The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-29
President of United Drug Company Tells of Serv- ice They Did for Mer-
 chant Marinie
GET THANKS FOR WORK
Director Recruiting Serv- ice Praises Work of Lig- gett and Assistants
 Who Resign.

of a letter from Louis K Liggett. President of the United Drug Com pany in which all Rexall stores are interested, who recently resigned as special enrolling agent for the United States Merchant Marine recruiting service, in which he says the Rexail stores in the country furnished the Government 33,500 men for the mer chant marine, and they did it with out a single dollars expense to the Government. Mir. Liggett estimates that this service, had it been paid for, would have cost the Government $20 per man secured, and deducts that the service rendered the Gov ernment by the Rexall stors was worth in dollars and cents s670,000
 Mr Liggett enclosed a copy of letter with his letter to Senator Britt from Henry Howard, Director f the recruiting service, in which he letter gave great praise to the United Drug Company, the Rexall stores, and MT Liggett for the ser vices they had rendered the coun- try.
 Great Work Was Well Done
 MT Howard told MT. Liggett that he accepted his resignation with sincere regret" adding:
 "The work which you and your organization undertook has been most satisfactorily carried out, and in looking back today, I can truth , fully say that if I had five years to prepare for this service, l do not believe it would have been possible to have developed an organization at any cost within reason that would have been able anywhere to cope with the possibilities of what the members of the United Drug Com pany have been in position to do
 The work that you have accom- plished for us to date while import ant was only the beginning and mere scratching of the ground in comparison with what you have ac complished if it had been necessary. know of no other existing organi zation that could have brought us in touch as you have with your men from the country districts and the small towns throughout the United States, and I wish through you tC extend to all of our special enrolling agents the thanks of the United States Shipping Board for the splen did work they have accomplished.
 "I also wish to extend my person al thanks because, as you know there was doubt in some quarters as to whether I had not made mis take in choosing your organization to take charge of the work. Per sonally, I never had moments doubt but you can readily appreciate my personal satisfaction that the re suits completely justified the repre- sentations I had made of what you could accomplish"
 Local Representatives
 Senator Britt was the Juneau rep resentative of Mir. Liggett and the United Drug Company, and Mayor E. F. Smith represented them at Douglas. In writing them, MT. Liz gett says:
 q do not possess the vocabulary to thank you properly for the won derful work you have accomplished.
 with great benefit to your coun- try and to the boys you have en- rolled, you can do another service Encourage and stimulate these boys to stick-make it your business to see that they make this their life work-show them the path to the bridge and the chief engineers sta tion.
 "In the next two years 1t is in tended to build and put in commis- sion thousands of ships. Every ship must have it's personnel of officers. These positions will be open to the boys, your boys, of the present mer- chant marine. In the years to come it will be a pleasing experience to have Captain so-andso call on you and fill you with tales of the sea and the wonderful things he and his ship have been doing, as well as what they have seen in foreign