Council of National Defense asks the public to discontinue sending food to the camps. The waste referred to can be chocked only by getting each solider family and friends to realize that they individually are the persons asked to stop.
A letter to Mr. Metcalf suggesting that people stop sending food to their soldiers overseas due to the fact that the food gets old and bad in the mail and then it is just wasting the food and food production is already at an all time low.
A request from George Porter, Council of National Defense Washington, Chief of Section, to the several State Councils of Defense, to send 1000 posters to be used at the council
A Mr. Keasling "is making threats a gainst the government by threatening to resist the draft of his sons, threatening bodily injury in case his sons are called."
In this letter to Metcalf, he becomes aware of a situation occurring in the town of Lineville, Iowa. He is supposed to take care of the situation at his own discretion, but promptly. In the bottom of the page, there are some hand written notes as…