possible from the files of the publishers or
from offices and homes. The newspaper will generally
advertise if needful for missing numbers. All publica
tions issued at Camp Custer, Selfridge Field and the
Great Lakes Naval Training School should be included.
Periodicals as well as newspapers should be added to
the coUection. Duplicate numbers of all publications
should be secured if possible, — one for clipping articles
of special interest, which should be filed or placed in
scrap-books in some way to permit re-arrangement. All
clippings should be marked with name of the paper and
date of publication.
17. This class of records includes a large amount of vital
economic material. The collection should contain —
Names of firms and companies, their chief officers and
employees
Copies of Government contracts and correspondence
relating to them
Statistics of goods for Government use shipped to
particular places, with amounts to each place
Cost of goods to the Government
Records showing attitude of laborers and labor
organizations
Price lists and market' quotations
Advertisements showing effect of the war
Reports and financial statements
18. See 8.

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Keep Records in the County
1. County war collections should be kept in the county.
Duplicates only should be sent out of the county, to the
State Historical Commission at Lansing, or elsewhere.
The Commission is interested only in getting the records
preserved, not in possessing them.
2. The best place to put them is a room in the new Soldiers'
and Sailors^ Memorial Building, which is being urged for
every county by the State Reconstruction Committee
appointed by the Governor.
3. The next best place is the Public Library at the county
seat, or the most frequented city or population center of
the county.
4. If neither place is available, the school house may answer,
or the City Hall, or the Court House, or a bank vault.
5. The place chosen should be as nearly fireproof as possible,
and accessible to the public. For this reason the Public
Library may be at least temporarily the best depository
for the records. Organizing the Work
1. Helpful suggestioas are made by Prof. Milton R. Gutsch,
University Director of Texas War Records Collections,
and by Dr. Milo M. Quaife, Chairman of the Wisconsin
War History Commission. Those of most value to
Michigan County Directors are here reproduced with
slight modification.
2 Committees.— The County Director of records collecting
should appoint such committees as may be needed to
carry on the collecting systematically, thoroughly and
rapidly.

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Personnel. — An effective commictee will contain those who
have been most active in "making history." It should
comprise as many as possible of the executive heads of
war activities and of the various civilian war service
organizations. It should have in addition weU known
representatives from some of the leading educational,
business, professional, and governmental organizations
of the county, with due regard to personal qualifications.
Sub-committees. — In all counties, the County Director or
the Chairman of the County Committee should appoint
a sub-committee for each township. In thickly popu
lated counties a sub-committee may need to be
appointed for each school district, city, village, or
precinct, whose chairman should in turn appoint
. assistants.
Procedure. — The Councy Director will find it most effective
to delegate to each member of the County Committee
definite material to collect, or a definite area to cover
so that each will have a definite task and be responsible
therefor to the Committee. The same with the sub
committees and with each active worker, down to the
smallest area to be canvassed. The county may be
divided into sections small enough so that each section
can be canvassed by one person, to whom may be
assigned the responsibiUty of collecting all the various
kinds of records and data available in that section.
This "block system" is particularly serviceable for the
acquisition of daca and records that may be found in
private homes.
Advertising, — The local newspapers have a keen sense of
the importance of this work. Editorials and news
items will be printed irom time to time as the work

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proceeds. The press will help all that is possible, but
do not rely on it too much, to the neglect of personal
interviews, personal letters and telephone conversa
tions. See people, use the mails and the telephone, and
make the contact with the sources of information as
personal and direct as possible.
6. Public Schools. — The most powerful single aid, next to the
press, is the school. Every teacher should be on one
of the Committees. Through the teachers and pupils
the homes may be reached directly. Teachers, children
and parents will be glad of the opportunity to help.
Patriotic school societies may be organized in every
school to assist the work of the war history committees.
The Wisconsin State Department of Education has
issued a pamphlet encitled, "Suggestions on Organiza
tion of School Societies" for this purpose. In this way
may be organized a veritable standing army of children
collectors covering every square mile of the county and
every family contained in it. Where possible, have the
teacher offer credit for work in collecting war material.
7. Parochial Schools. — Where parochial schools exist, their
interest and cooperation can be readily enlisted through
the organizations in charge.
8. Libraries. — The Public Librarian is a most natural ally
of this work, and is in close touch with the homes and
schools and with all of the leading pubUc activities
concerned in the war. The aid of the Library will be
specially valuable in advertising the campaign for
material and in housing it when collected.
9. "Historical drives." — The spring and early summer is the
very best season to begin work. It should be made a
prominent part on the program of every pioneer and

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historical meeting or family or home-coming or basket
picnic or other warm weather festivity. Another good
season is in the fall after harvest and crops are in and
people are beginning to settle down to the in-door
social and literary activities. The return of the soldiers
and sailors will add impulse to the work and their clubs
and reunions can be of great assistance as mediums
through which to "carry on."
10. Financing. — The small sums of money that will be needed
to pay for printing and postage in the course of the
work may be raised by having a Tag Day or some
entertainment for which a small charge is made. All
patriotic citizens would respond to the call made for
such a purpose. Reports on the Records
1. Several states have prepared a prospectus of county war
history, both to supply aid in arranging the records
collected and to suggest a general outline which the
county historian may readily adapt to any given con
ditions in writing the war history of the county.
2 Among the best of these outlines is that published by the
Indiana Historical Commission, which, with due
acknowledgments, is substantially reproduced in the
following pages, with additions from material prepared
by the Pennsylvania War History Commission.

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Our County in the Great War
A. Military Activities
I. The Army
1. Michigan National Guard
a. History of local company
b. Roster of members
c. Previous military experience
d. Mobilization for Great War
e. History in service
2. Recruiting a. Volunteers in U. S. army
b. Volunteers in foreign armies
c. Local recruiting stations
d. Local recruiting campaigns
3. Selective Service Act in operation
a. Organization of local Draft Boards
b. Administrative machinery
c. Work of Draft Boards
d. Incidents of the drafts
e. Demonstrations attending departure
of men
f . Number of men drafted
g. Exemptions (1) For physical reasons
(2) For industrial reasons
(3) For other reasons
h. Slackers and deserters
i. Men from the county in various
branches of military service.
II. Military record of men and women from the county
1. Names of men killed, wounded, prisoners
2. Men receiving honors
3. Candidates for Officers' Training Schools
a. List of candidates accepted
b. Camps where trained
c. Names of those commissioned
d. Assignment for active duty

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,4. Doctors and surgeons
5. Nurses
6. Biographical sketches
III. Families sending men to service
1. 1-star homes
2. 2-star homes
3. 3-star homes
4. 4-star homes
B. Naval activities
I. The Navy
1. Recruiting
2. Men of the county in U. S. naval service
3. Names of killed, wounded, prisoners
4. Men receiving honors
5. Men obtaining commissions
6. Doctors and surgeons
7. Nurses
8. U. S. Marine hospitals in the county
9. FamiUes sending men to the service
10. Vessels manned in part by men from the
county
11. Naval vessels built on shores of county
12. Biographical sketches
II. Naval Reserve Forces
1. Enlistments
2. History of men
3. Honors and promotions
4. Vessels manned in part by men from the
county
III. Marine Corps
1. Enlistments
2. History of men
3. Honors and promotions

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IV. Naval MiUtia
1. Enlistments
2. War service of men
V. Coast Guard
1. Enlistments
2. History of men
C. Aviation I. History of men
1. In army aviation service
2. In navy aviation service
II. Honors and promotions
III. Aviation camp
D. Civilian activities
I. On the Eve of War
1. Population and racial sympathies
2. Social and economic conditions
3. Commerce and trade
4. Local pre-war issues
5. PubUc opinion on State and National issues
6. The call to service
II. War Propaganda
1. Means used to stimulate support of the war
2. Organizations of a national character opera
ting m the county
3. Local organizations
4. Literature, posters, etc., used to foster
loyalty
2. Community singing
6. Pageants, parades, etc.
7. Flag-raisings, service flags. Red Cross flags,
Bond flags, buttons, etc.
8. Work of business houses through circulars,
newspaper advertisements, etc.
9. Orga'iized speaking
a. Four minute men
(1) Organization and Personnel
(2) Special campaigns
b. Women speakers

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10. The press
a. Editorials
b. Letters to the public
c. Contributed articles
11. The pulpit
a. Sermons
b. Public addresses
c. War lectures
12. The schools and coUeges
a. Mass meetings and patriotic rallies
b. War plays and pageants
c. War courses
d. War lectures
13. The theater
a. Motion pictures
b. War programs
14. Loyalty League and similar societies
a. Organization and personnel
b. Activities
III. Opposition to the War
1. Character of opposition
a. Pacifists and conscientious objectors
b. Pro-German sympathizers
c. Alien enemies
d. I. W. W.
e. Spies and German agents
2. Means taken to oppose the war
a. Speeches, sermons, newspaper articles,
foreign language press
b. Secret associations
c. False and malicious reports
d. Interference with draft
e. Attacks upon factories, etc.
f. Labor difficulties fomented

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IV. Means taken to circumvent opponents of war
1. Treatment of concientious objectors
2. Aliens interned
3. Registration of alien enemy men and women
4. Regulation of liquor tr-affic
5. Control of profiteering
6. Instances of community action against
suspects
7. Work of newspapers and war propaganda
agencies in overcoming pro-German senti
ment.
8. Treatment of foreign language press
9. Control of alien enemy property
V. Home Defense
1. County War Board
a. Establishment
b. Personnel
c. Duties
d. Methods
e. Activities
2. Women's committee, Council of National
Defense
3. Other local organizations
4. Work done
5. Work of State Constabulary
6. Work of Home Guards
VI. Camp and Army Welfare Work
1. The local Y. M. C. A.
a. History of organization
b. Personnel
0. Financing and funds raised
d. Y. M. C. A. war secretaries
e. Special service in camps or abroad
2. The Y. W. C. A.
(Same treatment as Y. M. C. A.)
3, K. of C.
(Same treatment as Y. M. C. A.)

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4. CathoUc Women's War Relief
5. The Y. M. H. A.
6. The Salvation Army
7. The Women's Relief Corps
8. The G. A. R.
9. The D. A. R.
10. Daughters of 1812
11. Women's Clubs
12. Boy Scouts
13. Camp Fire Girls
The National League for Women's Service
in Michigan
14. Library War Work
a. Book drives
(1) Campaign for books and funds
for Camp Custer
(2) American Library Association
drive, September, 1917
(3) Other book drives for army
camps
b. Local war work
(1) Collecting of war material
(2) War Museum
(3) Work for County War Board
and Council of Defense
(4) Special war work
c. Librarians in service
(1) Camp librarians
(2) Hospital librarians
(3) Other branches of service
VII. The Red Cross
1. History of local organization
a. Formation of local chapter
b. Plan for first drive, June, 1917
c. Allotment to each city and township
d. Names of canvassers
e. Important meetings held

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f. County's quota
g. Total amount subscribed
2. Christmas membership campaign, 1917
a. Plan of campaign
b. Total membership
(1) County
(2) Township
3. Second Red Cross drive, May, 1918
a. Organization
b. County's quota
(Treat as above)
4. Christmas membership campaign, 1918
(Treat as above)
5. Work of local Red Cross chapter
a. Knitting
b. Surgical dressings
c. Comfort kits
d. Auction sales
e. Canteen service
f. Nursing
6., Work of Junior Red Cross
(Treat as above)
7. Special War Relief Work
a. Belgian
b. Serbian
c. French
d. Armenian
e. Adoption of war orphans
f. Reconstruction agencies
g. Education and employment of rehab
ilitated soldiers and sailors
VIII. Industry and social welfare
1. Women workers
2. Child-labor and child welfare
3. Settlement work and results
4. Housing problems, how solved

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5. Work of philanthropic organizations
6. Work of individual philanthropists
IX. Agricultural War Work
1. Mobilizing agricultural resources
a. Campaign for increase of crop yield
b. Farmers' response
c. County organization
d. Selection of seed
e. Building silos
f . Acreage and production
g. Government contracts
2. Encouragement of agriculture
a. Exemption to farm laborers
b. Transfer of city labor to farms
c. Help through employment bureaus
d. Introduction of labor-saving
machinery
e. Improved methods of farming
f. Twilight harvesting clubs
g. Rural credits system
h. County fairs
i. Farmers' clubs
(1) The Grange
(2) The Federation of Farmers'
Clubs
(3) The Gleaners
3. Women in Agriculture
a. County demonstrator
b. Farm manager
c. Farm laborer
d. Buttermaking clubs
e. Poultry raising clubs
f. Other clubs
g. Cookery (1) Work of instructors
(2) War foods
(3) War recipes

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4. War Gardens
a. Campaign for war gardens
b. Personnel of committees
c. Allotment to school districts
d. Number and size of gardens planted
e. Prizes offered
f . Cooperation of schools
g. Statistics of production
5. Boys' and Girls' clubs
a. County organization
b. Township and local organization
c. Personnel of committees
d. Plans for enrolling boys and girls
e. Attitude of parents
f. Boys who earned service buttons
g. Number enrolled, in county, town
ship, school district
X. Food Administration
1. County organization
a. County food administrator
b. Township and local committees
c. Duties and instructions
d. Attitude of people
e. Campaign for food conservation
f. Lectures and demonstrations
g. Canning clubs
h. Baking demonstrations
i. War menus
j. Voluntary saving
k. Threshing committees
1. Visits and reports
2. Compulsory regulations
a. Copies of orders regulating sales
(1) Sugar
(2) Flour
(3) Meats

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XI.

b.

Price lists on all food products

c.

Licenses issued to retailers and

distributors

d.

Licenses revoked

e.

Hoarding of supplies

f.

Violations reported.

g-

Penalties assessed

h.

Estimq,ted savings in county

(1) Sugar

(2) Flour

(3) Meats
Fuel Administration
1. County organization
a.
County fuel administrator
b.
Township and local committees
c.
Survey of fuel supplies
(1) Coal
(2) Wood
d.
Cord-of-wood campaign
e.
Public wood choppings
f.
Heatless days
g-
Lightless nights
2. Compulsory regulations
a.
Copies of orders regulating sale and
distribution of coal
b.
Fixing of prices
c.
Closing orders
d.
Violations reported
e.
Penalties assessed
f.
Effect of coal shortage on industries
g-
Estimated saving of coal
XII. Mining 1. Copper
2. Iron
3. Other metals
4. Coal
5. Miscellaneous
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XIII. Manufacturing 1. Development of manufactures during the
wara. Output of peace-time products
b. War industries
c. Contracts with the Government
2. Labor supply
a. Hours of labor
' b. Wages
c. Organized labor
d. Labor disputes
e. Old men, women and children
f. Industrial exemptions
g. Work or fight order
3. New inventions and industries
4. Enemy activities against
5. Federal control
XIV. Commerce and trade
1. Effect of war
2. New methods of trade
3. Important war work of Chambers of Com
merce, Boards of Trade, etc.
4. Improvement of port facilities
5. Local war prices
a. Price lists
b. Market quotations
c. War advertisements
d. Bank statements
e. Financial statements
(1) Stores
(2) MiUs
(3) Factories
f . Price lists of wearing apparel
XV. Shipping and Merchant Marine
1. Shipbuilding before the war
2. Development during the war
3. Descriptions of shipyards

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4. Amount of tonnage built
5. Labor and wages questions
6. Relation to the draft
XVI. Transportation and Communication
1. Pre-war conditions
2. New war demands
3. Priorities in shipments
4. Local embargoes
5. Increases in rates
6. Special treatment of
a. Steamship lines
b. Railroads (1) Large systems
(2) Short lines
(3) Federal control
(4) Shortage of rolling stock and
fuel
c. Street and electric railways
d. Canals
e. Improvement of roads
f. Development of motor-truck
transportation
g. Telegraphs: Federal control
h. Telephones: Federal control
i. Express companies: Federal control
j. Postal system
7. Labor and wages questions
XVII. Financing the war
1. The Liberty Loans
a. First Loan drive
(1) County organization
(2) Committee in charge
(3) Township committees
(4) Quota assigned
(a) County
(b) Cities
(c) Townships

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(5) Plan of campaign
(6) Special features adopted
- (7) Interesting incidents
(8) Time required to meet quota
(9) Total amount subscribed
(10) List of all bond buyers
b. Second Loan drive
(Same as above)
c. Third Loan drive
(Same as above)
d. Fourth Loan drive
(Same as above)
e. Fifth Loan drive
(Same as above)
2. National taxation
a. Persons taxed on incomes
b. Taxes collected
(1) In county
(2) In townships
(3) In cities
3. War Savings Stamps
a. Personnel of committees
b. County's quota
c. Terms of sale
d. Special drives in county
e. Assistance (1) Schools
(2) Churches
(3) Clubs
(4) Labor unions
(5) Stores
f. Total sales in county
4. War chest and other local expedients
5. State taxes
6. County and municipal taxes

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7. Banks and trust companies
a. Control in war times
b. Part in loan issues
c. Extension of credit to agriculture and
industry
XVIII. Local government
1. County government
a. How affected by the war
b. Specific war work
2. Town governments
(See topics under county government)
3. City government
(See topics under county government)
4. Village governments
(See topics under county government)
XIX. Sanitation and Public Health
1. General health conditions in county during
the war
2, Conditions during the epidemic of influenza
XX. Education 1. Effort to keep schools open
2. Appropriations and gifts
3. Changes in curriculum
4. Americanization work
5. Special educational courses for national
service
6. War work of schools and colleges in the
county
XXI. War Activities of Churches
1. Work of individual congregations
2. War spirit as shown in sermons, etc.
3. "Conscientious objectors"
4. Army and Navy chaplains furnished from
county
XXII. Literature and the Press
1. Literary Club
2. War poetry, histories and stories

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WAR RECORDS OP MICHIGAN.

3. "Letters from the boys"
4. Effect of the war on county newspapers and
periodicals
a. Editorial
b. Advertising
c. Circulation
5. War work of newspapers and periodicals
XXIII. Science and the Arts
1. Inventions made in county
2. Local painters, designers, sculptors and
architects
XXIV. After-the-war problems and readjustments
1. Farm labor, products and prices
2. The industries
3. Commerce and trade
4. Banking and finance
5. Shipping and merchant marine
6. Transportation and communication
7. Release of Federal control
8. Care of returned soldiers and sailors
9. Relief work on a peace basis

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