The League files are crammed with reports which have blacker themes--or the scarlet motive which stands for constructive treason. There are folders that deal with reported graft in the purchase of materials for Army camps and subsequent fires which covered up the scanting of buildings. There are others on cases of undue influence brought to bear on members of exemption boards; and sickening instances of “quacks” who have ruined strong but cowardly young bodies for blood money. There are tales of extortion by shyster lawyers for filling out questionnaires--and other tales of money paid by enemy aliens to disreputable “fixers” for pretended protection against the draft. The mere classified index of the master file at Washington intrigues the imagination. Just a glance at the main “guides” will indicate the range: Enemy aliens Unfriendly neutrals “First-paper” aliens Disloyal citizens Pro-German “radicals” Native-born Naturalized Disloyal Government employees Possible spies or German agents Pro-German applicants for Government positions Citizens or aliens living in luxury without visible sources of income Suspicious foreigners Enemy propaganda (Twenty sub-heads here) Enemy alien funds Alien extortion cases I. W. W. agitators Check of jury panels to keep out pro-Germans Incendiary fires in war-material plants Wireless stations Bomb and dynamite cases Passport applicants Seditious utterances Seditious publications Seditious meetings Anti-military activities Organizations to resist draft Attempted draft evasions False exemption claims Physical disability Dependent relatives Desertion of wife to enlist in Army Fraudulent claims of marriage Army deserters Impersonation of officers Sale of liquor to soldiers and sailors Sale of narcotics to men in service Hotel surveillance of doubtful transients Liberty Bond and Red Cross slackers Theft of Red Cross supplies Hoarding of foods Destruction of foods Character and loyalty of applicants for commissions In making these investigations the League has coöperated, not only with the Department of Justice, but also with Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence, the Alien Property Custodian, the Food Administration, the Shipping Board, the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and with various other offices at Washington. The number and variety of cases handled have not constituted the major service of the League, however. Rather, it has been the character and intelligence of the membership--the ability to enter and comb any social, professional, or business circle for information without betraying that an inquiry was afoot. From this angle alone the original idea was pretty close to an inspiration, since it improvised in the hour of need such an organization as not even a generation of effort and many million dollars could have built up.