Show HIGH TRIBUTE PAID TO GORDON SNOW General Crowder Describes Draft Story as a Classic High tribute to the work worl of ot Captain Gordon Snow draft executive for Utah as a draft official anc an and to his Reflections of a Draft Official published published pub pub- last summer in the Atlantic Monthly is paid by Provost Provo t Marshal Marsha General Enoch H. H Crowder in his second second sec eec ond onti annual report to Newton D. D Baker Eaker secretary of war on the operations of tho the selective service system General Crowder characterizes Captain tam Snows Snow's article on the draft as a 80 depiction with tho the genial and classic art of Charles Lamb of the intimate drama of ot life as presented present d in the office of ot tho the boards The members of local ocal bO boards lr had need of au all the m manhood and courage that was in them to play the game square squarely General Genera Crowder writes for forthe forthe the moral mora and mental burden was one oneto oneto oneto to tax their endurance The physical j labors were wele enormous and antI exhausting I but the added strain of maintaining j I their mora moral hold on the community I I while deciding these heavy matters of I life and death was one which none but butI I I those who passed through can I I elate date They were vere chastened in spirit land and calloused in body but buoyant In Inthe inI inthe the knowledge that they were serving to win the war I Those who could take this largest view of their task were broadened d and ml enlivened by the new views of human I nature enrolled before them and es especially especially es- es In the revelation of solid charI character character char char- I acter and unpretentious patriotism among the plain people of our land One of the local board members now the draft executive for his lila state has already faithfully depicted with the genial and classic art of a Charles Lamb the intimate drama of life as It was presented in the office of the local board I refer to of a Draft Official by Gordon Snow Doston Doston Dos Dos- ton Houghton Mifflin Co 1018 The reports of the boards are full of acknowledgment of the Inspiration gained from their experiences and taken all in all their revelations re renew renew renew re- re new our faith in human nature and andA A American character |