Letter to General Enoch Crowder from H.F. Toodors - August 28, 1917
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Camp Devens, [m.s. illegible: 2 wds] [August] 28, [1917] My dear Enoch, I was very sorry to hear of your accident, and hope that it has not proved in any degree serious in its effects. Broken eye glasses make nasty cuts sometimes. The foregoing expression of sympathy and concern is entirely truthful and serious: but does not indicate my true reason for writing you. I want to
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[m.s. illegible: 1 wd], about particularly and haltingly, my admiration and respect for the work which you have accomplished during the last few months. To have drafted the universal service law was a great intellectual effort; to have conceived and organized the elaborate machinery for carrying it into effect was a brilliant piece of administrative efficiency; but to have done both in such a measure that even the worst cantankerous
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and suspicious mind in the country can find no taint of injustice, unfairness or politics anywhere, is to have achieved the impossible. I hope that the country will recognize your service with a commensurate reward should it not, you have the consciousness of having accomplished a great constructive job. In the mean while I make you my compliments; I take off my hate to you and
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salute you and I remain, Yours very sincerely H. F. Toodors Gen,. E. H. Crowder, Washington, D.C.
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| Title | Letter to General Enoch Crowder from H.F. Toodors - August 28, 1917 |
| Creator | Toodors, H.F. |
| Source | Toodors, H.F. Letter to General Enoch Crowder. 28 August 1917. Crowder, Enoch H. (1859-1932), Papers, 1884-1942. C1046. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
| Description | In this letter H.F. Toodors wrote General Enoch H. Crowder and expressed his admiration and congratulated him on the draft law. This document is part of a collection compiled by Enoch Herbert Crowder, the Edinburg, Grundy County, Missouri native who served as Judge Advocate General. Crowder devised the Selective Service Act in 1917 which drafted America's forces during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert), 1859-1932; Draft; Draft--Law and legislation |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Selective Service Act of 1917 |
| Site Accession Number | C1046 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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| Date Original | August 28, 1917 |
| Language | English |