Edward W. Bok

Which shows that, even after having been for over twenty-five years in the editorial chair, Edward Bok was by no means infallible in his judgment…

Bok went South for a month's holiday to get ready for the fray, and in the saddle and on the golf links he formulated a policy. The newspapers and…

It was now March. He conferred with the President, had his fears confirmed, and offered all the resources of his magazine to the government. His…

A year before, Bok had opened a separate editorial office in Washington and had secured Dudley Harmon, the Washington correspondent for The New…

He made arrangements at the American Red Cross Headquarters for an official department to begin at once in the magazine, telling women the first…

He cabled to Viscount Northcliffe and Ian Hay for articles showing what the English women had done at the outbreak of the war, the mistakes they…

And so it happened that when the first war issue of The Journal appeared on April 20th, only three weeks after the President's declaration, it was…

The President planned to bring the Y. M. C. A. into the service by making it a war-work body, and Bok immediately made arrangements for a page to…

The editor had been told that the question of food would come to be of paramount importance; he knew that Herbert Hoover had been asked to return…

The Food Administration was no sooner organized than Bok made arrangements for an authoritative department to be conducted in his magazine,…

The Department of Agriculture was laid under contribution by the magazine for the best ideas for the raising of food from the soil in the creation of…

Doctor Anna Howard Shaw had been appointed chairman of the National Committee of the Women's Council of National Defence, and Bok arranged at once…

The magazine had thus practically become the semiofficial mouthpiece of all the various government war bureaus and war-work bodies. James A. Flaherty…

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo interpreted the first Liberty Loan "drive" to the women; the President of the United States, in a special message to…

On the coming of the coal question, the magazine immediately reflected the findings and recommendations of the Fuel Administration, and Doctor H. A.…

The Committee on Public Information now sought the magazine for the issuance of a series of official announcements explanatory of matters to women.

When the "meatless" and the "wheatless" days were inaugurated, the women of America found that the magazine had anticipated their coming; and the…

Of course, miscellaneous articles on the war there were, without number. Before the war was ended, the magazine did send a representative to the…

Considering the difficulties to be surmounted, due to the advance preparation of material, and considering that, at the best, most of its advance…

Bok merely directed. Each month, before his magazine went to press, he sought counsel and vision from at least one of three of the highest sources;…

With the establishment of the various war boards in Washington, Bok received overtures to associate himself exclusively with them and move to the…

Each line of goods was bought by a specialist on the Committee at the lowest quantity prices; and the result was that the succession of ships leaving…

In September, 1917, word was received from John R. Mott that Bok had been appointed State chairman for the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council for…

Bok, who was now put on the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. at New York, was asked to take part in the creation of the machinery…

But Bok's knowledge of the workings of the government departments at Washington, the war boards, and the other war-work organizations soon…

The need for Y. M. C. A. secretaries overseas and in the camps soon became acute, and Bok was appointed chairman of the Philadelphia Recruiting…

The work was difficult because the field of selection was limited. No men between the military ages could be recruited; the War Boards at…

It was scarcely to be wondered at that so many incompetent secretaries had been passed and sent over to France. How could it have been otherwise with…

Bok took large advertising spaces in the Philadelphia newspapers, asking for men of exceptional character to go to France in the service of the Y. M.…

The Committee's work was exceptionally successful; it soon proved of so excellent a quality as to elicit a cabled request from Paris headquarters…

The after-results, according to the report of the New York headquarters, showed that no Y. M. C. A. recruiting committee had equalled the work of the…

To do away with the multiplicity of "drives," rapidly becoming a drain upon the efforts of the men engaged in them, a War Chest Committee was now…

Bok, who had been appointed one of the Boy Scout commissioners in his home district of Merion, saw the possibilities of the Boy Scouts in the Liberty…

Although only "gleaners" in most of the campaigns--that is, working only in the last three days after the regular committees had scoured the…

In the summer of 1918, the eight leading war-work agencies, excepting the Red Cross, were merged, for the purpose of one drive for funds, into the…

But the efficient committee had done its work; upon his return Bok found the organization complete. On the first day of the campaign, the false rumor…

It is indeed a question whether any single war act on the part of the people of Pennsylvania redounds so highly to their credit as this marvellous…

Bok's position as State chairman of the United War Work Campaign made it necessary for him to follow authoritatively and closely the work of each…

He had now seen and come into personal knowledge of the work of the Y. M. C. A. from his Philadelphia point of vantage, with his official…

He had, in short, seen the Y. M. C. A. function from every angle, but he had also seen the work of the other organizations in England and France,…