The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-07
This Method Advocated By
a High Government
Official
ARRESTS NOT HAVING
DESIRED EFFECT
All Investigation Bureaus to
Get Together-Govern-
ment Fearful

Washington, July Co ordination Of
all government investigation bureaus
was recommended at the meeting of the
cabinet yesterday afternoon. Cabinet
members assert that the spy problem
can be solved in no other way. While
agreed that the spy talk has been great
" exaggerated, they believe that Ger
many has an effective intelligence or.
ganization in this country ard that until
the organization is broken up it will be
a constant menace to the nation. A
high official declared shortly before the
cabinet members assembled that the
menace would end quickly if spies were
shot ARRESTS are not having the de-
sired effect he asserted.
The administration is almost as fear
full of the effect the spy hysteria is hav-
ing on the country as it is of the un-
questioned results being accomplished by
German agents here. The officials be-
lieve that Washington is infested with
agents of the kaiser AT the proper time
they will be taken in charge, but what
is feared is that if the attention of the
public is centered on the spy situation,
innocent Germans will suffer, not only
in the nations capital but throughout
the country. "The spy situation is easy
to minimize and very easy to exagger-
ate" said one member of the cabinet yes
terday. 1--WE hope to solve the problems
and it is a real problem shortly. This
is certain: The greatest mistake that
has been made has been to picture the
German as a superman
Possibly the cabinet will again take up
the subject of censorship. The members
actually believe that it is in the interest
of the country to adopt stringent cen
sorship rules Several favor censor
ing all outgoing cabegrams as rigidly as
incoming cablegrams are censored now.
One member declared before going to the
meeting that he favored censorship of
the mails, especially mail addressed to
foreign countries. So far as press cable
grams are concerned, a decision on this
censorship will be reached shortly. George
Cree, chairman of the committee on pub
lie information is in New York discuss
ing the subject with representatives of
cable companies. He placed before the
ca BILE representatives the desires of Sec
rotary of War Baker and Secretary OF |
the Navy Daniels, who held secret con- /
ference Thursday night. He will report
to the secretaries to-day.
Information received here makes it |
plain that Germans, through their ma
rine insurance agencies, are learning of
the movement of our troops. In one in
stance, representatives of one agency
boarded transport in an American port
while soldiers were coming aboard. 9th
err transports were anchored nearby. Sec
rotary Daniels was asked yesterday if he
would take this matter up at the cab
met meeting He said that the matter
Hid not come within the jurisdiction of
his department. He held to this state
ment, even after it had been pointed out
10 him that the representatives of these
insurance agencies were receiving infor-
nation that the press and the people of
he United States have been denied and
hat in statements he himself has made
he asserted that the navy department
vas the guardian of the soldiers while
hey were on the transports.