Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Activities of the California State Council of Defense: From April 6, 1917 to January 1, 1918
There have been organized in all of the 58 counties of the state What are known as county councils of defense, which are the direct representatives in each county of the State Council of Defense and which exercise supervision and authority in all forms of county defense work. These county councils of defense in each county are comprised of the presiding judge of the superior court, who acts as chairman, the district attorney, the sheriff, the chairman of the board of supervisors, the chairman of the county women's committee of the national and state councils of defense. The county clerk. And in counties where large cities are located the mayor and chief of police of such cities. In many counties the county farm adviser is also a member of the County Council of Defense. These county councils of defense are patterned after and have the same committees and follow out the same general lines of activity as the State Council of Defense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
