Besides being an auxiliary of the Department of Justice, the League was the active ally also of the Department of War, of the Navy, of the State, of the Treasury. It worked for the Shipping Board, the Fuel and Food Administrations, and the Alien Property Custodian. It ran down, in its less romantic labors, sugar-allowance violators, violators of the gasless-Sunday laws, the lightless-day laws, violators of the liquor laws, as well as the large offenders—the spies who got internment or the penitentiary as the penalty of getting caught. All these large and small activities may be understood by a glance at the report-sheet of any division chief. The heads and sub-heads will show the differentiation. The chart following this chapter will show the method of organizing the League’s personnel which was used in practically all the great cities. The table of dates which immediately follows, sets forth in outline the League’s early history, and indicates the rapidly broadening character of the League’s work. EARLY DATES OF THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE LEAGUE _January 25, 1917_ First Call by Mr. Clabaugh. _February 2, 1917_ Second Call by Mr. Clabaugh (for automobiles). _February 2 to 25, 1917_ Automobiles and Plans. _February 25, 1917_ Submitted Plan. _March 1, 1917_ Plan Endorsed and Forwarded to Washington. _March 15, 1917_ Invited to Washington. _March 22, 1917_ League Authorized. _March 22, 1917_ New York Division Started. _March 22 to 26, 1917_ Organizing in Chicago. _March 26, 1917_ Chicago Division Started. _March 27, 1917_ Milwaukee Division Started. _March 29, 1917_ St. Louis Division Started. _April 6, 1917_ State of War with Germany Acknowledged. _April 9, 1917_ Philadelphia Division Started. _November 1, 1917_ Board of National Directors Organized. _November 15, 1917_ National Headquarters Established in Washington. This will close a brief and necessarily incomplete review of the widely ramified nature of that Web which America made over night in her time of need. There was also a confidential pamphlet, originally sent only to members, which elaborates and makes clear the basic purposes of the League, whose personnel and methods already have been covered. It is given in full as Appendix B. A great historic interest attaches to this document, which tells the complete inside story of the League and the manner in which it first was organized for its work. It is not necessary to say that this now appears before the eyes of the general public for the first time.