What Every American Should Know About The War

Author : Montaville Flowers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330699560
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book What Every American Should Know About the War written by Montaville Flowers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Every American Should Know About the War: A Series of Studies by the Greatest Authorities of Europe and America Covering Every Aspect of the Great Struggle, Delivered at the National Conference of American Lectures, Washington, D. C., April 8-13, 1918 The purpose of the National Conference of American lecturers, as stated in full in the opening address, is to organize the American platform into power to win the war. The idea was conceived and the method and program were proposed by the writer as president of the International Lyceum Association of America, which took the initiative, assumed the financial responsibility, issued the call, and conducted the Conference as the representative of the largest number of public speakers and organized audiences of any non-partisan, non-sectarian platform in the nation. Delegates were invited to represent the Lyceums and Chautauquas of the United States and Canada, Departments of the National Government, the American Red Cross, the Council of National Defense, the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, State Councils of Defense, State Boards of Education, Chambers of Commerce, the Societies in the Speaking Division of the Committee on Public Information, and in the National Committee of Patriotic Societies. The call was issued on February 20, 1918, for a Conference to be held in the nation's Capital, April 8 to 13, 1918. One hundred ninety-two delegates responded and registered, representing eighty-nine different associations from thirty-two American States, two Provinces of Canada, and Newfoundland. Credentials were issued to all delegates alike and invitations were sent to the Members of the Congress of the United States, to the Diplomatic Corps, and to the Administrative Departments of the government. The program, arranged by the chairman of the Conference, was designed to cover the essential subjects and interests of the war; it continued through six days; for five days, a general Conference of three sessions per day; the sixth day was devoted to three special Conferences, one on Food, conducted by Herbert Hoover, in the Food Administration; one on the work of the Red Cross by Orrin C. Lester, at the Red Cross Memorial; and one on Child Life, by Julia C. Lathrop, head of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.