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    "ocrText": "to\nForm 599\nTHE AMERICAN RLD CROSS, Go\nBureau of Personnel\neth -\ne\n(Here insert with rubber stamp, address of Division Bureau of Personnel)\n,08\nTT\nCONFIDENTIAL REFERENCE\nPOTUMAC Date\nMarch 18th, 1919.\nTo\nMr. Alfred Cooper,\nAddress The Cape May Court House, New Jersey.\n3\nSir or Madam:\nThe person concerning whom this inquiry is made has applied for foreign service in The American Red\n8\nCross. As an aid to it, in the performance of its duty to obtain accurate information regarding the applicant's\npatriotism and loyalty to the United States, you are requested to answer all of the following questions (or to\nstate after any question which you do not answer your reason for not doing so). Your replies to these ques-\ntions will be regarded by The American Red Cross as confidential and will not be disclosed either to the applicant\nor to the persons other than government officials, who, in the performance of a public duty, may be called upon\nto examine them.\nActing Margarette Pirector, Bureau Hick of Personnel.\nIn Re Application of Mary H. Bethel,\nA. To Establish the Identity of the Person Filling Out This Form.\nanH\n81\n(A woman answering the following questions may, as a means of self-identification, answer Nos. 2, 3 and 4 as\nregards her husband, father, or other near male relative. In so answering, she must indicate the relation-\nship.)\n1. What is your name and address lfred Cooper, Cape May Court House, N J.\n2. What is your business or profession Newspaper publisher\n3. With what firm or corporation are you associated and what office in the company do you hold'\nCape May County Gazette -- owner\n4. State any present or former business or professional associations which you have had, offices you have held\nand any public services you have rendered Chairman Cape May County Red Cross Chapter\nChair man County War Fund Drives.\nB. To Establish the Loyalty of the Applicant.\n5. How long have you known the applicant ? Eighteen or tiventy years\n6. What has been the character and extent of your acquaintance with the applicant (business, professional,\nsocial) social in my Pamily; professional in MY daunter's family\nand a near neighbor. Mv daughter, who has had probably timentir nurses\nin house, asserts that Miss Bethel is by all odds the best one she.\never saw.\n7. Have you been asked to endorse the applicant's loyalty, and if so, by whom and under what circumstances ?\nNo! Nol:\n8. What is the general reputation of the applicant?\n(a) for character and integrity 100%\n(b) for loyalty to the United States 100% plus\n9. What public service, if any, in connection with the war (i. e., Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., War\nSavings Stamps, etc., etc.) has been rendered by the applicant? Has been in the May, since.\nprior to the War, and if course absent from home. Her official record\nonly will di'sclose this fact"
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