{"value"=>"<p>Located in Chicago. Phillip J. Sawyer, director and chief fund-raiser, Mack W. Beeks, chairman of the Executive Council, Gertrude Beeks Easley, secretary of the Executive Council. The department, which was affiliated with the League of National Unity, was engaged in distributing patriotic material such as posters of Abraham Lincoln, copies of the Great Seal of the United States and the Bill of Rights, and was active in the wartime campaign against juvenile delinquency. The files consist of correspondence, 1942-1943, chiefly relating to the Great Seal of the United States, the growing menace of juvenile delinquency, and the National Conference on Juvenile Crime in 1942. There is also correspondence, 1941-1945, of the director, Phillip J. Sawyer, with Mack Beeks and Gertrude Beeks Easley, relating to the work of the Chicago office, and miscellaneous papers including addresses by Gertrude Beeks Easley, financial accounts for 1948, and papers relating to the objectives of the conference.</p>"}