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 Hand Book 
 
 on 
 
 Community 
 Organization 
 
 (Ajfcy' . >- Issued by 
 THE^^STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE 
 
 Sacramento, California 
 December 1, 1918 
 
 California State Printing Office 
 
 Sacramento 
 
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 FOREWORD. 
 
 This bulletin has to do principally with the 
 methods of organization and gives only a gen- 
 eral outline of the work that should be under- 
 taken by community councils. Without antici- 
 pating the program for readjustment that is 
 expected to come from a state conference soon 
 to be held under the auspices of the State 
 Council of Defense, the first phase of recon- 
 struction work as indicated herein is, we believe,^ 
 fully sufficient to justify every special effort 
 toward community organization. 
 
 The later usefulness and advantage of such 
 organization to each community itself also is 
 ample reason for this state-wide movement, 
 urged by the national government and now 
 undertaken in California. 
 
 '^. Of D. 
 
 JAN 10 1919 
 
WHY COMMUNITY COUNCILS. 
 
 The men and women who are keeping in close 
 touch with the undercurrent of social and eco- 
 nomic changes in these kaleidoscopic times are 
 nearly all convinced that democratic community 
 organizations are necessary, especially those or- 
 ganized on a uniform basis throughout the land. 
 
 On this subject President Wilson has addressed 
 a circular letter to all state councils of defense 
 as follows: 
 
 ''Your state, in extending its national de- 
 fense organization by the creation of commu- 
 nity councils, is in my opinion making an 
 advance of vital significance. It "will, I 
 believe, result when thoroughly carried out 
 in welding the nation together as no nation 
 of great size has ever been welded before. 
 It will build up from the bottom an under- 
 standing and sympathy and unity of purpose 
 and effort which will no doubt have an im- 
 mediate and decisive effect upon our great 
 undertaking. You wdll find it, I think, not 
 so much a new task as a unification of exist- 
 ing efforts, a fusion of energies now too much 
 scattered and at times somew^hat confused 
 into one harmonious and effective power. 
 
 ''It is only by exteaiding your organization 
 to small communities that every citizen of the 
 state can be reached aiid touched with the 
 inspiration of the common cause. The school- 
 house has been suggested as an apt though 
 
not essential center for your local council. 
 It symbolizes one of the first fruits of such 
 an organization, namely, the spreading of the 
 realization of the great truth that it is each 
 one of us as an individual citizen upon whom 
 rests the ultimate responsibility. Through 
 this great new organization we will express 
 with added emphasis our will to win and our 
 confidence in the utter righteousness of our 
 purpose." 
 
 It is obvious that when the President wrote 
 this letter he had in mind not only community 
 organization to aid in helping win the war but 
 also for the greater and broader purpose of 
 ''welding the nation together." 
 
 That alone is reason enough for all the effort 
 and energy that all of us in California may put 
 into the present campaign for community organ- 
 ization. 
 
 It is necessary also that every community 
 organize in order to be better prepared to receive 
 our soldier boys when they return from the 
 camps and the trenches. 
 
 It is necessary, too, that every community 
 organize to perform its share of human kindli- 
 ness to the millions of stricken people in the 
 war-shocked districts of Europe and Asia. 
 
 Every community should likewise organize in 
 order to help solve the social and economic prob- 
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
lems that come with the reconstruction and read- 
 justment period following the war. 
 
 They should organize in order to bring to each 
 of themselves and their posterity the greater 
 blessings of liberty that are promised to all man- 
 kind out of the war's seething cauldron. 
 
 And so, also, there should be in every section of 
 California an increased community spirit and 
 pride, a more fervid community zeal and enthu- 
 siasm, a greater quickening of community con- 
 science, and a keener spirit of community devo- 
 tion and neighborly brotherhood. 
 
 Now that we know what can be accomplished 
 by organized destruction we can look forward 
 with confidence to those wonderful and glorious 
 things that can be accomplished by organized 
 construction. 
 
 Uniform Plan Necessary for 
 Greatest General Efficiency. 
 
 The State Council of Defense has had a care- 
 ful and painstaking survey made of community 
 organizations in this and other states, and, from 
 this survey, it has evolved a broad plan of com- 
 munity organization which it believes, when fully 
 understood, will meet the approval of nearly 
 every man and woman interested in this vital 
 work. 
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
The chief function of the State Council of 
 Defense toward the community organization will 
 be that of service. After its organization the 
 destiny of every community council, for better 
 or for worse, will be left almost entirely to the 
 people in its community district. 
 
 It is not the policy or intention of the State 
 Council of Defense to govern the community 
 councils. Each community council will be sov- 
 ereign in itself. The State Council of Defense 
 will, of course, promote them, establish them on 
 a uniform basis, give them official standing, ren- 
 der technical and wholesale services to them, and 
 mediate between them on the one hand and the 
 state and national governments on the other. 
 
 The state council will also supply the commu- 
 nity councils with all sorts of information. It 
 will keep them in touch with all important state, 
 national and international matters. It will assist 
 other state departments in getting into closer 
 touch with the communities and to be of more 
 direct aid to them. 
 
 Above all, the State Council of Defense desires 
 to establish the community councils upon such a 
 solid and permanent basis that they, and all of 
 them, will be in active existence long after the 
 State Council of Defense and the Council of 
 National Defense may have become mere matters 
 of history and generally forgotten. 
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
Community Councils Defined. 
 
 The appellation ''community council" has, 
 during the war, been generally applied to local 
 war organizations. But it is no longer coniined 
 to so narrow a meaning in California. Here it is 
 applied to the very broadest form of community 
 organization. 
 
 In the country districts it will combine all the 
 advantages of farm centers and the like with the 
 advantages of civic centers, as well as all addi- 
 tional matters that may be of local interest or 
 that may tend to local advancement and better- 
 ment. In cities and towns the community 
 council will combine the community center idea 
 together with the plan of community councils 
 outlined by the Council of National Defense as 
 well as all other matters of community improve- 
 ment and betterment. 
 
 In a word, a community council is an organi- 
 zation prepared and ready to perform special 
 and particular service for its community, and 
 possessing, at the present time at least, peculiar 
 facilities and opportunities, through the county 
 divisions, the State Council of Defense and the 
 (Council of National Defense, to put the busy 
 clerk, business, professional and laboring man 
 and woman in the city and the busy farmer and 
 laboring man and woman in the country into 
 closer personal touch with all the good things, 
 with all the vital things, with all the pulsating 
 
 (7) 
 
possibilities and opening opportunities that may- 
 be of local or personal interest. It will also pro- 
 vide an everyday outlet for community expres- 
 sion and community initiative. 
 
 * ' Community Day. ' ' 
 
 Upon request of Chas. C. Moore, Director of 
 the State Council of Defense, Governor Wm. D. 
 Stephens has appointed Friday, December 27, 
 1918, as ''Community Day." There are approx- 
 imately five thousand communities in California, 
 and it is expected that a community mass meet- 
 ing will be held in every one of them on ''Com- 
 munity Day." Every member of every commu- 
 nity should lend his or her best effort to make 
 that mass meeting a success. Literary and 
 patriotic exercises can be held along the line 
 indicated later in this pamphlet. 
 
 Plan af Organization. 
 
 In every county, upon recommendation of the 
 chairman of the County Division of the State 
 Council of Defense, there has been appointed 
 a county committee on community councils. 
 Usually this county committee consists of five 
 persons : two women and three men. The chair- 
 man of this county committee, by virtue of his 
 office, has been made a member of the county 
 division. Where there is a county Farm Ad- 
 viser, he also has been added to the committee. 
 
 (8) 
 
The principal duties of the county committee 
 on community councils are : 
 
 (a) To divide the county into community dis- 
 tricts, convenient for the residents of 
 each district and small enough so that the 
 child, the housewife and the plain man 
 can fully take part in the activities of 
 every local council. 
 
 (h) To appoint a local temporary chairman for 
 every community district. 
 
 ((;) Where advisable, to appoint county field 
 deputies to assist the local chairmen in 
 their general program. 
 
 (d) To see that every local chairman prepares 
 
 for the mass meeting in his or her com- 
 munity on '^ Community Day." 
 
 (e) If any local chairman fails to do his duty, 
 
 to remove him and appoint some other 
 active person in his place. 
 
 (/) To assist local chairmen in preparing for 
 the said mass meeting and to enlist the 
 aid and co-operation of every other state 
 and local organization. 
 
 (g) Where active farm centers and community 
 organizations already exist, the county 
 committee will endeavor to have these 
 
 (9 ) 
 
existing organizations co-operate with 
 and join in this state-wide plan because 
 of mutual aid and benefit. Many have 
 already voted to join. If the existing 
 organization is entirely out of line with 
 the principles upon which this state-wide 
 plan is based, then the county committee 
 will endeavor to have the members of 
 that organization reconstruct or revise 
 it so that it may take up this broader 
 work. 
 
 (//) To otherwise assist and aid in making every 
 community council in its county a per- 
 manent success. 
 
 The Local Temporary Chairman. 
 
 In every community-district a chairman is 
 appointed to look after all preliminary matters 
 of local organization, and prepare an adequate 
 and suitable program for the community mass 
 meeting on "Community Day." His office is 
 temporary and ends with the mass meeting. In 
 order that the community council shall be fully 
 and completely democratic, it is necessary that 
 it regularly elect its own permanent officers. 
 
 If the man or woman acting as local chairman 
 is a suitable and proper person for permanent 
 chairman, he or she will probably be so retained, 
 ])ut no temporary chairman should be continued 
 in office who has been inactive and sluggish in 
 
 (10) 
 
the preliminary work and who is not disinter- 
 estedly working for the good of the whole com- 
 munity. 
 
 Where farm centers or other community or- 
 ganizations already actively exist, it is not neces- 
 sary to hold an election of officers, for they iiave 
 doubtlessly already been elected by their respec- 
 tive organizations. This naturally is a matter 
 for each community to decide for itself, keeping 
 always in mind the best interests of its particu- 
 lar community. 
 
 Every man, woman and child in every commu- 
 nity, no matter his race, citizenship, or social 
 condition, is entitled to membership in the com- 
 munity council. Disloyalty should be the only 
 cause for rejection. Existing organizations 
 which do not provide for membership and active 
 participation of every such person in their re- 
 spective communities should be reorganized in 
 keeping with these broader principles. 
 
 In Cities and Towns. 
 
 As stated heretofore, the organization in 
 cities and towns will combine the idea of com- 
 munity centers with the plan for community 
 councils of the Council of National Defense, to- 
 gether with every other broad feature and factor 
 of community improvement and betterment. 
 
 The work of reconstruction will be especially 
 important in the cities. Immediately after or- 
 
 ( 11 ) 
 
ganization, the community councils in the cities, 
 as in the country districts, will probably be 
 requested to make an immediate survey of their 
 respective districts in order to gather full infor- 
 mation and data regarding men who have gone 
 into war service. 
 
 Naturally, community work in the cities will 
 be somewhat different from that in the country. 
 It will need to be more intensified along humani- 
 tarian lines. There will be perhaps greater 
 opportunities for social work, with a likelihood 
 of greater permanent results. At the same time, 
 it will require more energy, patience and perse- 
 verance on the part of local leaders. While most 
 of the suggestions contained in this bulletin may 
 be used in the city communities, yet it naturally 
 follows that all of them will not apply, just as 
 some of the suggestions herein contained will not 
 be practical in the small towns and country 
 districts. 
 
 Above all, we must endeavor to engender a 
 greater community spirit in the city districts. 
 From the standpoint of democratic ideas it is not 
 right that families should live for months, and 
 sometimes years, in the same block, and even in 
 the same house, without knowing each other. 
 The dangers of the war have brought men and 
 women closer to each other, and this feeling of 
 renewed comradeship should be cemented by our 
 community organization. Oftentimes it is only 
 
 ( 12 ) 
 
necessary that we become acquainted with 
 people in order to appreciate them more fully. 
 
 In Country Districts. 
 
 As stated before, our plan for the country 
 districts will combine the idea of the community 
 council, as outlined by the Council of National 
 Defense, with the general idea of the farm 
 bureau, already in existence in many country 
 districts in California, together with many other 
 features that will tend to broaden the scope of 
 community advancement and enterprise. The 
 people in the country are asked to form these 
 local organizations not only to meet the prob- 
 lems of reconstruction and social and economic 
 readjustment during the period following the 
 war, but also in order that they may unite for 
 mutual, social and commercial benefit. 
 
 Official Name. 
 
 It will be necessary for every community to 
 select a name for its organization, preferably the 
 name of the school district in which it meets, or 
 some other designation that will indicate its 
 location in the county. The official name of an 
 organization will be "Community Branch." 
 
 In other words, if a community in Imperial 
 County should s^^lect the name of "Lincoln," 
 after the name of its school district, then the 
 official name of that community council would 
 be "The Lincoln Community Branch of the 
 
 ( 13 ) 
 
Imperial Division of the State Council of De- 
 fense." This does not mean that community 
 councils will be especially directed by the State 
 Council of Defense. This official name is adopted 
 principally so the community council will have 
 official standing not only with the State Council 
 of Defense, but also with the Council of National 
 Defense. 
 
 Charter. 
 
 As soon as the community council organizes, 
 votes to assume such official title, and elects 
 permanent officers, a charter will be issued to it 
 from the State Council of Defense. This charter 
 will signify the official standing of the commu- 
 nity council and may be revoked by the State 
 Council of Defense if the local organization 
 should become inactive. 
 
 Existing community organizations will like- 
 wise be given a charter upon their voting for- 
 mally to join in this state- wide plan. 
 
 To Local Temporary Chairmen: 
 
 As soon as you have replied to the circular 
 letter from the State Council of Defense, accept- 
 ing the office of local temporary chairman, a 
 Commission of Service from the State Council of 
 Defense will be issued to you. This commission 
 will be printed in such manner as to be suitable 
 for framing and then to be hung in your home 
 or office. 
 
 ( 14 ) 
 
Your cliief duty is to prepare for the mass 
 meeting on "Community Day." The matter is 
 so important that it is worthy of your every 
 effort and most careful thought and considera- 
 tion. We suggest that, immediately upon your 
 acceptance, you appoint a committee on arrange- 
 ments of three or more persons whose duty will 
 be to assist you in your general plan for the mass 
 meeting and for the permanent organization of 
 your community council. A program committee 
 should also be appointed to prepare a program 
 for ''Community Day." It will be necessary 
 for your committee on arrangements to provide 
 a meeting place, preferably at a convenient 
 school house and to do all other things necessary 
 to make the mass meeting and local organization 
 a continued success. You can, of course, appoint 
 such other committees as you deem advisable. 
 Naturally, you are responsible for the success or 
 failure of the enterprise in your community. 
 
 But do not expect too much at the start. It is 
 better that your organization start slowly like 
 a locomotive and increase the momentum rather 
 than to proceed in an invei^e manner. 
 
 The Mass Meeting. 
 
 We think it best that the general program in 
 each community on "Community Day" depend 
 mainly upon the character and quality of the 
 talent in that locality. It should be left largely 
 to the committee on arrangements and the com- 
 
 * (15) 
 
mittee on program to decide just what literary 
 and patriotic exercises should be held. The local 
 chairmen and these committees will know best 
 what appeals to the people of their particular 
 community. 
 
 We would suggest, however, that a Four- 
 minute Man, or other speaker for the evening, 
 be procured. Also a song leader for community 
 singing, and that some minister or priest, or 
 other proper person, be asked to utter a prayer 
 during the evening for the men who have fallen 
 in this great fight for democracy. In addition, 
 an American flag should be unfurled. 
 
 Let us urge upon every local chairman and 
 committee to be careful not to make the evening 
 exercises too long. A long, drawn-out meeting 
 is one of the surest ways to cause a loss of 
 interest in the organization. Let it be short and 
 ''snapp3^," beginning promptly and not extend- 
 ing over an hour and a half. An hour would be 
 even better. 
 
 The only urgent thing that the State Council 
 of Defense asks of you is that a permanent 
 organization be effected in your community on 
 "Community Day." Elect your president, vice 
 president, secretary and other officei's and decide 
 upon an official name. 
 
 But do not attempt to complete your full, 
 official and detailed organization at this first 
 meeting. 
 
 ( 16 ) 
 
SUGGESTIONS FOR PERMANENT 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 As stated above, the president, vice president 
 and secretary should be elected at the mass 
 meeting on '' Community Day." As soon as 
 possible thereafter, if the local council deems it 
 advisable, a constitution and by-laws should be 
 adopted, the details of which the State Council 
 of Defense prefers to leave entirely to each indi- 
 vidual community. Upon request, however, the 
 state council will furnish suggestive outlines 
 for constitution and by-laws and give such other 
 information and assistance as is requested. 
 
 As soon as the state council is notified that the 
 community council has been so organized, and 
 has also been furnished with the names of the 
 above mentioned permanently elected officers, a 
 charter will be issued and official Commissions 
 of Service will be sent to the elected officers. 
 
 Where the farm bureau or existing community 
 organization has already selected its officers and 
 has voted to come in under our state-wide plan, 
 it is only necessary to notify the State Council 
 of Defense that a formal vote on a resolution 
 or motion to that effect has been duly passed. 
 The names of existing officers should also be 
 sent, whereupon a charter will be issued to the 
 local organization and Commissions of Service 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
sent to the officers. In this manner, these 
 already existing organizations will receive offi- 
 cial standing and become linked with the whole 
 national system. 
 
 As soon as the permanent chairman receives 
 his commission, he will be expected to appoint 
 a Community War Board consisting of local or 
 communit}^ heads of all war activities; such as, 
 Red Cross, Food Administration, Women's Com- 
 mittee, Four-minute Men, Liberty Loan, Stanis- 
 laus Plan, War History, Nonwar Construction 
 Board, War Savings, Library Bureau and the 
 like. The chairman of the community council 
 will be chairman of the Community War Board 
 and all the work of the community pertaining 
 to the war will be under the supervision of this 
 board. It will correspond in the community to 
 the County Division in the county and the War 
 Advisory Cabinet of the State Council of 
 Defense. 
 
 We also recommend that each community 
 council appoint a board of directors as soon as 
 possible, consisting of from three to ten persons, 
 not less than one-third of the number to be 
 women. This board should also include at least 
 one representative from the school board of 
 trustees. 
 
 ( 18 ) 
 
After a consultation with the chairman of 
 your County Division and the county represent- 
 atives of the War History Committee and the 
 Nonwar Construction Committee, the chairman 
 of the community council should appoint a local 
 committee who will at once begin a community 
 survey : 
 
 First, under the supervision of the War His- 
 tory department to gather vital statistics re- 
 garding every man who has gone into war 
 service from that community. 
 
 Secondly, under the supervision of the Nonwar 
 Construction Committee, the name of which com- 
 mittee may be later changed, to gather informa- 
 tion regarding the employment and the oppor- 
 tunity for employment for every man in service 
 who will return to that community. 
 
 This will be one of the most important early 
 functions of the community council and should 
 be carried out promptly and effectively. 
 
 In country districts, especially where commu- 
 nity councils are newly organized, a committee 
 should be appointed to confer with the Uni- 
 versity of California: 
 
 (a) First, through the County Farm Adviser, 
 for the purpose of bringing to that com- 
 munity the splendid advantages of the 
 Farm Bureau System. 
 ( 19 ) 
 
(&) Secondly, with the University Extension 
 Division, for the purpose of bringing to 
 the community the excellent opportuni- 
 ties for education and knowledge avail- 
 able through that department in the 
 form of lectures and correspondence 
 courses. 
 
 Americanization on broad lines should also 
 receive attentive consideration, and the local 
 chairman should, at his earliest convenience, 
 cither personally or through a special committee, 
 confer with the county representatives of the 
 State Commission on Immigration for the pur- 
 pose of actively assisting in this important work. 
 
 During this coming winter and spring, special 
 stress should be given in every community to 
 the production and conservation of food. The 
 demand in Europe next spring and summer for 
 every kind of food will probably be greater than 
 ever before. While it will be undoubtedly profit- 
 able to America, it is at the same time our duty, 
 profitable or not profitable, to help feed those 
 millions of starving people. 
 
 Let us especially admonish every community 
 council to refrain from the discussion of politi- 
 cal and religious subjects, particularly such as 
 single tax, prohibition and similar topics of dis- 
 
 ( 20 ) 
 
cussion which do not tend to increase the spirit of 
 comradship and brotherly feeling among men and 
 women. Every person is entitled to his convic- 
 tion, but the community council is not the place 
 for him to try to thrust that conviction upon 
 his neighbors. 
 
 Furthermore, every community council should 
 encourage thrift, economy and enterprise. At- 
 tention should be given to bringing special 
 advantages to the children in the neighborhood, 
 such as elementary lessons in draAving, painting, 
 dancing, music and the like. The safeguarding 
 of local health conditions, the relief of families 
 of men in national service, fire protection, labor 
 and industry, the development of local resources, 
 development of better marketing conditions for 
 the people in the community, the co-operative 
 purchasing in country districts of well-bred 
 stock, fertilizers, etc., the general improvement 
 of social and economic conditions, and numerous 
 other things should be given careful considera- 
 tion. 
 
 The State Council of Defense, together with 
 its county divisions, will always stand ready to 
 give every possible service upon request from 
 the community councils. Heretofore the State 
 Council of Defense has been concerned with the 
 problems of war and with the efforts, sacrifices 
 and trials which inevitably accompany them. 
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
Now we look forward to a hopeful future, and 
 while the local organizations have been import- 
 ant in the past, they will continue to be even 
 more so in the future. We are convinced that 
 for lasting and permanent benefits community 
 councils furnish the best means for community 
 expression and community initiative. They can 
 always be real safeguards against the danger to 
 democracy. 
 
 And so, as the future holds alluring prospects 
 for California, we are now organizing to make the 
 most of these opportunities. 
 
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STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE 
 
 GOVERNOR WILLIAM D. STEPHENS .Chairman 
 
 CHARLES C. MOORE. _ -. Director 
 
 HON. FRANK P. FLINT Associate Director 
 
 WILLIAM V. COWAN, Secretaiy and Commissioner. Community Organization 
 
 ADVISORY WAR CABINET 
 
 Charles C. Moore, Chairman Director State Council of Defense 
 
 Hon. Frank P. Flint Associate Director State Council of Defense 
 
 Wm. Sproule Member of the Executive TJuU 
 
 Mortimer Fleishhacker Member of the Executive Unit 
 
 P. H. McCarthy Member of the Executive Unit 
 
 Ralph Merritt Food Administrator 
 
 Albert Schwabacher Fuel Administrator 
 
 James K. Lynch Chairman Liberty Loan War Committee 
 
 Wm. V. Cowan State Director Four Minute Men 
 
 W. T. Boyce Director Employment U. S. Dept. of Labor 
 
 Arthur P. Will Director U. S. Public Service Reserve 
 
 R. F. Hammatt U. S. Forest Reserve 
 
 Prof. B. F. Crocheron Federal State Director U. S. Boys Working Reserve 
 
 Dean T. F. Hunt '. Representing U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
 
 Warren OIney, Jr California Military Welfare Commission 
 
 B. F. Schleslnger War Savings Stamps 
 
 R. R. Perkins Y. M. C. A. 
 
 S, J. Lubin Chaimian Americanization Movement 
 
 A. B. C. Dohrmann Acting District Manager American Red Cross 
 
 H. G. Butler U. S. Power Administrator 
 
 Mrs. Herbert Cable... State Chairman Women's Committee 
 
 Gen. J. J. Borree Member of the State Council of Defense 
 
 M. J. Ferguson State Librarian 
 
 Albert E. Carter War Camp Community Service 
 
 Dr. John F. Slavich Representing Knights of Columbus 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 Chas. C. Moore Edward A. Dickson 
 
 Senator Frank P. Flint Dr. Benjamin ide Wheeler 
 
 William Sproule J. S. Chambers 
 
 Mortimer Fleishhacker Ralph P. Merritt 
 
 P. H. McCarthy Marshall DeMotte 
 
 Mrs. Herbert Cable General U. S. Webb 
 
 Alden Anderson Chester H. Rowell 
 
 Austin B. Fletcher Gen. J. J. Borree 
 
 THE MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF 
 DEFENSE OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 Chas. C. Moore Hon. J. 0. Davis Miss Ethel Moore 
 
 John S. Chambers Marshall DeMotte John A. O'Connell 
 
 Hon. Alden Anderson Edward A. Dickson Chester H. Rowell 
 
 John A. Britton Dr. George E. Ebright Wm. Sproule 
 
 Chas. H. Bentley Mortimer Fleishhacker Or. James A. B. Scherer 
 
 Seth Brown Austin B. Fletcher Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst 
 
 John J. Byrne Hon. Frank P. Flint Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler 
 
 Gen. J. J. Borree Dr. John R. Haynes General U. 8. Webb 
 
 Ralph W. Bull Hon, P. H. McCarthy Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Cable B. B. Meek Edward Doheny 
 
 G. A. Davidson Ralph Merritt 
 
 The chairmen of the various County Divisions and the chairmen 
 of community councils are the local ofladal representatives of the 
 State Council of Defense and of the Council of National Defense. 
 
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