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Show oo Sec. Baker Pushing Recruiting Campaign WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Secretary Baker has addressed a letter to the governor of each state requesting his official co-operation in the nationwide recruiting drive to be inaugurated by the war department and to be Intensified Intensi-fied during the week of February 22 to 29, which Is to be made national enlistment en-listment week. The governors were asked to Issue proclamations calling the attention of their citizens to the I importance of tho advantages offered In the now "citizen army" and otherwise other-wise to assist in the effort to bring the army up to tho full authorized strongth. The national campaign,- It was said, has been organized on a scale even more ambitious thnn the war time liberty lib-erty loan drive. Not only tho loan organization or-ganization of the treasury, the postmasters post-masters and patriotic civilian societies will be used but aleo the clergy. |