WAR SERVICE CERTIFICATE FOR PRESIDENT HOPKINS

The certificate presented below has just been received from General Goethals relating to the service of President Hopkins in the Quartermaster Corps as Chief of the Industrial Relations Branch. Although he was transferred as Assistant to Secretary Baker in the summer, President Hopkins was requested to continue his relations with the Quartermaster Corps until the end of the year, delegating many details of his work to others. The certificate follows:

This is to certify that Ernest M. Hopkins served during the War from Feb. 20, 1918, to Dec. IS, 1918, as Chief, Industrial Relations Branch in the Clothing and Equipage Division of the Quartermaster Corps, later of the Division of Purchase, Storage, and Traffic, of the General Staff, and this Certificate is issued in recognition and appreciation of his services.

Said Ernest M. Hopkins was entitled to be recommended for a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the. United States Army. Application for such commission was not made, as it was agreed he might serve more effectively in a civilian capacity.

Given at the War Department, Washington, this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

(Signed) GEO. W. GOETHALS Major General, Assistant Chief of Staff, Director of Purchase, Storage, and Traffic.