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This authorized history recounts the formation, organization, and wartime activities of a vast volunteer civilian auxiliary that worked with the Department of Justice and Military Intelligence during the First World War. It traces the group's origins in responses to espionage and sabotage concerns, describes its methods of surveillance, vetting of military applicants, and detection of deserters, slackers, and subversive agents, and presents official documents, statements, and first-person accounts illustrating cooperation with federal agencies. The narrative emphasizes patriotic motivation, organizational growth, operational scope, and the tension between civilian zeal and governmental oversight as it documents a large-scale semi-official domestic security effort.

BOOK III
THE FOUR WINDS

How Manufactures, Munitions and Agriculture were Protected—Briefs of Cases from All Over the Country—Chips from the Little Fellow’s Axe—Odds and Ends from the Files—The Far-Flung Work of the A. P. L.

I	The Story of the East
	New York—Pennsylvania—New Jersey—Connecticut—Massachusetts—Delaware—Rhode Island—New Hampshire—Maine—Vermont.
II	The Story of the North
	Ohio—Indiana—Michigan—Illinois—Wisconsin—Minnesota—Missouri—Iowa—South Dakota—North Dakota—Kansas—Nebraska.
III	The Story of the South
	Maryland—Virginia—West Virginia—North Carolina—South Carolina—Georgia—Alabama—Mississippi—Florida—Kentucky—Tennessee—Louisiana—Texas—Arkansas—Oklahoma.
IV	The Story of the West
	Colorado—Montana—New Mexico—Utah—Arizona—Wyoming—Idaho—Nevada—California—Oregon—Washington—Alaska.