Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 1 [PAGE 13]

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HI. University War Service Records—As I stated in my report of January 7, the War Committee allotted the sum of *MK) for the continuance of this work which was begun last y ir. I assume that the admirable service which has been given by Dean Clark will be continued and pushed to a conclusion. Dean Clark has made the following statement regarding bis work, under date of April 23: "At your request I am submitting a brief report of the work which I have done as the committee on war records. Early in the history of the war I began to collect all the information I could relative to men who had gone into the service. Later I was appointed by the Council of Administration to do this work. I have sent out a half-dozen or more questionnaires to parents, former students, and men in the service, have started a record for each man, and have kept clippings, photographs, and souvenirs of individual men, and these I have filed alphabetically. I sent out a Christmas letter in 1917 and one in 1918 to all men in the service. I have also sent out postal cards of University scenes to everybody and one or two circular letters. By this means I have been able to gather a good deal of information regarding the men. This work has cost for the past two years or more probably $125 a month. If I am to keep it up, it will continue to cost at least $100 a month. I am of the opinion that it would be far better if the University could engage a man who would give his time to this work and follow up and complete the records of the men whom I have not been able fully to trace." Dean Clark has kindly undertaken to prepare a summary of University men in the military and naval services, to accompany this report. IV. Committee on Publications—This Committee has consisted during the present year of Professor L. M. Larson, Chairman, Professors Bernbaum, Garner, Litman, Olmstead, and Zeitlin. The principal work of the Committee has been the preparation and publication of short leaflets, copies of which have, I believe, been sent to you. The authors and subjects areas follows: P. V. B. Jones, "Italy and the Peace Conference;" A. T. Olmstead, "The New Arab Kingdom and the Fate of the Muslim World;" L. M. Larson "Territorial Problems of the Baltic Basin;" S. Litman, "The Re^ public of Ukraine;" J. Zeitlin, "The Conflict of Parties in the Russian Revolution;" F. H. Newell, "Asiatic Turkey, its Problems and Resources;" P. V. B. Jones, "New Poland." The first two of these were printed in editions of 10,000 each, and the remainder in editions of 5,000 each. As will be seen from the tides the series was intended to furnish information on some of the problems involved in the international setdement after the war. The treatment was made simple in order

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