The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1917-09-15
PLENTY OF WORK FOR
FRIENDS OF BOYS At FRONT
Chairman of state Council of Defense
Issues Statement that should be
Read and Needed by All
Loyal Citizens

Loyal Citizens
y most important and interestinE
statement, addressed to the county
councils of defense, is being issued by
Charles Springer, chairman of the ex.
ecuttve committee Of the Council OF
/ Defense. The statement follows:
At meeting of the Santa Fe couu-
ty council of defense held recently the
council passed resolution providing
for inviting all the mothers, wives and
sisters of the soldiers from Santa Fe
county to form an auxiliary organiza-
ton for the purpose of keeping in
touch with the men from the county
who have gone into the army or navy.
and supplying them with whatever
may be necessary for their comfort. I
suggest that similar action be taken
by your county council
Keep Track OF Boys
In order that the cooperation be
tween your council and the auxiliary
council may be effective, suggest
that you arrange to keep record Of
the names Of the men from your couu-
~ who have enlisted in the army and
navy, the national guard, and those
who go into the new national army
under the selective draft law, noting
on the record the regiment or organ
ization to which each may be assigned
from time to time, and the address to
which mail and packages for each
should DE forwarded The record
should also give fun information re-
g3rdiuE each. man. as to his position
I'M the army promotion, and of the
military or naval operations, battles
or marches in which he may be en-
gagged, and complete information which
VIII afford the necessary facts for a
% history Of the men during the war.
Relatives and friends of the men
may while not ueglecting Red Cross
work, nevertheless devote sufficient
time to making useful articles to be
forwarded to the men from their own
county Proper committees may as
sit some of the relatives along these
lines and where necessary i'm writing
letters to the men at the front, and in /
keeping relatives Informed as to the .
whereabouts aud needs of the men,
Proper committees should bc ap- /
pointed from the county council OF de- .
fcnse and the auxiliary organization /
10 see that the families or dependents .
Of the soldiers are properly cared for |
and given necessary assistance during /
the absence Of the soldiers. and TO look .
after insurance. and pension claims
sInuEhters Not Probable
1 suggest also IN this connection that .
The members Of your council should .
andcavor by every means to correct
the false Impression which has been
circulated among the
people Of German agents that the mM /
who are drafted into the new army
Eil bc Immediately sent into the
trenches in France, and exposed To the
worst possible horrors and practically
certain death. The fact are that the
men engaged in this war are not ex-
posed to anything like the hurdships
,r dangers, and the casualties are not
so great as in the American Civil War.
rhe men Will, after being given the
Necessary time to arrange their Inn
Mediate affairs, be sent to comfort
,ble training camps in the United
states where they will be well fed
md the physical training and proper
.tteution by the most competent med
cal officers will soon put them all
ntO prime condition The camp life
= interesting, the arrangements for
and for athletic sports,
,ames and contests are, ample, and
he experience in the training camp
viii give them "A valuable education
uch as few Of them would have the
to acquire otherwise. II
I should be their good fortune to be
ent to the front in Europe, that will
lso be valuable and wonderful ex- 5
erience, and with the improved means ,
or caring for and protecting the men
n trench warfare, the percentage OF
eaths has been rapidly reduced until
oW II is less than half what it was
n the first years of the war !
Casualties Ran Low
Attention is called to the article in
.eslie's Weekly for August 80. 1917. =
therein II is stated Mr.. Roger Babson,
he statistican. said recently after an
Exhaustive investigation:
Fourteen out OF every fifteen have
een safe so far Under present con-
ltions not more than one in thirty Is
.illed. Only one man in 500 loses a
lmb. chance no greater than in
hazardous conditions at home" The
exaggerated accounts Of deaths in the
french, English and Canadian armies
re mostly German propaganda. OF
very 900 in the United States army